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bookclub4m · 1 year ago

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Episode 188 - Transportation and Transit Non-Fiction

All aboard! This episode we’re discussing the non-fiction genre of Transportation and Transit! We talk trains, buses, bicycles, spaceships, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

The Art of the Locomotive by Ken Boyd

Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America by Michael Hiltzik

Ghost Train (four part podcast by Denver Public Radio)

Transit Maps of the World: The World's First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth by Mark Ovenden

Transit Maps of the World: Expanded and Updated Edition of the World's First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth by Mark Ovenden

Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town by Charles L. Marohn Jr.

Canadarm and Collaboration: How Canada’s Astronauts and Space Robots Explore New Worlds by Elizabeth Howell

Links between two cities: historic bridges between Ottawa and Hull by Lucien Brault.

Other Media We Mentioned

The Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways by Mike Ashley

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Orient Express by Graham Greene

Maiden Railways by Asumiko Nakamura

Heaven's Design Team, Vol. 1 by Hebi-Zou, Tsuta Suzuki, and Tarako

For 2 Weeks, Switzerland Has A Rail Replacement Helicopter

Vancouver's Expo Line 1990 vs 2020

Mini Metro

Soviet Bus Stops by Christopher Herwig

There’s a documentary movie!

Soviet Metro Stations by Christopher Herwig

How To F#€k Up An Airport (five part podcast by Radio Spaetkauf)

Some YouTube channels and videos about trains and transport things:

CityNerd

Not Just Bikes

Stroads are Ugly, Expensive, and Dangerous (and they're everywhere)

Crossing the Street Shouldn't Be Deadly (but it is) (See the building Anna and Matthew used to live in!)

RMTransit

The Tim Traveller

This New LA Metro Station Should be PACKED - Here’s Why It’s Not

Denver’s Transit System is Problematic

Freight Trains: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace

Links, Articles, and Things

Note to self: Make “derail” joke about conversation going off topic.

Train_Station-Katowice_Poland.wav by jgrzinich

Rail replacement bus service (Wikipedia)

Slow television (Wikipedia)

“It was popularised in the 2000s by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), beginning with the broadcast of a 7-hour train journey in 2009.”

Fort Collins Trolley

‘I am done’: Amid rider woes, is Ottawa’s transit system a victim of its own success?

Heritage Minutes: Avro Arrow

12 Transit/Automotive/Planes/Trains/Boats books by BIPOC Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance by Mia Bay

Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance by Alvin Hall

Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad by Manu Karuka

Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance by Adonia E. Lugo

Making a Chaputs: The Teachings and Responsibilities of a Canoe Maker by Joe Martin with Alan Hoover

Taxi!: Cabs and Capitalism in New York City by Biju Mathew

Crash Course: If You Want To Get Away With Murder Buy a Car by Woodrow Phoenix

Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship Before the Civil War by Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor

Why Flying Is Miserable: And How to Fix It by Ganesh Sitaraman

Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights by Gretchen Sorin

Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy A. Taylor

The Diary of Dukesang Wong: A Voice from Gold Mountain by Dukesang Wong, translated by Wanda Joy Hoe

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Then on Tuesday, February 20th we’ll be talking about our reading resolutions for 2024! (2024? That can’t be right. That’s definitely the future.)

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How the 2021 federal budget impacts you

The federal government unveiled its long-awaited spring budget on Monday, with a focus on navigating taxpayers out of the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and embarking on the long road to economic recovery, with specific attention paid to the most vulnerable.

CTVNews.ca has analyzed the document and identified the key items that, if passed in Parliament, will impact Canadian businesses, workers, families, students, and seniors.

Here’s how the Liberals’ pandemic exit strategy impacts you:

IS THE COST OF CHILD CARE A FINANCIAL STRAIN?

Canadian families across the country, aside from Quebecers, continue to grapple with the increasingly high costs of child care. While child care remains a provincial issue, the federal government is promising measures to help its provincial counterparts establish a more consistent and affordable framework.

The government is proposing to cut down on the costs of regulated child care in the country to $10 per day on average within the next five years. By the end of 2022, the government is aiming to see a 50 per cent decrease in average fees.

Support from Ottawa to the provinces would focus on enhancing training and boosting wages for early childhood educators, creating more affordable child-care spaces, and funding not-for-profit sector child-care providers. Part of this work would also include supporting the needs of Indigenous families, including improving before- and after-school learning for First Nations children on reserve.

The government is proposing to put money aside to see the capacity of the Federal Secretariat on Early Learning and Child Care role strengthened, one of the main objectives being the development of a new National Advisory Council to dig into any new challenges facing the early learning and child-care sector.

SEARCHING FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING?

Low interest rates and a lack of housing supply have meant a surge in the cost to purchase a home. The pandemic has also reinforced wealth gaps and left many having to turn to public housing options. The Liberals are proposing to make affordable housing more available.

A sizeable chunk of money is set aside for the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation over seven years to: ramp up the Rapid Housing Initiative, of which 25 per cent of funding will go specifically to service women-focused housing needs; invest in the Affordable Housing Innovation Fund; prop up the Canada Housing Benefit; and bolster the Federal Community Housing Initiative. The government is also proposing to reallocate previously announced funding through the National Housing Co-Investment Fund and the Rental Construction Financing Initiative.

Capital Dispatch: Stay up to date on the latest news from Parliament Hill

The budget earmarks money specifically for the construction of 30 new public housing units across the Northwest Territories and approximately 100 new housing units in Nunavut.

The Liberals are also committing to ending “chronic” homelessness in Canada, with millions going to Reaching Home – the government’s strategy combat homelessness – and another chunk going to the creation of a pilot program to reduce veteran-specific homelessness.

Following on their announcement in the fall economic statement, the government is promising to put the steps in motion to implement a national, annual one per cent tax on “the value of non-resident, non-Canadian owned residential real estate that is considered to be vacant or underused, effective January 1, 2022.”

ARE YOU A SENIOR IN LONG-TERM CARE OR STRUGGLING TO MAKE ENDS MEET?

The disastrous living conditions within long-term care facilities, and the way COVID-19 tore though those facilities, is widely seen as one of the more eye-opening social injustices of the pandemic. The government acknowledged this reality in the budget and has proposed some solutions to ensure better treatment of our elders.

The budget sees billions going to Health Canada to support the provinces and territories to develop national standards of long-term care. Millions will also go to Statistics Canada to improve data collection and infrastructure on “supportive care, primary care, and pharmaceuticals.”

The government is also proposing a new initiative dubbed the Age Well at Home initiative to make it easier for seniors to age where they are through community supports.

To help with immediate pandemic needs, the Liberals are pitching to deliver a one-time payment of $500 in August to those who will be 75 and over as of June 2022. In the long-term, they will introduce legislation to raise Old Age Security payments by 10 per cent “on an ongoing basis” as of July 2022.

ARE YOU A STUDENT RACKING UP DEBT?

As the budget reads, young people were among the “hardest and fastest hit” by pandemic unemployment, “experiencing more job losses than any other age demographic.” Couple that with pre-pandemic student debt and the situation becomes worse. It’s for this reason the government is prioritizing support to this group.

The government is proposing to transition students and recent grads from the Canada Student Loans Program to a new Canada Student Financial Assistance Program that will “make student debt easier to pay down and provide direct support to students with the greatest need.” The budget also details a legislative plan to absorb interest accrued from the student loans and Canada Apprentice Loans programs until March 31, 2023.

Through the pandemic, the Liberals doubled the amount of money accessible through the Canada Student Grants initiative for the 2020-21 school year. Their intention is to extend the amount until the end of July 2023.

The government plans to extend disability supports under the Canada Student Loans Program to cover individuals whose disabilities are prolonged but not permanent.

The budget sees millions going toward connecting students to jobs, with money going to the Student Work Placement Program, which the government expects would provide approximately 50,000 young people work opportunities over the next several years. It also proposes to dish over money to build up the Youth Employment and Skills Strategy, namely to support vulnerable youth and it plans to invest in the Canada Summer Jobs program to produce approximately 75,000 new job placements in the summer of 2022.

IS THE PANDEMIC KEEPING YOU JOBLESS?

If you are still out of a job due to the pandemic, which applies to approximately 300,000 Canadians, and the likelihood of returning to permanent work looks grim, the government is promising to prolong some of its key income supports through to the fall as well.

