Flag Day
February 15 is Flag Day. My flag is the old Red Ensign, the flag of the Real Canada.

The second of February is the fortieth day after Christmas and therefore the day on which the Church commemorates the Presentation of Jesus Christ in the Temple and the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This commemoration is popularly known as Candlemas from the tradition of blessing candles in Church on this day. There is an ancient folk tradition that says that if it is a clear day on Candlemas it will be a long winter. A tradition derived from this one says that a hibernating animal – which depends on where you live – will temporarily awaken on Candlemas to predict the remaining length of winter by whether or not he sees his shadow. In North America, the hibernating animal is the groundhog or woodchuck.
This year Candlemas fell on a Sunday. On most Sunday evenings a friend comes over to watch movies and the obvious choice was “Groundhog Day” the 1993 film by Harold Ramis in which Bill Murray plays a weatherman who goes to Punxsutawney, the small community in Pennsylvania where Groundhog Day is a much bigger deal than elsewhere, and becomes trapped in a personal time loop that forces him to relive the day over and over again. The way in which Phil, Murray’s character who shares a name with the famous groundhog, responds to this dilemma evolves over the course of the movie. At one point, fairly early in the plot, his response is gross self-indulgence since there are no consequences due to the slate constantly being wiped clean. In this phase, the character of Rita portrayed by Andie MacDowell, watching him engage in reckless gluttony in the local diner, quotes Sir Walter Scott to him:
The wretch, concentered all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he’s sprung
Unwept, unhonour’d, and unsung.
In the movie, Phil’s response is to laugh and make a joke about having misheard Walter Scott as Willard Scott. Watching the movie with my friend, my response was to point out that Rita had misapplied the lines she quoted. The lines are from Canto VI of the Lay of the Last Minstrel and refer not to a hedonist but to the person lacking patriotism. The first part of the Canto goes:
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne’er within him burn’d,
As home his footsteps he hath turn’d
From wandering on a foreign strand!
If such there breathe, go, mark him well;
For him no Minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim;—
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
After this comes the lines quoted in the movie.
Clearly Sir Walter Scott shared the opinion of Scottish-American, neo-Thomist philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre that patriotism is a virtue as well he ought for that opinion is correct. Note, however, that the correctness of the opinion depends on the definition of patriotism. Nationalism, which is frequently confused with patriotism, is not a virtue. It is not the opposite of a virtue, a vice, either, but this is only because it does not belong to the same general category, the habits of behaviour that make up character, of which virtue and vice are the good and bad subcategories. Nationalism is an ideology. An ideology is a formulaic substitute for a living tradition of thought (see the title essay in Michael Oakeshott’s Rationalism in Politics And Other Essays). Shortcuts of this type are always bad.
In a recent column Brian Lilley spoke of “national pride” and criticized those who have only recently started to display national pride as Canadians in response to Donald the Orange. While Lilley’s argument is related to my main topic in this essay, I bring it up here to make the point that “national pride” is not a good way of describing the patriotism that is a virtue. To be fair, Lilley did not equate patriotism with “national pride” but this is because the word patriotism does not appear in his column. Pride appears four times and the adjective proud appears nine times. While it is easy to see why Lilley would use these terms, since much of the column is appropriately critical of the attacks on Canada and her history, identity, and traditions that have been coming from the current Liberal government for the duration of the near-decade they have been in power, pride is not the right word. It is the name of a vice, indeed, the very worst of the Seven Deadly Sins, rather than a virtue.
Fortunately, we do not have to look far and wide to find the right term. Patriotism, correctly defined, is neither the ideology of nationalism that values one’s country for its perceived superiority to all others requiring that all others be insulted and subjugated nor the deadly sin of pride as directed towards one’s country, but simply love of one’s country.
Love of one’s country is indeed a virtue. Whereas pride is the worst of all sins, love is the highest of all virtues. Of course, the love that is the highest of all virtues is a specific kind of love. The Seven Heavenly Virtues include the Four Cardinal Virtues of Prudence, Justice, Temperance, and Fortitude and the Three Theological Virtues of Faith, Hope and Love. The Cardinal Virtues are habits that anyone can cultivate and so make up the best moral character that man can attain in his natural or unregenerate state. While faith, hope, and love in a more general sense can be similarly cultivated, the Faith, Hope, and Love that make up the essence of Christian character must be imparted by the grace of God although the Christian is also expected to cultivate them. Love is the greatest of the three as St. Paul declares in 1 Corinthians 13:13, and therefore as Henry Drummond called it, “the greatest thing in the world”. It incorporates the other two since they are built upon each other. Natural loves are lesser than Christian Love or Charity, but they are still virtuous insomuch as they resemble, albeit imperfectly, the Theological Virtue. Patriotism, the love of country, is such a love. Edmund Burke famously described how it develops “To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle … of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love of our country and to mankind.” The “little platoons” include one’s family and local community and is Burke had wanted to belabour the point he could have said that the first principle is love of one’s family, which develops into love of one’s local community, and then outward.
