Canada Considering Sweeping Immigration Restrictions

By William Teach June 4, 2025 – 10:30 am

This is Canada

The vast majority are from India, Philippines, and China. Then you get Syria, Nigeria, and Pakistan. Meaning Islamic extremists. A goodly chunk are being imported, rather than coming to Canada illegally/showing up at the border demanding asylum

Canada proposes sweeping immigration and security bill

The Canadian government has proposed a bill to restrict some asylum claims and give authorities more power to halt the processing of immigration applications.

Canada’s immigration minister Lena Diab said the Strong Borders Act is meant to curb organised crime and the flow of illegal drugs and weapons, while boosting the “integrity” of the country’s immigration system.

It includes provisions that would give police more power to monitor Canada’s shared border with the US.

It could also bar those who have been in Canada for more than year from filing a claim for asylum. But critics said the bill, which seeks to expand authorities’ ability to open and inspect mail, would breach civil liberties.

The proposed legislation comes amid increasing pressure on Canada, which has historically been open to newcomers, to restrict immigration as the country deals with strained public services and a housing crisis.

Canada has a population of 40 million, a little more than California. And they’ve already brought in a 40th of that population in just 4 months.

They would also require people entering Canada from the US under the Safe Third Country Agreement – a long-standing deal requiring migrants to seek asylum in the first “safe” country they reach, whether it is the US or Canada – to file a claim in Canada within 14 days for it to be considered.

Those who fail to adhere to those deadlines would still be able to undergo a risk assessment that would determine whether their safety is at risk if they are sent away.

But, would they actually do it? Would they boot them out? What numbers are we talking about, when the government is bringing all the immigrants in? How many of the imports are claiming asylum? There are about 3 million non-permanent residents in Canada. About 500,000 illegals. About 450,000 claiming asylum. Can Canada crack down? Can they do things to slow the flow of drugs and guns across the border? Will they?

In fairness, Indians bring value, because the ones who come over from India tend to be a higher “caste”, looking for education and strong work, especially in the tech industry. Sure, they are a pain in the ass when it comes to negotiating, and need to stop wearing sandals with long pants, but, they are not going to be drains on government resources. They take care of their own and work hard. Canada needs to stop bringing in all the Chinese and Muslim extremists.

Meanwhile

Amazing. Canada isn’t deporting her for being a terrorism supporter, but, a clerical error.

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It’s Totally Unfair To Require Climate (scam) Professionals To Practice What They Preach

By William Teach June 4, 2025 – 7:15 am

Totally unfair!

Why climate professionals are often held to unrealistic standards

Climate professionals, people who work in roles which address climate change, are often criticised for what they eat or how they travel. Criticism of lifestyle choices by colleagues, family members or even strangers can be demotivating. Worse, it can hinder efforts towards building a sustainable future.

As more people start working in sustainability, both in traditional sectors such as climate researchers or public health professionals and within other workspaces where sustainability is embedded into an existing role, this type of criticism is in danger of becoming more familiar.

As more people start working the scam they should be expected to practice what they preach, but, you know, that is only for Other People

Climate change affects everyone, whether we like to admit it or not. It can be overwhelming to know how best to act on all the advice about living more sustainably. In fact, increased knowledge about what is necessary for a sustainable lifestyle can be paralysing, and prevent someone from taking action.

See? Everyone should be forced. Except for those pushing it, who have massive carbon footprints.

Of course, many of us do want to live more sustainably. But some people may feel restricted by the efforts and costs of taking these extra steps to change multiple aspects of our busy daily lives.

Wait, so walking the talk is inconvenient and expensive? Who knew? (well, me, because I’ve been saying and writing this stuff for 20 years)

Instead of revamping our own lifestyles, it can be easier to challenge those recommending these changes to our behaviour, to see if they are following their own rules.

Um, why would I change my lifestyle? I’m not a card carrying cult member. They are.

