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Vancouver Is Lovely This Time Of Year

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CTV- Frustrations rise over human waste on Vancouver streets, prompting return of ‘poop fairy’ program

In 2021, the City of Vancouver introduced its Feces Removal Response Program to address the fouling minefields, with patrols and collections carried out on weekdays across Chinatown, Downtown, Strathcona, Gastown, and Hastings Crossing.

A spokesperson from the city says the program had seen 1,870 removals in the first two months of this year alone. In 2024, 327 calls regarding human waste were made, an average of six calls per week.

Well, Rats!

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Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge will not seek re-election, Radio-Canada has learned.

But first, she needs to shovel money out the door.

But before she goes, St-Onge plans to fulfil a key part of her mandate letter as Heritage Minister.

According to information obtained by Radio-Canada, this week St-Onge will unveil her proposal to modernize CBC/Radio-Canada’s mandate in the Broadcasting Act, which has not been reviewed since 1991.

h/t Mike

Digging Your Own Grave

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As the post office inevitably transitions to a horrifically expensive junk mail delivery service, this allegedly climate-change driven “death trap” is starting to look more like a suicide pact. The postal strike has certainly pushed me to go paperless for all my critical invoices and to use Amazon or a courier for parcel delivery from now on. I’m quite certain I’m not the only one.

Enslin, 41, has worked at Canada Post for 16 years and said the extreme weather brought on by climate change — whether it’s inhaling smoke from wildfires or delivering mail during storms — has added significant physical and mental pressure to their jobs.

And that’s one of the reasons postal workers are demanding more support for these challenges in their new contract, he said.

The Most Interesting Man In The World

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Joe Biden has officially pardoned his son, Hunter.

MSNBC’s Joe Walsh is “deflated”.

Hmmm… With Hunter Biden pardoned, he can’t claim the Fifth when the Republicans go on the road to a non-Washington GC jurisdiction and start asking him questions about his scumbag criminal father

Heh. The Hunter Biden Pardon Starter Pack

It’s Not Hypocrisy, It’s Hierarchy

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Via Ed Driscoll;

Douglas Mackey was sentenced to jail for 9 months for posting such a meme, which was the equivalent of the old joke that we should vote early and vote often–a joke told by innumerable politicians and comics. But it was a joke made by a Republican, so it is out of bounds and must be punished.

Jimmy Kimmel just made a similar joke to millions, not hundreds, and the entire establishment will no doubt come to his defense. Nothing will happen, just as nothing happens when celebrities muse about shooting Donald Trump, chopping off his head, stabbing him, bombing the White House, or any other call to violence against “Nazi” Republicans.

America’s Most Convenient Bank®

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The Bureau;

In a historic crackdown on criminality that reached into the upper echelons of Canadian banking operations in the United States, the U.S. Department of Justice has unveiled a case against TD Bank spanning nearly a decade. Officials revealed that the bank allowed approximately $18.3 trillion to flow through its systems unchecked between January 2014 and October 2023, facilitating money laundering activities for Colombian drug traffickers and three major money laundering networks, including a Chinese crime group operating in New Jersey.

These networks collectively laundered over $670 million through TD Bank’s accounts.

During this period, TD Bank failed to monitor 92 percent of its transaction volume, resulting in over 14.6 billion unmonitored transactions, encompassing a range of high-risk activities. The case has delivered a serious blow to TD Bank’s U.S. expansion efforts and raises critical questions about regulatory oversight in Canada, where some experts argue that gaps in enforcement allowed such lapses to persist.

“TD Bank created an environment that allowed financial crime to flourish. By making its services convenient for criminals, it became one,” U.S. Attorney-General Merrick Garland said at a news conference in Washington.

Some experts contend that Canada’s regulatory environment has become a haven for international crime.

On Friday, Marc Cohodes, a U.S. investor known for exposing financial misconduct, told The Bureau: “The amount of financial crime going on in Canada right now is far greater than the mind can comprehend. It involves housing, mortgages, and illicit funds flowing in from European, Chinese, and South American networks into Canada’s financial systems. The way Canada is welcoming third-world criminals and their funds risks turning it into a third-world enterprise.”

Cohodes said he believes Canada’s government has a “dire and urgent need” to address the reputational harm to the nation stemming from the TD case, and other issues, like casino and real estate money laundering in British Columbia, that Cohodes began publicly commenting on in 2015.

Collective Farming

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Why are the Tories split on this issue? Do some of them actually think that the supply mismanaged dairy and poultry sectors should be allowed to hold the rest of the economy hostage?

