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Jared Kushner: Coronavirus Hero Boy - SOME MORE NEWS
May 6, 2020, Some More News, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn1zQiwVBJY
Jared Kushner, husband of the president's crush, is back from saving us
from the opioid epidemic and conflicts in the Middle East to save us
from the coronavirus.
Tags: Coronavirus, Dark Right, Facebook, Google, Jared Kushner, Twitter
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Seniors seeing through Trump's false choice that the economy more important
than your life
May 6, 2020, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
https://tonyortega.org/2020/05/06/seniors-seeing-through-trumps-false-choice-that-the-economy-more-important-than-your-life/
Trump derives much of his support from finding boogeymen fashioned from
our basest instincts to scare the shit out of the elderly, his primary
constituency. But now that the elderly have something to genuinely,
legitimately fear - a virus with a sharply escalating lethality rate
tethered to age, Trump is denying and minimizing the risk. Fox News,
whose business model is roughly the same as Trump's schtick, is
sounding the same false choice - the economy is more important than
your life.
So it's noteworthy that the seniors appear to be seeing right through
it: "By a 6-to-1 margin, Americans 65 and older say it is more
important to address the spread of the coronavirus than to focus on the
economy."
Per a National Journal poll, "[i]n mid-March, seniors were more
supportive of Trump than any other age group (plus-19 net approval).
Now, their net approval of the president has dropped 20 points and is
lower than any age group outside of the youngest Americans."
Tags: Colorado, Congress, Coronavirus, Dark Right, Fox News, Jared Kushner,
New York Times, ProPublica, Scott Pilutik, Silicon Valley, The Atlantic,
Twitter, White House (Trump)
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After two years, Scheer plans to tell us who he really is
May 6, 2019, Campbell Clark, Globe and Mail
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-after-two-years-scheer-plans-to-tell-us-who-he-really-is/
He's leading in the polls, and now Andrew Scheer is about to embark on
an effort to give Canadians an idea of what kind of leader he would be.
The Conservative Leader remains an undefined entity six months from an
election. He's been called Stephen Harper with a smile, but most of
what Canadians have seen of his own, personal brand of politics has
come from his criticisms of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
So, over the next five or six weeks, Mr. Scheer will attempt to put
some meat on the bones of his political identity in a series of five
major policy speeches.
Tags: Alberta, Andrew Scheer, British Columbia, Brock Harrison, Canada,
China, Donald Trump, DougWiki, Justin Trudeau, Montreal, Ottawa, Stephen
Harper
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Alberta and Ontario premiers' campus free-speech policies a 'dog-whistle
blow' for the right: expert
May 6, 2019, Madeline Smith, Toronto Star
https://www.thestar.com/calgary/2019/05/06/alberta-and-ontario-premiers-campus-free-speech-policies-a-dog-whistle-blow-for-the-right-expert.html
CALGARY-Alberta Premier Jason Kenney intends to follow Ontario in
asking the province's universities and colleges to conform to
free-speech guidelines, but freedom of expression experts say the move
is mostly about optics among a right-leaning base.
The post-secondary education section of the United Conservative Party
platform says the government will require the province's universities
and colleges to "develop, post and comply with free speech policies
that conform to the University of Chicago Statement on Principles of
Free Expression."
Often called the "Chicago principles," the statement is the result of a
university committee assembled in 2014 to state the school's commitment
to freedom of expression. The short report says, "It is not the proper
role of the university to attempt to shield individuals from ideas and
opinions they find unwelcome, disagreeable, or even deeply offensive."
Tags: 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016, Abortion, Alberta, Ann Coulter, Calgary,
Canada, Canadian Press, Chicago, Dog whistle, Doug Ford, DougWiki, Jason
Kenney, Ontario, Ryerson University, Toronto, Twitter, United Conservative
Party, University of Alberta, University of Chicago Statement on Principles
of Free Expression, University of Ottawa
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Andrew Scheer has a problem
May 6, 2019, John Geddes, Macleans
https://www.macleans.ca/politics/andrew-scheer-has-a-problem/
As political oratory goes, the three-minute speech Andrew Scheer
delivered on the snow-covered lawn of Parliament back on Feb. 19 wasn't
exactly deathless. "We've got your back, we are standing with you" was
pretty much the essence of what the federal Conservative leader told a
few hundred riled-up oil and gas workers whose truck convoy had
travelled from Alberta to Ottawa under the banner "United We Roll,"
picking up along the highway an assortment of sympathizers and more
than a few problematic hangers-on.
It was those elements in the throng, not Scheer's got-your-back
boilerplate, that lent the moment lasting significance. Making common
cause with disgruntled energy-sector workers-who are mad at Justin
Trudeau for pricing carbon and not yet getting a new oil pipeline
built-were the self-styled "yellow vest" protesters. They often seemed
more agitated about asylum-seekers crossing the border into Canada from
the U.S. than any oil-patch issues, and were prone to accusing the
Prime Minister of "treason" for supporting the UN's new Global Compact
for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.
A little while after Scheer's brief remarks, on the back of a truck
parked on Wellington Street, outside the official demonstration zone
authorized by Parliament Hill security, a guy hollered over a portable
sound system, "Faith Goldy is in the house, shut up and listen!"
Although she is far from a household name, Goldy has cultivated a
far-right following since she was fired in 2017 by Rebel Media-the
online outlet for anti-Justin Trudeau, pro-Donald Trump, anti-Muslim
immigration bile-after appearing on a neo-Nazi podcast. Opposing
left-wing demonstrators did their best to drown her out, but her cry of
"No more Trudeau! Our borders will be protected!" cut through the din.
