80 Replies to “June 30. 2019: Reader Tips”

  1. 20 min video about how facebkkk ( trough leaked documents and an ex employee) it shows they are working intensively at silencing anyone who has a right wing opinion

    it is both fascinating and horrific that they are worse than Staline

    oh and their internal documents say in periods of election to increase this silencing of non liberals

    some of the people at facebkkk, goovil and twyter should be in jail

    yes in jail I am serious

    https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/02/27/facebook-insider-leaks-docs/?fbclid=IwAR3pHbz50aEkjOwfF8JgqqgHGYHNmDvo2Xr59JJDuUGx5xW7nKfPUFQ8_vo

    1. I mean, of course, God Save the Queen.

      Of course, we’ll never hear The Maple Leaf Forever sung in this country. It might upset our colonial masters in Quebec.

      1. If our colonial masters had their way, a Chinese girl would be screeching the March of the Volunteers.

        First spectator to stop applauding would be dragged out of his seat and shot—which would be an act of mercy, as you’ll know if you’ve ever heard a China woman try to sing.

        (The French make a good living mooching off the English. They don’t actually control Canada. They just think they do. Their elites jump when Beijing and the bankers say hop, like in every other western country.)

      2. Want to hear “ The Maple Lief Forever” come to my house on Friday and we can run up the old red ensign too. If my neighbours disagree with me they are too polite to say so.
        But then you ment publicly……where media would notice, didn’t you?

  3. BREAKING NEWS: Live at 00:48 June 30
    President Trump and President Moon holding a breaking news conference- history is being made as Trump is set to meet with Chairman Kim Jong Un at the DMZ between North and South Korea. He will be the first American president to do so. This is to take place within the next two hours.
    (The amazing thing is, this is being covered on 3 TV channels
    FOX NEWS, CNN, and MSNBC )

    1. At ~ 3:50 pm (2:50 am EST) President Trump and Kim Jung Un met at the DMZ and shook hands. As cameras clicked away, the scene was slightly chaotic with security and photographers crowding each other. The Leaders have gone into a building known as Freedom House. This is an historic meeting.

      2. Nancy you missed the fact that Trump crossed the DMZ into NK with Kim… The First US President to set foot in North Korea…..Game is back on with Trump & Kim (acting like Project MGR’s) making the Decisions .. SMALL teams for both sides will set the BIG issues and Plan the Process….. UN & those unhelpful are not invited….

        Trump is not afraid to risk his EGO.. This should drive the MSM crazy

  4. Theo Jansen’s wind powered sculptures are amazing. I was captivated by his ingenuity! No doubt, he must’ve had a few frustrations along the way when these things malfunctioned. Mechanical Engineers -rejoice!

    (Silly to say, as a kid, I was always so proud of the paper airplanes that I made, flew and crashed, ha, ha)

  5. Symbolism & Propaganda in Popular Culture
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soh-3jiHq4s
    ————————————————————————————————————————————————————–
    L-Jonathan Pageau explains the subplot behind Hollywood remakes well enough, but his analysis of the shootout between the English rifleman versus the German sniper in the Church Tower in Wonder Woman…
    Well, *Leni Riefenstal would be impressed by the cinematic propaganda.

    Admittedly, I was taken in, too. Must have been her outfit.

    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0726166/

  22. Trudeau’s CBC reports that Hitler Harper has been asked to help out with Brexit talks. Yes while Justin is the laughing stock of the world, Harper is still respected and called upon by world leaders. In other CBC news, their new poll shows that the majority of whiny indians feel Canada is not doing enough for them. And Trudeau’s Toronto Star is excited that two new books are coming out this summer about our Glorious Leader, from UNIFOR journalists. And UNIFOR is spending half a million dollars to promote Justin and trash Scheer.

    1. Excellent. Harper is the perect person to help them sort out the Brexit. Since Canada is too stupid to have appreciated Harper, I am glad another country will make good use of his skills. Remember when our biggest political scandal was around Duffy paying back money? Or Bev Oda’s expensive Orange juice? Now we have the secret Norman deal, SNC, millions for Khadr, and bank interest payments on billions in loans used to purchase a pipeline. For anyone paying attention, the Liberal abuse of power is sickening.

