129 Replies to “October 4, 2019: Reader Tips”

    1. That was all over the radio when I was a sophomore undergraduate. I was never a fan of John Lennon or his music and that song didn’t change my mind.

          1. I went to a lot of student residence keggers where that, along with Elton John’s Saturday Night’s All Right For Fighting were staples on the stereo set.

          2. In October of 74 … I was a college freshman, returning from a summer working on an 8,000 acre ranch in Klamath Falls OR. A summer that solidified my commitment to a college education (Farm Labor was too bloody harrrrd). And I was just getting into my prog. Rock phase of music

            https://youtu.be/rLMcgAvuO_Y

            A totally unique … symphonic rock … sound.

    2. I didn’t think much of that, but his “Double Fantasy” album, the last one he made was really good. It would be interesting to see how things would have worked out for him if he hadn’t died so young.

      1. It took Lennon a few odd lp’s to get the solo business quite right. Double Fantasy is a much better effort. In Oct. 1974, I was still listening to Band on the Run … a far better solo Beatle effort from 1973.

        https://youtu.be/kR2gy4QRcW4

  2. Good article here from Candice Malcolm. She hunted around Justins ole school and found some interesting tidbits about him.

    **A former student tells me that during Trudeau’s short stint at WPGA, he was the back-up drama teacher, a yearbook instructor, coach of the ultimate frisbee team and he taught French to children in the junior school. Oh, and he helped the school raise hundreds of thousands of dollars through its gala fundraising dinners.
    …Trudeau has said that he was a math teacher, but there is no mention of Trudeau teaching it at WPGA. The page featuring the school’s Mathcounts competition team lists all the teachers involved. Trudeau’s name is not included.**

    And teaching kindergarten students french while wearing a KILT? That’s not creepy!

    https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/malcolm-trudeaus-yearbook-tells-a-bigger-story

    So he pretty much taught little and partied lots. Now watch this video…

    https://twitter.com/Bzubyk/status/1179461871180472320

    Grade 12 Pre Law? Reeeeeally.

  3. Just listening to BBC. They are reporting that our friends in Iraq approve of ‘pleasure marriages’ that can last as little as a few minutes and involve girls as young as 9.
    They are offered by clerics and Islam allows it….. Sharia law.

    1. According to someone I knew a long time ago, there are hotels in Paris in which the rooms can be rented for half an hour at a time.

      1. BA

        There’s hotels in Calgary that can be rented out by the hour as well… lol. “Motel Village”. Hooker central. (at least it was when I was going to SAIT back in the early 80’s – Driving Cab).

        Not sure if the local Islamic garbage has tuned onto that however. Likely too far to drive.

        ISLAM is the perfect Control Mechanism designed by MEN – For Men…for sick Degenerate Men and it is the preferred system for the soon to be < 1 Billion humans Left on this planet. So Decree-eth Les Elites.

        1. I worked on the other side of downtown Calgary during the late 1970s and took the old Blue Arrow back to my neighbourhood in Marlborough. The bus drove past some of the seedier hotels in the east side of downtown and I often saw the you-know-whos soliciting for business at around 5 PM. That was probably the best time for them as, back then, downtown Calgary emptied out by the early evening.

          As for Motel Village, I had the impression that it was one part of town best avoided.

          1. My Calgary story is a bit different. A few of us business types flew into Calgary close to 40 years ago and after dinner decided we needed a bunch of drinks. We found a bar without a lineup and knocked back drinks for half an hour when one of the guys said, “There aren’t any girls here and the guys aren’t jocks.” To which I replied, “Holy S. and I went to take a whizz.” We left shortly thereafter.

          2. Scar:

            Back in the late 1970s, one of the most notorious bars of–ahem–that kind in Calgary was across the street from a large Baptist church.

            One of my mates at the time suggested we go to that church when it hosted a coffee house or something like that and say that we had just come from that bar.

            I quickly convinced him to re-consider that idea. The people I hung around with in those days….