Tags: 2013, 2015, 2017, Ahmed Hussen, Alberta, Andrew Scheer, Anti-Semitism,
Bill Blair, Brexit, British Columbia, Broadbent Institute, Brock Harrison,
Calgary, Canada, Carbon tax, Caylan Ford, CBC, Charlottesville, Chris
Alexander, Climate change, Donald Trump, DougWiki, Edmonton, Europe, Eva
Kiryakos, Facebook, Faith Goldy, France, Glen Carritt, Governor General,
Hamish Marshall, Indigenous, Innisfail, Jason Kenney, Julie Payette, Justin
Trudeau, Karina Gould, LGBTQ, Mark Smith, Maxime Bernier, Michelle Rempel,
Muslim, National Council of Canadian Muslims, Neo-Nazi, New Democratic Party,
New Zealand, Ontario, Ontario New Democratic Party, Ottawa, Parliament Hill,
People's Party of Canada, PressProgress, Preston Manning, Rachel Notley,
Ralph Goodale, RCMP, Rebel Media, Somalia, Stephen Harper, Toronto, Twitter,
United Conservative Party, United We Roll, Vancouver, Wellington, White
supremacist, Wolves of Odin, Yellow Vests Canada
========================
Andrew Scheer will balance pro-Trump and pro-trade
May 6, 2019, Heather Scoffield, Toronto Star
https://www.thestar.com/politics/political-opinion/2019/05/06/andrew-scheer-will-balance-pro-trump-and-pro-trade.html
You could make the case, on foreign policy at least, that the federal
Conservatives are setting off down the path of Donald Trump -
anti-China, anti-Paris Accord, pro-Brexit, a dim view of NAFTA, a
distaste for the United Nations. Indeed, Liberal insiders are quietly
making that very case.
After all, in the space of a few months, Andrew Scheer has urged the
Liberals to take a hard line on China's blocking of Canada's canola. He
has been circumspect about his party's dedication to the Paris
agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions. He has reaffirmed that he is
in favour of Brexit. He has been harsh in his criticism of the way
Justin Trudeau handled the NAFTA negotiations with the United States.
And he came out swinging against the U.N. Global Compact on Migration.
But when Scheer spells out his party's foreign affairs platform on
Tuesday, it will be staunchly multilateralist and pro-trade - and far
more traditional-Conservative than Trumpian. If the Conservative Party
aims to occasionally adopt some of Trump's populism, that temptation
stops well short of rejecting free trade and embracing isolationism,
the foreign-policy hallmarks of the Trump administration.
Tags: 2005, Andrew Scheer, Brexit, Canada, China, Conservative Party of
Canada, Critic, Donald Trump, DougWiki, Erin O'Toole, Israel, Justin Trudeau,
NAFTA, Ottawa, Paris, Republican, Saudi Arabia, Twitter, United Nations,
White House
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Doug Ford channels his inner Don Cherry on global warming and the Stanley Cup
playoffs
May 6, 2019, Martin Regg Cohn, Toronto Star
https://www.thestar.com/politics/political-opinion/2019/05/06/doug-ford-channels-his-inner-don-cherry-on-global-warming-and-the-stanley-cup-playoffs.html
When it comes to a carbon tax, carve these words in stone: "There is no
cheating these federal rules; a provincial carbon price is mandatory."
No, this quote is not from the latest Saskatchewan Court of Appeal
verdict dismissing a legal challenge led by prairie Tories - aided and
abetted by Ontario.
In fact, this bold declaration can be found in the first draft of the
2018 election platform proclaimed by Ontario's Progressive
Conservatives - the so-called People's Guarantee that all candidates
signed on to.
Until then-leader Patrick Brown resigned, whereupon all those Tories
unsigned. And fell into line faster than a flock of Canada geese
changing course as the climate changes.
Tags: 2014, 2018, Andrew Scheer, Appeal, Canada, Carbon tax, Climate change,
Doug Ford, DougWiki, Ford government, Muskoka, Ontario, Ontario New
Democratic Party, Ottawa, Patrick Brown, Progressive Conservative, Quebec,
Saskatchewan, Supreme Court of Canada, Toronto, Twitter
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Doug Ford offers booze, speed and dangerous cuts - is that what Ontarians
want?
May 6, 2019, Christopher Hume, Toronto Star
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2019/05/06/booze-speed-and-dangerous-cuts-is-this-what-ontarians-want.html
By the time Ontario Premier Doug Ford is finished with Toronto, the
city will be lucky if it's allowed to hire a dogcatcher without Queen's
Park first passing enabling legislation. Mayor John Tory will want to
keep his short pants close at hand.
Forget about governing by disruption, Ford's gleeful politics of
destruction have wreaked havoc across the province, nowhere more so
than in its largest city, which he is remaking as fast as the
legislative process will allow. Last week alone he cleared the way for
the province to "upload" Toronto's subway system, undid Ontario
Municipal Board reform and, to add insult to injury, brought back old
developer-friendly rules, and then withdrew funding that supports more
than 6,000 subsidized daycare spots in Toronto.
Last fall, Ford cut Toronto city council in half, seemingly on a whim,
and again made a point of adding insult to injury by announcing the cut
during the October civic election. Since then, he has reduced local
health-care funding precipitously, taken over Ontario Place, threatened
to raise highway speed limits and generally behaved like a jerk.
Tags: 1989, 1998, 2001, 2018, Beer Store, Clear, Company, Conservative Party
of Canada, Doug Ford, DougWiki, Ford cuts, John Tory, Kathleen Wynne,
Libraries, Liquor Control Board of Ontario, Mike Harris, Ontario, Ontario
Municipal Board, Progressive Conservative, Queen's Park, Toronto, Twitter
========================
Faith Goldy Pissed Off The Wrong Lawyer
May 6, 2019, Sean Craig, Canadaland
https://www.canadalandshow.com/faith-goldy-compliance-audit-campaign-finances/
When Jack Siegel first saw Faith Goldy's written submission to the City
of Toronto committee tasked with enforcing election finance rules, he
was taken aback.