      1. Things David Akin doesn’t talk about.

        Linda:

        You’re probably too young to remember,
        and the Media certainly has made sure to forget,
        but there was this thing that happened,
        that describes every Liberal that I’ve met.

        Auditor-General Sheila Fraser releases her report, calling the mismanagement of the program money “scandalous.”

        The program received $250-million from 1997 to 2001, $100-million of which went to consultants with close ties to the Liberal Party. The RCMP, Via Rail, Canada Post, the Business Development Bank of Canada and the Old Port of Montreal were also involved in questionable practices, including accepting transfers of government money from an ad agency, which took a significant share.

        Ms. Fraser finds the government “broke just about every rule in the book” with Groupaction contracts.

        Mr. Boudria is under fire for spending a ski weekend at the country home of Claude Boulay, president of Groupe Everest, an advertising firm with millions in federal contracts.

        Quebec advertising executive Paul Coffin (below) is charged with 18 counts of fraud involving more than $2-million in false invoices. Elections Canada documents show Communication Coffin had made large donations to the Liberals.

        Mr. Martin maintains that he did not know about the sponsorship program while he was finance minister, blaming “a very small group” of 14 federal employees for the wrongdoings.

        The Bloc Québécois says the Quebec caucus of the Liberal Party was warned of sponsorship program problems in 1999.

        Mr. Guité and Groupaction President Jean Brault (right) each face six fraud-related charges stemming from five contracts worth a total of $2-million. They plead not guilty, are released on bail.

        Liberal members of the public accounts committee use their majority to suspend hearings and start an interim report in time for an expected election call.

        *The three opposition parties release a joint report, saying the Liberal government used “cash-for-nothing” transactions to reward their friends. Because of the forthcoming election call, the committee does not issue an official report.

        Liberals re-elected with a minority government.

        *A 1997 memo to Jean Chrétien from Jocelyne Bourgon (right), clerk of the Privy Council Office at the time, is release

        *The memo states that the PMO oversaw distribution of sponsorship funds, contradicting assertions by senior Liberals that there was no political role in managing the program.

        Judge Gomery accuses Ernst & Young auditors of having “watered down” a 1996 report that first looked into the mismanagement of advertising funds at Public Works.

        Chuck Guité (below) testifies at the inquiry, saying that he met regularly with Alfonso Gagliano and Jean Pelletier. He alleges that senior political figures in Mr. Chrétien’s government systematically called the shots in the sponsorship program, including deciding which advertising agencies got contracts: “Anything over $25,000 up had ministerial approval.”

        Lafleur testifies that Giuseppe Morselli (right), fundraiser and long-time associate of Mr. Gagliano and Benoît Corbeil (below), Liberal Party executive director, asked him to help raise money for the 1997 election campaign. Mr. Lafleur says he can’t remember why there were unusually high markups on billings, how contracts were selected, or whether there were meetings with Chuck Guité.

        *Jean Chrétien asks the Federal Court to fire Judge Gomery.

        The inquiry hears that Mr. Corriveau, a close friend of Mr. Chrétien, made $6.7-million in subcontracts from sponsorship deals that he helped Quebec communications companies obtain.

        *Mr. Corriveau concedes that he played a pivotal role in the evolution of the sponsorship program when Mr. Chrétien was prime minister. He denies allegations that he asked Mr. Brault to kick back sponsorship money to him as secret party donations.

        *Mr. Corbeil says in an interview that he received tens of thousands in sponsorship cash in 2000 from Mr. Brault and funneled the funds to “fake volunteers” on the Liberal campaign. Mr. Corbeil is the first Liberal official to state that sponsorship funds were illicitly funneled to the party.

        *Parts of Paul Coffin’s testimony are made public. In it, he states that federal bureaucrats twice retained his firm to bill for doing work that was in fact farmed out to BCP, a Liberal-friendly firm, and Gingko Group, an ineligible Toronto ad agency. Mr. Coffin, who made nearly $5-million from federal contracts, says he submitted misleading invoices at Mr. Guité’s request.

