Ed. here. I've told Walt that I am coming to grips with the new Blogger GUI and that, for the time being, we can still use the "legacy interface". I've also passed along messages from a number of readers [How many? Walt] saying they will be disappointed if we give up now, so close to what may be a pivotal moment in American (and therefore world) history.
Walt has suggested that we put up some videos until he feels like writing again. Fortunately, the premiere episode of Season Two of the True North Speaker Series went live yesterday. In this hour-and-a-quarter video, TN founder Candice Malcolm sits down with the legendary Rex Murphy, whose videos and writings have been featured on WWW several times over the years.
Mr Murphy can be counted on to provide a much needed dose of common sense in a world where good sense is anything but common. In this exclusive interview, he discusses with Ms Malcolm a wide range of issues including the COVID-19 pandemic, the changes in the media landscape over the past several decades and the totalitarian impulses on the left. This is primarily for Canadians, but our American friends should find it even more relevant.
Walt here. This interview has been a great inspiration to me. If Rex Murphy won't be silenced, neither will I!
Showing posts with label True North. Show all posts
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Friday, September 11, 2020
Monday, June 15, 2020
VIDEO: Vast majority of Canadians favour a pause in immigration
"Go back! Canada can't take any more until we've dealt with the Co-19 panic and the unemployment it's caused!" According to a poll by ONE, a research company based in Toronto ("proud to be the world's most diverse city!" LOL), 76% of Canadians strongly agree or moderately agree with the statement: Canada should temporarily pause immigration until a vaccine is developed for coronavirus and the unemployment rate drops down to pre-coronavirus levels.
Candice Malcom reports in "An immigration pause would serve all Canadians" (True North, 14/6/20) that support for an immigration pause is to be found across all demographics, from coast to coast to coast. Not surprisingly, 89% of Canadians who voted Conservative in the last election support the pause, as do 87% of Bloc Québécois voters. Everyone knows that Québeckers are racists, eh. They're the ones who voted to ban the wearing of Muslim head-coverings!
More surprisingly, 67% of Canadians who cast their vote for Justin "Mr Socks" Trudeau and his ideas of a "post-national state" support the idea of shutting down immigration into Canuckistan for the time being. Says Ms Malcolm, "Perhaps the PM should think twice before he degrades and name-calls those with whom he disagrees on immigration — including two-thirds of his own party's supporters."
But let me not make you read further. Check out the latest video from True North.
As Ms Malcolm points out, many Canucks believe the propaganda dished out daily by the Canadian Broadcorping Castration and the rest of Canada's (((controlled media))) -- all the publishers on the Liberals' approved list are now in line for a cash subsidy -- that the countries borders are currently closed and that Canada's immigration system has been shut down. The Canadian Border Security Agency's numbers tell what's really happening.
According to the most recent CBSA Traveller Statistics released on June 3rd, more than one million (1,000,000) travellers entered Canada at land border crossings between the period of March 21st and June 2nd. An additional 763,000 travellers arrived at Canuckistan's international airports during that same period.
The CBSA does not release the immigration status of land travellers, but it does for air travellers. Of the 763,000 people who landed at Canadian international airports since Mr Socks' March announcement, only 283,000 were Canadian citizens and 21,000 were permanent residents. More than half of the people arriving in Canada — 459,000 — were new immigrants.
This is because the Trudeau government's travel ban includes wide exemptions for new immigrants, including students, agricultural workers and others who come to Canada through the Temporary Foreign Workers Programme. A recent employment report compiled by the Liberal federal government revealed that 13,000 foreign workers were approved to come to Canada between March 15th and May 8th. That's approximately 1625 per week.
If I may borrow a catchphrase from the latest "crisis", "Enough is enough!" 76% of Canadians agree!
Candice Malcom reports in "An immigration pause would serve all Canadians" (True North, 14/6/20) that support for an immigration pause is to be found across all demographics, from coast to coast to coast. Not surprisingly, 89% of Canadians who voted Conservative in the last election support the pause, as do 87% of Bloc Québécois voters. Everyone knows that Québeckers are racists, eh. They're the ones who voted to ban the wearing of Muslim head-coverings!
