80 Replies to “March 17, 2019: Reader Tips”

    2. “And guess who foots the bill”

      I’m guessing he borrowed from his cousin and took out a third mortgage on his house. At least that’s often what the Canadian taxpayer is forced to do to when facing legal challenges.

      Bet then most Canadian taxpayers aren’t unashamedly corrupt weasels.

  4. A copy of dreamy Beto’s wonderful poetry:

    I need a butt-shine,
    Right now
    You are holy,
    Oh, sacred Cow
    I thirst for you,
    Provide Milk.

    Buff my balls,
    Love the Cow,
    Good fortune for those that do.
    Love me, breathe my feet,
    The Cow has risen.

    Wax my ass,
    Scrub my balls.
    The Cow has risen,
    Provide Milk.

    Beto loves cows! Alexandra Ocasio Cortez hate cows!
    This is more proof of the diversity in the Democrat Party!

    2. I’m having trouble reconciling and pronouncing this Kennedyesque (he fools around on his wife?) plutocrat’s name.
      I just pronounce and spell it in keeping with the actual person and his politics, his demeanor and his credibility.
      Beto doesn’t work for me, but Beta does; so I shall call him that, in the interests of descriptive accuracy.

    1. “White nationalism and white supremacy are security threat to Canada!”

      Utter nonsense. There is no “white nationalism” in Canada; I personally have never met any “white Canadians” (whatever that’s supposed to mean anyway) who view being “white” as some sort of consolidated demographic block.

      It’s almost as if we were somehow envious of American race problems and so had to make up our own. Plus phony-baloney bogeymen like “white supremacists” help us to deflect attention from looking too objectively at a whole range of contradictions embedded in our sainted “value” of diversity.

      1. Also phoney baloney right wing news organizations like Global News, you have to be joking calling glowbull a right wing organization, they make Bernie Sanders look like a hard core Conservative. Stop the Liberal Party BS!

  8. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/03/report-fox-news-channel-scrubs-scheduled-judge-jeanine-pirro-show-after-ilhan-omar-controversy-mosque-attack/

    There was no airing of Judge Jeannine’s Show @ FNC Saturday. See above link for more info. In the comments section of this link a person, Erin Hatch 1169 writes:
    “Call Fox News@ 888 369-4762 or email VP of media Relations at:
    Irena.Briganti @Fox News.com
    Tell them you oppose their politically correct censorship.”

    I agree with Erin Hatch – We are with the Judge.

  9. Cabinet minister shuts down ‘reverse racism’ rant at SARM convention
    Alex MacPherson, Saskatoon StarPhoenix Updated: March 16, 2019
    The Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities says it does not tolerate racist remarks.

    SARM’s statement comes days after a provincial cabinet minister shut down a rant about “reverse racism” against white people during a question-and-answer session at the association’s annual convention.

    According to multiple people who were the in room on Tuesday afternoon, an unidentified man began asking questions about self- and property-defence rights before making comments that have been describe as racist and inappropriate.

    Corrections and Policing Minister Christine Tell said she and other panellists, Deputy Minister Dale Larsen and RCMP ‘F’ Division Assistant Commissioner Mark Fisher, tensed as the man complained about “reverse racism” and used phrases like, “It’s the natives against us.”

    “I’d had enough … I told him this isn’t appropriate here or anywhere, this is not helpful at all. I said, ‘You need to leave,’ ” Tell said.

    SARM President Ray Orb, who was not present for the incident, said in a statement that he agrees with Tell. “We hope our members would not behave that way,” he added.

    Two years ago, the association came under fire from the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations and others after its members overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling for expanded property-defence rights.

    Asked whether the man’s remarks on Tuesday are evidence of a broader problem, both Tell and Fisher characterized it as an isolated incident that was not reflective of many positive discussions during the convention.

    “I am not sensing that what that gentleman had expressed in that meeting is prevalent throughout Saskatchewan. I have not seen it, and I can only go by what I see and hear,” Tell said.