        *May, 2005: The publication ban on Chuck Guité’s testimony is lifted. In it, he alleges that Jean Chrétien’s entourage intervened to reward allies with lucrative ad contracts.

        In stunning testimony backing the most damaging allegations heard so far at the inquiry, Daniel Dezainde (below), a former director-general of the Liberal Party’s Quebec wing who replaced Mr. Corbeil in May, 2001, says Mr. Corriveau candidly told him that he had a kickback system funneling money from ad agencies to party coffers. Mr. Dezainde also says that when he became the party’s top executive in Quebec, he was warned that Montreal caterer Giuseppe Morselli, a confidante of then-public works minister Alfonso Gagliano, was “the real boss.”

        A Federal Court ruling has blasted the biased musings of Judge John Gomery during the sponsorship inquiry and cleared former prime minister Jean Chrétien and his chief of staff, Jean Pelletier, of any blame in the affair.

        In a judgment that strips out a key finding of the final sponsorship report, Justice Max Teitelbaum agreed with Chrétien and Pelletier’s lawyers that Gomery was “seduced by the media” and showed an unacceptable bias against them even before he’d heard their testimony.”

        Adscam.
        Aint that Canada.

      2. Harper got plenty of appreciation. Then he overstayed his welcome and generally did a bad job before running the worst campaign ever and losing to Captain Bright Eyes.

  24. Trudeau’s CTV has a new poll out this morning. It shows the Liberals and Conservatives are now tied with voters. The poll indicates that this is because women are flocking back to the Liberals. The poll also indicates that women started flocking back when Justin started ranting about abortion. Women in Canada love little Justin. He is so cool and progressive. And how about that hair ladies. Four more years!

  25. If you like to be tortured with Marxist logic then listen to this…

    “Marxism for a new age”. [which is something the left claim they are not talking about]

    https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/reclaiming-marxism-in-an-age-of-meaningless-work-1.5175707

    Two university professors (supported by the state), one CBC journalist (supported by the state) and a millennial journalist (probably supported by mom and dad) discuss how to dismantle the capitalist state to make people’s lives free and meaningful.

    “We were taught that only capitalism could lead to a better future” … and now they teach that only Marxism could lead to a better future.

    “Capitalism cannot solve the climate crisis” … then why are taxing us on carbon emissions?

    Why do they not discuss the high levels of taxation as a possible cause of wage stagflation? The level of taxation is never mentioned when discussing Socialist or Marxist idealism.

    Terrel Carver sounds like the math teacher on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (“Charlie – Nobody can eat just one Wonka Bar”).

    One guest uses the example of a doctor to explain “each according to his ability, each according to his needs”. Not everyone can be a doctor. You have to be good at it. And if you are there should be no limit to how many people would be doctors. But it should not be based on money. You should not want to be a doctor because it pays more (there is a hint here that Marxist doctors wouldn’t be highly paid).

    But that is not the point. The issue has nothing to do with doctors, lawyers, politicians or astronauts (after-all, just like the journalists and university professors, these are not the oppressed). It has everything to do with ditch diggers, toilet cleaners and garbage men (garbage people?). Funny how these people are never interviewed about Marxism. I’m sure a lot of garbage people would be good at garbage collection or toilet cleaning but wouldn’t they rather be politicians, journalists or Harvard professors? How would Marxism sort that out? Higher pay for toilet cleaners than politicians (can’t do that – that would be capitalist). Millions of Harvard professors teaching humanity courses? I can just see the job posting. “We cannot turn you down. Cautionary note. There are no working bathrooms on campus.”

