The Radicals Have Taken Over Canadian Universities

Heh.

They've taken over the American universities, too!

But see Margaret Wente, at Toronto's Globe and Mail, "Academic Extremism Comes to Canada."

BONUS: At the Other McCain, "Amid Dow Boom, Liberal Media Gloom."

Justin Trudeau, Canada's Laughing Stock

I was gathering some links on Prime Minister Trudeau, and especially liked this one, from Terry Glavin, at Macleans, "Trudeau’s turn from cool to laughing stock":

To be perfectly fair, Trudeau did allow that Castro was a “controversial figure,” and nothing in his remarks was as explicit as the minor classic in the genre of dictator-worship that his brother Alexandre composed for the Toronto Star 10 years ago. Alexandre described Castro as “something of a superman. . . an expert on genetics, on automobile combustion engines, on stock markets. On everything.” As for the Cuban people: “They do occasionally complain, often as an adolescent might complain about a too strict and demanding father.”

This kind of Disco Generation stupidity about Castro has been commonplace in establishment circles in Canada since Pierre’s time, and neither Alexandre’s gringo-splaining nor Justin’s aptitude for eulogy are sufficient to gloss over the many things Cubans have every right to complain about.

Any political activity outside the Communist Party of Cuba is a criminal offence. Political dissent of any kind is a criminal offence. Dissidents are spied on, harassed and roughed up by the Castros’ neighbourhood vigilante committees. Freedom of movement is non-existent. Last year, the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation (CCDHRN) documented 8,616 cases of politically motivated arbitrary arrest. For all our Prime Minister’s accolades about Cuba’s health care system, basic medicines are scarce to non-existent. For all the claims about high literacy rates, Cubans are allowed to read only what the Castro crime family allows.

Raul Castro’s son Alejandro is the regime’s intelligence chief. His son-in-law, Luis Alberto Rodríguez López-Callejas, runs the Cuban military’s business operations, which now account for 60 per cent of the Cuban economy. The Castro regime owns and control the Cuban news media, which is adept at keeping Cubans in the dark. It wasn’t until 1999, for instance, that Cubans were permitted to know the details of Fidel’s family life: five sons they’d never heard of, all in their thirties.

Independent publications are classified as “enemy propaganda.” Citizen journalists are harassed and persecuted as American spies. Reporters Without Borders ranks Cuba at 171 out of 180 countries in press freedom, worse than Iran, worse than Saudi Arabia, worse than Zimbabwe.

So fine, let’s overlook the 5,600 Cubans Fidel Castro executed by firing squad, the 1,200 known to have been liquidated in extrajudicial murders, the tens of thousands dispatched to forced labour camps, or the fifth of the Cuban population that was either driven into the sea or fled the country in terror.

What is not so easy to overlook is that Fidel and Raúl Castro reneged on their promise of a return to constitutional democracy and early elections following the overthrow of the tyrant Fulgencio Batista. The Castros betrayed the revolutionary democrats and patriots who poured into Havana with them on that glorious January day in 1959. The Castros waged war on them in the Escambray Mountains until their final defeat in 1965, four full years after John F. Kennedy’s half-baked Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961.

After he solidified his base in Cuba’s Stalinist party–which had been allied with Batista, Castro’s apologists tend to conveniently forget, until the final months of 1958–Fidel Castro delivered Cuba to Moscow as a Soviet satrapy. He then pushed Russia to the brink of nuclear war with the United States in the terrifying 13-day Missile Crisis of 1962.

For all the parochial Canadian susceptibility to the propaganda myth that pits a shabby-bearded rebel in olive fatigues against the imperialist American hegemon, by the time he died on Friday night Castro was one of the richest men in Latin America. Ten years ago, when he was handing the presidency to Raúl, Forbes magazine calculated that Fidel’s personal wealth was already nearly a billion dollars.
In his twilight years, Castro was enjoying himself at his gaudy 30-hectare Punto Cero estate in Havana’s suburban Jaimanitas district, or occasionally retreating to his private yacht, or to his beachside house in Cayo Piedra, or to his house at La Caleta del Rosario with its private marina, or to his duck-hunting chalet at La Deseada.

Fidel Castro was not merely the “controversial figure” of Justin Trudeau’s encomium. He was first and foremost a traitor to the Cuban revolution. On that count alone, Castro’s death should not be mourned. It should be celebrated, loudly and happily.

Also, from Melissa Tweets:

Where the left, illustrated by Trudeau and Obama, fall short over and over: they just cannot admit evil exists.

— Melissa Mackenzie 🌐 (@MelissaTweets) November 28, 2016

Listen, you morally vacuous dumbbutts, there is good and evil. Castro is not a victim of his childhood. He was a psychopathic murderer.

