Made (by slave labour) in China?.Reporting inconsistencies in the stream-of-consciousness policies and practices of Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government is challenging: How do you make sense of it any more? We have for example reported several times on how these slender intellects can embrace an environmental policy that squares standing back while China builds more coal generation, while rushing forward to stop Alberta selling China clean natural gas. That simply defies common sense..It also defies common decency, however. That the federal Liberals are promoting made-in-China solar panels despite plenty of evidence that they are in fact the fruits of slave labour and some of the most environmentally destructive mining practices in the modern world, is beyond abhorrent. Decent people would lose sleep over it..The only rational explanation is that they deny the evidence because it’s inconvenient. It used to be cotton and sugar. Two hundred years ago, people looked past that too..Environment Minister Stephen Guilbeault did not raise the matter during his recent visit to China and has been chastised for it. Actually, I can understand how his heart might have failed him: It's one thing to shin down the Peace Tower, but the Chinese government can't take a joke..The thing is, he shouldn’t even have gone there. It’s not as if sitting on a Government of China panel is such a comfortable spot for an official elected to serve Canada..You want to teach them what!?.Columnist and Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedom President John Carpay made an excellent argument Thursday, that teachers cannot possibly care for children as much as their biological parents..It is, of course, remarkable that such an argument would even need to be made. When we cautioned junior reporters that, “If your mother says she loves you, check it out!” we were just kidding. But we live now in a time and place where the argument is seriously pushed out by spokesmen for activist sexual minorities that parents can’t be trusted to love their children enough to get them through those tough years in which some children do indeed question who and what they are. But the school system does... . Home schoolingUnions are scandalised that Alberta parents are organising to take control of school boards. But school boards have increasingly come to be unrepresentative of the interests of parents and children: Maybe it's about time? .It is of course a colossal presumption..It is also a colossal failure to join the dots. As Tristin Hopper points out on (Twitter) “X,” “You know, we *did* just have this massive national reckoning over the historical consequences of the state thinking it knew better than parents when it came to education.”.Quite so. Also check out what Alberta parents are doing about it. The news isn't always, all bad..And in Nanaimo....Nanaimo Bars are somewhat nutty. So is Nanaimo's city council, that recently voted to not approve natural gas hookups for new construction. It is of course pathetic virtue signalling by people seeking, one supposes, for personal significance. . Gas stoveGas stoves are ok in Nanaimo, B.C. — for now. But no more natural gas for home heating. .Meanwhile, good luck staying warm in that maritime climate where the dampness of a cold Vancouver Island winter doesn't merely embrace you, but goes right through you..The solution to that is a change of faces at the next municipal elections.
Made (by slave labour) in China?.Reporting inconsistencies in the stream-of-consciousness policies and practices of Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government is challenging: How do you make sense of it any more? We have for example reported several times on how these slender intellects can embrace an environmental policy that squares standing back while China builds more coal generation, while rushing forward to stop Alberta selling China clean natural gas. That simply defies common sense..It also defies common decency, however. That the federal Liberals are promoting made-in-China solar panels despite plenty of evidence that they are in fact the fruits of slave labour and some of the most environmentally destructive mining practices in the modern world, is beyond abhorrent. Decent people would lose sleep over it..The only rational explanation is that they deny the evidence because it’s inconvenient. It used to be cotton and sugar. Two hundred years ago, people looked past that too..Environment Minister Stephen Guilbeault did not raise the matter during his recent visit to China and has been chastised for it. Actually, I can understand how his heart might have failed him: It's one thing to shin down the Peace Tower, but the Chinese government can't take a joke..The thing is, he shouldn’t even have gone there. It’s not as if sitting on a Government of China panel is such a comfortable spot for an official elected to serve Canada..You want to teach them what!?.Columnist and Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedom President John Carpay made an excellent argument Thursday, that teachers cannot possibly care for children as much as their biological parents..It is, of course, remarkable that such an argument would even need to be made. When we cautioned junior reporters that, “If your mother says she loves you, check it out!” we were just kidding. But we live now in a time and place where the argument is seriously pushed out by spokesmen for activist sexual minorities that parents can’t be trusted to love their children enough to get them through those tough years in which some children do indeed question who and what they are. But the school system does... . Home schoolingUnions are scandalised that Alberta parents are organising to take control of school boards. But school boards have increasingly come to be unrepresentative of the interests of parents and children: Maybe it's about time? .It is of course a colossal presumption..It is also a colossal failure to join the dots. As Tristin Hopper points out on (Twitter) “X,” “You know, we *did* just have this massive national reckoning over the historical consequences of the state thinking it knew better than parents when it came to education.”.Quite so. Also check out what Alberta parents are doing about it. The news isn't always, all bad..And in Nanaimo....Nanaimo Bars are somewhat nutty. So is Nanaimo's city council, that recently voted to not approve natural gas hookups for new construction. It is of course pathetic virtue signalling by people seeking, one supposes, for personal significance. . Gas stoveGas stoves are ok in Nanaimo, B.C. — for now. But no more natural gas for home heating. .Meanwhile, good luck staying warm in that maritime climate where the dampness of a cold Vancouver Island winter doesn't merely embrace you, but goes right through you..The solution to that is a change of faces at the next municipal elections.