"The screen opens up with it, and I kind of do a double take," he
recalls. "Because it looks like one of my submissions."
As a prominent lawyer in municipal election law, Siegel had prepared
many submissions for compliance audit committees in the past, both in
support of citizens requesting campaign audits and in defence of
candidates who've been the subjects of requests. Some of his previous
submissions, which begin with a multi-page overview of legal provisions
and precedents before zooming in to the details of a specific case, can
readily be found online.
Tags: 2017, 2018, Alt-Right, Anti-Racist Canada, Bell Media, Bernie Farber,
Bitcoin, Canada, Canadian Anti-Hate Network, Charlottesville, Clayton Ruby,
DougWiki, Europe, Evan Balgord, Facebook, Faith Goldy, Generation Identity,
Google, Hamilton, ID Canada, Lawyer, Markham, Mountain View, Municipal
Elections Act, NationBuilder, Ontario, Silicon Valley, Stormfront, Toronto,
Twitter, Tyler Hover, Vladimir Putin, York Regional Police, YouTube
========================
Ford's cuts are falling heaviest on Toronto
May 6, 2019, Editorial, Toronto Star
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2019/05/06/fords-cuts-are-falling-heaviest-on-toronto.html
When Premier Doug Ford cut Toronto's city council in half in the middle
of last year's municipal election campaign, the Star said it amounted
to "spitting in the face of the city and its voters." Little did we
know that was just the opening salvo in what's turning out to be a
sustained campaign by the Ford government to undermine the city's
authority at every opportunity and single out Toronto for specially
harsh treatment as it pares back provincial spending.
The latest blow came last week with a customarily out-of-the-blue
announcement that the government is reverting back to the old Ontario
Municipal Board rules on how development disputes in the city are
decided. This comes only two years after the Liberal government set up
another body, called the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal, to better
respect the right of city planners and council to shape how the city
develops. Now, once again, developers will be able to fight any
application that the city had turned down, no matter how much
consultation and planning the municipality did - and even when the
decision that council made on a project followed all provincial policies.
It amounts to reverting to the old system that left the city largely a
bystander in its own development. As Councillor Josh Matlow puts it:
"They've gone back to a free-for-all for developers."
Tags: Appeal, Chris Murray, Doug Ford, DougWiki, Ford government, John Tory,
Josh Matlow, Ontario, Ontario Municipal Board, Queen's Park, Toronto, Toronto
Public Health, TTC
========================
Ontario tree-planting program dodges axe for a year
May 6, 2019, Rob Ferguson, Toronto Star
https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2019/05/06/ontario-tree-planting-program-dodges-axe-for-a-year.html
In a partial climbdown from a money-saving move to axe the planting of
50 million trees, Natural Resources and Forestry Minister John
Yakabuski says seedlings will go in the ground this year as scheduled.
But the controversy remains in full bloom as an Ottawa-area nursery
warned it may have to destroy three million seedlings being grown for
the program that cost taxpayers $4.7 million a year and was designed to
fight climate change.
"We've been working with Forests Ontario to ensure that the tree
planting that is designed and scheduled for this year will go on as
planned," Yakabuski said Monday in the legislature's daily question
period.
"For any contract that was in place, those trees will be planted this
year."
"We've been working with Forests Ontario to ensure that the tree
planting that is designed and scheduled for this year will go on as
planned," Yakabuski said Monday in the legislature's daily question
period. "For any contract that was in place, those trees will be
planted this year." The new Progressive Conservative government needs
the $4.7 million annually to help slay the $11.7 billion provincial
deficit, Yakabuski added, calling the financial situation inherited
from Kathleen Wynne's Liberal administration a "mess."
Tags: Andrea Horwath, Canadian Press, Climate change, Environmental,
Ferguson, Kathleen Wynne, Mike Schreiner, Ontario, Ontario New Democratic
Party, Ottawa, Progressive Conservative, Quicky, Toronto, Twitter
========================
Toronto mayor declares war on Ford government's 'ill-advised budget cutbacks'
May 6, 2019, David Rider, Toronto Star
https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2019/05/06/toronto-mayor-declares-war-on-ford-governments-ill-advised-budget-cutbacks.html
In a Scarborough speech Monday, Tory boosted pressure on the
Progressive Conservative premier to roll back budget cuts set to cost
Toronto hundreds of millions of dollars a year for transit, public
health, child-care and more.
Toronto's "ability to continue to move forward is in question due to a
combination of very ill-advised budget cutbacks, harsh measures imposed
on cities and towns across Ontario without any consultation whatsoever,
some of them imposed more harshly on Toronto than any other
municipality," he said.
"If we simply throw up our hands and let this damaging budget go
forward, we put our success at risk - the jobs, the quality of life,
and the very success of the economic engine that is Toronto - all of
that is at risk if we fail to fund responsibly the things that
contribute to that success and maximize opportunity for the future.
Tags: DougWiki, Ford cuts, Ford government, Mayors And Regional Chairs of
Ontario, Ontario, Progressive Conservative, Queen's Park, Scarborough, Toronto
========================
Tory slams Ford over health, child-care cuts amid pricey plan to expand booze
sales
May 6, 2019, Lauren Pelley, CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/tory-slams-ford-over-health-child-care-cuts-amid-pricey-plan-to-expand-booze-sales-1.5124689
Mayor John Tory is slamming Premier Doug Ford's government for slashing
funds for city services while moving forward with a potentially-pricey
campaign promise to bring beer into convenience stores.
The province is considering spending "hundreds of millions of dollars
to make beer more widely available," while cutting funding to both
public health and subsidized child care, Tory said on Monday following
midday remarks at the Scarborough Business Association Luncheon.
"Where is the sense in that?" Tory questioned. "Cutting public health
programs and daycare programs to find the extra money to pay the Beer
Store to change their contract?"
