Cabinet last night put taxpayers back in the airline business for the first time since 1988. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland approved the purchase of $500 million in Air Canada shares after Parliament privatized the carrier 33 years ago.
Arctic sea ice grew 27 percent last year, the Department of Environment reported yesterday. The figures contradicted claims by then-Environment Minister Catherine McKenna that the Arctic “is literally melting”
Public Safety Minister Bill Blair’s department is endorsing a legislated ban on universal criminal background checks as discriminatory to convicted felons. The proposal follows new research indicating the jobless rate for parolees is fifty percent: “Employer bias is a barrier that individuals with criminal records commonly encounter.”
Oop’s looks like Kate grabbed my chaser already. 👇
Saskatchewan girls! Lol
I think the arctic ice growth is BS but no data / source is given …. on the DMI website u can clearly see arctic ice extent is not varying much year to year lately http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php
Why should we trust any Government dept.
Most of all, since (Hide the decline)
Is this Canadian hyperinflation?
https://www.iceagenow.info/our-government-says-theres-almost-no-inflation-think-again/
Our government says we don’t but our lumber says we do.
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“Why should we trust any Government dept?”
Voila… PM Care Bear once again takes care of his pals…
“In exchange for ~$6B in Canada govt financing, Air Canada agreed to,
among other things, complete the purchase of 33 Airbus A220 aircraft,
produced by Airbus’s (formerly Bombardier) facility at Mirabel, Que.”
i’m sure it’s a coincidence.
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Fact check: The Arctic IS literally melting. Every single summer. Summer after summer. Year in and year out. Same as it ever was. Same … as … it ever was. Oh! And the Arctic is literally freezing. Every winter. Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was. Oh! And some years the melting is different than the year before. Same as it ever was. Same … as … it ever was. And some years MORE ice re-freezes … same as it EVER was.
Conclusion: Climate Barbie is 100% correct.
LOL…
No ice, more ice.
What ever.
The best source for data is here.
https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph/
From 1979 to 2012 Arctic sea ice minimum summer extent declined significantly.
The trend reversed in 2013 and the extent has recovered partly since. Many forecasts (Including Al Gore’s) of an ice-free Arctic failed.
1979-2012 … nary a blink in geologic time. And exactly what IS the ideal stasis point for our planet? Maybe that “genius” of planetary knowledge, Bill Gates, will tell us after he plunges the planet into “Nuclear winter” by spraying shit into the stratosphere?
We HAVE the technology! To become hyper navel gazers.
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/navel-gazing
Every time some genius at NASA or somewhere claims to have found a potentially habitable planet, they unfailingly mention it being slightly warmer than Earth.
” The proposal follows new research indicating the jobless rate for parolees is fifty percent: “Employer bias is a barrier that individuals with criminal records commonly encounter.”
Yes,and the reason they usually encounter bias is because of past performance by former convicts. I worked with dozens of ’em for years and found that there is a certain mentality that runs through most of ’em; they don’t want to have to work hard for a living and they think we are a bunch of dumb assholes because we DO work hard AND obey the laws. They enter a life of crime because it is easy, NOT because they are victims. Most I knew came from just as good a background as me, but I had parents who taught their kids morality,ethics, integrity and duty, and right and wrong.
I could tell ya stories.
This is more ivory tower idiot liberalism in all it’s glory.
What’s stopping Bill Blair from hiring former convicts for his constituency office?
Blair could start with hiring Anthony Bennett:
https://torontolife.com/city/convicted-shoplifter-banned-from-chinatown-and-kensington-market/
See this article for background and why I consider Blair a piece of shit:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/no-plea-deal-in-chinatown-theft-chief-1.801887
I’m kinda on the fence with this one. Do the crime, do the time. I have no problem with that. But should the time be permanent. That is the question. It’s almost as if the system is rigged to keep em coming back. And with the judicial system trend towards political prosecutions, how long until law abiding citizens are turned into criminals with arbitrary prosecutions and retroactive laws, like gun ownership, and having those convictions used against you from a prospective employer who doesn’t share your ideology.
