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If Chipman is that involved in hockey operations, he needs to **** off into the sun.
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2 minutes ago, HardCoreBlue said:
If I can't grandstand if front of people so I can throw out gotcha's and red meat filled with catch phrases quoting authors from my reading list for the non critical thinkers who are unable to understand problems are sometimes simple, sometimes complicated, sometimes complex and sometimes wicked, what else is there to do?
Maybe Bart was onto something back in early 1990.
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5 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:
Fail on Snopes to remind readers the Buffalo Chronicle is a fake news site.
That's not necessarily the responsibility of Snopes. The author simply provides the sources used in order to determine the veracity of a claim.
Anyone capable of critical thinking should know pretty quickly the Buffalo Chronicle is a misinformation website.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/house-passes-motion-david-johnston-step-down-1.6861009
QuoteAfter members of Parliament voted in favour of his ouster Wednesday, David Johnston said his mandate to probe allegations of foreign interference comes from the government — not from the House of Commons.
The former governor general released a statement following the vote on a motion brought forward by the NDP, which the Conservatives and Bloc Quebecois supported while the Liberals stood opposed. It passed 174 to 150.
It called on Johnston — tasked by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau back in March with looking into allegations that China tried to meddle in the past two federal elections — to "step aside from his role."
It asked the government to instead launch a public inquiry into the issue of foreign interference. Johnston, the former governor general, recommended against such an inquiry in his initial report last week.
"When I accepted the mandate to act as independent special rapporteur, I did so with full knowledge of the fact that the work ahead would be neither straightforward nor uncontroversial," Johnston said in his statement.
"I deeply respect the right of the House of Commons to express its opinion about my work going forward, but my mandate comes the government. I have a duty to pursue that work until my mandate is completed."
"The fact of the matter is David Johnston has served this country in extraordinary capacities for decades," Trudeau said Wednesday on his way into a meeting with his Liberal caucus.
"He's taken this incredibly seriously."
Government House leader Mark Holland has said he has been trying to negotiate with opposition parties to find additional avenues to address concerns about foreign interference that go beyond what has already been offered.
Holland has repeatedly said the hyper-political rhetoric around the discussions in public has been counterproductive, but he would not elaborate on what else the government is offering.
Johnston said in his report that due to the sensitive nature of national security and the intelligence he studied, there would be no way to divulge the information Canadians are seeking publicly. He said that would defeat the purpose of a public inquiry.
He said what he plans to do instead is hold a series of public hearings to further probe the issue.
Those hearings would focus on hearing from officials of both past and current governments, as well as members of diaspora communities affected by foreign interference attempts.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has attempted to walk a fine line in promoting the motion. He has been saying that while he has no qualms with Johnston, he understands that others do and that creates an appearance of bias that taints his work.
The motion was brought forward by NDP Jenny Kwan. She recently told reporters that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service informed her she has been a target of China since before the 2019 federal vote, because of her advocacy on human rights in China.
I'm not sure what the issue is with having public hearings.
What a farce this entire series of events is.
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Finished Beef last night. What a wild, wild show.
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As for the CPC not being involved in the manufactured scandal prior to the 2019 election...
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2019/10/09/anatomy-of-a-manufactured-election-scandal.html
Quote...with fake news sites pumping out the story and a nationally-televised leaders debate only hours away, the Conservative Party of Canada took an unfounded rumour and put their name on it, issuing a press release* that asked the question: Why did Trudeau leave West Point Grey?
“What’s the real reason? Why has his story changed so many times?” it asked.
While the release didn’t mention sex, it pointed the way for anyone to go online and find the unsubstantiated rumour themselves.
Asked why the Conservatives put out the release, spokesperson Simon Jefferies referred to comments leader Andrew Scheer made on Tuesday, when he said: “Like on the SNC-Lavalin scandal, (Trudeau’s) story has changed multiple times and we believe he might have used that opportunity to come clean with Canadians.”
“We’re not making insinuations, we’re just asking why he can’t keep his story (straight).”
* original link removed (to the surprise of no one) but it's still out there: https://www.deltaconservatives.com/why_did_justin_trudeau_leave_his_teaching_job_at_west_point_grey_academy
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https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trudeau-sex-scandal-school/
QuoteConclusion
No publicly available evidence supports any claim that Trudeau had a sexual relationship with either a student or a student's mother while he was a teacher at West Point Grey Academy between 1998 and 2001, nor that such an episode contributed to his departure from the school's teaching staff.
