Documents obtained under Access to Information laws show that in the summer of 2017, there were serious discussions about installing a helipad at Harrington Lake, the official cottage of Canada’s prime ministers.
This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society
An Ontario Superior Court judge has found some of the enforcement powers held by the province’s animal welfare agency to be unconstitutional, and says the government has 12 months to rewrite laws to remedy the situation.
Jeffrey Bogaerts, a paralegal from the Perth, Ont., area who has an interest in animal welfare law, launched the constitutional challenge five years ago after helping several animal owners who were being investigated by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), including a woman whose pet dog was seized. […]
“Although charged with law enforcement responsibilities, the OSPCA is opaque, insular, unaccountable, and potentially subject to external influence, and as such Ontarians cannot be confident that the laws it enforces will be fairly and impartially administered,” Minnema wrote in a decision released Wednesday.
Minnema said the OSPCA appears to be an organization that fulfils public functions without being held accountable like other police organizations that have to comply with the Police Services Act, the Ombudsman Act and freedom-of-information laws.
The judge also said he doesn’t see how the relevant sections of the OSPCA Act could be easily modified to make them compliant with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He noted 21 sections of the OSPCA Act that are “of no force and effect” and suggested the act might have to be re-written from scratch.
In British Columbia, dog owners are being harassed on the street by BCSPCA extremists for walking their dogs in garden variety choke collars.
More at National Post.
He Admires Their Basic Dictatorship
Thirteen Canadians have been detained in China since the high-profile arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver on Dec. 1, according to a Canadian government official.
A Global Affairs Canada spokesperson, Guillaume Bérubé, confirmed the detentions in a statement to The Globe and Mail. Until Thursday, only three Canadians – Michael Kovrig, Michael Spavor and Sarah McIver – were publicly known to have been detained in China since Canada’s arrest of Ms. Meng, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.’s chief financial officer. They were picked up after China promised retaliation for Ms. Meng’s arrest.
“Global Affairs Canada is aware of 13 Canadian citizens having been detained in China, excluding Hong Kong, since December 1, 2018. Of those, we can confirm that at least eight have been released,” Mr. Bérubé said in an e-mail.
But don’t you worry, assures the Globe and Mail. It’s all completely normal.
According to a government official who was not authorized to speak publicly, a total of about 200 Canadians have been detained in China for a variety of alleged infractions and continue to face ongoing legal proceedings, and many of them are out on bail or serving probation. The source said the number of detained Canadians has remained relatively stable, without a marked increase or decrease in recent years.
For comparison, the source said almost 900 Canadians are detained in the United States.
For “comparison”, mind you.
Let Me Fix That Headline For You
Those Moderate Muslims!
She seems nice.
First Muslim Congresswoman Rashinda Tlaib: “We’re Going to Go In There and Impeach The Motherfucker”…ele https://t.co/S6cLlVYibh pic.twitter.com/w8PT5zV1m9
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) January 4, 2019
January 4, 2019: Reader Tips
Tips here.
2 Year Recession Watch Remains On High Alert
Breaking News
Monster Jobs Report
ADP reports 271,000 jobs for December almost 100,000 more than Wall Street consensus. We get the government number tomorrow which could be different but this is huge news about the economy. pic.twitter.com/gu8jCVAuHb— Charles V Payne (@cvpayne) January 3, 2019
Y2Kyoto: The Greenest Generation
If radical environmentalism is refighting WWII: Fair enough. Nuking Hiroshima it is, then.
The primary difference is that 85 million dead aren’t enough to produce the results they seek.
Truckers For Pipelines
Organizers of a truck convoy to Ottawa to pressure the federal government to fast-track pipeline construction say the effort is snowballing.
Proponents of pushing hundreds of trucks and other vehicles to Parliament Hill in February say a GoFundMe page and a recruitment effort are swelling the effect of the so-called Yellow Vest protest that’s expected to embark from Red Deer on Feb. 15.
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Several protest convoys of hundreds of vehicles have already trundled through Alberta venting anger over legal and political roadblocks facing the Trans Mountain and Energy East pipeline expansions.
Organizers of the Convoy to Ottawa effort say they’ll harness that momentum and emotion for the countrywide trek that is expected to end with a rally on Parliament Hill sometime between Feb. 19 and 23.
A “rally”? Fill the streets, park them and walk. Turn that city into a parking lot.
When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
According to intelligence officials, the fact that Page was relatively unknown made him an attractive target.
“It can be tougher to make a FISA case on a prominent, government-connected figure,” said former Army intelligence officer Chris Farrell, now director of investigations at Judicial Watch. “But you can spin a tale about a guy who is on the margins. You can make sweeping generalizations, you don’t have to be too detailed. And they’d use the lack of information on Page to explain that’s precisely why they need the warrant—to learn more about him.”Intelligence sources told The Federalist that Page was likely targeted as a means of accessing the Trump team’s communications.
But there’s lots more there.
January 3, 2019: Reader Tips
In memory of Bob “Super Dave” Einstein, who passed away Jan.2nd — The Atomic Yo-Yo Stunt (with Saskatchewan sealskin binding).
Thread’s open for tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Well, we are the Roadkill Diaries: “Alaska has been the only state where virtually every piece of large roadkill is eaten.”
Social Disease
Dave Rubin and Jordan Peterson leave Patreon over free speech concerns.
This Is CNN
Millions of New Voters For Trudeau
Millions of people that don’t live here, some of whom haven’t lived here in decades and do not pay taxes here will be allowed to vote in the 2019 federal election thanks to……..Justin Trudeau.
The Children Are Our Future
@Mark_J_Perry – The University of Michigan Has At Least 82 Full-Time Diversity Officers at a Total Annual Payroll Cost of $10.6M. That Would Support Full In-State Tuition for 708 Students.
Are We Still A Member Of This Thing?
The United States and Israel officially quit the U.N.’s educational, scientific and cultural agency at the stroke of midnight, the culmination of a process triggered more than a year ago amid concerns that the organization fosters anti-Israel bias.
The withdrawal is mainly procedural yet serves a new blow to UNESCO, co-founded by the U.S. after World War II to foster peace.
The Trump administration filed its notice to withdraw in October 2017 and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu followed suit.
The Paris-based organization has been denounced by its critics as a crucible for anti-Israel bias: blasted for criticizing Israel’s occupation of east Jerusalem, naming ancient Jewish sites as Palestinian heritage sites and granting full membership to Palestine in 2011.
Israeli U.N. envoy Danny Danon said Tuesday that his country “will not be a member of an organization whose goal is to deliberately act against us, and that has become a tool manipulated by Israel’s enemies.”
January 2, 2019: Reader Tips
“Swiss National”
Those words… I do not think they mean what they want you to think they mean.
Death And Taxes
Two sure things, rolled into one: – Note to grabbers, unlike your false claims about semi-automatic weapons such as AR-15s, what the IRS has are automatic weapons, that’s fifteen machine guns with 56,000 rounds. Who do you think they will be using them on?