Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s statement on #Christmas: https://t.co/5wykswDV9Q pic.twitter.com/dcKpLJHztM
— CanadianPM (@CanadianPM) December 24, 2018
Author: Blazingcatfur
Troops say quality of life drops, according to new DND report
Less than a third of Canadian military members surveyed by the armed forces feel that organization provides a reasonable quality of life for them and their families, according to a new defence department report.
The latest version of DND’s departmental results report showed the number of military staff who have positive views of the Canadian Forces as an employer continues to drop.
When you openly discriminate against your primary recruitment pool and install Checkbox Weirdos in their place you may find you have a dysfunctional organization on your hands.
WTF?
Bobbi is fleeing the USA because of the laws regarding trans people. They won’t be allowed near public schools and other spaces.
Even worse, there will only be males and females once Trump gets into office. Two genders. That’s it. pic.twitter.com/4iu3ET53LL
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) December 24, 2024
Should Trudeau resign? 69 per cent of Canadians say yes, according to new poll
As the Trudeau government enters the second week of a very public internal feud, a new Leger survey finds that the scandal hasn’t done all that much to hurt its poll numbers — but that might be because Liberal support has already hit rock bottom.
Never in the field of human conflict have so many been PO’d by so few.
WTF?
An officer in Peru dressed up as the Grinch to arrest a suspected drug trafficker pic.twitter.com/QqdVALx2bF
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 24, 2024
Millions of Christians are under Islamist assault, so Pope Francis targets the Jews
Christians face persecution, discrimination, forced conversion and even mass murder for their faith in many parts of the Muslim world, yet Pope Francis, who never misses a chance to criticize Israel, in his upcoming book called Hope, calls for an investigation to see if the Jews are committing a “genocide” against Palestinian Muslims in the Gaza Strip.
The Jews are not committing genocide against Muslims in Gaza, whose population grew almost 3% last year. Muslims, however, are committing mass murder via jihad against Christians in Africa. Yet the pope cowers from defending his own flock.
CIA docs claim life did exist on Mars… and it was a population of ‘very large people’ who built pyramids
While NASA is searching for life on Mars, a CIA document claims it was found 40 years ago.
The report, ‘Mars Exploration May 22, 1984,’ details how the agency used astral projection—the idea that a person’s spirit can travel through the astral plane—to transport a ‘subject’ to Mars approximately one million years BC.
The study was part of Project Stargate, a secret US Army unit established in 1977 that focused on anomalous phenomena, including remote viewing, telepathy, and psychokinesis.
h/t Mauser
Welcome to Reader Fave Christmas Carols – Day 7
It’s Christmas Eve! And yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus!
We have a lovely selection of carols chosen by our readers for you to enjoy!
Add your faves in the comments and we’ll play them in the Christmas Day Addition!
Ave Maria – Franz Biebl – From Freddiegomez
And … Michael Bublé – Cold December Night
And and … Song for a Winter’s Night
And and and … Britten’s Ceremony of carols : This little babe
The Skaters Waltz – André Rieu – From Norman in New York
And … Prokofiev “Troika” (‘Lieutenant Kije’) – Fistoulari conducts
Shannon Rovers Irish Pipe Band- Little Drummer Boy – From Hermes
Santa Claus Is Watching You – Ray Stevens – From Mr. BigStuff
Te Deseo Feliz Navidad – From SDMatt
Do You Hear What I Hear – Martina McBride – From PA Cat
Christmas Metal Songs – Little Drummer Boy – Orion’s Reign ft Alina Lesnik – From testsubjectx1
Is Trump Looking for a Grand Bargain With China?
“China and the United States can together solve all of the problems of the world, if you think about it,” President-Elect Donald Trump said on December 16, at a Mar-a-Lago press conference.
He also called China’s President Xi Jinping “amazing” and confirmed he had invited the Chinese leader to his inauguration.
Earlier in the month, Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Paris and stated this in connection with efforts to end the war in Eastern Europe: “China can help.”
Trudeau, CBC top taxpayers’ watchdog group’s annual naughty and nice list
OTTAWA — Costly broadcaster bonuses and boozy diplomats top the Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s annual naughty and nice list.
Released Monday, the list — featuring 2024’s highs and lows in safeguarding Canadians’ tax dollars — features six members of the CTF’s ‘naughty’ list and five on their ‘nice’ list.
PBS’s Washington Week Won’t Own Up to Previous Praise of Biden’s Mental Acuity
Washington Week with The Atlantic’s year-in-review episode Friday contained a fleeting reference to a bombshell Wall Street Journal story about how the White House and Democrats actively hid President Joe Biden’s descent into decrepitude, including several public stumbles, shaking hands with the air, and taking the “short stairs” up Air Force One.
“Enough is Enough”: Confronting Antisemitism in Canadian Cities
In the 1976 movie, Network, Academy Award winning actor, Peter Finch plays a veteran news anchorman, Howard Beale. Beale, mentally unbalanced and upset that the network is letting him go, utters his famous on-air tirade, “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore.” At his urging, viewers express their own built-up anger by repeating his mantra.
Don’t Look Now, but Iran’s Islamist Theocrats Are in Deep Doo-Doo
Iran, the ninth-largest oil producer in the world, doesn’t have enough energy to keep the lights on or the factories humming — and that’s just one element of the country’s growing polycrisis.
Europe Is Canceling Christmas
Christmas is a holiday of peace and goodwill. Families come together, angry friends forgive each other, everyone celebrates with a combination of happiness, champagne, and melancholy, and all those things we see in Frank Capra movies. It is difficult for anyone of any religion, or even an agnostic, to be offended by this celebration. But what I find puzzling is that celebrating the holiday with lights and Christmas motifs is now becoming frowned upon not, as one might expect, in Karachi or Mogadishu, but in the heart of Old Europe.
Toronto police closing fewer cases than they did last decade, their own figures show
Before the Toronto police board voted to approve a $46.2-million budget increase request for next year, a police director explained that case closure rates have dropped for most crimes since 2015.
“That’s because investigations take time and effort and resources,” Toronto police director of information management, Ian Williams told the board earlier this month.
But while police say lower closure rates are one reason why they need increased funding, experts are conflicted about whether they’re an accurate measure of police achievement — and whether the figures should be used to justify more resources.
I wonder if that’s due to the “Don’t offend the (insert criminal minority group here) school of policing we see the TPS enacting with the Muslims.