The reports and social media posts which made that claim either did not cite any sources or cited only anonymous and unspecified sources. Furthermore, Trudeau has given plausible explanations for his departure which do not involve any sex scandal, namely that he was disillusioned with school administrators' conservative approach to certain policies and that he simply wanted to move on in his career -- two different but not contradictory reasons.
That Trudeau's departure from the school had nothing to do with any sex scandal was corroborated by a statement issued in October 2019 by the school's principal during the period in question.
Furthermore, no publicly available evidence supports the claim that Trudeau or his representatives have endeavored to suppress or cover up the supposed sex scandal. The fact that in October 2019, Canadian reporters made public their investigations and inquiries into the rumors actually undermines the credibility of the claims, since no reporting has yet emerged which would corroborate the allegations against Trudeau.
The "sex scandal" claims appear to be no more than gossip and unsubstantiated rumor, published only two weeks before Canada's 2019 federal election, but we cannot definitively dismiss this particular set of allegations against Trudeau. Because the claims have been so vague and lacking in factual specifics (no names, dates, places, or firsthand accounts have been published) it has not yet been possible to test their credibility and therefore not possible to either corroborate or refute them. If that changes, we will update this fact check accordingly.
Oh.
Embarrassing tinfoil hattery.
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Is it just my browser (Google Chrome) or do the Twitter links no longer display and are just a link now?
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Opinion pieces aren't worth ****. This part, though:
QuoteTo his credit, Mr. Trudeau avoided making the same statement he made some months ago, when he claimed, on German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit, that there was “no business case” for meaningful increases in LNG exports. Still, much like with Germany, which ended up securing only a few agreements on hydrogen projects after Mr. Scholz’s visit, Mr. Trudeau gave Japan no promises of expanding LNG projects or encouraging new ones.
Of course, LNG decisions are not always Mr. Trudeau’s own and are reliant on market forces and other levels of government. But, given the way the world is changing, more trading partners will knock on Canada’s door, and this country should not find itself forced to say no.
Not cut and dry, indeed.
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11 minutes ago, Tracker said:
How exactly is the federal government hindering the oil patch?
The feds are doing no such thing.
The deal with Germany would've been contingent on building extensive infrastructure to facilitate transportation of LNG, which both nations agreed posed numerous challenges (back in August 2022): https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/scholz-vassy-kapelos-lng-russia-gas-1.6559814
As for Japan, no deal was turned down. The wheels are in motion and infrastructure has to be built. Mitsubishi Corporation has a stake in the Kitimat LNG Terminal, set to go online in 2025: https://globalnews.ca/news/9394243/japan-pm-visit-canada-liquefied-natural-gas-needs/
Considering who Albertans just voted back into their Provincial Legislature, it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that they'll just continue blaming Ottawa for their economic struggles and lap up the lies of Post Media ghouls, neither of whom can be bothered to try and understand the complexities of real life.
It'll be hard to have a stable economy to benefit our nation if corporate interests continue to operate unchallenged, destroy the environment, and run away with the profits.
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The Toronto Maple Leafs hired former Calgary Flames general manager Brad Treliving on Wednesday to fill their vacant GM role.
"I am very excited and honoured to join the Toronto Maple Leafs as General Manager," said Treliving via a team-released statement. "I would like to thank Brendan, MLSE and its Board for their support throughout this process. I’m thrilled to join an Original Six team and recognize how much the Maple Leafs mean to this community. This is a very exciting day for my family and I.”
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Locally: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/silica-sand-mining-manitoba-proposal-1.6846998
QuoteAn Alberta mining company wants to drill thousands of wells in southeastern Manitoba to remove millions of tonnes of sand in an aquifer that serves as the source of drinking water for tens of thousands of people.
Calgary-based Sio Silica is seeking provincial environmental approval to drill up to 7,200 wells to the east and southeast of Winnipeg over 24 years and extract up to 33 million tonnes of ultra-pure silica sand from about 50 metres below the surface.
The mining company says its proposal will inject billions of dollars into the Manitoba economy by tapping into a Canadian supply of a highly sought after raw material required for the production of solar panels, new batteries and semiconductors.
Hundreds of residents of southeastern Manitoba, however, fear the potential contamination of their drinking water by a mining process that's never been tried on this scale anywhere on Earth.