Tags: Beer Store, Catholic, CBC, Doug Ford, DougWiki, Ford government, Hayley
Chazan, Joe Cressy, John Tory, Josh Matlow, Ontario, Ontario Medical
Association, Ontario Nurses Association, Queen's Park, Scarborough, Toronto,
Toronto Board of Health, Toronto Public Health
========================
Liberals call for Elections Ontario probe of PCs 'Ford Nation Live' video ads
May 6, 2018, CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/liberals-pc-ford-nation-live-ads-online-1.4650738
The Ontario Liberals say the Progressive Conservatives use of "fake
news" videos as advertisements may violate campaign finance law and are
calling for Elections Ontario to investigate the allegations.
"The Ford campaign may be using their fake news channel to skirt the
Elections Finances Act by passing off their advertising as journalism,"
the Liberals said in a news release on Sunday, referring to PC Leader
Doug Ford's campaign team.
"In trying to pass off political advertising as media coverage the
Conservative campaign is not just misleading Ontarians, it may be
running afoul of election laws," it continues.
Tags: 2016, CBC, Doug Ford, DougWiki, Elections Ontario, Facebook, Ford
Nation Live, Frank Klees, Kathleen Wynne, Melissa Lantsman, Ontario, Ontario
Liberal, Progressive Conservative, Toronto
========================
Rehab clinic run by a Tennessee Scientologist is shut down
May 6, 2017, Emily Crane, Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4479212/Rehab-clinic-run-Tennessee-Scientologist-shut-down.html
Marc Vallieres and two of his employees have been charged with
kidnapping and false imprisonment after their rehab clinic in Woodbury,
Tennessee was raided by police
Police have shut down a rehabilitation facility being run by a
Scientologist in Tennessee after two people were found being held there
allegedly against their will.
The manager and two of his employees have now been charged with
kidnapping and false imprisonment after a man called 911 in February to
report that he had been locked in a cabin at a facility in Woodbury - a
small rural town south-east of Nashville.
Tags: 9-1-1, Brian Fesler, Canon Courier, Dennis Flamond, False imprisonment,
Fox News, Hans Snyder Lytle, Kidnapping, Life Center for a New Tomorrow, Marc
Vallieres, Nashville, Police, Psychiatric treatment, Quicky, Reverend,
Tennessee, Woodbury
========================
Anti-terrorism Bill C-51 passes in House of Commons
May 6, 2015, Canadian Press, CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/bill-c-51-passes-in-house-of-commons-1.3064235
The federal government's controversial new anti-terrorism bill has won
the approval of the House of Commons.
The Anti-Terrorism Act, also known as Bill C-51, easily passed third
reading by a margin of 183 to 96, thanks to the Conservative
government's majority and the promised support of the third-party
Liberals.
The legislation gives the Canadian Security Intelligence Service more
power to thwart suspected terrorist plots - not just gather information
about them.
Tags: Bill C-51, Canadian Security Intelligence Service, CSIS, DougWiki,
Environmental, House of Commons, Kuwait, New Democratic Party, RCMP, Stephen
Harper, Steven Blaney, Terrorism
========================
PMO urged changes to Duffy audit, RCMP officers say
May 6, 2015, Daniel Leblanc, Globe and Mail
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/pmo-urged-changes-to-duffy-audit-rcmp-officers-say/article24296238/
The Prime Minister's Office played a key role in changing the findings
of a 2013 audit into Mike Duffy's living expenses, as part of a
strategy to keep the now-suspended senator quiet as the PMO tried to
find a solution to questions over the controversial claims, RCMP
officers allege in new court documents.
The Senate administration had hired the auditing firm Deloitte to look
into the expense claims of senators Patrick Brazeau and Mac Harb, as
well as those of Mr. Duffy. But the PMO and senior Conservative
officials defended Mr. Duffy in the early stages of the controversy, in
order to keep him quiet.
"A purpose of this is to put Mike in a different bucket and to prevent
him from going squirrely in a bunch of weekend panel shows," former PMO
chief of staff Nigel Wright said in an e-mail to colleagues on Feb. 7,
2013.
Tags: 2008, 2013, Andrew MacDougall, Chris Woodcock, Conservative Party of
Canada, David Tkachuk, DougWiki, Joanne McNamara, Marjory LeBreton, Mike
Duffy, Nigel Wright, Ottawa, Patrick Brazeau, Ray Novak, RCMP, Squirrel
========================
Five fundamental ways Harper has changed the justice system
May 6, 2014, Sean Fine, Globe and Mail
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/five-fundamental-ways-harper-has-changed-the-justice-system/article18503381/
Stephen Harper set out as Prime Minister in 2006 with the express goal
of taking back the Criminal Code from the Liberal Party, and the
toughening of crime laws has become a permanent and central feature of
his agenda. But how fundamental have those changes been?
The Globe and Mail spoke to law professors, Crown attorneys, defence
lawyers, criminologists and victims' advocates for an answer. The
question comes at a time when the Conservative government is taking
heat over justice issues, with the Auditor-General's report on prison
overcrowding and the Prime Minister engaging in an unprecedented public
battle with Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin.
The consensus is that Mr. Harper has kept his promise: Love it or hate
it, he has broken with some long-standing principles and made major
changes to how criminals are punished.
Tags: 1962, 1970, 1976, 1987, 1992, 1996, 1997, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011,
2012, 2013, 2015, Academic, Alaska, Appeal, Arrest, Brian Mulroney, Canada,
Canadian Bar Association, Criminal, DougWiki, Edmonton, England,
Imprisonment, Justice Beverley McLachlin, Kevin Page, Kitchener, Murder,
Ontario, Ottawa, Parliamentary Budget Office, Parliamentary Budget Officer,
Progressive Conservative, Stephen Harper, Supreme Court of Canada, Wales
========================
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Portable DougWiki download: http://tiny.cc/xdb37y
========================
Jared Kushner: Coronavirus Hero Boy - SOME MORE NEWS
May 6, 2020, Some More News, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn1zQiwVBJY
Jared Kushner, husband of the president's crush, is back from saving us
from the opioid epidemic and conflicts in the Middle East to save us
from the coronavirus.
