I Amuse Myself
ATTN businesses! Access the @canadabusiness website to receive your application forms. https://t.co/iChiz7xYhb pic.twitter.com/hBqW4BkeqY
— Katewerk (@katewerk) September 16, 2020
“We’re going to plant two billion trees over the next ten years. Full stop.”
La Presse (in French, this is the Google translation);
How many trees have we planted so far out of the two billion pledged by 2030? The government of Justin Trudeau took several days to answer the question, but this delay can not be justified by the complexity of the count: to date, there are zero.
The engagement was announced just under a year ago, as the election campaign was in full swing. “We’re going to plant two billion trees over the next ten years. Full stop,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wrote on Twitter on September 27, the same day he met young environmental activist Greta Thunberg.
According to this plan, 200 million trees should have taken root each year, or 547,945 on a daily basis, from September 2019. By removing one year from the ten-year plan, we are now talking about more than 222 million trees per year, so 608,828 per day.
It will thus be necessary to accelerate the pace to reach the objective. “Officials are currently preparing a comprehensive plan to fulfill this commitment,” said Ian Cameron, press secretary for Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan, who is leading the case, in an email.
“Once programs are in place, planting can begin in various locations across Canada, including public forests, private lands, crown lands and urban spaces,” he added, noting that “despite pandemic, ”Ottawa continued to engage with Indigenous peoples, provincial and territorial governments, and industry to deliver a plan.
Minister Seamus O’Regan did not make himself available to grant an interview to La Presse. Behind the scenes, we nevertheless assure that the promise still holds, and we argue that the health crisis “has turned a lot of things upside down” – an argument that the Bloc Québécois spokesperson for the environment sweeps away with a wave of the hand.
“It looks like a line of fires along Interstate 5”
Bee Serious
September 16, 2020: Reader Tips
Your tips thread’s up.
One Flu Out Of The Wuhan Nest
A Chinese virologist who has reportedly been in hiding over fear for her safety has stepped out into the public eye again to make the explosive claim that she has scientific evidence to prove that COVID-19 was human-made in a lab in China. […]
Dr. Li-Meng Yan, a scientist who says she did some of the earliest research into COVID-19 last year, made the comments Friday during an interview on the British talk show “Loose Women.”
When asked where the deadly virus that has killed more than 900,000 around the globe comes from, Yan — speaking via video chat from a secret location — replied, “It comes from the lab — the lab in Wuhan and the lab is controlled by China’s government.”
She insisted that widespread reports that the virus originated last year from a wet market in Wuhan are “a smoke screen.”
“The first thing is the [meat] market in Wuhan … is a smoke screen and this virus is not from nature,” Yan claimed, explaining that she got “her intelligence from the CDC in China, from the local doctors.”
She appeared on Tucker Carlson tonight.
Twitter has already suspended her account. An expanded discussion at Zerohedge.
Embrace Hollywood!
Actress Kristen Connors walked off the set of a movie over former FBI Director James Comey and an intelligence-gathering operation against President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Connors, who had agreed to play the part of a congressional interrogator in the upcoming film “ObamaGate,” quit the job after early table readings of the script. She called the film “propaganda,” according to the show’s producers. […]
“ObamaGate” producer Phelim McAleer, who is a contributor to The Daily Wire, slammed Connors in a statement, saying “‘ObamaGate The Movie’ is the complete opposite of propaganda. It is 100 percent verbatim. There is no drama or evidence added. Everything that you will see on screen came out of the mouths, memos, or is the sworn evidence of these FBI and DOJ operatives. It is the truth not propaganda.”
The Power Of No
Quick — you’re being targeted by the cancel culture mob. Your inbox is blowing up. Your Twitter mentions are filled with hate. There’s a petition demanding your termination.
What do you do?
Social Disease
Art Of The Deal
Update @joshdcaplan – President Trump expects Saudi Arabia will join move to recognize Israel
Say It Isn’t So, Joe!
President Harris Will See You Now
Is it an accident?
Biden says “Harris-Biden administration.” Wow. pic.twitter.com/klqlsb21yr
— Kyle Olson 🇺🇸 (@kyleolson4) September 15, 2020
Clown Court
An argument for electing judges;
Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Graeme Mitchell appeared Sunday at a closing ceremony for a young Metis man whom he ruled was allowed to stay on the provincial legislature’s lawn to finish a hunger strike over suicide rates.
Mitchell dismissed the government’s bid to remove Tristen Durocher’s teepee and found the bylaws that prohibit overnight camping on the grounds infringed on his charter rights as an Indigenous man.
During his stop at Durocher’s camp, Mitchell spoke to him and accepted a Metis sash presented by a supporter.
I Want A New Country
Full speed ahead on new #CarbonTax fuel standards,@JonathanWNV tells reporters: draft regulations are due in days. https://t.co/FWeM6NX2Gp #cdnpoli @EnvironmentCA @OilGasCanada pic.twitter.com/K4f0hKhWn7
— Blacklock's Reporter (@mindingottawa) September 15, 2020
Related: So much for O’Toole
Wuhan Tru
News reports of U.S. President Donald Trump downplaying the serious nature of COVID-19 have received plenty of news coverage — unfortunately, we can’t say the same thing for the Trudeau government’s handling of the situation.
As late as mid-March, the Trudeau government was saying the risk to Canadians was low and closing borders was ineffective, if not downright racist, while also discouraging the mask use we all deal with now.
More: a Patty Hadju juxtapose.
Burn Baby Burn! Clinton Inferno!
Nearly 30 years ago, President Bill Clinton made a significant change to federal land management that created the conditions necessary for massive wildfires to consume portions of the West Coast, according to a fire expert who predicted the problem years ago.
Shortly before leaving office in 2001, Clinton limited the ability of the United States Forest Service to thin out a dense thicket of foliage and downed trees on federal land to bring the West into a pristine state, Bob Zybach, an experienced forester with a Ph.D. in environmental science, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. The former president’s decision created a ticking time bomb, Zybach argues.
Jonestown Precinct
.@TorontoPolice officers vehicle surrounded after they responded to reported street racing over the weekend. Police continue to investigate, possible charges in the future #Toronto pic.twitter.com/Re4kGrPVvZ
— Andrew Collins (@ACollinsPhoto) September 14, 2020
Say It Isn’t So, Joe!
Picking Kamala isn’t really working out pic.twitter.com/3ubLz1Etzt
— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) September 15, 2020
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Protector of Brazil’s Indigenous Groups Fatally Shot With Arrow by Isolated Tribe
Conservatives Win Majority in New Brunswick
New Brunswick voters elected a majority Progressive Conservative government on Monday, concluding a highly unusual election race — the first in Canada since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Just over an hour after the polls closed, the Tories under Premier Blaine Higgs were elected and leading in 27 ridings, the Liberals in 18, the Green party in three and the People’s Alliance in one riding.
It’s the first time a government in New Brunswick has won two consecutive terms since Bernard Lord led the Tories to victory in 2003.
Liberal leader Kevin Vickers lost his seat.



