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The extravagance, arrogance, and disregard for basic ethics among Trudeau and his inner circle seem to only strengthen with the passing of the seasons. They know it, many Canadians know it, and yet nothing ever changes. No one is held accountable, and the Liberal elites continue to hold onto and abuse the power provided to them.

Canadian PM Trudeau, Who Makes Judicial Appointments, Blasts Israel over Reform

“We deplore what’s going on right now in Israel,” he said, at a press conference at an automobile plant. Israel’s reforms aim to give elected officials, including the prime minister and the legislature, a greater role in selecting judges. Currently, Israeli judges are chosen from a committee effectively controlled by the judiciary itself, with little legislative input. The reforms have been met with protests by left-wing Israelis. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paused the reforms before the Passover holiday to allow further time for talks between the goverrnment and opposition. But that did not stop Trudeau from ripping into the Israeli reforms — though he himself already enjoys the power to recommend judges, and other politicians also play a role. As Canada’s judicial website explains: All federally appointed judges are appointed by the Governor in Council. This consists of the Governor General acting on the advice of the Prime Minister for judges of the Supreme Court of Canada and chief and associate chief justices in the provinces; and on the advice of the Minister of Justice for all other superior court judges.

US Government Grants Wind Industry Licence to Kill Thousands of Whales, Dolphins, Porpoises & Seals

As of mid-March 2023, NOAA Fisheries has handed out 15 marine mammal Incidental Take Authorizations (ITAs) to offshore wind projects from NC to MA. These will allow companies to “take” 111,817 whales, dolphins and seals. The harassment, injury, and killing of marine mammals are referred to as “takes.” The 111,817 figure is the tally of 118 “Level A” and 111,699 “Level B” takes. Level A includes permanent hearing loss and other bodily injury. Level B harassment includes behavioral disturbance (such as frightening an animal from its normal feeding area) and temporary hearing loss. A deafened whale fleeing into a shipping channel is likely a dead whale. It is illegal to take any federally listed animal, that is, unless one applies for and is granted an ITA. An “incidental” take is defined as, “an unintentional, but not unexpected taking of a protected species.”

Poilievre Defines ‘Woke’ in House of Commons After Question by Liberal MP

“And as for the definition of woke, well, woke has one purpose, and only one purpose. It has plenty of pretext but only one purpose: control. It is designed to divide people by race, by gender, by ethnicity, by religion, by vaccine status, and any other way that they can divide people into groups because then you can justify having a government to control all those groups.” “No more woke. We need freedom,” Poilievre added.

Why an Ontario man faces a murder charge for defending his home | National Post

“There’s no doubt that at the end of the day there has to be a really difficult judgment made about what level of force is reasonable,” said Lisa Dufraimont, a criminal law professor at York University’s Osgoode Hall law school. “What we’re trying to do here is to balance the security of the person who is being subjected to some sort of attack or assault on the one hand, with the security of the person who might get shot…. We don’t want to undervalue either of those lives.”

Climate experts: Net Zero policies threaten 'billions of people' with starvation - LifeSite

Billions of people around the world face starvation if Net Zero policies ban the production of nitrogen fertilizer derived from fossil fuels. This is the stark warning from two top American scientists who say that eliminating fossil fuel-derived nitrogen fertilizers and pesticides “will result in about half the world’s population not having enough food to eat.” They add that eliminating Net Zero fertilizer will create “worldwide starvation.” READ: COVID was just the beginning: Climate lockdowns are the next stage of the Great Reset agenda In a wide-ranging paper titled “Challenging ‘Net Zero’ with Science,” emeritus professors William Happer and Richard Lindzen of Princeton and MIT respectively, along with geologist Gregory Wrightstone, state that Net Zero – the global movement to eliminate fossil fuels and its emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases – to be “scientifically invalid and a threat to the lives of billions of people.”

Xylitol Nasal Spray Prevents SARS-CoV-2 Infection

Xylitol is known to have anti-infective and anti-inflammatory properties and is used in XLEAR nasal spray and anti-infective chewing gum to prevent dental caries. Balmforth found that SARS-CoV-2 infection confirmed by serology was 71% lower with xylitol compared to placebo [36 cases (13.1%) Vs 97 cases (34.5%); odds ratio [OR] 0.29 (95% CI; 0.18–0.45), p < 0.0001]. Fewer clinical symptoms were also seen in the test group [57 cases (17.6%) vs 112 cases (34.6%); OR 0.40, (95% CI; 0.27–0.59), p < 0.0001]. No harmful effects were associated with xylitol. A smaller study of xylitol nasal spray in mild COVID-19 cases demonstrated that persistent loss of smell may be eliminated with xylitol nasal spray during the acute congestion phase.