More surprisingly, 67% of Canadians who cast their vote for Justin "Mr Socks" Trudeau and his ideas of a "post-national state" support the idea of shutting down immigration into Canuckistan for the time being. Says Ms Malcolm, "Perhaps the PM should think twice before he degrades and name-calls those with whom he disagrees on immigration — including two-thirds of his own party's supporters."
But let me not make you read further. Check out the latest video from True North.
As Ms Malcolm points out, many Canucks believe the propaganda dished out daily by the Canadian Broadcorping Castration and the rest of Canada's (((controlled media))) -- all the publishers on the Liberals' approved list are now in line for a cash subsidy -- that the countries borders are currently closed and that Canada's immigration system has been shut down. The Canadian Border Security Agency's numbers tell what's really happening.
According to the most recent CBSA Traveller Statistics released on June 3rd, more than one million (1,000,000) travellers entered Canada at land border crossings between the period of March 21st and June 2nd. An additional 763,000 travellers arrived at Canuckistan's international airports during that same period.
The CBSA does not release the immigration status of land travellers, but it does for air travellers. Of the 763,000 people who landed at Canadian international airports since Mr Socks' March announcement, only 283,000 were Canadian citizens and 21,000 were permanent residents. More than half of the people arriving in Canada — 459,000 — were new immigrants.
This is because the Trudeau government's travel ban includes wide exemptions for new immigrants, including students, agricultural workers and others who come to Canada through the Temporary Foreign Workers Programme. A recent employment report compiled by the Liberal federal government revealed that 13,000 foreign workers were approved to come to Canada between March 15th and May 8th. That's approximately 1625 per week.
If I may borrow a catchphrase from the latest "crisis", "Enough is enough!" 76% of Canadians agree!
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Follow-up: "no mass immigration" signs torn down, censorship complete
To bring you up to date on the campaign of the Canadian left and the "progressive" commentariat to shut down any and all debate on the Trudeau Liberal's immigration policies, Walt can report that all of the anti-immigration billboards erected in cities across Canada -- see "PC police force takedown of pro-PPC anti-immigration billboards" -- were torn down yesterday.
The owners of the billboards, Pattison Outdoor Advertising, who had rented the space because that's how they build the empire of Canadian business magnut and philanthropist Jimmy Pattison, caved to pressure from the enforcers of diversity and inclusion, and cancelled the contracts, after first telling the pro-immigration whiners "Nothing to do with us. Take it up with the People's Party, or True North Strong and Free Advertising Corp. It's their ad!"
Apparently that's what the multiculti advocates did. After being on the wrong end of a barrage of phone calls, e-mails, texts, tweets etc etc, True North folded like a cheap accordion, and sought to distance itself from the message, saying it never signed off on the campaign. "We completely disavow any sympathy with or support for the views expressed by donors who paid for and selected the content of their advertising, which we were mistakenly not afforded an opportunity to first approve," Frank Smeenk, the head of True North Strong & Free Advertising Corp., wrote in an email to The Canadian Press on Monday.
So True North just bought the space, eh. Had no idea what the ads were going to say? Had no hand in designing and printing them? Who's running True North? The three wise monkeys? Walt wonders if Mr Smeenk knows the old line, "Don't shoot me! I'm only the piano player!"
For his part, People's Party leader Maxime Bernier said at his national campaign launch on Sunday that, although the PPC did not place or pay for the signs, he agrees with the message. On Monday, he called Pattison's decision to take the billboards an act of censorship. "The message on the billboard is not controversial for two-thirds of Canadians who agree with it, and for those who disagree but support free speech and an open discussion," he tweeted. "It's only controversial for the totalitarian leftist mob who want to censor it."