      2. I dont think girls as young as 9 are involved in the half hour room rentals in Paris.
        In the BBC document the cleric advises the ‘husband’ to enter from the rear to maintain the child’s virginity. No Muslim will think about marriage to a woman who is not a virgin.

        Google the BBC radio doc. You will be shocked

    2. Sure. I’ve heard of it. One can also have a quickie divorce by just declaring it to be so…. afterwards…. if you know what is meant by that. Maximum 4 wives are permitted. The guy is NEVER cheating on his wife, that way. Only infidel guys cheat. As for the women…well they are nobodies. They breed. Then when all is said and done, there are 72 you know what’s waiting you know where. Nice system.

      1. Someone I knew who grew up in Surrey BC where white people answered the question whether they were a member of a visible minority with YES. According to him some Muslim guys got married and divorced every week. Apparently it is only illegal to have more than one wife in Canada if you are Christian.

  4. “So, that’s two egg mayonnaise, a prawn Goebbels, a Hermann Goering, and four Colditz salads!”
    Agree! I have the box set in VHS and DVD, which we watch every Christmas, as a tradition.
    Still find new things to laugh at!!

    1. In my apartment building, people often leave their cast-offs in the lobby. (I got a lot of free computer equipment that way!) Several years ago, one of the abandoned treasures I found was a complete DVD set of FT.

      I remember watching it on CBC during the mid-1970s and I thought it to be uproariously hilarious. Going through that set, I was often doubled over with laughter. (“It’s not a rat! It’s a Siberian hamster!”) I think that FT is not only the second funniest English-language comedy series ever made (not surprisingly, Monty Python comes first), it’s even better now than when it first aired more than 40 years ago.

      Speaking of MP, many years ago, the CBC used to broadcast British comedies on the radio. One was a series called I’m Sorry, I’ll Read That Again. Two of the writers were John Cleese and Graham Chapman.

      1. – And lest it be forgot, Spike Milligan complained that a lot of Monty Python was copied from his TV show, Q. I’ve only seen / heard a bit of Q, but from what little I saw I recognised a few Monty Python sketches, so I suspect he was right. Milligan was one-of-a-kind; his Goon Shows are the same genre, can be listened-to over and over (they were radio programs), and I’ve seen an occasional studio-recording of a show on youtube, those guys were having real fun recording the show.

        It’s a sad historical twist – magnetic tape was expensive, and the BBC erased and reused theirs so very little of Q survives. Monty Python is one of the very first series wherein magnetic tape had become cheap enough that the BBC started archiving everything they broadcast, so the whole series still exists.

        1. The same thing happened to a number of the earlier William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton Doctor Who episodes.

          About 20 years ago, a nearly complete DW story from the PT era, long believed lost, was found in the BBS’s Hong Kong studios. A videotape copy had been shipped there, played for broadcast, and then forgotten. A few bits were missing, but there was enough left that one could follow what was going on.

    2. Our whole family are maniacal Fawlty fans.
      I had a VHS tape. Now a DVD off all episodes.
      Also a book of scripts a friend bought me: weirdest experience is READING the scripts and HEARING the dialogue.
      My older daughter once had me blow coffee out my nose at a restaurant when she called her younger sister a “continental cretin”.
      When I write something that I fear my reader may consider toffee-nosed, I often add, proactively and parenthetically, Pretentious Moi?!
      And to my wife who on occasion looks askance at my sartorial choices, You wouldn’t understand … it’s called style.
      Family dialogue is peppered with Fawlty phrases.

      And when I consider the serial misadventures of the US military the phrase, However did they win the war usually pops up.

    1. Some sources cite 1957-10-05 as being the launch date of Sputnik due to the difference in time zones.

      My mother told me stories about when I was a wee tyke and we used to go to drive-in movies during the late 1950s. The projectionist would stop the film and announce that a satellite was overhead and the lights were switched off so that people could get a glimpse.

        1. (Drive-in theatre? How terrific was that for you!)

          To be honest, I don’t remember much of those times. Back then, of course, one went to the drive-in around sunset, which was my bedtime. My parents simply put me in the back seat, complete with blankets and, maybe, my teddy bear.

