Please heed this warning!

Canadian businessman Jim Balsillie has a dire warning for Canadians as we go to the polls:  Don't fall for Mark Carney's economic blarney.  My husband has a post-graduate degree from 'The London School of Economics'.  He was awarded a fellowship to gain entry to that venerable institution -- quite the feat because even money can't get you in.  

Asking B what a central banker does, he told me a central banker has one job:  To maintain price stability.  That's it.  That means adjusting interest rates accordingly.  That's all you have to do.  And he even has seven deputy governors to help him figure it out.  Seven!  Yet Carney is painted as some kind of genius who saved two economies with his mysterious monetary super powers and mumbo jumbo.  

Please have a read of Balsillie's take and cast an informed vote.  As I've said, his policies are all tucked secretly into a Trojan Horse which he will open with dire consequences if elected:

Don't be fooled.

Balsillie's take.

   

He always looks as if.....

.....he is delivering a eulogy.  I'm talking about Mark Carney.  There he is, shoulders stooped, mouth drooping and speech dull and monotonous.  He has absolutely no enthusiasm whatsoever in the positions he iterates.

That guy needs a course in dealing with the public and the media.  Mr. McL, are you listening?  Watching his many gaffes shows I was absolutely correct when I said he will not be able to cast off his 'Sun King' cloak and don that of a dirty, scrappy politician.  How off-side can you be when you actually defend Paul Chiang as a candidate?!  The guy suggested that his opponent be kidnapped and taken to Beijing for prosecution and maybe death. 

That was insane, but there was the hapless Carney, calling it a "teachable moment"!  I mean seriously!  His team must have finally convinced him to drop the candidate, which he finally did today -- not admitting he was wrong to defend him, however, just saying Chiang had tendered his resignation and Carney had accepted it.

Carney demonstrated a complete lack of leadership and that does not cut it.  The problem is, Canadians are so desperate for a change from Trudeau that they are overlooking all Carney's faults, weaknesses and missteps.  They see him as some kind of savior.  So, for the moment, he remains a Harvard/Oxford, platinum member of the Davos Supper Club masquerading as a prime minister. 

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Had an interesting encounter yesterday with B's doctor.  Asking him about his background and speciality, I learned he was a child psychiatrist filling in for B's regular physician.  "How can children need a psychiatrist?" I inquired.  "It's really the parents who need one," he replied.  Then we got onto children's atrocious diets.  He told me that many of his little patients are served only chocolate milk and noodles.  "What?!!" I exclaimed.  "The parents tell me that's all they will eat," he replied.

Insane, I replied.  I agree, he said.  "When I was a kid, I ate what was put in front of me.  I remember once sitting in front of a plate of liver 'til 11 o'clock at night.  I finally ate it and it only had to happen once.  If it got too late, it came out cold for breakfast," I explained.

His eyes widened and he replied -- quite seriously, "I am going to encorporate that into my practice."  So there you have it.  I may have saved many children from mental illness by changing their parents' feeding habits.  Made me quite proud, actually.

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Trump's flauting and ignoring of the American Constitution has gone too far.  But no one will impeach him because they are scared sh-tless of him.  Bill Clinton, on the other hand, was impeached for having consensual sort-of sex with a White House intern.  How does that make any sense!?

If you think Clinton was the only powerful politician to have had sex with an underling you are sadly mistaken.  Frankly, it's one of the reasons men run for office:  So they can get away from their wives and live the Life of Riley in Ottawa.  I worked for one of Trudeau senior's ministers and I was regularly propositioned and pressured to have sex with him.  I didn't, but the pressure was routine and no one batted an eye.  He finally gave up and moved on to some other victim.

If you don't want that kind of life, don't work for a minister.  But it wasn't all bad.  There were many delicious perks -- like flying to exotic places in a government challenger and dining with other rich and powerful people.  No one raped anyone and frankly, I loved it!

Happily, I landed a job in the department so didn't have to deal with fending off that minister again.

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A word about immigration.  Why do we even need immigration lawyers?  There are clear rules and laws governing immigration, so if illegals get into Canada, they should be rounded up and deported.  They should also be housed in less luxurious settings than five-star hotels while they await their ride home; they should never need lawyers.  Countries have borders for a reason. 

Illegals being welcomed into Canada.

There is also something called 'The Immigration and Refugee Board', but we shouldn't even need that.  Giving them asylum means there is now a four-year waiting list to hear a case.  Wrong.  If you come to Canada illegally, you are by definition, a criminal.  They need to go before they can have children and plead their case.

Call me a right-wing radical, but I believe in a rules-based system with laws and borders that are actually obeyed.  Guess these days that makes me one.

 

Why?

Why is Manitoba spending millions trying to find the remains of Indigenous women who went missing from downtown Winnipeg in a local landfill?  I know, I know, this sounds callous, but why?   

The precious, immortal souls of these women are now with God.  That's the important thing; the bodies in which they were housed are not.

A number of years ago, a loved one was travelling alone in Europe.  When I could not reach her for a number of days, I assumed she had been killed somehow.  This is due to my natural anxiety, which is always high.  I decided then and there I would not scour Europe to find her remains.  I decided to focus on knowing she was in Heaven with The Lord because that's what I believe.  (Note:  She was fine; just a temporary phone glitch.)    

The four Manitoba women, however, led very dangerous lifestyles on the streets, so knew the lives they were living carried huge risks.  Take Ashlee Shingoose.  She was the 30-year-old Indigenous mother of three, whose kids had been removed because of the neglect and harm her lifestyle was causing them.

Shingoose's parents on the front page of 'The Globe and Mail' today.

The guy who murdered her has been caught, tried and incarcerated, so continuing with the torture to her family by dragging it out is pointless, in my opinion.  Naturally, no one will ever say this, but, as usual, I do.  

Note:  That's why I have a blog -- so I can express taboo opinions.  As I said to a woman I met at a cocktail party a few years, who haughtily looked down her nose and told me she didn't agree with a lot of my blogs, "If you don't like them, don't read them."  By the way, I didn't even know this woman, so her disdain made me burst out laughing!

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Speaking of taboo, why is Donald Trump continuing his assault on Canada?  Worse, how can he get away with ignoring legal contracts and treaties with impunity and gay abandon!?  It seems no one -- and I mean no one -- can stop him.  There's something very wrong when the president of the United States can turn into a dictator while laws, governments and courts are powerless to stop him.

As for our "saviour" Mark Carney, I predict Trump will take an instant dislike to his elite, buttoned-down persona.  That's just the way Trump is:  He either likes you or he doesn't.  And God help you if he doesn't.  What began as a bit of a giggle, is now getting very scary.