Further reading:
"How a 'leftist mob' handed Mad Max a pre-election gift", by Colby Cosh (no arch-conservative he!) in Canada's National Post, 27/8/19. Excerpt: "The billboard didn’t say that immigrants are horrid. It didn’t say anything for or against ethnic diversity, which Bernier has praised in the past while objecting to its elevation to cult status. It didn’t propose throwing anybody out of Canada. It is a plea against a long-standing policy of mass immigration."
"Bernier billboards shouldn't have come down based on mob rule", by Brian Lilley, in the Toronto Sun, 27/8/19. Excerpt: "This week we are supposed to be outraged that billboards went up across the country in support of Maxime Bernier’s position on immigration. The fact that these billboards are now coming down is a reason for us to applaud a progressive company I’m told. Okay, I don’t get it. Either we believe in free speech and open political debate or we don’t."
And from Yours Very Truly:
"Canada's 'independent' Debate Commission shuts out Max Bernier", WWW 12/8/19. Walt asks: What are the Canadian lefties and their (((controlled media))) afraid of? Could it be that they know that uncontrolled immigration is going to be the big ballot issue in the upcoming election? And that Canucks who are sick, sore and tired of "welcoming" 1000s of third-world "refugees" will vote for the only party taking a stand against it? That would be the People's Party, and only the People's Party.
The owners of the billboards, Pattison Outdoor Advertising, who had rented the space because that's how they build the empire of Canadian business magnut and philanthropist Jimmy Pattison, caved to pressure from the enforcers of diversity and inclusion, and cancelled the contracts, after first telling the pro-immigration whiners "Nothing to do with us. Take it up with the People's Party, or True North Strong and Free Advertising Corp. It's their ad!"
Apparently that's what the multiculti advocates did. After being on the wrong end of a barrage of phone calls, e-mails, texts, tweets etc etc, True North folded like a cheap accordion, and sought to distance itself from the message, saying it never signed off on the campaign. "We completely disavow any sympathy with or support for the views expressed by donors who paid for and selected the content of their advertising, which we were mistakenly not afforded an opportunity to first approve," Frank Smeenk, the head of True North Strong & Free Advertising Corp., wrote in an email to The Canadian Press on Monday.
So True North just bought the space, eh. Had no idea what the ads were going to say? Had no hand in designing and printing them? Who's running True North? The three wise monkeys? Walt wonders if Mr Smeenk knows the old line, "Don't shoot me! I'm only the piano player!"
For his part, People's Party leader Maxime Bernier said at his national campaign launch on Sunday that, although the PPC did not place or pay for the signs, he agrees with the message. On Monday, he called Pattison's decision to take the billboards an act of censorship. "The message on the billboard is not controversial for two-thirds of Canadians who agree with it, and for those who disagree but support free speech and an open discussion," he tweeted. "It's only controversial for the totalitarian leftist mob who want to censor it."
Further reading:
"How a 'leftist mob' handed Mad Max a pre-election gift", by Colby Cosh (no arch-conservative he!) in Canada's National Post, 27/8/19. Excerpt: "The billboard didn’t say that immigrants are horrid. It didn’t say anything for or against ethnic diversity, which Bernier has praised in the past while objecting to its elevation to cult status. It didn’t propose throwing anybody out of Canada. It is a plea against a long-standing policy of mass immigration."
"Bernier billboards shouldn't have come down based on mob rule", by Brian Lilley, in the Toronto Sun, 27/8/19. Excerpt: "This week we are supposed to be outraged that billboards went up across the country in support of Maxime Bernier’s position on immigration. The fact that these billboards are now coming down is a reason for us to applaud a progressive company I’m told. Okay, I don’t get it. Either we believe in free speech and open political debate or we don’t."
And from Yours Very Truly:
"Canada's 'independent' Debate Commission shuts out Max Bernier", WWW 12/8/19. Walt asks: What are the Canadian lefties and their (((controlled media))) afraid of? Could it be that they know that uncontrolled immigration is going to be the big ballot issue in the upcoming election? And that Canucks who are sick, sore and tired of "welcoming" 1000s of third-world "refugees" will vote for the only party taking a stand against it? That would be the People's Party, and only the People's Party.
