Living in America for the past 5 years, I’ve been a keen observer of how my fellow Canadians down here describe things back home. In almost all cases, any explanation will be in relation to America and Americans. Some examples include: “Canadians have a good leader, not Trump.” “Canadians aren’t so dumb.” And at a slightly deeper level, I’m convinced there’s an underlying moral superiority attitude, which definitely includes the topics of law & order and corruption.

With that background in mind, a most interesting story is emerging out of Ryerson University. Allegedly the heads of the Students’ Union, elected in May 2018, have been on quite the spending spree with the university’s credit cards:

The heads of the Ryerson Students’ Union have been given one week to explain approximately $250,000 in credit card spending, which critics say includes numerous questionable expenditures over an eight-month period.

The credit card statement, which is addressed to student union president Ram Ganesh, includes purchases at LCBO locations, a shisha lounge and a credit risk company in Stratford, Ont.

The expenditures allegedly date back to May 2018, when Ganesh began his term as president.

Ganesh and vice president Savreen Gosal took over the student union’s credit card and began using it themselves, according to reporting by The Eyeopener.

Three immediate questions come to mind:
1. When will the police be called in to file criminal charges?
2. How long will it take before Ram Ganesh and Savreen Gosal cry that this is all a racist plot and they’re the victims of white privilege?
3. Given this callous disregard for spending other people’s money, how long before they become federal Liberal Party candidates?

h/t NEO

You may have heard about the widespread oppression of the Venezuelan people the last few years. If not, watch this.

One would logically assume that CUPE members have access to such information. It’s thus quite puzzling to understand how the CUPE leadership vehemently supports the dictator of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro:

“The Canadian government was one of the first governments in the world to declare support for Juan Guaidó. In doing so, they have chosen to side with a self-declared leader over President Nicolas Maduro, who was duly elected by the people of Venezuela,” the Canadian Union of Public Employees said in a recent statement. “They have also chosen to side with Donald Trump and U.S. foreign policy.”

It’s most fascinating to see how CUPE members are willing to so callously let poor Venezuelans suffer, and perhaps die, on the bonfire of a failed socialist experiment. Didn’t being on the Left once mean that you actually CARED about people?

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The Calgary Herald’s Licia Corbella reports on how Alberta NDP Environment Minister Shannon Phillips is using alleged reports of “inflamed rhetoric and inaccurate statements made by some organizations and individuals on social media” as an excuse to cancel public meetings about the proposed Bighorn Wildland Provincial Park. Translation: “Some people were mean to me so now I’m going to have my party without them!”

When told that United Conservative MLA for the massive area, Jason Nixon, called the cancellation of the meetings “arbitrary,” Phillips said: “The safety of Albertans and conversations with the RCMP are never arbitrary.”

It’s odd though. Const. Mike Hibbs, the media relations officer for Alberta’s RCMP K Division’s southern district, said Monday that he hadn’t heard of any threats.

“I’m not aware of anything — of any threats at all,” said Hibbs.

Nixon, MLA for Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre, says he spoke with many RCMP contacts over the weekend and again on Monday and none of them were aware of any threats of any kind.

“The RCMP in my communities didn’t know what I was asking about; they never heard about any threats and they certainly didn’t ask for meetings to be shut down,” explained Nixon, who attended a rally in Drayton Valley Monday night that was hastily organized by community representatives to replace the cancelled information session scheduled for the conference centre there.

“I’m not going to call her a liar, but she needs to back up what she said because her actions insult all the citizens of these communities — good solid citizens who just want to ask some reasonable questions about provincial plans about our home,” said Nixon.

Democrats: The most racist political party in modern history!

Resting uncomfortably.

In his latest editorial in the National Post, Jordan Peterson contrasts Scandinavia with Canada. Here’s an excerpt from the latter part:

Given that only 26% of the elected MPs were women, the selection of half the cabinet from this pool means that it is a statistical certainty that the cabinet members chosen were not the most competent available.

It might also be pointed out that such a move is particularly appalling given its source. Let’s assume (which I don’t) that there is patriarchy, and with it, generally undeserved privilege. Let’s even assume (which I don’t) that much of this is accrued unfairly by straight white men, as the identity politics players, such as our Prime Minister, self-righteously and vociferously insist.

Is it truly unreasonable to point out that the absolute poster boy for such privilege is none other than our Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau — a man who dared run for the highest office in the land despite his utter lack of credentials (other than good looks, charm and a certain ability to behave properly in public) merely because his father, Pierre, turned the Trudeau name into the very epitome of status unearned by his sons?

Conor Barnes, a former anarchist, has provided deep insight into the hate filled echo chamber of the Cult of Radical Leftism:

Commentators have accurately noted how social justice seems to take the form of a religion. This captures the meaning and fulfilment I found in protests and occupations. It also captures how, outside of these harrowing festivals, everyday life in radical communities is mundane but pious. As a radical activist, much of my time was devoted to proselytizing. Non-anarchists were like pagans to be converted through zines and wheatpasted posters rather than by Bible and baptism. When non-radicals listened to my assertions that nazis deserved death, that all life had devolved into spectacle, and that monogamy was a capitalist social construct, they were probably bewildered instead of enticed.

No worldview maps reality perfectly. But when a worldview encounters discordant knowledge, it can either evolve to accommodate it, or it can treat it as a threat to the worldview’s integrity. If a worldview treats all discordant knowledge as threat, then it is an ideology. Its adherents learn to see themselves as guardians rather than seekers of the truth. The practical consequences of such a worldview can be devastating.