    1. Since Marx never had a paying job, no wonder he’s popular with many students and unionists.

    2. Steve, I like others have watched the CBC deteriorate more and more over the years. But in a perverse way I am glad that CBC News has jumped the shark. It means fewer and fewer Canadians are bothering to access it, and that it has become a laughing stock, which is all to the good. I say this as someone who is preparing a formal complain to the CBC Ombudsman, over this scurrilous hit-piece:
      https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/the-post-millennial-journalism-conservative-advocacy-1.5191593

      It seems that Professor Alan Conter — quoted in the above article railing against the Conservative connections of Post Millennial staff — has, from 2006 to the present, donated $13,200 to the federal Liberal party, and attended a Justin Trudeau fundraiser in Ottawa. This is the sort of thing that, actually, I like. The CBC has become so swamped in corruption, they do not even care enough to appear circumspect.

    4. Climate change is the perfect vehicle with which to gather people under the one world government umbrella. That is the purpose behind the fear mongering. Foolishly, most people do not question what is really going on, yet the claims are so easily debunked.

      1. I always ask global warming believers…
        Why the name change, from Global Warming to Climate Change?
        For 35 years it’s been called Global Warming, why change its name now?
        I mostly get classic Trugrope answers with lots of umms, ahs, and ers…

        Then it’s, so you’re saying Global Warming isn’t the only problem and if we lower our Co2 emissions it solves both warmer and colder weather?
        More umms, ahs and ers.

  27. The federal Conservative Party says a social media graphic that depicts Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as a dark-skinned oil worker is the result of a standard filter applied to many of their photos — not racism. ….

    Regardless of the intent of the image, it could stoke existing worries about racism in the Conservative Party, said Lori Williams, a political scientist at Mount Royal University in Calgary.

    “Unfortunately, that’s going to feed into concerns about racism that have been associated with the party in the last election and could resurface as a result of this,” she said, referring to criticisms raised in 2015 after the party under former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper pledged to create a “barbaric cultural practices hotline.”

    “It raises questions as to why (the image) was darkened,” Williams added. “The risk here is that it’s going to look like it’s trying to tap into not just the sense of general darkness, but that it might actually be directed against a certain racial group.”

    https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/06/27/news/dont-read-darker-skinned-trudeau-image-conservatives-insist

    This story’s a couple days old but pretty hilarious. Of course any conservative leader with balls (Trump, Max) would tell the leftist racism-sniffers to go fck themselves, but I’m sure Scheer will take the bait and denounce all the racists (i.e. anyone opposed to mass immigration and extreme multiculturalism) in his own party, further demoralizing the practically comatose CPC.

    Because Scheer is so utterly predictable in his knee-jerk denunciations of his own supporters at the behest of the “outraged” liberal media, it makes me think that he could easily be outflanked on his right, the way Dalton McGuinty outflanked John Tory in the 2007 Ontario election over the government-funded madrassas issue.

    Imagine Katy Telford calling up a bunch of the Lib’s bought-and-paid-for editors across the country, demanding they print op-eds stating that Scheer is too weak to ever stand up to the racist and misogynist Orange Man in the White House.

    Scheer then takes the bait and denounces Trump’s policies on, say, border security and immigration, policies Canadian conservatives are broadly supportive of. Trudeau then steps in like the adult in the room and claims that Scheer simply doesn’t understand that a Canadian prime minister *must* have a good relationship with the US president, just like he has with Trump, despite their policy differences.

    The last few conservatives still supporting Scheer then throw up their hands in disgust and start inquiring about where to get PPC lawn signs…

    1. “any conservative leader with balls (Trump, Max) would tell the leftist racism-sniffers to go fck themselves”

      And then lose. You forgot that part. You are disconnected from the bulk of normal people in this country.

      That ‘outrage’ is hilariously forced though. The CPC is guilty of the crime of bad Instagram filters. Never filter.

      1. Yes, I remember how Trump lost bigly in 2016. I expect another YUGE loss in 2020.

        Muh free ice cream for everyone. — Bernie 2020

        1. I remember how he barely won against arguably the worst candidate in history in weird circumstances, and then got his ass whooped in 2018.

          1. So who is the better candidate this time?

            They are already claiming that Tulsi Gabbard is far right for her insistence on not invading any countries.

            Biden is only in it to be taken down by one of the DNC “favoured” candidates to hopefully make them seem not unelectable.

            Yang got screwed by the microphone, then screwed himself by not making a big deal out of it at the time. (Trump would have grabbed someone elses mic and complained that his was not working.)