Monday, August 26, 2019
PC police force takedown of pro-PPC anti-immigration billboards
Maxime Bernier, leader of the People's Party of Canada, blames a "totalitarian leftist mob" for the decision of an advertising company owned by one of Canada's richest men to take down billboards promoting his party's "controversial" stance on immigration.
Opening the PPC's campaign for October's federal election in his home riding of Beauce yesterday, M Bernier complained of censorship after Pattison Outdoor Advertising, which rented the billboard space to a third party, "True North Strong and Free Advertising Corp., said it would remove the ads in response to "an outpouring of criticism".
There was indeed an "outpouring of criticism", orchestrated and reported by... wait for it... the CBC, who managed to find an immigrant from... wait for it... Iran who found one of the billboards, which appeared in Halifax, offensive. Pattison Outdoor Advertising originally said that if anyone had an issue with the content, they should contact the third-party group, but yesterday the company changed course, saying it never meant to offend or alienate anyone and that the ads would come down.
M Bernier says, rightly, that his political opponents and the "leftist mob" want to stifle discussion of immigration and keep him out of the election debates scheduled for the 7th and 10th of October. 1000s of fair-minded commenters on the CBC News report of Pattison's decision to take down the signs agree that censorship of the PPC's anti-immigration stance is the real reason why the liberal elites in the other political parties and the (((controlled media))) are pulling out all the stops to keep "Mad Max" out of the Leader's Debates. See "Canada's "independent" Debate Commission shuts out Max Bernier", WWW 12/8/19.
M Bernier has said that the number of immigrants accepted by Canada every year -- 350,000 -- is way too high. His party platform says the flood of immigrants inflates housing prices, and that other political parties use mass immigration as a tool to buy votes from immigrant communities. For a summary of the PPC policy, see "Max Bernier's PPC policy on immigration, in point form", WWW 25/7/19.
Yesterday M. Bernier tweeted: The message on the billboard is not “controversial” for two thirds of Canadians who agree with it, and for those who disagree but support free speech and an open discussion. It’s only controversial for the totalitarian leftist mob who want to censor it.
Opening the PPC's campaign for October's federal election in his home riding of Beauce yesterday, M Bernier complained of censorship after Pattison Outdoor Advertising, which rented the billboard space to a third party, "True North Strong and Free Advertising Corp., said it would remove the ads in response to "an outpouring of criticism".
There was indeed an "outpouring of criticism", orchestrated and reported by... wait for it... the CBC, who managed to find an immigrant from... wait for it... Iran who found one of the billboards, which appeared in Halifax, offensive. Pattison Outdoor Advertising originally said that if anyone had an issue with the content, they should contact the third-party group, but yesterday the company changed course, saying it never meant to offend or alienate anyone and that the ads would come down.
M Bernier says, rightly, that his political opponents and the "leftist mob" want to stifle discussion of immigration and keep him out of the election debates scheduled for the 7th and 10th of October. 1000s of fair-minded commenters on the CBC News report of Pattison's decision to take down the signs agree that censorship of the PPC's anti-immigration stance is the real reason why the liberal elites in the other political parties and the (((controlled media))) are pulling out all the stops to keep "Mad Max" out of the Leader's Debates. See "Canada's "independent" Debate Commission shuts out Max Bernier", WWW 12/8/19.
M Bernier has said that the number of immigrants accepted by Canada every year -- 350,000 -- is way too high. His party platform says the flood of immigrants inflates housing prices, and that other political parties use mass immigration as a tool to buy votes from immigrant communities. For a summary of the PPC policy, see "Max Bernier's PPC policy on immigration, in point form", WWW 25/7/19.
Yesterday M. Bernier tweeted: The message on the billboard is not “controversial” for two thirds of Canadians who agree with it, and for those who disagree but support free speech and an open discussion. It’s only controversial for the totalitarian leftist mob who want to censor it.
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