lisa

Self sufficient and assured, of nothing

[Gizmo Memes @GizmoMemes]

Mark Carney walk of shame 😭

[lisa @sasslac]

@GadSaad Yikes indeed

[lisa @sasslac]

@Trail_Cams Good one ☝️

[lisa @sasslac]

@MarkJCarney You say things. Thats about it

[lisa @sasslac]

@GadSaad You’re still in Canada???

[lisa @sasslac]

@Victoria59L @ryangerritsen Dolt! Love it

[Robbie @AHVS1979]

I was born and raised in Canada. I came to the US (legally) in 1980 for College and became a green card holder in 1986 and a citizen in 1998. I renounced my Canadian citizenship in 2016 and I am a 100% committed US Citizen. I have only one question for my old compatriots in Canada with regard to this “trade war”… what did you think was going to happen when you tried to flex on Trump? Seriously. Canada’s economy is a rounding error to the US and yet Canada’s trade representatives think they’re a significant world economic player. They are not. Canada is a socialistic shit-hole. Their “free universal heath care” is bankrupt. Need surgery? Wait. Sometimes so long you’ll die before you get it. Work opportunities for young Canadians? Very few. And if this trade war isn’t settled soon, there will be 500,000 layoffs/lost jobs. So, Canada, stop pretending you have negotiating leverage and make a deal. The alternative to that, a US trade war, will crush your economy. Just sayin’

[lisa @sasslac]

@BobRae48 Canada is not a serious country with a seriously poor sense of humour

[Conrad Black @ConradMBlack]

Regrettably, an exchange on social media between two former CBC journalists, Keith Boag and Travis Dhanraj, was inflicted upon me today and it perfectly captures the invasive rot afflicting and spreading forth from the CBC's newsroom and college campuses into the collective consciousness of our society.

For reference, Mr. Dhanraj was given the high jump from the CBC last year when he attempted to gently nudge that organization in the direction of diversity of opinion. Mr. Boag, on the other hand, was a CBC lifer, retiring after 35 years of blissful ignorance to any opinion outside the CBC's ideological monoculture. The exchange comes within the context of a recent revelation (by Warren Kinsella) that the CBC’s senior director of journalistic standards was demanding avoidance of the t-word in describing the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Mr. Boag seems to be defending this position by categorizing 9/11 as a run-of-the-mill "attack on civilians for political purposes,” giving several other examples to imply there is no clear distinction between any instance of civilians being killed in pursuit of some political purpose. By implication, Osama bin Laden and Nelson Mandela (an implication Boag made explicitly in a subsequent exchange with Ezra Levant) are morally equivalent; they are either both terrorists or neither are. It is not a serious position. It is moral illiteracy formatted into the CBC's perverse style guide. Sadly, the idea is not original, or unique. In fact, it is the pervasive view on campuses and among large swathes of the Canadian media landscape. It is also very dangerous, and it needs to be answered.

Mr. Boag's position is bunk. If the “political purpose” in question is to kill and terrorize civilians in the service of global jihad or the extermination of a people, it belongs in a distinct category. That was 9/11. That was October 7. That was the Holocaust. These acts were genocidally motivated and carried out by groups that would never accept any peaceful resolution.

On the other hand, using decisive force to destroy war criminals who will never make peace, belongs in a completely different category. It is not terrorism. Israel’s campaign to destroy Hamas is a righteous cause. Israel is not only within its rights, but morally obligated to uproot the terrorist apparatus that hides behind its own population. And Israel should be lauded for the strategically disadvantageous lengths it has gone to limit Palestinian casualties, even while Hamas has tried to maximize them. Accusing Israel of genocide is either credulous stupidity or intellectually flaccid anti-Semitism attempting to disguise itself in a threadbare cloak of righteousness.

