That guy is the poster child for allowing late term abortions.

It's amazing how a supposedly secular state is making all these allowances for Religion, isn't it?

You mean for one Religion.


If ever the religious fanatic right become "The Power" in the USA, The Handmaiden's Tale will have nailed it.

Far-right Calgary candidate faces criminal, election act charges from 2015 vote



The leader of a controversial political party is facing both criminal charges and charges under the Canada Elections Act.

Stephen Garvey, the leader of the far-right National Citizens Alliance (formerly the National Advancement Party of Canada), was charged in June in the Provincial Court of Alberta in Calgary.

Garvey is charged with circumventing election contribution limits by approximately $26,000.

He's also charged with knowingly providing the chief electoral officer with false documents relating to his party's status, leading to two criminal code charges for forgery.

In 2015, Garvey ran in Calgary Skyview where he received 1.7 per cent of the vote.

His Calgary-based party is calling for an immediate moratorium on immigration to Canada, followed by a reduction in immigration and rescinding the Multiculturalism Act. It opposes hate speech laws and anti-Islamophobia policies. The party also believes climate change is a globalist hoax and says it opposes current school curriculums that teach children about sexual identities which the party describes on its website as "heshe, shehe, it."

Two years ago, Garvey took part in an anti-immigration demonstration with the Worldwide Coalition Against Islam in Red Deer, a group he has since disavowed. And, last year he helped organize an Edmonton yellow vest rally against the U.N.

From Calgary, doesn't surprise me. Only place in Canada where they have actual pro white supremacist marches.

Calgary is a strange one. On the one hand, it’s like you say, but on the other they have an openly gay Muslim as mayor. Go figure!

RCMP searches Manitoba home in relation to Canadian Forces member allegedly in hate group

The RCMP executed a search warrant at a home in Manitoba on Monday in connection with allegations that a Canadian Armed Forces member was involved in an organization that promotes hate.

Multiple sources tell Global News’ Mercedes Stephenson that a number of firearms were seized during the search, which occurred at around 10 p.m. in the town of Beausejour.

While it’s unclear whether the CAF member accused in the military investigation resides at the home, sources say it is related to the investigation.

The Winnipeg Free Press first reported on Monday the allegations that Master Cpl. Patrik Mathews was recruiting for white supremacist network The Base.

The CAF issued a statement about the situation, saying it was investigating and exploring potential “immediate actions” to take. Few other details were provided at the time.

Brigade commander Col. Gwen Bourque told reporters Tuesday that no arrests had been made in the case.

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According to the report, Mathews put up Nazi posters across the city for The Base. He also allegedly expressed admiration for serial killers and mass shooters, such as Charleston shooter Dylann Roof. Members of The Base also consider the alleged Christchurch shooter “a saint,” the report said.

“He wants to recruit young white men for a race war,” it alleged. “He thinks one is coming and can’t wait for it to get here.”

“He wants to recruit young white men for a race war,” it alleged. “He thinks one is coming and can’t wait for it to get here.”

Charles Mason wanabe

As the Amazon burns, Brazil's president draws global outrage

Jeremiah Rodriguez


Published Aug. 22, 2019 9:42 a.m. ET

Updated 1 hour ago

As fires rage across the Amazon rainforest, non-government organizations (NGOs), environmentalists and people on social media are blaming Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. Meanwhile, he’s responded by baselessly claiming the groups themselves are setting the fires.

Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) has been tracking the damage and its satellite data showed on Thursday a record-breaking 75,336 fires have swept across Brazil’s forests in the past eight months.

The staggering number of fires, mostly in the Amazon, represents roughly a 84-per-cent spike compared to last year. It’s also the largest number of fires recorded in a year since the agency began tracking fires in 2013.

Mariana Ferreira, science program manager for World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Brazil, told CTV News channel the “fires are strongly associated with deforestation.”

Conservationists, including those with the WWF, said the fires aren’t occurring simply due to the dry season, which spans from July to early November when land is cleared for crops and grazing, as Bolsonaro briefly claimed.

Ferreira pointed out that “the municipalities where deforestation has risen a lot, are the same places where we are seeing the fires.”

In a statement, the WWF points out that since Bolsonaro was sworn into office in January, there’s been a massive spike in deforestation, illegal logging and the government failing to crack down illegal burns.

Christian Poirier, the program director of non-profit organization Amazon Watch, told CNN the level of this year’s deforestation was "unprecedented." He explained that even during dry seasons, the Amazon doesn’t catch fire easily so "the vast majority of these fires are human-lit.”

Camila Veiga of the Brazilian Association of NGOs told AFP that “the fires are the consequence of a policy of environmental devastation, of support for agribusiness, of increasing pastures.”

Ferreira said there are other regions being affected and that Brazilians are arguing for “strong change in how this government is facing and talking about the Amazon.”

BRAZIL’S PRESIDENT BASELESSLY CLAIMS NGOS SET FIRES

Bolsonaro initially revelled in the criticism, reportedly calling himself “Captain Chainsaw,” and claimed that the record-breaking number of fires was simply due to the “season of the queimada (burn).”

But then, without any evidence, he later claimed that the fires were caused by "criminal action by those NGOs, to call attention against me, against the Brazilian government."

AFP reported that Bolsonaro suggested the fires were set because his government had cut the funding to several NGOs. "All the indications suggest they went there to film and start fires. That's what I feel,” he said.

Even Brazil’s space agency INPE itself has been in Bolsonaro’s crosshairs, after it released unfavourable deforestation data in the past several months. The head of the agency was fired because Bolsonaro felt the data was inaccurate and made Brazil look bad to the rest of the world, The Associated Press reported.

Ferreira said none of his rhetoric is actually helping to contain the deforestation or the fires.

The Amazon, often nicknamed “The Lungs of The Planet,” provides between 20 to 25 per cent of the world’s oxygen and helps to curb greenhouse gases and the effects of climate change.

But at the same time as more of the Amazon is burned away, its collective ability to absorb carbon in the air has decreased recently, one study found.

Although Ferreira said there is the potential for harm to fresh water, animal habitats and threatened species, but that scientists won’t be able to determine the extent of the damage until the fires have subsided.

She added there are reports of children and older residents “going to hospitals due to smoke.”

#PRAYFORAMAZONAS

The recent images have shocked people around the world, making hashtags #PrayforAmazonas and #PrayForTheAmazon go viral on Twitter.

People have been using them to share images and videos of the fires levelling entire swaths of forests, animals running from their habitats, and even the smoke briefly covering coastal cities such as Sao Paulo in darkness.

"No matter how successful we are, if our Earth dies, we all die," posted one Twitter user, with another writing, "send your prayers to the Amazon and to the planet, we will need it."

Many are also calling out Bolsonaro’s policies and his anti-environment rhetoric, saying that they emboldened loggers, miners and farmers. Ferreira said that Bolsonaro needs to realize that the rainforests are an “asset for Brazilian economic development not hampering it.”

Other critics also say the president has failed to address illegal logging and burns in the region.

In a statement translated from Portugese, the non-profit Observatorio do Clima (Climate Observatory) wrote that the recent wave of fires lay bare Bolsonaro’s failed policies and "reflect the irresponsibility of the president."