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Excerpted from the September 6,2021 Statement by Canadian Doctors for Protection from Guns, the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, and Danforth Families for Safe Communities on Erin O’Toole’s Conservative Party platform

Far from being reassured by Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole’s statement yesterday regarding the ban on semi-automatic assault weapons, our organizations – representing physicians, scientists, survivors of gun violence, and anti-hate researchers – are further alarmed.   Mr. O’Toole has not committed to maintaining the assault weapons ban, nor has he committed to enshrining the ban in legislation and preparing to buyback the now-prohibited guns. Mr. O’Toole has only committed to studying the ban as part of a review of the classification system of firearms. Yet, on page 90 of the Conservative Party platform, he commits specifically to consulting with gun manufacturers and gun owners. There is no such mention of survivors, physicians, women, anti-hate researchers, scientists, or academics.   Finally, on page 90 of the Conservative platform, Mr. O’Toole has committed to repealing Bill C-71, legislation that, among other important measures, strengthens background checks on new gun purchasers.

Noted: Fred Delorey, who is currently the Conservative national campaign manager. was registered to lobby on behalf of the National Firearms Association (NFA) until resigning in 2019.

“When this is all said and done we’re going to be able to look back in the cold light of day with objectivity.”

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney September 1,2021

The last soldier to leave Afghanistan on the day the U.S. concluded its 20-year war has been identified as Major General Chris Donahue, commander of the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division, XVIII Airborne Corps. Donahue was one of the commanders on the ground leading the evacuation mission.

ghosting: the practice of Premier Jason Kenney ending the leadership responsibility with the Province of Alberta by suddenly and without explanation withdrawing from all communication.

Premier Jason Kenney and Dr. Deena Hinshaw haven’t spoken publicly in weeks!

The last time Kenney addressed Albertans was on Aug. 9 at a press conference to announce the expansion of an Edmonton brewery that promised to create 25 jobs.

Where has the premier been since?

His office said in a statement on August 26 that Kenney is on vacation for two weeks, but he is “still able to fully communicate with his cabinet and senior officials as required” and has “participated in numerous briefings on important subjects — including on COVID-19.”

The statement did not say where Kenney is, only that he will be back at work when things improve…er…when he feels like it….ok maybe this week sometime…maybe…

Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Deena Hinshaw hasn’t spoken publicly since Aug. 13, when she delayed the province’s plans to lift testing, tracing and isolation measures until at least Sept. 27.

Alberta’s active cases are increasing. The province currently has 11,426 active cases of COVID-19 — the most in the country and the most the province has seen since May 24.

Court Painter, after receiving his prognosticator fee, explained to all clients that in the spirit of fairness it would be unseemly to reveal his election prognostications and become known as a spoiler.It is rumoured among the chattering class, Court Painter might have been bought off by the multitude of pollsters who depend on revenue from media to reveal daily mixed poll results to anxious citizens !

GW Bush former US president & presently a self-described”simple painter”, recently discovered new dramatic subjects to add to his celebrity portrait collection .

Five of the top defense companies in the US , Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, General Dynamics, and Northrop Grumman, spent a combined $34.2 million in lobbying in the first half of 2021 compared to about $33 million in the same period of 2020

From a paper written by Heidi Peltier as part of an ongoing project sponsored by Brown’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Its 35 scholars, physicians, legal experts and human-rights advocates began their work in 2011.

The project has pegged the costs of the war on terror at US $6.4 trillion through fiscal 2020.

US “Defense spending now accounts for more than half of all discretionary spending, a category that also includes education, transportation, and healthcare—virtually everything the government does other than Medicare and Social Security,” Peltier writes.

“Most of these inflated costs are due to payments to overly expensive military contractors.”

A Canadian perspective :Excepted from Legion Magazine article: July 8,2020 Rise in military contracting hides human, monetary costs by Stephen J. Thorne

Canada’s military contracting is generally limited to food and technical services, consultants and translators, though it hired private security firms to conduct perimeter security on its forward operating bases during latter deployments to Afghanistan, and at its embassy in Kabul.