It has been heartwarming to see Canadians display their love of country over the last month or so in response to the repeated threats of Anschluss coming from America’s Fuhrer. While not all of these displays have been in good taste they do all demonstrate that Captain Airhead’s efforts to kill Canadian patriotism by endlessly apologizing for past events that need no apologies, cancelling Canada’s founders and historical leaders such as Sir John A. Macdonald, and other such nonsense have failed. This resurgence in Canadian public patriotism ought, therefore, to be welcomed by the “conservatives” who rightly despise Captain Airhead. Oddly, however, it has not been so welcomed by many of them.
In part this is due to the fact that Captain Airhead, the Liberals, the NDP, and their media supporters who were all on the “cancel Canada” bandwagon until yesterday are now wrapping themselves in the flag and these do deserve to be called out for this. The right way to do so, however, is to say something to the effect of “you are rather late to the party, but thanks for showing up.” To Brian Lilley’s credit, that is the gist of what he says in the column alluded to earlier. Many other “conservatives”, however, have responded quite differently. In his 2006 book, In Defence of Hypocrisy: Picking Sides in the War on Virtue, Jeremy Lott pointed out the difference between Jesus’ condemnation of hypocrisy and Modern condemnation of hypocrisy. In condemning the hypocrisy of the Pharisees, Jesus did not condemn them for the high moral standards they taught, but for falling short of those standards by sinning. Moderns, however, when they condemn hypocrisy, condemn the moral standards rather than the sin. The response of many “conservatives” to the newly discovered Canadian patriotism of progressives resembles this in that they seem to be criticizing the progressives more for their expression of patriotism today than for their lack of it yesterday. One even quoted Samuel Johnson’s “patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.” I refer him to the comments of James Boswell, whose record of the remark is the reason we are familiar with it today, as to what it means. Dr. Johnson was not impugning love of country, but a kind of pseudo-patriotism which interestingly enough was associated with the founding of America.
It can hardly be a coincidence that these same “conservatives” have been rather less than patriotic in their response to the threats from south of the border. The founder of one “conservative” independent online media company first responded to these threats by saying they should be treated as a joke and a funny one at that. Then, when Donald the Orange said last weekend that it was no joke, she flip-flopped and criticized Captain Airhead for having initially done exactly that and said the Anschluss threat was a joke. In between she conducted and published an interview with an immigrant from America who twelve years ago proved herself to be exactly the kind of immigrant we don’t need when she published a book proposing the merger of our country with her country of birth.
The general response to these threats in this organization’s commentary has been to treat the American dictator as a reasonable man, with legitimate grievances, who can be negotiated with and to propose an economic merger between the two countries that falls short of a political merger. Ironically, their website is promoting a children’s book they just published on the life of Sir John A. Macdonald intended to counter the negative propaganda about the Father of Confederation that progressives have been spewing based on their skewed narrative about the Indian Residential Schools. The book was a good and patriotic response to this blood libel of our country. Sir John must be spinning in his grave, however, at the thought that the defence of his memory could be merged with the idea of an economic union with the United States. Sir John spent his entire career as Prime Minister promoting internal east-west trade within the Dominion and fighting the siren call of north-south trade because he knew that this was the greatest threat to the success of the Confederation Project.
Free trade is a good idea from an economic perspective, but each of the “free trade” agreements we have signed with the United States has been a terrible idea from a political perspective. The kind of economic union these “conservatives” are promoting would be worse than all of the other “free trade” agreements, since the United State is currently led by a lawless megalomaniac, who respects neither the limits placed on his powers by his country’s constitution nor the agreements he has signed and cannot be trusted to keep his own word – the “free trade” agreement he is currently, and deceitfully, claiming is so “unfair” to his country is the one he himself negotiated – and who looks at tariffs and economic measures in general as weapons to accomplish what his predecessors accomplished by bullets and bombs. By his predecessors I do not mean previous American presidents, but Napoleon, Hitler and Stalin. I recognized that this was what we were dealing with the moment he made his first “51st state” remark and was confirmed in this when he doubled down on this talk after Captain Airhead announced his intention to resign. No Canadian patriot could fail to recognize it today after he has continued to escalate his lies and rhetoric and threats for the last month. Yes, the Left’s endless likeness of everyone they don’t like to Hitler has desensitized us to these comparisons, but let us not be like the villagers in Aesop’s story about the boy who cried wolf. This time the wolf is real. The sort of things the Left objects to in Donald the Orange, his immigration policies, his termination of the racist, anti-white, policy of DEI, do not warrant a comparison with Hitler, but his threatening us with Anschluss, his demand for Lebensraum from Denmark, his intent to take back his “Danzig Corridor” from Panama, his finding his Sudetenland in Gaza, most certainly do, as does the insane personality cult his followers have developed into.