The government is proposing to tack on 12 additional weeks to the Canada Recovery Benefit application period, to a maximum of 50 weeks. To eventually wean recipients off of the emergency support, the first four weeks would be paid out at the regular $500 per week amount but would decrease to $300 per week for the remaining eight weeks.

A similar extension would be applied to the Canada Recovery Caregiving Benefit, which would be stretched out for an additional four weeks, to a maximum of 42 weeks at $500 per week.

The government is also proposing to make immediate legislative changes to Canada’s Employment Insurance (EI) program to ensure it remains easy to access over the coming years. They also set aside money for future, long-term EI reform consultations, such as “the need for income support for self-employed and gig workers.”

The budget proposes to pour billions into extending sickness benefits, available under EI, from 15 to 26 weeks, which would come into effect in the summer of 2022. It also promises to make amendments to the Employment Insurance Act and the Canadian Labour Code to ensure job protection while accessing those sickness benefits.

IS YOUR BUSINESS STILL STRUGGLING?

If you are one of the many business owners still reliant on the government’s suite of job protection benefits, the budget pledges that support will continue to at least July, and for some until early fall. The exact timing of the phasing-out will be based on the efficiency of the vaccine rollout, the government says.

The Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy will be extended to Sept. 25, but the subsidy rate would gradually decrease beginning on July 4. It will be replaced eventually with the new Canada Recovery Hiring Program, which is proposed to span from June to November. To encourage corporations, charities, non-profits and others to hire new or previously laid-off workers as the economy rebounds, this initiative would “offset a portion of the extra costs employers take on as they reopen.”

“It’s an effort on our part to begin the process of moving from the protecting of jobs – a very important objective during the pandemic, the protecting of jobs and the protecting of the link between workers and their employers – to helping businesses now create jobs,” said a senior government official about the new hiring initiative during the budget briefing.

The Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy and Lockdown Support, set to expire in June, will also continue to run until the same September end date. Similar to the CEWS, that support will gradually decrease as vaccinations ramp up and the economy reopens.

The government recently extended the application deadline for the Canada Emergency Business Account (CEBA) to June 30, given the continued financial strain of the pandemic. The budget proposes to do the same for the Regional Relief and Recovery Fund and the Indigenous Business Initiative.

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iamnotperfectimakemistakes · 6 years ago

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Top Lawyers In Canada

Jean-Pierre Blais

Chairman, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, Ottawa-Gatineau Blais is not afraid of criticism and is prepared to go above and beyond in the name of consumer rights. A new CRTC decision provides consumers more freedom to choose TV channels of the liking as part of the satellite and cable subscriptions regardless of bitter opposition from Canada's cable businesses. Blais known as former Bell Media president Kevin Crull, without naming names, over reports Crull told CTV news staff to not interview him later that choice. Crull ended up apologizing for interfering in the information gathering process and afterwards resigned. From telemarketers to telcos, Blais always intends to support the rights and demands of consumers. What Republicans needed to say: Achieving big change with consumer-minded focus. About time!

Sheila Block

Partner, Torys LLP, Toronto, Ont. Among the sharpest litigators in the country, Block has served as lead counsel on a newly dismissed $5-billion class action lawsuit against CIBC and a $100-million lawsuit brought by approximately 8,000 inhabitants of Barbados against Manulife. She was also staunch counsel for former Manitoba associate chief justice Lori Douglas from the question of the judge's character in a scandal involving her husband, one of his former customers, and salacious photos of herself submitted online. Block also received an honorary LLD from the Law Society of Upper Canada this year. An urge dedicated to teaching law in Canada and around the globe, she has trained advocates for the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal in Rwanda and the Special Court on Sierra Leone. What Republicans needed to say: Elle demontre son interet a la fois pour l'education du publique et des affaires. (She's shown her interest for the instruction of the general public and business.)

Justice Beverley McLachlin

Chief justice, Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa, Ont. A common member of the Top 25 list along with also the very best vote-getter in years ago, McLachlin proceeds to make waves, handing down two very important conclusions on aboriginal law. The 2014 Tsilhqot'in Nation v. British Columbia decision led by McLachlin is the earliest of its kind in the history of British Columbia. Last year that the Supreme Court of Canada granted announcement of aboriginal title to over 1,700 square kilometres of land. She is responsible for upholding the decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal in Keewatin v. Ontario (Natural Resources) published in July 2014, she has what the Lamer court began and has left her mark in this area for decades to come. The chief justice is still a powerful proponent of justice for all Canadians. As her unbelievable amount of votes once more this season reveal, McLachlin is greatly admired not just for her rulings but her public aid in favour of free speech, diversity, and comprehensive direction. What Republicans needed to say: An excellent judge who, again and again, marries the legislation with common sense. Justifiably most respected legal mind in the country; outstanding integrity; reliable public servant; obviously guided by the law and also a strong moral compass.

Louise Arbour

Counsel, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Montreal, Que. An global lawyer who has recently settled in Canada, Arbour has earned a spot on the Canadian Lawyer's Top 25 Most Influential list again this season. She's a winner of the 2015 Simons Foundation Award, realizing world leaders who shape and create an environment for a safer and more just world. Arbour has spoken out against protracted use of solitary confinement and has been inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. She has been a Supreme Court of Canada judge, an global war crimes prosecutor, and a law school professor. Her ability to pick up things quickly led her to different roles nationally and internationally. Arbour says economic disparities between and within counties is that the number-one inexcusable human rights issue right now. Always craving new and challenging environments, just last year she finally did something she hadn't ever done: joined a law firm in Montreal where she continues to struggle for individual rights. What voters had to say:Her stunning contributions speak for themselves. International celebrity.

Murray Klippenstein

Creator, Klippensteins Barristers & Solicitors, Toronto, Ont. Back to the second year on the Top 25, Klippenstein's ongoing representation of 13 members of the indigenous Mayan Q'eqchi' inhabitants from El Estor, Guatemala, continues to make waves. Three associated suits are before the Ontario courts against Canadian mining company Hudbay Minerals within the brutal killing of Adolfo Ich and the gang rape of 11 girls from Lote Ocho. In a precedent-setting ruling in July of 2013, an Ontario court decided that lawsuits can proceed to trial in Canada over the objections of Hudbay Minerals. At home he's also taking on the big guys in a case against Encana Corp. which 's hard the law and practice of hydraulic fracking at Canada. What Republicans needed to say: Kudos for standing up for, upholding Canadian values, wherever we operate.

Poonam Puri

Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, Ont. Though Puri might not be involved in the biggest transactions of the year or most publicized litigation, her work indelibly contours the disagreements and strategies of many attorneys. Her influence is reflected by the eagerness of the Canadian legal community to listen to and respond to her perspectives and observations on the present condition of regulations and recommendations concerning what could be done to develop a more honest, just, and responsive legal system. She has led research programs including important corporate securities law initiatives in Canada (National Securities Regulator file) and has been appointed by the Ontario Minister of Finance Charles Sousa, as the expert adviser for its Credit Unions' legislative framework review. She is a respected and popular professor and highly recognized by professionals in the corporate-commercial pub. What Republicans needed to say: Exceptional talent. Unassuming trendsetter. Wise beyond her years. Will be an impact for many years to come on the corporate phase in Canada. Outstanding research and technical skills.

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kayla1993-world · 3 years ago

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Physical force and threats of force were used by RCMP officers at a record level in 2020, but Mounties are also slowly implementing deterrence methods, like drawing their weapons without firing.

In its latest report, RCMP has outlined its latest "police intervention methods," a term that covers all instances where RCMP touch or brandish a weapon at members of the public.

It’s true that most of the interactions between the RCMP and the public end peacefully, but Mounties employed "police intervention options" 4,840 times in 2020 — the highest number since 2012.

Similarly, deterrence methods — such as pointing pepper spray at a subject without using it — outnumbered force methods for a second year in a row. In the coming years, the RCMP says it expects this trend to grow.

The RCMP national headquarters has placed a lot of emphasis on de-escalation, said Simon Baldwin, manager of the operational research unit. "I'd like to think that the work in the training has paid off in terms of reducing use of force. But it also shows that, by using different intervention options, it can be effective as a deterrent."

RCMP — which provides contract policing in all three territories and most provinces — has been under pressure to justify its use of force after a number of high-profile incidents, including the arrest of Athabasca Chipewyan Chief Allan Adam and the 2020 killing of Rodney Levi, who was a member of the Metepenagiag First Nation in New Brunswick.

