“COVID-19 has highlighted the fact that not only is Canada racking up new failures in the usual sore spots such as public health, but increasingly we can’t even seem to manage things that should be easy. We’re an energy superpower that can’t build a dam or a pipeline. A champion of reconciliation where Indigenous people are poisoned by their own drinking water. A self-proclaimed “honest broker” in world affairs that can’t get its phone calls returned by foreign leaders.”
Author: Blazingcatfur
Pact to turn refugees back to the U.S. doesn’t ‘shock’ conscience, Ottawa argues
In striking down a controversial refugee pact between Canada and the U.S., a Canadian judge made “palpable and overriding errors” that warrant a higher court’s intervention, according to a written submission by government lawyers.
“These errors permeated both the Federal Court’s factual and legal findings,” lawyers for Canada’s immigration and public safety ministers argued in their factum filed in advance of an appeal hearing on Tuesday to overturn a court order against the Safe Third Country Agreement. “These findings render the STCA inoperable.”
In July, Justice Ann Marie McDonald ruled the accord unconstitutional because the United States routinely detained asylum seekers under poor conditions.
Why Iran Considers Biden a ‘Weak’ President
It is only one month into his term in office, and US President Joe Biden is already facing criticism from Arabs over his administration’s soft policy toward Iran.
The Arabs say they are worried because Iran sees Biden as a “weak” president, and that is why the mullahs in Tehran and their proxies in Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Lebanon have increased their terrorist attacks in the Middle East.
“In Tehran’s eyes, Biden is a pushover,” wrote Abdulrahman Al-Rashed, former editor-in-chief of the Saudi newspaper Ashraq Al-Awsat.
WARMINGTON: Pearson bracing for potential ‘chaos’ as new hotel rules implemented
This holding pattern of flights coming into Pearson International Airport is not expected to be in the sky.
UK police apologize for campaign warning Brits that ‘being offensive’ is a crime
Liverpool’s Merseyside Police in the UK have apologised after stirring up controversy with a campaign that ominously warned Brits they could be charged with “being offensive.”
Superintendent Martin Earl apologised in a statement on Monday for “any confusion” the campaign caused, declaring: “We would like to clarify that ‘being offensive’ is not in itself an offense.”
Ontario reports 1,058 new Covid cases
Ontario is reporting 1,058 cases of #COVID19 and nearly 31,200 tests completed. Locally, there are 325 new cases in Toronto, 215 in Peel and 87 in York Region.
As of 8:00 p.m. yesterday, 569,455 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) February 22, 2021
No sympathy for snowbirds: Most Canadians support travel restrictions, Ipsos poll finds
As travel restrictions have clipped the wings of many snowbirds hoping to fly south to their Florida homes for the winter, the vast majority of Canadians support the new travel rules — and very few think exceptions should be made for those with second residences south of the border.
What 1619 Project hucksters don’t understand about the history of slavery
The new “chroniclers” of America’s past would transform our history to paint the United States a systemically bigoted state founded on racism in 1619. The most fraudulent aspect of this dishonest scheme is that it fails to address the salient characteristic of slavery in the United States and Europe: the near elimination of slavery in the West by the mid-19th century. This means that slavery as an institution was carried on in Europe for about three centuries from the beginning of the Enlightenment and then, in the blink of a historical eye, banned and made illegal. Within less than a century from 1800, legal slavery had been ended worldwide thanks to the ideas of the European Enlightenment thinkers.
Smuggled diary tells how abducted women survived Boko Haram camp
The resistance began three months after the young women were taken from their school dormitory by Islamist militants and hidden in the depths of a forest. It would end in direct confrontation and disobedience, and an unlikely victory which saved their lives.
But as the extremists of Boko Haram drove them through the bush to camps beyond the reach of any rescue, freedom was years away.
The story of the extraordinary courage of the women held for up to three years by the Islamist extremists in north-eastern Nigeria has never been told, despite the massive global attention focused on their abduction in April 2014.
Brexit was never about xenophobia
It has long been an article of faith among smug liberals that Britain’s hoi polloi and those of a conservative disposition are incorrigible, xenophobic morons. This is why the unenlightened lower orders and unwashed masses voted for Brexit: they’re stupid and just don’t like foreigners.
New research released this week would suggest otherwise – even the opposite.
US Should Emulate Poland on Fining Big Tech Censors
Who knew years ago that the United States would be lagging far behind countries like Poland and Hungary in free speech?
They evidently learned something from years under the iron fist of the Soviet Union.
The Poles are proposing new laws that would impose fines of $13.5 million on Big Tech social media companies that censor users or remove posts for ideological reasons.
Famed Getty Museum blasted for ‘virtue-signaling’ diversity effort
A prominent collector and supporter of the Getty Museum in LA is blasting the famed art institute for its new anti-discrimination playbook, which showers itself with blame for being racist and vows its staff will “reflect the diversity of Southern California and the nation” in the future.
But the 13-page “Diversity and Inclusion” plan is nothing more than insincere “white self flagellation” and will ultimately undermine the high standards at Getty and other top museums, said entrepreneur Jay Snider, who volunteers on the Getty’s Research Institute Council.
90% White Man Disproves White Supremacy by Insisting He’s Black and Qualifies for Affirmative Action
If America were a “white supremacist” nation whose entire cultural and social infrastructure is riddled with “systemic racism”, you would think there would be more cases of black people pretending to be white and zero cases of white people insisting that they’re black.
This isn’t another Rachel Dolezal case. It’s a white guy doing the one drop thing to argue that he’s black.
That’s probably racist, but not white supremacist.
Iran’s female alpine ski team is coachless in Italy – her husband invoked sharia law barring her from travel
The coach of Iran’s national women’s alpine ski team was supposed to fly to Italy with her team on Wednesday morning to compete in the FIS Alpine World Alpine Ski Championships in Cortina d’Ampezzo. But it wasn’t until she got to the airport that Samira Zargari realized that she couldn’t to leave Iran. The team had to fly without Zargari because her husband had forbidden her from leaving the country — which he is entitled to do under Iranian law.
Justin Trudeau Failed Canada in COVID Vaccine Debacle. Here’s Why.
Canadians sometimes have an inferiority complex when it comes to their southern neighbor which they frequently express with hostility. Nowhere was this more apparent than on Twitter the last few years where you couldn’t swing a dead cat without finding a Canadian smugly lecturing Americans on Donald Trump’s behavior and ‘incompetence’ (according to them).
‘Name it for what it is’: MPs implore PM to label China’s treatment of Uighurs a genocide
OTTAWA — Federal MPs are making their case to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to join them in voting to label China’s treatment of the Uighur Muslims a genocide ahead of Monday’s House of Commons vote on the matter.
Speaking on CTV’s Question Period with host Evan Solomon, NDP foreign affairs critic Jack Harris said before Canada evaluates the ramifications of the move, the government must “name it for what it is.”
What it is? It’s Justin protecting the China Class weasels.