Canadian conservatives ought to be leading the renaissance of Canadian patriotism, and yes, Brian Lilley, you are right that it should not have taken something like Trump’s threats to bring that renaissance about. Liberals have always been the party of Americanization in Canada. Sadly, today’s conservatives are mostly neoconservatives. David Warren once said that a conservative is a Tory who has lost his religion and a neoconservative is a conservative who has lost his memory. On the authority of Sir Walter Scott I deduce from the disgusting anti-patriotism I have seen recently that many have lost their souls as well. — Gerry T. Neal
Without Trump this would never have come out and it happened while fire and hurricane victims were homeless and often starving.HHS splurged more than $22B on grants for migrants — including cash for cars, home loans and startups
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ramped up grants for migrants from 2020 to 2024 — which included cash assistance to buy cars, homes and even build credit for startup businesses, according to a shocking watchdog report that found taxpayers were left on the hook for $22.6 billion.
HHS’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) — which came under fire last year for having lost track of 32,000 migrant kids in the US — handed out the high sum to a host of nonprofits, effectively acting as a “giant magnet” for those crossing the US border and claiming asylum, auditors from the money monitor OpenTheBooks revealed exclusively to The Post.
Tasked with settling migrants, asylum seekers and other refugees in America, ORR drastically increased the number of noncitizens eligible to receive funding over the bulk of President Joe Biden’s term, with more than $10 billion shelled out to grant-receiving organizations just in fiscal year 2023.
That coincided with all-time records being set for southern border crossings into the US, with 2.4 million apprehensions by Customs and Border Protection over the same period.
Non-governmental groups bilked taxpayers for up to $1.7 billion in services including dollar-for-dollar matching savings plans for cars, homes, college educations or startups; small-business loans of up to $15,000; loans to repair credit history of up to $1,500; “cultural orientation,” “emergency housing support,” legal assistance and Medicaid care.
Some programs were only available to migrants or refugees who had been living in the US for several years, who were employed or who were making around double the federal poverty level or less, among other stipulations.
The most funding, however, was spent on unaccompanied migrant children, with $12.4 billion obligated over the five years — even as federal whistleblowers were calling out ORR for placing many of the 291,000 kids in their care with unvetted and at times abusive sponsors.
“The Shining City on a Hill, with its walls and doors, makes room for legal immigrants and legitimate refugees and asylum seekers, but the ORR has made a mockery of that vision in recent years,” OpenTheBooks CEO John Hart told The Post.
“ORR is part of a troubling trend of using nonprofit groups as ideological proxies. Vast sums are being outsourced to evade accountability and prop up an immoral, exploitive system that is hurtful to both American citizens and people in other countries who are longing for a better life.”
Thursday’s report comes after the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) came under fire for sending around $80 million — subsequently clawed back by the Trump administration Tuesday — to put migrants up in New York City hotels and provide other services.
More than $2.6 billion went out the door in fiscal year 2020, $2.3 billion in fiscal year 2021, $3.3 billion in fiscal year 2022, $10 billion in fiscal year 2023 and $4.2 billion in fiscal year 2024.
The funding tranches were obligated spending, meaning not all the money has been disbursed so far.
Migrants from Cuba and Haiti, humanitarian parolees from Afghanistan and Ukraine, special immigrant visa holders from Afghanistan and Iraq and unaccompanied minors from abroad were all eligible for grant programs.
The watchdog group pointed out that the windfall came as ORR was expanding access to legal counsel for migrants and eliminating the need for other noncitizens, like refugees, to become economically self-sufficient “as quickly as possible.”
Two of the top groups receiving funds in the last four fiscal years were Church World Services, which opposed a joint agreement between Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau closing an asylum loophole on the northern border, and the International Rescue Committee.
Since 2020, the former has netted $355 million in grants, while the latter received $598 million, according to the OpenTheBooks report.
Robin Dunn Marcos, the senior HHS official who oversaw the ORR program for solo child migrants during some of that period, had previously worked for more than 30 years combined at both nonprofits.
In June 2023, Dunn Marcos testified to House lawmakers that her office was not even conducting criminal background checks on juveniles as part of the program that let in hundreds of thousands of migrant kids and became among the most costly for ORR.
Then-HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra had pushed his staff to release migrant children to sponsors as quickly as possible, likening the ideal turnover rate to an “assembly line,” the New York Times previously reported.
Hart slammed ORR’s treatment of migrant kids and said it had revealed “the Left’s counterfeit compassion around immigration.”
“Losing track of 300,000 children violates their dignity and puts them at risk,” he said.
In its report, OpenTheBooks claimed Dunn Marcos’ past work for nonprofits receiving ORR grants posed a “conflict of interest.”