Although the report covers 2020, it was released only in early 2022. A recent protest occupation in Ottawa, which was one of the largest police operations in Canadian history, is not covered in the report. The most common form of deterrence used by Mounties in 2020 was drawing a firearm. There were 3300 instances in which RCMP officers displayed or pointed a firearm at a member of the public without firing.

According to Corporal Nick Widdershoven of the RCMP’s national police intervention unit, “that's a very limited number of early interactions with the public.” As for when a firearm might be drawn, “we're talking about high-risk situations."

Professor Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, a special adviser to the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, said brandishing weapons still comes with a risk.

"If weapons are present, and especially if they're drawn, they could be used," he said. "It is still important to acknowledge that we are having conversations in this country about police use of force and certainly police killings," he added, noting that Black and Indigenous people tend to be "greatly overrepresented" among police use of force targets.

In 2020, RCMP officer-involved shootings were down, but a world record was set for Mountie-involved shootings — 14 deaths. That year, a RCMP officer was also shot and killed. "If you know people are shooting at officers, they are likely to retaliate," said Baldwin.

"It is a trend that we are interested in looking at with the impact of COVID, stress and things like that. I am unsure what effect it is having on the population. We will be continuing to examine this in the future."

A total of 350 people have been to the hospital after being confronted by RCMP officers in 2020. Eight Mounties were gang members in the same year. In addition, the RCMP documented three in-custody deaths in 2020, all of which were in British Columbia.

RCMP officers have been cleared in investigations into two of those in-custody deaths. One incident is still being investigated. In about half of the cases where police intervened in 2020, the subjects had weapons.

"The terms 'assault police officer' and 'resist arrest' always raise questions in my mind since they are highly discretionary," said Owusu-Bempah. "It can be something as simple as moving in the wrong direction and accidentally striking a police officer. When we examine other areas of inequality and racial disparities, it often comes in the form of 'resist arrest', 'obstruct officer' or 'assault officer.'"

According to the RCMP, 69% of subjects seen by Mounties were under the influence of drugs or alcohol, and a third were emotionally disturbed. Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP, the RCMP’s watchdog agency, has said it has received complaints about the RCMP's "unreasonable use of force" during wellness and mental health calls.

In mental health emergencies, the largest psychiatric hospital in Canada has even called for police officers to be replaced by paramedics. The numbers suggest some big changes in the ways in which RCMP officers use force, according to criminology lecturer Eric Laming of Trent University.

Using pepper spray has declined, for example, while using tasers has risen. "The fact that more use-of-force incidents are documented as deterrent methods is always a worthwhile thing. However, based on the year-to-year comparison, he said, he does not perceive any major shift with respect to force of force frequencies.”

"As always, context and other variables of interest are relevant, and we cannot get that from just looking at the numbers." The 2020 figures do not include race-based data — which Commissioner Brenda Lucki has promised to investigate.

In 2020, Indigenous community members were involved in at least 16 percent of RCMP officer-involved shooting incidents in 2020," according to Laming.

"In any case, Indigenous communities have been impacted greatly by police shooting incidents and possibly other use-of-force interventions. However, this is virtually impossible to assess without accurate race-based data."

To place a greater emphasis on communication and de-escalation, the RCMP updated its training and its Incident Management Intervention Model — the protocol that RCMP officers follow when dealing with the public — in April of 2021.

"We're hoping to see the fruits of that, including a continued decline and increased use of de-escalation," Baldwin said. "There is always room for improvement." The figures were compiled from the force's subject behaviour/officer response database, which relies on officers entering information into the force's internal management system.

Mounties are meant to record the details of officer response incidents, including what happened, how the subject acted, and the officer's response. Details such as these are the result of each officer's perception at the time. Any time an officer uses substantial force (like punching or kicking) or a taser, a firearm, a police service dog, or a "weapon of opportunity" — any object deployed at that time – an incident report is required.

A soft physical control technique (soft takedowns, non-resistant handcuffs) that results in injury is also mandatory. After mass protests against police brutality, the force only began opening that database to the public in 2020. Those statistics covered the years from 2010 to 2019.

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wannabeentertainer · 7 years ago

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One workshop, one step closer to my life’s path.

This past week I had the immense privilege of being trained in Theatre of the Oppressed facilitation techniques. We laughed, we cried, we used theatre and improv to better understand our worlds, tell our stories and in some instances, as a type of therapy.

What is Theatre of the Oppressed?

“Theater of the Oppressed is an arsenal of theater techniques and games that seeks to motivate people, restore true dialogue, and create space for participants to rehearse taking action. It begins with the idea that everyone has the capacity to act in the “theater” of their own lives; everybody is at once an actor and a spectator. We are “spect-actors!” — a term which Boal coined.” ~ Beautiful Trouble

And I am hooked!

The workshop was led by the warm and wonderful Naomi Tessler. Naomi founded Branch Out Theatre in 2001 to offer workshops and other services “guided by the notion that the art of co-creating space for dialogue, sharing and enacting stories creates the conditions for individuals and communities to identify and solve their own struggles.” She herself was trained by the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, Augusto Boal. Drawing inspiration from Freire, Brecht, and Stanislavski, Augusto Boal developed the Theater of the Oppressed in practice throughout his career, starting in the ’50s in Brazil and later in Argentina, Peru, Ecuador and France (and Canada) while in exile from the military dictatorship (exert from Beautiful Trouble).

Here is the lovely Naomi. Don’t you just want to hug her?!?

Photo by Andrew Alexander for “off (Balance) & feelers”, part of Ottawa’s Tactics - Theatre Artists' Co-operative: the Independent Collective Series

In our 4 days together, Naomi inspired us to support each other as we dug deep into issues of personal and social injustice, learning techniques to incorporate Image Theatre, Playback Theatre and Forum Theatre into our own teaching.

What really struck me about the workshop is how it brought together people who are working with some of the most marginalized communities: from those battling stigma around HIV, to the formerly incarcerated, to LGBTQ2 communities, to Indigenous youth, to those suffering from former or current addictions. We all shared our experiences and learned so much from each other.

I come away from the workshop with a newfound desire to share the power of theatre to empower us all.

Of course, I immediately went home and bought some books to add to my own toolkit because I LOVE BOOKS and I am hungry to continue to explore ways to introduce theatre and improv into the lives of those who have privilege and power. Through corporate workshops and classes, I think there is great worth in passing along this work.

You can get these books here.

I know this is just the beginning and I can’t wait to learn more!

Keep Being Awesome,

Laura V Hall

#theatre #actorslife #augustoboal #brazil #europe #training #workshop #learn #slay #grind #branchout #improv #share #empower #empathy #compassion #oppression #privilege #books

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How the 2021 federal budget impacts you

OTTAWA — The federal government unveiled its long-awaited spring budget on Monday, with a focus on navigating taxpayers out of the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and embarking on the long road to economic recovery, with specific attention paid to the most vulnerable.

CTVNews.ca has analyzed the document and identified the key items that, if passed in Parliament, will impact Canadian businesses, workers, families, students, and seniors.

Here’s how the Liberals’ pandemic exit strategy impacts you:

IS THE COST OF CHILD CARE A FINANCIAL STRAIN?

SEARCHING FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING?

The budget earmarks money specifically for the construction of 30 new public housing units across the Northwest Territories and approximately 100 new housing units in Nunavut.

ARE YOU A SENIOR IN LONG-TERM CARE OR STRUGGLING TO MAKE ENDS MEET?

The disastrous living conditions within long-term care facilities, and the way COVID-19 tore through those facilities, is widely seen as one of the more eye-opening social injustices of the pandemic. The government acknowledged this reality in the budget and has proposed some solutions to ensure better treatment of our elders.

The government is also proposing a new initiative dubbed the Age Well at Home initiative to make it easier for seniors to age where they are through community supports.

ARE YOU A STUDENT RACKING UP DEBT?

The government plans to extend disability supports under the Canada Student Loans Program to cover individuals whose disabilities are prolonged but not permanent.

IS THE PANDEMIC KEEPING YOU JOBLESS?

A similar extension would be applied to the Canada Recovery Caregiving Benefit, which would be stretched out for an additional four weeks, to a maximum of 42 weeks at $500 per week.

IS YOUR BUSINESS STILL STRUGGLING?