I also predict that Bob Fife's words of a few years ago will come true.  "The NDP are toast," he said on 'Power Play'.  It's taken a while, but Singh should have stopped supporting the Liberals a year ago and triggered an election.  At least then he might have at least held onto his seat.  He won't now and the NDP will go the way of the Conservatives in 1993, when the latter's huge majority crumbled to just two seats and they lost official party status.  That's what's in store for Singh, thanks to his determination to hang on until he was eligible for a multi-million-dollar pension.

That was dumb.

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A word about the verbose and turgid Andrew Coyne.  Slogging through his tortuous column today, I alit (or is it "alighted"?) on one word:  "Arguably".  Why use this word?  Either you stand behind your point, or you don't.  Saying something is "Arguably a cause for.....", as he wrote today, weakens your point and turns it into a puzzle.

Ah well, that's the sonorous, bombastic and pompous Coyne for you.  All his columns appear to be defending some sort of PhD thesis.  Please, Andrew, pare your thoughts down to one or two clear sentences, have a point and push yourself away from the keyboard.  With his work, I read nothing but the last paragraph to get his point -- if he has one.  

Oh how I wish I were his editor!

    

Showing his colours already

As I have been saying, Mark Carney is a dyed-in-the-wool globalist and WEFer who worships at the altar of wokery.  What did he decide would be the best move right after being anointed prime minister of Canada?  Why, fly off to Paris and London of course.

There's no doubt the Tariff Terrorist to our south is wreaking havoc, but Carney should have shown he at least has some awareness that he is King of Canada by taking a couple days to visit the good burghers of a few token cities and towns this side of the border before running off to Europe where he is apparently most at home.  He has evidently completely forgotten the little hamlet in which he was born, Fort Smith in the Northwest Territories.  No, now he is a self-declared European.

Saw a clip of him in France claiming that, "Canada is the most European non-European country in the world".  He also claimed that he is really a European because he holds both Irish and British passports, along with Canadian.

What is he playing at?!  But it wasn't bad enough that he flew off across the Atlantic in our time of dread, he also dragged along his wife.  Talk about bad optics.  Apparently the financial crisis is so dire he has to down tools and run to Paris and London, but then he destroys that altogether by making it look like a pleasure trip by carting the wife along for sightseeing and souvenir shopping.

Mark and Diana

That's just dumb.  Evidently, he has very poor advisors or doesn't listen to anyone who might have a clue about how to look "prime ministerial" and "in charge".  I suspect, having been a King for years, he just does what he pleases, listening to no one.

He has an M.A and PhD, not in economics, but in philosophy.  Think about that for a minute.  His wife -- who I at first thought was his Mother -- also has degrees in philosophy and is also a rabid greenie, so whatever he says -- or doesn't say -- in public, the pillow talk in that household will be all about net zero and if he gets in, he'll enact it.  These two have a Trojan Horse full of environmental goodies they'll unleash when he gets elected.

The other problem Carney has is arrogance.  Just saw him "answering" questions and he actually said to Rosemary Barton, "Rossie, look inside yourself," as he angrily and condescendingly brushed her question off.  I'm no fan of Rosie, but that was astounding!  If the public gets another whiff of his arrogance, he's in trouble. 

His latest gaff is inviting Zelensky to the upcoming G7 meeting here in Alberta.  Why would he do that?  It makes no sense.  The guy has no clue whatsoever about perception in the public thoroughfare.  Someone needs to get him in hand if they want him to succeed.     

(Note:  I don't know if my old colleague, the shrewd B McL, reads my blogs every now and then, but I would love to know what his expert opinion is on this move.  I bet he would have advised against it.  The other thing he desperately needs is a media relations course.  "Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."  Cause he isn't.)  

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A word about the Leafs:  Did you know that the average season ticket price of a seat is.....wait for it....sit down.....hydrate.....$11,900 !#$%!@%^!!!  Who would pay that to watch that dismal team??!!??  Apparently lots of people because there is a years-long waiting list for tickets!  

I am so out-of-it.  

Sweet

I was back at the local elementary school today, helping some of my daughter's grade two students with remedial reading.  Still eight, they are so sweet, keen and try so hard.  When it's time for me to depart, a few girls always run over to give me huge hugs -- something which would never have happened when I was in grade two in the fifties.

One of my pupils also made me a gift:

From Clarissa.

She is one of 10 children (so far) in her family and just a delightful little girl.

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But a word about Carney's swearing in today as our new prime minister.  "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss", was all I could think when he announced his cabinet.  The same, old tired hacks recycled into different portfolios, however he did dump some of the more radical and hysterical ministers.  Steven Guilbeault has been dumped from environment, but I bet Carney will unleash his rabid green agenda if he wins a seat in the election which will be called shortly.  I mean, the guy doesn't have a seat, so where would he sit?  In the public gallery?  Ludicrous.

When it comes to political analysis, Lisa Raitt and Stephanie Levitz, along with Bob Fife, are the people I listen to.  They all agree Carney will announce an election before the House returns.  How would it look if the first thing that happened was getting bounced in a vote of confidence.  So, the ragtag gang of re-hashed ministers will not even need to unpack before they get on the road to nowhere.

Speaking of ragtag, why would he keep Freeland in any portfolio?  That does not denote a Gordie-Howe-elbows-up approach to the blood sport of politics.  Is Carney too nice for the game?  Is he too used to politesse?  He better get over that in a hurry because he is no longer in the civilized board rooms of international trade and bespoke bankers.  He's in a cesspool of kill or be killed, where even a $16 glass of orange juice can spell doom.

As for Singh, don't count on him to defeat this government.  Regardless of what he says, Singh does not want an election because not only will he lose his own seat, but his party will also be reduced to non-official status and the money that accompanies that status will poof.  How could he pay for his $1,500 suits, his BMW and his Rolex without it?

As Bob Fife once said, "The NDP are toast."

I also heed the thoughts of Victor Davis Hanson (he's on YouTube, watch him) who points out that Carney remains a Davos, WEF, globalist just as was Trudeau.  I mean the guy has just been elected prime minister and what are his first moves?  To jet off to London and Paris.  Were I advising him, I would have recommended a trip to Renfrew or Brockville.  If his international jaunts aren't the moves of a globalist, I don't know what are.

I also didn't like the way he handled himself in that media Q & A outside Rideau Hall.  He was sarcastic, condescending and talked down to the press.  Not a good move when that's the bunch that holds all the influential pens in the public thoroughfare.  

Carney is used to being surrounded by "yes men".  That's over.  The other question is, where will he run?  Can't be out here, where the Liberals are viscerally loathed.  As for Trump, who runs his shop on personality and the cut of a jib, I bet he has already taken an instant dislike to our new PM, which does not bode well for the country as we battle the Tariff Terrorist currently occupying the Oval Office.    

As I say, hang onto your hats.

Creative treaty interpretation

Trump is following in Putin's footsteps when it comes to shaky treaties.  Putin is claiming that Ukraine isn't really a legitimate country at all, that it really belongs to Russia.  

