Something's very wrong here

Tragically, another Canadian police officer has been killed by someone deranged.  Sgt. Maureen Breau, a 20-year veteran of the Quebec Provincial Police, was stabbed responding to a call about a local lunatic -- a lunatic who had been charged, release and charged again over a number of years, but who had again been released.  

What's mind-boggling was that as this heartrending coverage of Sgt. Breau's murder was all over the airwaves, several Quebec unions were on TV raving about racism in police forces.  I was dumbfounded!  Did these members think their "racism" beefs trumped the murder of a fellow officer!!?? 

Guess so.

Why is the only agenda of people-of-colour race?  As I keep saying, we're all the same race:  Human.  The protesting officers all have great, well-paying jobs -- for which they applied and dearly wanted -- yet, when they get there, they focus solely on "racism".  How about postponing your press conference and focusing on the tragic murder of Sgt. Breau?  The juxtaposition of the two events was jarring.  It was as if these complainants were in a parallel universe!?  Someone needs to make them attend a course on PR 101.

As for the scathing report on the RCMP's disastrous handling of the worst mass murder in Canadian history -- the days' long killing rampage in Nova Scotia during, which 22 innocent people were gunned down by another lunatic -- all I can say is, "Because it's 2018".  

That's what Trudeau declared when he appointed the under-qualified Brenda Lucki as commission of the RCMP.  I have blogged about her many times.  She was parachuted in over the heads of several more senior officers solely because Trudeau wanted a woman in the job -- regardless of qualifications.  

How'd that work out, Justin?  It didn't.  Having snuck a peek at the draft report of the inquiry into her mess, Lucki quickly "retired", otherwise she would have been pummeled in a stockade in the public thoroughfare.  Report coverage of the tragedy is devastating.  It lays bare the incompetence of the once-revered RCMP, an organization that needs to be brought down and re-built from scratch.

Lucki's appointment mirrors another "Affirmative Action" disaster that is Theresa Tam, Canada's chief officer of public health.  After SARS, Tam was appointed solely to ensure Canada would be prepared for another deathly virus.  In fact, that was her only mandate.  But after cozying up to, and getting in bed with, the Chinese and the World Health Organization, Tam sat back and did nothing, while COVID laid bare her incompetence.  

She and Lucki have much blood on their hands.  In fact, both should have been fired, charged and jailed for the deaths they caused.  But thanks to Trudeau's "Because it's 2018", they are still collecting bags of money.

Another blow to women.  Tam and Lucki should be in jumpsuits:

Misogynist

Before I get to the above, I just have to scream about two guys:  Sure Health and Steve Ranson.  Every time, on every program I turn on, there they are.  They make me insane!

I remembered I had blogged about the Sure Health loser a while ago.  Checked and it was back in 2018 (see, 'Can't Stand Them', June 17, 2018) !!!!  On that blog, I also lumped in Kurt Browning, who was shilling for Chip at the time.  All admiration I had for him went out the window when he started that.  Here are the Sure guy and Steve:  They need to GO AWAY!  

There's another ad on the radio here voiced by the store owner and it's also terrible.  Why do proprietors insist on appearing in their own ads?  They're bad actors and cringey.  That's another store I'll never frequent.

Anyway, back to misogyny.  Apparently, this photo prompted a fb contact to call me that:

  

I said that Notley needs to freshen up her unkempt look, trim her unruly hair and keep her roots dyed, if she insists on remaining a "dyed blonde".  She is campaigning to be premier again and this is not a professional look.  Do they affect her ability to do the job?  That's another question.  Based on her performance last time around, she was a disaster, but these comments were apparently "misogynist" in this fellow's books.  

As you all know, my opinions and comments are never gender-based.  Many are aimed at women in the public thoroughfare, but as many are also directed at men.  I know many undiscerning people support women just because they are women.  I don't.  I also don't care what your culture is, be it Black, Asian or South Asian.  We're all the same race, the human one, so I can never be racist, just as I cannot be misogynist when I criticize the performance of a woman.

So, let's get that one out of the way.  Let's focus on issues and competence.  But to be honest, the self you present to the public says everything about who you are and strive to be.    

           

  

 

Another step backward

That's what happens when women like Sophie Trudeau -- er, Grégoire-Trudeau, sorry -- flounce into the House of Commons on their husband's coattails.  Last time I checked, Sophie hadn't been elected to office, so her place was in the visitors' gallery.  She could even have sat in the VIP section to pull rank, but no, she entered the chamber itself and waved like a celebrity.  

