Many Americans feel that the country has become unrecognizable. – Victor Davis Hanson
Attention, Music Lovers
It’s A Feature Not A Bug
He Was Feeling Better
True North- Inmate serving near 8-year sentence escapes from healing centre in Edmonton
“In the current fiscal year, there have been three escapees from Stan Daniels Healing Centre, with one of those offenders having already been apprehended,” a spokesperson for Correctional Service Canada told True North.
The Stan Daniels Healing Centre is a Section 81 facility operated by the Native Counselling Services of Alberta. These facilities are specifically used to house some Indigenous inmates where they can be offered “culturally appropriate services and programs to offenders in a way that incorporates Indigenous values, traditions and beliefs,” the correctional service says.
Dispatches from the Maple Gulag Truck Stop
The 2 1/2 year long saga of Justin Trudeau’s Political Prisoners comes to an end this Wednesday.
Gord Magill calls out the CBC over Coutts trial coverage. More here.
Gord Magill on the tyranny in Canada today.
Two SDA favourites, Neil Oliver and Gord Magill discuss the state of Canada.
Honoring Dictators
Given the disastrous outcomes of Covid pandemic policy and the massive backlash that it created, one would think that governments would go out of their way to avoid giving too much notice to those responsible for such fiascos, but apparently the government of Manitoba thinks otherwise.
Manitoba’s chief public health officer, Dr. Brent Roussin is a physician, law school graduate, and familiar face to Manitobans as the province’s top public health authority and spokesperson during daily COVID-19 pandemic news conferences. A specialist in public health and preventive medicine, Dr. Roussin also brings an understanding of administrative law that was particularly helpful during the province’s COVID-19 response.
Functionaries like Roussin basically assumed the role of provincial dictator and divided their fiefdoms between “essential” and “non-essential” businesses, bankrupting many in the process. They also implemented such inanities such as restaurant masking rules and, in Manitoba, the bizarre measure that one could only golf with members of one’s household. Why do some insist on honoring such fools?
Question Asked
So, I’ve returned from my travels and I have questions. Among them, why is a planet-wide celebration of athleticism and uncommon sporting prowess being introduced with yet another tedious display of cross-dressing, oddly selective sacrilege, and self-satisfied obesity?
Expensive Sins
If treaty payments in the neighborhood of $126 billion don’t sink the Canadian economy, I don’t know what would. While it’s true that the annual per person treaty payments are very low, why wouldn’t a court also take into account the mushrooming budget for the Department of Indigenous and Northern Affairs which made such payments redundant over many decades?
In a unanimous ruling, the panel of nine judges declared both Canada and Ontario had “dishonourably breached” their obligations under the Robinson Treaties signed with the Anishinaabe of Lake Huron and Lake Superior in 1850.
Harley Schacter, a lawyer for Red Rock First Nation and Whitesand First Nation which started the group’s fight back in 2001, told reporters on Friday he believes his clients are owed “a couple of billion to as much as $126 billion.”
“It’s a victory for everybody.”
Everybody, that is, with the exception of taxpayers.
It’s Finally Over!
Global- British Columbia lifts COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health-care workers
B.C. provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry has ended the COVID-19 public health emergency in British Columbia and ended the COVID-19 vaccine mandate in health-care settings.
However, the province is making it mandatory for health-care workers to disclose their immunization status, including COVID-19, influenza and measles vaccines.
Collecting these records will allow health-care administrators to make staffing decisions in the event of an exposure, outbreak, or future pandemic.
Great Success!
Peter St. Onge- Canada is headed for its worst decline in 40 years as economy fails to recover from the pandemic. Under Trudeau, incomes are West Virginia level, house prices are Los Angeles level, and a middle class family might pay *half* their income in taxes. 7 in 10 Canadians now think that “Canada is broken” — rising to 8 in 10 of the young. Almost half of Canadians are considering moving to another country.