            Every candidate at the debates raised their hands in favour of free healthcare for all illegals, at a time when they can’t figure out how to provide it for citizens.

            4chan is backing the hippie crystal chick financially just to keep her in the race for the lulz. Otherwise perhaps that is the most powerful endorsement any of the Dems can muster.

  28. German ship Sea-Watch rescues migrants off the Libyan coast and tries to drop them off in Italy. Italy says no.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/europe-italy-migrants-sea-watch-1.5193677

    “She [captain of the Sea-Watch] says she now devotes her time to rescuing migrants as a reaction to her privileged upbringing”.

    If I was running Italy (is that even possible) I would let the ship dock, put the migrants on a bus to Germany, put the captain in jail and confiscate the ship so that it could not be used for future expeditions. But, hey, then the problem would stop.

  29. Margaret Wente

    When my family moved to Canada from the U.S. in 1964, it was a dull and drab place. Toronto had none of the exuberance that it has today. The country didn’t even have its own flag. It was suspended in a postcolonial WASP culture that could not imagine what it wanted to become.

    The United States knew what it was: the moral exemplar and saviour to the world. Quebec knew. But what about the rest of us? The English-speaking intellectual class became obsessed with finding the elusive Canadian identity. It warned that we were being taken over, culturally and economically, by the bully to the south. We were simply passing from one colonial master to another.

    Over the next decade, Canada grew into its nationhood. We got a flag. We got Expo. I started working at a coffee house where adventurous people would order a strange and bitter brew they called “expresso.” Meantime, the United States plunged into terrible civil unrest over Vietnam and race. My homeland began to look less and less familiar.

    Today, the world is threatened by a demagogue in the White House. Populist, nativist parties have sprung up all over Europe, and have sometimes achieved power (note: Hungary). Can Canada escape these forces? Are we overly smug about our virtues? What’s to prevent a Trump-like figure from arising here?

    The first answer is that conflict is in the United States’ DNA. The United States was born in a war – really, a civil war – and nearly collapsed in another civil war only 80 years later. Meantime, we learned to settle our differences by making room for one another. The ground was laid in 1774 with the Quebec Act, when the British realized they could not “command” the Quebeckers they had just “colonized,” and agreed to respect French laws and religion.

    Canada is a country forged by consent and compromise, not force. As it turns out, English Canada’s lack of a national identity has been a blessing in disguise. Because we have no strong nativist roots, compared to the U.S. and places in Europe we are not as threatened by the cultures of newcomers. Among the strongest signs of our maturity as a nation was the Mulroney government’s 1990 decision to allow observant Sikhs to wear turbans in the RCMP. Mr. Trump and populist European leaders have succeeded by stoking the fires of tribal divisions. By comparison, English Canada found its national identity by accommodating the identities of others.

    Our tradition of accommodation has pushed our major parties closer together, not farther apart. As bitter as the rivalries sometimes seem, their differences are mostly ones of tone and the leader’s personality, not of substance. Our two main tribes, the Liberals and Conservatives basically agree on everything from medicare, trade and immigration to gay marriage and abortion. They both have more or less pragmatic climate policies – one from conviction, the other from self-defence.

    Despite scare stories, there is virtually no hard-right influence in politics in Canada today, and any effort to create one (see: Maxime Bernier) is probably doomed. By contrast, the differences between Republicans and Democrats are unbridgeable – and likely to remain so even after Mr. Trump is hooked off the stage.

    Other reasons make the U.S. fertile ground for demagoguery. One is the fate of the lower middle-class, which was hit much harder by stagnating incomes and the financial crisis than Canada’s was. The U.S. also has among the lowest rates of social mobility and the highest wealth inequality among developed countries. Another source of division is race. “We underrate the extent to which racism is one of the defining elements” of U.S. life, Peter Donolo, a former Liberal political strategist and currently vice-chairman of HK Strategies tells me.

