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Trudeau’s Liberal government owes families $200M across 3 provinces after underestimating carbon tax revenue

The federal government owes Canadian families in three provinces more than $200 million after underestimating how much it would raise from the carbon tax during the first year of the program.

Finance Canada thought the new price on pollution would bring in about $2.3 billion in 2019. When the final tallies were counted however, the program raised $2.42 billion.

By law, all revenued from the carbon price are to be returned to the province in which they were raised, with 10 per cent going into funds to help smaller businesses, schools, hospitals and municipal governments cut their own emissions and 90 per cent going to families through income tax rebates.

by Blazingcatfur•February 17, 2021February 17, 2021•0•Green-Scam

Ontario reports 847 new Covid cases

Ontario reported 847 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday and 10 new deaths, the lowest daily increase since late October, as the province’s active caseload and hospital burden continued its long decline.

There were 257 new cases reported in Toronto, 131 in York Region and Peel Region reported 171.

Ontario government still working on specific ‘triggers’ for emergency brake as businesses reopen in many regions

The Ontario government is still working on drafting specific “triggers” for when the so-called emergency brake can be invoked, despite the recent lifting of the stay-at-home order and the reopening of businesses in many parts of the province.

Premier Doug Ford told reporters on Tuesday that he wouldn’t hesitate to use the “emergency break” to move regions back into lockdown if COVID-19 cases spike due to spread of new, more contagious variants.

Sainted Irish Mudda’s floor at the hospital is still under lockdown, 6 cases in total one of which is suspected to be the UK variant.

by Blazingcatfur•February 17, 2021February 17, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Hollywood exploits 16-year-old Claudia Conway

Is there any low where Hollywood won’t really go?

They’re now exploiting 16-year-old Claudia Conway, daughter of Kellyanne Conway and George Conway, for television ratings and big bucks.

by Blazingcatfur•February 17, 2021February 16, 2021•0•Hollywood

President Trump Was Acquitted, But Impeachment Was a Distraction

Like the Russia hoax, impeachment was a false pretext for a national security emergency.

The Democrat impeachment case against President Trump began with the false claim that “President Trump incited a violent mob to attack the United States Capitol during the Joint Session” and concluded with the false claim that he had engaged in “insurrection or rebellion.”

In between these two false claims lay a multitude of lies, misstatements of law, exaggerations of events, false conclusions, and fundamental attacks on our entire political system.

by Blazingcatfur•February 17, 2021February 16, 2021•0•Trump Derangement Syndrome

Saving Rugby from BLM Marxism

Governors of boarding schools are supposed to be custodians, not political activists

As an alumnus of Rugby School, I sometimes take a look at its website to receive updates and news. The kind of thing that piques my interest is seeing which members of staff have left or retired, or reading a news update about plans to construct a new facility.

Yet on my most recent visit I was dismayed to see a “Statement from the Board on Black Lives Matter” emblazoned on the front page. After expressing their “deep sadness” over the death of George Floyd, the Governors wax lyrical about widespread racial injustice before promising to launch a “significant research project into the relationship between our own institutional history and race, including re-assessing the role of [Old Rugbeans] in Britain’s complex history.”

by Blazingcatfur•February 17, 2021February 16, 2021•0•"Identity Politics", #BlackLivesMatter

Facebook’s incompetent censorship

Its hypocritical attempts to clamp down on ‘misinformation’ are ultimately self-defeating

What do you do when your sources of information get corrupted? That is one of today’s great questions, as UnHerd discovered this week. On Wednesday, Facebook censored an article on these pages which was critical of the World Health Organisation, labelling it as “misinformation”. It was not UnHerd’s first run-in with the online censors, but it is perhaps the most baffling.

by Blazingcatfur•February 17, 2021February 16, 2021•0•facebook, facebook is evil

France fights hold of Islamist radicals with dragnets, laws

PARIS — More than three dozen French police officers descended on a small private school in Paris, blocked the 92 students inside their classrooms, took photos everywhere even inside the refrigerator, and grilled the school director.

“It was like they were moving in on a drug deal,” Hanane Loukili, the director and co-founder of the MHS middle and high school said, recalling the Nov. 17 scene.

Loukili didn’t know it then, but a team from the Cell to Fight Radical Islam and Community Withdrawal, or CLIR, had arrived for an inspection. The dragnet sweeps schools, shops, clubs or mosques to rout out “radicalization.” Within a week, a shaken Loukili informed students their school was shutting down.

by Blazingcatfur•February 16, 2021February 16, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", France, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Now even classical music is racist: A scandal involving an obscure music journal confirms that the crusade against whiteness is out of control.