    “I wouldn’t take one isolated comment and say that it’s a massive trend or anything of that nature. I think that wouldn’t be accurate, in my mind,” Fisher said.
    https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/cabinet-minister-shuts-down-reverse-racism-rant-at-sarm-convention/wcm/9541c965-a784-45e0-9543-74adef341dd2
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    L- The fed. Liberal gov’t. of Jean Chretien passed a law providing for shorter sentences of incarceration
    for crimes committed by native/aboriginals/indigenous offenders. The Supremes ruled that such a violation of the Constitutional and Common-Law principle of equality before the law was, in their mind, justified (Gladue factors). Any scientific basis, any admission of evidence contrary to their utopianism? Not so far, not even allowed to be questioned or called for.

    Going from memory, the Gladue decision allowed a woman who had killed her Common-Law husband to receive a sentence for manslaughter w/o any jail time. The family of the deceased, also aboriginal, were upset. The life of their loved one, who was killed, was not respected. He was victimized, a second time in the utopian fantasy of post-crime redress by “equity” of result. In effect, the Supremes and the Chretien Liberal government reversed who was the victim of the crime.

    Any free and open public debate, including, if the application of hard science of psychology supports this or should be conducted about the decision has yet to be even considered. Reasonable is suppressed with epithets of “racism”. Epithets are not an argument !

    Now most of the victims of aboriginals who commit crime are other aboriginals. But now being judged of lesser responsibility, the worst racism of all, that of low expectations is the law of the land. A colleague of mine, whose elderly father was attacked on a Saskatoon street, by an adult street gang member wearing his colours and wielding a machete, came very, very close to losing his life. Upon conviction, the gangsta received a sentence of 18 months. A passer-by saved the elderly man’s life by using his truck as a weapon against the attacker. The aboriginal relatives of the victim felt the sentence was an injustice, deservedly so. This is a frequent and wide spread feeling among both aboriginal and non-aboriginal citizens.

    So, when a farmer, most likely from an area, of a high rate of property and violent crime feels that he and other farmers are discriminated against in law. It’s not a question. It’s official government and judicial policy. Instead of refusing to acknowledge the validity of the question and either attempt to justify the decision or criticizing it, or claiming her hands are tied by the Supremes, or simply agreeing with the policy and taking heat for it. The Hon. Minister dismisses the question as “racism”. She slanders the farmer.
    Dismissing debate because the topic is controversial is not an option in a representative government! This is something rural Saskatchewan, if they wanted, would elect the NDP.

    Some rural areas have low rates of crime others have high rates and in between.
    From the rural grapevine and some of the call in shows stories. Farm families with children now have to choose between putting their children, at risk, or giving up farming to keep them safer. All it would take is a few hundred renegades(breakers of the law and Treaty obligation to obey the law), to end the family farm in Saskatchewan within a generation or two at most.

    No politician or public servant(police/judiciary) will lose their pension or job security? High crime, low crime, they get paid the same. Oh, I almost forgot, there is a provincial election in 2020 !

    Federal policies have already devastated the prairie energy sector, agriculture is next on the S.J.W. hit list.
    Constitutionally, the provincial government, under the principle of co-operative federalism and dual jurisdiction(administering justice), is politically and morally responsible for representing their citizens interests and Rights to a distant and arrogant federal government.

    Without that representation, Confederation breaks down, and all citizens of the prairie provinces, both aboriginal and non-aboriginal would be more prosperous, more free and more safe, under sovereignty association, sharing goals and achievement.

    The legitimacy of government under our system depends on the will of the people, and each individual is sovereign and does not relinquish that sovereignty but merely delegates it temporarily to an elected representative. This we share with our American cousins, in Common-law and enshrined in the American Bill of Rights, he states. Who states?

    I’m paraphrasing from an essay by the P.M. who explained the philosophy behind the *Charter of Rights, a Pierre Trudeau.

    *( a document which has an “escape clause” the Supremes have abused, but only because the citizenry have not lived up to their responsibility/authourity to object.)

  10. David Wood with Robert Spencer on the Christchurch Mosque Massacre

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=ioQhglbY_tE
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    Two serious students of Islam discuss the relevant issues in more detail
    and clarity than the MSM. All the serious discussion is long form and
    on the internet.

  11. Great news! Our little prince Justin is returning from Florida today. He will be attending his mosque in Ottawa at 6:15 with tears in his eyes to rant about New Zealand, warn us about Nazis running rampant in Canada, and maybe blame Harper. Praise Allah!