Reps for Dunn Marcos’ office said in a statement that after being appointed in September 2022, she had recused herself from approving funding for any past employer.
OpenTheBooks nevertheless submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to ORR’s parent office, the Administration for Children and Families, where Dunn Marcos served until recently. Email bouncebacks, the group noted, suggest she departed government service after President Trump took office Jan. 20.
“While Dunn Marcos may have disappeared from ORR, our questions remain over whether certain nonprofit organizations received special treatment amid the billions in grants furnished by the government office,” the group’s report concludes.
“What’s clear is that ORR has funded a constellation of NGOs deployed in border states and nationwide, who give out aid designed to attract even more migrants.”
Reps for HHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Feb 13, 2025
Source: Juno News
Author: Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has confirmed his plans to reduce immigration levels to Stephen Harper-era levels and deport those who break Canada’s laws while on temporary visas, in an exclusive interview with Juno News co-founder Candice Malcolm.
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On the broader issue of immigration levels, Poilievre stated that the current annual intake of permanent residents — set to reach 500,000 in 2025 — is unsustainable and has contributed to Canada’s housing crisis.
He proposed a return to the levels of previous Conservative governments, which were around 200,000 to 250,000 per year, aligning population growth with the number of new homes being built.
“It would be a lot more like the Harper numbers that were basically the same for 40 years before Trudeau took office — we were bringing in about 200,000 to 250,000 a year,” said Poilievre.
“We were building about the same number of homes as we were adding people, so we had a housing surplus. I would bring in a simple mathematical formula: we cannot bring in people faster than we add houses.”
According to Poilievre, the formula would be based on the homebuilding numbers from the prior year as well as population growth targets.
“I would actually make sure that we’re building housing surpluses over the next four years because that’s how we close the gap that has built up,” said Poilievre.
Poilievre also made it clear that his government would swiftly deport non-citizens who commit crimes while in Canada on temporary status. He emphasized that those engaging in violent acts, such as firebombing businesses or places of worship, should be immediately arrested and deported.
“I don’t know how anybody can disagree with that. If someone shows up in our country claiming to be a student or a temporary worker and they start firebombing coffee shops, bakeries, synagogues, or any other place, then they need to be immediately arrested and deported,” said Poilievre in reference to recent pro-Hamas protests rocking Canada.
“If someone is obviously a citizen, they should be prosecuted through our legal system and put in prison here in Canada for those sorts of crimes.”
Poilievre added the federal government also has to take the issue of illegal immigration seriously and expedite deportations for those found to be in Canada under false pretences.
“If someone comes in, makes a false asylum claim, and it gets rejected, they’re supposed to leave today,” said Poilievre.
“The challenge we’re going to face is that under nine years of the Carney-Trudeau Liberals’ open border policies, we now have millions of people whose permits are going to expire over the next two years. If they don’t leave, we have a very hard time even knowing they’re still here, finding them, and then carrying out a deportation.”
The Conservative leader, however, did indicate that among illegal immigrants there were “some among them that we do want to keep.”
“They could be a master’s graduate in computer engineering with a six-figure job in Kitchener-Waterloo, someone who has started a family, integrated, speaks the language. This is someone we want to keep,” said Poilievre.
“But we need to be able to make that decision ourselves through selection based on these criteria — not just by accident because people who are not eligible to stay decide they’re not going to leave.”
According to Poilievre, the Canadian government should implement further refugee reviews for claims, including what he calls a “last in, first out” approach.
“This is how it works: if you’re the last person to enter the country, your claim is immediately heard. Within a couple of weeks, if your claim is false, you’re sent back. What that does is send the signal to everyone who might come in the future that they’re going to be sent home automatically,” said Poilievre.
“The problem right now is that if someone gets in illegally — even if they’re not a real refugee, they’re not fleeing danger — they have seven or eight years of appeals, during which we’re paying for their hotels, lawyers, food, and healthcare, above and beyond what Canadians get.”
Feb 13, 2025
Today at 10:30am near Stiglmaierplatz in Munich – not far from my old apartment – a 26 year-old asylum seeker in Germany named Farhad Noori1 drove his Mini Cooper into the rear of a Verdi trade union demonstration. He evaded the marchers’ police escort and ran down 28 people, before officers opened fire and managed to subdue him. Two of Noori’s victims, a mother and her young son, ended up under his car. The young boy had to be resuscitated on-scene by emergency responders and it is uncertain whether he will live.
This was the second automobile attack on innocent bystanders in public since Magdgeburg in December, when the Saudi migrant Taleb al-Abdulmohsen drove a rented BMW into a Christmas market crowd, killing 6 and injuring 299. To this terrible tally comes the knife attacks in Mannheim, Solingen and Aschaffenburg. This singular and exceedingly rare category of crime – which has become a symbol for the decay in domestic security associated with mass migration – presently claims a nine-month toll in Germany of 12 dead and 343 wounded. The latest attack is additionally poignant, because it follows the Green and Social Democrat blockade of a bill to restrict migration in the Bundestag on 31 January. Among other things, the left parties withheld their votes because Alternative für Deutschland supported the legislation.
