Blackie’s Canada: Justin’s CBC upset about trans clinic shutting down. CUPE supports Hamas. Apparently B.C. needs smokable fentanyl. Trudeau’s office invited Nazi to a party.
Dementia Joe’s America: Morgan Freeman on black history month. Biden can pound sand. The atrocious border bill. Life in New York.
Your morning meme. A cartoon.
There will be a test.
If your reserve was sitting on substantial oil and gas deposits you’d have to have pretty lousy management to lose track of $120 million, but accountability is probably an outdated artifact of the colonial mindset anyway.
Public financial reports for Frog Lake First Nation show the band is short $120 million in net assets over a five-year time period between 2013 and 2018.
The records show the band-owned business called Frog Lake Energy Resources has been losing millions of dollars since 2015.
APTN reached out the current Chief Greg Desjarlais and initially agreed to an interview but later cancelled.
In a virtual meeting with community members he says that an audit is unnecessary.
To a Canadian icon.
Sun- Nice thing about free speech is we can say this: Happy 90th birthday, Don Cherry!
This may be the most important part of what the Cherry saga exposed. There is a double standard in Canada, where conservatives are not allowed to express their views the same way as progressives.
Some can wear blackface or fire a female Indigenous cabinet minister who won’t break the law to protect the government or call people names far worse than using the words “you people” and yet keep rolling.
Free speech, not coaching the Boston Bruins, is what defined Cherry and why he was so popular. In the end, he showed there is only freedom of speech tolerated if it’s allowed by the mob, and he went out with his head held high because he did not buckle to their pile on.
Viva Frei interviews Erica Sandberg. Note that most everything they discuss about SF is equally true for Vancouver. The commonalities are obvious: Failed Leftist policies from severely misguided, incompetent, unaccountable “leaders” who refuse to admit that everything they’ve done has been completely wrong.
Another Media Outlet Crashes and Burns…
The future is bipartisan.
Documents filed by Xcel Energy for it’s Nobles Wind facility, 134 turbines. The wind turbines lasted 12 years. Cost to decommission $85,533,609. Cost to refurbish $204,000,000. But wait, let me show you how this scam works.
The Guardian reports, wiping away tears;
His New Ideas party is expected to win almost all of the 60 seats in the legislative body, tightening its grip on the country and bestowing Bukele, the most powerful leader in El Salvador’s modern history, with even more sway.
“All together the opposition was pulverised,” Bukele, standing with his wife on the balcony of the National Palace, told his supporters. “El Salvador went from being the most unsafe [country] to the safest. Now in these next five years, wait to see what we are going to do.”
New Ideas’ electoral success means Bukele will wield unprecedented power and be able to overhaul El Salvador’s constitution, which his opponents fear will result in scrapping of term limits.
Wildly popular, Bukele has campaigned on the success of his security strategy under which authorities suspended civil liberties to arrest more than 75,000 Salvadorans without charges. The detentions led to a sharp decline in nationwide murder rates and fundamentally altered a country of 6.3 million people that was once among the world’s most dangerous.
Again – when they tell you who they are, believe them.
Bukele faced challenges with this election, as El Salvador initially didn’t allow a president to hold successive terms, which created turmoil within the country as leadership would change every five years regardless of the people’s will. With the aid of the Supreme Court, Bukele changed the rules to allow himself to run again. When he made the rule change, El Salvadorans took to the streets to celebrate, as Bukele boasts over a 90% approval rating in the country.
In the United States, however, the mainstream media took to calling Bukele a “dictator.” Much like we’ve seen with how they treat President Trump, news outlets began calling Bukele running for re-election a “threat to democracy.”
This message was amplified this week by Rep. Ilhan Omar, who put in a resolution for the U.S. to intervene in El Salvador’s elections. She posted to X, “I led Members of Congress in sending a letter to @SecBlinken urging action on threats to democracy in El Salvador. The State Dept must review its relationship with El Salvador and defend democratic values. The Salvadoran people deserve free and fair elections without fear of repression.”
A few weeks after Alberta’s grid was on the brink, renewables again bottom out, but no crisis this time. Good thing it was -6 C instead of -35 C, eh? And solar didn’t do much either, because a. it snowed and b. the sun went down. Imagine that.
An Norwegian parliamentary official said that he nominated the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for the Nobel Peace Prize this week, after Israeli intelligence alleged that UNRWA employees participated in Hamas’s October 7 attack against Israel.
At least twelve UNRWA staffers participated in the attack, an Israeli intelligence dossier revealed last week, and 1,200 of UNRWA’s 12,000 staffers in Gaza have ties to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Several countries, including the U.S., have since suspended funding for UNRWA.
Labour MP Asmund Aukrust said he nominated UNRWA “for its long-term work to provide vital support to Palestine and the region in general,” and added that “this work has been crucial for over 70 years, and even more vital in the last three months.”
When they tell you who they are…
[Åsmund Grøver Aukrust] served as deputy leader of the Workers’ Youth League from 2010 to 2014.[5] He originally ran for the leadership, but narrowly lost the vote to Eskil Pedersen in a closely contested race,[6] although the election committee overwhelmingly favored him.[7] On 25 April 2011, he was elected vice president of the International Union of Socialist Youth.[8]
Apparently, San Francisco’s elementary-school children are expected to have, or at least regurgitate, strong opinions on the Israeli military.
Many young children are of course accustomed to being given a “word of the day,” though I would guess that such highlighted words don’t usually include “strike,” “ceasefire,” and “protest.” Nor, I suspect, would third-graders often be tasked with “disrupting whiteness,” which seems somewhat ambitious and just a tad question-begging, or with imagining “a world without police, money, or landlords.” Yet here we are.
Italy in shock after 13-year-old girl raped by Egyptian gang while her boyfriend is forced to watch
Things are so strange, so surreal, so nihilistic in contemporary America that the chaos can only be deliberate. – Victor Davis Hanson
The Islamist assault on democracy. A moderate Brooklyn Muslim cleric. The fatwa that didn’t bark.
Blackie’s Canada: Are you mentally ill? The University of Waterloo would like to hire you. The Indians are worried about Poilievre. Justin’s open border. Liberals spend millions on homeless consultants.
The Planet Is Burning: Billionaires fund net zero propaganda.
Dementia Joe’s America: A reparations freefall. The racist mayor.
Your morning meme. A cartoon.
Tonight we present a rather bizarre WW2 Stop Motion Propaganda film from 1943 entitled Bury the Axis.
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