    Add to that the ruinous legacy of foreign wars. “U.S. nationalism has expressed itself in presumptuous interventions all over the world,” William Thorsell, a former editor of The Globe and Mail, wrote in an email. “Elements of paranoia and classic jingoism are woven into the very fabric of popular culture. ” Uncontrolled immigration across the southern border is another significant (and understandable) grievance.

    Under these circumstances, the rise of a Trump-like figure should not have been surprising. The advent of right-wing media made it almost inevitable. In 1987, the Federal Communications Commission ended the fairness doctrine – a rule that required broadcasters to present news in the public interest in a fair and balanced manner. That set the stage for Fox News and other right-wing broadcasters, who hit the motherlode by turning Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh into superstars. With his background in celebrity TV, Mr. Trump was a perfect fit.

    Today, the differences between the two countries feel far greater than they did in 1964. The U.S. has become polarized and Canada did not. Instead of envying Americans for their power and wealth, we dread the United States for what it has become. Meanwhile, Canada’s sense of self has never been stronger. This year we can celebrate Canada Day with a mixture of thanks and relief – and also gratitude, because we are extremely unlikely to breed a Trump-like figure of our own.

    2. “The country didn’t even have its own flag.”

      It had 2 flags. The Canadian flag and the Union Jack. We did not have Pearson’s rag. Beside’s, sugar maples don’t even grow on the Prairies or the North – 90% of Canada. Some flag?

    3. Wente, like nearly all Canadian journalists does not grasp the deep residual anger among Conservatives and certainly Westerners. We are not less divided than the US. We have no alternative voice, such as Fox news, so the divisions and legitimate concerns are simply ignored by the media and politicians. The Liberal government hides its wrong doing and systematically suppresses alternative voices. How much overt division and dissent exists in totalitarian states like China? Or existed in the Soviet Union under Communusm? Like totalitarian states we ignore unpleasant realities and suppress the truth.

    4. That creature sure is a master of cranial rectal inversion.
      However she does speak for the Laurentian Elites,who do in fact control the Uni-Party of Canada,where any kind of individual freedom is forbidden,no room in”The Big Tent” for the concerns of the citizen taxpayer who gets to pay the tab.
      We are rapidly approaching the days of replacement,they are trying to replace the citizens through in migration and soon enough the citizens recognition of this malice and treason will lead to the replacement of our current elites.
      Educated beyond all competence and reason.
      You have to love the progressive logic,first make it a expensive and criminal act to have a dissenting opinion,then claim that because they hear no dissenting opinions, that all must agree.
      Same irony abounds with these “experts”,when they are devoured by the mindless mob,they have created,they will be insisting they are innocent.

    6. Something only an effete, elitist, and snobby Torontonian could write. We Westerners had our own identity and had had for many years. As for “no conflict” – Wente has obviously never heard of the Sons of Freedom and their bombings of various facilities in the West Kootenays. We didn’t need Pearson’s rag and Expo to affirm our identity, we knew – and know to this day – who and what we are. Hillary would call us “Deplorables”; we are people who proudly affirm the values that brought us and our communities to where we are today.

    7. Typical eastern Canada colonial leftist drivel. To people like her, there is no country of consequence outside of the Tronna-Quebec corridor (and its Lotusland satellite) as they consider it little more than a Mad Max wasteland–what isn’t physically devastated and desolate is culturally and intellectually impoverished.

  32. Wes Tyrell, President of the Association of Canadian Cartoonists, claimed de Adder was fired after 17 years with Brunswick News Inc. because Donald Trump was a “taboo subject” for the company.

    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/canadian-artist-fired-after-viral-trump-cartoon/ar-AADEycc?li=AAggNb9&ocid=U506DHP

    Lumber.
    He’ll never work in NB again.
    Irving getting big in US.
    Fifth largest landowner in North America.

    A charter member of the unbiased, non-partisan, non-fake Canadian news media we are all so proud of.
    (but not as proud as I am of writing the foregoing without breaking out in boils or having spiders pour out of every orifice.)

    1. Story on Radio Canada (Quebec CBC) the inference of 6th whale being female (two of previous 5 were male) is there’s a connection with the patriarchy.