Noori fits what is by now a well-established pattern: He is a native Afghan who came to Germany in 2016 with the rest of the Merkel wave; he was known to the police for theft and drug offences; after the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees rejected his asylum application, he received a visa of tolerated stay anyway.
Like al-Abdulmohsen, the Christmas market attacker, Noori also had a large social media presence, with 68,000 followers on Instagram and another 33,000 on TikTok. On Instagram one finds pictures he posted last year of himself standing next to the Mini Cooper used in today’s attack:
Noori was primarily a competitive bodybuilder, but he was also a pious Muslim; Der Spiegel notes that some of his final social media posts contain “Islamist content,” which seems to be a reference to TikTok posts like this one. In apparent video of his arrest this morning, Noori can be heard shouting “God is great” over and over:
What will happen now is the very same thing that happened after all of these other attacks. Politicians will tell us that these events are unacceptable and that Germany must enact grave changes to prevent them in future. Then there will be renewed marches to celebrate diversity and oppose “the right,” because the most important victims of migrants attackers are of course all the peaceful Muslims they did not attack. Around this time we will be warned against over-generalising and overreacting, and then the story will slip from the headlines until the next time.
UPDATE: Some additional details have come to light. Noori’s asylum application was rejected in 2017, a year after his arrival. He became an illegal resident in 2020, but received his visa of toleration sometime thereafter. Some of his (now-deleted) Instagram posts show that he worked as store security for Ralph Lauren in Munich. He was known to the authorities for document forgery, among other crimes.
All media are presently withholding Noori’s family name, but your intrepid blogger discovered it – and his social media accounts – through his own researches. In this way I can offer you a modest second-order ‘exclusive.’ Believe me, I take no pleasure in this.
More Attacks on White Canadians: Feds Fishery Rules Restrict Whites, Favour Natives
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Identity-based redistribution programs have been a disaster for fishermen on both coasts
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Published Jan 27, 2025 • Last updated 6 days ago • 5 minute read
There are Indigenous fishers, and there are non-Indigenous fishers — and every year, the federal government takes more and more away from one to give to the other, citing reconciliation and an ever-expanding notion of Indigenous rights.
The 2025 edition of this game of racial redistribution involved the Liberal government taking away half of the American eel quota and distributing it to First Nations in Atlantic Canada. Another 27 per cent was planned to be taken for distribution to employees of those who already have eel licences, but this was cancelled last-minute on Thursday, when Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier came to her senses and called it off.
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It was an instance of drastic favouritism: in the Maritimes, the Indigenous population is between 2.2 and 5.5 per cent, depending on the province, while in Newfoundland, it’s 9.3 per cent. The government previously defended its plans for identity-based redistribution as a moral move, with lucrative eel prices providing “a unique opportunity to advance reconciliation by reducing the longstanding socioeconomic gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities.”
Aside from reconciliation-driven quota transfers like the eel quota redistribution of 2025, the feds are often motivated by a desire to honour the treaty right held by the region’s Indigenous groups to earn a “moderate livelihood,” as the Supreme Court of Canada set out in the 1999 case of R. v. Marshall. The feds have never been clear or consistent about setting limits on that right, though.
So when Indigenous groups exercise that right — which often seems to come without limits — their harvest cuts into the allowable catch for commercial fisheries, with the potential to devastate fishers big and small. Facing quota redistribution, eel fishers Tien and Anh Nguyen believed they wouldn’t be able to keep anywhere near as many staff. They weren’t going to be compensated for their loss, either.
Meanwhile, budding eel farming company NovaEel — which, if it succeeds, will be the first of its kind in Canada — now has rocky prospects. The eel suppliers it had lined up to get its farming operation off the ground were poised to have considerable quota taken away, which would mean that NovaEel wouldn’t be able to get up and running. The government has signalled that it can kill this kind of business at a moment’s notice, which is toxic to investment.
Plenty more of these identity-based initiatives in fishing have gone though. In 2025, $259.5 million in handouts are planned to support commercial Atlantic First Nations fishing businesses. These funds will be used on everything from licences, boats and gear to corporate governance; licences acquired under the deal can be leased back to non-Indigenous fishermen. Note that on the East Coast, the feds have spent more than $1 billion buying fishing licenses and equipment for First Nations over the years.
So, while the feds obliterate non-Indigenous businesses without compensation, they’ve been pumping millions into the Indigenous side.