Were you a duly-elected back-bencher, how would you have liked that?  Exactly.  Her actions were just plain wrong.  And as much as I abhor Ng, Joly and Freeland for their negative influence on young women, they too were at least duly-elected.  Wonder how they liked sitting in the back pews behind the "wives"?  Exactly, again.

Jill Biden accompanied her, but Jill at least has serious credentials.  She is a PhD and an active professor at the Delaware Technical College.  Nevertheless, she should also have sat in the visitors' gallery when playing the role of "wife".  Sophie?  She is an ex-minor TV host on a frivolous entertainment show.  Since when do wives get to sit in the House of Commons?  When US presidents give the State of the Union Address in the House of Representatives, their families sit in the gallery.  They do not sit in the House.  Here were the 'Real Housewives of Washington and Canada' today:

This pisses me off because it reinforces that women's status is still attached to that of their husband's.  Fifty years after the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, apparently we're still appendages.  I was in the cohort in the late sixties that went to the barricades to get rid of our second-class status.  Nothing's changed.  Here's the job you opted for Sophie, honey; stick to it and stay out of the House of Commons:

I remember when the late John Turner was prime minister and B and I were in the gallery for an important speech.  His wife, Geills, sat beside us in the gallery; she was not swanning around waving in the House.  

With Biden visiting Canada, you have to laugh when every Canadian newscast has scuttled regular programming to cover his every utterance and precarious wobble-hobble.  Switching to CNN, no one gave a sh-t.  Why would they?  

We are a banana republic and branch plant for the US.  

That's why Biden has taken two years to visit Canada.  We don't matter.  But NORAD matters and, in the face of aggression by Russia and China, we better step up and upgrade our quill pens, word perfect, cap guns, paper airplanes and floppy discs so we can detect those enemies when they fly over the top of the earth to get at the US.  Anyone listening here?  Trudeau's smarmy grinning was sickening, as he turned the House of Commons into a party room and private salon.  Surprised he didn't pile on and light up a joint!  The guy has no clue.  He's an international embarrassment.  But then again, what would a kid who went to Lycée Claudel know about our hallowed Westminster model?

Apparently, Roxham Road will be closed to the 40,000 illegal migrants who cross into Canada every year.  But we had to agree to take 15,000 Mexicans, Haitians and South Americans now crossing illegally into the US to get the Third-Party Agreement extended to unofficial borders.  Well, I guess 15,000 is fewer than the 40,000 now costing Canadian taxpayers $16,000 each when they get here.

Countries have borders for a reason.  They're countries.  There are rules.  They have to be enforced and obeyed.  

   

Cottage in winter

I have never been to our cottage at the Gatineau Fish & Game Club, just north of Gracefield in Quebec, in the winter, but our sons were there not long ago:

The bay I swim around every morning on Lac Pemichangan.  It's about a 1 km swim.

Club house from the road.

1 Annex

We'll be there in August when the wildflowers will be at their best.  Can't wait!

Nuts!

Had I been able to change my gender as a kid, I probably would have!  I was a real tomboy, but thank God I didn't.  Here's what's happening today: 

Support Detransition Awareness Day!

 

March 10, 2023

 

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Detransition Awareness Day:

 

On March 12, the Hollywood gang will congratulate themselves again at the Academy Awards, and some Oscar winners will no doubt make obscene comments. It’s who they are.

 

On the same day, an event that is of much greater cultural significance will take place: it’s Detransition Awareness Day. Hollywood will not be cheering, but everyone else should be. Detransitioners are people who have made the courageous decision to transition back to their normal sex.

 

Last year those who had transitioned to the opposite sex, and back again, held a Zoom conference on March 12 to discuss their experiences. Participants logged in from the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Chile, Brazil, and other countries. Their stories would shake most people.

 

In recent years, there has been a sharp increase in children who are confused about their sex, with girls transitioning to boys much more than vice versa. The latest data show that approximately 30 percent now transition back to their father-determined sex.

 

It is a national scandal that the elites in the medical profession are mostly supportive of transgender ideology. To counsel young people to switch their sex—which despite anatomical surgery can never happen in any true biological sense—is child abuse.

 

Virtually every boy and girl who has expressed misgivings about his or her natural sex has been encouraged by therapists, and those in the medical community, to take the next step. If they were left alone to work through this stage, 80 percent would choose not to transition.