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dailynewswebsite · 4 years ago

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Ottawa’s latest climate plan bets on expensive and unproven carbon capture technologies

The Trudeau authorities has tabled a invoice that, if handed, would legally bind Canada to reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Final week, the federal authorities launched its lengthy awaited plan to deal with greenhouse gasoline emissions and local weather change. Invoice C-12, if handed, commits Canada to “binding” targets each 5 years as of 2030 with the purpose of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050.

The invoice is skinny on particulars, resulting from its deal with establishing an impartial 15-member advisory board. That is each a energy, in that it’ll hopefully embrace local weather scientists, Indigenous folks and different professional stakeholders, and a weak point, as a result of it pushes the timeline for particular measures and motion additional into the longer term, with 2030 the primary goal date.

What’s most regarding is that by dragging its toes on particular measures to curb greenhouse gasoline emissions, the Trudeau authorities is shoehorning Canadians into costly, unproven and unreliable applied sciences.

As a researcher who research the governance of climate-altering applied sciences (reminiscent of carbon seize and storage), I can guarantee you that we’re already behind on tackling local weather change and catching up goes to be costly. The federal government’s technique will seemingly rely on expertise that isn’t viable in the way in which it hopes.

Staying heading in the right direction

Canada has repeatedly failed to fulfill any of the local weather targets it has set in place since 1992. This has left us additional behind our Paris local weather settlement targets and scrambling to catch as much as meet our world commitments.

Not solely do we have to meet these local weather targets this time round — our worldwide commerce companions such because the EU and even China might even see us as laggards, additional eroding our worldwide credibility — we have to make up for misplaced time.

The main focus of the federal authorities is on market-driven options, together with applied sciences that take away carbon from the air or emissions and lock them away. However carbon seize and storage (CCS) and carbon dioxide removing (CDR) are usually not silver bullets within the struggle in opposition to local weather change.

Historic greenhouse gasoline emissions and projections for Canada, 2005-30. Authorities knowledge appears to counsel we are able to probably meet our Paris Settlement targets (blue) or maybe exceed them (inexperienced), however with out drastic adjustments, assembly our 2030 objectives (yellow) is probably going unattainable. (Setting and Local weather Change Canada)

Canada is residence to a few of the most profitable CCS initiatives and firms on this planet, together with the Alberta Carbon Trunk Line, Boundary Dam and Carbon Engineering. Nevertheless, these are costly demonstration initiatives. Their use could possibly be focused to particular sectors (reminiscent of aluminium manufacturing), however they may by no means successfully cut back Canadians’ emissions at scale.

Capturing and storing carbon is pricey, and in some circumstances outright ineffectual. America authorities spent US$5 billion from 2010 to 2018 on the expertise, however it might take extra important investments, extra analysis and a few technological breakthroughs for the expertise to decrease the price of capturing carbon to US$94-232 per tonne. That is staggering in comparison with Canada’s baseline carbon tax of $50 per tonne of emissions by 2022, and when factored into the already low worth of Canadian oil, we’re are left with a most sad conclusion.

Who’s paying for this?

Usually, corporations would pay taxes or levies over time into varied applications to pay for unfavourable externalities — the unwanted side effects of merchandise or methods they run that trigger social, financial or environmental harms. These funds would then be used to pay for these related prices.

This answer is dubbed “Pigouvian taxation” (after Arthur Pigou). Eire, for instance, launched a plastic bag tax (versus banning them), which resulted in a 90 per cent lower of their use.

The issue is that in Canada corporations are usually not paying into any such funds — nor have they — leaving Canadians with no supply to pay for this new expense.

So how would Canada discover the cash to pay for costly initiatives reminiscent of carbon seize and storage? Because it stands, that price will likely be handed to the taxpayer. Our present carbon tax circulates the cash again into the financial system.

Two billion timber

What about Prime Minister Trudeau’s promise to plant two billion timber? Planting timber is, in spite of everything, a pure technique of carbon seize and storage.

Planting timber is a helpful short-term train, however timber don’t dwell endlessly. Though the soil in boreal forests comprises carbon saved there generations in the past, it may be launched by logging or forest fires, that are getting extra extreme resulting from local weather change. Most of these adjustments, if not correctly managed, can result in forests changing into carbon sources.

As northern summers get hotter and drier, boreal forest fires have gotten extra intense, which means they burn deeper into the soil (NASA).

As well as, the darkness of leaves can soak up extra incoming power than the doubtless lighter floor floor. Planting timber over areas that may in any other case be snow lined, may really heat the planet whereas nonetheless absorbing carbon, although extra evaluation is important to grasp this difficulty.

This isn’t to say that carbon seize and storage or carbon dioxide removing applied sciences wouldn’t have a task to play sooner or later. Concrete produces 4 to eight per cent of world emissions, and mandating that every one concrete services be fitted with carbon capturing applied sciences may cut back their emissions. Whereas these are costly, they might be mandatory.

Even when the expertise had been utilized to the power sector, Canadian oil would seemingly be a web loss on each barrel produced — and who would pay for the price of shifting it to widespread use? The federal authorities remains to be reeling from the price of the Trans Mountain pipeline, the non-public sector has no urge for food to spend money on such a enterprise with out ensures of profitability and regardless of claims of well-financed conspiracy, environmental teams aren’t precisely flush with money.

The present Intergovernmental Panel on Local weather Change (IPCC) fashions depend on the deployment of great quantities of carbon seize and storage within the latter a part of the century to fulfill agreed-upon targets. To rely on such applied sciences as a silver bullet for addressing Canadian local weather coverage, nonetheless, is flawed and doomed to fail. When the Authorities of Canada releases exact particulars for assembly the local weather targets outlined in Invoice C-12, it can not rely on carbon seize and storage or carbon dioxide removing if there’s any hope in succeeding.

Burgess Langshaw Energy was previously a Coverage Analyst with Pure Assets Canada – he’s at the moment on go away to finish his PhD.

from Growth News https://growthnews.in/ottawas-latest-climate-plan-bets-on-expensive-and-unproven-carbon-capture-technologies/ via https://growthnews.in

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Government of Canada announces judicial appointments in the province of Québec

From: Department of Justice Canada

News release

The Honourable David Lametti, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, today announced the following appointments under the judicial application process established in 2016.

May 14, 2020 – Ottawa, Ontario – Department of Justice Canada

The Honourable David Lametti, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, today announced the following appointments under the judicial application process established in 2016. This process emphasizes transparency, merit, and diversity, and will continue to ensure the appointment of jurists who meet the highest standards of excellence and integrity.

Jocelyn Pilote, partner at Larouche Lalancette Pilote Avocats in Alma, is appointed a puisne judge of the Superior Court of Quebec for the district of Chicoutimi. Mr. Justice Pilote replaces Mr. Justice C. Lachance (Chicoutimi), who elected to become a supernumerary judge effective October 15, 2019.

Isabelle Germain, partner at Stein Monast in Québec, is appointed a puisne Judge of the Superior Court of Quebec for the district of Québec. Madam Justice Germain replaces Madam Justice M. Lacroix (Québec), who elected to become a supernumerary judge effective January 1, 2020.

Biography

Justice Jocelyn Pilote was called to the Barreau du Québec in 1987 after earning a Bachelor of Laws degree from Université Laval in 1986.

Mr. Justice Pilote entered professional practice at the Larouche Lalancette et Associés law firm in Alma and became a partner of Larouche Lalancette Pilote Avocats in 1991. Prior to his appointment, he practised civil and commercial litigation in various areas of law, such as securities, bankruptcy and insolvency law, agri-food law, and municipal law. He has pleaded before various administrative tribunals, the Court of Quebec, the Superior Court of Quebec, and the Court of Appeal of Quebec. He also practised corporate and commercial law and acted as legal counsel in numerous commercial transactions. He has served as an arbitrator for the Barreau du Québec’s conciliation and account arbitration service for a number of years.

Justice Pilote has been active in his community throughout his years of practice. He has been a member of the Collège d’Alma Board of Directors and a member of the Alma Richelieu Club for 25 years. He also chaired both of these organizations for two years.

Justice Pilote and his wife, teacher Sylvie Girard, are the proud parents of three children.

Justice Isabelle Germain earned a Bachelor of Laws degree from Université Laval in 1998 and was called to the Barreau du Québec in 2000. Additionally, she holds a certificate in business administration from Université Laval, also obtained in 1998.