— Melissa Mackenzie 🌐 (@MelissaTweets) November 28, 2016

Still more at Reason, "Justin Trudeau, Castro's Death, and the Power of Twitter."

#TrudeauEulogies: Twitter Goes Nuts Over Canadian Prime Minister's #FidelCastro Comments

Just crazy.

I mean, really crazy stuff.

At Blazing Cat Fur, plus some:

Justin Trudeau’s statement on Fidel Castro’s death a revisionist embarrassment https://t.co/w7e3sI9sOP pic.twitter.com/05LBfmzfZO

— Blazing CatFur (@Blazingcatfur) November 26, 2016

History's greatest monsters are given loving Canadian-style send-offs in these #TrudeauEulogies https://t.co/iTULrwK80E

— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) November 26, 2016

.@Blazingcatfur Twitter goes nuts over Canadian PM's #FidelCastro comments. #TrudeauEulogies https://t.co/DbgZidlzNc

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) November 27, 2016

University of Toronto Threatens to 'Silence' Professor Jordan Peterson Over Mandatory Gender-Neutral Pronouns 'Zie' or 'Hir'

Professor Peterson refuses to utter these completely insane "gender neutral" pronouns.

From Kelsey Harkness, at the Daily Signal, "University Threatens to ‘Silence’ Professor Protesting Genderless Pronouns."

The Environmental Crowd Knows No Compromise

It's not just the environmentalists (with an emphasis on "mental").

Leftists across the board are fanatical campaigners who see their cause as giving them unlimited license in pursuit of the agenda. We've seen this over the last few years on homosexual rights to Black Lives Matter.

But yeah, enviros are certainly overrepresented with regressive nutjobs.

From Rex Murphy, at Toronto's National Post:

The environmental protesters who are determined to throttle Alberta’s oil industry are so invested in the narrow, regressive world of their own doom-laden vision of the future, and the fanatic, narcissistic righteousness that is the hallmark of that vision, that they see themselves as having a licence to to do just about anything, no matter how morally reprehensible, in the pursuit of their cause.

Civilized debate, respect for one’s opponents, listening to differing opinions and good manners: these are the practices and mores of every other social and political exchange, and are necessary for reasoned debate to take place in a democratic society. Yet the anti-pipeline zealots seems to think that these standards don’t apply to them.

Witness that gruesome, arrogant invasion of the National Energy Board (NEB) hearing into the Energy East pipeline in Montreal this week. Three — just three — typically overzealous pipeline justice warriors flamed into the hearing room on Monday, screaming, “It has to stay in the ground.” One of them charged the panel members sitting at the front of the room, forcing the RCMP to subdue and shackle the bellicose buffoon. It was, of course, a stunt — precisely the kind of stunt that passes for protest these days, whenever the save-the-planet gang smells a camera in the distance, a headline in the making or an opportunity derail any legitimate airing of a contentious public issue.

They were only three protesters. But these three hooligans are a perfect example of the holier-than-thou mentality the pervades the modern environmental movement. Storm a meeting, scream slogans, insult the industry, play the victim, taunt the police, harass, intimidate and act like a thug — you may call it protesting if you wish, but bullying and boorishness are far closer to the mark...

RTWT.

Hat Tip: BCF.

Quick-Thinking Seal Hops on Boat to Escape Orca Hunt in British Columbia (VIDEO)

But how does the seal know that it's safer on the boat. You could have someone up top with a baseball bat ready to bludgeon the hell out of that little puppy, heh.

That wouldn't be good, of course. But who knows? Maybe the seal's got a good track record of hopping up on boats.

Via ABC News:

Majority of Canadians Think 'Universal Basic Income' Too Expensive, Makes People Lazy

They like the idea, actually.

It's just going to cost too much and create dependency.

But other than that!

At Toronto's National Post, "Canadians think guaranteed income good, but too expensive and it makes people lazy: survey":

Canadians may support a guaranteed minimum income in principle, but they don’t want to pay for it and they suspect it may turn people into shiftless louts, according to a new survey by the Angus Reid Institute.

As many as 67 per cent of respondents backed a guaranteed income set at $30,000, provided that the payment would “replace most or all other forms of government assistance.”

However, nearly as many (66 per cent) said they would not be willing to pay more taxes to support such a program, and 59 per cent said it would be too expensive to implement.

A further 63 per cent said it would “discourage people from working.” Among Conservative voters, this sentiment jumped to 74 per cent of respondents. But even in the NDP camp respondents were split 50-50.

