Canadian policies start to coagulate into a theme of sorts: Links 1, April 27, 2020

1. Toronto at Dawn

https://twitter.com/FaithGoldy/status/1254571901835411457

2. Man kills 7 year old niece for being noisy in Pakistan

3. CNN just keeps getting more and more a propaganda organ for the left

4. CBC is no better. Worse maybe

5. How The Southern Poverty Law Center Started Inventing ‘Hate Groups’

On March 14, 2019 the Southern Poverty Law Center publicly fired its founder and long-time leader Morris Dees on accusations of racial and sexual discrimination, and announced it would bring in outside assistance to investigate the climate of the organization Dees had built and ruled over for almost half a century.

 

Since its founding, the SPLC had been treated — at least in the mainstream media — as an unquestioned arbiter of what qualifies as racism and hatred. Being added to the SPLC’s “Hate List” was the death-knell for any number of organizations that ran afoul of Dees.

 

In the earliest days of the SPLC, the Alabama-based civil rights law firm did target truly racist and hateful groups, most famously the United Klans of America, which the SPLC devastated in a successful lawsuit it launched in 1984. The result was financial largesse.

 

Money flowed into the SPLC, driven by Dees’s brilliance for direct-mail campaigning and the hope of white liberals that a strong SPLC would mean the end to racism and hatred in America.

 

But to keep the money flowing, the SPLC kept insisting hate groups and white supremacy were expanding. To do this, an ever-widening definition of hatred was required. The SPLC expanded its list of “hate groups” to include not just the shrinking numbers of vile KKK and neo-Nazi groups, but groups that were merely controversial and even harmless.

6. Seven minutes of goodness on the Media treatment of what President Trump says.

7. ‘Family farms will be lost’: Hog farmers fear bankruptcies, pork shortage as meat-packing plants close

Bottlenecks at slaughterhouses due to COVID-19 are creating a cash crisis for farmers and may threaten the flow of meat to grocery stores

 

Bottlenecks at pork slaughterhouses due to COVID-19 are creating a cash crisis for farmers, raising fears of bankruptcies at the farm level and threatening the flow of Canadian meat to grocery store coolers.

 

A cluster of coronavirus outbreaks has bedevilled meat-packing plants in recent weeks, forcing the temporary shutdown of some facilities and the imposition of strict social distancing and safety measures in others.

 

Olymel, the country’s largest pork processor, was forced to close a plant in Yamamiche, Que., for 14 days after nine employees tested positive for the virus. The company reopened that plant last week and has introduced new safety protocols at three of its six slaughterhouses.

(At the point it should be noted that from testing of blood from healthy people who are contributing blood to blood banks, between 39% and 60% of donors all test positive for the virus or the antibody. Closing down a part of the food chain for this reason is insane. For this and more important revelations about Corona and the impact of the policies implemented for it, see Dr. Andrew Bostom’s twitter feed. Who happens to be an epidemiologist)

7. India officially recommends the use of Hydroxychloroquine and expands its use

Related: The Lancet article on Hydroxychloroquine study:

8. Trudeau forces businesses, charities to ‘confirm’ they don’t ‘discriminate’ to receive emergency aid

Canada’s businesses must confirm they don’t discriminate based on ‘gender, sexual orientation…religion’ to receive COVID-19 aid

 

OTTAWA, April 24, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government is forcing businesses, not-for-profits and registered charities applying for an emergency interest-free loan to help them through the coronavirus lockdown to “confirm” that they do not “discriminate” on the basis of “gender,” “sexual orientation,” and “religion,” among other things, in order to receive the financial help.

 

Borrowers who do not wish to confirm the “non-discrimination” clause are excluded from the government-run program based on this stipulation, which appears to be unique to the Canada Emergency Business Account (CEBA). 

Part of the Liberals’ relief package for Canadians suffering hardship because of coronavirus pandemic shutdowns that Parliament passed last month, the CEBA is an interest-free loan of up to $40,000 for businesses, non-profit groups and registered charities that generate a portion of their income from the sale of goods and services.

 

The CEBA program explicitly states an applicant will be excluded unless it confirms that it “does not promote violence, incite hatred or discriminate on the basis of sex, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, religion, culture, region, education, age or mental or physical disability.”

(So the government implements policies guaranteed to make the virus spread as fast and widely as possible, except for Nunavut which isolated themselves immediately from all incoming flights, forces all businesses to shut down for a long time, then offers help to get back up and running, but only so long as it meets Trudeau’s Neo-Marxist standards. Fascinating. But it is the best explanation of the reasons for these policies I have seen to date)

Thank you PePi, M., Wrath of Khan, Johnny U., Sassy, Yucki, and all who sent in materials so far this week.