Madam Justice Germain began her career as a lawyer with the Ogilvy Renault law firm (now Norton Rose Fulbright) in the Québec City, in the area of civil litigation and insurance. In 2001, she joined McCarthy Tétrault in the City of Québec, where she practised as a lawyer in professional liability, disciplinary law, civil and commercial litigation, and bankruptcy and insolvency until 2016. For the past three years, she has been a partner at the Stein Monast law firm, practising in the same areas of law. From the start of her career, she has helped recruit, train and mentor young lawyers.

Along with her practice, Justice Germain is involved with both her Bar and her community. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Barreau de Québec as well as many committees. In particular, she is Chair of the Barreau de Québec’s Superior Court Liaison Committee. Lastly, she is a member of the Board of Directors of the Université Laval Club de soccer du Rouge et Or soccer club.

Quick facts

At the Superior Court level, more than 350 judges have been appointed since November 2015. These exceptional jurists represent the diversity that strengthens Canada. Of these judges, more than half are women, and appointments reflect an increased representation of visible minorities, Indigenous, LGBTQ2S, and those who self-identify as having a disability.

The Government of Canada is committed to promoting access to justice for all Canadians. To improve outcomes for Canadian families, Budget 2018 provides funding of $77.2 million over four years to support the expansion of unified family courts, beginning in 2019-2020. This investment in the family justice system will create 39 new judicial positions in Alberta, Ontario, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador.

In addition, Budget 2018 provides funding for a further seven judicial positions in Saskatchewan and Ontario, at a cost of $17.1 million over five years.

Federal judicial appointments are made by the Governor General, acting on the advice of the federal Cabinet and recommendations from the Minister of Justice.

The Judicial Advisory Committees across Canada play a key role in evaluating judicial applications. There are 17 Judicial Advisory Committees, with each province and territory represented.

Significant reforms to the role and structure of the Judicial Advisory Committees, aimed at enhancing the independence and transparency of the process, were announced on October 20, 2016.

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In Mid December 2018 the Untied We Roll Convoy was first publicly announced. This was a protest in the form of a convoy that would leave Alberta and travel to Ottawa picking up people along the way until finally reaching Ottawa with many cars and a bus full of supporters, along with and a convoy of over 200 trucks and even tractors. Participating in this was the grassroots Yellow Vest Canada movement that had sprung up after the one in France. First on social media but quickly moving to the real world with small but persistent demonstrations across Canada that continue to this day.

The issues the convoy wished to bring to Ottawa were as varied as the participants. Many Oil and Gas workers were protesting what they saw as the Liberal governments attempt to cripple the Canadian energy sector in favor of Saudi oil while Alberta faced huge layoffs and skyrocketing suicide rates. Many others while not opposing Immigration were deeply concerned with the uncontrolled mass migration called for by the United Nations migrant compact. Thousands were and continue to pour across our border in violation of our Laws somehow claiming to be “refugees” from upstate new York and Minneapolis. Many were appalled by the ceaseless attacks on Canadian identity and culture being pushed constantly by Educators and media. Many objected to the obvious , if yet unpublished corruption, the is the lifeblood of the Trudeau Liberal Party. They were Canadians from every walk of life who used their own resources and crowdfunding. Some brought their families while they ate in cheap truck-stops and slept in their cars driven by their desire to save their country from corruption and ruin.

On December 30th a workshop going by the name of Powershift: Young and Rising/Jeunes en action was posted to Facebook by the parent group identity Powershift. Powershifts Facebook page lists it as being founded in 2009 although as of publication no corporate info seems to exist for it as a Non Profit. This event, and the actions that proceeded from it were labelled by the controlled press as a grassroots Indigenous Youth and allies responding to the racist, colonial, environmentally destructive issues being advocated by the Convoy. It was anything but.

This event was organized by massively powerful international actors who operate from the shadows of corporate shells. These same actors have now completely decimated Canada’s economy, just as the Yellow vest and United Canada convoy said they would. It was done in collusion with the Canada’s eastern political/cultural elites in response to a group of Canadian citizens gathering in an actual grassroots movement out of desperation over the deterioration of their country and the future of their children. The brave and hardy Canadians of the Yellow vest and the United We Roll for Canada convoy were right again to fear for their very future. The goals of the million dollar workshop put on in response to them, is no less than the complete disintegration of Canada.

For anyone who thinks this is some sort of conspiracy listen to the last 50 seconds of this. I will introduce you more fully to who Alex is and who he represents later.

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The movement United We Roll was brutally vilified by the Liberal/UNIFOR controlled Canadian Media from the second of its conception. They were labelled Racists and Nazi’s in a constant stream of woke Op eds or “investigative” features built from trolling their social media for off color jokes. They were in targeted by taxpayer funded thought police like the jokingly named anti-hate network and subjecting to doxxing and a constant stream of insult and propaganda.

These hard working deeply motivated and brave Canadians trying to exercise their democratic rights were literally shut down using their own Tax-dollars, Union dues, and the funds of massive oligarchical controlled Foundations most of which receive tax relief and direct funding valued in the millions from the citizens they are working to disinherit. The “conference held on University of Ottawa was an integral part of this campaign and I believe shows the generalized co-ordination between the Liberal Junta and the so called “civil society” that is evident in the contrived blockade “crisis” that have allowed a few hundred to shut down a country of millions.

The initial call-out for PowerShift was done by FB livestream. December 30 2019, two weeks after the convoy and its schedule was announced. It was designed to partly be a narrative response to United We Roll and its schedule was carefully co-ordinated to the convoys so they could act against it in a concerted way while preparing their larger plan.

So as scheduled, and despite massive scorn and abuse by the media pundits and elite Chattering classes, the United We Roll for Canada convoy made its hopeful departure on the 14th of February 2019. The participants were literally your neighbors, with no “media training” or even an organized media team.

That same day as planned in Ottawa the Powershift Conference collected, and transported to their paid billets, the young people it had flown in from all over Canada. they were greeted with a 48 page glossy conference schedule along with their individual “radical swag” bags. See the full version online below by following the link.

https://issuu.com/jacquibush/docs/print_full_program_en/30

The Conference was paid for by these organizations all of which receive millions in Taxpayer funding and foreign Foundation money

The Conference utilized many facilities across campus and had access to huge media resources. It had the full support and backing of this massive publicly funded institution and access to millions of dollars of taxpayer and Soros Foundation money.

Training “workshops” organized by the Powershift Conference, held on the grounds of a publicly funded University with its full facilitation. One of the major topics of the four days, seemingly an area of special concentration, should be chilling and instructive to every Canadian as we watch these “blockades” strangle our country.

The “networks” this event boasted of creating are the ones now directing the “blockades”. The training was a full 9 hours on the Saturday the 16th and the full 4 hour morning on the Sunday Feb 17th. A significant portion of the three 8 hour training days, seems they thought it important.

In the words of one of the main “facilitators” of the event the plan is laid out.

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As well as hundreds of youth Powershift also flew in and paid accommodations, meals, et al for 95 different presenters from all over Canada and the world. Lets have a look at our instructor list and some of what they had to offer beyond shutting down Canada’s rail communications.

Some Keynote speakers included;

Clayton Thomas_Muller the Soros funded 350.org senior campaign specialist who in concert with their partners at Tides who have used the mask of indigenous rights have all but shut down Canada’s economy. Notice the fascination with “population control” of some of 350.orgs funders. This is actually quite natural given the Eugenic roots of the modern environmental movement.

Harsha Walia founder of No One is Illegal the organization working tirelessly to destroy our borders and flood Canada with millions of “migrants” who will destroy workers rights, economic security and as we saw in the last election, Democracy itself. She is one of the organizers of the vast Soros backed web that has flooded the western world with “migrants” as detailed in Michelle Malkins excellent work “Open Borders Inc”

Sean Devlin; When not filling his pockets with our tax dollar via CBC and various federal artist grants Sean likes to discuss what a shithole Canada is. Sean was one of the architects of the Foreign funded anti Harper campaign. Sean used to run a Tides/Rockerfeller funded media group called “Shit Harper Did” with a girl named Brigette, you remember Brigette don’t you?

