We need you to freak out. Again.
Chickens For KFC
Apparently anyone who points out gay rights issues in Gaza is a Zionist colonizer. Strange how Justin hasn’t mentioned this, since he’s always promoting gay sex. I guess he doesn’t want to upset his Muslim voter base.
Trudeau Friends and Family
Blacklocks- Friend Was $200M Favourite
Irregularities included “failure to show why a contract was necessary,” lack of a “clear statement of what the contract delivered” and “no confirmation the government received all expected deliverables,” said Auditor Hogan.
Among competitive contracts “we found there was a change in strategy that made it easier for McKinsey,” said Hogan. “Those are the cases where it looks like it was done to suit them,” she added.
Blacklocks- Conflict Of Interest 186 Times
Directors of a federal agency dubbed a “green slush fund” had conflicts of interest 186 times, auditors disclosed yesterday. In 90 cases they voted for subsidies benefiting friends and associates.
Guy Ouimet, another Liberal appointee to the board, testified last December 6 he voted to award $393,805 in grants to a Québec company in which he had a direct interest. “We all declared conflicts of interest – well, not everyone,” Ouimet told the industry committee.
BoC Rate Cut
Ron Butler- Bank of Canada CUTS RATE: Tiff Macklem Faces The Stark Reality Of A Canadian Economy Headed For The Crapper. The BoC Governor made the expected move & cut the bank’s key Lending Rate by 25 bps. More here
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Hear my prayer: Repaving crew abandons Oakland neighborhood citing safety concerns
The Self Proclaimed “Saviours” of Health Care
In Manitoba the NDP are now firmly in control of the agenda.
The Blackrod- New stats show the NDP’s hard left-wing health decree increased suffering
The data shows that in the first six months of the NDP in power, there were 263 fewer hip-and-knee surgeries in Manitoba compared to the last six months of the Conservative Party. And that’s in addition to hundreds of hip-and-knee surgeries that could have been done if the NDP hadn’t banned sending patients to private clinics in the U.S. or other provinces.
To make matters worse, the median wait time for surgery in Manitoba jumped from six-and-a-half months to eight months.
The Blackrod- I Quit, said one of Mb’s top doctors; A brutal assessment of the NDP’s 6 months in office
“I have been a physician for over 40 years. I started out as a clinician and researcher and gradually moved into academic and health system leadership positions. I was privileged to work first in my home country (Switzerland) interrupted by a couple of years in the U.S. (University of California, San Francisco), and since 2004 I have worked in Canada, including in Toronto, where I was the director of the liver transplant program at the University Health Network, one of the largest health systems in Canada.”
“I saw a lot of health system dysfunction (in his career). However, none of it reached the extent of dysfunction that is present currently in healthcare in Manitoba.” he wrote.
You’re Fired!
When Jim McMurtry signed on as a public school teacher, the last thing he ever considered was that one day he might find himself the target of a witch hunt.
My crime was in saying that most students who died while enrolled in these schools from 1883-1996 did so from disease, especially tuberculosis. Though factually true, the Abbotsford School District wrote to me in June 2021 that it was a time to hear from students “and not debate or challenge their emotional response to the news…. [Students] were struggling to make sense of the news and process the discovery.”
The problem was there was no discovery in Kamloops, and there still is no evidence whatsoever.
At the end of the partial and superficial investigation, I was fired.
The Libranos: MODUS OPERANDY
Text messages obtained by Global News have raised serious questions about whether Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault engaged in business dealings with his former partner, Stephen Anderson, long after assuming his federal cabinet position. These messages, exchanged in September 2022, suggest an ongoing involvement that Boissonnault vehemently denies.
In one critical exchange, Anderson communicated with Malvina Ghaoui, principal of The Ghaoui Group, LLC, a California-based PPE procurement company. During their conversation, Anderson referred to a person named “Randy,” stating that he was to “be available in 15 for a partner call.” […]
When confronted, Anderson ambiguously admitted to working with another “Randy,” identified only as the “head of logistics.” However, Global News could not verify the existence of this supposed second Randy. Interviews with former suppliers identified Edward Anderson, Stephen’s father, as the company’s logistics lead, casting further doubt on the legitimacy of Anderson’s claims.