The atomic bomb was developed by the Allies and used to save lives and compel a surrender that would not otherwise have come. One may argue, and I would agree, that a demonstration on a remote island, a sort of nuclear warning shot, might have been preferable. Likewise, using another of Boag's examples, one could argue the ANC should have continued with their Gandhi-inspired peaceful protest movement even after the Sharpeville massacre. The fact is, no act of violence toward civilians, whether in pursuit of a greater good or not, should be whitewashed. But nor should they all be grouped lazily together, as Boag attempts to do, as if genocide and global domination were indistinguishable from self-defense or peace-through-strength. As if they can all be neatly filed away as “political reasons.”

After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States did not proceed to conquer the world, though it could have with a four-year monopoly on nuclear weapons. It used it geostrategic leverage to rebuild Europe and Japan, establish the United Nations — which, believe it or not, was once a righteous and laudable organization — and strive for peace. Had the Nazis or Imperial Japan developed nuclear weapons first, no sane person believes they would have pursued the same strategy.

I should not unfairly single out Mr. Boag, as his perspective is plagiarized from an intellectually and historically illiterate world view that has been building up steam for 30 years. It is a view that dispenses with the indispensable distinction between good and evil. It is not moral seriousness. It is relativism, and it is contemptible. This mass amnesia about who the forces of good in the world are, and who the forces of evil are, is a serious problem. That this worldview has captured the CBC and so many North American campuses is not surprising, but it is a genuine cause for concern. The West has ceded too much of, and must reclaim, the moral high ground.

[lisa @sasslac]

@MPelletierCIO Hong Kong being returned to China in 1997

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

7 Tragic World Events As Reported By The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. https://t.co/X2N767UT0e

[Martin Pelletier @MPelletierCIO]

The fact that British Columbians, or should I say those on the far left in Vancouver and Vancouver Island, who control the vote hand over the keys so easily to a government that is grossly mismanaging the province is a sight to behold.

"Premier's office blames 'administrative error' for missing $1.5B in gas royalties; experts call the government's explanation confusing, and in some cases, demonstrably false"
https://t.co/lhaWWoJRmE

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 UPDATE: FBI Director Kash Patel says he's SEVERING from ANY agency in Canada that refuses to call 9/11 "terrorism" — after Canada's CBC instructed employees to only call it a "hijacking" or "crash"

They don't want to say it: ISLAMIC TERRORISM.

PATEL: "Any agency in Canada that doesn’t publicly reject this bastardization of history, and an insult to the souls lost during our largest terrorist attack in US history will no longer have friend in this FBI…Not to mention our heroes that responded in the aftermath."

[lisa @sasslac]

@LichTamara Beautiful 😍

[Rebel News @RebelNewsOnline]

We’re calling for CBC’s Basem Boshra to be fired after reporters were told not to call 9/11 a “terrorist attack.”

REPORT by @ScarlettGrace92: https://t.co/FailvkQt7L

[Brian Lilley @brianlilley]

The Carney government wants to use CBC to fight misinformation.
But CBC journalists can’t even call 9/11 a terrorist attack.
How can we trust them? https://t.co/oya5q21nhk

[lisa @sasslac]

@BenMulroney Keep up the good fight Ben 🙏

[FBI Director Kash Patel @FBIDirectorKash]

Any agency in Canada that doesn’t publicly reject this bastardization of history, and an insult to the souls lost during our largest terrorist attack in US history will no longer have friend in this FBI… Not to mention our heroes that responded in the aftermath 🇺🇸

WE WILL NEVER FORGET 9-11

https://t.co/xTWLW9Zz0v

[lisa @sasslac]

@ConradMBlack Well done Conrad. Tour words and thought are much appreciated

[Harman Bhangu @HarmanBhanguBC]

🚨 IT’S OFFICIAL: Elections BC has approved my petition to REPEAL DRIPA.

David Eby and the NDP refused to act. Now British Columbians have the chance to.

BC Conservatives are ready to lead this fight.

As the Official Opposition, we will keep holding this government to account every step of the way.

From Oct. 26 to Jan. 25, we need British Columbians across all 93 ridings to come together.

For property rights, jobs and B.C.’s future, join us.

Let’s repeal DRIPA.