Category: The Libranos

Well, Rats!

Shiny Pony 40 Comments

“Mr Trudeau, the caucus is revolting.”

Many Liberal MPs who once thought they might survive on their own popularity are now facing the reality that they will lose their jobs because of the unpopularity of the same leader who helped them win back in 2015.

Liberal MPs were told at that 2022 caucus that there was a plan to turn things around. They were told the same thing when they met last month in Nanaimo, B.C., for this year’s summer caucus retreat. Indeed, applause could be heard from the closed-door meeting in the room at the conference centre in downtown Nanaimo when Trudeau’s director of strategic communications, Max Valiquette, presented his marketing plan for the months ahead.

Now many of those MPs complain that nothing was done after the St. Andrews meetings. And nothing has been done since Nanaimo.

The complainers say there has been no promised communications campaign, no change in policies, and no change in the way the PM and his senior aides interact with caucus. […]

Last Wednesday, while Trudeau was out of the country, the chair of the Atlantic caucus, Nova Scotia’s Kody Blois, startled the weekly national caucus meeting by declaring that Atlantic MPs had just come from a “a difficult but frank discussion about the future of the party” and then he simply walked out of the closed-door national caucus meeting.

More Pavilions at Folk Fest

More Pavilions At Folkfest Shiny Pony 35 Comments

New York Times- One of the World’s Most Immigrant-Friendly Countries Is Changing Course

Gurpartap Singh Toor, a local councilor for Brampton and the broader region of Peel, arrived in Canada in 2011 as a migrant. He said the large numbers of newcomers had stretched resources. The health infrastructure in Brampton — one hospital and a smaller medical center — is insufficient for the population of around 700,000, Mr. Toor said. Housing availability and costs, he said, have been worsening, partly because unscrupulous landlords rent out small properties to multiple students, charging them hundreds of dollars each and pricing out local families.

“…have you seen the demographics of my riding?”

More Pavilions At Folkfest Terrorism The Libranos 22 Comments

National Post- Mélanie Joly’s cowardice lets handful of Montreal voters drive Israel policy

Of the 80,359 eligible voters in the riding in 2021, 13.8 per cent identified as Arab, coming from regions including Algeria, Syria, Morocco, and Lebanon, according to census data. That’s 11,089 voters that Joly cannot afford to lose, especially since she won the riding by less than 10,000 votes in 2015.

Punishment Will Increase

Canada’s Bolsheviks Drain The Swamp The Libranos 54 Comments

Until morale improves.

Blacklock’s- Feds Want 3% Irish Land Tax

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland yesterday said cabinet would like to adopt an Irish-style three percent annual federal tax on vacant lots.

“Such taxes would be intended to discourage speculative holding of land and making it more costly to keep land undeveloped,” the finance department wrote in a Consultation Paper. “Taxes could provide a source of revenue for various orders of government which could be used to fund the construction of more new homes,” it added.

The Brainwashed Masses

Shiny Pony The Libranos 23 Comments

Blacklock’s- Not Inflation

Cabinet proposed renaming inflation as “heat-flation” to persuade Canadians to associate the rising cost of living with climate change, documents show. The idea polled badly.

The survey was commissioned under an $814,741 contract with The Strategic Counsel, a Toronto pollster.

Blacklock’s- Gov’t Buys “Social Cohesion”

“The crisis in local journalism is a threat to social cohesion,” said the report. It praised the Local Journalism Initiative, a fund offering 100 percent rebates for the hiring of reporters at a $19.6 million annual cost. The subsidy is separate from a $595 million bailout that pays a maximum $29,750 yearly rebate per employees of government-approved newsrooms.

“What are they going to do?” asked Jolly, a Toronto freelancer. “Are they going to work at Home Hardware? I don’t think that is really befitting of treating people with professionalism.”

Changing terminology

Best I Can Do Is Another Selfie With A Teddy Bear

Shiny Pony We Are All Treaty People 18 Comments

Globe and Mail- Ottawa heads to court to fight class-action lawsuit over unsafe drinking water on First Nations

Three years after Ottawa settled two class-action lawsuits over unsafe drinking water on First Nations for $8-billion, government lawyers will appear in Federal Court this week to fight a third class action that could add another $1-billion to the government’s ballooning First Nations water bill.

What? I Wasn’t Listening

Shiny Pony The Libranos 28 Comments

Blacklock’s- Gov’t Was Warned 163 Times

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other federal officials were warned 163 separate times of foreign interference over a six-year period, China inquiry records show. Trudeau as late as 2023 denied he was ever told of illegal activity by foreign agents.

The 163 meetings covered the period from August 1, 2018 to March 15, 2024. “This list does not include additional ad hoc meetings that may have occurred,” said the document. “These are planned formal briefings.”

Go, Already

Shiny Pony Western Separatism 18 Comments

No one cares when they can barely speak English;

… it’s really quite strange that [Governor General] Simon headed to the Quebec City area last week for some public events, despite her French having apparently improved not much at all in three years — or at least, not to an extent she is willing to use it in public. (In December last year, Simon told Radio-Canada she had received 184 hours of French lessons. Over the weekend she told CTV News that she can, in fact, carry on a brief conversation in French.)

It was weirder still that Simon cancelled the remainder of her Quebec City itinerary after journalists noticed she wasn’t speaking French.

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