Global News: The parliamentary ethics commissioner has reversed course and said he will examine the business dealings of federal cabinet minister Randy Boissonnault.
Wednesday On Turtle Island
Dementia Joe’s America: Pride month is gross. A gay version of the Soviet Union. The power of the Biden crime family.
Blackie’s Canada: Jordan Peterson on Pride Season. Get that $6000 a night hotel room ready. Today Trudeau burns jet fuel to France for the events in Normandy. Hopefully he doesn’t make a fool of himself like he did at Vimy.
Today In Islam: California’s first Muslim senator. Interfaith dialogue in Australia. They’re at it again.
Your morning meme. Another meme. A cartoon.
Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa
A clandestine intervention in Canada’s elections is not exactly “interference” if it’s solicited, invited and welcomed, and it’s not precisely “foreign” if the culprits are willing Canadian operatives and proxies in foreign-directed influence campaigns.
This appears to have been the case, NSICOP concludes, in several obliquely-described instances gleaned almost entirely from top-secret reports by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
There’s always the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner and the Senate Ethics Officer that could help Parliamentarians figure out how to reduce their exposure to the shadowy maneuvers of hostile foreign powers, the report observes. But these resources will only work against unwelcome advances.
“Unfortunately, the Committee has also seen troubling intelligence that some Parliamentarians are, in the words of the intelligence services, “semi-witting or witting” participants in the efforts of foreign states to interfere in our politics.”
This is not just about China’s vast United Front Work Department, which by strong-arming and influence-peddling has burrowed deeply into ethnic Chinese political activism, the media, the universities and Canada’s political parties, most notably the Liberal Party. Beijing has also disrupted Conservative party leadership races, the report notes (the United Front was especially determined to unseat Erin O’Toole from the Conservative leadership two years ago).[…]
Like the documents released during the course of Madam Justice Hogue’s hearings in the foreign interference commission proceedings earlier this year, much of the NSICOP report vindicates news reports based on CSIS leaks about Beijing’s monkey-wrenching during the 2019 and 2021 federal elections — reports the Trudeau government was all too willing to dismiss before the evidence became too overpowering to ignore.
“The Committee rejects any notion that the individual or individuals responsible for the leaks acted as patriots or whistleblowers,” the NSICOP report states. “On the other hand, the Committee acknowledges an uncomfortable truth. Prior to the leaks, there was little sense of urgency between elected officials and senior decision-makers to address outstanding gaps to this important and well-documented threat to national security.”
Sam Cooper: I’ve also discussed with @kshahrooz that a notorious LPC MP may appear to be implicated in both PRC and Iran threat networks, and this could be an important convergence to understand geopolitically.
Trump Rap Video
Missouri Secretary of State candidate, Valentina Gomez, has a few words to share.
June 5, 2024: Reader Tips
Before there was Hawaii Five-O, there was another TV show called Hawaiian Eye. Here’s an episode from 1963.
Do share your best tips of late!
Good, Swift Kick In The Nuts
A master’s thesis (using critical queer analysis) on the “bloodless period” — males who experience “menstrual-like symptoms in the absence of bleeding upon receiving gender-affirming hormone therapy.”
“Abstract” here.
From The Sea To The Swimming Pool
Check out Gaza War Tracker on X for more
How It Started
How it’s going: Major @Netflix_CA price hike coming right up
Canadian Exceptionalism
Maybe the last one left can turn off the lights.
The ACS, which is conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, says the number of people moving from Canada to the U.S. hit 126,340 in 2022. That’s an increase of nearly 70 per cent over the 75,752 people who made the move in 2012.
Terminesi said his phone has been ringing off the hook for the last 18 months with calls from Canadians wanting to move to sunny Florida.
“‘With Trudeau, I have to get out of here,’ that’s what people tell me. They say to me, ‘Marco, who do I have to talk to to get out of here?'” Terminesi told CBC News.
When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
How Marxism Infected America’s Intel Agencies And Corrupted Them Beyond Repair
The bulk of Big Intel is two parallel — and occasionally intertwined — histories. The one is a tale of spies, spying, and subversion; the evolution of militant Marxist-Leninism into cultural Marxism as manifest in contemporary woke culture. The second history is that of the CIA and FBI, which originally fought the overt aggression of Marxist-Leninism but have now themselves been subverted by cultural Marxism in the guise of woke culture and the “diversity, equity, and inclusion” trope.