Tags: Coronavirus, Dark Right, Facebook, Google, Jared Kushner, Twitter
========================
Seniors seeing through Trump's false choice that the economy more important
than your life
May 6, 2020, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
https://tonyortega.org/2020/05/06/seniors-seeing-through-trumps-false-choice-that-the-economy-more-important-than-your-life/
Trump derives much of his support from finding boogeymen fashioned from
our basest instincts to scare the shit out of the elderly, his primary
constituency. But now that the elderly have something to genuinely,
legitimately fear - a virus with a sharply escalating lethality rate
tethered to age, Trump is denying and minimizing the risk. Fox News,
whose business model is roughly the same as Trump's schtick, is
sounding the same false choice - the economy is more important than
your life.
So it's noteworthy that the seniors appear to be seeing right through
it: "By a 6-to-1 margin, Americans 65 and older say it is more
important to address the spread of the coronavirus than to focus on the
economy."
Per a National Journal poll, "[i]n mid-March, seniors were more
supportive of Trump than any other age group (plus-19 net approval).
Now, their net approval of the president has dropped 20 points and is
lower than any age group outside of the youngest Americans."
Tags: Colorado, Congress, Coronavirus, Dark Right, Fox News, Jared Kushner,
New York Times, ProPublica, Scott Pilutik, Silicon Valley, The Atlantic,
Twitter, White House (Trump)
========================
After two years, Scheer plans to tell us who he really is
May 6, 2019, Campbell Clark, Globe and Mail
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-after-two-years-scheer-plans-to-tell-us-who-he-really-is/
He's leading in the polls, and now Andrew Scheer is about to embark on
an effort to give Canadians an idea of what kind of leader he would be.
The Conservative Leader remains an undefined entity six months from an
election. He's been called Stephen Harper with a smile, but most of
what Canadians have seen of his own, personal brand of politics has
come from his criticisms of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
So, over the next five or six weeks, Mr. Scheer will attempt to put
some meat on the bones of his political identity in a series of five
major policy speeches.
Tags: Alberta, Andrew Scheer, British Columbia, Brock Harrison, Canada,
China, Donald Trump, DougWiki, Justin Trudeau, Montreal, Ottawa, Stephen
Harper
========================
Alberta and Ontario premiers' campus free-speech policies a 'dog-whistle
blow' for the right: expert
May 6, 2019, Madeline Smith, Toronto Star
https://www.thestar.com/calgary/2019/05/06/alberta-and-ontario-premiers-campus-free-speech-policies-a-dog-whistle-blow-for-the-right-expert.html
CALGARY-Alberta Premier Jason Kenney intends to follow Ontario in
asking the province's universities and colleges to conform to
free-speech guidelines, but freedom of expression experts say the move
is mostly about optics among a right-leaning base.
The post-secondary education section of the United Conservative Party
platform says the government will require the province's universities
and colleges to "develop, post and comply with free speech policies
that conform to the University of Chicago Statement on Principles of
Free Expression."
Often called the "Chicago principles," the statement is the result of a
university committee assembled in 2014 to state the school's commitment
to freedom of expression. The short report says, "It is not the proper
role of the university to attempt to shield individuals from ideas and
opinions they find unwelcome, disagreeable, or even deeply offensive."
Tags: 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016, Abortion, Alberta, Ann Coulter, Calgary,
Canada, Canadian Press, Chicago, Dog whistle, Doug Ford, DougWiki, Jason
Kenney, Ontario, Ryerson University, Toronto, Twitter, United Conservative
Party, University of Alberta, University of Chicago Statement on Principles
of Free Expression, University of Ottawa
========================
Andrew Scheer has a problem
May 6, 2019, John Geddes, Macleans
https://www.macleans.ca/politics/andrew-scheer-has-a-problem/
As political oratory goes, the three-minute speech Andrew Scheer
delivered on the snow-covered lawn of Parliament back on Feb. 19 wasn't
exactly deathless. "We've got your back, we are standing with you" was
pretty much the essence of what the federal Conservative leader told a
few hundred riled-up oil and gas workers whose truck convoy had
travelled from Alberta to Ottawa under the banner "United We Roll,"
picking up along the highway an assortment of sympathizers and more
than a few problematic hangers-on.
It was those elements in the throng, not Scheer's got-your-back
boilerplate, that lent the moment lasting significance. Making common
cause with disgruntled energy-sector workers-who are mad at Justin
Trudeau for pricing carbon and not yet getting a new oil pipeline
built-were the self-styled "yellow vest" protesters. They often seemed
more agitated about asylum-seekers crossing the border into Canada from
the U.S. than any oil-patch issues, and were prone to accusing the
Prime Minister of "treason" for supporting the UN's new Global Compact
for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.
A little while after Scheer's brief remarks, on the back of a truck
parked on Wellington Street, outside the official demonstration zone
authorized by Parliament Hill security, a guy hollered over a portable
sound system, "Faith Goldy is in the house, shut up and listen!"
Although she is far from a household name, Goldy has cultivated a
far-right following since she was fired in 2017 by Rebel Media-the
online outlet for anti-Justin Trudeau, pro-Donald Trump, anti-Muslim
immigration bile-after appearing on a neo-Nazi podcast. Opposing
left-wing demonstrators did their best to drown her out, but her cry of
"No more Trudeau! Our borders will be protected!" cut through the din.
