DEI The Friendly Skies

If Women Ran The World 38 Comments

I’ll stress that it’s too early to know the cause of the crashed Delta flight in Toronto, but this is a bad look.

More from John Konrad – DEI is a problem, but in many companies, it’s just a tool — a loyalty test HR directors use to expand their own power and budgets while purging anyone they don’t control.

Wednesday On Turtle Island

Turtle Island 12 Comments

Woke America:  Reparations demands are back.  Victor Davis Hanson – The left’s addiction to drama.  Church in Dallas.  Deranged leftists call for violence.

Prime Minister Carney’s Canada:  Free Speech Union of Canada.  We need an anti-woke leader.  Liberal Party’s CBC.  The Liberal Party’s RCMP.

Odds And Ends:  New training for pharmacists.  Quite simply a moron.  Moderate Muslims in Australia.

Your morning cartoon.   Another cartoon.

Heading For The Exits

Gradually Then Suddenly It's Probably Nothing nannystate 24 Comments

When even the CBC admits it, things must be even worse that anyone could imagine.

… business investment dropped off in 2015 when oil prices plunged and have remained stubbornly low ever since.

Economists warn that has weakened the Canadian economy and gives Canada less cushion to weather a trade war.

“GDP per capita has declined for eight of the past nine quarters, and business investment has been stagnant. Both cyclically and structurally, Canada’s economy is not well positioned to absorb a shock of this scale,” wrote Royal Bank’s chief economist Frances Donald and deputy chief economist Nathan Janzen.

I, For One, Welcome Our New Self Driving Overlords

AI 24 Comments

The cost to use SuperGrok Plan is rumoured to be $300 a year.

The Libranos: SNC Lavalin

SNC Lavalin The Libranos 13 Comments

Sam Cooper;

Transparency watchdog Democracy Watch has released a second trove of RCMP investigative records, alleging that they raise profound concerns about political interference in the national police force’s probe of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government. The records pertain to allegations that Trudeau and senior Cabinet officials pressured then-Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould to halt the criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin, with one Trudeau aide explicitly stating that intervention was necessary “to help the Liberals get re-elected.”…

Newly surfaced evidence, including Wilson-Raybould’s own RCMP interview, indicates that the pressure campaign may have met the threshold for criminal obstruction charges. The thousands of pages of records further suggest that Trudeau’s top aides sought to resolve the SNC-Lavalin affair in a way that would protect the government’s electoral fortunes.

In one portion of her RCMP interview, Wilson-Raybould told investigators, “You can look at the Criminal Code around obstruction charges…” but the remainder of her comment is redacted.

“Jody Wilson-Raybould, Jessica Prince and Jane Philpott should be asked what exactly they told the RCMP that the RCMP is still hiding,” said Duff Conacher, Co-founder of Democracy Watch.

Help Wanted

Tommy Douglas: Not Dead Enough 26 Comments

Blacklock’s- Wanted: 68,564 Medical Staff

Researchers concluded the nation was short 68,564 health care professionals including 22,823 doctors and 41,584 nurses. Shortages of pharmacists and physiotherapists were also noted.

“Overall there are substantial gaps across all study in-scope health professions,” said Health Workforce. “Relative gaps to the population consistently identify larger gaps in rural areas compared to urban areas particularly for family physicians.”

Francisco- That’s not the only problem.

National Post- Canada’s doctors can’t practise anywhere in the country due to interprovincial barriers

When dozens of hospital patients were evacuated by military flight out of Yellowknife as the wildfires approached in the summer of 2023, the doctors who accompanied them couldn’t care for their patients once the aircraft landed, because they didn’t have licences to practice in British Columbia or other jurisdictions.

The Children Are Our Future

Children R Our Future We Are All Treaty People 31 Comments

And that’s why I’m stockpiling antibiotics and ammunition.

Last month, I received a tip from a nursing student at University of Alberta who’d been required to take a course called Indigenous Health in Canada. It’s a “worthwhile subject,” my correspondent (correctly) noted, “but it won’t surprise you to learn [that the course consists of] four months of self-flagellation led by a white woman. One of our assignments, worth 30 percent, is a land acknowledgement, and instructions include to ‘commit to concrete actions to disrupt settler colonialism’… This feels like a religious ritual to me.”

Canadian universities are now full of courses like this—which are supposed to teach students about Indigenous issues, but instead consist of little more than ideologically programmed call-and-response sessions. As I wrote on social media, this University of Alberta course offers a particularly appalling specimen of the genre, especially in regard to the instructor’s use of repetitive academic jargon, and the explicit blurring of boundaries between legitimate academic instruction and cultish struggle session.

h/t Laurie

Well, Rats!

CBC Protected Class The Libranos 15 Comments

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

Down The Primrose Path

Art Of The Deal Ukraine 57 Comments

Conservative Treehouse;

The ‘leaders’ of Europe got together in Paris, France at the request of French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss how to handle a peace agreement if Putin, Trump and eventually Zelenskyy come to terms. The outcome perfectly encapsulates the EU.

After essentially saying the United States would not send military troops into Ukraine as part of a peacekeeping mission, President Trump sent a communique to each of the leaders, “asking them to spell out what they would be prepared to offer to enforce a peace agreement, as well as what they would expect from the U.S.” However, there was no consensus from the EU meeting.

Instead, the Germans, French, British, Polish and EU leaders from Brussels said they would not send military assistance to Ukraine, without the leadership of the United States, and specifically without U.S. military troops to lead them. {Insert belly laughter here} Of course, they didn’t.

h/t Lupus solus

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