      Also on Radio Canada much celebration of distinct French culture in Quebec and Maritimes. Festivals everywhere and talking heads are having great time laughing and talking it up (appears toking up before going on air is in job description).

      Also Quebec city to build tunnel under St. Lawrence to Levis and will hit up Fed politicians in fall election to see which Feds will hand out the most.

      Happy Canada Day from ROC.
      PS. WEST pls keep sending money to keep the east living the life they have become accustomed to and celebrate their ancestry and culture

  34. Today I turned on TMN to see if there were any old movies worth watching. They had a newsreel on from during World War 2, where the subject was raging forest fires in Ontario during severe heat and dry weather. I guess global warming was a problem at that time. But then what do I know, I’m at my cottage, and the Toronto Star says that people that have cottages are racists.

  35. Out of nowhere the governor of Alaska grabs the crown of best fiscal management: https://www.adn.com/politics/alaska-legislature/2019/06/28/gov-mike-dunleavy-vetoes-444-million-from-alaska-state-operating-budget/

    • The Alaska State Council on the Arts has been defunded, cutting $2.8 million, and the governor also removed the ability of the council to pass on $1.1 million in grants received from private organizations.

    • A one-time $30 million funding boost for K-12 schools was vetoed. Formally, the governor views that funding — which was passed by lawmakers last year — as illegal. The issue is expected to go to court.

    • Advance funding for K-12 schools in the 2020-21 school year was eliminated; the Legislature will have to set the K-12 budget next year for 2020-21.

    • State funding for public broadcasting, including TV and radio stations, was cut by $2.7 million. Funding remains for satellite service used to provide emergency communications.

    Please just put him in the White House already.

    2. Any Alaskan who disagrees with these cuts can of course donate money to the state.

      No no no Joe, we want other people to pay.

  36. The wind powered sculptures are wonderful.

    Who has seen the wind?
    Neither I nor you:
    But when the leaves hang trembling,
    The wind is passing through.

    Who has seen the wind?
    Neither you nor I:
    But when the trees bow down their heads,
    The wind is passing by. CHRISTINA ROSSETTI

    1. SASKATCHEWAN
      There’s a warm wind
      Blowing over the prairies,
      Can you feel it? .
      There’s a crisp texture
      To the air,
      Can you smell it? .
      There’s a coyote howling
      In the distance
      Can you hear it? .
      There’s fresh, clean snow
      Falling to this province,
      Can you taste it? .
      I can, I can feel it, smell it,
      Hear it, taste it.
      I love it, I live it
      Everyday.
      This is my home,
      This quiet, gentle place.
      The wheat fields and the deer,
      The small towns and little schools,
      I love to live here.
      Saskatchewan, land of the
      Living skies.
      The place where all your dreams
      Have the chance to fly.
      This province, I love it,
      This is the place,
      Where I will forever call,
      My home.
      Correina MacRae

      (For this summer day the 10th and 11th lines could become
      “There’s a fresh summer rain
      Blessing this province”)

      P.S. hope you got your badly needed rain!

      Post P.S. The book “Who Has Seen The Wind” by W.O. Mitchell (1947) was one I enjoyed many years ago. The author describes blades of grass, blowing in the Prairie wind….I thought of that book…driving through the province East to West, last time.

      1. That was a great piece Nancy, and yes, we did finally get some rain, in most places. Locally, we got a little over 3 inches during the last two weeks and you can see the difference. However, most hay crops and many grain crops were too damaged to produce more than a well below average yield. Later seeded crops will do fairly well, but the rain came too late for the earlier seeded crops, some of which will have split maturities and be difficult to harvest. The pastures will also recover but not to 100%.

        1. Ken and nold,
          That’s good you got rain. Calgary has had quite a bit of rain lately…easier to pluck weeds, plants are ahead in growth compared to other years.

          When I found this poem I thought of you fellas because we all wrote of the rain a few days ago. Let’s hope you will have a bountiful and productive summer.

      2. Yes Nancy we too received the glorious blessed rain and share Ken’s assessment of the situation.
        I think just about every Sask. area has had some relief from the dry.

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