“It’s not as though you see people on the left of the spectrum incredibly supportive of this,” said Shachi Kurl with the Angus Reid Institute.

At various times in the last 100 years, the concept of a guaranteed minimum income has been embraced by everyone from hardline conservatives to hardline progressives.

Conservatives, including U.S. president Richard Nixon, have touted it as a way to dismantle the welfare state by merely cutting the poor a cheque each month.

Progressives, meanwhile, counter that it’s a necessary way to support workers idled by outsourcing and automation.

Indeed, the Angus Reid survey even hinted that this issue could rise in prominence as more and more jobs are taken by robots...

Well, dismantling the welfare state would be good, but then if everyone's getting a basic income, you'd dismantle the workforce as well, heh.

But keep reading.

Hateful Anti-Israel Thugs Denounce Henry Kissinger, Michael Oren, and Shimon Peres in Toronto (VIDEO)

Via Ruptly:

Conservative Leader Rona Ambrose Hugged by Prime Minister Trudeau After Her Speech on Fort McMurray (VIDEO)

At the CBC, "Fort McMurray wildfire: Justin Trudeau to survey damage on Friday."

And watch, "Ambrose hugged by Trudeau after speech."

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley Moved to Tears by Fort McMurray Wildfires (VIDEO)

Well, I doubt Ezra Levant and the folks at the Rebel credit the premiere's sincerity here.

Via Telegraph UK:



PREVIOUSLY: "Eco-Freaks Exploit and Demonize Fossil Fuels During Ft. McMurray Wildfires (VIDEO)."

Eco-Freaks Exploit and Demonize Fossil Fuels During Ft. McMurray Wildfires (VIDEO)

The sick far-left prog Elizabeth Kolbert exemplifies the leftist hatred, at the New Yorker, "Fort McMurray and the Fires of Climate Change."

And see even the mainstream (craven) take at LAT, "Wildfire at Fort McMurray quickly overtakes Canada's environmental debate."

Meanwhile, check out this killer video featuring Holly Nicholas, at the Rebel.

Facts. Those pesky facts leftists hate, lol.

Environmental Wackos Cheer Canada's Fort McMurray Fires (VIDEO)

Following-up from the other day, "Canada's Fort McMurray Engulfed in Flames (VIDEO)."

Here's Ezra Levant:

Canada's Fort McMurray Engulfed in Flames (VIDEO)

Following-up, "Uncontrolled Wildfire Burns Near Fort McMurray, in Canada's Oil Sands Region, Force Residents to Flee (VIDEO)."

And at Rebel Media, "Rebuild Fort McMurray."

Uncontrolled Wildfire Burns Near Fort McMurray, in Canada's Oil Sands Region, Force Residents to Flee (VIDEO)

Via Telegraph UK:

Stop Threatening to Move to Canada!

Heh.

This is pretty good, from Brian Lilley, at the Rebel Media (via Truth Revolt):

The Rebel Journalists Banned from Covering Events at Alberta Legislature by NDP Premier Rachel Notley (VIDEO)

Read all about it, at Notley is a Bully.

And here's Faith Goldy:

Shunned by Canada and Sweden, Unmarried Syrian Muslim Woman Opts for Sensuality-Drenched Brazil

Well, I guess those Canadian and Scandinavian welfare states aren't so welcoming after all.

At the Los Angeles Times, "FLEEING SYRIA: Refugees find dizzying freedoms and unexpected dangers in Brazil":

Soon after she arrived, she began to feel conspicuous. On the street, on the bus, in the subway, people looked. They didn’t seem hostile, just puzzled. Even in Latin America’s biggest city, a woman in a headscarf stood out.

“Everyone was staring, and I was feeling alone,” says Dana Balkhi, 27. “I felt like I was choking.”

She had come to Brazil by herself, an anomaly among unmarried Muslim women. In Syria, she had studied English literature at Damascus University and loved the novels of Jane Austen.

After a missile hit her house, she fled to Turkey with her sister, but couldn’t find work there.

Canada said no, then Sweden said no, and in the winter of 2013, she faced a choice. She could return home, as her sister did, even as civil war obliterated the country. Or she could try Brazil, which was handing out fast, low-hassle “humanitarian visas” to Syrians escaping the carnage.

She went on Google and typed: Sao Paulo Arabic community helping refugees, and found some Brazilian-based Muslims who offered to help.

Who would she be coming with? they wanted to know.

Just me, she said.

They picked her up at the airport in December 2013 and gave her a bed. She learned to brace herself for the questions, when local Muslims discovered she was on her own.

“Not everyone respects my choice,” she says. “They’ll say my family doesn’t care about me, or I’m not a good girl. Of course, there are other girls that did that, but not many.”

