The Downfall of Canada’s Dreamy Boyfriend

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada. Ludovic Marin/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

“He is getting so embarrassing, tbh.”

That was the text I woke up to this morning from a friend who, like me, is a Canadian living in the United States. She was talking about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and yesterday’s Time magazine bombshell report that he once wore brownface to an “Arabian Nights” party while a teacher at a private school in Vancouver in 2001. (Since Time’s story broke, other instances of Mr. Trudeau in blackface and brownface have surfaced, including a video.)

My friend was referring to how Mr. Trudeau is seen on the world stage, but especially in the United States, a country that had a tendency to pretend that Canada didn’t exist until Mr. Trudeau came along. And her text encapsulated a distinction I’ve noticed in how Americans have been receiving this story compared with Canadians. For Americans, Mr. Trudeau’s downfall from liberal media darling — remember Rolling Stone’s 2017 cover, “Why can’t he be our president?” — to disgraced politician has been swift. For Canadians, it has been a long time coming.

It all started back in 2015 when Mr. Trudeau won a surprising majority victory over the longtime Conservative prime minister, Stephen Harper. He cozied up to President Barack Obama, and the two young, charismatic world leaders had what the press affectionately called a “bromance.”

Conrad Black: Trudeau's not a racist, just a hypocrite and a weak leader

If the government generally was playing it straight and not trying to gain re-election by defaming its opponents, Trudeau could have expressed regret, claimed he’d learned and moved on

The election campaign to date has been an exercise in idiocy and cowardice. It is obviously embarrassing for Justin Trudeau to have had to admit to attending an Aladdin-themed party in 2001 made up to look like Aladdin (although Aladdin was an Arab not an African, and blackening his hands was oddly laborious). But Maxime Bernier is right that Justin is not a racist, just a hypocrite. As Tucker Carlson, the Fox News commentator, said on Thursday night, the prime minister’s conduct is “sort of like finding out your super-sensitive brother-in-law, the one who tells you he’s a feminist, the one who’s always scolding you for your sexism is, in fact, hitting on the babysitter.” The story broke in Time magazine and the spectacle of the United States splitting its sides laughing at a Canadian politician as they did over the late Toronto mayor Rob Ford is distressing to most Canadians. They rejoice in mocking American leaders; the reverse is mortifyingly embarrassing.

In fact, there was probably no intent to mock any racial or ethnic group in the several incidents that have been revealed (after Justin said on Wednesday night that there had only been one other in his life). This propensity for absurd costumes, from Superman and Lawrence of Arabia to the Afro wig and features, and the dreadful fiasco in India where he inflicted subterraneanly silly costumes on his entire family, is affected and worrisome. He was a drama teacher and his father liked exotic costumes and foreign lands, but poncing through India in traditional outfits was like the prime minister of France and his family coming to Canada dressed like Jacques Cartier in frilly shirts and voluminous breeches, buckled shoes and three-cornered felt hats. Justin would not have felt scatologically self-reproachful (“pissed off at myself” will not do as a public reflection from the leader of a serious country), and promised the media that there would be confessions to his children, if the entire Liberal campaign were not a systematic character assassination of Conservative candidates. One candidate at a time and a new one almost every day has been smeared with malicious tittle-tattle and innuendos that Liberal mud-slingers represent as proof of homophobia or misogyny.

Most Canadians Say Political Correctness Has Gone 'Too Far': Angus Reid Institute Poll

New survey also compares attitudes to those in U.S.

A majority of Canadians believe that political correctness infringes too much on their freedom of expression, a new poll suggests.

The numbers released Monday from the Angus Reid Institute show that 76 per cent of respondents think political correctness — loosely defined as the avoidance of certain words or actions that might offend marginalized groups — has gone “too far.”

Eighty-two per cent of Canadians over the age of 55 said they shared that view, compared to 78 per cent of those between 35–54. Sixty-seven per cent of those 18–34 feel the same.

The poll comes as America considers the possibility of electing Donald Trump president — a man who has railed against political correctness and who frequently spews offensive and outrageous remarks.

Though most Canadians have told pollsters they would not like to see Trump in the White House, the Angus Reid survey suggests many on this side of the border believe people are too easily insulted.