That Sinking Feeling
So the Bank of Canada cut interest rates again and dropped hints that more are on the way? So much for “normalizing” rates. But when your monetary system consists of an irredeemable fiat currency in which debt grows exponentially both by design and by intention, the only way to avoid widespread default and banking system collapse is by continually cutting interest rates. We’re on our way back to zero.
David Rosenberg, founder and president of Rosenberg Research & Associates Inc., said the central bank is behind on rate cuts and has a long way to go to bring balance back to the economy.
“The Bank of Canada is hardly done. This is the early stage of what will prove to be more than just a partial unwind of the most severe tightening cycle since the John Crow era of the late 1980s,” he said in a note to clients. “When you model out where the overnight rate should be in such a period of economic slack, it should be closer to two per cent than 4.5 per cent.”
It’s Probably Nothing
The Canadian economy is in trouble. A thread.
Your Coronary Bypass Will Have To Wait
Read the whole thing.
Montreal Gazette- French-language inspectors are cracking down on Montreal hospitals
Language inspectors from the Office québécois de la langue française are expanding the range of their inspections beyond businesses and are now targeting hospitals in the Montreal area, even going so far as to verify whether French is being spoken in operating rooms, The Gazette has learned.
Diversifying Canada’s Neighbourhoods
@PierrePoilievre – 18 people. 150 offences (including violent home invasions & carjackings). 9 have already been released on bail. 6 others were already out on release orders.
Supply Mismanagement
It used to be said that the beauty of the dairy quota system was that taxpayers would never be on the hook for financial aid to dairy farmers. Leaving aside the obvious contradiction that tariffs on imported goods are actually a tax, it seems that tariff barriers just won’t do it anymore for milk producers.
Dairy Farmers of Canada will be receiving up to $5,000,000 over 5 years to advance sustainability and public trust in the dairy industry, leveraging the proAction quality assurance program. The proAction program ensures Canadian dairy farms maintain high standards in terms of environmental impact, food safety, animal care, and more.
DFC will also be receiving up to $3,572,786 over five years to build on their existing tools and strengthen DairyTrace to help protect and enhance animal health, public trust, and sustainability.
Comrade Chow’s Toronto
After getting rid of street signs named after white men, a white woman gets a street named after her. At least temporally. I’m sure taxpayers will be happy that Taylor Swift is getting her own street. It’s not like Toronto needs to spend the money on anything else.
The Glamour Of Air Travel
And hey, every passenger wants the pilot to be a bewigged, mentally ill fetishist who bangs on about the super-girly tightness of his uniform, and who takes endless, pouting selfies in the cockpit.
Unlimited Demands
Sorry, but having to work within the confines of a budget is not part of a plot set up by evil colonialists to destroy you. Whoever came up with this number probably assessed the progress so far and decided that it was time to get back to reality. Proper investigation would entail forensic excavation and the affected parties seem to be doing everything to avoid exactly that.
David Monias, chief of Pimicikamak Cree Nation in Manitoba, was on the Zoom call.
“I am profoundly dismayed by the Canadian government’s decision to impose a cap of $500,000 per year on funds allocated for unmarked residential school burials,” he said.
“This reduction is not only inadequate but reflects a troubling denialism regarding the true scale and significance of this issue. It is essential to recognize that these burial sites are crime scenes, and as such, they must be protected, preserved, and properly investigated.”
Rewriting History
It’s anyone’s guess as to what this latest apology entails, but I’m sure it includes large monetary payments. What’s more bizarre is that the recipients didn’t originate in Canada, but in the United States.
As detailed in this more balanced article, the Sioux and Lakota were properly considered refugees, not original inhabitants.
The government appears to have granted these refugee-American-Indians full rights under Section 35, meaning that multi-billion-dollar land claims and reparation demands are imminent. Many Indigenous speakers at the press conference stated that the Dakota/Lakota and other tribes were already on their traditional lands when they escaped into Canada, a fact disputed by the foregoing evidence from the official North West Mounted Police history.
Gates Of Vienna
This time, help is not on the way.