Who knows?

Maybe she'll hook up with a bisexual fitness club down on the Copacabana? Who needs that hijab when you can be strutting a hip monokini down the beach?

Still more.

Half of the New Canadian Cabinet Members Chose to Skip 'So Help Me God' in Their Oaths of Office

Well, I'd be surprised if they did say "so help me God" in their oaths of office, lol.

Damned secular collectivists.

At Blazing Cat Fur.

Television Networks Project Liberal Party Victory in Canada's National Elections

The Wall Street Journal's got an analysis, "Canada Networks Project Liberal Party Victory in National Elections":

OTTAWA—Canadian broadcast networks projected a victory for the centrist Liberal Party in national elections late Monday night.

Results from Atlantic Canada and early returns in vote-rich Ontario and Quebec gave an advantage to the Liberal Party, led by Justin Trudeau.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservative Party campaigned on a track record of economic leadership, which he said put him in a better position to lead Canada out of its economic downturn.

But voters showed a strong desire for change, according to polls. Those same polls said before Monday’s vote that the favorite to win Monday’s election was relative newcomer Mr. Trudeau, 43 years old, who was tagged as “not ready to run” by the Harper campaign.

In the leadup to Monday’s election, voters expressed unease about their prospects, as Canada’s economy contracted in the first half of the year. While indicators point to a return to growth in the third quarter, Canada’s economy has still suffered the most of any advanced economy from the drop in prices for crude oil and other commodities.

That decline made it harder for Mr. Harper to run on the strength of his economic leadership. The country’s central bank has cut rates twice this year, and the Canadian dollar has weakened 20% versus the U.S. dollar since the start of the commodity-price rout.

Mr. Trudeau appealed to the 70%of voters who told pollsters they wanted a change. The son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Mr. Trudeau is a former high-school teacher who has never held a cabinet post or executive job.

He ran on a pledge to reduce income inequality and support the middle class, including by increasing tax rates for the top 1% of earners, and a plan to stimulate the economy with an infrastructure-spending plan of 60 billion Canadian dollars ($46 billion) over the 10 years, financed in part by deficits.

That plan contrasts with the approach of Mr. Harper, who sought to keep taxes low and promised to balance the budget.

Mr. Trudeau also signaled he aims to rebuild relations with Washington, which he and others have said are at a low ebb due to tensions over a slew of issues including the long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline, which was championed by Mr. Harper. The Liberal Party says it supports the Keystone XL pipeline project and that it would create jobs and help Canada’s energy patch...

Andrew Coyne Resigns as Opinion Editor at National Post After Newspaper Rejects Election Column

Just saw this right now, at the Toronto Star, "Andrew Coyne leaves editor role over National Post’s election endorsement."

And on Twitter:

So anyway… I have resigned as editor of Editorials and Comment for the National Post, effective immediately. I will remain a columnist.

— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 19, 2015

2. Postmedia executives and I had a professional disagreement. Their view was that the publication of a column by the editorial page editor…

— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 19, 2015

3. … dissenting from the Post’s endorsement of the Conservatives would have confused readers and embarrassed the paper.

— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 19, 2015

4. My view was that that was what I was paid to do as a columnist: give my honest opinion on issues of public interest.

— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 19, 2015

5. I don’t see public disagreement as confusing. I see it as honest. Readers, in my view, are adults & understand that adults can disagree.

— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 19, 2015

7. To be clear, the owners and managers of a newspaper have a perfect right to set the paper’s editorial line as they wish.

— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 19, 2015

8. Likewise they have a perfect right to decide who and what they wish to publish in their pages.

— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 19, 2015

9. Nobody has a God-given right to be published and the country will get along very well without me telling them how to vote.

— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 19, 2015

10. My concerns were and are merely a) that there should be no suggestion that I was personally endorsing or voting for the Conservatives.

— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 19, 2015

11. And b) that I could not do my job as a columnist if I was obliged to stay silent where these conflicted with those of management.

— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 19, 2015

12. While Postmedia’s intervention was unprecedented in my experience, I could not allow the precedent to stand.

— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 19, 2015

13. So to protect my reputation and to preserve my editorial freedom as a columnist, I felt it necessary to resign the editorial position.

— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 19, 2015

14. I think that’s all I need to say on the subject. If anyone’s still interested, I will be voting for the NDP candidate in my riding.

— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 19, 2015

15. The short-form reasoning: the Conservatives don’t deserve to be re-elected, and the Liberals don’t deserve a majority.

— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 19, 2015

*6. The confusion, if any, would have been to have left the impression that the paper’s views were mine, or that my views were the paper’s.

— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 19, 2015