          It was certainly cheaper than hiring a babysitter.

          The last time I went to a drive-in movie was shortly before I started grad studies. I saw Alien at a place in New Westminster, or was it Surrey.

          1. BA…I’m thinking watching Alien at a drive in would be just a tad higher on the spooky scale than a regular theatre..?? like say, the Orpheum on Granville (my Fav when in lived on the Left Coast – grew up there – in Richmond).

            I recall watching “NIght of the living Dead” at a drive in on SW/SE Marine Dr…that had to be in the mid to late ’60’s….? At the time, that was one very scary movie..

          2. Any attempts to scare me failed in that drive-in as the sound through the speaker was lousy.

            However, I thought the movie itself was silly. It’s simply a second-rate haunted house story set in space. Now Aliens, that’s a terrific movie!

            NOTLD is another great flick. George Romero made it on a shoestring budget and hired a lot of local people as actors. For some reason, he re-made it more than 20 years later–in colour–but it was nowhere as good as the original.

            As for that drive-in on Marine Drive, I think it might have still been there when I moved to Vancouver in 1979.

  6. Repost of my comment on Townhall. The quote is from the article:

    The State Department is in the Executive Branch, not Legislative Branch.
    It seems the Democrats think it is okay for someone from the Legislative Branch to conduct foreign relations unsupervised. “Senators who visited Ukraine and met with [Ukrainian President] Zelensky …” Do we have a word for word transcript of all those meetings? But let the head of the Executive Branch, who supervises the State Department, make a phone call to Zelensky, and it is grounds for impeachment? Even though the transcript of the phone call, President Zelensky, and President Trump all say there was no demand for quid pro quo? Really, this is Alice in Wonderland stuff, where the Queen of Hearts says words mean what she wants them to mean.

    1. The desperate Democrats are self destructing from their hatred.
      It’s never been this bad. It’s unbelievable.

      1. Wrong.

        It has ALWAYS been this bad. Same in Canada; since before the KGB ordered the CBC/Liberal party to fire Yuri Bezmenov.

        You just never cared before today.

  7. Meanwhile, Trudeau is flying two 737 passenger jets across Canada to gain more support for his federal election.

    https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/election-2019/terence-corcoran-environmental-politics-and-the-perils-of-putting-on-greenface

    This was my commnet on that article.

    ”Let me get this right. Two planes are flying in our Canadian atmosphere spewing CO2 and other exhaust emissions. Never mind the fact that a Boeing 737-200 can burn up to a 1000 US gals of JP4 fuel per hour. And a piece of paper that says ”Carbon Credits” and that has Mr. Trudeau’s signature on it will remove the emissions from the atmosphere?? How gullible does Trudeau think we are. Meanwhile, he wants to eventually force the public to trade their Toyota Camrays and Honda Civics (that burn two gallons of gas an hour) for an electric Tesla that costs $60,000 CDN. Wow!! Vote Liberal. ” (End of quote.)

    Conclusion. Trudeau is an arrogant SOB.

    1. He, like his father, is out of touch with the electorate. Still, there are people who not only support him enthusiastically, but will vote for him as well.

      1. Trudeaus: Smug Arrogant FRENCH (_i_)holes.
        Both deeply entranced with/by power – communism – control. Each showcasing a visible disdain for the electorate and a Genetic Belief they are ubber alles.

        May Pierres son end like Nicolae.
        I’d pay to see that.

    2. Even better – he’s using a 737-200, the model with the tiny little fuel-guzzling engines. He’s likely using one of those because they’re very old and hence, very cheap. They’re still in commercial service, particularly up north, because their tiny little engines are high enough under the wing that they don’t vacuum the runway like the new turbofans, so they can land and take-off on gravel runways – but not being a modern turbofan, they really suck-back the fuel.

      So Trudeau is extra-polluting and extra-CO2ing to save a buck, making him a double hypocrite. Anyone surprised? (-_-)

    1. I read that Trudeau has an English Lit BA from McGill and a teachers’ certificate from UBC.

      (betcha he majored in “Fantasy” and books that featured coots, codgers, crooks and chameleons!)

