Saturday On Turtle Island

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1. OT: I see where Pope Benedict has died – he was the bad one who wouldn’t bless pagan icons in the Vatican or champion homosexuality and he wasn’t a communist. Thank God his successor Pope Francis isn’t Catholic.

2. It would be alarming for members of America’s predominant Crime Family if SBF hadn’t met with Biden.

3. EV’s

   I have to laugh at the shortsighted masses, who truly believed in the all electric dream…one rapidly being shown as a colossal disaster/joke for those who bought in.

   The following quote from that article tells you precisely what is in store for the West.

   Bans on ICE…and this:

   “…Parliament has decreed that, by 2030, no more diesel or petrol cars can be sold, yet it admits there will be 190,000 fewer electric chargers than they promised by then…”

   They could care less how you fare.
   Take Public Transit or buy a horse will be the mantra…

   1. Buy a horse and then tie the parliamentarians behind it for their trip to the public square. Not in Canada of course, we’ll throw parades for them for saving the planet.

      1. Buy four horses. Tie said parliamentarian. Each horse need only walk a two steps. Repeat.

         1. The horses don’t walk. Aren’t you supposed to whip them?

   2. The government is deliberately constraining the range and hence the freedom of movement of the plebes. It’s much easier to control a captive populace.

4. Climate realism in action is worth a read.
   That’s some good news to me that people are organizing against the madness and participating to fight the death march.
   McKenney is a nut-job without her climate alarmism and people like her need to be assaulted with facts and logic, like kids mining cobalt in the Congo. That hag is an Orwellian nightmare come to life and if she’d become mayor – with Ford’s new extra powers – she’d have been some kind of ruling witch-queen.
   Brrrr.

   1. The battle is far from over. Look who the new mayor has appointed to be the chairman of the Environment and Climate Change Committee: Shawn Menard. He holds the same left-wing, extremist views of McKenney and is equally loud-mouthed and close-minded to any facts which contradict his ideology.

      “Here is the list of proposed chairs of standing committees and boards:

      Community services: Laura Dudas.
      Emergency preparedness and protective services: Riley Brockington.
      Planning and housing: Jeff Leiper.
      Built heritage: Rawlson King.
      Agriculture and rural affairs: George Darouze.
      Transportation: Tim Tierney.
      Transit: Glen Gower.
      Environment and climate change: Shawn Menard.
      Audit: Cathy Curry.
      Ottawa Public Library: Matthew Luloff.
      Ottawa Public Health: Catherine Kitts.
      Ottawa Community Housing: Theresa Kavanagh.
      Light rail sub-committee: Steve Desroches.”

      https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/nominating-committee-board-seats-2022-term-ottawa-1.6684575

5. CANADA
   Public Health to Collect Troves of Online Data to Target the Vaccine Hesitant
   By Noé Chartier December 29, 2022 Updated: December 29, 2022 biggersmaller Print

   The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has announced a contract with a social media intelligence collection firm based in the U.K. to obtain data on vaccine hesitant individuals in order to be able to deliver targeted messaging to break through their hesitancy, contract details indicate.

   “In preparation for increased vaccination education, promotion, and outreach, The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) is requiring the services of a consultant to analyze the vaccine related conversations on social media and PHAC social media initiative and campaign performance,” says the tender notice description posted online on Dec. 22.

   The notice says the contract will be awarded to U.K.-based Pulsar Platform if no other supplier submits a bid meeting the requirements before the closing date. The estimated value of the contract is $339,000.

   Pulsar describes itself as an “audience intelligence company” using artificial intelligence and “smart human minds” to comb through conversational and behavioural data on social media.

   The notice says the consultant will need to analyze Twitter and other online sites and platforms spanning three years of historical data.

   PHAC is seeking to obtain information on individuals who are participating in and influencing online conversations about vaccination.

   It wants reports produced by the consultant to “provide PHAC an actionable understanding of the vaccine conversation landscape online and the conversation participants, while determining a conversation baseline,” according to the Statement of Work.

   Once this data is obtained, PHAC will run a tailored messaging campaign, which it says will seek to target “communities of interest,” such as “indigenous peoples and millennial males,” states the Advance Contract Award Notice.

   The study is to be rerun within a three to four month period to “monitor shifts in attitudes and confidence levels,” says the notice.

   ‘Keyword-Based’

   PHAC lays out how the consultant must conduct its work, including the establishment of a “keyword-based social listening tracker to capture social media conversations around vaccinations in Canada.”

   Data must also be parsed along conversation themes such as “experiences with long Covid, previous vaccine side effects, engaging with mis/disinformation, shift in perceived risk of infection.”

   PHAC also seeks to obtain a breakdown of reasons for vaccine hesitancy for different regions and cities to allow more targeted messaging.

   Along with identifying regions, cities, and subgroups such as First Nations communities, PHAC is also requesting segmentations of key audiences to include “demographics, interests, affinities, online behaviours, and the leading topics of vaccine hesitancy conversation, per each sub-community.”

   The Statement of Work provides an example of what the consultant should do once a sub-community has been identified.

   It says that once a community of “Toronto University Students that indicate low confidence in vaccinations” has been identified, then some factors should be investigated.

   These include their reasons for being hesitant and the topics of their conversations, the media they consume and the content they share, and the tone they use when discussing their vaccination status.

   The Epoch Times contacted PHAC to find out if previous such programs have been implemented and to learn more about how the data from private individuals will be protected, exploited, and if it will be shared with other departments.

   PHAC was also asked whether it consulted the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) on the program. A response was not obtained before publication time.

   The OPC was also contacted to know whether it was aware of PHAC’s social media collection program, but a response was not received immediately.

   Cellphone Tracking

   PHAC has been embroiled in a data collection-related controversy in recent months when it was revealed it was analyzing the anonymized movement of millions of Canadians through the tracking of their cellphones, unbeknownst to them.

   PHAC had been obtaining the data from carrier Telus and other cellphone tracking companies, but in December 2021 it sought a contractor to directly access data from cellphone towers to conduct its analysis.

   The data has been used to measure the compliance of Canadians while provinces implemented COVID-19 lockdowns.

   When this became known, MPs started examining the issue and the Commons ethics committee told the government last spring that Canadians should be allowed to opt out of the data collection program.

   The OPC also said it was investigating the matter, but the results have yet to be announced.

   PHAC and the OPC have been asked about the status of the contract and the investigation.

   1. So it’s an Ole fashioned Government hunt , good then.
      Wait till the hunter becomes the hunted, it only takes 3 % of the population, remember THAT .gov
      boys.

6. Electric car range is an issue in the UK? They don’t have distances and they don’t have 40 below. If you are out in 40 below not dressed like Nanook of the North, you die quite quickly. Ask the people who last week died in their cars in the blizzard in upstate New York at nowhere near that cold. You can’t – they’re dead.

7. “Climate Realism in Action!”

   Heh! Let me introduce you to my group leader (pictured)!

   And the author that penned the article? Yep! He’s in our group too!

   I told you we were doing something about the plague of wokism in Ottawa.

   As for my humble participation? Who do you suppose recorded the censored questions? And who do you think assisted in coaching the volunteers in asking those questions?

8. The Best of Biden Infomercial
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KDeNcPlgQc

   1. Hilarious