Don Martin: David Johnston’s reputation is but a smouldering ruin

Justin and Johnston China Class Grifters

… Sorry, but the perception prevails of them as neighbourly chums in the Laurentian Elite backed by evidence suggesting due diligence was deliberately lacking as he put together his report.

For example, Johnston didn’t reach out to former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole until last week. This was the former leader most vocal about Chinese electoral interference, yet Johnston’s report was already on its way to the printers for translation, by the time an O’Toole interview was booked.

Johnston also took great pains to probe and question the accuracy of news reports yet failed to examine the Trudeau Foundation’s role in the controversy after it received substantial money from Chinese benefactors looking to buy friends in high places.

And his conclusion that senior Liberals didn’t know about Chinese efforts to help elect a Liberal minority mandate was based on merely asking the prime minister if that was the case. Not surprisingly, Trudeau said it wasn’t.

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Biden’s potential new ambassador to Israel views its founding as a ‘catastrophe’

One of the top candidates to take on the role of ambassador to Israel, now that Thomas Nides is on his way out, is Susie Gelman, who is retiring from her tenure as the chair of the Israel Policy Forum. Gelman professes to love Israel, but she considers its founding a catastrophe and is working hard to undermine its current government. In other words, hers is the “love” of a wifebeater.

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Tareena Shakil, From ISIS Recruit to Fashion Blogger

Tareena Shakil – ISIS whore

And guess who she thinks the victim is?

Strange things happening every day, as Sister Rosetta Thorpe once sang, and that is especially true when it comes to the bizarre world of Islam. It’s sometimes necessary, in reading these stories of Muslim goings-on, to believe six impossible things before breakfast. That’s how I felt when I read recent news about Tareena Shakil, a Muslim who was living a perfectly normal Muslim life (if such can be said to exist) in the UK when she up and left to join ISIS…

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We need to stand up to morons like Mizzy

Too many adults are turning a blind eye to infantile delinquency.

By now, everyone’s seen one of those Mizzy videos. Mizzy, whose real name is Bacari-Bronze O’Garro, is an 18-year-old black kid in London whose ‘prank’ videos on TikTok show him entering strangers’ homes uninvited, asking random people in the street if they want to die, running off with an elderly lady’s dog and making fun of Orthodox Jews, including by trying to leapfrog over one of them. Pranks? I’m old enough to remember when these things were called crimes.

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Terry Glavin: David Johnston escapes inquiry into his own China dealings

The former governor general is a poster boy for ‘elite capture’

In the uproar over revelations earlier this month that Beijing’s meddling in Canadian politics involved a secret plan to target the family of Conservative Party Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Michael Chong, His Excellency Cong Peiwu, China’s ambassador in Ottawa, had some advice for the Trudeau government.

“China strongly urges the Canadian side to immediately stop this self-directed political farce,” Cong said, further urging Parliament to mind its manners and “not go further down the wrong and dangerous path.”

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ChatGPT hires human to pass ‘are you human’ test

AI life can lie to humans. Computer programs are perfectly happy to manipulate us in order to fulfil their programmed instructions – and they are getting creative with their deception.

Everyone sighs when faced with solving a CAPTCHA to ‘prove you are a human’. It usually involves the mundane task of clicking on pictures that contain some arbitrary item, like a bike. This is simple for us, but computers can’t do it. This is why it acts as a digital gate to keep roving AI bots out of certain areas of the internet.

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‘A trap’: Opposition rejects Trudeau’s security clearance offer to access confidential annex of Johnston WHITEWASH

OTTAWA – The leaders of the two largest federal opposition parties are rejecting Justin Trudeau’s invitation to receive security clearances in order to review the confidential annex of special rapporteur David Johnston’s report, prompting the prime minister to accuse them of hiding behind “a veil of ignorance.”

On Tuesday, while pointing to the real threat that foreign election interference poses and the need to address some serious intelligence gaps, Johnston recommended against a public inquiry into the federal government’s handling of the issue. He instead plans to conduct more forward-looking public hearings.

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The Durham Report’s Missing Piece

Did Durham simply throw up his hands in surrender?

On August 8, 2016, lawyer Lisa Page was the special assistant to FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Peter Strzok was the deputy assistant director of FBI Counterintelligence. On that day, they emailed each other as follows:

Page: [Trump’s] not going to become president, right? Right?

Strzok: No. No, he’s not. We’ll stop it.

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Excess Deaths in Young Canadians Jump to 27 Percent

Canadians up to age 44 saw 27 percent more deaths than expected in the last five months of 2022, a big jump compared to the 19 percent seen from the onset of the pandemic in March 2020 up until August 2022, according to Statistics Canada data analyzed by The Epoch Times.

The 27 percent excess deaths among Canadians below age 44 represents 1,597 more deaths than expected between August and September 2022, or 10 extra deaths per day.

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Poilievre calls on Singh to force a foreign interference inquiry

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh to drop the NDP’s support for the Liberals in the House of Commons to force the government to call a public inquiry into foreign political interference.

Former governor general David Johnston, now special rapporteur on foreign interference, tabled a report Tuesday recommending the government not move forward with a public inquiry, citing the sensitive nature of the intelligence an inquiry would have to examine.

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Parliament has spoken: We need an independent public inquiry

Parliament has already spoken on the need for an independent public inquiry into China’s meddling in Canada’s electoral system. Opposition parties united to vote in favour of an inquiry, with the (non-binding) motion passing 172-149. The will of Parliament is clear – and it is equally clear that former governor-general David Johnston’s report on foreign interference defies that will.

To have any legitimacy, such defiance would have to lay out indisputable proof that the federal government responded prudently and quickly to China’s provocations. Instead, Mr. Johnston insists that any evidence is classified, and Canadians must simply take his word for it.

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The Seattle mayor’s CHOP cover-up

The city settled a lawsuit this week after former mayor Jenny Durkan illegally deleted thousands of emails and messages

Ah, Seattle, that environmentally obsessed city where all is decorous, the sidewalks immaculately swept, the parks rigorously trimmed, proverbial for its shimmering lakes and charming rows of variegated tents housing those of no fixed abode — and recently, too, for a municipal government with much the same level of restraint as a bus being driven downhill by the Marx Brothers.

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