More in the ‘From the mouths of babes’ file.
Trudeau said in an interview with Global Calgary that people in Edmonton and Saskatchewan who complain of being left out of changes to the program should feel fortunate their areas have not been harder hit by the downturn in energy prices.
Selfish dolts, if you’re unemployed should be happy that you’re not, umm, unemployed.
In BC and Ontario is finally raising the hackles of some.
About time.
I’m inclined to suggest that getting into further debt for a grad school degree in Women and Gender Studies is possibly not an ideal way to help one’s family economically.
Katherine Garcia, a feminist “creative” and self-appointed enlightener on “social justice” issues, feels severely undervalued.
The culture of death known as “the left” has your pet in their target zone;
The RSPCA has been accused of acting unlawfully after seizing a family’s pet cat – which was then put down against the owners’ wishes – in an official review which described the charity’s actions as a “travesty”.
The 16-year-old Turkish Van, named Claude, was taken away from Richard and Samantha Byrnes by RSPCA inspectors after a neighbour raised concerns about the animal’s appearance.
It was destroyed even though Mrs Byrnes tearfully begged animal inspectors to wait until her children, aged 12 and 14, could say goodbye to the animal they had known all their lives.
Now an official review conducted by Stephen Wooler, the former HM Chief Inspector to the Crown Prosecution Service, found the RSPCA had failed to disclose material to the Byrnes in a subsequent animal cruelty prosecution, The Times (£) reported.
The RSPCA’s actions also provoked a hate campaign against the family, the unpublished report found.
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MPs are currently holding an inquiry into the charity’s role in prosecuting 80 per cent of animal welfare cases in England and Wales.
That’s right – “prosecuting”. These animal welfare organizations have been granted quasi-police powers in many jurisdictions. “Licensing and inspecting” is how they get their foot in the legislative door.
h/t Rick
Brian shares his personal memories of Jean Lapierre and how the man could speak to anyone. We need more of that.
Also, Anthony Furey on the new effort to counter radicalization. The retired Senator Marjory Lebreton on the fake new system appoint to the Red Chamber joins Brian for a frank talk. Warren Kinsella on Ontario’s new fundraising rules and Brian’s head explodes that’s to Stephane Dion’s revisionist history and lies.
He was killed in a plane crash today along with his wife, brothers and sister.
A correlation study on earthquakes, fracking and waste-water injection.
That doesn’t mean that a lot of wells cause earthquakes. Eaton calculates that about 0.3 per cent of fracked wells create problems.
But there are enough wells drilled for even that tiny fraction to be a concern.
This study, of course, will soon be cited by the same people that say a six percent Muslim population is perfectly safe.
with women, what’s a little battery?
I remember the day after Fields accused Lewandowski of grabbing her arm the refrain from Trump fans on Twitter was “Prove it! File a police report or you’re lying.” So she filed a police report. Then the refrain was “It was the other guy standing behind Trump, not Lewandowski!” Then new video came out showing, no, it was Lewandowski. Then the refrain was “He barely touched her. No one could seriously believe this is battery.” So now he’s been charged with battery.
That whole “Never Apologize” thing went stupid, real fast. A quick five minute statement by Lewandowski apologizing and explaining that he was just trying to keep up with Trump would have made the whole thing go away.
Going stupid fast seems to be in the air this season.
To say nothing about the signal to world.
“We understand this is disruptive to our military families, but we must keep them safe and ensure the combat effectiveness of our forces to support our strong Ally Turkey in the fight against terrorism.”
Terrorism? Russia? Syria? Silly me, those are all the same thing.
The FBI’s fishing expedition for precedent ends just like tech-minded people thought it would. It did turn out to be an effective lesson in outing the right as much in favour of rights infringement as the left.
The end of this legal standoff also means that no legal precedent gets set for the scope of government’s power to compel an unwilling company to cooperate in an investigation, for instance by writing special new software as in Apple’s case.
The final score? Apple and Google increased their public profile, and Microsoft looked like gov’t hacks. The battle for and against private encryption remains in status quo. Way to go, FBI. /sarc
Peaceful Majority Watch: France has ‘at least 100 neighbourhoods’ as bad as Belgium’s jihadi hotspot Molenbeek
May I present this song that was definitely not inspired by your new prime minister:
Heather Mac Donald pokes at the ongoing rot of academia:
Earlier this week, several dozen Emory students barged into the school’s administration building to demand protection from “Trump 2016” slogans that had been written in chalk on campus walkways. Acting out a by-now standardized psychodrama of oppression and vulnerability, the students claimed that seeing Trump’s name on the sidewalk confirmed that they were “unsafe” at Emory. College sophomore Jonathan Peraza led the allegedly traumatised students in a chant: “You are not listening! Come speak to us, we are in pain!” … As the Emory protesters entered the administration building, they drew on the Communist Manifesto to express their pitiable plight: “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
A memo to media pondering the palpable anger of the American masses toward “the establishment”: you’re the establishment.
Chili Peppers again tonight — Otherside . Thread open.
The jihadi hordes don’t care what you think about them, Israel or any other issue, they only care if you will submit. The terror attacks in Lahore, Pakistain as well as in Iraq, Yemen and Syria illustrate this. Brian talks to Phil Gurski, former CSIS analyst on the issue of what drives the terrorists.
He also speaks with Stephen Taylor about the Conservative Party leadership race and the latest poll on who might be leading. Plus Caleb Howe on the US presidential race and the creepy Democrats, Sheldon Clare from the NFA on Quebec’s gun registry and your calls.
About 20 minutes into Rev. Damian O’Connell’s noon Mass, protester Jacob Martin, 23, rose out of his seat in the center of the church and started to walk down the aisle while shouting into a bullhorn that “only the devil” could create “animals capable of love and joy just so humans can make them suffer and die.”
Martin, who is a former University of North Carolina student and identifies as a Christian, also had a camera strapped to his chest, which worshippers believed was an explosive.
“I was terrified,” said Cindy Calitri, 52. “I thought it was a bomb. There was something on his chest with lights flashing.”
Belgian soldiers deployed to fight terrorists had no bullets in their rifles.
Romulus Augustus couldn’t have said it better himself.