Same with Donald Trump.  He is claiming that the US/Canada treaty of 1908, signed in Washington on April 11th of that year, which finally clearly delineated the border between the two countries, is invalid, that Canada has actually belonged to the US all along.

That's what he is hanging his hat on with his determination to annex Canada for our water and minerals.  He's also talking about the 300 percent tariffs Quebec puts on imports of dairy and eggs via the supply management systems in place.  That's a convenient fact Trump and Karoline Leavitt are jumping on to bolster their arguments about reciprocal tariffs.  Those supply management systems need to be dismantled, but they won't be.  Quebec has too many seats to risk that move.

I hope either Carney or Poilievre are up to the task at hand.  I don't know what Trump thinks of either potential PM, but I suspect he will take an instant dislike to Carney.  Carney is the opposite of The Donald.  He's polished, buttoned down and a bit precious; Trump is the exact opposite.

Will he detest him as much as he does Trudeau and Freeland?  We'll see.

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Listening to a YouTube podcast about the criminal, anti-Israel-pro-Hamas student demonstrations that took place last April at Columbia University in New York, I was shocked that the mayhem and destruction was allowed to run unchecked and amok for so long.  Who let this happen?  

Pro-Hamas mayhem at Columbia.

So I pulled back the curtain and guess who was the president?  Someone named Minouche Shafik.  Her biography told me everything.  Born in Egypt to Muslim parents, naturally she has to be anti-Israel in her heart of hearts, as all Muslims are.  It's in their DNA.  As I always say, you can't hide your core beliefs and culture.  You can try papering them over with a long list of dazzling academic credentials, but you can't erase your core beliefs.

This must have been the case with Ms. Shafik.  She finally called in the police, but delayed far too long while buildings were overrun and destroyed.  That's why Trump just pulled $400 million in federal funding from the place.  He's nothing if not serious about his agenda.

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A word about the American media -- especially CNN.  They have been claiming that Britain is in trouble because Trump will not be visiting there first, as is always the case with a new president.

No, new presidents always visit Canada first.  

In another act of ignorance, when then-Prince Charles was visiting the US around Remembrance Day a few years ago, they lamented about how sad it was that he had to wear a fake flower on his lapel.  They didn't even know it was a poppy!

When I was plying my journalism trade in Toronto in the late sixties -- my glory days hanging out with the likes of Margaret Wente and Christie Blatchford -- I would never have been able to get away with such inaccuracies.  The brutal Jean Portugal, my ruthless editor with the bright red pen, would have insisted I got it right.

Rest in peace Mrs. Portugal.  We will never see your equal. 

Random observations

So, today's the day Mark Carney is expected to walk away wearing the Liberal leadership crown and thus be anointed our prime minister.  

His Majesty's Crown

Trudeau's weepy and pathetic speech about his "dedication" to the country was nauseating.  "Every single day, I have done what was best for Canadians.  I have always had your backs," he blubbered.

It was pathetic because if ever anyone has put his globalist, woke-and-broke, DEI agenda ahead of his country it was Trudeau.  He tried, but repeatedly failed, to impress other world leaders with his farcical socks and smug ignorance at every conference and meeting into which he crashed.  He was an embarrassment at every turn.

An old colleague of mine from our public service commission days, who now runs a very successful consulting firm, said in a recent newsletter said that Carney must find room for Freeland and Gould in his cabinet.  Gould maybe, but Freeland never.  She will be the one to make sure the cabinet is continually riven because, frankly, she can't shut up.   

Will she defer to Carney?  Never.  Just can't help herself.  Thinks she is always the smartest person in the room and hectors everyone within earshot -- including the long-suffering public.  Does she listen?  Why do you think every senior ADM and DM with whom she worked at Finance immediately retired when she took over?  Exactly.  I knew those guys when I was with Customs and Excise.  They are very smart and would not take kindly to an ill-informed ex-journalist telling them which end was up.

Do we really want a prime minister who parades around in too-tight-too-short dresses with unkempt hair flopping everywhere?  And those pearls!  Gawd.

So, Mr. Carney, dump her.

He also needs to completely clean out the PMO -- especially Katie Telford.  She controlled Trudeau's his every thought and planned his every move.  I mean, the guy couldn't even wipe his backside unless she handed him the toilet paper.

So, Mr. Carney, dump her too.

But what everyone needs to remember is that Carney is a declared woke, DEI, green lunatic.  Just read his book, 'Values', it's all in there.  He wants net zero in 10 minutes and a load of other things that cannot come to pass.  Just ask Liz Truss and a number of other British politicians and journalists I watch on YouTube and they'll tell you how he helped destroy the British economy with his green ideologies.  He's hiding all that for the moment, but mark my words, it'll come to pass and we'll be much worse off when it does.

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What to make of Trump's taking a chainsaw to the public service?  Fareed Zakaria exposed the many lies he has told on his show this morning, but none matters because Trump's base is as ill-informed as Freeland.  As Zakaria pointed out, you can quickly slap tariffs on, but it takes decades to remove them.  He pointed to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, which levied similar tariffs on everything imported into the US.  Great idea at the time, but those tariffs were not completely lifted until the nineties -- 60 years later!    

Trump's actions remind me of Teddy Roosevelt's heated exchange with fellow Republican congressmen in 1902, when the president threatened to bring in federal troops to reopen anthracite mines which had been closed because of a strike.  One said, "What about the constitution?"  To which Roosevelt, shaking his colleague by the shoulders, said, "To Hell with the constitution when the people want coal!"

That prompted representative Joseph Cannon to say, "Roosevelt's got no more respect for the constitution that a tomcat for a marriage licence!"

I think that applies to Trump, but it appears the judiciary is stepping up to reign him and Musk in on some of their more outlandish moves.  As I said, buckle up! 

Very worrisome

A friend sent me this, however, the source is 'The Guardian'.   I am posting it because if any of it is true, it is very worrisome indeed:

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► Trump was first compromised by the Russians back in the 80s. In 1984, the Russian Mafia began to use Trump real estate to launder money and it continued for decades. In 1987, the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations, Yuri Dubinin, arranged for Trump and his then-wife, Ivana, to enjoy an all-expense-paid trip to Moscow to consider possible business prospects. Only seven weeks after his trip, Trump ran full-page ads in the Boston Globe, the NYT and WaPO calling for, in effect, the dismantling of the postwar Western foreign policy alliance. The whole Trump/Russian connection started out as laundering money for the Russian mob through Trump's real estate, but evolved into something far bigger.

