Silence Speaks Volumes – Part One

On the right side of the political line in the sand, we the fringe are highly accustomed to and getting comfortable with the constant bombardment of negativity fired at us from our sitting federal Liberal government. Justin Trudeau and his cabal have meanwhile managed to shock news outlets worldwide with their repelling rhetoric and hypocritical utter lack of self-awareness as they pummell home scornful speaking points on protestors who parked on Parliament Hill demanding freedom from pandemic restrictions.

The unacceptables now take it all in stride, knowing what he will say before he opens his mouth. His fall backs when under attack are now soothingly foreseeable.

Racist.

Antisocial.

Delusional.

Hateful.

Misogynist.

Violent.

Extremist.

Terrorists.

The list goes on. These are Justin and company’s go-to descriptors; his standard speech fodder nowadays really. They are words I hardly ever find the need to utilize unless I am mocking their glaring and unrestrained over-application and use. He then always predictably – after deeply insulting citizens whom he knows absolutely nothing about – goes on to mutter about how he “has our backs”. What a guy.

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CANTIN-NANTEL: I went to Carleton’s “Journalism Under Siege” event, and the legacy media know they’re flawed

Carleton University’s School of Journalism held a panel discussion with members of the legacy media on Tuesday to discuss their role in covering what the school called “the siege of Ottawa” by “the so-called freedom convoy.”

Before it even took place, the event received backlash online for its biased tone and the apparent exclusion of independent and right-of-centre journalists.

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Trudeau blasts social media disinformation — in Russia and Canada

And while Trudeau was in Europe diving into the dangers of disinformation, his top national security adviser was in Ottawa delivering a high-profile warning about how it’s feeding into domestic extremism in Canada.

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Canadians fighting proposed condo development at Juno Beach D-Day site

Le Weasel tres ungrateful

A group of Canadians is organizing to stop a proposed condo development at Juno Beach in France, the site of the D-Day landing that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Canadian soldiers.

“It was a remarkable battle and the examples of fearlessness and courage and bravery just were outstanding,” said Cindy Clegg, a spokesperson for the group Save Juno Beach.

“And now to think that there are condos going up right next to [the beach], where people can go on holidays and hoot and holler and play their radios loud on this battlefield just made me sick to my stomach.”

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‘We’re effectively a border state with Russia’: Defending Canada’s far-north called key to protecting sovereignty

Canada needs to look north if it is to make serious efforts to defend its sovereignty, say analysts.

Observers are praising comments made Thursday by Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre, who made clear his plans to bolster Canada’s presence in the arctic.

“The far-north is a key area of concern,” Eyre said during Thursday’s keynote talk at the 90th Ottawa Conference on Security and Defence — explaining Canada’s northern flanks are also NATO’s northern flanks.

 

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Here’s how the Freedom Convoy changed Canada for the better

As the political science continues to evolve and the world moves on from the “pandemic,” all eyes are now on Ukraine and Russia.

For a month, the most engaging phenomenon in recent Canadian history took place on the streets of Ottawa. All eyes were on the frozen streets in front of Parliament as thousands of trucks and tens of thousands of patriots descended on Trudeau’s stronghold to demand an end to the nonsense.

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Canada’s Real Prime Minister?

Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland furnishes an interesting case study in an apparently contradictory dynamic of incompetence and competence. As a high-ranking minister, she is clearly incompetent, having, for example, nearly deep-sixed our NAFTA treaty talks with Donald Trump. Her insistence on the inclusion of “progressive” policies, such as gender equality, labor union safeguards, a chapter dedicated to indigenous peoples, and favored environmental standards only ensured that Canada got the short end of the renewed accord. Her attempt to enact Liberal policy was politically inept.

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Federal department gave money to magazine publishing pandemic misinformation

As the federal government was promising to tackle harmful false claims about the pandemic spreading online, it was giving thousands of dollars to a magazine spreading vaccine misinformation — including unsubstantiated claims that COVID-19 vaccines could cause cancer in children.

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Rex Murphy: Canada’s big banks have much to answer for after blindly following Trudeau’s emergency orders

Did any single bank president, floating on a stream of magnificently swollen income and bonuses, attempt to resist or test the edict from the Trudeau government? Did they go to court to test the legality of the move?

Did the great presidents of Canadian banks meet, on Zoom or in person, to discuss whether their institutions had become craven puppets of whatever comes out of the Prime Minister’s Office when Justin Trudeau sees a democratic protest he doesn’t like, or wishes to strike out at an inconvenient display of democratic spine?

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Cowards and Leaders

Russia’s invasion revealed big differences in how politicians deal with threats.

The president of Ukraine, when offered evacuation, said, “I need ammunition, not a ride.” He’s a leader.

By contrast, in Canada a few weeks before, when truckers staged a protest against COVID-19 rules, the cowardly Prime Minister Justin Trudeau felt so threatened by the peaceful protesters that he went to “a secret location.” Then he invoked Canada’s Emergencies Act.

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Canada: Muslim groups ask feds to intervene on behalf of questionable Egyptian refugees in Vancouver

… Dozens of Muslim Canadian organizations are now urging the sympathetic Trudeau government and the “president of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) to intervene on behalf of Egyptian refugee claimants in Vancouver,” who are deemed security risks due to their MB links. The argument of the Muslim groups manifests complete disregard for Canadian national security. Since the MB groups are not listed as “terrorist entities,” these groups expect Canada to turn a blind eye to all rational concerns and risks, and give these entities a big welcome.

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Minister in charge of CBC applauds legacy media’s convoy coverage

While speaking, Rodriguez also promised that there was more the Liberal government could do to “support” the legacy news.

“I think there are even more things we should be able to do. We’re looking into that in the context of supporting the whole ecosystem,” said Rodriguez.

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Canadians support actions against Russia over Ukraine, but have economic concerns: poll

… The Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News found strong support for Canada’s sanctions on Russian leaders, including President Vladimir Putin, and sections of the Russian economy including the oil sector. Eight in 10 Canadians surveyed said they would support even more sanctions.

And although less than half of Canadians who answered the poll said they are prepared to pay more for gas because of those sanctions, 73 per cent said doing nothing will encourage Russia to take further military action elsewhere.

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