  12. I notice that none of the leading newspapers are allowing comments on the massacre in New Zealand. Not sure why they have adopted this stand, are they afraid that everyone is not on the same page.

  13. “The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.”

    Oscar Wilde

    “What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.”

    Julian Assange

    “It only takes about 50 contact hours to transmit basic literacy and math skills well enough that kids can be self-teachers from then on.”

    John Taylor Gatto

    “The crying need today is not for more laws, but for fewer. The world must be saved from its saviors. If the friends of liberty and law could have only one slogan it should be: Stop the remedies!”

    Henry Hazlitt

  14. Media industry anxious for news in budget on federal plan to support journalism
    By Andy BlatchfordThe Canadian Press
    Fri., March 15, 2019

    OTTAWA—The Trudeau government is due to deliver an update to its plan to support journalism in next week’s budget but Ottawa’s recent silence on the file has stoked concerns in the media industry that a lifeline is taking too long to arrive.

    Last fall, the federal Liberals announced new tax credits and incentives, worth $595 million over the next five years, to support the struggling news industry.

    Finance Minister Bill Morneau argued at the time that strong journalism was essential for a healthy democracy and said more details would be in the federal budget.

    But while the industry applauded the plan, the strategy was immediately met with criticism when it was sketched out in November’s fall economic statement.

    Conservatives accused the government of trying to buy journalists ahead of the October election, with one MP suggesting the package could be a slush fund to pay for a “gigantic propaganda machine” for the Liberals. Some journalists have warned the aid package could erode the independence and credibility of the press.

  16. Thanks for posting “Wiskey in the Jar”. I first heard it from the Clancy Brothers, on a grainy Tradition LP, recorded in the late 1950s. I prefer the acoustic, folkie versions of the song.

    1. https://youtu.be/hlWTASnnft4
      The Clancy Brothers version isn’t as clear as this version. As an added bonus this version shows scenes from Ireland.

      I recall a show called the “Pig and Whistle” and a band called the “Irish Rovers” who used to play great Irish songs used to air on Saturday at 7pm. Was good stuff.

      1. Be careful Nancy by mentioning “great Irish songs” you are opening yourself up to the “White Nationalist” Scourge that is on the march in Canada today. /sarc./

        Seriously the best Irish music back in the day was played at the New Windsor House, ironically it was located just across the road from the city morgue. The next best Irish pub was up on Mt. Pleasant opened by four Irishmen better known as The Irish Rovers.

        Thanks for the memories.

  19. 1/ There is a massacre somewhere in the world every week, some reported on and most ignored.

    I decided almost 2 years ago to stop commenting on only the tragedies abroad that make headlines in Canada.

    I condemn ALL violence against innocents, from WHICHEVER side.

    2/ We’ve now come to a point where some journalists want to assess politicians’ fitness for office on the basis of the timing and precise wording of tweets sent after some of these foreign tragedies.

    This is absurd.

    I won’t play this game.

    3/ I won’t utter platitudes about situations over which I have zero influence, nor send my “thoughts and prayers” to people abroad who have never heard of me, just to score political points.

    My job is to focus on Canada and serve Canadians.

    https://mobile.twitter.com/MaximeBernier/status/1107037906198282242

    1. I agree – I will be voting for Maxime Bernier’s party, hopefully, he will be running a candidate in my riding.

    1. I look forward to Max ‘s response…

      The Corrupt Powers that b are at war with us….

      Their need to slam their leftist elitist Globalist agenda down our throats is plain for all to see.

      I am at war against them as well.

      Glad Max is too.

    2. https://mobile.twitter.com/stphnmaher

      Stephen Maher, a native of Truro, Nova Scotia, came to Ottawa in 2004 to cover politics for the Halifax Chronicle-Herald. In 2011, he moved to Postmedia News. He is a 2015-2016 Harvard Nieman Fellow, a recipient of the Michener Award for meritorious public service journalism, a National Newspaper award, two Canadian Association of Journalism Awards, a Canadian Hillman Prize. His second novel, Salvage, was published by Dundurn Press this summer.

      He works at

      https://ipolitics.ca/author/stephenmaher/

      1. Ah. Time for all of us women to don a hijab to show our support for Muslims. Are there other Muslim practices she thinks we should adopt so they don’t feel excluded?