Waller begins with the behavior of the FBI, cheered on by John Brennan’s CIA, in the groundless Trump campaign investigation. We first see Peter Strzok, the FBI executive who began the Trump campaign investigation “Crossfire Hurricane,” both opening the case and then traveling to London to conduct the investigation, usurping the role of a field agent. Then we had Andy McCabe, the former FBI deputy director, who was acting director after James Comey was fired, ordering an investigation of Trump for obstruction of justice. Other than the firing itself, McCabe offered no predicate for this investigative initiative. The ultimate offender was former FBI Director James Comey. The abuse of power by Comey, McCabe, Strzok, and others has undermined public trust in the FBI.
Waller sees these abuses as far more dangerous than these agencies merely interfering in partisan politics. He sees these powerful agencies as being the spearhead of a foundational transformation of our country and society. His Big Intel answers the question, how did this happen? He takes us back to Moscow more than a century ago, before there was an FBI or a CIA.
There’s No Business Case For LNG Exports
Bloomberg: Norway Gas Scare Puts European Market on Edge
Europe’s gas market has been jolted out of its slumber.
An outage in key supplier Norway sent prices up Monday by the most this year, and uncertainty over the duration of repairs has traders on edge.
A fault on a pipe at the Sleipner Riser platform shut off operations at the country’s massive Nyhamna processing plant and curbed flows into the UK’s Easington terminal, an entry point for a third of Britain’s supply.
Futures jumped as much as 13%, showing the impact of such a disruption even with European demand still sluggish and stockpiles brimming. Prices partly recovered Tuesday on news that the halt may end Friday.
Yet the network operator has given scant detail on the repair plan, and past outages at Norwegian facilities have often been extended.
Say It Isn’t So, Joe!
Uh oh, even TIME knows.
Biden repeatedly mixed up Russia with Ukraine throughout his comments on the subject. He also mixed up Iraq and Iran at points, including his refutation of “the idea that you had nuclear arsenals in Iran, that were being, I mean, in Iraq…” At another point, Biden confused Taiwan with South Korea. Biden also said that America has “the strongest alliance in all of America,” before correcting his claim to “all of history.”
The interview also saw Biden trail off a number of times, ending an assertion about being “on a slippery slope for war if we don’t do something about Ukraine” with “It’s just not gonna…anyway…,” according to TIME’s transcript.
And The Budget Will Balance Itself
Under this federal government, the recent asks of the rich have included a four per cent increase in personal tax rates, an attack on small businesses and their ability to income split with family members, major amendments to the Alternative Minimum Tax and a host of other “adjustments.”
In addition, it is clear from the above statistics who pays for Robin Hood programs such as Pharmaccare, the Dental Care Plan and a whole host of other wasteful spending. Yep, those darn rich people. Again, if the rich feel that their hard-earned money is not being put to good use, there will be negative reactions.
That’s where the capital gains inclusion rate increase proposal comes in. The proposal to increase the inclusion rate from 50 per cent to two-thirds (with individuals able to maintain the 50 per cent rate for annual capital gains of $250,000 or less) is not about the vacuous speaking points pumped out by the Prime Minister’s Office and repeated by Justin Trudeau and others who try to suggest that the increase is good policy (necessary for “fairness,” “equity,” “intergenerational fairness” and the “capital gains advantage”).
Nope, this is a simple tax revenue-generating measure since this government has no desire to materially reduce spending and try to appease the value-for-money-spent crowd. Instead, it needs the revenue in order to continue to recklessly spend.
Unfortunately, though, the capital gains inclusion rate increase impacts much more than the rich. Average Canadians are waking up to the simple fact that they don’t need to be rich to be directly or indirectly impacted in a negative way.
Via Martin Pelletier;
Did you know the top 10 per cent of Canadians or about 2.93 million individuals, had an average income of $190,000 and paid 54.4 per cent of the total tax in this country?
Now consider this. The minimum income required to qualify to buy the average house in this country is $200,000.