He gave his life for multiculturalism;
“(The niqab) hurt us terribly … I can share with you that the polling we did showed we dropped over 20 points in 48 hours here in Quebec because of the strong stand I took on the niqab.”
Even in this admission, Mulcair made it sound as if he had stood up for Rosa Parks, not a Pakistani immigrant telling Canadians how we need to change our laws to accommodate her.
h/t Ken (Kulak)
Bono Wants To ‘Send In’ Comedians To Combat ISIS.
*Changed the post title. Because, obviously.
Mr. Dion approved six export permits on Friday covering more than 70 per cent of the transaction, newly released documents show – a decision that represents the most vital step in the Canadian government’s arms-control process. The Liberals have long said they could not interfere with what they described as a “done deal” arranged by the Harper Conservatives.
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The remarkable department of Global Affairs Canada memo, stamped “secret” and obtained by University of Montreal law professor Daniel Turp, who is challenging the Saudi deal in Federal Court, lays bare the Liberal government’s rationale for the mammoth Canadian arms sale.
Canada’s arms export control regime makes it clear that a transaction can only proceed after Ottawa has issued export permits, and the new Global Affairs memo reveals that the Conservatives had only approved minor permits related to the Saudi deal for the export of technical data.
It has fallen to Mr. Dion to approve the vast majority of the transaction and that is what he did last week.
Tom Jones – It’s Not Unusual. Tips open.
Amazing what the populace actually wants:
With cheaper gas, the guzzler is making a comeback
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Full-sized pickup trucks represented 18.5 per cent of Canadian vehicle sales in March, compared with the long-time average of about 15 per cent.
Sales of the F-Series pickup by Ford Motor Co. of Canada Ltd. were the highest of any month in the company’s history in March. More than half the buyers of Ford vehicles in Canada last month bought an F-Series.
Sales of subcompact cars have hit the skids. They fell 16 per cent in the first two months of 2016 from year-earlier levels.
Sales of fuel-sipping hybrid vehicles have fallen by 8,000 units in the past three years, Mr. DesRosiers [DesRosiers Automotive Consultants Inc.] said, and Canadians buy about 3,000 electric vehicles a year in an overall market that hit 1.89 million vehicles last year.
The infatuation governments have for electric vehicles and hybrids is “highly misplaced,” he said…
Shiny pony and Leap Manifesters noticing? Time for a serious government crackdown on the people’s will? And boy that middle class sure is feeling the pain:
Canadian auto sales off to ‘dream start’ through March
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What is to be done?
At first you may find this distasteful. “Come on Cappy, how can you go after something like charity.” But remember, for anybody who dared to criticize housing or education, they were equally lambasted because “housing should be a right” and “you can’t put a price on education.” But need I remind you of the Great Recession and the problems the millennial generation is facing with their un-repayable student loans? And if you think these are/were problems, just wait till the charity bubble bursts. Regardless, the key point to be made about the “charity bubble” is that its origins hail from the exact same origins as the housing and education bubbles. Mispricing.
But the question is “the mispricing of what?”
And the answer is “the mispricing of stupid decisions.”
A group in Saskatoon claims some transit users don’t feel safe on city buses and is trying to find out why. Bus Riders of Saskatoon says people have come forward and reported inappropriate touching by other passengers.
Now, suggestions are being welcomed by the group to help improve transit experiences in hopes of increasing ridership.
If transit was operated by a church, these people would campaign to have the whole system shut down.
Ooo… she’s cranky.
Related: Why do the Clintons have 5 shell companies in Delaware?
Trophies (The Ellandun Wars Book 1)— by J. Gunnar Grey Captain Charles Ellandun lives in two worlds. With NATO’s Rapid Response team, he rescues embassies in trouble and takes drinking water to villages shattered by earthquakes. Between assignments, he stays with his Aunt Edith in Boston, where she sponsors art shows at the local gallery. It’s all very civilized and satisfying… |
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The Towel Manifesto – The President of Venezuela has urged women to stop using hairdryers and offered alternative styling tips as the country’s energy crisis continues.
Federal law makes it a felony “for two or more persons to agree together to injure, threaten, or intimidate a person in any state, territory or district in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him/her by the Constitution or the laws of the Unites States, (or because of his/her having exercised the same).”
I wonder if U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker, or California Attorney General Kamala Harris, or New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman have read this federal statute. Because what they’re doing looks like a concerted scheme to restrict the First Amendment free speech rights of people they don’t agree with. They should look up 18 U.S.C. Sec. 241, I am sure they each have it somewhere in their offices.
For tonight’s listening pleasure, we travel back in time to the 80’s for Sinead O’Connor’s Nothing Compares To You. Girlie music. Your tips thread is open.
The NDP tossed Tom Mulcair because they “lost” the last elections? Really? He is one of the only reasons they came close to winning. Brian explains why Mulcair is getting a raw deal. Darrell Bricker from Ipsos Public Affairs join Brian to explain the reality of the NDP based on polling. David Akin joins the show to explain why Bill Morneau’s numbers don’t add up. Ezra Levant on the Halifax school story and the media freak-out. Plus Brian on Liberal shenanigans with fundraising, tax shelters and why Avi Lewis is wrong on socialism.
Well, look who’s gone.
I guess Broten couldn't talk someone into resigning their $95K/year job so he could fill their seat. He resigned as leader of SaskNDP today
— Safimod (@Safimod) April 11, 2016
And look whose blog is as popular as ever.
Just last week, for example, Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Commander Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari said Iran is preparing for all-out war with the U.S. and its allies, and has vowed Iran will continue advancing and testing its ballistic missile program.
Speaking at a gathering of senior IRGC commanders in Tehran Tuesday, Jafari declared that the U.S, “would not be able to do a damned thing” in the face of Iranian advances, according to the official Tasnim News Agency.
This echoed an earlier speech by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who, in response to Washington’s latest plea for new talks about the ongoing Iranian ballistic missile tests, coldly said: “Those who say the future is in negotiations, not in missiles, are either ignorant or traitors.”
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Those who laugh off Iranian braggadocio might wish to rethink their light-heartedness. All indications are that Tehran is deadly serious, and has been all along.
A group of prominent scientists have united for an odd quest: to reduce funding for science education. They’ve joined with environmental groups and progressive activists to demand that hundreds of museums of science and natural history “cut all ties with the fossil fuel industry and funders of climate science obfuscation,” which means rejecting donations or investment dividends from anyone who doesn’t meet their standard of purity.
h/t Terry
I don’t want to have a civil discussion. I want to call you assholes.
Because simply being white and male is the worst thing in the world.
fter several years of incarceration in his native Romania, Marcel Lazar Lehel, aka Guccifer, has finally arrived this week in Alexandria, Virginia, to face nine charges of computer hacking. Guccifer, it will be recalled, is the one who revealed the presence of Hillary Clinton’s private server through his hacking of Sidney Blumenthal’s email account.
Catherine Herridge and Pamela K. Browne of Fox point out the interesting timing of his extradition…
A sweet song by Miranda Lambert – The House That Built Me. Tips open.