Indeed, in 2021, commercial crab fishers in one fishing zone of British Columbia had half of their trapping allocation taken by the government and redistributed to Indigenous people to assist them in earning a “moderate livelihood.”
On the losing side of the reallocation were Jason Voong, a second-generation crab harvester whose family came here to fish crab after fleeing the Vietnam war, and Jeff and Cameron Edwards, whose family fishing business had been in the area for 32 years. “As a commercial fisherman, I feel like I don’t exist in the eyes of the government,” Jeff Edwards told the Tofino-Ucluelet Westerly News. No one, of course, was compensated by the government.
As for lobster, the fishery is in absolute chaos due in part to federal cowardice. In southeast Nova Scotia, leaders of the Sipekne’katik First Nation set up a large out-of-season fishery in 2020, which they claim is an exercise of their Aboriginal right to earn a moderate livelihood from the land. The feds attempted to put a cap on their catch, but this was rejected by the First Nation, which continued to take lobster from the sea. That alone should raise questions about the legality of their actions.
You might be able to guess what happened to the lobster population in that area since. Commercial fishers have reported that lobster stocks are depleted due to over-harvesting. Meanwhile, say the RCMP, an organized crime group has been profiting from illegally harvested lobster, reaping profits and terrorizing locals.
Still, instead of putting its foot down and finding a resolution, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans largely watched from the sidelines, enforcing violations here and there but refusing to approve a tentative agreement between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous fishers that could have resolved the matter in 2022.
Instead, the problem of legally grey Indigenous fisheries spread: a Mi’kmaw group on Prince Edward Island followed their Nova Scotian counterparts and set up another “moderate livelihood” fishery; now, the group’s leader is asking for the government to provide them with commercial licences as well. And why not? The feds have proven to be generous so far.
The civil discord that comes from having parallel, competing, identity-based fisheries hasn’t been good. Prince Edward Island has noticed an uptick in gear tampering — such as cutting traps loose from lines — while Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have seen everything from vigilante trap removal to violence and sabotage. Buildings have been torched, and men who refuse to buy unlicensed catch have had their homes shot at. Non-Indigenous fishermen have removed traps from the water, while Indigenous fishermen have set up blockades to defend their wharf.
It’s not good. The Liberals, keen on neutering Canada’s resource sector, have done what they can to neglect their duty to provide a fair and prosperous playing field. On the coasts, this involves pitting subsets of the population against each other in the absence of clear rules.
They’ve turned the fishing industry into a ridiculous game of racial tug-of-war, which is corrosive to good community relations on the coast — and to the health of the Canadian fishing industry in general.
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Should this perspective also apply to those who ushered in forced lock-downs, forcing compliance to unproven unqualified medical procedures – by physical and ‘legal’ force, loss of paid work due to unproven unqualified medical procedures, administering “fines” for breathing and association, seized bank accounts, higher fuel prices, beatings upon citizens engaged in lawful activity, etc., etc., etc. ? Fixed elections ?
Notice what a change in administration can do for a culture ?
Have you noticed how many companies are now rolling back their woke, tranny-pushing DEI policies since Commander Trump won the election?
Target, McDonald’s, Walmart, and Meta are the latest in a long list that includes Harley-Davidson, John Deere, Boeing, Tractor Supply Company, Polaris, Lowe’s, Ford, Coors, Nissan, and many more. https://www.businessinsider.com/companies-cutting-dei-activist-backlash-harley-davidson-deere-tractor-supply-2024-8
All of these companies are hoping you’ll forgive and forget them for trying to ruin your life the last four years. They expect you to just let bygones be bygones. They assume you will now return to spending your hard-earned money on their products, because, after all, they’re just like you. Don’t you dare do it!
We’ve been forced to endure their hateful and racist rhetoric for four long years; we’ve been passed over for raises; job promotions, or even getting hired in the first place in favor of unqualified, low-IQ sex deviants and Affirmative Action candidates. We’ve been denied benefits and scolded in a million different ways over our “racism” and “privilege,” and now they want us to be nice and give them our money? Not a chance!
The only reason they’re abandoning these policies now is because the presidential candidate of their choice lost. Do you really think that if the man impersonating Joe Biden or that dumb bitch who pretended to be his Vice President had stolen another election that these companies would be rolling back their failed DEI policies? Absolutely not. In fact, they’d be doubling down on those policies, which tells you two things.
First, it tells you they’re cowards. If they really believed in their woke initiatives and policies, they’d keep them in place. That they’re scrapping them now just because Trump won, tells you that all they care about is joining the winning side. That’s the sign of a coward. It’s also a very feminine characteristic.
The second thing it tells you is they think you’re a fool. They think all they have to do is roll back the policies you hate, throw you a token apology, and you’ll come running back. Don’t do it. Not unless you like being played for a fool.
