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  1. Ron in Regina

    Public Inquiries into Emergencies Act begin September 19

    Apparently you can follow the bouncing ball here: http://publicorderemergencycommission.ca/
  2. Ron in Regina

    Public Inquiries into Emergencies Act begin September 19

    Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the federal government wasinvoking the Emergencies Acton Feb. 14. It was the first time the legislation was used since its creation in 1988. The government’s aim was to bring an end to the convoy protests that shuttered downtown Ottawa and the border...
  3. Ron in Regina

    Public Inquiries into Emergencies Act begin September 19

    OTTAWA — Lawyers for Alberta and Saskatchewan say those provinces were blindsided when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the premiers on Valentine’s Day to say the federal government was considering using the Emergencies Act for the first time to quash so-called “Freedom Convoy” protests...
  4. Ron in Regina

    Public Inquiries into Emergencies Act begin September 19

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  5. Ron in Regina

    Public Inquiries into Emergencies Act begin September 19

    Eight months after anti-COVID-19 vaccine mandate protesters gridlocked parts of downtown Ottawa, a public inquiry has opened its public hearings as it probes the federal government's unprecedented use of emergency powers to clear the capital. http://apple.news/AmO0nlPP9TnWjUyNveu_x0Q Documents...
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    Trudeau Makes Good on Ethical Energy to Germany

    Freeland called on liberal democracies to unite economically to counter the threat posed by Putin starving Europe of natural gas in retaliation for Western economic sanctions against Russia. She said Canada remembers that European vaccine makers honoured their contracts to provide non-European...
  7. Ron in Regina

    Public Inquiries into Emergencies Act begin September 19

    Well, today is the day this is supposed to get started, in a little over an hour. This inquiry is about WHY the government chose to use the emergencies act, & NOT about the protest itself. Regardless of how this is going to be reframed….this is what the inquiry is actually about. I hope those...
  8. Ron in Regina

    Hey Ron, Were Not Number One.

    Some days I really wonder. With the Squatters throughout the summer and the fires and the shit (needles, petty crime, etc…) that these junkies bring…I thought they’d burned down enough structures and moved on… I am so use to seeing Winnipeg/Saskatoon and Regina swapping out Gold/Silver and...
  9. Ron in Regina

    Hockey Canada - scandal

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_Canada_sexual_assault_scandal In May 2022, it was reported that Hockey Canada—the governing body for the sport of ice hockey in Canada—had paid a settlement to a woman who alleged that she was the victim of a sexual assault perpetrated in 2018 by members of...
  10. Ron in Regina

    Omnibus : Hunter Biden

    Loosely based….
  11. Ron in Regina

    Hockey Canada - scandal

    How old are/where these hockey players at the time? I’m not condoneing this shit show whatsoever…. but they may have been considered “minors” legally at the time….which opens a different kettle of fish.
  12. Ron in Regina

    Omnibus : Hunter Biden

    Paul Revere come across well here:
  13. Ron in Regina

    Public Inquiries into Emergencies Act begin September 19

    To say this will be a political and media circus is an understatement. The list of potential witnesses includes key members of cabinet, such as Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino and, most notably, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Convoy organizers...
  14. Ron in Regina

    Kelly McParland: How decades of Liberal indifference created Danielle Smith

    http://apple.news/AqLOR5JlkTx-IGRKCSvCbtg http://apple.news/AwZHCYSvRQsmn8DGS4ikM7g http://apple.news/A5k7svsqJQwK1klTmelFhZg http://apple.news/AwUGvBzIpSmKjd2ywHYfXqA http://apple.news/AdyMvN0DbTHuFl7743shu0w http://apple.news/AJi0ozCnuS1-1JBZJpLp-XQ http://apple.news/A7RuBy-UhRcSRk9q_2uFx6w...
  15. Ron in Regina

    Hey Ron, Were Not Number One.

    Holy Cow….so use to seeing Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon swapping around Gold, Silver, & Bronze. Very cool. They using a different yardstick?
  16. Ron in Regina

    2SLGBTQQIA+

    Not a cartoon, but hilarious!!
  17. Ron in Regina

    2SLGBTQQIA+

    It’s a cartoon. Just offering perspective. Couldn’t care less myself (just offering perspective above as to whom this character even is), ‘cuz it’s a cartoon. Personally I think it’s funny.
  18. Ron in Regina

    Public Inquiries into Emergencies Act begin September 19

    Was the only way to deal with this the extreme measure of invoking the Emergencies Act? It is the biggest hammer in a government’s arsenal and, in its current form, the measures had never been used. It is not to be used unless there is no other law that could resolve the situation. That’s a...
  19. Ron in Regina

    Gun Control is Completely Useless.

    No provincial money will be used to administer or enforce a planned federal government gun buyback program. That’s according to Corrections, Policing and Public Safety Minister Christine Tell, who called it a “confiscation program.” Tell wrote a two-page letter to RCMP Assistant Commissioner...
  20. Ron in Regina

    Nuclear and Natural Gas are Sustainable Forms of Energy.

    Well, no, but he did nickname our PM “the little potato” if that counts?