Manon Massé authoritarian leader of Quebec hard left political Party Quebèc Solidaire and longtime collaborator with ? Canada’s draconian new Minister of Culture. Her political party also backs zero emissions and open borders. In case you were wondering she would absolutely love to see the rest of Canada disintegrate

Romeo Saganash Sitting NDP member of Parliament for Abitibi–Baie-James–Nunavik–Eeyou (Québec) where strangely a 4.7 billion dollar deal was just signed by Quebec, “The project will help to unlock the wealth of the region’s varied natural resources and create jobs and business opportunities,” said Quebec Premier François Legault.”. i guess this resource development is powered by pixie dust.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/cree-development-quebec-abel-bosum-fran%C3%A7ois-legault-grande-alliance-1.5466612

Everyone on this list makes way north of six figures, most of it originating in our pockets.

But this highly funded conference was not about simply motivational speeches. It was a venue for very intensive and focused training. Lets see what our happy campers were learning

For lectures on how to use the Law to actually sue for climate change, a tactic that would start to be employed a year later we have some heavy hitters indeed.

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To oversee the hours of high end media training Media they had seasoned CBC veteran, founder of the Leap manifesto, and son of longtime Liberal partisan and permanent state bureaucrat, and UN promoter Stephan Lewis, husband of Naomi Klein and multi millionaire

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Lessons on how to interfere in the upcoming 2019 federal election were given out by one of the political operatives of the corrupt US Democratic Party. It was a group of these high end political operatives that help put the Trudeau Liberals in power in 2015,

The rest of the crowd was very diverse for a “climate conference”

Meet Shady, perhaps the only “Syrian Algonquin” on earth

Our intrepid Instructors had many varied lessons to impart, including fun subjects like resisting arrest and BLOCKADE organizing and employment

Don’t worry about our campers being all work no fun, becuase what revolutionary sleepover would be complete without some socialist Islamic rap music

And of course what Marxist day camp would be complete without arts and crafts, take note of the banners they are silk-screening.

As The United We Roll for Canada convoy was making its way across the country and despite the massive disinformation campaign was receiving growing support. Average Canadians were hanging off overpasses to cheer them on, towns greeted them as they entered. As they crossed our happy campers were busy putting out a wave of disinformation as part of their social media training.

When our scrappy convoy reached Parliament hill on February 18 as planned they were met with what the corrupt media reported as being a grassroots Indigenous led protest. Notice the signs and banners they may look familiar.

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The aggressive tactics used to try and intimidate the peaceful grassroots Canadian rally had been worked out over the preceding four days, between taxpayer funded lunch breaks and Hip Hop Marxism. The instructors were not picked because of their deep understanding of climate modeling or alternative energy production. They are picked because of their fanatical advancement of a corporate sponsored Neo-Marxism that uses Identity Politics and the guise of “climate emergency” to advance a dystopian vision of a technocracy driven, highly controlled society.

They’re specialty is whole of society operations to disrupt our community and national cohesion, cause division, manufacture “crisis” events. All the while working to enable some critical mass so that a population can be herded unwittingly into destroying itself. If you think this is some sort of tinfoil hat fever dream. I would invite you to look at conditions in Egypt, Syria, Libya.

It should be obvious this was far far more than a “climate change” event. This was a regime change seminar. This was training for a the Color revolution being unleashed upon us with the consent and collusion of the Liberal Party. This isn’t odd some of the same political operatives and Foreign Foundations paying the bills and providing the training put Trudeau in power. This same program was used successfully in Ukraine to provoke the “Maidan” color revolution and install a Fascist regime in Kiev in 2014.

Looks like the same network may have helped pull off pulled off the same feat in 2015 and 2019 in Canada. This event provides a clear example of the collusion between the Liberal Party and its paramour Unifor, and their Foreign Foundation masters. It also shows how highly financed groups are gathering young people from across Canada to propagandize them and use them as the zombie soldiers in their attempt to take down Canada’s Democracy and Society. In this moment the Nexus of the forces working to destroy us held a gathering to plan out there next moves.

Lets talk about “Color Revolutions”

So if you think this term denotes some sort of tinfoil fever dream then listen to the words of one of its architects. Alec Ross is a shadowy corporate player who was hired by the Obama State department to facilitate the Arab Spring and the “Maidan” uprising in Ukraine .

So if your still reading the base idea is terrifyingly simple. You can go into any society and find some division. You find what they refer to in their literature as “Indigenous movements”. You send in trainers and operatives to radicalize these groups. One of the other keys is co-opting the Education system. using it to radicalize youth against their own society. They are far more open to ideological indoctrination and lack real world experience. they are perfect for the “good vs evil” narrative that underlies the dogma. they can then be used as a weapon against their own societies. The outcomes for whatever “Indigenous political movements” and their members are irrelevant. A good basic pop culture reference would be the Hunger Games. The technocracy keeps control by forcing the to fight each other for scarce resources all directed by the elites of the capital.

The Powershift Conference seems to be a recycling of an identity deployed in the USby the same groups in 2011.

Power Shift 2011 was organized by the Energy Action Coalition, a coalition of 50 youth lead environmental and social justice organizations. Tides funded of course. Their website is no longer functioning.

The base idea of this sort of “virtual leaderless action network” being used against us came out of a conference in New York 2008. The conference put the largest corporate entities on earth and the most powerful of their network of foundations the Council on Foreign Relations in a room with Academia, the bureaucrat elites of the permanent states buried in the western democracies, and the corporate media. The “Arab Spring”, that would result in open slave markets in Libya and the brutal Syrian civil war that also helped produce the weaponized migrant crisis. Other “grassroots” uprisings were planned with the participation of the biggest corporate players on earth like Google and the Obama state department. One of the targets was doubtless Canada

We need to thoroughly understand the highly organized and co-ordinated nature of this attack and disrupt it. We need to build data bases of these players and understand their relationship to each other and the Liberal Junta. These individuals and organizations need to be confronted. Their offices occupied, their staff outed completely. The network of Public Interest Research Groups need to be dismantled by pressuring the Universities that fund and abet them. My fellow Canadians we simply need to co-ordinate our millions to defeat their thousands.

William Ray

For more suggestions on how you can act

“Identify, Confront and Disrupt, Disrupt, Disrupt, the activities of these foreign funded or affiliated groups. Many of these names are already known to us. We need to start collecting and correlating the hundreds of these sock puppet advocacy groups. We need to physically Occupy their offices, Identify their Canadian staff, expose and confront them. Disrupt any fundraising or workshop activities. If you see someone collecting for these groups make sure no one gives them a dime, you can do this quite legally. Disrupt their social media and any events they might hold. Again you can do this while breaking no Law. Check to see if these groups receive tax payer money from any level of government. It requires some sleuthing even though the records are public shells and deceptive program names are used to hide the money trail. But hey what Canadian doesn’t like a good mystery on a snowy night. Many do receive public funds put massive public pressure to stop all public funds flowing to these advocacy groups. Find the corporate sponsors and begin boycott movements.” Read More….

The Training for the “Rail Blockades” was done at Carleton U. Feb.14-18 2019, Paid for by Canadians In Mid December 2018 the Untied We Roll Convoy was first publicly announced. This was a protest in the form of a convoy that would leave Alberta and travel to Ottawa picking up people along the way until finally reaching Ottawa with many cars and a bus full of supporters, along with and a convoy of over 200 trucks and even tractors.

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esprit-de-corps-magazine · 5 years ago

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CADET CORNER: Volunteering Has Value

By Army Cadet League of Canada

This past April 27th, the Army Cadet League of Canada (ACLC) held its National Annual General Meeting of its Board of Directors and Membership. As all Canadian non-profit organizations, it is a necessity to organize such meetings annually to properly demonstrate the organization’s operations and financial status to its Board of Directors and Membership. While abiding by our by-laws and Canada’s Corporation Act, we, at the National level of the ACLC, look to ensure that our members remain properly informed, engaged & rewarded.

This year was an election year and a main point on our agenda. We elected a new Board of Directors who serve for a two-year term. At the helm, Mrs. Cathy Bach, from Surrey BC was elected as our new National President. As Mrs. Bach states: “I would never have imagined that 16 years ago when I walked into a small Surrey BC Corps with my 13 year old son that I would be elected to the position of National President of the Army Cadet League of Canada. The Army Cadet Program provides our youth with the tools they need to become better Canadians through the program’s citizenship and leadership training. Cadets are taught the skills to teach peer to peer which is invaluable now and in their future endeavors. Our son is now 30 years old and a responsible Manager, husband and father who makes us proud every day!”

Mrs. Bach will sit as National President of the ACLC for a minimum term of 2 years. During this time, she plans on representing the best interests of the League to ensure that there is proper support for the thousands of volunteers who work countless hours and also the best interests of the Army Cadets within the Cadet Program.

