Texas 1 – Swamp 0

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Mainstream news has the sadz: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was acquitted on 16 impeachment articles on Saturday, thwarting an effort to remove him from office over allegations of corruption. “Attorney General Warren Kenneth Paxton Jr. is hereby, at this moment, reinstated to office,” said Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, the Republican president of the Senate who also presided over the trial.

@KenPaxtonTX statement.

Bell Curve v. Ontario

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They were promised there would be no math.

The Canadian Constitution Foundation has been granted intervenor status in the Ontario government’s appeal of the decision in Petrucci v. Ontario,2021 ONSC 7386, which found legislation requiring teachers to pass a math proficiency test (MPT) constituted unconstitutional racial discrimination.

In 2018, the Ontario government developed a plan to reverse the decline in student math scores. A key component of the plan was an amendment to the Ontario College of Teachers Act to require that all new teacher candidates successfully complete a MPT before they are certified.

The MPT consists of questions sourced from the standardized tests that are administered to students in Grades 3, 6, and 9, plus a pedagogy component. The tests were reviewed for bias and cultural insensitivity before they were administered. Teacher candidates are also permitted to retake the test if they fail.

A group called Ontario Teachers Candidates’ Council (OTCC) was formed to oppose the math testing requirement. The group argued at Divisional Court that the pass and failure rates of the test varied, and some of those variations could be mapped to racial identity. The Divisional Court ruled that the MPT requirement is unconstitutional and that the disparities in outcome by race showed a violation of section 15(1) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees the right to equality and freedom from discrimination. The Divisional Court found that the MPT, in its impact, created a distinction between White and non-White candidates, and that the distinction was discriminatory. The Divisional Court held that this limit could not be justified under section 1 of the Charter.

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Let them eat cheaper cake!

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I won’t object to any tax cut, but this one strikes me as too little, too late, coming from a government which happily shut down restaurants during the pandemic, ultimately forcing many into bankruptcy.

Dining out in Manitoba would cost less under a re-elected Progressive Conservative government, the party says, announcing plans Friday to ditch the provincial sales tax on restaurant meals.

The Tories say the move would give the restaurant industry a much-needed boost after being hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, and it would make dining more affordable.

Saturday On Turtle Island

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Britain:  Another history lesson with Neil Oliver.  Cruelty to stuffed animals.

Biden’s America:  Missouri vs Biden.  I’m going to bed now.  California’s pro-trans child custody bill.  I took the shot and regret it now.  Joe Biden’s senior moment of the week.  Your morning meme.

Blackie’s Canada:  Jordan Peterson goes to sensitivity training.  Today Trudeau burns jet fuel to Montreal, for a summit of socialists.

Fascist China News:  Rolling out the red carpet for the Chinese.   Appointment of ambassador to Afghanistan.

Global Warming Scam News:  You will obey the global climate protest.

Armed Man Posing as Federal Agent Arrested at RFK Jr. Event in Los Angeles

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Epoch Times Exclusive:

An armed man was arrested by police at an event attended by Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

Photos provided to The Epoch Times show the man, who was wearing a shirt with “EMS” on the back, being held in handcuffs by police officers outside the event venue in Los Angeles on Friday afternoon. Multiple police vehicles were at the scene.

The ethics of emergencies

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The misappropriation of millions of dollars is a feature, not a bug, of systems guided by short-term, “emergency” thinking. Or rather, a complete lack of thinking.

Rai led a “fraudulent scheme” targeting the hotel and PHAC officials, according to the statement of claim, telling the other owners the government was taking over the entire hotel but only paying for 100 rooms — when he had actually negotiated government payment for all 247 rooms.

It’s alleged he misappropriated the revenue difference of those 147 rooms: at least $15.7 million.

Universal Death Care

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“The doctor will kill you now”.

‘Next question is from Debbie,” the moderator of a discussion on medical decision-making capacity said to her fellow physicians. “How would folks interpret someone who has lost capacity with a waiver in place and is now delirious, shouting, pulling their arm away as one tries to insert the IV to provide MAID?”

Preceding this panel, a training seminar for the Canadian Association of MAID Assessors and Providers (CAMAP) had informed participants that the criminal law on medical assistance in dying (MAID) is strict. How strict? On the same day that a patient enters into an optional written agreement with only one of his or her two MAID assessors — even if it is unsigned, without any witnesses, and with no family members having been informed — the clinician can administer the lethal injection without asking for the final consent of the patient.

How It Started

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Aaaaand, how it’s going.

@JesseBrown bonus tweet!

The decimation of 70 Metroland newspapers is a tragedy, but it should have also brought opportunity. When local papers die, space opens for companies like Village Media to invest in communities and start digital news sites.

But they’ve frozen all new launches due to Bill C-18.

Move Along

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Nothing here to Xi.

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel posted a controversial tweet on the social media platform X, two days before Biden’s news conference.

“President Xi’s cabinet lineup is now resembling Agatha Christie’s novel And Then There Were None,” Emanuel wrote. “First, Foreign Minister Qin Gang goes missing, then the Rocket Force commanders go missing, and now Defense Minister Li Shangfu hasn’t been seen in public for two weeks. Who’s going to win this unemployment race? China’s youth or Xi’s cabinet?”

Emanuel’s jibe about the recent disappearances from the public eye of senior Chinese officials is another sign that the Biden administration has gained insight into some likely chaos in China’s internal affairs.

Diesel Squeeze

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Bloomberg;

The world’s oil refiners are struggling to make enough of the fuel that powers vast swaths of the global economy.

In northwest Europe, benchmark diesel futures have topped $1,000 a ton, trading at a 10-year seasonal high. In New York, the fuel is at its most expensive in three decades, and it’s a similar story in Asia.

Diesel-type fuels aren’t just used by drivers of trucks and cars. They’re also consumed in farming, construction and manufacturing, by trains and ships, even in heating. The world may be trying to move on from oil, but petroleum prices still matter.

Costly fuel typically spurs refiners to make more, increasing supply and ultimately bringing prices down. But this year, a slew of factors have made that difficult.

A sweltering summer in the Northern Hemisphere led to cuts in oil processing. Meanwhile, some large new refineries have been slow to start. Many plants have also closed, with 3.9 million barrels a day shuttered in recent years, International Energy Agency data show.

The impact of CO2-enhanced oil recovery is huge

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It turns out that carbon dioxide-enhanced oil recovery is more significant than even I thought, and I’ve been writing about if for 15 years. It accounts for a huge number of the top 100 conventional oil wells in Saskatchewan. Huge. And it proves out the significance and importance of CO2-EOR. Imagine what we could do across Saskatchewan with access to a lot more CO2? That’s going to have to be a column, methinks. 

Also, oil is over US$90/barrel for the first time in quite a while. That’s going to be pretty important for Saskatchewan, as I was made aware today that potash prices have tanked. They are down by half year over year.

He Admires Their Basic Dictatorship

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More: The Trudeau Grocery Gaffe

The numbers are in, and they’re staggering! Ladies and gentlemen, buckle up for this next gem. Are you ready? The cumulative inflation for your food from December 2021 to June 2023 is, brace yourself, a staggering 18.2%. That’s right, in less then three years nearly one-fifth of your money’s buying power has evaporated, just like that! Poof! But here’s the kicker: Trudeau had this very data in his hands in a report by the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food — a report that he commissioned since last June. And yet, what does he do? Yesterday, almost four months after the report was published – opts for the political theatrics of summoning grocery CEOs and flirting with the tax hammer.

Don Martin is scathing – a reality of sorts finally got through to Trudeau this week at the Liberal caucus retreat.

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