NorthernInvader 🇨🇦
- https://twitter.com/TheEngrumpled"> The Original Engrumpled Curnudgeon
Retired left wing 74yo Canadian, Atheist, Widower, Cooking, Politics, Nature, Birds, Cats, Dogs, photography, born 312PPM CO2
Joined Mar 2021
Meech Lake, Charlottetown, NAFTA.Those three failures were primary causes of the rise of the Reform Party then the morphing of the Reform Party and the Progressive Conservative Party into today's right wing Conservative Party of Canada (Canada's GOP/Tea Party) equivalent.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/brian-mulroney-passes-away-1.7130287
Brian Mulroney — who, as Canada's 18th prime minister, steered the country through a tumultuous period in national and world affairs but left office deeply unpopular — has died. He was 84.
I hope it succeeds but that's highly unlikely
Bill seeks crackdown on fossil fuel ads
Canadian Forces members parachuted in to a remote site to rescue survivors of a plane crash
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2297464387836
With new video, military search and rescue technicians from Winnipeg share their daring rescue of 10 people whose plane crashed 300 kilometres northeast of Yellowknife after they were forced to spend a freezing night isolated in high winds and blowing snow.
#History #Canada #UnitedKingdom #children
A part of Canadian history few today know about
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67809153
Five years after it was discovered in a Scottish auction house in Glasgow, a long wooden box of about 80 glass negatives is now in Canada, where it is putting a spotlight on the heart-breaking history of the British Home Children.
The child migration scheme sent a group of 100,000 impoverished children from Britain to overseas colonies between 1869 and the 1940s.
News from #Canada 🇨🇦 so far this week. This is what you get when you elect a progressive government and one progressive opposition party (NDP)
1. Gun Control bill passes https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-gun-control-bill-passes-senate-1.7059938
2. Pharmacare bill to be tabled March 2024, both NDP and Liberal parties want to ensure they get it right
3. Ottawa launches $13B dental-care program with kids and seniors first up for coverage https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/dental-care-program-rolls-out-1.7055195
4. Toronto renaming all streets and public buldings named after Henry Dundas
Good article in Rabble about DoFo backing out of the greenbelt development
- A more likely explanation is that the Ontario Conservatives are deeply worried about what other revelations might come out, as a result of criminal investigations and of persistent journalistic digging. -
The corruption stinks and the investigation into it continues. He's peeing his pants.
#climatechange #ClimateActionNow #Canada
Canada is one of the top 5 planet wreckers. " the U.S. Canada, Norway, Australia, and the UK — will account for 51 percent of all new oil and gas projects through 2050"
Prime minister Trudeau doesn't need to fake the physique - PeePee does. On the left he's wearing a Spanx type undergarment to make him look like has is fit on the right a gut and man boobs :)
#Canada #slavery #China #minorities #capitalism
Canada’s corporate watchdog will probe Walmart, Hugo Boss and clothing brand Diesel following allegations the companies exploited the forced labour of China’s ethnic minority Uighurs.
Companies failed to cooperate.
We’re (the Tyee) blocked from posting news stories on two of the giant’s platforms — Instagram and Threads (the company’s new rival to Twitter) — and it seems the same may soon be true on Facebook.
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023/07/12/Meta-Blocked-The-Tyee/
#sect #PlymouthBrethren #politics #Canada
Religious Sect That Tried to Censor #LGBTQ Content from Human Rights Museum Also Asked George W. Bush to Stop Gay Marriage in Canada, Documents Show
Anti-gay marriage campaign one part of sect’s larger political organizing, new documents suggest.
"The Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, Pierre Poilievre, has refused to undergo a background check so that he can receive clearance for briefings on national security issues. This is a very disturbing and dangerous situation. All concerned Canadian citizens must demand that he undergo such a check immediately or resign"
NorthernInvader 🇨🇦
- https://twitter.com/TheEngrumpled"> The Original Engrumpled Curnudgeon
Retired left wing 74yo Canadian, Atheist, Widower, Cooking, Politics, Nature, Birds, Cats, Dogs, photography, born 312PPM CO2
Joined Mar 2021