During the weekend event in Ottawa, the ACLC was happy to host a presentation from WO Moogly Tetrault-Hamel, the Indigenous Advisor to the Chaplain General. As part of his job to create awareness, the position of Indigenous Advisor was added by the Royal Canadian Chaplain Service to help Indigenous CAF members receive the same level of spiritual support as other military personnel. After meeting WO Tetrault-Hamel at the last VCDS’s change of command in 2018, our Executive Director, Robert Gill, felt this could be a great opportunity to expose our members to the realities faced by the First Nation’s population and the potential inclusion of their youth within the Army Cadet program by handling the recruiting processes slightly differently. As the program is open to ALL youth 12 to 18 years old, Army Cadets can provide excellent opportunities for the indigenous youth within our communities.

As an organization that supports youth, Army Cadets for the Ottawa & St-Lawrence Area were invited to actively participate in our meeting. As part of their own mandate, they are to learn about the League’s role within the program. This opportunity was the best way to see firsthand how the national level of the League works. C/WO Whittaker, of the 2360 RCACC, and cadets C/WO Fifield, C/Sgt MacNeil, C/Sgt Laliberte, C/Sgt Culhane, C/MCpl Seitcher-Hamel all from the 2870 Royal Dragoons RCACC, presented to our membership their input and suggestions for a new award the League would like to propose. Each of them brought forward great points and terrific insight into the type of recognition they feel would be worthwhile for cadets. Their proposal was approved by the board and the National Office will move forward in developing this award thanks to their input. Also, as a side role, these cadets assisted in the conduct of our National election. This was a great learning experience for them, and it was also rewarding as they saw firsthand how the League can move forward with projects that will benefit them directly. C/Mcpl Tibbles of the 2332 Army Cadet Cade corps participated in our event as well and was proficient as our Master of Ceremonies for the Evening Banquet in both official languages. Former cadet Markus Valtonen was a special guest for the banquet as he is our 2018 Top Army Cadet currently enrolled at RMC. Both had the opportunity to share their cadet experiences with our members during the evening. Following tradition from many years ago, the 57 Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders, Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corps Pipes & Drums Band provided the musical entertainment for our guests.

At the end of a busy weekend and as part of the Saturday night banquet, the ACLC hosts an Awards ceremony where many of our supporters & partners attend. These include members of the National Cadet & JCR Support Group and key representatives of the Royal Canadian Legion Dominion Command, Esprit de Corps Magazine, the Canadian War Museum, Library and Archives Canada, Order of St-George, ANAVET’s and AON Insurance Group. Our guest of Honour was MGen Carl Turenne, CMM, MSC, CD, Deputy Commander of the Canadian Army. He presented an inspiring speech of encouragement to all present to continue supporting the best youth program in the country as volunteers. He also assured us that the Department of National Defense and particularly the Army will continue its support of the program. During this event, we also presented National recognition awards to members, and other national awards to cadets and their corps.

This year our winners were:

• Chief of Defense Staff Citation: Mr. Greg Twining from Newfoundland and Labrador

• League Member of the Year: Mr. Jean Lord & Mr. Claude Pichette both from Quebec

• Gerard Buckley Army Cadet Fund:

– 2615 Victoria Lions RCACC, Avalon, Newfoundland

– 3013 Commando RCACC, Cochrane, Ontario

– 2943 Campbell River Eagles, Campbell River, British-Columbia

– 2632 Halifax West RCACC, Halifax, Nova Scotia

• LGen Quinn Award for Musical Excellence:

• For the Pipes and Drums category:

– C/MWO Molly Stamp

– C/MWO Maliah LeBlanc both members of the 2659 56th Field Artillery Regiment, RCACC, Brantford, ON

• The Military band category:

– C/MWO Raphaelle Sylvain of the 2898 Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce RCACC, Quebec

– C/MWO Joyce Reid of the 2632 Halifax West, Nova Scotia

Congratulations to all the winners and the League thanks you for all that you do!

These annual events are the one time of year our folks can gather and share their knowledge and experiences from coast to coast as they work tirelessly within their provincial branches in supporting their local cadet corps and volunteers. By attending our events, our guests come to have a better understanding and recognition of the hard work and long hours our volunteers put in to support such a great program for our Canadian youth.

In 1971, while recognizing the need to organize sponsors and volunteers coast to coast, the Army Cadet League of Canada was formed to act as supervisory sponsor. In partnership with the Department of National Defense and the Canadian Armed Forces, The Army Cadet League supports one of Canada’s premier youth organizations.

In many cases, like Mrs. Bach said, it was witnessing her son’s development in the program that drove her to volunteer in the first place. While every volunteer, member, director and officer of the organization may have slightly different reasons for joining the League and supporting Army Cadets, they are united in the belief that the program directly benefits youth in their journey to becoming better citizens. Mrs. Bach expands, “Today’s Board of Directors consists of highly enthusiastic and committed individuals to the organization and to the program. Not everyone was a cadet. Not everyone was a parent of a cadet. Each of us sees the benefit in volunteering, in giving back to the community, while recognizing the value in investing in youth. Volunteering has value.”

For more information about our awards or if you are interested in volunteering, visit www.armycadetleague.ca for more information on how you can get involved.

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BUDGET 2019: Deficits in big-spending pre-election fiscal blueprint tee up ballot-box choice

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OTTAWA — The final budget of the Trudeau government’s mandate will scatter billions in fresh spending — on everything from pharmacare to retraining workers to first-time home buyers — as the Liberals commit to an electoral fight that pits their deficit-spending vision versus the Conservatives’ balanced-books approach.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s budget Tuesday resembled Liberal economic plans that preceded it: the government will exhaust a big windfall, run near-term deficits of about $20 billion and offer no timeline to return to balance.

A stronger economy last year delivered an unexpected revenue bump that will flood an extra $27.8 billion into the federal treasury over the next six years, compared to government predictions in its November economic update.

With seven months to go before the election, Morneau’s plan will spread the cash around. Most of it will be aimed at Canadians’ pocketbooks.

Funding for some of Tuesday’s commitments will only start kicking in after October’s election, giving voters the chance to weigh in on the budget’s contents at the ballot box.

The Liberals’ spending path places them in stark contrast with the Opposition Conservatives, who have called on the government to rein in spending.

“The opposition would like to see us make cuts very rapidly — their idea is balance the budget at any cost,” Morneau told a news conference Tuesday after being asked about his deficits.

“Well, if we had taken that approach in 2015 we would not be where we are today with a better outcome for middle-class Canadians. We’d be in a more difficult spot.”

The measures in Morneau’s fiscal blueprint cover a lot of territory, with a clear focus on individuals — particularly younger adults — as opposed to businesses. The plan includes:

— $4.6 billion over five years to help more Canadians afford and access skills training to keep up with the rapidly evolving workforce

— $4.5 billion over five years to improve living conditions for Indigenous Peoples

— $1.8 billion over four years to enhance the guaranteed income supplement for low-income seniors

— $885 million over five years to make homes more affordable for first-time buyers

— $500 million per year, starting in 2022-23, to help cover the cost of drugs for rare diseases.

The government will make several large, one-time investments for 2018-19, including $2.2 billion worth of new infrastructure funding and $1 billion towards improving energy efficiency.

The budget also pledges to commit up to $3.9 billion in support for supply-managed dairy, egg and poultry farmers affected by recent trade deals with the Asia-Pacific and Europe.

Even with these investments, Ottawa’s fiscal track promises to be a key issue on the campaign trail.

The annual deficit projections in Tuesday’s budget — which reach as high as $19.8 billion — are less than one percentage point of Canada’s gross domestic product, a modest level when compared internationally.

Still, the Liberals will be forced to explain themselves repeatedly until election day.

They came to power in 2015 on a platform that vowed to post annual deficits of no more than $10 billion and to return to balance by 2019.

After the 2015 election, the Trudeau government abandoned the promise, arguing more investments were needed to lift Canada’s long-term economic growth. Instead, Morneau has focused on lowering the net debt-to-GDP ratio — a measure of how burdensome the national debt is — each year even as the actual debt has increased.

In his budget speech Tuesday, Morneau tried to reassure the House of Commons that the shortfalls will start to shrink.

“We’re going to make these investments to grow our economy for the long term — while we bring the books back towards balance,” he said.