Climate professionals know which choices are best for the environment. But when you see one of them flying to a UN climate summit, drinking from a plastic water bottle or caught red-handed eating a beef burger, how do you feel? Confused? Vindicated? Perhaps, relief? If the very people who are advising us how to live sustainably aren’t practising what they preach, does this absolve us of responsibility to act?

Whether intentional or not, holding climate professionals to unrealistic standards is a tactic which delays effective climate action. It slows down climate action by redirecting responsibility and foregrounding low-impact solutions.

Of course, the article keeps making more Excuses for climajhypocrisy.

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Trump Dumps Biden Era Policy On Emergency Abortions For Hospitals

By William Teach June 4, 2025 – 7:00 am

Yeah, I can see the liberals launching more lawsuits, despite it being totally Constitutional for one president to cancel another’s EO

Trump Rescinds Biden Policy Requiring Hospitals to Provide Emergency Abortions

The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it had revoked a Biden administration requirement that hospitals provide emergency abortions to women whose health is in peril, including in states where abortion is restricted or banned.

The move by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a branch of the department led by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was not a surprise. But it added to growing confusion around emergency care and abortions since June 2022, when the Supreme Court rescinded the national right to abortion by overturning Roe v. Wade.

“It basically gives a bright green light to hospitals in red states to turn away pregnant women who are in peril,” Lawrence O. Gostin, a health law expert at Georgetown University, said of the Trump administration’s move.

The administration did not explicitly tell hospitals that they were free to turn away women seeking abortions in medical emergencies. Its policy statement said hospitals would still be subject to a federal law requiring them to provide reproductive health care in emergency situations. But it did not explain exactly what that meant.

Oh, wait, look at that, it only took the NY Times 4 paragraphs to say that hospitals couldn’t blindly turn away pregnant women in distress. Usually something like that ends up at least 2/3rds of the way in.

At issue is how the government should interpret the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, a 1986 law aimed at discouraging hospitals from turning away patients who lack insurance or cannot afford care. The law requires hospitals that receive federal funding to treat or stabilize emergency patients, or transfer them to a facility that can provide care.

The law does not specifically include abortion, but Mr. Gostin said administrations going back to President George W. Bush have interpreted it that way. After the Supreme Court overturned Roe, the Biden administration reminded hospitals that the law obligated them to provide abortions in cases where they were medically necessary.

At the end of the day, nothing is more important to Democrats than killing the unborn. Nothing.

The Biden policy resulted in lawsuits; the Biden administration sued Idaho, and Texas sued the administration. Both states asserted that their laws restricting abortion superseded the emergency medical act. Idaho has one of the strictest abortion bans in the nation, offering an exception only when the life — not the health — of the mother is at risk.

That “health” is the way the abortionistas get around everything in pushing late term abortions.

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Minnesota Climate (scam) Initiative Is Making Strides 3 Years On Or Something

By William Teach June 3, 2025 – 3:46 pm

They’re doing a great job at really doing what they were supposed to to in the first place

Three years on, Minnesota’s climate change initiative spurring projects across the state

Another summer-like day, another air quality alert. Now almost an annual recurrence, hazy skies from Canadian wildfire smoke beg the question: If the underlying cause is climate change, what are we doing about it? In Minnesota, it’s quite a lot.

Funny, they weren’t worried about air quality when BLM/Democrats were torching businesses in….Democrat/Black areas

Leading that effort is Kate Knuth, the climate director with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA). (snip)

In addition to addressing the causes of climate change, much of the work focuses on mitigating its impacts. For wildfire smoke, people can stay indoors or wear a mask outdoors. To deal with increasing rains, cities can improve stormwater and wastewater systems.

Got that? The cult’s big idea is to stay indoors or wear a mask. Glad the citizens of Minn are spending lots of money on this! And, isn’t rather a function of cities to deal with sewers?

Now entering its third year, the Climate Action Framework is undergoing an update to be rolled out this fall. Changes may include ideas from a public comment period that received about 200 responses, Knuth said.

