How Deeply Has China Penetrated into Canada?

Baiting The Left Chinada 13 Comments

Ottawa dragon boat festival apologizes for telling man to remove Falun Gong shirt

It took four years, but a retired Ottawa man has finally received an apology from Ottawa’s dragon-boat festival over an incident he considered an insidious example of the Chinese government’s influence in Canada.

The festival’s CEO had persuaded Gerry Smith to remove a Falun Gong T-shirt while at the event, mentioning the Chinese embassy’s sponsorship of the festival. The spiritual movement — a target of longstanding repression by the Chinese government — says the incident was just one part of an ongoing campaign of interference and intimidation against the Falun Gong here in Canada.

h/t James MacMaster

Clean Electricity Regulations, pipelines, new nuclear

Baiting The Left Climate Cult Drill, Baby, Drill 25 Comments
CANDU MONARK reactor.

I’ve been on the road, so there’s a whole lot to get caught up on:

Clean Electricity Regulations:

Saskatchewan and Alberta are tag-teaming the fight with Ottawa on the Clean Electricity Regulations. First, Alberta says on Monday it will use its Sovereignty Act (and Guilbeault has something to say about that). Then Saskatchewan names its tribunal panelists to look into the Clean Electricity Regulations and the harm they will do to the province. One of the panelists is Ken From, former CEO of SaskEnergy and occasional columnist for Pipeline Online. Another is former NDP finance minister and deficit-slayer Janice MacKinnon.

Wilkinson says Ottawa has always been flexible on clean energy rules. Yeah, right. A Canadian Press story.

CO2

Oilsands producers confident in their massive carbon capture project.

Pipelines:

Enbridge is finally, really, totally, completely done on Line 3 replacement. Really.

Coastal GasLink pipeline, the one to feed LNG Canada and finally allow LNG exports, has now been hydrotested and is now mechanically complete.

Nuclear, small and large:

Saskatchewan funds the Saskatchewan Research Council getting its first micro reactor. Notably, it’s a Westinghouse eVinci. Who closed its 49% purchase of Westinghouse a few weeks ago? Cameco.

SNC-Lavalin under a new name launches its first 1000 megawatt CANDU reactors.

The biggest opponent to nuclear development in Saskatchewan for decades was NDP MLA and cabinet minister Peter Prebble. Guess who is now complaining about Saskatchewan’s greenhouse gas emissions?  – a Zinchuk column

Misc.

A huge change occurred in Saskatchewan media, with the retirement of John Gormley, the king of talk radio in the Land of Living Skies for the last 25 years. His replacement is former Regina Police Service chief Evan Bray.

Deep Impact

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Faster, please.

“We want everyone to understand that we need 240 acceptances to help restore The Post’s financial health,” Stonesifer wrote in the memo, obtained and reviewed by The Daily Beast. “We have made the decision, if we fall short of this goal, to implement involuntary layoffs in those areas where we have already identified that positions do not need to be replaced, where work can be reassigned more efficiently or where we can otherwise achieve cost savings. These layoffs would offer significantly less generous benefits than the voluntary package and will be consistent with prior layoff packages at The Post.”

Stonesifer noted that 120 staffers across the company have accepted a buyout package, nearly two months after she announced the buyouts. In an email to staff on Tuesday, executive editor Sally Buzbee said 36 of those were newsroom staffers, “about 30 percent of our goal across the News department” for accepted buyout offers. The deadline for non-union employees is Dec. 11 while employees within the Post Guild have until Dec. 15.

He Admires Their Basic Dictatorship

Basic Dictatorship Surveillance State 17 Comments

CBC;

Spyware normally associated with the intelligence world is being used by 13 federal departments and agencies, according to contracts obtained under access to information legislation and shared with Radio-Canada.

Radio-Canada has also learned those departments’ use of the spyware did not undergo a privacy impact assessment as required by federal government directive.

The tools in question can be used to recover and analyze data found on computers, tablets and mobile phones, including information that has been encrypted and password-protected. This can include text messages, contacts, photos and travel history.

Certain software can also be used to access a user’s cloud-based data, reveal their internet search history, deleted content and social media activity.

We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars

Alternative Subsidy Roadkill 11 Comments

Ford Scales Back Michigan Battery Plant Investments

Expect to see media outlets bashing Ford for scaling back EV investments in the near term. You’ll also probably notice the stock market reacting unfavorably to the news for a time. In fact we saw the brand’s valuation slip a bit almost immediately after the two announcements were made. But Ford actually seems to be making the correct choice for itself here, even if Wall Street is blind to the fact. The automaker’s electric vehicle division is projected to lose $4.5 billion by the end of 2023 and wastes an estimated $36,000 on every EV it currently sells.

Waiting Lists for Death

Insufferable Twits There Goes The Narrative Tommy Douglas: Not Dead Enough 36 Comments

As long as Canada stubbornly adheres to the failed single-payer model for health care, MAID will increasingly become the “go-to” strategy for dealing with waiting lists.

How can you prioritize cases so that people with aggressive stage four cancer get seen by someone and when they do get seen, they get offered treatment and not MAID like I was the first time?”

Thankfully, Allison Ducluzeau was able to get to the United States for effective and timely treatment. Not that the BC government would draw any lessons from that experience, however. Nothing must be allowed to disrupt central planning, apparently.

Ducluzeau is trying to apply to have her medical bills funded by BC Cancer, considering she had to travel out of the province for care. However, the letter states “the services you chose to receive in the U.S. would not have been the recommended treatment for your cancer diagnosis.”

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