The budget’s planning horizon showed the deficit will shrink to $9.8 billion by 2023-24.

The Conservatives have attacked the Liberals for breaking their deficit promise and have demanded Morneau map out a return to balanced books. They’ve accused the government of borrowing today on the backs of future generations.

Leaders in corporate Canada and some economists have also criticized the Liberal deficits, especially since they’ve come during good economic times when many believe governments should be focused on paying off debt.

A big question is what will become of the Liberal spending plan — and how big the shortfalls will grow — when Canada is hit by the next economic downturn.

The economy has had a good run, but experts say it’s debatable how much of Canada’s recent economic performance has come from Liberal policies and how much has been a result of the stronger U.S. and global economies.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE 2019 BUDGET

Highlights from the federal Liberal budget tabled Tuesday by Finance Minister Bill Morneau:

— $1.7 billion over five years, and $586 million a year after that, for a Canada Training Benefit to help workers upgrade skills and acquire new ones while keeping their jobs. The benefit includes a $250-a-year tax credit to pay for training programs and access to employment insurance to cover living expenses for up to four weeks away from work.

— $1.18 billion over five years to toughen border security, including hiring more judges to handle judicial reviews of asylum applications.

— Measures to make housing more affordable, especially for first-time buyers, by letting them borrow $35,000 from RRSPs (up from $25,000) and having the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. contribute a small share of equity for down payments.

— A federal deficit of $19.8 billion, including a $3-billion “risk adjustment,” an increase of $200 million from last year’s forecast. The Liberals’ forecast again includes a gradual reduction in the deficit, but not quite as quickly as anticipated last year. By 2023-2024, the projected federal deficit is $11.4 billion.

— $3.9 billion for farmers in supply-managed industries affected by new trade agreements with the United States and Asian countries.

— $2.2 billion for municipalities’ and First Nations’ infrastructure projects, through a one-time boost to the amount distributed through the federal gas-tax transfer.

— $1.2 billion over three years to enhance social services for Indigenous families and children, the main element in a package of spending aimed at Indigenous Peoples.

— Lowering the interest rate on Canada Student Loans to the prime rate, from the current prime-plus-2.5-percentage-points.

— Creating a new Canadian Drug Agency to centralize the evaluations of the effectiveness and efficiency of new drugs and buy in bulk nationwide, instead of province-by-province.

— $500 million a year, starting in 2022, to subsidize the costs of drugs for rare diseases, whose high costs are distributed among very few patients.

— $300 million over three years for rebates of up to $5,000 on electric or hydrogen-fuel-cell vehicles (with a maximum purchase price of $45,000).

— $950 million for municipal governments to refit their own buildings for energy efficiency and to provide their own subsidy programs for private homeowners to do the same.

— $50 million over five years to devise a new national dementia strategy.

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‘A made-in-Canada crisis’: How political stumbles, savvy activists brought the oilpatch to its knees

WINNIPEG, Manitoba/VANCOUVER, Dec 21 — A decade ago, Canada’s oil sector was growing so fast it was predicted to become a global energy superpower, but a series of political missteps and formidable environmental activism has created a dysfunctional system requiring OPEC-style government intervention to move its oil to market.

Canada produces 4.9 million barrels per day (bpd), more than any country other than the United States, Saudi Arabia and Russia, but the world’s fourth largest producer has had to nationalize a pipeline and the province of Alberta is exploring buying trains to handle a glut of oil sitting in storage.

Canada’s crisis coincides with big producers taking market share away from OPEC members, mostly clustered in the Middle East. Global oil demand is expected to surpass 100 million bpd in 2019. The United States has driven exports to record highs on growing demand from China, India and other developing countries.

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But Ottawa has failed under two governments to effectively counter the strategy of environmental activists to attack the oil sector’s heart by choking its arteries — pipelines. Roughly 35 million barrels, twice the normal amount, of Western Canadian crude used to produce diesel, gasoline and jet fuel is stuck in storage.

The energy sector accounts for nearly 11 per cent of Canada’s gross domestic product. However, Canadian oil trades at a fraction of global prices, costing the economy $80 million per day, the Alberta provincial government said.

Alberta took the unusual step this month of temporarily curtailing 325,000 bpd starting in January — in the aftermath of a retreat from the oil sands by global companies including ConocoPhillips and Statoil ASA.

A Trans Mountain pipeline protest in Burnaby, B.C., in March, 2018.

“It’s become dire now because the writing is clearly on the wall. The issue is market access,” said Jihad Traya, manager of energy advisory service HSB Solomon.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government, facing an election next year, offered the oilpatch this week $1.6 billion in aid. In May, Ottawa agreed to buy the Trans Mountain pipeline in hopes of pushing through an expansion to nearly triple capacity as other proposed lines languished.

POLITICIANS AND ACTIVISTS

In 2006, then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper boasted Canada would soon become an “energy superpower.” Canada was producing 2.6 million bpd, which moved smoothly to U.S. refineries through pipelines. Since then, production has nearly doubled, but pipeline growth has stalled.

Both Conservative Harper and Liberal Trudeau squelched opportunities to complete pipelines just as opposition to more lines multiplied. Two projects were killed, and legal setbacks have stymied the development of TransCanada Corp’s Keystone XL and the government-owned Trans Mountain expansion.

A year after taking office in 2015 Trudeau proposed a bargain aimed at satisfying both environmentalists and the oil industry – a national carbon-pricing plan to reduce Canada’s emissions while approving pipeline expansions.

The strategy has inflamed both sides.

When a court overturned Ottawa’s approval of the expansion of Trans Mountain in August, the deal was off and Alberta Premier Rachel Notley yanked support for Trudeau’s carbon plan just hours later.

Indigenous and environmental opposition to pipelines has forced Trudeau to push for tighter regulations on future pipelines. The changes are necessary to “depoliticize” the system, Natural Resources Minister Amarjeet Sohi said.

“We need to fix the broken system that we have now so we are able to build the pipeline capacity that is so necessary.”

But Trudeau has already shelved Enbridge’s Northern Gateway proposal, which would have run through northern Alberta to the Pacific coast, and the National Energy Board in 2017 toughened its review of TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline while it was underway.

Both projects are now dead. Alberta is seeking to buy rail cars to reduce the glut, and earlier this month, the province ordered producers to cut output after its oil fell to a discount of US$52 per barrel from U.S. oil in October.

Notley told reporters on Tuesday that people in Alberta can make profits from oil and gas, “but they need Ottawa to take the handcuffs off. We need rail. We need long-term support for getting that pipeline built.”

ENVIRONMENTAL OPPOSITION

Alberta’s oilsands, a mixture of sand, water, clay and thick, heavy oil, became a compelling target for environmentalists as production expanded dramatically in the early 2000s.

The mining process scrapes away trees and vegetation across huge tracts of land, leaving a path of destruction captured in aerial images, while a different production method using steam consumes huge amounts of natural gas.

Clayton Thomas-Muller, an indigenous activist, said environmentalists grew frustrated trying to stop the industry’s expansion through the Alberta Energy Regulator, but found a new strategy of opposing the pipelines.

A Keyston XL pipeline protest in Washington, D.C., in 2017.

They built wider coalitions, tapping into anger of Nebraska ranchers and drawing the attention of Hollywood celebrities such as director James Cameron.

Opponents of TransCanada’s Keystone XL began protests at the White House in 2011, seeking arrest and attention. Then-U.S. President Barack Obama finally rejected the project in 2015.

“Full credit to climate-change advocates, they kicked the snot out of Corporate Canada,” said Tim Powers, a Conservative political strategist. He said Canadian resource companies have been too focused on the regulatory process, while climate-change advocates “laid out a better, more compelling narrative” to win public opinion.

FEARING CONSULTATION

U.S. President Donald Trump resurrected Keystone XL in 2017. But both KXL and Trans Mountain remain in regulatory limbo after courts ruled in recent months that the U.S. and Canadian governments failed to properly do their jobs.

The cases that overturned approvals for Northern Gateway and Trans Mountain led companies to question investment in Canada. The end result is a Canadian oilpatch in retreat.

“My main fear is that other nations will continue to produce at market price and Canada will be left behind,” said Duncan Au, chief executive of CWC Energy Services Corp. The well drilling company has cut about 70 employees, or nearly 10 per cent, since the beginning of 2018.

“This is a made-in-Canada crisis,” Au said.

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