 

Why do we need Detransition Awareness Day? Because those who make the decision to reverse course are attacked for doing so. They are harassed, verbally abused, stigmatized, shunned and treated like dirt. Many examples could be cited. Here are a few.

 

Sinead Watson works as an advisor to Genspect, a parent-led organization opposed to transgenderism. In 2015, she made the switch from female to male; she decided to detransition in 2019.

 

Her second decision was greeted by therapists with scorn. “They just didn’t want to speak about detransition,” saying “it was like a kick in the stomach.” She calls the initial push to transition young people “disgusting,” arguing that the affirmative model must change.

 

Chloe Cole is the first person in the United States to bring a lawsuit against those who assisted her, as a minor, to make the medical transition. That was when she was 12. Four years later she realized this was a mistake.

 

When she made the first transition, her parents were told what has become the standard line—if you don’t support your child to transition she may commit suicide. Chloe says that “they were pretty much coerced into allowing this to happen.” Her lawsuit expressly says that she and her parents were “falsely informed” that she was “at a high risk for suicide.”

 

When she changed from male back to female, she was “attacked online” and in person. “I started getting harassed a lot.” She was shunned at school and made to feel like a pariah, if not a traitor to the cause of transgenderism.

 

There is no end to the services afforded to those who buy into the transgender scam and seek to transition. But there is nothing available for those who seek to detransition. This includes the Biden administration, which has shamelessly taken the side of the child abusers.

 

Those who choose to return to their nature-given status should be given every resource available. They are the ones who truly deserve our compassion and support.

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A Salute to St. Patrick

I have re-printed this from an outside source:  

Salute To St. Patrick

 

Bill Donohue

 

March 17, 2023

 

[Note: We run this article each year on March 17]

 

The heroics of St. Patrick are not appreciated as much as they should be. He is the first person in history to publicly condemn slavery, and one of the first leaders to champion the cause of equal rights.

 

There is much to celebrate on March 17. Fortunately, his writings, though slim, are eye-opening accounts of his life: Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus and Confession reveal much about the man. Along with other sources, they paint a picture of his saintliness.

 

Patrick was born in Britain in the 4th century to wealthy parents. It is likely that he was baptized, though growing up he did not share his family's faith. He was an atheist.

 

When he was 15, he committed what he said was a grave sin, never saying exactly what it was; it appears it was a sexual encounter with a young girl. No matter, it would haunt him throughout his life.

 

At age 15 or 16 (the accounts vary), Patrick was kidnapped and enslaved by Irish barbarians. They had come to plunder his family's estate, and took him away in chains to Ireland. While a slave, he converted to Christianity, praying incessantly at all hours of the day. After six years, he escaped, and made his way back home.

 

His family thought he was dead, and with good reason: no one taken by Irish raiders had managed to escape and return. St. Patrick biographer Philip Freeman describes how his family received him, stating "it was as if a ghost had returned from the dead."

 

After he returned home, he had a vision while sleeping. He felt called to return to Ireland. This seemed bizarre: this is where he was brutalized as a slave. But he knew what Jesus had commanded us to do, "Love thy enemy." He was convinced that God was calling him to become a missionary to Ireland. So, he acted on it, despite the reservations of family and friends.

 

Patrick became a priest, practiced celibacy, and was eventually named a bishop. Contrary to what many believe, he did not introduce Christianity to Ireland, nor was he Ireland's first bishop. But he did more to bring the Gospel to Ireland than anyone, converting legions of pagans, especially in the northern parts of the island.

 

His missionary work in Ireland has been duly-noted, but his strong defense of human rights has not been given its due.

 

No public person before him had denounced slavery, widespread though it was. Jesus was silent on the subject, Aristotle thought it was a natural way of life, and neither master nor slave saw anything fundamentally wrong with it. Patrick did.

 

Though he did not invoke natural law specifically, he was instinctively drawn to it. He taught that all men were created equal in the eyes of God, and that the inherent dignity of everyone must be respected.

 

Patrick did more than preach—he lashed out at the British dictator, Coroticus, harshly rebuking him for his mistreatment of the Irish. In fact, Patrick found his Irish converts to be more civilized than Coroticus and his band of thugs.