Tags: 2013, 2015, 2017, Ahmed Hussen, Alberta, Andrew Scheer, Anti-Semitism,
Bill Blair, Brexit, British Columbia, Broadbent Institute, Brock Harrison,
Calgary, Canada, Carbon tax, Caylan Ford, CBC, Charlottesville, Chris
Alexander, Climate change, Donald Trump, DougWiki, Edmonton, Europe, Eva
Kiryakos, Facebook, Faith Goldy, France, Glen Carritt, Governor General,
Hamish Marshall, Indigenous, Innisfail, Jason Kenney, Julie Payette, Justin
Trudeau, Karina Gould, LGBTQ, Mark Smith, Maxime Bernier, Michelle Rempel,
Muslim, National Council of Canadian Muslims, Neo-Nazi, New Democratic Party,
New Zealand, Ontario, Ontario New Democratic Party, Ottawa, Parliament Hill,
People's Party of Canada, PressProgress, Preston Manning, Rachel Notley,
Ralph Goodale, RCMP, Rebel Media, Somalia, Stephen Harper, Toronto, Twitter,
United Conservative Party, United We Roll, Vancouver, Wellington, White
supremacist, Wolves of Odin, Yellow Vests Canada
========================
Andrew Scheer will balance pro-Trump and pro-trade
May 6, 2019, Heather Scoffield, Toronto Star
https://www.thestar.com/politics/political-opinion/2019/05/06/andrew-scheer-will-balance-pro-trump-and-pro-trade.html
You could make the case, on foreign policy at least, that the federal
Conservatives are setting off down the path of Donald Trump -
anti-China, anti-Paris Accord, pro-Brexit, a dim view of NAFTA, a
distaste for the United Nations. Indeed, Liberal insiders are quietly
making that very case.
After all, in the space of a few months, Andrew Scheer has urged the
Liberals to take a hard line on China's blocking of Canada's canola. He
has been circumspect about his party's dedication to the Paris
agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions. He has reaffirmed that he is
in favour of Brexit. He has been harsh in his criticism of the way
Justin Trudeau handled the NAFTA negotiations with the United States.
And he came out swinging against the U.N. Global Compact on Migration.
But when Scheer spells out his party's foreign affairs platform on
Tuesday, it will be staunchly multilateralist and pro-trade - and far
more traditional-Conservative than Trumpian. If the Conservative Party
aims to occasionally adopt some of Trump's populism, that temptation
stops well short of rejecting free trade and embracing isolationism,
the foreign-policy hallmarks of the Trump administration.
Tags: 2005, Andrew Scheer, Brexit, Canada, China, Conservative Party of
Canada, Critic, Donald Trump, DougWiki, Erin O'Toole, Israel, Justin Trudeau,
NAFTA, Ottawa, Paris, Republican, Saudi Arabia, Twitter, United Nations,
White House
========================
Doug Ford channels his inner Don Cherry on global warming and the Stanley Cup
playoffs
May 6, 2019, Martin Regg Cohn, Toronto Star
https://www.thestar.com/politics/political-opinion/2019/05/06/doug-ford-channels-his-inner-don-cherry-on-global-warming-and-the-stanley-cup-playoffs.html
When it comes to a carbon tax, carve these words in stone: "There is no
cheating these federal rules; a provincial carbon price is mandatory."
No, this quote is not from the latest Saskatchewan Court of Appeal
verdict dismissing a legal challenge led by prairie Tories - aided and
abetted by Ontario.
In fact, this bold declaration can be found in the first draft of the
2018 election platform proclaimed by Ontario's Progressive
Conservatives - the so-called People's Guarantee that all candidates
signed on to.
Until then-leader Patrick Brown resigned, whereupon all those Tories
unsigned. And fell into line faster than a flock of Canada geese
changing course as the climate changes.
Tags: 2014, 2018, Andrew Scheer, Appeal, Canada, Carbon tax, Climate change,
Doug Ford, DougWiki, Ford government, Muskoka, Ontario, Ontario New
Democratic Party, Ottawa, Patrick Brown, Progressive Conservative, Quebec,
Saskatchewan, Supreme Court of Canada, Toronto, Twitter
========================
Doug Ford offers booze, speed and dangerous cuts - is that what Ontarians
want?
May 6, 2019, Christopher Hume, Toronto Star
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2019/05/06/booze-speed-and-dangerous-cuts-is-this-what-ontarians-want.html
By the time Ontario Premier Doug Ford is finished with Toronto, the
city will be lucky if it's allowed to hire a dogcatcher without Queen's
Park first passing enabling legislation. Mayor John Tory will want to
keep his short pants close at hand.
Forget about governing by disruption, Ford's gleeful politics of
destruction have wreaked havoc across the province, nowhere more so
than in its largest city, which he is remaking as fast as the
legislative process will allow. Last week alone he cleared the way for
the province to "upload" Toronto's subway system, undid Ontario
Municipal Board reform and, to add insult to injury, brought back old
developer-friendly rules, and then withdrew funding that supports more
than 6,000 subsidized daycare spots in Toronto.
Last fall, Ford cut Toronto city council in half, seemingly on a whim,
and again made a point of adding insult to injury by announcing the cut
during the October civic election. Since then, he has reduced local
health-care funding precipitously, taken over Ontario Place, threatened
to raise highway speed limits and generally behaved like a jerk.
Tags: 1989, 1998, 2001, 2018, Beer Store, Clear, Company, Conservative Party
of Canada, Doug Ford, DougWiki, Ford cuts, John Tory, Kathleen Wynne,
Libraries, Liquor Control Board of Ontario, Mike Harris, Ontario, Ontario
Municipal Board, Progressive Conservative, Queen's Park, Toronto, Twitter
========================
Faith Goldy Pissed Off The Wrong Lawyer
May 6, 2019, Sean Craig, Canadaland
https://www.canadalandshow.com/faith-goldy-compliance-audit-campaign-finances/
When Jack Siegel first saw Faith Goldy's written submission to the City
of Toronto committee tasked with enforcing election finance rules, he
was taken aback.