      2. I was in Dallas, Texas a few years ago. A guy was installed in a mall with a computer and a printer. He was printing out fake certificates, licenses etc. etc. So I asked if he could make me a certificate for a BA at Saskatchewan University. It took him all of about 3 minutes to find the blank copy. It looked real to me. My friend who was with me is a dentist who has studied there. She thought it looked real as well. Then I asked him about a Saskatchewan driver’s license. That took a little longer, however he knew it needed a photo, and the blank he showed me looked almost exactly like the one in my wallet. Please note that I hadn’t showed him my license before his search was over.

        The funniest is that he had a sign that said: ”For entertainment purposes only.” He also informed me that if I had a fake BA certificate printed, I was the one breaking the law if used it to obtain a job, etc. I didn’t argue, and I never got it done.

        As for Trudeau, I won’t speculate.

        1. Don’t laugh. One of my relatives has a Ph. D. from some broom closet photocopier university which granted its degrees based on “life experience”. That bunko operation had its own website and everything. All one had to do in order to “graduate” is to pay a fee and provide a CV or something like that.

          Since then, he’s been trying to fob that worthless piece of paper off as a legitimate educational credential, claiming it to be on par with mine. Then again, he’s the Munchausen on that side of the family who could try to convince you that black is white.

    2. For most of my time as a grad student at UBC, I lived in the Endowment Lands, which is in Point Grey. (I think Prinz Dummkopf’s school opened after I moved back to Alberta.)

      The EL was quite a snooty neighbourhood and it tended to be selective about who actually lived there. It was a part of town in which one could be in danger of being run over by a speeding Jag or Rolls.

      Because of that snooty attitude, anything that was built there had to be equally as snobby, so I’m sure that the school took great pride in hiring the young Prinz. It wouldn’t surprise me if it used him as a selling point. (“Look who we have teaching here! The son of the prime minister!”)

    1. Saw that. Girl was hysterical. How naive can she be? And sick. She definitely needs help. Her parents should send the school board the bill. Teachers are nuts for teaching this craziness if that’s where the kid got spooked.

    2. That is one Beyond messed up mind… Greta on steroids.
      And sometimes there is no solution for the complete nutters on the planet other than incarceration.

      Why oh why did we destroy the institutions for the Mentally INSANE.??
      I’m betting Political Correctness had much to do with that.

    3. Imagine the horrified looks from neighbours after arriving home with a free-range toddler, freshly snared outside the local daycare, as you prepare it for the grill.

      And you thought veal was controversial.

      1. It would certainly make the Food Channel much more interesting to watch.

    4. I have a faint recollection that A & W used to have Baby Burgers on its menu. I guess that outfit was ahead of its time, eh?

      (sarc = off)

  10. Andrew Scheer has dual Canadian/American citizenship. He says he’s going to revoke his American citizenship. I don’t recall that being discussed before.

      1. Others have dual Canadian and Quebec citizenship.

        Justin Trudeau is not loyal to Canada.

    2. Caught CBC Morning show host Heather Hiscox and political reporter Vassy Kapelos talking about this, this morning, and the two were all smiles, regurgitating future Liberal talking points. Happy faces in the Liberal war room and in the corporate office of the CBC, CTV, the Star, the Globe etc.

      Thought there would be a Liberal-NDP-Green coalition government. Now, another Liberal majority is the best bet.

      2. Bring on a LIBERAL Majority.

        The thought of another 4.5 years of that Treasonous POS is GARANTEED to SuperCharge the De-facto Separation of Alberta and most likely Saskatchewan.

        BRING IT on…!!!!
        UDI.

      1. Good point. I believe Ignstieff was also. He seemed to be an acceptable candidate for Liberals.

        1. Ignatieff is a Canadian who spent much of his working life in the UK and later the US. He came back for us, apparently.

          Michaëlle Jean, former governor general, was born in Haiti and held dual French-Canada citizenship shortly before becoming GG where she renounced her shortly before being sworn in.

