Canada

Rex Murphy: Don Cherry’s cruel exclusion from the Order of Canada

I wish to speak of the venerable, Mr. Don Cherry, he who reigned so long as the Emperor of Coaches Corner, now for some time in what I will term a kind of forced retirement. I do not think it can be challenged that for as long as he so briskly issued his wisdom on the national game from that singular podium there was no other individual Canadian broadcaster who commanded so large and loyal an audience. From the smallest, most remote village to the most crowded cities, old and young, everyone knew Don Cherry.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Ottawa will implement legislation to decrease Indigenous incarceration, Canada’s Justice Minister says

Canada’s Justice Minister is adamant that Liberal legislation will begin reversing the country’s disproportionate rate of Indigenous incarceration, but he acknowledges more needs to be done to address racial inequities in the justice system.

In an interview, Justice Minister David Lametti responded to recent criticism that the Liberal government has produced little in the way of policy response to the problem. The Globe reported earlier this month that Indigenous women now make up 50 per cent of the female population in federal prisons, even though just 4.9 per cent of women in Canada are Indigenous. For all Indigenous prisoners, men and women, the rate stands at 32 per cent.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Equity", "Peak Woke", "racial justice", Aboriginal Issues, Canada, Crime, Indigenous, Prison

As Canada boosts climate adaptation efforts, experts urge action on rising threats

Dozens of experts advising the government on adapting to climate change say Canada needs to do more to prepare infrastructure for the threats of extreme weather and get faster at helping Canadians recover from floods, fires and major storms.

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is set Monday to launch the second and last development phase for the national adaptation strategy that the Liberals promise will be ready by the end of the year.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Climate Change, Global Warming Hoax

Jagmeet Singh Calls The Police Because People Heckled Him

It is hard to find a politician in Canada who could be said to be more divisive in nature than Justin Trudeau, but despite the odds stacked against him Jagmeet Singh always is trying to take that mantle, never missing an opportunity to smear Canadians who don’t vote for him as racist, sexist and insert-a-phobic. He spread disinformation about the Freedom Convoy like the arson hoax, and the man is even banned from India for his support of the violent extremists in the Khalistani movement.

Coming back from an event for one of his MP’s in Peterborough on May 12 Jagmeet Singh was met with an angry crowd who yelled obscenities at him. The F-word was said and he was called a “traitor.” Shockingly, after the incident, there was not a total collapse of society and the world did not spin off its axis.

This is one of those situations where a lot of things can be true at the same time. Was this crass behaviour by the protestors? Yes. Did Jagmeet instigate this by inciting hatred and goading anyone on the political right for years with his platform as NDP leader? Yes. Do two wrongs make a right? No.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, NDP, Ontario, police, Whiners

Climate alarmists never satisfied

You would think that with Canadian taxpayers spending $100 billion fighting climate change — that’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s figure — we would at least get some credit for it from the global environmental movement.

Fat chance. A report last week by the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper which devotes enormous resources to covering climate change, condemns Canada, yet again, as one of the world’s worst climate offenders.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Climate Change, Global Warming Hoax, Propaganda

I got home this morning to find my 20 plus year relationship with @BMO is breaking up

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Corporate Social Justice Warriors", "Peak Woke", Canada

Canada’s home-ownership class war is just getting started

What’s coming is the economic stratification of Canadian society caused by the huge gulf between owning a home and renting one.

There it was, in the April 8 edition of The Vancouver Sun, the juxtaposition of two different stories that perfectly illustrated Canada’s coming class war.

Let’s call it the great divide.

One side of that divide was on Page 2 with a blurb for the regular video feature, ‘Conversations that matter.’ In it, a guest is invited to talk about issues in their field of expertise. The guest in that day’s edition was Nicole Garton, a lawyer specializing in wills and estates.

Her topic?

The great wealth transfer.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Nova Scotia shooting: First-hand accounts heard in probe of Canada tragedy

In April 2020, a gunman posing as a police officer went on a shooting spree in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.

It left 22 dead, including a pregnant woman, a primary school teacher, a 17-year-old teenager and a police constable. A public inquiry is now looking into how Canada’s worst mass shooting unfolded.

First-hand accounts from responding officers, as well as witnesses and experts, have helped paint a picture of a “vindictive” gunman who methodically killed his victims, sometimes setting their homes ablaze and shooting their pets.

But despite the details from their statements, the joint federal and provincial inquiry has left many questions unanswered at the halfway point of its public investigation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting", Canada

Want Tighter Restrictions on Protests? Progressive Politicians Should Beware What They Wish For

People were aghast at the behaviour of a small group of protesters who recently surrounded NDP leader Jagmeet Singh at a Peterborough, Ontario, provincial election campaign event. The protesters were intimidating and pressing as they shouted a string of obscenities at Singh and followed him to a waiting van. Few rational people condone that kind of behaviour, and it was roundly condemned by people on all sides of the political spectrum.

What is concerning though is we now have federal politicians using this incident as a reason to pursue tighter legal restrictions upon protests. This is a very dangerous road to wander down, and we could be risking the loss of essential democratic rights of assembly and expression.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Jean Charest says convoy “laid siege” to Ottawa and Pierre Poilievre “appeals to the fringe minority”

Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidate Jean Charest is claiming the Freedom Convoy “terrorized” and “laid siege to” Ottawa, and that his rival Pierre Poilievre “appeals to the fringe minority.”

The former Quebec Liberal premier made the claims in a campaign mail-out obtained by True North. It appears to have been sent exclusively to Ottawa residents, although Charest’s campaign team would not confirm – opting instead to say that “over 50,000 letters have been sent nationwide so far.”

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Conservative Party, Election 2022, idiot politician

Canada’s Globe and Mail pushes back against government’s online censorship bill

The editorial board of Canada’s Globe and Mail has voiced criticism of the way Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plans to tackle “online harms,” saying that it remains unclear who would be the target of these future laws, or how they would work.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Censorship, Censorship in Canada, Censorship on Social Media, Freedom of speech - at risk in Canada, Justin Trudeau - Pissant