“People are excited to help move the state forward on climate, they are really engaged,” she said. Knuth said many have attended information meetings in-person and virtual.

200? That’s all who were excited?

For instance, the state received $200 million from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program for “climate-smart” food systems projects in Minnesota. This includes agriculture, with grant applications due July 9 to the Minnesota Department of Agriculture for the market development of cover crops, a tool for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Sounds like a nice slush fund.

The majority of climate grants to communities address stormwater. With increasing rainfall and severe storms, managing stormwater becomes more challenging for cities, particularly smaller ones in rural areas.

It’s, again, literally the job of the cities and states, a basic civic function, nothing to do with the climate scam.

More than 3,000 Minnesotans helped shape the Climate Action Framework. An MPCA statement says the CAF “sets a vision for how the state will address and prepare for climate change. It identifies immediate, near-term actions to achieve the long-term goal of a carbon-neutral, resilient, and equitable future for Minnesota.”

The main goals of the CAF include: “Clean transportation, climate-smart natural and working lands, resilient communities, clean energy and efficient buildings, healthy lives and communities, and clean economy.”

In other words, to force Other People to comply. I’d love to see a breakdown on how many of those 3,000 are driving EVs, taking a bus, and using “clean energy.”

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 3, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible, evil, no good fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Geller Report, with a post on Hamas collaborating with campus protesters.

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Loopy Judge Rules Trump Admin Must Give 30 Days Notice To Deport Venezuelan Illegals

By William Teach June 3, 2025 – 10:30 am

It just goes to show that even Trump appointed judges can be wackos

Judge halts deportation of Venezuelan migrant under Alien Enemies Act

A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from deporting a Venezuelan migrant under the Alien Enemies Act, saying it hasn’t provided adequate notice or due process for it to be challenged.

U.S. District Court Judge John Holcomb, a Trump appointee, ruled that those subject to deportation under the Alien Enemies Act have to be given a chance to challenge the move.

“The Government is hereby preliminarily ENJOINED and RESTRAINED from removing or transferring out of this district any member of the putative class pursuant to the Proclamation pending further Order of this Court regarding the amount of notice and process that is due prior to removal,” Holcomb wrote.

In a win for Trump, Holcomb also said the president has “unlimited” authority to invoke the AEA, which is being challenged separately.

Well, there is that. But

Monday’s ruling came amid a complaint by Darwin Antonio Arevalo Millan, a Venezuelan citizen being held at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Adelanto, California.

In his lawsuit, Arevalo said he is a “vocal dissident” of the Venezuelan government who was granted a permit authorizing him to work and reside in the U.S. pending the review of his asylum application.

Arevalo’s complaint was filed on behalf of himself and other Venezuelan citizens subjected to Trump’s AEA executive order proclamation. He is asking a judge to require the government to provide at least 30 days’ notice before any removal or transfer.

Where was the due process for Aravalo being brought in on Biden’s Temporary Protected Status? ICE thinks he’s a member of Tren de Aragua. Where did the Biden admin do due diligence on all those brought in? Right, they did none, ending with lots of criminals, including violent gang members. Also, the Alien Enemies Act doesn’t have any requirement for a time frame. The judge’s order only applies to the central California district. So, ICE holds the illegals for 30 days and then sends them packing.

It really is nuts that they can be brought in in mass numbers without any process but each individual has to be given a lengthy exit due process.

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Oh Noes: Sacramento Could Be Doomed By Flooding

By William Teach June 3, 2025 – 7:00 am

It’s always some sort of doom with these people

Could this major California city see mass ‘abandonment’? New risk model predicts just that

The flood plains of Sacramento are a geologic world away from the more cinematic California of coastal crags and lofty peaks. Yet, that sometimes overlooked region could be home to one of California’s great disasters waiting to happen, according to a February report from First Street, a prominent climate risk prediction firm.