Two-thirds of respondents told the firm “too many people are easily offended these days over the language others use.”

Peter Schiff: Why the Fed Won’t Be Able to Rescue the Economy the Next Time Around

Peter Schiff has been saying that the Federal Reserve is going to take interest rates back to zero and launch another round of quantitative easing in order to reinflate the bubble economy after the next crash. The central bank successfully pulled this off after the 2008 crisis. By dropping rates to zero and holding them there for nearly a decade, and running three rounds of QE, the Fed has reinflated the real estate bubble, blown up a bond bubble and pumped up the stock market. But Peter said it’s not going to work the next time around. Instead, Fed monetary policy will tank the dollar and lead to an inflationary recession.

So, why can’t the Fed pull off another rescue? Peter explained why he thinks it’s not possible during an interview on the Tom Woods Show.

Peter admitted he didn’t think the Fed could rescue the economy in 2008.

I underestimated the ability of the Fed to get away with quantitative easing and for the world to basically accept this and to enable this.”

So today, we have even bigger bubbles than we did in 2006–2007.

Peter Schiff: A Very Violent Move in the Bond Market

It is considered that a very violent movement is currently established in the bond market. Thus, it is appropriate to emphasize that the former OMB director of the Reagan administration, David Stockman, has called this the “mother of all bond bubbles”. If so, a question arises, has that bubble burst? It remains to be seen, but the bonds were forged last week.

It should be noted that the bond market (also known as the debt, credit or fixed income market) is a financial market where participants buy and sell debt securities, usually in the form of bonds. References to the “bond market” usually refer to the state bond market because of its size, liquidity, lack of financial risk and, therefore, sensitivity to interest rates, the bond market is often used to indicate changes in interest rates or in the form of the yield curve.

Thus, it is understood that the bonds have moved more or less in conjunction with gold in recent weeks as perceptions of safe trade.

The recent decline could be established as a problem

Fears of military conflict between Venezuela and Colombia as tensions over Maduro government escalate

Venezuelan armed forces take part in military exercises near the Colombian border last week. (Johnny Parra/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

Fear as to the possible military conflict between Venezuela and Colombia increases as growing tensions over Maduro’s government.

The US-led effort to force Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to leave office has entered a new stage, with growing fears of military conflict between Venezuela and Colombia, and the activation of a 70-year mutual defense treaty between Western hemisphere countries.

Members of the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance agreed last week to invoke the 1947 pact, better known as the Rio Treaty, which allows joint actions ranging from economic sanctions to the use of military force and cutting transport and communications links. In this way, the Foreign Ministers of the 19 member countries of the treaty will meet at the end of this month to decide what measures are necessary to stop the threat.

Accusations everywhere

Conrad Black: Trump is right to take on China, but Canada shouldn't extradite Meng

Huawei's Financial Chief Meng Wanzhou leaves her family home in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 8, 2019. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson/File Photo

Certainly many ironies are established in the controversies about the state of Huawei, the Chinese tech giant in the sights of the United States Department of Justice and its problem related to the arrest in Canada of Meng Wanzhou, the company’s chief financial officer in a request of extradition from the United States. The first place to start from the perspective of Canada is the almost certain fact that Huawei’s business was largely based on one of the most colossal and prolonged information thefts and violations of patent laws in the long history of the industrial espionage, mainly at the expense of this country.

Nortel Networks Corporation, formerly Northern Telecom, was to some extent the largest corporation in the history of Canada, and at its peak in approximately 2000, accounted for a third of the total valuation of all listed companies on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Giant bankruptcy

11 Canadian routes for awe-inspiring road trips

Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and north to the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometers, making it the second-largest country in the world by total area. Its southern border with the United States, which extends to 8,891 kilometers, is the longest bi-national land border in the world.

Canada is the second-largest country in the world. It has beautiful cities, very modern, with a fusion of cultures and traditions, which make it the most varied set of nationalities and ethnicities, and a thriving multicultural society.

Undoubtedly, Canada has many places that must be visited, among which are impressive natural attractions that combine perfectly with the most varied and ancient buildings.