Think about that one.
This is clearly not a black and white issue.
Agreed. There are some who make mistakes and there are some who are mistakes.
The math is easy.
You can make 50-100+ G’s per year in the trades or you can play Ookie Cookie in jail and make yourself sick.
Canada offers record suspensions to anyone convicted of a crime[1] if they have no charges for a period of time after serving their sentence. It used to be five years; the CPC increased it to ten. A record suspension means that your criminal record will not show up in a background check outside of vulnerable sectors.
I think ten years is a pretty big chunk of one’s adult working life, but the point is that there already exists a mechanism for allowing convicted felons to put their past behind them and fiddling with the waiting period seems like a simpler solution than outright banning criminal record checks.
Assuming that your motivation is actually Public Safety, that is.
[1] Except sex crimes; the CPC made those permanent
Do remember back in the day when a less-than-stellar man and his family moved next door to my parents. Dad had been a school teacher for many years and knew the man back in the day when he was being less-than-stellar. As far as my parents were concerned, they were great neighbours, to the extent that Dad wanted him to look after the house while he and wife were away. The man regretfully refused on the grounds that – should anything go amiss – he’d be the first person the local constabulary looked at. Dad understood but was sad about the reason for the refusal.
Gotta agree northernont, once they complete the criminalization of gun owners, I’ll be free to engage in crime without guilt. The message the miscreants are getting is they are victims and need care and consideration, while us legal gun owners are a scourge on society. Now beyond enjoying my new found criminal freedom, I need to figure out a way to change my race and skin colour. Once that’s done, I’ll be on easy street….right?
I practiced commercial interior design for 25 years. Back in the late 80’s, one of my suppliers for hotel furniture was aghast as his upholsterer had hired a parolee who had been convicted of pedophilia. The parolee went on to kidnap, torture and murder a 10 year old boy. The upholsterer was immediately approached by the parole board to take on another pedophile and the upholsterer was “you have got to be kidding – no way, every again!”
$500,000,000? Put it on our tab.
Well burton, in the overall concept of the amount spent this past year, that piddling extra amount would be like a tip on our tab, right!
Re: “Employer bias is a barrier that individuals with criminal records commonly encounter.”
Thanks. I’ll file this one under “No Shit Sherlock”.
I wonder if Billy is going to do away with daily criminal background checks on legal law-abiding restricted firearms owners. I’m guessing not.
One needs a police/criminal check to volunteer in a Secondhand store.
Let that sink in.
Permanent arctic sea ice is a relatively modern phenomenon. Maybe 1 or 2 % of earth’s history. Why is that presumed to be normal or desirable. I am not a fan of ice ages.
^^^ winner winner chicken dinner.
The Liberals reduce minimum sentences for violent offenders. They worry about the ‘discrimination’ that convicts face during a job interview.
But they want to throw every single gun owner in jail. And they send 200 armed police to break up a church service.
Kenney shows hatred towards Christians who are his biggest supporters. Unless the idiot gets his shit together the Communist Jackal Bitch Red Rachel will rule again.
To be honest, I find it hard to tell the difference between them now. Jell-O Kreampuff’s actions lately make it seem as if Wrethced Knothead never left the premier’s office 2 years ago.
He’s going to lose the next election, she’ll be back in charge, and she’s going to unleash Hell upon this province.
Sadly, very correct.
Yeah, grok, they gotta keep their priorities right!
Jake Tapper is defending the CNN reporter who gave the story on Blackie’s vaccine fiasco. This comes after little Justin stated that the reporter wasn’t faithful to the facts. Gee, I thought the Trudeau cult worshipped CNN.
Let me fix that headline for you to reflect the new normal, great reset cowardly world of mendacity:
Liars gotta lie. Criminal minds matter. Collectivist minds matter. Power matters. Nothing else matters, not even the truth.
But you have no choice but to vote for lying, incompetent bigots with their eye on the ball of power, not the nation’s needs.
Because a white supremacist Q (remember you’re born that way, just like mini Pierre, but never mind) is worse than them.