Zu den Opfern der Corona-Politik gehörten vor allem Kinder und Jugendliche

Man musste kein Biologe sein, um „die Behauptungen bzw. Prophezeiungen über die Wirkung der Impfung gegen Covid-19“, den angeblichen Fremd- und Eigenschutz, kritisch zu hinterfragen, als es hieß, dass der Impfstoff „praktisch nebenwirkungsfrei“ sei. Man musste kein Deutschlehrer sein, um „den damit verbundenen verbalen Entgleisungen wie ‚Tyrannei der Ungeimpften‘ (Frank-Ulrich Montgomery), der Forderung, dass ‚die ganze Republik mit dem Finger auf sie zeigen (solle)‘ (Nikolaus Blome), oder dem Vergleich von Kindern mit den Ratten während der Pest (Jan Böhmermann) zu widersprechen. Wer wird zur Verantwortung gezogen? Wielers verspätetes Eingeständnis: Schulschließungen waren unnötig Man musste kein Politik-Lehrer sein, um „auf die Interessengeleitetheit politischer Entscheidungen“ hinzuweisen und „die konstitutive Bedeutung des Meinungspluralismus für die Demokratie“ zu unterstreichen. Denn: „Kritik am Inhalt und am Zustandekommen dieser politischen Entscheidungen wurde schnell öffentlich als Schwurbelei, Querdenkertum oder gar rechte bzw. rechtsradikale Meinung betitelt“, so dieser Lehrer. Kurz: Man musste kein Fachmann sein, um Maßnahmen zu hinterfragen, skeptisch zu werden, so manch eine Entwicklung zu missbilligen und sich für das Wohl der Kinder und Jugendlichen einzusetzen. Es hätte schon gereicht, seinen gesunden Menschenverstand zu nutzen und ein klein wenig Mut zu zeigen. Ja, es gab diejenigen, die sich getraut haben zu widersprechen, um ihre Kinder sich sorgende Eltern, um ihre Schüler sich sorgende Lehrer, die protestiert haben, die auf Demonstrationen gegangen sind, die sich haben dafür beschimpfen und verurteilen, in die rechte Ecke stellen lassen.

Canada is not Norway: Why Trudeau's electric vehicle vision will fail - LifeSite

A couple years ago I heard a story from a man who grew up in the eastern block of the Soviet Union. He told me how when he was young boy and the communists took control, one of the first things they did was nationalize the automobile industry. His father had been saving for years to buy a car, but when he finally had the money to buy one, he couldn’t, because you had to register an accusation form with the party, and wait for the state to get you a vehicle when it was available. The father did so, and then went about trying to keep his family alive in the new hell-scape that was the U.S.S.R. Ten years later a man who looked very much like a KGB agent, drove up to the house they were staying in and asked the father for his name. After saying his name, the man handed him a set of keys, and said “Here is your car, comrade.” The father then had to drive the man back to the office, because he didn’t come with another vehicle. That is what it will be like to get a car in Canada in 2030, except you will not get one until 2040 or later, if ever.

Ireland sees 42% more deaths in past two months compared to pre-COVID levels - LifeSite

Making his remarks in a viral Twitter video on 30 January, Levi said that an analysis of Israeli Emergency Medical Services (EMS) data from 2019 to 2021 “revealed some very concerning signals,” including a 25% increase in reported cardiac arrest among young people between the ages of 16 and 39 “in the first half of 2021, exactly when the vaccination campaign in Israel was launched.”  He said the analysis also found an increase in risk for people older than 39 as well, though not as large as the increase for younger people.  “Moreover, we also detected a statistically significant temporal correlation between the number of the Pfizer vaccine doses administered to this population and the number of EMS calls with cardiac arrest diagnoses,” Levi disclosed.

