Collateral Damage?

47 Art Of The Deal There Goes The Narrative 28 Comments

Needless prosecution of a victimless crime, or a case of “the law is the law“?

The administration’s sudden expansion of immigration arrests in Chicago meant Guzmán was in the government’s custody for about 34 hours. She was kept in a holding facility that was intended to house people for only a small fraction of that time… Even though she was still trying to produce breast milk for her daughter, Guzmán had limited access to food and water at the Broadview Processing Center and was never provided a breast pump. She said she was never assessed by a medical professional while in the government’s custody. Guzmán was left to manage the pain of her C-section recovery as well as her Type 1 diabetes with the supplies she had in her backpack at the time of her arrest.

 

Y2Kyoto: News They Can’t Use

There Goes The Narrative Y2Kyoto 10 Comments

Roger Pielke Jr.

Some huge news dropped today that will reverberate through climate science and policy. Nature has finally retracted “The Economic Commitment of Climate Change,” by Kotz et al. (KLW24), more than 18 months after first learning that the paper was fatally flawed, with the authors acknowledging that its errors are “too substantial” for a correction.

It is not just the retraction that matters — that’s long overdue — but the reaction to the retraction, which indicates that while the old ways still have a grip on the climate discussion, things may be changing for the better.

Back in August, I explained the growing scandal around KLW24: It wasn’t just a fatally flawed paper, but a flawed paper that had taken on outsized influence in climate advocacy and policy.

Thursday On Turtle Island

Turtle Island 5 Comments

The Democratic Party’s America:  Somali scammers.   A warning for whitey.  Migrant chaos.   Victor Davis Hanson – A distraction.   The Somali contribution.

Conman Carney’s Canada:  Spiritual sickness.  More money for Ukraine.  Indians want the Ottawa Valley back.

Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC:   Paul Joseph Watson – They’re proud of it.    Staff change at Jaguar.  Carney’s Muslim values?

Your morning meme.    Another meme.    And a cartoon.

 

China’s Chew Toy

Chinada Claws of the Panda 8 Comments

Sam Cooper- From Illegal ‘Police Stations’ to Rolling Consulates: Beijing’s New Interference Tactic Expands Beyond Major Cities on Canadian Soil

…a sweeping new investigation has revealed that Chinese diplomats in Canada have intensified and extended these missions — quietly staging more than 100 quickly mounted and dismantled “pop-up” consular events in 22 cities across 11 provinces since 2015, operating out of small, unofficial sites rather than accredited consulates.

Today In Canada’s Vote Rich Rapey-Beheader Community

More Pavilions At Folkfest Pallywood Religion Of Submission 12 Comments

Water cannons. Pig manure. (Some assembly required.)

The Honourable Member for Garnier-Clairol-L’Oreal

If Women Ran The World New Governor 20 Comments

Our industrious little Mel the Disassembler is having a tough week.

Auto giant Stellantis says the government, not the company, insisted on redacting copies of a controversial agreement with Ottawa worth hundreds of millions of dollars requested by a Commons committee.

A letter sent to the House Government Operations Committee by Stellantis appears to contradict testimony by top Industry Canada (ISED) officials last week that redactions to the agreement sent to MPs — who demanded unredacted copies — were requested by the auto giant.

In response to the letter, Industry Minister Mélanie Joly told National Post Tuesday that her department would finally release the unredacted agreement to the committee after repeatedly refusing to do so.

“I received the letter (from Stellantis) earlier. There’s no problem, we’ll remove the redactions and send it to the committee,” Joly said.

But the contradicting claims between Stellantis and ISED about who requested the agreement be redacted against the committee’s will raises a new question: who may have lied to MPs?

And her week just became tougher.

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