"The screen opens up with it, and I kind of do a double take," he
recalls. "Because it looks like one of my submissions."
As a prominent lawyer in municipal election law, Siegel had prepared
many submissions for compliance audit committees in the past, both in
support of citizens requesting campaign audits and in defence of
candidates who've been the subjects of requests. Some of his previous
submissions, which begin with a multi-page overview of legal provisions
and precedents before zooming in to the details of a specific case, can
readily be found online.
Tags: 2017, 2018, Alt-Right, Anti-Racist Canada, Bell Media, Bernie Farber,
Bitcoin, Canada, Canadian Anti-Hate Network, Charlottesville, Clayton Ruby,
DougWiki, Europe, Evan Balgord, Facebook, Faith Goldy, Generation Identity,
Google, Hamilton, ID Canada, Lawyer, Markham, Mountain View, Municipal
Elections Act, NationBuilder, Ontario, Silicon Valley, Stormfront, Toronto,
Twitter, Tyler Hover, Vladimir Putin, York Regional Police, YouTube
========================
Ford's cuts are falling heaviest on Toronto
May 6, 2019, Editorial, Toronto Star
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2019/05/06/fords-cuts-are-falling-heaviest-on-toronto.html
When Premier Doug Ford cut Toronto's city council in half in the middle
of last year's municipal election campaign, the Star said it amounted
to "spitting in the face of the city and its voters." Little did we
know that was just the opening salvo in what's turning out to be a
sustained campaign by the Ford government to undermine the city's
authority at every opportunity and single out Toronto for specially
harsh treatment as it pares back provincial spending.
The latest blow came last week with a customarily out-of-the-blue
announcement that the government is reverting back to the old Ontario
Municipal Board rules on how development disputes in the city are
decided. This comes only two years after the Liberal government set up
another body, called the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal, to better
respect the right of city planners and council to shape how the city
develops. Now, once again, developers will be able to fight any
application that the city had turned down, no matter how much
consultation and planning the municipality did - and even when the
decision that council made on a project followed all provincial policies.
It amounts to reverting to the old system that left the city largely a
bystander in its own development. As Councillor Josh Matlow puts it:
"They've gone back to a free-for-all for developers."
Tags: Appeal, Chris Murray, Doug Ford, DougWiki, Ford government, John Tory,
Josh Matlow, Ontario, Ontario Municipal Board, Queen's Park, Toronto, Toronto
Public Health, TTC
========================
Ontario tree-planting program dodges axe for a year
May 6, 2019, Rob Ferguson, Toronto Star
https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2019/05/06/ontario-tree-planting-program-dodges-axe-for-a-year.html
In a partial climbdown from a money-saving move to axe the planting of
50 million trees, Natural Resources and Forestry Minister John
Yakabuski says seedlings will go in the ground this year as scheduled.
But the controversy remains in full bloom as an Ottawa-area nursery
warned it may have to destroy three million seedlings being grown for
the program that cost taxpayers $4.7 million a year and was designed to
fight climate change.
"We've been working with Forests Ontario to ensure that the tree
planting that is designed and scheduled for this year will go on as
planned," Yakabuski said Monday in the legislature's daily question
period.
"For any contract that was in place, those trees will be planted this
year."
"We've been working with Forests Ontario to ensure that the tree
planting that is designed and scheduled for this year will go on as
planned," Yakabuski said Monday in the legislature's daily question
period. "For any contract that was in place, those trees will be
planted this year." The new Progressive Conservative government needs
the $4.7 million annually to help slay the $11.7 billion provincial
deficit, Yakabuski added, calling the financial situation inherited
from Kathleen Wynne's Liberal administration a "mess."
Tags: Andrea Horwath, Canadian Press, Climate change, Environmental,
Ferguson, Kathleen Wynne, Mike Schreiner, Ontario, Ontario New Democratic
Party, Ottawa, Progressive Conservative, Quicky, Toronto, Twitter
========================
Toronto mayor declares war on Ford government's 'ill-advised budget cutbacks'
May 6, 2019, David Rider, Toronto Star
https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2019/05/06/toronto-mayor-declares-war-on-ford-governments-ill-advised-budget-cutbacks.html
In a Scarborough speech Monday, Tory boosted pressure on the
Progressive Conservative premier to roll back budget cuts set to cost
Toronto hundreds of millions of dollars a year for transit, public
health, child-care and more.
Toronto's "ability to continue to move forward is in question due to a
combination of very ill-advised budget cutbacks, harsh measures imposed
on cities and towns across Ontario without any consultation whatsoever,
some of them imposed more harshly on Toronto than any other
municipality," he said.
"If we simply throw up our hands and let this damaging budget go
forward, we put our success at risk - the jobs, the quality of life,
and the very success of the economic engine that is Toronto - all of
that is at risk if we fail to fund responsibly the things that
contribute to that success and maximize opportunity for the future.
Tags: DougWiki, Ford cuts, Ford government, Mayors And Regional Chairs of
Ontario, Ontario, Progressive Conservative, Queen's Park, Scarborough, Toronto
========================
Tory slams Ford over health, child-care cuts amid pricey plan to expand booze
sales
May 6, 2019, Lauren Pelley, CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/tory-slams-ford-over-health-child-care-cuts-amid-pricey-plan-to-expand-booze-sales-1.5124689
Mayor John Tory is slamming Premier Doug Ford's government for slashing
funds for city services while moving forward with a potentially-pricey
campaign promise to bring beer into convenience stores.
The province is considering spending "hundreds of millions of dollars
to make beer more widely available," while cutting funding to both
public health and subsidized child care, Tory said on Monday following
midday remarks at the Scarborough Business Association Luncheon.
"Where is the sense in that?" Tory questioned. "Cutting public health
programs and daycare programs to find the extra money to pay the Beer
Store to change their contract?"