Ireland sees 42% more deaths in past two months compared to pre-COVID levels - LifeSite

The number of deaths occurring in Ireland is now significantly higher than the number the country experienced both before and during the spread of COVID-19, prompting opposition politicians to call for a full investigation into the cause.  Figures obtained on RIP.ie and analyzed by the mainstream Irish Examiner show deaths were 42% higher from 1 December 2022 to 25 January 2023 (9,718 deaths) compared to the 8 weeks to 25 January 2019 (6,802 deaths).   Deaths have risen 20% compared to the same period a year ago, while they are 19% higher than figures from that period two years ago when Ireland was entering another lockdown before Christmas 2020 and rolling out its vaccination program in early 2021.  The leader of opposition party Aontú told Newstalk Breakfast the figures indicate “something very, very serious that is happening”.  “The key point is this – and this is really, really important – the Government needs to investigate this very, very clearly, in a scientific fashion,” Deputy Peadar Tóibín said. “We need to get rid of the word ‘maybe’. When we see death rates 3,000 higher in a small six-week period than they were in a six-week period pre-COVID, we can’t have the Government standing idly by.”  “When there was an elevated death rate in 2020, the government closed down the country. Here we have an elevated death rate and there are crickets coming from the government in terms of real scientific analysis,” he added.

‘Inhaled’ version of COVID vaccine set to enter second phase of human trials in Canada - LifeSite

According to scientists at the Robert E. Fitzhenry Vector Laboratory at McMaster University, where the inhaled vaccines were made, their new version is “designed to target three parts of the virus,” as opposed to the current COVID shots which only target spike proteins. The “inhaled” versions of the COVID shot is “built upon adenoviral vectors of human (Tri:HuAd) or chimpanzee (Tri:ChAd) origin, expressing three SARS-CoV-2 antigens (spike protein 1, full-length nucleocapsid protein, and truncated polymerase), and is suitable for respiratory mucosal delivery.” Adenovirus vaccines have been used in large amounts in the U.S. military, and Johnson & Johnson’s COVID shot is adenovirus based. However, according to a May 2020 article in Chemical & Engineering News, adenovirus-type vaccines with 30 years of study have a “checkered past” as a “failed gene therapy.”

Moderna CEO tells World Economic Forum he wants an mRNA shot factory on ‘every continent’ - LifeSite

“We are building a factory in Canada. We already bought ground in the fall. We are building a factory in Australia. We are going to start a factory this quarter in the U.K. and we are also going to start building a factory in Kenya.” As Bancel pointed out, the mRNA technology may be used for vaccines and therapuetics of all kinds. For instance, Moderna recently announced an mRNA injection to treat heart failure. There has been mounting evidence of heart problems and even heart attacks induced by the COVID mRNA injections, including Moderna’s. Ample research has emerged connecting post-COVID “vaccination” deaths or cardiac symptoms to heart damage from the shots. For example, in late 2022, medical pathologists from Heidelberg University Hospital in Heidelberg, Germany published their research findings that 25 individuals of varying ages had died due to heart damage from a COVID injection, without any underlying heart disease.

'No scientific basis': MIT-trained physicist slams climate alarmism in new paper - LifeSite

What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled a coalition of powerful special interests to convince nearly everyone in the world that CO2 from human industry was a dangerous planet-destroying toxin. It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world – that CO2, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison. Much of Manheimer’s interesting paper debunks many of the fashionable nostrums surrounding politicized “settled” climate science. It is an excellent read. Discussing some of the contrary opinions that debunk obviously false claims, he says it is “particularly disheartening” to see learned societies make definitive claims when so much contrary information is readily available. He points out that over the last 10,000 years, the Earth has almost certainly been warmer. There have been warmer and colder periods, just like today.

'No scientific basis': MIT-trained physicist slams climate alarmism in new paper - LifeSite

Manheimer holds a physics PhD from MIT and has had a 50-year career in nuclear research, including work at the Plasma Physics Division at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. He has published over 150 science papers. In his view, there is “certainly no scientific basis” for expecting a climate crisis from too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in the next century or so. He argues that there is no reason why civilization cannot advance using both fossil fuel power and nuclear power, gradually shifting to more nuclear power. There is of course a growing body of opinion that points out that the Emperor has no clothes when it comes to all the fashionable green technologies. Electric cars, wind and solar power, hydrogen, battery storage, heat pumps – all have massive disadvantages, and are incapable of replacing existing systems without devastating consequences.