    1. That’s nothing. Apparently two years ago, Bob Dylan had a concert in Dawson Creek, B. C. When I made my road trips to the house I inherited, I heard ads for it on a Grande Prairie radio station.

  13. Sabre toothed cats hunted large herbivores such as camels, horses, giant ground sloths, and young mammoths (in North America) as recently as 11000 years ago.

    Fossil sabre toothed cats found in southern Alberta.

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/sci-tech/scientist-finds-fossil-evidence-of-sabre-toothed-cat-in-southern-alberta-1.4623758

    Interesting:

    1. What made the ice melt? Aren’t you glad we had climate change?

    2. What or who killed off all these large mammals?

  14. Maxime Bernier
    @MaximeBernier

    Ottawa should stop taking billions of dollars from the private sector and redistributing them through subsidies. It should instead lower taxes for all businesses and encourage saving and investment to make our economy more productive.

    2019 ELECTORAL PLATFORM
    Economy: Encouraging Investment and Productivity Growth

    https://www.peoplespartyofcanada.ca/economy_encouraging_investment_and_productivity_growth

    It’s official.

    @AndrewScheer
    has admitted he supports the Liberal plan to increase immigration target from about 250k annually in recent years to 350k.

    The PPC will reduce it to 150k.

    You now have a clear choice.
    It’s LibCons against PPC.

    https://m.huffingtonpost.ca/amp/entry/andrew-scheer-immigration-levels_ca_5d94128ee4b0019647b0a325/?ncid=other_twitter_cooo9wqtham&utm_campaign=share_twitter&__twitter_impression=true

    1. Angel, the only way it happens, is government gets smaller.

      Has he promised to fire 100,000 federal government employees?
      Has he said that “politician should not be a salaried position”?
      We can have rule by union, or rule by the people we elect; has he said the public sector unions got to go?
      Defined benefit pension plans bankrupted GM, TWA, Chrysler (basically, every “bailout” ever), … has he said they are gone from the public sector in Canada?
      “Career civil servant” was a terrible idea from the start. Has he said “government housing, government cafeteria, government uniform, no salary” for the public sector yet?
      An end to welfare? In a free country, there shall be no “safety net”. Robbing Peter to buy Paul’s vote, means your country is not free.
      Are we out of the UN under Bernier?
      End of equalization?
      End of representation without taxation for anyone?

      Is he going to take any of the biscuit wheels off the gravy train?

      I need someone who is going to go to war, and spill blood. Anyone who promises to tinker at the edges is useless to me.

  15. Like we didn’t know!

    Canada Goes Softly Authoritarian
    Morality now begins and ends with government.
    by WESLEY J. SMITH

    Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect — freedom of thought and freedom of action.”
    – Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy

    Canada has become quietly authoritarian, its government and courts increasingly persecuting a cadre of its minority citizens. No, victims aren’t subject to arrest, nor are concentration camps being opened. Rather, this is a soft despotism — authorized by law — that compels victims to choose between their consciences and full participation in Canadian society.

    https://spectator.org/canada-goes-softly-authoritarian/?fbclid=IwAR2NLO_qlI_w39PHrXipWICdhhL8_V0bfXdDCoNk7A5WTM3ent71Yqwr2Sw

  16. Well like we didn’t see this coming…

    Maxime Bernier
    @MaximeBernier

    This public conference taking place this month at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will discuss if we must “set up an environmental dictatorship” and “impose authoritarian and unpopular measures to hope to respond to the ecological emergency.”

    One of the panelists, green activist Dominic Champagne, said on TV last week that the climate crisis is a worse threat than Nazism was during the war.

    One works for Greenpeace. And another one is involved with the UN.

    This is where we’re going.

    Use google translate just copy and paste and Google translates automatically to English

    https://festival-montreal.lemonde.fr/programmation/urgence-climatique-faut-il-instaurer-une-dictature-environnementale/

  20. I’ll believe the “green shi(f)t” when public transit is 100% electric, or when airplanes fly on unicorn farts.

    1. Let’s compare this upcoming movie with ‘The Hurricane’, from 1999…

      I hope that Detective Harry Callahan will be much, much closer to the actual facts, and leave the hagiography out entirely.

