Grant Dingwall

Fun fact: Canada is still flying the same fighter jets today as we were in 1981 (and we bought some extra used ones from Australia a few years ago, and we intend to keep flying them until 2032!)

Friendly reminder that Israel opened up restaurants, bars, sporting events, etc over a month ago. Things aren't quite back to normal, and they still have about 150 cases per day, but these things are possible when 55% of your population is fully vaccinated. Vaccines work. Let's get it done.

Not only does our government refuse to take a stand against the thugs in Beijing, but they actively prevent other organizations from honouring those that do. The moral cowardice never ceases to amaze.

"We agree that we need affordable housing, but do you really want poor people living so close to a school, daycare, and sports facilities?" NIMBY's are the worst people on earth. I'm convinced.

Cowards. A complete and total failure of moral responsibility. "Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did not participate in the vote. Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau abstained on the record while the rest of his cabinet colleagues were absent."

Honestly, I have no words for how disgusting and reprehensible I find this. Stephen McNeil should be ashamed.

This is some great stuff right here. China is building a new Embassy in London, so a local councillor has put forward a motion to rename the roads around the site as "Tiananmen Square", "Uyghur Court", "Hong Kong Road" and Xiaobo Road".

Trudeau says "our plan is working". Meanwhile, the United States administered 1.5 million doses of vaccine yesterday, while Canada has administered 1.1 million doses since the pandemic began.

Here's a Conservative legacy to be proud of: On this day in 1962, Canada’s first female cabinet minister introduced a new immigration policy designed to eliminate racial discrimination and select immigrants based on their skills. Ellen Fairclough, an accountant from Hamilton, was the sixth woman elected to the Parliament of Canada and the first named to cabinet.... Appointed secretary of state by prime minister John Diefenbaker in 1957, by January, 1962, she was minister of citizenship and immigration, a portfolio that had become politically contentious. Unemployment rose from less than 5 per cent in 1957 to nearly 8 per cent in 1961, and there were rumblings about a surplus of unskilled labour. The new regulations decreed that immigrants would be assessed on their education and training, not their racial or national origin. This means that any suitably qualified person from any part of the world can be considered for immigration to Canada entirely on his own merits without regard to his race, colour, national origin or the country from which he comes, Ms. Fairclough said. The changes brought federal policy in line with Diefenbaker’s 1960 Bill of Rights.