COVID Quarantine Hotel Costs Over $339 Million: Report

The cost to Canadian taxpayers of mandatory quarantine hotels used during the COVID-19 pandemic has already hit nearly $339 million and accounting isn’t finished, according to figures disclosed to date by the federal government.

A Health Canada briefing note, disclosed by Blacklock’s Reporter on July 25, indicates that expenses for each traveller housed in a hotel for 72 hours were at a cost of more than $17,000.


But it always get worse …

‘Pain for Canadian Taxpayers’: Trans Mountain Will Not Be Profitable, Say Analysts

The cost of the Trans Mountain expansion project has reached the point where it cannot make enough money to cover its growing debt. That’s according to several analysts who have been watching the project.

Earlier this year Trans Mountain announced that project costs had ballooned to $30.9 billion—a far cry from the $4.5 billion the federal government paid for the existing Trans Mountain pipeline, expansion project, and terminals in 2018.

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UFOs and aliens bring a divided US Congress together

If the truth is out there, the US Congress wants to know.

The House of Representatives convened a landmark panel on unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAPs), known more colloquially as UFOs, on Wednesday, in the most serious acknowledgement yet that mysterious sightings deserve scrutiny at the highest levels of government.

US lawmakers were “not bringing little green men or flying saucers into the hearing… we’re just going to get to the facts,” Republican Tim Burchett said at the beginning of the meeting. Yet the testimony at times strayed into the unknown.


Five Key Takeaways From the Congressional Hearing on UFOs

Ross Coulthart

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Canada plans to finalize emissions cap by mid-2024, minister says

SINGAPORE – Canada will likely publish the final regulations of a plan to cap and cut greenhouse gases from the oil and gas sector by mid-2024, its environment minister told Reuters on Thursday.

The government will table draft regulations on the plan by October and expects to publish the final regulations by mid-2024 after consultations with provinces, indigenous groups, civil society and industry, federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault told Reuters.

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From Behind Bars, January 6 Defendant Tells the Sun, ‘We Will Keep Donald Trump Out of Prison’

From behind bars at the District of Columbia Jail, a January 6 rioter awaiting trial on 11 criminal counts, Edward Jacob Lang, tells the Sun, “If we win this, it will clear the house” — meaning the jail — “and keep Donald Trump out of prison.”

Mr. Lang is referring to an appeal he has lodged at the Supreme Court, which he ventures “may be the most important case of the last decade.” It concerns the applicability to the mayhem of January 6, 2021, of a provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Section 1512 (c)(2) of the United States Code, meant to combat financial crime.

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DOJ Drops Campaign Finance Charge Against Dem Megadonor, Fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried

The Department of Justice (DOJ) dropped a campaign finance charge against disgraced former crypto tycoon Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) on Wednesday night, according to a court document from the Southern District of New York.

Authorities assert that SBF, co-founder of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, and its associates, utilized customer deposits for $90 million in campaign contributions to around 300 candidates or political action committees, according to The New York Times. The DOJ’s letter to the New York court states that it is not pursuing the charge because The Bahamas did not plan to extradite SBF to the U.S. on it.

Talk about a technicality.

h/t Mauser

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Suspected Jihadi John of the ISIS Beatles is found dead in his Spanish prison cell while awaiting a verdict on terror charges

A former British rapper once believed to be the ISIS killer ‘Jihadi’ John has been found dead in his prison cell in Spain.

Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 32, had been tried earlier this month at a court in Madrid on suspicion of heading an itinerant jihadist cell he allegedly formed after leaving Syria, and was awaiting the verdict.

He is understood to have been found dead at a prison in El Puerto de Santa Maria in Cadiz, south west Spain. One unconfirmed local report said his body presented no obvious signs of any violence.

An aspiring rapper no less.

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Trudeau shakes up his bag of meaningless ministerial baubles to build an unserious cabinet

To say first what can be said: Anita Anand and Jean-Yves Duclos will each bring a reputation for competence to portfolios – Treasury Board and Procurement – that could sorely use some.

Dominic LeBlanc is a safe pair of hands to throw Public Safety to. Marc Miller will bring passion and commitment as Minister of Immigration. The choice of rising star Sean Fraser for Housing indicates what a hot issue it has become.

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Kim Jong-un opens exhibition promoting ‘cult of personality’

Henry VIII had Hans Holbein the Younger, who painted him as overweight and beset by ill health, yet with the lingering swagger of a monarch projecting power to the world.

In the opaque court of Kim Jong-un, though, it is hard to know which artist painted the vast portrait of North Korea’s supreme leader atop Mount Paektu, said to be part of a wave of new images he commissioned to further his “cult of personality”.

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‘I hope the Canadians are watching’: U.S. senator tees off on Trudeau’s determined lack of military spending

A senior U.S. military figure has agreed to have tough conversations with Canada about defence spending when he takes over a binational military body.

Lt.-Gen. Gregory Guillot was speaking during a U.S. Senate hearing Wednesday to confirm his nomination as the next head of North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD).

His comments came after a Republican senator chastised, at length, what he called Canada’s insufficient military spending and said he hoped there were Canadians watching the hearing.

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