  22. The Unifor media is excited this morning that the new Nanos poll shows the Liberals pulling ahead of the Conservatives. Twenty more years of Great Leader and then his son Dear Leader can take over. Free blackface painting classes and canoe trips for everyone. And CUPE and the Liberals are excited about the school strike on Monday in Ontario. Expect lots of rants that Scheer is Ford and Blackie will rant about it at the leaders debate.

  23. Trudeau’s iPolitics reports that Blackie will spend 250 million dollars buying back assault rifles. Now if he could only back back F16 fighter jets from gangs. Because fighter jets kill the same number of people in Toronto as assault rifles.

  25. Hey, what “knockout tweet” did the CPoC deploy in their “devastating” attack on climate hypocrisy today?

    I mean, they COULD have been getting things into the Parliamentary record, like a bill to charge a $ million per barrel for any crude coming into the country. They COULD have been forcing the Liberals to vote down bills like this every day for the past year; BUT THEY HAVEN’T, HAVE THEY.

    They been too busy “fighting” more “effectively” on Twitter… or something.

    Parliamentary “conservatives” been witty for decades. How is that “hard fighting” working out for you personally?

    When mortgage rates get past what the first Trudeau got them to, under Scheer, under another Trudeau, under May, don’t matter; I will be looking for renters. I suspect there will be a lot of people needing accommodation when mortgage rates get past 27%.

    But Lisa Raitt, or Michelle Rempel will be killing it on Twitter, so will be no reason to complain.

  26. I was listening to Gormley yesterday and a guy told quite a story.
    The RCMP had been called into the area to attend to some issue unrelated to his property. Because he was working late he had left the doors of his shed open with the lights on. The RCMP officer asked his neighbor why the doors were open and the lights on over at that property. Long story short the officer walked into that shed and grabbed the guy’s rifles and shotguns that weren’t in a locked cabinet. Unbelievable.

    1. Non restricted firearms do not need to be stored in a locked cabinet as long as there’s a locked trigger guard on them.

      1. – So who’s gonna’ charge the RCMP with breaking Canada’s gun laws? I could see it going all the way to the Supreme Court, and I know just what their verdict would be.

        Like the New Brunswick guy who bought beer in Quebec and had it confiscated when he crossed back into New Brunswick: “Well yeah, we know, the Constitution states “no impediment to inter-provincial trade”, but the Provinces make a lot of their money off liquor so to he11 with the Constitution, we’re letting it stand.”

        On the gun thing, the Supreme Court would say “Well yeah, the gun law says it’s okay to do that, but the Chretien government put the RCMP in charge of Canada’s gun laws so Parliament wouldn’t have to bother, and the Prime Minister doesn’t like guns anyways, so we’ll let the RCMP do whatever they want – we trust them.” And if we who remember High River don’t, tough – we shoulda’ been bigshot lawyers and Laurentian elites, so we could be on the Supreme Court ourselves.

      2. Without a warrant the officer entered a man’s home for no reason and seized his private property.
        Good-bye Magna Carta; spell check doesn’t know about the Magna Carta.

      3. …and if it’s a bolt action, all you have to do is take the bolt out and put it someplace else.

  27. At his press conference today Blackie’s Toronto Star asked Hitler Scheer if he ever voted in a U.S. election and is any member of his family a member of the National Rifle Association. Glad to see Groper’s media is asking questions on issues important to Canadians.

    1. My father was born in the US and not for a millisecond did I consider myself an American. If I did, I would have been drafted for a likely one way trip to Vietnam. Lizzie May was born in and is likely a dual citizen of the US. Dogmeat Singh is a dual citizen of India. Trudeau is dual Canadian/Cuban. Much ado about nothing.

  28. Faith J Goldy ✝️
    @FaithGoldy

    I think a lot of people came here ready to vote CPC (and they sent their best with
    @GarnettGenuis, he’s been a great social conservative every day he’s been in office); however, @DMillardHaskell
    is winning A LOT of hearts and minds in the audience tonight!