► In 1984, David Bogatin — a Russian mobster, convicted gasoline bootlegger, and close ally of Semion Mogilevich, a major Russian mob boss — met with Trump in Trump Tower right after it opened. Bogatin bought five condos from Trump at that meeting. Those condos were later seized by the government, which claimed they were used to launder money for the Russian mob. (NY Times, Apr 30, 1992)

► Felix Sater is a Russian-born former mobster, and former managing director of real estate conglomerate Bayrock Group LLC located on the 24th floor of Trump Tower. He is a convict who became a cooperator for the FBI and other agencies. He grew up with Michael Cohen, Trump's former "fixer" attorney. Cohen's family owned El Caribe, which was a mob hangout for the Russian Mafia in Brooklyn. Cohen had ties to Ukrainian oligarchs through his in-laws and his brother's in-laws. Felix Sater's father had ties to the Russian mob. This goes back more than 30 years.

► Trump was $4 billion in debt after his Atlantic City casinos went bankrupt. No U.S. bank would touch him. Then foreign money began flowing in through Bayrock. Bayrock was run by two investors: Tevfik Arif, a Kazakhstan-born former Soviet official who drew on bottomless sources of money from the former Soviet republic; and Felix Sater, a Russian-born businessman who had pleaded guilty in the 1990s to a huge stock-fraud scheme involving the Russian mafia. Bayrock partnered with Trump in 2005 and poured money into the Trump organization under the legal guise of licensing his name and property management.

► Semion Mogilevich was the brains behind the Russian Mafia. Mogilevich operatives have been using Trump real estate for decades to launder money. That means Russian Mafia operatives have been part of his fortune for years, that many of them have owned condos in Trump Towers and other properties, running their operations out of Trump's crown jewel.

► One of the most important things that is often overlooked is that the Russian Mafia is part and parcel of Russian intelligence. Russia is a mafia state. That is not a metaphor. Putin is head of the Mafia. So the fact that they operated out of the home of a president of the United States is deeply disturbing.

Beware

We should have been prepared

But we weren't.  Just like the COVID epidemic, into which Canada bumbled and lurched, thanks to the incompetent Theresa Tam and a boatload of sleep-walking health ministers, Trudeau has left us once again wide open to what Trump is unleashing.  

I have to laugh at all the weeping and wailing about how tariffs will destroy the Canadian economy.  Guess who destroyed the economy way before Trump arrived?  For the answer to that, Trudeau, Freeland and Carney can look directly in the mirror -- not to find out who is the fairest of them all -- but for answers on what happened to our economy?  The tax-spend-and-borrow Liberals tanked it thanks to their global, woke, green, net zero insanity policies.

Answers are always in the mirror.

In a breathtaking act of pure spite, Trudeau is further destroying the economy so Carney will have an even bigger pile to deal with when he takes over.  Giving more billions to the natives, stacking the Senate -- you name it, he's pouring money all over it.  I mean, why does the McMichael Gallery need $22 million??!!

You don't want me, so I'll wreck everything on my way out the door, is his attitude.  What a petulant, spoiled brat.  Instead of uniting Canadians, as he vowed, he has left us more divided and angrier than ever.  "Canada is back" is now "Canada is destroyed".

But I have a hunch Trump will back down some because Republican governors in Red states reliant on trade with Canada will be forced to put pressure on him.  In the meantime, he has at least cancelled DEI and the hysterical woke hoards it engendered.

Canada's federal public service had its own DEI agenda back when I was working for the Public Service Commission.  They called it 'The merit principle'.  Except it wasn't.  That principle was actually suspended so visible minorities, the handicapped, women and francophones could be hired for positions they weren't necessarily the best qualified for.

The NHL is dropping all its "Pride" initiatives, which is a good thing.  Stick to playing hockey, fellas, and drop all the pink shirt bunk.  The Russian players are refusing to wear "pride" jerseys and so is Sharks goalie James Reimer.

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On the Russia/Ukraine file, have you ever seen such a display of panicked "leaders" running to London over the weekend to huddle in dread over what to do about Trump's rapping of Zelensky's knuckles?  Of course, they fawned all over Zelensky and issued a meaningless statement claiming they were united as the "coalition of the willing" and would commit to "as long as it takes" to save Ukraine.  What does that mean?  Frankly, absolutely nothing.

That ship, however, has long since sailed.  Trump will have to do what they failed to accomplish in three years:  Get a peace deal signed.  My bet is he will -- especially since Zelensky has now agreed to the rare minerals deal.

Well, buckle up, as Bette Davis said in 'All About Eve', "It's going to be a bumpy ride." 

      

Finally

I know many people will disagree vehemently, but I was glad to see Zelensky put in his place by Trump and Vance.  He has been over his skis for years, but finally, he has been handed a dose of reality.  Frankly, Canada is in the same boat as Ukraine, when it comes to mooching militarily off the US.  We've been delinquent on that file for decades and Trump is making us pay too.  

Zelensky getting a scolding.

Zelensky himself admits he doesn't know where billions of dollars have gone.  Well, I'll tell you where a bunch of it has gone:  Into his own pockets.  Has anyone noticed how wealthy the man and his family have become since the war started and the world began to funnel billions into Ukraine's coffers?  The US alone has handed them $175 billion.  Canada has given them $19.7 billion out of our own meagre money chest.

Zelensky is worth $30 million.  Not bad for a standup comedian.  He has also bought luxury properties and villas in the Virgin Islands, Cyprus, Belize, Egypt and London, as well as a fleet of luxury cars and other goodies.

And isn't it a coincidence that his relatives and in-laws also started buying luxury properties and yachts right after the war began.  If you don't believe me, have a google of 'The Pandora Papers'.  It's all in there.

Flying around the world in his battle fatigue, dress up costume is getting a bit old.  To all the bed wetters calling Trump a dictator, I'd say the real dictator is Zelensky.  Who's running around he world demanding -- and getting -- money?  Who has everyone drinking his Koolaid?  Not Trump.

If Zelensky gives the US the right to Ukraine's minerals, which are on the border with Russia, Putin will never invade because to do so, he would declaring war on the US.  Not going to happen.  So, that's the key and for Zelensky to leave without that deal was just dumb because that was his ticket to peace and security.  

I read that just before his meeting with Trump, he met with anti-Trump Democrats, who urged him not to sign the deal he had already agreed to.  So, you can thank the Dem's for the mass killing that will continue without a peace agreement.

Frankly, I don't believe Zelensky wants peace.  I mean why would he?  His off-shore bank accounts are the beneficiaries of the world's largesse as long as the war continues.

As Trump said, there has been no success at getting Putin to the table to talk peace in the last three years with Zelensky in charge.  Without Trump's intervention, it still would not be happening.

Can you imagine Kamala Harris achieving this?  It's laughable.  I could never understand why so many people actually supported her -- including my apparently left-wing sisters.  Call me what you will, I am glad Trump put his foot down.  

My only fear is how long will he last until the deep state finally succeeds in killing him.     