In a world where, sooner or later, everything is racialised, it was only a matter of time before classical music became a target of the crusade against whiteness. So I wasn’t particularly shocked when I read this headline in the New York Times: ‘Obscure Musicology Journal Sparks Battles over Race and Free Speech.’

by Blazingcatfur•February 16, 2021February 16, 2021•0•"Cancel Culture"

The Problems of the Left-Rich Woke Alliance

In lots of places, people feel like second-class citizens in their own country. The defining characteristic of many Third-World societies and all totalitarianisms is that a tiny elite, whether called the party members or oligarchs who call the shots. Generally speaking, only the democratic West was the exception to this rule. The U.S. long avoided the aristocrat/peasant split through growth in middle- and lower-class income. But beginning with Ronald Reagan or Barack Obama, depending on what economist you believe, this income growth stopped and trends started splitting America into two halves.

by Blazingcatfur•February 16, 2021February 16, 2021•0•"Peak Woke"

Women need male guardian to travel, says Hamas court in Gaza Strip

A Hamas-run Islamic court in the Gaza Strip has ruled that women require the permission of a male guardian to travel, further restricting movement in and out of the territory that has been blockaded by Israel and Egypt since the militant group seized power.

The rollback in women’s rights could spark a backlash in Gaza at a time when the Palestinians plan to hold elections later this year. It could also solidify Hamas’s support among its conservative base at a time when it faces criticism over living conditions in the territory it has ruled since 2007.

by Blazingcatfur•February 16, 2021February 16, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Gaza, Islam, Islam and violence, Islam's war on women

New York School Encourages Parents To Become ‘White Traitors,’ ‘White Abolitionists’

A New York City public school sent out a graphic to parents encouraging them to become “white traitors” and “white abolitionists.”

According to Christopher Rufo, a writer at City Journal dedicated to covering “critical race theory,” the principal of East Side Community School in New York sent out a graphic detailing the eight types of “whiteness.” The graphic shows a scale of “white identities” ranging from good to bad. Good is considered being a “white abolitionist” and bad is considered being a “white supremacist.”

by Blazingcatfur•February 16, 2021February 16, 2021•0•"Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism, Batshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, Batshit Crazy Progressive Racists

Tucker Carlson: The Texas Green Energy Disaster Is Coming to You Next

Fox News host Tucker Carlson railed against unreliable green energy sources and the Democrats who are pushing them after wind turbines in Texas froze Monday during a winter storm that proved deadly amid power massive outages.

A polar vortex began gripping the South and Midwest on Sunday, leaving states with normally mild winters, such as Texas, unprepared. Thanks to the Lone Star State’s decision to rely on wind farms for a substantial amount of its energy, Texas is now a model for why green energy sources are not yet a realistic solution.

by Blazingcatfur•February 16, 2021February 16, 2021•0•Green-Scam

Canada’s China Class – ‘Let’s go learn’: Not for Canada to tell China it’s wrong, N.S. premier Stephen McNeil says

Amid growing calls for a tougher Canadian stance toward China, outgoing Nova Scotia Liberal Premier Stephen McNeil had some provocative advice recently, suggesting politicians here should actually avoid reproaching Beijing.

The federal government is grappling with China’s imprisonment of two Canadians, a clampdown on political freedoms in Hong Kong and the sweeping suppression of the country’s Uyghur minority.

Gee, I wonder who greased his palms?

by Blazingcatfur•February 16, 2021February 16, 2021•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

WTF?

Seemed like a good idea I guess

Kind of what’s it’s like to vote for Trudeau

by Blazingcatfur•February 16, 2021February 16, 2021•0•WTF?

Trump Fought the Swamp and the Swamp Won

Even more effective than breaking the rules is changing them in your favor.

“The Resistance was great for business” is the engaging title of a recent article by Byron York.

York’s story is about how the founders of the Lincoln Project, rabidly anti-Trump Republicans, allegedly used millions in donations from their unsuspecting supporters to feather their own nests. I use the word “allegedly” advisedly; I don’t know the facts and I am old-fashioned enough to try to avoid falsely accusing someone in print, even if they are “public figures” and thus fair game under modern libel law.

by Blazingcatfur•February 16, 2021February 16, 2021•0•Trump Derangement Syndrome