    Federal Election Debate from a Catholic Perspective

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BUXOmaZmrdw&feature=youtu.be

    https://mobile.twitter.com/FaithGoldy/status/1179919285172539392

    1. Your Church should maybe select a leader who can throw out guys like Trudeau who spends more time in a mosque than a church and loves killing old people and babies. It’s strange that the Church has never put anyone in charge to handle such things.

      1. The catholic church is still selling indulgences and annulments. They’re against sodomy but openly allow their priests to practice.

        Don’t expect change out of the catholic church. They are a business. Their business plan is working. The rest just stand by and wish.

  29. Scheer says he is in the process of giving up his American citizenship . I can’t believe I am going to vote for such a wimp . He should damn well tell trudope’s media to pound salt and get over themselves .

    1. Agree. Having said that there are people who will hold it against him, and he probably realizes that.

  30. And now the state of the media in Canada. Blackie was asked by a Unifor reporter this morning, “Do people realize that you are the only realistic choice for prime minister”?

  31. Do you know who it was? Totally strange. If working for the media, this person should be fired. And to answer the question, hopefully people realize no such thing. What dummies we have in the media these days.

  33. This is going to an interesting court decision to watch…

    Andrew Lawton
    @AndrewLawton

    First the Liberals, now the federal government. The Leaders’ Debates Commission has barred me from covering the national leaders’ debate on Monday. Enough is enough. True North and I will see them in federal court on Monday.

    https://mobile.twitter.com/AndrewLawton/status/1180171856248233986

    Randy Coombes
    @RLCoombes

    Replying to @AndrewLawton

    Wonder if you’ll get the same judge that “declined to exercise his jurisdiction” in the Faith Goldy case.

    From Max

    Maxime Bernier
    @MaximeBernier

    Our freedom of the press and freedom of expression are increasingly under attack.

    The PPC is the only party fighting back. None of the others show any concern.

    YOU HAVE A CHOICE.

    https://mobile.twitter.com/MaximeBernier/status/1180199210353860608

    1. **** Updated ****

      Ezra Levant
      @ezralevant

      They just banned all Rebel News journalists, too. Literally banned us from covering public debates.

      We’ll join your lawsuit, too.

      I presume @UniforTheUnion
      will be intervening on the side of Trudeau, to block us

  34. – And BTW, the “We have to eat the babies!” girl has been claimed by a pro-Trump group that pulled-off the whole thing to troll AOC.

    Poe’s Law: “Without a clear indicator of the author’s intent, it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views so obviously exaggerated that it cannot be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of the views being parodied.”

    wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

  35. Color me shocked. Shock-faced.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/aer-alberta-energy-regulator-icore-probes-1.5307866

    Of Alberta Energy Regulator former President and CEO and head of ICORE (formed in 2017) Jim Ellis … “His actions demonstrated a reckless and wilful disregard for the proper management of public funds, public assets and the delivery of a public service, which … constitutes gross mismanagement.”

    Wasted over $5 million of public funds.

    The ethics commissioner also found that Ellis had a conflict of interest “in that he furthered his own interest and improperly furthered the private interest of three other employees,” its report says.

    “The primary motivation behind ICORE not-for-profit was to provide future employment for Mr. Ellis and others.”

    SHOCKED! SHOCKED I tells ya…not.

    1. $2.3 million? With such a piddling amount, he seems to be the most honest one under Notley’s watch. She rooted her way through $40 billion.

    1. I read something somewhere that his leaving the school involved a student and inappropriate activity but it was likely fake news. Mind you, if he doesn’t tell us why he left, it is up to our imaginations.

    2. More useful info here than in all the other comments in this thread put together.

      Thanks!

        1. Whether he’s a good fit for the job depends on who’s bankrolling him. If it’s someone like Soros, then Prinz Dummkopf’s performance would be considered outstanding.

    1. Just what we need: another war movie starring a bunch of Hollywood pretty boys.

      Midway was OK but not as good as it should have been.

      By comparison, Tora! Tora! Tora! was an excellent movie as it presented the attack on Pearl Harbour from both sides.

