Are We Still A Member Of This Thing?

He must not offend his base in the vote-rich rapey beheader community.

After multiple instances of being asked to defend its funding of UNRWA, the Trudeau government finally cut funding last week following a report alleging that up to a dozen of its employees were direct participants in the Oct. 7 massacres. And even then, International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen was careful to stress that the suspension was temporary.

It’s far from the first time that UNRWA has faced accusations of terror links. It’s for this precise reason, in fact, that the government of Stephen Harper cut funding to the agency in 2010.

When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fully restored UNRWA funding in 2016, the agency had not undergone any audits or reforms to address these claims. In fact, it was emerging from a series of public scandals in which UNRWA facilities had been used to store Hamas rockets, and UNRWA staff members had been found publicly encouraging violence against Jews.

But Trudeau blamed the Conservatives for cutting off the agency’s funding for “political reasons.” “Quite frankly, Canadians expect us to be helpful in the world,” Trudeau told the House of Commons upon the restoration of UNRWA funding.

Except that;

It appears the Justin Trudeau hasn’t actually frozen any funding for UNRWA.

It appears they already transferred the payment, which isn’t due until the spring.

Is @HonAhmedHussen, Justin Trudeau’s minister lying, then? Or is he incompetent? Or is it both? #cdnpoli

Don’t Worry, It’s Transitory

UPS announces 12,000 job cuts

The workforce reductions will save the company about $1 billion in costs, CEO Carol Tomé said on a company earnings call.

“2023 was a unique, and quite candidly, difficult and disappointing year. We experienced declines in volume, revenue and operating profits and all three of our business segments,” Tomé said.

Shares of the package giant dipped nearly 6% in premarket trading.

Bidenomics: Last week, in a campaign stop at a Pennsylvania coffee shop, President Biden seemed shocked at the $6.00 price of his smoothie.

It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine

Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies, human sacrifice, cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria! The meteor is on its way, and CBC just posted a critical story on electric vehicles. Pipeline Online had to share this one. And yes, I borrowed from Ghostbusters there.

In the meanwhile, charging those cars with solar power in Alberta would have been tough on Sunday at noon.

On the topic of cars, a Edmonton-area heavy equipment rental shop took the second largest Caterpillar dozer made and crushed a car with it, just because.

On Friday, the Biden Administration took a shotgun and fired a barrel into each foot of one of the biggest success stories in the American energy industry, one which kept Europe from going dark when the Ukraine war started. And here’s the Whitehouse’s backgrounder on it, verbatim, which reads like a description of how the Biden-Harris administration has applied a knee to the neck of the American energy industry.

(I’m not sure when they started doing this, but the Whitehouse press office continually refers to the Biden-Harris administration. Are they expecting someone to perhaps fall off the ticket between now and November? Like maybe Biden’s health won’t hold out and it’ll be a Harris presidential candidacy?)

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