Why we shouldn’t ‘trust the science’ but rather put our trust in God - LifeSite

Another problem with the “trust the science” mentality is that many people seem to believe that scientists are these unbiased, independent angels in white lab coats that only work for the common good of humanity. Many historical examples disprove this notion, like the fact Antonio Egas Moniz won the Nobel Prize in 1949 for inventing the Lobotomy, a highly controversial procedure that involves severing connections in the prefrontal cortex to treat mental disorders. The operation often left people emotionally blunted and severely restricted in their intellect but was performed on regular basis until the 1950s. Like the rest of us, scientists are fallen and fallible human beings after all.

Why we shouldn’t ‘trust the science’ but rather put our trust in God - LifeSite

It’s worse than I thought. I trusted the vaccine process more than I should have. I thought the lockdowns and masks were a terrible idea but I still thought we could rely on public health and science. https://t.co/FV0fGsTbpX — Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) December 19, 2022 Peterson’s tweet shows exactly where the problem of our modern “scientifically minded” society lies. The belief in the Christian God has been replaced by a vaguely defined belief in “the science.” What people usually mean when they say “I trust the science” is that they trust the current popular view among the majority of scientists in a given field. The first problem with that proposition is that the media often presents a distorted, sensationalized image of the alleged majority view among scientists. Secondly, even if the majority of scientists believe in a certain theory or hypothesis, the “truth is not determined by a majority vote,” as the recently deceased Pope Benedict XVI said.

COVID-19 is the largest, most sophisticated propaganda operation in history - LifeSite

As Bell correctly points out, over the past three years, health care workers, patients, researchers, academics and public health employees have been forced to embrace a long list of fantasy-based dogmas that are contradicted by prior public health orthodoxy. But it’s the sharp break from factual reality that makes it impossible to question them because, if you do, you’re now questioning “the entire current hierarchy of public health,” Bell says. To quote Dr. Anthony Fauci, you’re not attacking him when you question his irrational flip-flopping, you’re questioning science itself. If you question these fantasy-based beliefs, you’re a science-denier, and you’re putting your employment and reputation at risk. And, unfortunately, those risks are not imaginary. Many doctors and scientists whose reputations and contributions to public health have been beyond reproach for decades have been stripped of their medical licenses and lost their jobs for speaking out against the reigning COVID narratives.

COVID-19 is the largest, most sophisticated propaganda operation in history - LifeSite

Propaganda narratives that must be countered with careful and thorough analysis include but are not limited to: The origin of SARS-CoV-2 The actual lethality of SARS-CoV-2 How COVID ‘cases’ were fraudulently augmented using flawed PCR tests that cannot identify active infection The futility of lockdowns and their catastrophic harms The ‘homicidal impact’ of standard COVID treatment The availability and effectiveness of early treatment protocols How key terms such as ‘pandemic,’ ‘cases,’ ‘herd immunity,’ ‘vaccine’ and ‘fully vaccinated’ were redefined in order to enable the pandemic narrative The likely motives behind the alleged crisis The ever-growing toll of the experimental ‘vaccination’ program

COVID-19 is the largest, most sophisticated propaganda operation in history - LifeSite

COVID-19 is the largest, most sophisticated propaganda operation in history. Psychological techniques were extensively used during 2020 to incite fear and panic in the population Propaganda strategies were also used to get people to support and defend irrational COVID measures such as masking, isolation, social distancing, lockdowns and jab mandates What made the COVID propaganda so much more effective than any previous propaganda operation is the fact that a virus is the perfect enemy. It’s invisible, could be carried by anyone, including those you love the most, and could “get” you anywhere Classical rhetoric is about persuasion through argument. It appeals to logic. Propaganda, on the other hand, is a kind of sub-rational manipulation that appeals to our most basic instincts, such as fear. An informal definition of propaganda is “an organized attempt to get people to think or do something — or not think or do something” The Great Lie is possible because the more divorced a lie is from reality, the more likely it is to succeed, as most people are reluctant to think that authority figures would lie and completely ignore reality

Trudeau wants 60% of new cars to be electric by 2030. That’s both stupid and dangerous  - LifeSite