If you’ve been boycotting these companies, you must continue to do so. If you haven’t been boycotting these companies – and shame on you if you haven’t – then you must start immediately. That’s especially true when it comes to professional sports and anything coming from the entertainment industry – music, movies, television, etc. I suppose you can watch Dr. Phil. After all, he just helped our country’s border czar, Tom Homan, apprehend a dangerous criminal accused of sex crimes against children: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1883682412644974874
But not Selena Gomez or anyone else: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1883975187676430702
And what I said about boycotting the pedophile scum who populate the entertainment industry goes double, triple, quadruple for teachers and school officials. Say good riddance and have nothing to do with them ever again.
Now when it comes to family or friends, then obviously you can cut them some slack. The same with your co-workers and neighbors. After all, you have to live and work with them. If your neighbor is like mine, a black pill doomer with Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), then you can remain cordial with him. I remain cordial with my neighbor, although I couldn’t resist rubbing it in a little when Trump won.
My neighbor’s TDS is so strong, he actually thought that a drunk, washed-up old whore was going to win the election. He bet a small fortune on Harris. I told him not to. I told him to bet every dollar he could afford on Trump. Instead he took all the money he won in last year’s Super Bowl after I told him the game was fixed for Kansas City to win and bet it all on the whore. Some people are their own worst enemy. (By the way, it looks like Kansas City again this year.)
So it’s okay to remain cordial with people like that, even if they’re stupid like my neighbor. But not these woke corporations. They tried to cancel you. They tried to turn your children into demon-infested, homosexual trannies, and now they want you back?
To let these companies and these people off the hook, after they’ve worked overtime to make your life miserable, would be the stupidest thing ever. Not only should you continue to boycott them, you should tell everyone you know to boycott them. Boycott them into oblivion. The people running those companies are scum – human scum – and they deserve to be treated as such.
https://x.com/KarluskaP/status/1881395629827764463
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Mike Stone is the author of the new book REAL or FAKE: The Donald Trump Assassination Attempt and Teen Boy’s Success Book: the Ultimate Self-Help Book for Boys; Everything You Need to Know to Become a Man
Project Poppie: 14 Additional Arrests Made and 105 Charges Laid in Firearm Discharge Investigation,
Nine Suspects Outstanding,
Queen Street West and Sudbury Street area,
Unit:
Integrated Gun & Gang Task Force
Published: Thursday, January 23, 2025, 10:32 AM
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Fourteen additional arrests have been made and 105 charges laid as part of Project Poppie, an ongoing investigation into the gunfight that occurred on Queen Street West on November 11, 2024.
The media conference is available to watch on YouTube.
“This incident was an audacious and reckless exchange of gunfire in downtown Toronto. It is nothing short of a miracle that no one was injured or killed, including innocent civilians and our officers,” said Superintendent Paul MacIntyre of Organized Crime Enforcement. “This case serves as a powerful reminder that the Toronto Police Service remains unwavering in its commitment to holding individuals accountable for actions that endanger public safety.”
There are nine suspects who remain outstanding.
“The members of this task force have worked tirelessly since day one to identify and track down those responsible,” said Inspector Paul Krawczyk of the Integrated Gun and Gang Task Force. “Our message to anyone carrying illegal firearms or engaging in gun violence is clear: we will not stop coming after you. The work of the Toronto Police Service doesn’t end when the gunfire stops.”
On Monday, November 11, 2024, at approximately 11:20 p.m., plainclothes police officers from the 52 Division Major Crime Unit (MCU) and Public Safety Response Team (PSRT) were conducting an investigation outside of a building in the Queen Street West and Sudbury Street area.
It is alleged that:
Initially, 23 people were arrested, eight were charged, and 16 firearms were seized. Following further investigation, charges were stayed against five people. One suspect—a 16-year-old male—was charged with the homicide of Matthew Bergart, which occurred in April 2024.
Original Arrests and Charges Include:
A male youth, 16*, of Brampton, was charged with:
He has also been charged with the following in relation to the shooting incident on November 11:
Osman Aim, 21, of Toronto, was charged with:
Ras Montague, 20, of Toronto, was charged with:
The investigation has continued since the time of the incident in November 2024, culminating in Project Poppie, a task force dedicated to tracking down and arresting those involved.
As part of Project Poppie, fourteen additional people have been arrested and charged, and nine additional people are outstanding and being sought by police.
Project Poppie Arrests and Charges:
Jahvon Myles, 18, of Brampton, has been charged with:
He was scheduled to attend court at Toronto Regional Bail Centre, 2201 Finch Avenue West, on Tuesday, December 3, 2024, at 10:00 a.m., in room 301.
Hakeem Thomas, 23, of Toronto, has been charged with:
He was scheduled to attend court at Toronto Regional Bail Centre, 2201 Finch Avenue West, on Thursday, November 28, 2024, at 10:00 a.m., in room 105.