 

Patrick was way ahead of his time in the pursuit of human rights. Not only were men of every social status entitled to equal rights, so were women. In his Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus, he scolds "the tyrant Coroticus—a man who has no respect for God or his priests." More important, he made a startling plea: "They must also free Christian women and captives." His reasoning showed the power of his faith when he said, "Remember, Christ died and was crucified for these people."

 

He did not mince words. "So, Coroticus, you and your wicked servants, where do you think you will end up? You have treated baptized Christian women like prizes to be handed out, all for the sake of the here and now—this brief, fleeting world."

 

What makes this all the more dramatic is the way the pagan world thought about women: the idea that women were equal to men was totally foreign to them. But the women understood what Patrick was saying, and gravitated to him in large numbers. The Christian tenet that all humans possess equal dignity had taken root.

 

Did the Irish save civilization, as Thomas Cahill maintains? Freeman thinks not—"it had never been lost." But everyone agrees that had it not been for St. Patrick, and the monasteries that followed, much of what we know about the ancient world would not exist.

 

Indeed, it is difficult to fathom how classical Greek and Roman literature would have survived had it not been for the Irish monks who attracted students from many parts of Europe. They are responsible for preserving the great works of antiquity. And all of them are indebted to St. Patrick.

 

It is believed that he died on March 17, sometime during the second half of the fifth century. That is his feast day, the source of many celebrations in his honor. His impact extends beyond the Irish and the Catholic Church—human rights are a global issue—making him a very special person in world history.

More money

Apparently, the UN sent some flunky to Canada to write a report about how native women who married off-reserve should have their status restored, be compensated and handed more money.  Yep, the UN is horning in on the issue because that's what the UN does to justify its existence.

We give native billions every year, but again, not enough.  You know how many billions?  $20,500,000,000 is the overall budget for Indigenous and Crown affairs, another $1.4 billion on dental, vision and pharmaceutical (not required by treaties or constitution, by the way) and topped off with another $15 billion tossed in for good measure as compensation for forcibly educating them in residential, i.e., boarding, schools.  Do the math, that's a lot of money to deal with the country's 1.8 million natives.  But as usual, it's not enough.  Here was the headline today in 'The Globe and Mail':  "Indigenous women stripped of status should receive compensation:  UN official."

The Indian Act was amended in 1985 to allow native women to retain their status even if they marry off-reserve, but their demand is to now go back and restore the status of thousands of native women pre-1985 and give them more billions.  It should be noted that native men who married off-reserve did not lose their status and even after the passing of the 1985 bill, lineage still follows the male line, even though natives themselves trace their heritage through the maternal line.   

It's insane, but the UN "special rapporteur" on the rights of Indigenous peoples, some guy called Jose Cali Tzay -- credentials unknown, other than that he is a Mayan from Guatemala, thus with a personal axe to grind -- just wrapped up a "fact-finding" tour across Canada and has now declared that, "Canada must create a timely and accessible remedy to compensate women and their descendants made ineligible for status."

Tzay also called on the Canadian government to, "remove barriers to Indigenous self-governance and allow 'nations' their right to self-determination and to assert their own identity."  Self-governance they already have in spades.  No sane politician would dream of making any decision affecting natives without consulting ad-nauseum with every band, tribe or leader within a thousand-mile radius.  

But what Tzay doesn't realize is that, in the face of their cries to the contrary, natives do not want to touch one word in 'The Indian Act' because that is the mechanism by which the money flows.  That act isn't going anywhere.    

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Another headline that caught my eye the other day proclaimed Trudeau's intent to convene a "closed door probe" into election interference by the Chinese.  How can a "probe" be "closed door"?  It can't.  It's all moot, of course, because this issue isn't going away.  Never mind that he has promised to appoint a "special rapporteur" sometime soon to look into whether or not an official inquiry is required, it still won't go away.  Evidently, Trudeau has much to hide -- probably millions in election-donation fiddling -- but the public isn't buying his delay tactics and obfuscation.

Please Gawd let this be the issue that brings him down.  Oh ya, I forgot, the NDP has entered into an iron-clad agreement to support him, so it won't bring him down.  Why?  Because as Bob Fife said, "In the next election, the NDP is toast."

Please Gawd.............please.   

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Another sad story on a northern Indian reservation:

The headline says it all.  Apparently, the animals were "pets".  Did someone not feed them?  So, so sad.  It's also a crime and the parents should be charged with neglect of the dogs and murder of the innocent child.  A 10-year-old child also died in a house fire on another reservation the other day.  It just goes on and on.....