The firm’s models suggest that the mounting risks of catastrophic flooding will drive Sacramento County — the heart of California’s fourth-largest metro area, at about 2.4 million people — to lose, in the average scenario, 28% of its population by 2055. Increasingly bad air quality, higher insurance costs and demographic shifts could also be drivers of population decline.

But is this scenario, which First Street calls “climate abandonment,” actually likely?

Sacramento isn’t the only Central Valley locality with a dire outlook. First Street predicts that Fresno County, which anchors the Valley’s second largest metro area, will lose almost half its population. Together, those urban declines are two of the five largest predicted by First Street nationwide, and the largest predicted in the nation outside of low-lying coastal areas on the East and Gulf coasts.

This is all based on one event

In 1861, California had been suffering the effects of a long — possibly a 20-year long — drought. But in December of that year, the dry spell abruptly ended. Storm after storm pummeled the state, causing nearly endless rains and prodigious mountain snows. Then, in January, a sudden warmup caused much of the snow to melt, almost instantly flowing into the Central Valley. As rivers overflowed their banks and the waters spread, the valley became a fishbowl. Forty days after the rains started, floods had inundated an area some 300 miles long and 30 miles wide, devastating the new state’s towns and farms and drowning hundreds of thousands of livestock.

That’s right, First Street is fearmongering (they have a long rapsheet for climate fearmongering) on something that happened all the way back in 1861. And blaming the possibility on human caused climate change. What caused it in 1861, when the world was barely out of the Little Ice Age?

Anyhow, it is a very long fable. Yes, fable. Because it’s all based on something that may possibly maybe happen due to computer models.

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NY Times Seems Surprised That Jews In America Have Anxiety

By William Teach June 3, 2025 – 6:45 am

Did anyone at the Times consider that American Jews are living in fear thanks to the Times and other media outlets taking the side of the pro-Hamas people? That when they all take the word of Hamas it turns Democrats against Jews? When they go soft on the pro-Hamas folks they enable them against Jews?

After Several Attacks, Heightened Anxiety Among American Jews

The attack on demonstrators in Boulder, Colo., marching in support of hostages being held in Gaza would have been disturbing to Jewish people across the country even if it were the only recent event of its kind. The suspect told investigators after his arrest that he had been planning the attack for a year, according to court documents. Eight people were hospitalized.

For many, the connections to other recent outbursts of violence were impossible to miss. The attack in Boulder came less than two weeks after two Israeli Embassy employees were shot and killed as they left a reception at a Jewish museum in Washington. A month earlier, an arsonist set fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion on the first night of Passover while Gov. Josh Shapiro, who is Jewish, slept upstairs with his family.

“What we’ve seen these last few months is a shocking pattern of anti-Israel sentiment manifesting itself in antisemitic violence,” said Halie Soifer, chief executive of the Jewish Democratic Council of America. “With each incident, there’s a further shattering of our sense of security.”

The drumbeat of violence erupting across the country and taking an unpredictable variety of forms has deepened anxieties among many American Jews, and contributed to a sense that simply existing in public as a Jewish person is increasingly dangerous. One of the victims of the attack at the march in Boulder was a Holocaust survivor, according to a friend of the victim who was at the scene.

That all three attackers alluded to political objections to Israel raised concerns among many about the threat of left-wing political violence connected to the war in Gaza.

Maybe I’m being to harsh on the Times. Or, maybe the usual folks at the Times missed what Ruth Graham was going to write, because it is rare that you see them blame left wing violence, meaning Democrats.

In April, an opponent of Israel’s war in Gaza circulated a “Wanted” poster online that showed the faces of seven council members, writing that they were “complicit in genocide” for not passing the resolution.

Across the country, many Jews say they have observed an uptick in antisemitism, both personally and in the broader culture, in recent years.

