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Sun- Manitoba foster group echoes Peguis chief’s concerns over child welfare oversight

Last week, Chief Bird called for the cancellation and restructuring of Peguis’ child and family services agreement, stating that the system created under the 2023 coordination deal has “no accountability and no transparency.”

The agreement, established under Bill C-92, was the first in Manitoba to transfer child welfare authority from the province and the federal government to a First Nation. The 2019 federal legislation was designed to affirm Indigenous jurisdiction over child and family services and promote culturally grounded, community-led care.

Hocus Pocus

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

National Post- Liberals use accounting magic to mask their fiscal ineptitude

Update: PBO Exposes Ottawa’s “Capital Budgeting” Smoke‑and‑Mirrors

According to the report, Finance Canada’s new definition of “capital investment” now includes six different categories of spending, everything from tax expenditures and operating subsidies to measures that “contribute to housing stock.” Those are all expenses — money gone — but under the new system, they’ll be treated like long-term investments.

Elbows Down!

What did anyone think was going to materialize out of this trip? All that remains is for the new governor’s water carriers to invent some positive spin for what is really another political loss.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to return to Ottawa today with no deals to remove U.S. tariffs from Canadian goods, but he’s leaving his key minister on Canada-U.S. trade behind to keep pressing the Canadian case.

 

Hamas, Its Origins, Its Groupies

At Bastiat’s Window: Nazi Germany was the incubator for what would become Hamas and Hezbollah.

In brief, Hamas is as an especially fervent local chapter of an organization whose early funding, rituals, and philosophy came directly from Nazi Germany. Hamas’s spiritual mentor was a cleric employed by Hitler to organize Jihadist SS squads to murder Jews in Europe. Hamas’s 1987 founding charter maintained the Nazi/Jihadist goal of exterminating Jews worldwide. Hezbollah’s pedigree differs somewhat from Hamas’s, but they share goals and forebears.

This history is essential to comprehending October 7, 2023, its lead-up, and its aftermath. It explains the Bibas family’s torment—the manual strangulation of a 4-year-old and a 9-month-old, perhaps before the eyes of their soon-to-be-murdered mother; the jubilant community celebration that surrounded the parading of the babies’ desecrated remains; the three-card monte game played with the mother’s corpse; the emotional torture of the father.

Bravo, Lawrence Greenspon!

The Propaganda arm of the Lieberal Party of Canada – aka CBC News – clearly is not happy about this:

The Real Cost of Job Losses

SDA regular commenter, David Murrell, shared an interesting tip about what American auto workers are saying about General Motors moving production from Oshawa to Indiana:

Rich LeTourneau is blunt as he sets down his beer on the union hall bar, located just a stone’s throw away from the General Motors plant in Fort Wayne, Ind. where he’s put in 38 years.

I respect Canadian unions, I respect the Mexican union. We didn’t raise our hand and say … ‘I’ll take what you guys got.’ That decision was made way above our head, he told CBC News.

But when the company comes to me to increase volume, I’m not gonna tell them no, either, because it’s job security for my people, and hell, if I can corner the market, I will.

LeTourneau is the bargaining chairman at United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2209, which represents GM workers in Fort Wayne. This is where GM is adding 250 temporary jobs to build Chevrolet Silverados — work that has also been happening in Oshawa, Ont. but is being scaled back.

Not Reading The Room

From the pages of the Guardian, a reminder of which concerns – and by extension which citizens – simply don’t matter:

Readers are welcome to marvel at the conceit that objections to current policy – an effectively borderless nation – can only be the result of ignorance. No other possibilities being conceivable, it seems. And so, the flow of information, of views to be considered, and any expectations of listening, seem likely to travel in one direction only.

Readers will also note the assumption that the indigenous proletariat – those low-status citizens daring to be angry at the downgrading of their home – merely need to have their objections corrected. By drama of a very particular kind. As if concerns regarding rapid demographic transformation and a loss of cultural common ground could only ever be wrong.

Oh there’s more.

[Nearly] Live from the Oval Office Today

Today, Mark Carney met Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Here are some snippets:

Could someone please do a wellness check of Andrew Coyne. After seeing Carney’s glowing praise for Trump, did Coyne’s head spontaneously explode?!?

Breaking News: The Sentences for Chris Barber and Tamara Lich Have Been Announced

Chris Barber

Tamara Lich

Lest anyone forget, this is a reminder of how they, and others in the Freedom Convoy, freed Canadians from oppression.

Update: Following up on the comment from ‘Stan’, Grok was asked this: “Regarding the convictions of Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, compare their trials and sentences to leftwing protesters who have openly and violently broken laws in Canada.” The response was stunning. Here are some highlights:

In comparison, left-wing protesters in Canada involved in violent or disruptive actions—such as anti-pipeline blockades (often tied to environmental and Indigenous rights causes) or Black Lives Matter (BLM) demonstrations against racism and police violence—have typically faced shorter trials and lighter sentences for similar or more destructive offenses. These cases often involve civil disobedience escalating to property damage, blockades, or clashes with police, but convictions emphasize non-violent intent or police misconduct, leading to minimal incarceration.

Overall, Lich and Barber’s cases drew unusually aggressive prosecution (e.g., multi-year sentences sought) despite no violence, contrasting with lighter outcomes for left-wing actions involving property destruction or direct confrontations. This disparity has fueled debates on selective enforcement, though courts in both contexts prioritize deterrence while considering protest motivations.

Dispatches from the Maple Gulag Truck Stop

Gord Magill is posting live from the court room on the Lich/Barber sentencing.

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