You've got to pull back the curtain

Whenever I read about something dumb and un-Canadian some official or other is proposing, I look into the background of who is doing the proposing.

That's what I did when I read about the Toronto District School Board deciding to remove the name of Sir John A. Macdonald from one of its schools.

People, we are talking about the guy who created Canada!  The visionary who had the guts and determination to envision a huge country from sea to sea and then make it happen.  The guy who hailed from a teeny, tiny country, yet imagined a massive land of hundreds of thousands of acres and actually created it.

Canada's sacred public schools.

Ya, that guy.

Yes, we know that Macdonald did a lot of things that are now considered evil in some quarters, but let's remember that many native parents pushed for residential schools so their kids could be educated and fed.  That's another inconvenient fact no one ever mentions.  Children on reserves were starving to death and residential schools saved them.

And as to the sexual abuse, the majority of it was perpetrated on younger children by older.  Another reality always overlooked, but I always do my research and that's a fact.

But back to the school board.  Who is the head?  A guy called Neethan Shan.  The vice-chair is a guy called Zakir Patel and the director of education is a guy called Clayton La Touche.  None is of Canadian heritage, so none can really be expected to grasp the gravitas of Macdonald's accomplishments.  La Touche is also the guy who led a group of high school kids on a field trip to the Grassy Narrows First Nation to stage a noisy and violent protest, joined by pro-Palestinian disrupters.

Ya, that guy.

Neethan Shan is a Tamil from Sri Lanka; La Touche was a backup singer for Raffi.  Not exactly Canadian scholars, but nevertheless duly-elected.  Patel is of Gujarati descent, so as I say, these guys are steeped neither in Canadian history, nor heritage, so Macdonald's breathtaking accomplishments, I would wager, are by definition not top-of-mind.  Their cultural and historic heroes would obviously be Gandhi and Nehru.

This is NOT racism, so don't go there.  We are all one race, the human variety, so that's the end of that argument.  I am talking background, culture and core beliefs, which influence everything we all believe and do.  Why do you think they ran to get on the school board?  To change things because that's why anyone runs for any public office.  They want to change something.

Well, erasing Sir John is certainly one way to do it, but it's wrong.  Macdonald created Canada -- the country everyone clamors to get into.  So, settle down and leave the guy, his name and his statues in place.        

Whimsy

That's how Trump operates, on whimsy and personality.  As the Liberals prepare to pick a new leader, they'd better take heed.

Trump loathes Chrystia Freeland -- almost as much as he does Trudeau.  Freeland's problem is that she was in lock step with our hapless PM for 10 years.  She can't shrug that off.

As for Mark Carney, he probably doesn't like him either just because Carney is a snob and an elitist -- both no-no's for the Orange guy.  Since the next PM's main focus will be on dealing with Trump, neither candidates will fare too well, but his hatred of Freeland will be much more prevalent.

Freeland, you will remember, was the minister who negotiated the now-ignored Canada/Mexico/US free trade deal.  The American who had to deal with her, Robert Lighthizer, also loathed her.  The photos of her, four foot nothing, wagging her finger at the man were pathetic.  Way to bring people in, Chrystia!  She has a real knack for turning people off and I'm definitely one of them.

She made it seem negotiating the deal was such a huge task and only thanks to her brilliance was it possible!

Her she is, a wanna be prime minister, clipping her toenails in the House.  Charming!

I was on the team who negotiated the first Canada/US Free Trade agreement back in 1988, when I was with Customs and Excise.  You know what?  It wasn't that difficult because both sides negotiated from a spirit of cooperation, respect and give-and-take.  I can just picture Freeland striding into a meeting, guns blazing and pissing everyone off.  We didn't do that and it all worked out pretty well.

But what is is about Freeland that bugs people?  Is it the hair flipping?  Is it the too-tight, too-short dresses she insists on wearing?  Is it those God forsaken pearls she wears with everything (probably a hand-me-down from some long-dead grandmother)?  Is it that smug look?  Is it the way she lectures and talks down to the ignorant, unwashed proletariat?  Frankly, it's all of the above.  A more annoying politician you couldn't find:

Can you seriously imagine this harridan as our prime minister?!

As for Carney, people forget that yes, he may have served as governor of the Bank of England, but he is credited for destroying that economy with his green agenda and his penchant for over-printing money.  They leave those parts out.  Brexit was being negotiated and Carney was in the way.  So, rather than having been a glittering governor, he was actually a total bust.  Too bad the lazy media never mentions this.  Don't be fooled, Carney is an hysterical greenie.

If you want to know what's really going on, watch John Mearsheimer and Victor Davis Hanson on YouTube.  That's where you will get the truth about what's happening in the world.  

You won't find it on mainstream media.    

Breathtaking hypocrisy!

Yesterday, we went to a lovely ceremony, where the Alberta Lieutenant Governor, Salma Lakhani, pinned medals onto the lapels of 40 worthy recipients of the King Charles III Coronation Medal.

B was one of them:

Brian Marley-Clarke with the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta.

First name called was Alison Redford's, former premier of Alberta.  Blank, silence.  She was a disgraceful no-show.  That just confirms to me how unfit she was to be premier in the first place.  A premier doesn't thumb her nose at our Head of State, but Redford did exactly that.  When you're too great to be honoured by a mere King, you bring shame on the office itself.  A very poor show, Alison.  

What made me almost burst out laughing was the presence of five or six Indigenous people who were also getting the medal.  Remind me, isn't it the Indigenous who rail against the Crown and the colonialism it "perpetrated", ruining their culture and destroying their people and way of life?  So why were they there to accept a medal in honour of the King they blame for all their ills?!  But there they were, dressed in all their regalia and feathered headdresses, enjoying the largesse of His Majesty and basking in his glory.

Shouldn't they have indignantly refused the honour?  Rhetorical.  But I did have a nice chat with one Indigenous woman who was wearing a traditional ribbon skirt.  She was shocked I knew the history of that skirt, but, I -- an ignorant white woman -- always do my research.  There she was, running up to get a picture of her Siksika husband while Her Honour pinned a King Charles gong on his lapel.

As I say, it's both hypocritical and bullsh-t.  

Most of the Indigenous recipients were leaders in the "recovery" industry.  More irony was when we were stopped at a red light as we left and were harassed by a drunk Indigenous man who banged on our car window for money.  What a bizarre juxtaposition  -- leaving an awards ceremony honouring the Indigenous and then encountering the main problem with that population in Canadian downtowns everywhere.

Particularly galling was that Her Honour announced she was awarding the medal to a slew of aides de camp who work in her office.  What?!?!  Why were they getting one?!  A healthy dose of blatant nepotism there because it cheapened the currency of the award a tad.

As for the reception, I have to say it was cheesy.  A few small tortilla wrap bites, a couple of danishes and tons of sweets (which I don't eat).  As for beverages, coffee and tea only.  That was a real slap in the face for the medal recipients who collectively have given thousands and thousands of volunteer hours for their various causes.