In documents filed with the Clean Environment Commission (CEC), Manitoba's environmental regulator, Sio Silica intends to drill about 300 wells a year in Manitoba.
(Brent) Bullen (Sio Silica's chief operating officer) calls the process "sustainable mining" and insists it will have no noticeable effect on the environment, unlike surface mining for lower-grade silica, which can leave scars behind on the surface and beaches bereft of sand.
Experts in geology, hydrology and water chemistry hired by the CEC are less enthused.
In reports prepared for the commission, they raise concerns about changes to water quality that may result from thousands of new wells that would puncture a relatively impermeable layer of shale, a crumbly sedimentary rock, on the way down into the sandstone aquifer.
Those additional wells, they say, will cause water from the Winnipeg Sandstone Aquifer to mingle with water above the shale, where the Red River Carbonate Aquifer has a different water chemistry.
Some Manitobans who draw their drinking water from the same aquifers are even more skeptical of Sio Silica's plans.
...several hundred Manitobans who registered opposition to Sio Silica's proposal during Clean Environment Commission hearings that took place in Anola, Beausejour and Steinbach in February and March.
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23 hours ago, JCon said:
Entertaining is one word for it.
The wackos run that party and will continue to ruin that province.
FTFY
Pretty brutal outcome for Alberta on Monday night. One of the worst parts: https://calgary.citynews.ca/2023/05/29/alberta-ucp-controversial-wins/
QuoteLacombe-Ponoka United Conservative Party (UCP) candidate Jennifer Johnson, who compared trans children to feces, wins her riding.
Johnson won her seat with over 4,000 votes, compared to a little over 1,000 with the NDP, about 70 per cent of the vote as of 11 p.m. Monday.
She also said Alberta has a first-rate education system but is against transgender children as young as 14 getting double mastectomies and chemical castrations to help them transition.
“This is more than a teaspoon of poop in the cookie pouch,” Johnson said.
“It does not matter that we’re in the top three per cent in the world. Who cares if they got an 89 in Chemistry 30? Who cares that they are entering post-secondary if they are chemically castrated?”
UCP leader Danielle Smith was asked at a news conference in Calgary and confirmed her initial comments that Johnson would not sit in caucus, despite also saying she believed in “redemption and second chances.”
“I’ve made it very clear,” said Smith. “I’ve made a decision. She will not be sitting with the UCP caucus.”
“And that is final.”
The UCP in charge of Alberta for another four years...
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1 hour ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:
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On 2023-05-25 at 3:05 PM, Wideleft said:
Huge upset for Latvia over Sweden today (3-1).
This proud Latvian-Canadian couldn't be happier.
And a bronze medal after beating the US yesterday.
Congrats, Team Latvia!
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1 minute ago, GCJenks said:
David Asper (team owner) was on CJOB last week. His story was that Sea Bears is a direct translation of the original Latin species of Polar Bear.
https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/polar-bear
QuoteThe polar bear's Latin name, Ursus maritimus, means "sea bear." It's an apt name for this majestic species, which spends much of its life in, around, or on the ocean–predominantly on the sea ice.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has agreed to waive cabinet confidence so that two federal agencies can read the confidential documents David Johnston, the government's special rapporteur on foreign interference, reviewed as he produced his report on foreign interference.
Up to now, the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) and the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency (NSIRA) have not been allowed to review cabinet documents.
The two agencies have been tasked with reviewing what the Liberal government and national security agencies knew about allegations of foreign interference in the last two Canadian elections, and when they knew it.
Although calls for a public inquiry have been coming from all sides, Johnston said such an inquiry would be ineffective because of the sensitive and classified nature of the information he reviewed.
Instead, Johnston recommended that NSICOP — made up of MPs of all political stripes with special security clearances — should review his report.
He also said NSCIOP should work with the NSIRA — the watchdog set up to monitor the activities of Canada's national security and intelligence agencies — to "comprehensively" assess his report's findings and "identify any different conclusions than mine."
Johnston said his confidential annex includes "additional details for those with relevant clearances," including records covered by cabinet confidence.
"NSIRA and NSICOP would benefit from reviewing them to ensure these review bodies have access to the same information I gathered and reviewed," Johnston wrote in his report.
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Glad to see the Stars put up a fight and force game 5.
**** Vegas.
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