      And then there was that dreadful rubbish Pearl Harbour made about 20 years ago. Its depiction of the attack was bad enough, but the story went on to include the Doolittle Raid and insulted the movie Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo as well.

      It didn’t help that Ben Affleck was in it. He ruins any movie he’s in.

      1. I just watched the trailer and saw that the “new and improved” Midway is directed by Roland Emmerich. Ouch! The man’s a cretin.

        The only movie of his that I saw and actually grew to like was Stargate and, even then, I had to suspend my disbelief.

        1. Interesting opinion of this WW II movie. I don’t usually like remakes either.

          As war stories go, I have some favourites like the autobiographical movie about the most decorated war hero, Audie Murphy. In “To He’ll and Back” he describes how he lived through WW II. It is an amazing story.

          Other favourites are “The Devil’s Brigade”, “The Dirty Dozen”, “Papillon”, “The Great Escape”, “Patton”, “Schindler’s List”, “The Pianist”, “Saving Private Ryan”, and yes, even “MASH.”

          I agree, “Tora, Tora, Tora” was a great movie. I remember watching it at home and we all were at the edge of the sofa knowing that this was true footage, all “totsugeki raigeki.”

          1. A number of WW II veterans were involved with several of the movies you mentioned.

            Audie Murphy, of course, served in WW II and became the most decorated American soldier. One story I heard was that when he tried to enlist, he wasn’t heavy enough, so the recruiters bought him a lot of banana splits and, after eating them all, had the right weight.

            Apparently Robert Frederick watched the filming of the training scenes in Montana in The Devil’s Brigade but, from what I understand, wasn’t involved in the making of the movie.

            The screenplay for The Great Escape was written by James Clavell, who himself was a POW in Changi Prison. His novel King Rat (which was made into a terrific movie starring George Segal, James Fox, and Tom Courtney) is based on his experiences there.

            TGE appears to have filched a few details from The Password Is Courage made about a year earlier, starring Sir Dirk Bogarde. TPIC is based on the biography of Charles Coward, who was a POW in Europe had a reputation for breaking out.

            One of the producers of Patton, Frank McCarthy, was himself a retired general and was one of Patton’s aides.

            Even Midway had at least one vet, namely Henry Fonda, ex-USN, who played Admiral Chester Nimitz.

          2. @ 11:35 pm B A
            Thanks, that’s interesting.

            You prove that there’s always a story behind the story. Sometimes they are more interesting than the actual story.

            I knew about Murphy and Fonda. They were marvelous actors in the golden era of oldies, amongst others. I cherish those old movies and still ‘do’ the “TCM” Channel as my ‘go to’ channel.

  39. Ezra Levant
    @ezralevant

    In a normal democracy, groups like
    @CJFE @caj @cancivlib & @PENCanada
    would be outraged by police following journalists after a political event. But they don’t care about free speech for conservatives. Plus they’re all on the take from Trudeau through one bail-out or another.

    Rebel News
    @RebelNewsOnline

    RAW FOOTAGE: Police car follows David Menzies, Keean Bexte after being stopped and searched by cops outside of a Trudeau event in Montreal.

    Video

    https://www.rebelnews.com/footage_police_follow_david_menzies_keean_bexte_after_trudeau_event_in_montreal

  40. Blackie’s Toronto Star explained why it took so long for it to come out about Scheer having dual citizenship. Unifor journalist Shree states its because he is white.

    1. I wish Ezra good luck in his latest battle. His News Org. deserves to be there. I maintain what I wrote yesterday, that is:

      I understand that Ezra recently changed The “Rebel Media’s” name to “Rebel News” but I still think he should’ve gone with a less threatening name like ” Today’s News” , “Latest News” or the “Real News.” I wrote about this sometime ago and others here agreed with me. All Reporters there do great work including Ezra. I support them.

      BTW how unfair for the male reporters that it is an all female panel. All lightweights, I might add, and flaky little bitties.

    2. Just sickening. Who does that commission setting things up report to anyway? There are no conservative moderators. Blatant favoring of the Liberals.

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