But Her Honour Salmabegum Lakhani, a self-proclaimed "proud Ismaili Muslim", was born in Kampala, Uganda, and doesn't imbibe.  So, the rest of us weren't permitted a drop of the grape either.  She evidently forgot that this is Alberta, Canada, where traditional toasting with a little alcohol is the expected norm.  We are not in Uganda any more, Salma.  Open the bar, please.  But it stayed closed.

She was appointed by Jason Kenny, who must have done so in a moment of extreme diversity-ism.  Poor Jason, so many misguided moments in his brief tenure.

As for Salma, time to let a little "Alberta" rub off on your shoulders.  Afterall, as Lieutenant Governor that's where your pride should be draped -- not in Kampala at the local mosque.  Take a page from B's grandfather's book, who told him when they immigrated, "Forget about India, forget about England, my boy.  This is Canada.  Just be a Canadian."  Wise words of advice B has heeded since.

One other bizarre moment was when the emcee announced that the words to 'God Save the King' were written on the back of the programme.  Huh?!  Are you telling me that Canadian medal recipients in Alberta, Canada, were not expected to know the words to the Royal Anthem when they received a medal from His Majesty?!  But there they were, written on the back so we could sing along;

Seared into the minds of most Canadians, one would have thought.

All in all, it was a lovely sight to see B up there getting his second Royal gong, but as I say, all a bit cheesy.

There we are, B and son, Gene, who drove us there and looked after everything.

 

He actually cried

After the strip J.D. Vance tore off the European Union the other day in Munich, Security Conference chairman Christoph Heusgen broke down in tears and had to be comforted and helped off the podium:

 Wailing over failing.

How ludicrous!  If you watch 'Plank of the Week' on YouTube, they actually awarded him the plank the other day for this pathetic display.  Watch it, it's hilarious because it's always accurate.

Vance, of course, was absolutely correct to upbraid Europe for doing absolutely nothing over three years to end the Russia/Ukraine war that has dragged on and killed millions on both sides.  Nero fiddles while Rome burns, comes to mind.  

Frankly, it's all thanks to Ukrainian president Zelensky -- that sawed off ego maniac who keeps flying around the world in his phony fatigues costume extracting money from all sorts of virtue-signaling countries who keep giving him billions for his personal fight with Putin.  Oh, and a lot of it goes to his yachts, dachas and luxury homes and condos all over the world.  (See "My theory", Sept. 6, 2023).  

Of the more than $100 billion the world has given him, he has skimmed off and pocketed about $100 million personally.  Canada has given $19 billion, which is ludicrous.

Trump is calling him a dictator and I agree.  He is.  He is complaining that he hasn't been given a seat at the table.  He's been at the table for three years and has accomplished nothing except the death of millions and the complete destruction of many cities.  He has cancelled elections and rules with neither oversight, nor rules -- just does what he wants.  Wrong.   

Thank God Trump is coming to the rescue.  And he has correctly cut Zelensky completely out of the peace process he will forge with Putin.  It had to be done and now all European leaders are exposed for what they are:  Posers whose self interest has rendered them moribund.

Starmer and Macron are the Eunuchs-in-Chief on this file.  All bluster, no action.  Just a lot of blah blah blah.

Zelensky saying Ukraine will never accept any settlement made without him at the table reminds me of Monty Python's 'Holy Grail', where the knight keeps railing against his opponents as all his legs and arms are being been cut off, rendering him immobile and impotent.

In my opinion, Zelensky is a war criminal who has committed the mass murder of millions of his own people -- as well as those of Russia -- in a vain and egomaniacal quest for the glory of Ukraine and himself.

Who does he think he is?  As I say, thank God for Trump and Vance.  It has to stop.  

    

Ten!

That's what one of the little girls I am now tutoring replied when I asked her if she had any brothers or sisters?  Ten!  In this day and age, even Catholics don't have that many, so I assume her family is Mormon.  It is.

I asked her what number she was and she rhymed off four older brothers' names, then her, but after that she kind'a couldn't remember the littlest ones' names.  "I forget," she finally said.  I had to stifle a laugh.

She is one of five or six eight-year-olds I am helping with their reading in my daughter's grade two class here in Cochrane.  Teachers are swamped, so I volunteered to help her with remedial reading.

Every Friday, I go to her class, where she has set me up at a little table in the hall outside her room.  Settling my a-- into a miniature chair at a miniature table is quite the sight!  Then we go through a series of exercises laid out by daughter.  So, there I am, remembering my own grade one and two classes at Crichton Street Public in Ottawa, when Dick, Jane, Sally and Spot were our reading companions:

Playmates from my youth.

"See Dick run.  See See Jane jump.  See Spot catch the ball."  All phrases I remember so well from when I was seven and eight.  It's so much fun for me because the kids are so sweet and try so hard.  "Sound it out," I say, as they struggle with the words on the page in front of them.  "Just read what's there, don't add other words.'

"Here's Mrs. M-C," daughter says when I walk in.  "Hi Mrs. M-C," they all chant enthusiastically.  Valentine's Day was especially sweet, with all the girls dressed up for the occasion.  As I was leaving, one of my little pupils spoke up.  "Mrs. M-C, wait," she hailed as she rushed over.  To my great surprise, she gave me a huge hug!  I was speechless.

So, this is my calling of late.  Venturing back to a simpler time with sweet children, their entire lives still ahead of them.

   

More that $3 trillion

That's how much money the natives have been handed by Canadians since since 1946.  Actually, it's $3.3 trillion, but hey, who's counting?!  Certainly not the Indigenous leaders, who keep demanding more.

The Canadian money tree, repeatedly shaken by so many.

Has this avalanche of money made any discernable difference?  Rhetorical.  And still they want more under the guise of "reconciliation".  A high school student I know, who was doing a class project, asked me what reconciliation meant?  "Money", I replied.  She immediately got it.

When you hear Patti Pettigrew, founder of the 'Thunder Bay Woman Lodge', say natives are being "nickel and dimed to death", you want to scream and hand her the bank statements of the 'Indian Trust Fund".  Today, that fund is holding $625 million.  And that's over and above the 2024-2025 allotment for Canada's 1.8 million natives, which is $32 billion.  $32 billion!!!

Why doesn't Ms. Pettigrew ask her own leadership for a few clams out of that fund?  Why doesn't she ask her leaders where the money has gone?  Oh, wait, she can't because the first thing Trudeau did when he took office 10 years ago was cancel the Accountability Act, which attempted to compel native leaders to account for the money they were given.

That I don't get.  When I was working and travelling, I had to account for every coffee in my expense claims.  But they don't have to account for billions?!  It's only going to get worse until Trudeau exits because he said the other day, "I'm going to do exactly what I want, now that I'm leaving."  Never mind that, he has done exactly what he wanted -- or what Katie Telford told him he wanted -- since he set foot in the PMO.

