Please continue any discussion on random news items here.

Turns out the largest landowner in Canada is former Winnipegger Robert Andjelic, who owns aprox. 225,000 acres of farmland spread all over Saskatchewan.  Previously Andjelic was one of Wpg's largest industrial builders & developers, until he sold those assets in 2007 and started purchasing farmland with the proceeds.

https://pulpitandpolitics.com/2022/09/17/saskatchewan-farmland-new-serfdom/

7 hours ago, Fatty Liver said:

Turns out the largest landowner in Canada is former Winnipegger Robert Andjelic, who owns aprox. 225,000 acres of farmland spread all over Saskatchewan.  Previously Andjelic was one of Wpg's largest industrial builders & developers, until he sold those assets in 2007 and started purchasing farmland with the proceeds.

https://pulpitandpolitics.com/2022/09/17/saskatchewan-farmland-new-serfdom/

This is happening to varying degrees...all across the prairies.

they'd have to pay me ALOT more than that

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/07/business/fast-and-furious-franchise-movie-watching-contest-trnd/index.html

2 hours ago, Mark H. said:

This is happening to varying degrees...all across the prairies.

No doubt, nothing good can come of it when the land is controlled by a few, we seem to be moving backwards in time in a negative direction.

21 minutes ago, Fatty Liver said:

No doubt, nothing good can come of it when the land is controlled by a few, we seem to be moving backwards in time in a negative direction.

Absolutely.

Their reps show up on farmers' doorsteps with a fat cheque book.

Elasmotherium

36 minutes ago, blue_gold_84 said:

Elasmotherium

Looks very horny.

Craziness.  Guess where?

14-year-old girl shot by neighbour while playing hide and seek on his lawn, police say.

https://globalnews.ca/news/9684528/hide-and-seek-shooting-14-year-old-neighbour/

Edited May 10, 20232 yr by Fatty Liver

1 hour ago, Fatty Liver said:

Craziness.  Guess where?

14-year-old girl shot by neighbour while playing hide and seek on his lawn, police say.

https://globalnews.ca/news/9684528/hide-and-seek-shooting-14-year-old-neighbour/

The shooter will not be charged because he "stood his ground" and besides, he "felt threatened". Bizarre. 

2 hours ago, Tracker said:

The shooter will not be charged because he "stood his ground" and besides, he "felt threatened". Bizarre. 

Where did you read this?

9 hours ago, Mark H. said:

Where did you read this?

I was sarcastically speculating- it would be entirely within the realm of previous US incidents.

57 minutes ago, Tracker said:

I was sarcastically speculating- it would be entirely within the realm of previous US incidents.

The article does outline what he was charged with.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-new-passport-more-nature-fewer-history-1.6838308

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Canada's passport is getting a makeover with a new design that will feature more natural landscapes and wildlife and fewer Canadian historical moments and monuments.

Speaking at a news conference on Wednesday, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development Karina Gould and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Sean Fraser said the new design is the product of 10 years of consultation.

"We tried to take the feedback about what represents Canada," Fraser said.

"One of the things that I heard was we want to celebrate our diversity and inclusion, we want to celebrate our natural environment ... and [we] tried to bake those elements into the design."

Fraser said a complete change in theme was important to improve the passport's security.

"It makes it much harder to counterfeit," Fraser said.

"It does make it easier when you maintain the same images for a significant period of time for counterfeiters to abuse the document and to produce fakes."

 

6 minutes ago, blue_gold_84 said:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-new-passport-more-nature-fewer-history-1.6838308

3 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

That's not Jason Bourne?

Just now, FrostyWinnipeg said:

I knew Matt Damon wasn't his real name!

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/texas-lesbian-bar-denied-insurance-hosting-drag-shows-owner-says-rcna83954

59 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/texas-lesbian-bar-denied-insurance-hosting-drag-shows-owner-says-rcna83954

Sad to say, there is so much really, really bad stuff going on in the US that this is almost trivial by comparison. 

The problem with the world is that the crazy people think they are smart and well read and are ready to rule

 

An Indian official has been suspended after he ordered the draining of more than 2 million liters of water from a reservoir to retrieve a smartphone he dropped while snapping a selfie. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/indian-official-suspended-drains-reservoir-retrieve-phone-dropped-taki-rcna86637

https://biv.com/article/2023/05/canada-border-services-agency-wins-media-code-silence-award

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Canada's 2022 Code of Silence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Government Secrecy has been awarded to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).

The 'accolade' stems from its failure to disclose basic information about how the controversy-laden ArriveCAN app's cost to taxpayers doubled from original public cost estimates, according to a news release.

The government pushed the app heavily for travellers going to and from Canada as a way to save time at border crossings. It was rolled out April 29, 2020 as part of federal efforts to limit the spread of COVID-19.

The Code of Silence Awards are presented annually by the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ), the Centre for Free Expression (CFE) at Toronto Metropolitan and Canadian Journalists for Free Expression.

The CAJ said a Globe and Mail analysis found the pandemic-era public health app cost taxpayers $54 million.

"After spending at least 10 times what it should have for the ArriveCAN app, CBSA provided Canadian media with misinformation about how that happened," said CFE director James L. Turk in a statement.

Beyond the price tag, the groups said there was a lack of transparency and conflicting responses around the awarding of government contracts related to the app.

“During the summer of 2022, the CBSA told media outlets there were a total of five companies that had received contracts related to the app,” the CAJ said. “That number skyrocketed to a total of 27 contracts involving 23 unique companies, in documents the agency later submitted to Parliament.”

cant get to work delete.

Two dozen white supremacists are outside the main Disney World entrance in Orlando right now, marching with signs featuring Gov DeSantis’s face, swastikas, the n-word and homophobic slurs.

2 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

Two dozen white supremacists are outside the main Disney World entrance in Orlando right now, marching with signs featuring Gov DeSantis’s face, swastikas, the n-word and homophobic slurs.

Everyday America. Its a contagion of stupidity

6 hours ago, Tracker said:

Everyday America. Its a contagion of stupidity

September 4, 1957, a group of people, several holding signs and American flags, protesting the admission of the "Little Rock Nine" to Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas.

 

66 years later, protesters brawl over LGBTQ curriculum outside Calif. school board meeting.

Can't say the same prejudices don't exist within Canada, because they do, and they always have.