Vice News reported in 2018 that Canadian government payments to private security firms—mercenaries, essentially—had doubled under the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, numbering in the millions of dollars.

Many are ex-Canadian soldiers working for defence contractors providing security for high-profile executives or government officials in foreign countries.

GardaWorld, a multimillion-dollar company based in Montreal, has thousands of security contractors globally, protecting everything from embassies to businesses in hostile areas and peaceful nations alike

A 2007 report by David Perry of Dalhousie University in Halifax said the Canadian military pursued private logistics services for many of the same reasons that the American military has come to increasingly rely on private military providers, namely “manpower shortages and a desire to maintain troop ceilings.”

“These shortages have been exacerbated by repeated deployments to Afghanistan [and] the scope of services contracting under the CANCAP program has expanded significantly,” Perry wrote.

Proponents of military contracting contend that what Heidi Peltier calls “commercialization” of government services decreases costs and increases quality of goods and services, thereby benefitting the public purse.

But Peltier’s paper asserts that military contracting is at least as expensive, and often more expensive, than if the military were to perform the same services in-house.

“This is because contractors lack competitive pressures to reduce the prices they charge to the government,” says the document. “This lack of competition is due, first, to the nature of the contracts themselves.”

UPDATE May 9/2023

May 8 /23 (Reuters) – The man Texas authorities say killed eight people in a barrage of gunfire at a Dallas-area shopping mall over the weekend left behind a social media profile filled with white supremacist and neo-Nazi ideology, multiple news outlets reported on Monday.

White supremacists commit the greatest number of domestic extremist-related murders in most years, but in 2022 the percentage was unusually high:  21 of the 25 murders were linked to white supremacists.  Again, this is primarily due to mass shootings

Wishful thinking!

COMING UP: MAY 12/13 .2023

The Trump National Doral resort will host two antisemites who have promoted pro-Adolf Hitler propaganda and spread virulently antisemitic conspiracy theories. They will be speaking at an event in Miami May 12/13 alongside numerous Team Trump personalities, including Eric Trump, Lara Trump, and Devin Nunes. 

Trump Doral speaker Scott McKay, who has a streaming show on Rumble, has claimed that Jewish people orchestrated 9/11 and were responsible for the assassinations of Presidents Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, and William McKinley. He has also said that Jewish people routinely torture children and eat their hearts.

He has praised Hitler for supposedly trying to take down a Jewish banking system and said, “Hitler was actually fighting the same people that we’re trying to take down today.” 

Trump Doral speaker Charlie Ward, who also streams a show on Rumble, has shared posts praising Hitler for supposedly “warning us” about Judaism; claiming that “VIRUSES are Man (JEW) made”; and attacking the alleged Jewish media for supposedly lying about the Holocaust. 

The two are featured speakers in the “ReAwaken America” tour, which is set to stop at  Trump’s Miami hotel on May 12 and 13. Scheduled to speak alongside McKay and Ward are numerous members of Trump’s orbit, including: Eric Trump, Lara Trump, former Trump economic adviser Peter Navarro, former national security adviser Michael Flynn, former senior Department of Defense official Kash Patel, former acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker, Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes, and Trump ally Roger Stone. 

UPDATE : July 14/22 from August 21/21 post

Jan 6 Hearing Tied Trump to “America’s Biggest Threat:” The White Power Mvmt | Amanpour and Company

To explore the evolution of right-wing extremist groups in America and their connection to Trump, author and historian Kathleen Belew joins Walter Isaacson. Originally aired on July 13, 2022

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From Twitter thread of August 16 /2021 in reaction to US withdrawal from 20 year war with Afghanistan

Sometimes, Court Painter gets bored and puts down the brush! Seeking inspiration he browses through the archive ,occasionally looking up wistfully to stare out the window till the eyelids become heavy and he is seized by a nap!

That’s all we know at this time.