Is the Indigenous leadership so incompetent it can't run a bath, let alone a reserve?  Is that why no one knows where the money goes?  Or maybe it's because they simply don't want Canadians to find out.  Patti Hajdu should demand answers on behalf of all hard-working Canadians, some of whom have to decide between rent and food every month.

I wrote to Bob Fife about this and he replied that it was a foolish decision to cancel the Accountability Act.  Obviously, I agree.  But I am sure Trudeau is relieved Trump has distracted us from all this with his tariff threats because Trudeau can now focus on being 'Captain Canada' again.  Do you think he actually might stick around?  Do you think there's a chance the Liberals could sneak in again?

Gawd help us.

Dear Diary

Why did I ever start watching that ridiculous Paramount series 'The Affair'?!  I don't know, but now I regret it because it's interminable!  Problem is, Diary, I'm hooked.  Other problem is it never seems to end.

The unendurable stars of 'The Affair'. 

It's one of those annoying series that is all chunked up -- you know, one episode shown from one character's perspective, the same episode shown from another's completely different perspective., so you never know what's really going on.  Sooooo annoying!  

It's also one of those shows that features a lot of those maddening "Three years earlier" scenes, where you have to forget what you just watched and pretend you don't know what's going to happen next.  The whole thing begins with famous author Noah, played by Dominic West, having an affair with a mousy, cheap waitress nobody, Alison, played by Ruth Wilson, but it branches out into a million other side plots and affairs that are mostly irrelevant.

Firstly, Alison does not strike me as someone anyone would have an affair with -- let alone the three or four other characters who throw their entire lives in the toilet because of her "irresistibility".  She's boring and vapid, but happily she's now dead.  The coroner says it was suicide, but we know she was murdered by one of her many lovers.  At least she's gone.  For now.  But who knows?  She may reappear in some future episode -- God forbid!

B hates it because it's stupid, so to spare him, I watch it while he is busy or out.  However, Diary, we are also watching another series, 'Inspector George Gently', starring Martin Shaw as Inspector Gently.  Set in the sixties, I am really enjoying it because I came of age in that era and can relate to so much of it.  It also makes sense, unlike the ludicrous 'The Affair'.

___________________________

As an aside, Diary, I wanted to update you on the saga of my erstwhile ex-"friend", Diane, who dropped me 18 months ago because I blogged that I thought she could at least buy me a glass of wine when we went out for lunch, but she never would.  Remember her?  She's the one I drove around, picked up and dropped off because she had had a stroke and could no longer drive.  I guess I just wasn't worth a $10 glass of wine.  Oh well, her loss.   

We usually had a few laughs and shared our very irritated views on the Indians and how they were ripping off the Canadian public.  Other than with B, I can't really express my opinions on the natives and their "leadership" in polite company because everyone, except me, seems to have drunk the Kool Aid on that file.  But Diane shared them, so we'd rave on privately.

One thing that really riled us was their claim of nationhood.  To be a nation, a people has to raise its own capital and protect its own borders.  The Indigenous do neither, so they aren't nations.  All this nation-to-nation bunk is just that:  Bunk.

I guess you could say some of them do raise their own capital -- if you count the millions they get from the criminal smuggling of people, guns and drugs across the St. Lawrence between the US and Canada via the Akwesasne reserve, which straddles both countries.  It's all illegal money, but they claim it's their land, so they do what they want, give the police the finger and pocket the ill-gotten proceeds.

It's not their land, as we know.  I looked it up.  It's Crown Land given to the natives for their exclusive use.  But it's still Crown Land.  I once tried to point this out at a dinner party and was furiously and righteously set upon and attacked by all the bed wetters (as the 'Plank of the Week' gang hilariously calls the hoards of insufferable liberal lefties) at the table.  Never going to try that again, Diary!

 I also brought up the billions we give them -- along with all the illegal migrants -- and have now vowed to never, ever, bring up either topic again while in the company of the great uninformed mob.  

Well, Diary, that's about it for today.  I'll keep you posted on whether Alison rises from the grave to piss us all off once again.

Cheerio!     

Why would she do that?

Why would Margaret Thatcher send the Queen to Saudi Arabia, where she was forced to remove her shoes and wear a hijab?   

We're talking about Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II!  She actually had to cover her head in that Muslim country.  It was an outrage.  Do you think for one minute a Muslim ruler -- or any Muslim -- would come to England and be forced to wear western dress?!  

Never!

But they force non-Muslims to adhere to their archaic dress code and kowtow to men.  Absolutely ridiculous.

The Queen in hijab dress.

The Monarch is the Head of the Church in Great Britain.  She is not a Muslim and should never be forced to wear Muslim attire.  But, she did it.  And she looked as regal as anyone could with her head covered.  Again, why did Thatcher send her?  Was it personal?  I know they didn't get on -- probably because Thatcher thought she was the queen and resented the fact that she wasn't.

Whatever the reason, the Queen should have stuck to western dress and Thatcher should have insisted on it before sending her.

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Just to show you how insensitive I can be, I stupidly asked a WestJet pilot I regularly swim with what he thought of the recent collision between that military training helicopter and a passenger jet.  Can you imagine!  I might as well have asked him how he'd like to have died like that.

Just so dumb.

I'm confused?

Isn't it the job of US customs and border agents to screen who and what gets into the US?  Shouldn't they be the ones -- not Canada -- responsible for all the illegal migrants, guns and fentanyl apparently flowing freely into our neighbour to the south?

The answer is yes.  So why is Canada being blamed and incurring the wrath of President Trump?  He should be instructing his own, hand-picked border czar, Tom Homan, to stop it -- not penalizing Canada with ridiculous tariffs that will cripple both countries.

While experts and pundits are all over the airwaves, trying to analyze the "why's" of such ludicrous tariffs, Trump himself gave the answer:  "I love Canada, I dislike its leadership."  He actually said that the other day and that translates into: "I love Canada, but I can't stand that squat babushka Freeland and I loathe that vain, narcissistic spoiled leader Trudeau."

Funnily, no one has picked up on the fact that it's all personal for Trump.  There is no logic or economic thought here.  He just can't abide Freeland and Trudeau.  On that fact, most Canadians agree.  Freeland was bragging the other day about how she had pushed back and stood up to the US during the trade negotiations, not realizing that her abrasive style was anathema to reasonable people like Robert Lighthizer.

Trudeau and Freeland's unworkable stance.

As for the border, unless the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are on the take with the Chinese and turning thousands of blind eyes at their borders, they are the ones responsible for enforcing the laws of their country.

My next question is, why is no one but me calling this out?  No reporters, no columnists, no politicians -- nobody is mentioning this inconvenient truth.