    3. In 2017 there were 10,900 terrorist attacks with 26,445 deaths.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_terrorist_incidents_by_country

      Looking forward to Stephen Maher, Catherine McKenna, Justin Turdeau, et al condemning each and every terrorist act in a specific tweet, and condemning the perpetrators by group. If they don’t they are racists (by their own definition not mine).

      As for Muslims being afraid to go to a mosque, well there are a lot of Muslim on Muslim mosque attacks.

    1. We heard you the first time – asshole.

      Why didn’t Trudeau condemn the repeated killings of Christians in Nigeria?
      Why didn’t Trudeau condemn the Reichstag fire? Because quite obviously he’s a Nazi.

    2. Bernier is correct. It would be better if they all kept their mouths shut instead of using tragic episodes as an opportunity to demonstrate who is the most “caring” politician. It is offensive and even the gesture becomes meaningless with journalists like Coyne ready to pounce on those whose statements are found to be not suffuciently robust. It is not so much about showing compassion and respect– it is about pleasing the silly media pundits.

      1. LindaL, yes. I always get a kick out of so many atheist politicians and celebrities telling us “our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of the tragedy of the week”.

        It’s very much like the scene with Governor LePetomaine, “I didn’t get a Harrumph from that guy”!

    1. Message from Conservatives is the Lavscam Libranos are going to call an early election, May is their guess.
      Guess it depends on how things go for Justin after he gets finished with all the apologies on our behalf for things we had nothing to do with.
      It really is inane and smacks of political opportunism to apologize for what went down in another time when none of us were even around. I may be missing something here but are other leaders apologizing for past mistakes, misdeeds, whatever?

      1. And Scheer will win a minority government, then call an election in six months and run a campaign on a tax increase. Wait – that’s silly. No-one would be that stupid.

      3. Liz J, yes,the CPC asked me for money this morning because they suspect the Liberals will call an early election. If I donate,and they don’t call an election, is there any chance of getting my money back?

        Political Parties are so f***ing pathetic with their constant cries of “Chaos! War! Depravity! Plague! Pestilence!” etc.etc., and it can all be cured by a few bucks from me.

        I can’t see the sense in the Liberals calling an early election, unless they are truly being lead by Trudeau,the only member of the LPC stupid enough to hold an election right now with his polling numbers in the dirt. Gerald? Gerald? Where are ya? Talk some sense into The Boy.

      4. Liz, Harper apologized to anyone who’d listen, so did Chretien, Martin, and Mulroney, over: the Komagata Maru, Japanese WW2 internment, Residential schools, Chinese CPR railway workers, and probably a few others I’ve forgotten.
        When a politician needs to appear “sensitive” there is no better way to placate the media than to call a Press conference and apologize to somebody for something. The voters don’t give a $hit, but the almighty media eats it up.

        1. I felt Harper’s apologies were much more deeply felt than Justin’s. Harper spent time listening to those affected (e.g.. residential schools) and wrote his own speech for the apology. I’ll bet Justin does not even spend time learning the history of whatever he is apologizing for. Regardless, he is overdoing it, so it comes across as political posturing.

    2. One of the comments to the article makes my day, Liberal slogan, “Corruption is our strength”.

  28. While there are many patterns of abuse in the mass media’s everyday coverage of Maxime Bernier—i.e. the constant comparisons to Donald Trump, the failure to actually engage with his policies, quoting those who accuse him of “pandering”, while failing to quote his supporters (although there is the occasional exception),—one that jumps out is the routine questioning of his ideological bona fides.

    Read the rest here:

    https://www.thepostmillennial.com/berniers-immigration-policy-is-backed-by-his-libertarian-ideals/

  29. Bernier’s immigration policy is backed by his libertarian ideals

    While there are many patterns of abuse in the mass media’s everyday coverage of Maxime Bernier—i.e. the constant comparisons to Donald Trump, the failure to actually engage with his policies, quoting those who accuse him of “pandering”, while failing to quote his supporters (although there is the occasional exception),—one that jumps out is the routine questioning of his ideological bona fides.

    https://www.thepostmillennial.com/berniers-immigration-policy-is-backed-by-his-libertarian-ideals/

    1. Wouldn’t it be great if the media comparidons to Trump backfired (from their intentions) and actually helped to raise Bernier’s profile and level of support. Bernier is certainly focussing on the important issues.