Rex: “Just recently his government annulled the inquiry into sexual harassment in the military. Who, from the face that greeted them five years ago, consumed with women’s’ rights and equity in all things, the world’s self-declared leading male-feminist would have predicted that cancellation of an inquiry into sexual harassment?”
And who prepared his face more as a new politician, one who would abandon the cynical horse-trading, never bend to deal-making. Yet the Bloc Québécois voted with him on this. Was there a horse traded there? A deal made? It is surely mere coincidence that Air Canada, based in Quebec, got Christmas news, a bailout of billions, on the same day.”
Who walked the catwalk more exuberantly promising the most transparent government ever just five years ago? His party has done everything from proroguing Parliament to “talking out the close” and has forbidden aides to testify in the WE affair.”
And where is that vital open-faced and seemingly naïve actor who in the early days was talking of “charm offensives” and floating into international conferences with bright sock wear and an eager world press?”
Time has done its work on that facade. What was once new is old again. I recall when Jean Chrétien cancelled the inquiry into what was known as the Somali inquiry. The hard nosed reporters of that day remarked then, in a kind of rough praise, that “this was the old man” doing his street-fighter thing. The more things change the more they stay the same.”
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-trudeaus-true-face-has-emerged-while-in-power-and-it-isnt-pretty?fbclid=IwAR2XNQUKMhBeCexMh32TzQDQOW5nJmNAnVoYbxMCWvfk3sUTiGmhKZ0FUCE
Why don’t we get Air Chinada to hire criminals.
They can’t be any more rude than everybody else who works for them.
In fact all government agencies and ministries along with all the companies bailed out by this government should consider convicts first for employment. After all they both could learn skills from each other
Buddy, Ain’t that the truth. Before retirement, I traveled/flew frequently on business, and I always said that Air Canada always had a superiority complex. They still think they are better than any other airline. Westjet used to be good, but they too have declined in recent years. Gee, wouldn’t it be nice if there was true competition out there.
I guess facebook, google and twitter learned well from them.
CBC news headline splashed at the top of its main page:
” ‘Everyone wins’ in the Air Canada relief deal, says the federal transport minister”.
Corrupt, corrupt, corrupt.
I have had several ex cons on my payroll over the years. Nothing too major but they all didn’t stay on my payroll for long. I didn’t fire them they all quit. The work was too hard and the job too demanding and they had a nightlife to attend to so they wouldn’t show up for work in the morning. I had one young fellow phone me to tell me he couldn’t make it to work. He was on his way to jail. He was caught with a pistol in downtown Edmonton during a drug bust. I imagine he is out now…..
If Ottawa were serious about saving Air Canada, they might re-consider placing white people daring to leave Canada under house arrest for two weeks upon their return.
Just because THEY can’t justify having the taxpayers foot the bill for whatever excuse they have for sex tours of the Third World doesn’t mean the rest of us shouldn’t be allowed to visit family in the United States, paying our way out of our own pickets.
what fookin WACO ‘s are the LIBS?
i’d vote O’Foole over LIEBERALS/NDP/GREENS anytime. Not wasting a vote. Vote against that shite.
after buying TMX pipeline for “social licence”, is Air Canada purchase a repeat?
Is Justin gonna pull NEP 2.0 outta the finance minister’s patootie on the Ides of April?
It’s like Looney Tunes Surreal Life…
DWFP – there is a story out there that the gov’t purchased TMX to get a bank out of trouble because said bank had become too involved in “promises” to the local natives. Don’t know if it’s true, but it’s a possibility.
When anyone says that Albertans shouldn’t whine because JT bought the pipeline, point out that we didn’t want it bought, we wanted it BUILT.
WhoFlungPoo, I wouldn’t want to pull anything out of her patootie, I’d rather get covid…. at least there is a vaccine for covid…..
An Air Canada bailout because of the Bombardier sale, two ‘birds’ with one stone. Will there be a Westjet bailout or do you have to be on the approved list or is a Quebec address required on bailout requests?