Maybe a joke about Bill Morneau ... if not Greg

[MP]

I watched the video. Who did they beat the hell out of?

I believe it was Tony Clement beating himself....

In other news I believe the RCMP is looking for Papa L in some sort of extortion case.

[shredz]

[Dog]

Does that leave McPhee with the title now?

[AD]

Mcphee is an agent of the man.

[chicpea]

Ah, papee spax. Haven't run across him in some time.

[mayoradamwest]

https://twitter.com/Refugees/status/1060610656930541568

where is he on the carbon tax?

[senate]

https://twitter.com/Refugees/status/1060610656930541568

where is he on the carbon tax?

Refugees emit carbon dioxide so logically anyone who supports helping refugees has to be anti-carbon tax.

[Dog]

https://twitter.com/Refugees/status/1060610656930541568

where is he on the carbon tax?

Refugees emit carbon dioxide so logically anyone who supports helping refugees has to be anti-carbon tax.

Refugees also emit methane. Hence, global warming is a hoax.

[shredz]

[chicpea]

What the leaders of my youth and upbringing have always said very firmly (except for Harper)

"If a democracy is to function you need an educated populace, and you need to have an informed populace, ready to make judicious decisions about who to grant power to and when to take it away."

"When citizens cannot have rigorous analysis of the exercise of the power that is in their name and they have granted, the rest of the foundation of our democracies start to erode at the same time as cynicism arises."

[chicpea]

The Conservative Party of 2018 is a withered and splintering husk. It is the creation of Stephen Harper.

[Rick Middleton]

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/trudeau-c ... -1.4173095

Bring on the sanctions!

[PredsFan77]

TIL Canada has an intelligence agency, yall must take that black market maple syrup seriously

[mayoradamwest]

usa made us set it up to shut down a counterfeit jeans ring (mainly replicating Tommy Hilfiger), it was part of the original nafta negotiations and the source of the simpsons joke.

[Dog]

Well, this is shameful:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... SApp_Other

[mayoradamwest]

don't worry, that was before ontario stopped believing climate change was real

[MP]

Canada post should just start replacing 10 home delivery routes with superboxes for every day this strike lasts. Why do we pay for this service anymore...?

[Boring Choice #2]

I don't get the big deal about community boxes. Sure, I would love to have legitimate mail delivered to my door, but I don't know if it is worth it when I only check once a week as is. And even then, I don't get enough legitimate mail to make it worth it. Add to it that the community box keeps the junk mail from my home, and I am firmly on the no home delivery side.

[Dog]

I really care very little about this issue or Canada post in general one way or the other.

[mcphee]

I really care very little about this issue or Canada post in general one way or the other.

again, your disregard for the needs of rural people is sad, but not surprising.

[TittiesNBeer]

Yeah fido. They dont have the internet in rural areas and need regular mail

[Dog]

rural  “people”

Fixed that for ya, good man ‘phees.

[mayoradamwest]

Rural people can pick up their weed from the post office just like everyone else.

[AD]

You mean have it delivered straight to their door by a guy called Dave, like everyone else.

[chicpea]

Big news today out of the bc leg...

[mayoradamwest]

Can there be such a thing? :pope:

[chicpea]

Well, the two most senior civil/security servants were "escorted" from the premises. I'm guessing there's a good explanation coming tomorrow as to the nature of the RCMP's ongoing investigation. I wouldn't be shocked if it involved several former members of Christy Clark's government - but that's just a guess.

[chicpea]

Not one, but two Special Prosecutors appointed for an investigation that seemingly involves only two men. Stay tuned, my fellow BC Leg watchers.

[PPJ]

RIP Oshawa

[Dog]

Meh, cars are like so 1908-2028 anyways.

[shredz]

Beautiful people. Take me next.

[PPJ]

https://twitter.com/MuhammadLila/status/1067398972015226880

Beautiful people. Take me next.

Looks like a scene from 90 day fiance. If you don’t know what I mean, praise Allah, and don’t look.

[chicpea]

Our friend Mr Lila has a fundamental misunderstanding of commas.

[MP]

Elizabeth May is getting married... Put that in the headlines I never expected to see.

[shredz]

Good news. You don't want this jihadist running around. Plus, he makes true refugees look suspicious.

Alleged online ISIS supporter’s refugee claim based on ‘bogus’ conversion to Christianity, officials say

A Federal Court judge has sided with government officials who argued a B.C. man who posted pro-Islamic State propaganda online had faked a conversion to Christianity when he came to Canada as a refugee.