As I said, I am confused -- but then I often am.

Another thing that confuses me is the decision of the Victoria school board to remove police liaison officers from its schools.  

The woke run amok in B.C.

Apparently, any police presence in the school intimidates Black and Indigenous students.  So Victoria, in its preeminent wokery, has removed them.  I guess what these students object to is the oversight of their gang activities by the police.  I mean, what else could it mean?  If everyone was law-abiding -- wink, wink, nudge, nudge -- why would they not want to keep it that way by having a few police officers hanging around the lockers and liaising?

Thankfully, Premier Eby has fired the entire board -- very surprising considering the rabidly woke NPD premier is drenched in do-goodery and tolerance.  It took two years, but he actually did it.  Guess he calculated the election math and figured there weren't enough Indigenous and Black votes in 'Tea Party City" to sway the results.

Another thing that confuses me is 'World Hijab Day'.  Apparently, in some quarters of our woke-to-the-back-teeth country, we actually have one and it's today.  Who knew?! 

World Hijab Day

Just to remind myself of how un-woke I am, I had to google it.  'World Hijab Day' was proclaimed by a Canadian resident, Yasmine Mohammed, in 2013 and "...celebrates the resilience of hijabs around the globe who courageously challenge stereotypes, while embracing their identities with pride and determination".

In Canada, a country about as tolerant as you can find, I would not think we'd need a special day to celebrate and protect hijabs.  Maybe in Quebec, where they have finally legalized the separation of Church and State in Bill 21, which bans religious symbols in secular institutions, and are about to enact another requiring immigrants to adhere to Quebec culture and mores, I can see where they might need a special day.  But nowhere else.

Maybe part of the issue in Quebec stems in part from the actions of that teenage girl in Montreal, who claimed she had had her hijab ripped off while she was walking down the street minding her own business.  After a big public kerfuffle and investigation, it turned out she had been lying all along.  Never happened.  She was trying to stir up an issue that wasn't there and her false accusations didn't help. 

I have also recounted the Muslim girls I taught at Algonquin College in Ottawa, who wore the hijab for "modesty", yet had faces plastered with makeup and wore very, high heels and nail polish -- both clearly sexually provocative gestures which flew in the face of the "modesty" they claimed to support.

As a Christian, I have never understood why women and girls have to cover themselves at all.  We are all equal and all children of a loving God, so why does the female gender in Muslim societies have to hide themselves.  That's wrong, but in Canada we live with it.

As I said, I am constantly confused and bewildered by what Canada has become.  We are a country with no identity whatsoever and I am only glad my Grandmother, Mother and Aunts aren't alive to see it.

  

That dog don't hunt

So, Marie-Josée Hogue has released her big "exposé" on foreign interference in Canadian elections.

Apparently, there isn't any.  She said exactly what Trudeau must have told her to say, which stinks to high heaven.  According to Hogue, we have bad communications, but no actual interference.  In fact, she didn't name any possible suspects because ludicrously, there is a 99 year embargo on releasing the names of MPs and candidates who did engage with foreign entities.  

Really?!  So, what was the point of the whole exercise if no one was identified, if voters will never know who was involved when they go to the polls?  It beggars belief!  This whole thing was not an "inquiry", it was a cover up.  Remember that the National Security and Intelligence Parliamentary Committee released its own report, which explicitly said some MPs were working with China and India to influence elections.  Hogue completely contradicts this.  

Keystone Cops anyone?  Left hand right hand?

Gee, I wonder if Hogue's ties to Justin Trudeau's father, Pierre, had anything to do with her appointment as commissioner?  Didn't they both work for Heenan Blaikie?  Isn't she close to the Trudeau family?  As I always say, pull back the curtain and you'll find the truth.

Her report, coloured as it is by her personal and professional background, is a complete whitewash.  My question is, what is the difference between lobbying and interfering?  There isn't any that I can see.  Lobbyists make their livings trying to interfere in the political process on behalf of their clients.  Those who interfere in the political process do essentially the same thing.

My other question is her claim that we have no actual traitors in the Parliament of Canada.  Huh?  She was not given a mandate to ferret out traitors.  She was given a mandate to determine if foreign interests "interfered" in the election.  Instead, she globed onto the traitor element to the exclusion of who did, or did not, meet the interference issue.

So, all's well in Parliament.  No one is interfering.  No one is a traitor.  Elections are all pristine and above-board.  Whew, great to know!  Except, the real story, as I said, lies in the fact that those involved will not be identified for 99 years.  99 years!!!  That screams serious interference and corruption, so if that doesn't tell you everything, nothing in the redacted report will.

Thank God everything's A-OK, according to Mme. Justice Hogue.

 

The Indigenous myth of colonial settlement

Contrary to what all Indigenous leaders, spokespersons and experts claim, the colonization of Canada, the United States and Australia did not involve the systemic and brutal annihilation of natives.  

It simply didn't. 

Dr. Stephen Chavura

This was the subject of a fascinating YouTube broadcast, hosted by former deputy prime minister of Australia John Anderson, during which he interviewed Dr. Nigel Biggar, below, regis professor at Oxford, and Dr. Stephen Chavura, above, European and Australian history professsor.  Biggar and Chavura outlined the brutality of Indigenous-to-Indigenous wars and violence that was occurring before the White man ever set foot in the new world.

Dr. Nigel Biggar

Entire tribes were regularly wiped out, with women and children brutally tortured, murdered, raped and enslaved.  They were not peaceful hunters and gatherers, as the fairy tale is regularly spun.  As nomadic people, the Indigenous also practiced infanticide because they simply could not move around as they needed to with a multitude of infants in tow.  So they suffocated them at birth.

The tribe-to-tribe violence did not shock me, but I had not read about the infanticide.  However, it makes sense and people like Tanya Talaga should be tied to a chair and forced to watch this broadcast.  She is one of the worst offenders when it comes to perpetrating the myth of the evils of colonization and cultural genocide on innocent, peaceful natives. 

Biggar and Chavura also pointed out that the laws which allowed the British to remove children from their homes applied equally to both Caucasians and Indigenous.  Children were removed because of neglect, violence or starvation -- not because settlers were practicing genocide.  In fact, the natives themselves were lobbying Ottawa to build residential schools so their children could have better lives, free of the diseases and starvation that were killing them on the reserve.

Biggar also talked about the lie of mass murders and burials of native children in Canada, where three years after the story was hatched, not a single grave has been uncovered.  Nevertheless, 85 churches have been burned to the ground by natives in protest.

Yep, all lies.

So, if you want to educate yourselves about the history of colonialism, watch this broadcast.  It should be required viewing for every Canadian minister of Indigenous affairs and every "expert" like Pam Palmeter, Doug Cuthand or Tanya Talaga before they dare put pen to paper, or teach another course.