These are Democrats. These are the Democrats learning to hate Israel and then Jews in their left wing colleges. These are the Islamic radicals brought in to the US in large numbers without verifying their backgrounds. But, the Israel hatred, which translates to Jew hatred, never ends

The AP is citing the Ministry of Health, which is run by Hamas.

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Maryland Governor Vetoes Climate Scam Legislation

By William Teach June 2, 2025 – 3:57 pm

This is rather unexpected, especially since Wes Moore is a Democrat

Moore Vetoes Key Maryland Climate Studies, Reversing Course on Environmental Justice Commitments

electric vehicleMaryland legislators and environmental advocates expressed dismay after Gov. Wes Moore vetoed a series of widely supported climate and environmental study bills last week, actions they believe not only mark a sharp departure from his climate promises, but also reflect a breakdown in communication between the governor and members of his own party in the legislature.

On May 16, Moore vetoed more bills than he had in the past two years combined, including multiple proposals that had passed with strong backing from legislative leadership and key climate coalitions.

The vetoes—affecting studies on climate costs, energy reliability, data center impacts and racial reparations—have left activists and lawmakers questioning whether Moore remains a reliable ally in the fight for climate and racial justice and whether his political calculus may have shifted, placing short-term cost savings above long-term structural reform.

Among the vetoed bills was the Responding to Emergency Needs from Extreme Weather (RENEW) Act of 2025, which would have tasked the comptroller and state agencies with assessing the total cost of greenhouse gas emissions and reporting findings by December 2026. Stripped down from its original version, which proposed financial penalties for fossil fuel companies, the bill was seen as an important step toward documenting climate damages and laying the groundwork for future polluter-pay policies. (snip)

In a letter to the Senate and House leadership, Moore stated budget shortage, agency workload and redundancy as key reasons for the vetoes (of the various bills). “Many of these reports are never read and simply collect dust on shelves,” Moore wrote, calling the expected $1.28 million cost “an unsustainable commitment given the state’s current financial constraints.”

It’s only $1.28 million, as they say, but, the money never really does what it says it does, it just ends up in people’s pockets.

Also vetoed was the Energy Resource Adequacy and Planning Act, which would have created a Strategic Energy Planning Office within the Public Service Commission to assess long-term electricity reliability, model resource scenarios and recommend planning strategies. It was designed to help Maryland manage increasing energy demands as the state transitions toward clean power. The office would have released a major report every three years, coordinating with state agencies and collecting public input. The veto stalls forward-thinking energy planning, critics said.

An initiative that would have just been yap yap while giving climate cult groups lots of taxpayer cash to make cult recommendations

In a separate letter to Senate President Bill Ferguson and House Speaker Adrienne Jones, Moore justified his veto of the Energy Resource Adequacy and Planning Act by citing fiscal constraints and overlaps. He pointed to the estimated annual cost of $4.4 million to $5.3 million, warning it would duplicate efforts and pass costs on to consumers. “This cost would ultimately be passed along to Maryland ratepayers at a time when we are actively working to limit their burden, not add to it,” he wrote.

Well, duplication was the point, so that the money went to friendly NGOs to do nothing.

“This veto is extremely frustrating and simply does not support the state’s climate goals,” said Kim Coble, executive director of the Maryland League of Conservation Voters. She said the RENEW Act study was a recommendation of the Maryland Commission on Climate Change and was supported by 69 percent of the members of the General Assembly.

Was it supported by the citizens of Maryland?

“Holding fossil fuel companies accountable will take time and legal action,” [Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, a climate advocate and member of the Maryland Commission on Climate Change] noted, and added that Maryland needs to act now because climate harms are accelerating and lives are at stake. She warned that denying communities even the data to affirm their lived experiences undermines trust and preparedness.

Has anyone asked her and the rest on the commission if they have stopped using fossil fuels?

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 2, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a field of wheat that will soon die from over-heating drought, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is This ain’t Hell…, with a post on the Trump admin uncovering a big food stamp bribery and fraud scheme.

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