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Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Canada Once Was a Widely Respected, Revered Military Force; Now Under NDPLiberal Rule and Apathy Our Peace Keeping Missions Alone Have Become This...
"...Meanwhile, Canada’s total contribution to the UN has sunk to historic lows.
Canada had 57 soldiers and police officers on peacekeeping missions at the end of September, according to the UN. While that was up from the record low of 34 in August 2020, it was still less than half the number when the Liberals took power in 2015.
Richard Gowan, who serves as UN director for the International Crisis Group, an independent organization, said there has long been disgruntlement at United Nations headquarters over the pace of Canada’s contributions — particularly after it lost its bid for a seat on the Security Council.
“Canada made a lot of quite big pledges and then started to slow-walk them,” he said..."
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/u-s-presses-canada-to-make-good-on-promised-200-soldier-peacekeeping-force
Political Correctness Never Ceases To Amaze: Naming of Next Corona Viruses
https://nationalpost.com/news/who-skipped-over-nu-and-xi-to-avoid-causing-cultural-offence-in-naming-new-variant
Monday, November 29, 2021
Environmental Terrorism: Only in Canada You Say?
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/np-view-inciting-lawless-environmental-activists-is-something-david-suzuki-may-come-to-regret
Perhaps the Liberals Are Capable of Learning From Pandemic Mistakes: Canada Shuts Border to Southern Africa Fkights/Travel
Or maybe the same case of optics versus flying in from another country or more connections.
"....For once, on border policy, we’re not miles behind the rest of the world.
Alghabra elicited groans of derision from the opposition benches when he claimed the government, “from day one, took decisive action at our borders to protect Canadians.” The groans were entirely appropriate. For many days in early 2020, after much of the rest of the world had declared “day one” and closed their borders, the Liberals rolled their eyes at the very notion: it wouldn’t work; it was against World Health Organization rules; it was probably racist; certainly it was terribly, terribly un-fancy...."
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/chris-selley-for-once-the-federal-government-acts-decisively-at-the-border
Thursday, November 25, 2021
Canadian Immigration Up, Canadian Wages Not So Much
As Immigrants Pour In, Wages Stagnate in Surging Canadian Economy https://assets.bwbx.io/s3/readings/R2FCSVDWLU6A1637825914974.mp3
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Wokeness, Mandated Equity and Diversity Are Killing Merit and Innovation
Finally..."Kambhampati said he didn’t go public after the first grant was rejected but decided to speak out now because the increasing use by the government of equity, diversity and inclusion, aka “EDI,” provisions, as well as woke culture, are killing innovation, harming science and disrupting society."
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/minority-professor-denied-grants-because-he-hires-on-merit-people-are-afraid-to-think