While Othman Ayed Hamdan was accepted as a refugee based on his claim that his abandonment of Islam had put him at risk at home in Jordan, the government argued his “conversion to Christianity was bogus.”

In its ruling, the court found it was unreasonable to conclude that Hamdan was anything other than a “Christian of convenience in order to get into Canada.”

“Mr. Hamdan is an unmitigated liar. One must wonder if he has uttered one truthful word since he came to Canada in 2002,” the judge, Sean Harrington, began.

https://globalnews.ca/news/4702351/alle ... ee-status/


Here is the courts decision.

[5] On the religion point, the Member found that Mr. Hamdan was always searching. Although his subsequent conduct, including social media posts in support of ISIS and lone wolf attackers was outrageous and was inconsistent with Christian belief, it did not necessarily follow that he was not a Christian at the time he applied for refugee protection.

[6] On the drug smuggling point, Mr. Hamdan has over the years told outlandish stories to his “stoner” friends, and while he was incarcerated to an undercover police officer. The story has changed over the years. He smuggled hashish or was it marijuana? Was he shot at by Canadian snipers near the Israeli border, which is ridiculous; was he jailed in many jurisdictions? The Canadian authorities were unable to verify this latter allegation, perhaps because he used so many aliases. As one of his many friends says, “We’ve always thought he was just kind of full of s**t”.

https://decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/fc-cf/de ... 9/index.do

[PredsFan77]

TRUMP MADE YALLS PM STAND BEHIND A POTUS LECTERN SUCK IT

[chicpea]

[chicpea]

So basically they sent us an idiot again. She would be a CPC backbencher. That’s how dumb she seems.

[mayoradamwest]

i've seen the science from both sides now,
From up and down and still somehow
It's...illusions I recall
I really don't know science at all

[Dog]

Find yourself in the gutter in a lonely part of town
Where death waits in the darkness with a weapon to cut some stranger down
Sleeping with an empty bottle, he's a sad and an empty hearted man
All he needs is a job, and a little respect, so he can get out while he can
We always need to hear both sides of the science
Both sides of the science

[mayoradamwest]

[senate]

Personally, I would have gone with Oingo Boingo's magnum opus, Weird Science.

[mayoradamwest]

you had your chance.

[Dog]

you had your chance.

Personally, I’m glad he passed. This was a « both side of the _____ » thing, not an « _______ science » thing.

[senate]

Typical centrists, as soft on the musical references as they are on the issues.

[Dog]

Typical socialist, misunderstanding how things actually work and then proceeding to trying to hammer a square peg into a round hole.

[chicpea]

This was all last week, but posting here for posterity. Causing quite a stir here in town and on the Chinese propaganda sites. Fake lobby groups even sprouting up in Richmond. I might pop down to the bail hearing tomorrow morning.

BEIJING/OTTAWA — China warned Canada on Saturday that there would be severe consequences if it did not immediately release Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s chief financial officer, calling the case “extremely nasty.”

Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s global chief financial officer, was arrested in Canada on Dec. 1 and faces extradition to the United States, which alleges that she covered up her company’s links to a firm that tried to sell equipment to Iran despite sanctions.

The executive is the daughter of the founder of Huawei.

If extradited to the U.S., Meng would face charges of conspiracy to defraud multiple financial institutions, a Canadian court heard on Friday, with a maximum sentence of 30 years for each charge.

https://vancouversun.com/news/world/chi ... 7b4b8a66e5

[chicpea]

And now a break in at her house near UBC

Vancouver police were called Sunday morning to a Dunbar home believed to be owned by Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou’s husband.

The property on West 28th Avenue is one of two in the city that property records show are owned by Xiaozong Liu. That is the same name as a man identified in Chinese media as Meng’s husband. The other home is in Shaughnessy.

According to police, investigators received a 911 call about a home being broken into on West 28th Avenue near Crown Street around 5:30 a.m. Pacific time.

https://globalnews.ca/news/4745145/wanz ... -break-in/

[Dog]

I’m sure our American friends will be forever grateful for us fucking up our relations with China in order to do the US’s bidding.

It’s all good.

[chicpea]

Chinese government calls Meng's detainment, "Inhumane." susfs

They've also demanded we release her. I guess they're unfamiliar with rules-based processes.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/china-pre ... -1.4938977