Government Corruption
Canadians are not impressed with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s latest budget and if he was expecting a bounce in public support, he’s not getting it, according to an Ipsos poll released Tuesday.
Although 28 percent of those surveyed had no opinion at all about the budget, of those who did, 40 percent gave Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s budget of $52.9 million in new spending a “thumbs down.”
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Read MoreCanadians’ prosperity will be harmed unless the federal government manages to raise productivity, former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney has warned.
“When we’re debating over our priorities, what we value, what we should be doing as Canadians, we should first acknowledge that we have less to spend because we have become less productive,” Mr. Carney said during a keynote address at Canada 2020’s Economic Lookahead dinner in Toronto on April 22.
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Read MoreNDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has refused to say whether an NDP government would keep the carbon tax and its scheduled increases in place.
“So far what we said is that our position hasn’t changed, but we are saying that the Liberals’ plan is unfair,” Mr. Singh
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Read MoreOn Monday morning in Sherbrooke, Que., dozens of tractors slowly rolled along a stretch of road between the regional offices of Quebec’s farmers association and the Agriculture Department a few hundred meters away.
Upset about high interest rates, growing paperwork and heavy regulatory burdens, protesting farmers have become a familiar sight across Quebec since December.
“It’s pretty hard to get farmers out of their farms, because they’ve got so many hours to put in, but to see them going out, it means that there is really something going bad in farming right now,” said Benjamin Boivin, a corn and wheat farmer in Quebec’s Estrie region, east of Montreal, who was out protesting on Monday.
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Read MoreFactory farms collect billions in taxpayer handouts to install expensive manure digesters that capture and burn methane — and generate profits from the waste. But the systems don’t reduce greenhouse gas emissions — they just move the pollution around.
There has been much media hype about manure digesters and how they will “solve” climate change by capturing and burning methane from confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) — aka factory farms.
Billions in taxpayer handouts and other incentives through pollution offset trading markets are encouraging factory farms to expand and profit from their waste stream.
Some economists now speculate that factory farms are earning more from making methane than milk!
My gut reaction 15 years ago to Vilsack’s manure digester panacea to global climate change remains true today — why pay to fix a problem that doesn’t even need to exist?
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Read MoreDr. David Morens — a top advisor to Dr. Anthony Fauci when he was at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) — is being asked to hand-over documents from his personal email account related to Covid-19.
Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) of the Coronavirus Pandemic committee made the announcement. Morens has also reportedly agreed to testify in front of the committee at a public hearing later this year.
Recent whistleblower allegations reportedly revealed new, additional evidence that Morens intentionally used his personal email to hide conversations about the origins of Covid-19 and subvert federal transparency laws.
That’s according to the committee.
Recently, Morens’s self-proclaimed “best friend” — EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak — released four document tranches that are said to have confirmed the whistleblower’s allegations. Daszak is at the center of the controversy related to his group’s use of taxpayer dollars to fund risky gain-of-function research at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology where many believe Covid-19 was released.
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Read MoreFinance Minister Chrystia Freeland yesterday said it “would be just wrong for me to comment” on a Parliament Hill protest celebrating the October 7 killing and kidnapping of Jews in Israel including eight Canadians. A police investigation of the demonstration is underway.
Minister Freeland, speaking with reporters, declined to discuss the protest. Freeland hours later posted a Twitter message stating: “Having seen video from this weekend I can only express shock and disgust.”
A group Canadians for Palestine in a Saturday protest paraded past Parliament chanting, “Long live October 7th, long live the resistance, long live the intifada, long live every form of resistance.” Participants were masked. One speaker told marchers, “When I say ‘from the river to the sea,’ you reply with ‘Palestine is almost free,’ because our resistance attacks are proof that we are almost free.”
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Read MoreAn April 21 update indicates that if an election were held today, the Conservative Party of Canada is projected to win somewhere between 176 – 231 seats.
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Read MoreEdmonton Mayor Amarjeet Sohi’s official campaign agent’s company signed an agreement with the City of Edmonton to create one of Canada’s first industrial scale waste-to-energy facilities, the Western Standard has learned.
The City of Edmonton and Varme Energy reached an agreement in January that will enable green electricity and industrial heat generation while diverting about 150,000 tonnes of residential garbage per year effective 2027. While Varme reached this agreement, no one acknowledged the ties CEO Sean Collins had to Sohi.
“This is a major milestone toward the development of this new facility and an enormous step forward for waste diversion and climate change mitigation in Canada,” said Collins in a press release.
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Read MoreIn an April 21 video interview with U.K. member of Parliament George Galloway, Macgregor gave a blunt and shocking answer.
“We have a government that consists of 525 lobbyists – and that’s why we have the policies we have.”
His full remarks open the video with a searing assessment of the level of corruption in the United States government:
I would currently say that we have a government that consists of 525 lobbyists as opposed to representatives – people who are all busy lobbying for money with which they can line their pockets. Now some of them are just ignorant … some are destructive … but all of them, I’m afraid, with very few exceptions, are bought men.
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