    2. No it isn’t. Max’s immigration policies are in direct contradiction to his libertarian ideas. The only free market approach to immigration is open borders. The stupid article you linked to is written by someone who doesn’t understand what a subsidy is and doesn’t realize that cheaper labour is a good thing.

      “Equally reviled among libertarians is ‘big government’; something that goes hand in hand with mass immigration. ”

      That’s a lie. When immigration is reduced, that is when the greatest growth of government entitlements has occurred.

      1. So the illegal immigrants have already cost us over a billion dollars that’s not counting the 300,000 brought in and only 5% of them are working so we have 200,000 plus living off the government and your saying that is good and acceptable?

        You make no sense as always…

      2. Truly idiotic comments again from you equating liberalism (the real thing spare me the libertarian bs, what’s next, conservatismism?) with open borders and the free market.

        How about rule of law? Without borders you are not a country.

        Your political ignorance is almost as astounding as the delusions you harbour (and repeat!) around politics and economics.

        “It is frequently maintained that “free trade” belongs to “free immigration” as “protectionism” does to “restricted immigration.” That is, the claim is made that while it is not impossible that someone might combine protectionism with free immigration, or free trade with restricted immigration, these positions are intellectually inconsistent, and thus erroneous. Hence, insofar as people seek to avoid errors, they should be the exception rather than the rule. The facts, to the extent that they have a bearing on the issue, appear to be consistent with this claim. As the 1996 Republican presidential primaries indicated, for instance, most professed free traders are advocates of relatively (even if not totally) free and non-discriminatory immigration policies, while most protectionists are proponents of highly restrictive and selective immigration policies.”

        Appearances to the contrary notwithstanding, I will argue that this thesis and its implicit claim are fundamentally mistaken. In particular, I will demonstrate that free trade and restricted immigration are not only perfectly consistent, but even mutually reinforcing policies. That is, it is not the advocates of free trade and restricted immigration who are wrong, but rather the proponents of free trade and free immigration. In thus taking the “intellectual guilt” out of the free-trade-and-restricted-immigration position and putting it where it actually belongs, I hope to promote a change in the present state of public opinion and facilitate substantial political realignment.

        https://cis.org/Report/Libertarian-Case-Free-Trade-And-Restricted-Immigration

      3. Open borders?
        No thank you.
        If you want to enter my country:
        -ASK, politely, you don’t just come in.
        -Be willing to be checked for diseases and criminal, or offensive views, background.
        Sad when we quarantine plants and animals, but some people are willing to let anybody just wander in.

    1. May she be consigned to the dustbin of history along with Lenin, Hitler, and Stalin sooner rather than later.

  35. An absolutely useless article on the Alberta oil patch from a CBC journalist who thinks Calgarian oil men just aren’t trying hard enough (there’s a certain “lack of effort”).

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/canada-almost-no-show-at-ceraweek-1.5059488

    “Maybe Canadian companies need to work harder to get on the radar screen of the technology and software companies that are already partnering to offer solutions to the major players.”

    Great idea (sigh)…

    “there is a new generation of engineers, scientists, economists and financial types coming into — and rising through the industry — whose mode of working is collaborative and inclusive.”

    right…

    “There are more than a few lessons to be learned from four energy ministers – from Egypt, Israel, Cyprus and Greece – sitting together on a stage as they did on Wednesday morning and discussing how they are co-operating to develop natural gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean and the pipeline infrastructure to get it to markets. It hasn’t been an easy process, but the project is moving ahead.”

    Well that is Alberta’s problem in a nut-shell. Can’t get their oil to market because of the other provinces, the Federal government and First Nations. Alberta is not being obstructed by other countries, it is being obstructed from within its own country. Write about that for a change…

  36. Just watched Quetion Period on CTV. A three panel smear job on Scheer for his unclear tweet about the massacre of Muslims by the communist eco fascist. Craig Oliver led the charge. I had to turn it off.

    1. No doubt they have found fault even if Scheer would have appeared in a hijab.

      I gather there was no mention of the slaughtered Nigerians.

  38. The group started in Toronto but early on the three original members moved to Calgary and added a fourth. They used to play at Phil’s Pancake House on 16th Avenue.

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