Tags: Beer Store, Catholic, CBC, Doug Ford, DougWiki, Ford government, Hayley
Chazan, Joe Cressy, John Tory, Josh Matlow, Ontario, Ontario Medical
Association, Ontario Nurses Association, Queen's Park, Scarborough, Toronto,
Toronto Board of Health, Toronto Public Health
========================
Liberals call for Elections Ontario probe of PCs 'Ford Nation Live' video ads
May 6, 2018, CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/liberals-pc-ford-nation-live-ads-online-1.4650738
The Ontario Liberals say the Progressive Conservatives use of "fake
news" videos as advertisements may violate campaign finance law and are
calling for Elections Ontario to investigate the allegations.
"The Ford campaign may be using their fake news channel to skirt the
Elections Finances Act by passing off their advertising as journalism,"
the Liberals said in a news release on Sunday, referring to PC Leader
Doug Ford's campaign team.
"In trying to pass off political advertising as media coverage the
Conservative campaign is not just misleading Ontarians, it may be
running afoul of election laws," it continues.
Tags: 2016, CBC, Doug Ford, DougWiki, Elections Ontario, Facebook, Ford
Nation Live, Frank Klees, Kathleen Wynne, Melissa Lantsman, Ontario, Ontario
Liberal, Progressive Conservative, Toronto
========================
Rehab clinic run by a Tennessee Scientologist is shut down
May 6, 2017, Emily Crane, Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4479212/Rehab-clinic-run-Tennessee-Scientologist-shut-down.html
Marc Vallieres and two of his employees have been charged with
kidnapping and false imprisonment after their rehab clinic in Woodbury,
Tennessee was raided by police
Police have shut down a rehabilitation facility being run by a
Scientologist in Tennessee after two people were found being held there
allegedly against their will.
The manager and two of his employees have now been charged with
kidnapping and false imprisonment after a man called 911 in February to
report that he had been locked in a cabin at a facility in Woodbury - a
small rural town south-east of Nashville.
Tags: 9-1-1, Brian Fesler, Canon Courier, Dennis Flamond, False imprisonment,
Fox News, Hans Snyder Lytle, Kidnapping, Life Center for a New Tomorrow, Marc
Vallieres, Nashville, Police, Psychiatric treatment, Quicky, Reverend,
Tennessee, Woodbury
========================
Anti-terrorism Bill C-51 passes in House of Commons
May 6, 2015, Canadian Press, CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/bill-c-51-passes-in-house-of-commons-1.3064235
The federal government's controversial new anti-terrorism bill has won
the approval of the House of Commons.
The Anti-Terrorism Act, also known as Bill C-51, easily passed third
reading by a margin of 183 to 96, thanks to the Conservative
government's majority and the promised support of the third-party
Liberals.
The legislation gives the Canadian Security Intelligence Service more
power to thwart suspected terrorist plots - not just gather information
about them.
Tags: Bill C-51, Canadian Security Intelligence Service, CSIS, DougWiki,
Environmental, House of Commons, Kuwait, New Democratic Party, RCMP, Stephen
Harper, Steven Blaney, Terrorism
========================
PMO urged changes to Duffy audit, RCMP officers say
May 6, 2015, Daniel Leblanc, Globe and Mail
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/pmo-urged-changes-to-duffy-audit-rcmp-officers-say/article24296238/
The Prime Minister's Office played a key role in changing the findings
of a 2013 audit into Mike Duffy's living expenses, as part of a
strategy to keep the now-suspended senator quiet as the PMO tried to
find a solution to questions over the controversial claims, RCMP
officers allege in new court documents.
The Senate administration had hired the auditing firm Deloitte to look
into the expense claims of senators Patrick Brazeau and Mac Harb, as
well as those of Mr. Duffy. But the PMO and senior Conservative
officials defended Mr. Duffy in the early stages of the controversy, in
order to keep him quiet.
"A purpose of this is to put Mike in a different bucket and to prevent
him from going squirrely in a bunch of weekend panel shows," former PMO
chief of staff Nigel Wright said in an e-mail to colleagues on Feb. 7,
2013.
Tags: 2008, 2013, Andrew MacDougall, Chris Woodcock, Conservative Party of
Canada, David Tkachuk, DougWiki, Joanne McNamara, Marjory LeBreton, Mike
Duffy, Nigel Wright, Ottawa, Patrick Brazeau, Ray Novak, RCMP, Squirrel
========================
Five fundamental ways Harper has changed the justice system
May 6, 2014, Sean Fine, Globe and Mail
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/five-fundamental-ways-harper-has-changed-the-justice-system/article18503381/
Stephen Harper set out as Prime Minister in 2006 with the express goal
of taking back the Criminal Code from the Liberal Party, and the
toughening of crime laws has become a permanent and central feature of
his agenda. But how fundamental have those changes been?
The Globe and Mail spoke to law professors, Crown attorneys, defence
lawyers, criminologists and victims' advocates for an answer. The
question comes at a time when the Conservative government is taking
heat over justice issues, with the Auditor-General's report on prison
overcrowding and the Prime Minister engaging in an unprecedented public
battle with Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin.
The consensus is that Mr. Harper has kept his promise: Love it or hate
it, he has broken with some long-standing principles and made major
changes to how criminals are punished.
Tags: 1962, 1970, 1976, 1987, 1992, 1996, 1997, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011,
2012, 2013, 2015, Academic, Alaska, Appeal, Arrest, Brian Mulroney, Canada,
Canadian Bar Association, Criminal, DougWiki, Edmonton, England,
Imprisonment, Justice Beverley McLachlin, Kevin Page, Kitchener, Murder,
Ontario, Ottawa, Parliamentary Budget Office, Parliamentary Budget Officer,
Progressive Conservative, Stephen Harper, Supreme Court of Canada, Wales
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