This week, farming groups and former trade negotiators took turns trying to convince the upper chamber to either support or reject the Bloc’s private member’s bill to protect supply management from future trade negotiations.

The government voted in favour of the legislation last year, as did most Liberal MPs, the Bloc, the NDP and the Greens. The Conservatives were split on the vote.

 

Criminalizing Science Fraud

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Glenn Reynolds;

We’ve seen the way that the scientific establishment went after purveyors of entirely scientific doubts about Covid policy, cancelling those it could and censoring those it couldn’t cancel. The venality, dishonesty, and sheer lust for power and control that marked the Covid response – together with a deeply unimpressive record of actually getting the science right themselves – suggests that our science authorities are not to be trusted with policing science fraud, particularly as they’re often purveyors of fraudulent science themselves.

Yet there really is a problem. Science currently faces a “replication crisis.” in which vast numbers of published results don’t hold up when examined. Whole disciplines (*cough* social psychology *cough*) are so riddled with fraud as to be useless. And the public’s faith in science, which the “fraudbusters” of ORI were trying to preserve, has taken an enormous hit as a result.

Well, every successful system accumulates parasites, and American science has been enormously successful. But now it has accumulated a parasitic load that is rendering it weak and sick. So what do we do?

“Family Day”

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Telegraph- Woman fighting for life in hospital after Notting Hill Carnival stabbing

Police have made 90 arrests across the carnival, including for possession of an offensive weapon, assaults on an emergency worker and possession with intent to supply drugs. Arrests have also been made for assault, theft, sexual offences, possession of drugs and robbery. Fifteen officers have also been assaulted, the force said.

The carnival is Europe’s biggest street party and is billed by organisers as “the greatest community-led event on the planet”.

Mike Neville, a retired Scotland Yard detective chief inspector, alleged that officers are hesitant to make arrests for fear of being called racist.

BBC- Mum stabbed at Carnival was with her young child

Loud And Proud, You Say?

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Atlantic columnist is oppressed by expectations of politeness and basic consideration:

Ms Gonzalez, who repeatedly mentions how “minority” and “of colour” she is, also tells us how she, “just wanted to be around people in places where nobody told us to shush.” Say, when being a late-night annoyance to roommates and neighbours, a thing that by her own account happens repeatedly, or when playing music in a library. Where other people are trying to study:

“One day, when I accidentally sat down to study in the library’s Absolutely Quiet Room, fellow students Shhh-ed me into shame for putting on my Discman… I soon realised that silence was more than the absence of noise; it was an aesthetic to be revered. Yet it was an aesthetic at odds with who I was. Who a lot of us were.”

A bold admission. One, I suspect, that reveals more than intended. Also, the claim that one can sit down in a library accidentally.

Oh, there’s more. And a plot twist of sorts.

Please Remove Your Shoes Before Using the Crosswalk

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On scootering, desecration, and our new sacred symbols:

It occurs to me that the pretentious weeping currently underway could have been avoided by not painting one’s weird religious symbols on the chuffing road at a busy intersection. As if that were a perfectly normal thing to do, and in no way an irritant or an invitation to mischief.

And then, inevitably, the sly conflation:

“The alleged vandalism, which was claimed by many to be motivated by homophobia, resulted in an outpouring of condemnation from Spokane’s LGBT community and those purporting to be LGBT allies.”

At which point, readers may wonder whether the children’s scootering, and the wider disaffection for the increasingly cluttered and kaleidoscopic Pride flag, may have less to do with “homophobia,” as claimed, and rather more to do with a symbol that is now associated with creepy, compelled unrealism, fantasy pronouns, and the steering of children towards experimental drugging and surgical mutilation. The kinds of things that many people, including many gay people, might find a little contentious, or alienating, or morally repugnant.

Much more, including helpful illustrations, at the link.

 

Trudeau Friends and Family

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Blacklocks- No Money Literally Shoveled

David Yeo, a longtime civilian employee with the department, was also CEO of Dalian Enterprises Inc. of Ottawa that received $8.1 million in military contracts. Yeo resigned while under investigation. His company was suspended as a federal contractor.

Bloc Québécois MP Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné (Terrebonne, Que.) described federal mismanagement as chronic with little oversight by cabinet. “We are seeing this throughout the government and it is really a shame,” she said.

“The government seems to be losing control of agencies, losing control of what is happening fundamentally within departments,” said MP Sinclair-Desgagné. “We wonder if ministers even know what is happening on a daily basis within their departments. This is throughout the government.”

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