Over the Christmas season, the Trudeau government announced proposed new regulations on vehicle manufacturing and sales in Canada. Among the insane regulations was the delusional idea that by 2030 – that is, in 7 years’ time – 60 percent of new vehicles in Canada will be electric. This isn’t just brazenly stupid; it is malevolent and dangerous. It will likely get significant numbers of people killed.  The proposed regulations are full of crazy impossibilities that I shouldn’t have to explain to any person with an IQ higher than that of an 8-year-old, but alas, I can’t say that about the Canadian government, so I’m going to have to point out those impossibilities, and hopefully some of those who read this will share it with their MPs (Members of Parliament) for their education.

spureon about doctors - Google Search

The true physician is born with a physician's heart, and feels for the woes of his fellow men; and, though a man has obtained a diploma, he is no physician, and ought not to practise if his soul is not in his work, and his heart full of benevolence to the afflicted. The Spurgeon Library | The Great Physician and His Patients

How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate

Throughout the pandemic, Twitter repeatedly propped up the official government line that prioritizing mitigation over other concerns was the best approach to the pandemic. Information that challenged that view—for example, that pointed out the low risk children faced from the virus, or that raised questions about vaccine safety or effectiveness—was subject to moderation and suppression.  This isn’t simply the story of the power of Big Tech or of the legacy press to shape our debate—though it is most certainly that.  In the end it is equally the story of children across the country who were prevented from attending school, especially kids from underprivileged backgrounds who are now miles behind their more well-off peers in math and English. It’s the story of the people who died alone. It’s the story of the small businesses that shuttered. It’s even the story of the perpetually-masked 20-year-olds in the heart of San Francisco for whom there has never been a return to normal. If Twitter had allowed the kind of open forum for debate that it claimed to believe in, could any of this have turned out differently?

A Mock Turtle on the Stuart River :: SteynOnline

In this first tale of A Klondike Christmas, prefaced by Mark's introduction, we are somewhere near the mouth of the Stuart River, named for John Stuart, Simon Fraser's assistant on his ascent of the river in 1806. In Jack London's time it was in the North-West Territories, and is now within British Columbia. It's almost a century after Fraser's expedition, but this is still no place to look for a lavish Christmas.

Scientific facts rarely appear at climate change conferences - American Thinker

Politicians, bureaucrats, the U.N., and a bunch of rich people had another climate change gabfest in Egypt that ended recently.  These people flew in hundreds of private jets for a conference where they pretended they can control temperatures, sea levels, and storm activity forever and pretended they care about their carbon footprint. Instead of presenting scientific facts, they base their policies on inaccurate and easily manipulated computer models.  Facts would be inconvenient when they are trying to scare eight billion people into submission. In 1989, the U.N. predicted we had only ten years left to save the planet from the existential threat of climate change.  In 2022, 33 years later, their newest dire prediction is that we still have around ten years left.  No matter how far off previous predictions have been, the new predictions are more threatening.  They have to figure out a way to confiscate massive amounts of money from the people for their radical green agenda. Here are some facts they don't talk about: That extreme cold has hit the South Pole this month. That the South Pole had record cold temperatures in the six-month winter of 2020–2021. That 2022 was a relatively mild hurricane period, just like the ten years after Hurricane Katrina hit. That we had extreme cold weather in the U.S. this month along with record snow in the Northeast. That the Arctic ice caps have been expanding the last ten years, contrary to predictions that the ice would be gone by now. That the coral reef off Australia is growing with a vengeance. That wildfires were down 80% from the last five-year average. After 150 years of exponential growth of crude oil and coal use, and rapid growth in the population and all the other components we are told cause warming, the dire predictions have all been false. The temperature is up only one to two degrees after a Little Ice Age ended in 1860, and the Earth now has a temperature similar to over 1,000 years ago in the Medieval Warming Period.

Interview in New Zealand - by Dr. Byram W. Bridle

I have a heart for all people. This includes, of course, Kiwis and Aussies. Over the past three years, New Zealand and Australia seem to have been in a heated competition with Canada to determine who could implement the most draconian, non-science-based COVID-19 policies. The results have been devastating to many critical thinkers with integrity in all three countries (as it was for people everywhere). I have taken note that the prime ministers of these countries (former prime minister, for Australia) all have close ties to the World Economic Forum and are often praised by its Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab as being beloved disciples of his, let’s say ‘questionable’ doctrines.