Tevon Hutchinson, 21, of Brampton, has been charged with:
He was scheduled to attend court at Toronto Regional Bail Centre, 2201 Finch Avenue West, on Thursday, January 9, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., in room 301.
Faisal Musah, 25, of Toronto, has been charged with:
He was scheduled to attend court at Toronto Regional Bail Centre, 2201 Finch Avenue West, on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., in room 107.
Liban Guedi, 24, of Toronto, has been charged with:
He was scheduled to attend court at Toronto Regional Bail Centre, 2201 Finch Avenue West, on Wednesday, December 4, 2024, at 10:00 a.m., in room 105.
Ajmain Rahman, 27, of Mississauga, has been charged with:
He was scheduled to attend court at Toronto Regional Bail Centre, 2201 Finch Avenue West, on Thursday, December 5, 2024, at 10:00 a.m., in room 301.
Trevaun Gregory, 19, of Toronto, has been charged with:
He was scheduled to attend court at Toronto Regional Bail Centre, 2201 Finch Avenue West, on Thursday, December 5, 2024, at 10:00 a.m., in room 301.
Ras Montague, 20, of Toronto, has been charged with:
He was scheduled to attend court at Ontario Court of Justice, 10 Armoury Street, on Tuesday, November 12, 2024, at 11:00 a.m., in room 301.
Reggie Amankwa, 30, of Toronto, has been charged with:
He was scheduled to attend court at Toronto Regional Bail Centre, 2201 Finch Avenue West, on Friday, December 6, 2024, at 10:00 a.m., in room 301.
Kristian Carter-Lopez, 23, of Toronto, has been charged with:
He was scheduled to attend court at Toronto Regional Bail Centre, 2201 Finch Avenue West, on Thursday, December 12, 2024, at 10:00 a.m., in room 301.
Firanz Toni, 32, of Toronto, has been charged with:
He was scheduled to attend court at Ontario Court of Justice, 10 Armoury Street, on Friday, January 17, 2025, at 11:00 a.m., in room 203.
Jahneil Brown, 26, of Toronto, has been charged with:
He was scheduled to attend court at Toronto Regional Bail Centre, 2201 Finch Avenue West, on Sunday, December 8, 2024, at 10:00 a.m., in room 105.
Aisosa Osadebamwen, 19, of Toronto, has been charged with:
He was scheduled to attend court at Toronto Regional Bail Centre, 2201 Finch Avenue West, on Saturday, January 18, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., in room 105.
A Male Youth, 17*, has been charged with:
He was scheduled to attend court at Ontario Court of Justice, 10 Armoury Street, on Friday, January 10, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., in room 606.
Project Poppie Outstanding Suspects:
Additionally, nine suspects have been identified and are currently wanted in connection with this investigation. Images of these individuals have been released, with the exception of the wanted youth, whose identity is protected under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
Mohamud Kheyre, 28, of Brampton, is wanted for:
He is described as 6’5” tall, 220 lbs., with black hair.
Caleb Odulate-Stewart, 25, of Toronto, is wanted for:
He is described as 5’10” tall, 157 lbs., with black hair.
Olad Olad, 25, of Toronto, is wanted for:
He is described as 5’11” tall, 185 lbs., with black hair.
Jahdane Hamblett, 22, of Brampton, is wanted for:
He is described as 5’7” tall, 185 lbs, with black hair.
Jahmarley Smith, 23, of Toronto, is wanted for:
He is described as 5’3” tall, 106 lbs, with a thin build, and black hair.
Dylano Williams, 25, of Toronto, is wanted for:
He is described as 5’11” tall, 170 lbs., with long black hair, and a goatee.
Johnary Walker, 19, of Brampton has been identified and is wanted for:
He is described as 6’1” tall, with a light complexion, and black hair.
Noah Belnavis-Essue, 19, of Mississauga, is wanted for:
He is described as 5’10” tall, 150 lbs., with black hair.
A Male Youth, now 18*, is wanted for:
Images of the outstanding suspects have been released. A video inside the recording studio where the incident occurred has been released and is available upon request.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-2510, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477), or at www.222tips.com.
**Please refer to Section 110, Subsection 1, of the YCJA:
110. (1) Subject to this section, no person shall publish the name of a young person, or any other information related to a young person, if it would identify the young person as a young person dealt with under this Act.***
By Constable Stephanie Miceli for Inspector Paul Krawczyk Wanted Suspect,
Mohamud Kheyre, 28
Wanted Suspect,
Caleb Odulate-Stewart, 25
Wanted Suspect,
Olad Olad, 25
Wanted Suspect,
Jahmarley Smith, 23
Wanted Suspect,
Dylano Williams, 25
Wanted Suspect:
Jahdane HAMBLETT, 22
Wanted Suspect:
Johnary WALKER, 19
Wanted Suspect,
Noah Belnavis-Essue, 19
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