Awesome Canadian Routes

University of Toronto ranked 18th on global list

The University of Toronto campus is pictured on Wednesday, July 15, 2015. (The Canadian Press/Chris Young)

The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds surrounding Queen’s Park. It was founded by the royal charter in 1827 as King’s College, the first institution of higher education in the colony of Upper Canada. Originally controlled by the Church of England, the university assumed the current name in 1850 by becoming a secular institution.

Likewise, academically, the University of Toronto stands out for its influential movements and curricula in literary criticism and communication theory, collectively known as the Toronto School. The university was the birthplace of insulin and stem cell research, and was the site of the first practical electronic microscope, the development of deep learning, multitouch technology, the identification of the first Cygnus X-1 black hole and the development of La NP completeness theory.

The University of Toronto rises three positions for a year

Andrew Coyne: Trudeau is gaming the election debate system, just like Harper before him

Justin Trudeau has been accused of being too afraid to attend all the debates in the upcoming federal election. Ernest Doroszuk/Postmedia

It has been expressed that what is left today is a position that is as cynical and selfish as the one that preceded it, only with the pretense of a high principle.

In explaining why the prime minister would not participate in the full calendar of discussions of leaders in this election campaign, as he had done in 2015, liberal communications director Daniel Lauzon said that his leader would only appear at the debates organized by the Commission Federal Leaders Debates: the one designed and implemented by the liberals.

Certainly, for tactical reasons, Stephen Harper refused to participate in what was then the “official” debate in English, overseen by a clique of broadcasters known as “the Consortium”, in favor of a mix of different debates with different debates, sponsors, different platforms and audiences much smaller.

Disposable pretexts

Peter Schiff: We’ve Accelerated the Process of the Dollar’s Demise

Gold is a chemical element, symbol Au, atomic number 79 and atomic weight 196.967. Certainly, gold is classified as heavy and noble metal; In commerce, it is the most common of precious metals. The source of the chemical symbol, Au, is its name in Latin aurum (radiant dawn).

It should be noted that about three-quarters of the world’s gold production is consumed in jewelry. Its industrial applications, especially in electronics, consume 10–15%. The remainder is divided between medical and dental jobs, coinage and reserves for the government and individuals. Coins and other decorative gold objects are actually alloys because the metal is very soft (2.5–3 on the Mohs scale) to be useful with frequent handling.

Now, it is important to raise some questions that have arisen, in the United States losing its control over the world? And could the dollar finally be dethroned from its place as the world reserve currency?

The growing frustration of the world

U.S. corporate insiders selling shares at fastest pace since financial crisis a decade ago

The share price for Facebook is displayed at the Nasdaq exchange in New York. Insiders at the company have been selling shares of late, which some see as a possible harbinger of bad things. (Scott Eells/Bloomberg)

Investors look for signs of whether experts put more or less money in their own companies.

Initiates are people who work as directors or senior business officials, whose compensation often includes things such as stock options and common actions, so they have a financial interest acquired in the companies for which they perform key functions.

Because they are fully invested and have access to data on the performance of their companies before the general public, some investors believe that valuable information can be obtained by observing whether insiders are investing more or less of their own money in them.

In this way, one could say that if this theory is true, the message is clear, sell.

Significant increase in sales

Owning a dog means playing God. It's a role no human wants to play: Neil Macdonald

Lola has severe dysplasia, it turns out; congenitally deformed hip sockets. At nine months of age, she already has osteoarthritis. (Neil Macdonald/CBC)

Pets are domesticated animals that are kept for the purpose of providing a company or for the caregiver’s enjoyment. Owning a pet can bring positive consequences to health since daily care makes many people forget other worries, avoids depression and makes us feel useful. That being the case, one could say that the most popular companion animals are the dog and the cat.

In adaptability and behavior, it is said that dogs as pets outweigh the majority. Its adaptability has helped men in various social, cultural and recreational fields, such as in their therapeutic use in hospitals, as guides for blind people, as police support, and in the complicated rescue of people. Without a doubt, the company of any pet always evokes tenderness, company, and friendship.

A question that always arises

Scott Stinson: Bianca Andreescu a teenager, champion, remarkable Canadian success story

Bianca Andreescu of Canada poses with her trophy at the Top of the Rock in Rockefeller Center on September 8, 2019 in New York City. Mike Stobe/Getty Images

Bianca Andreescu is a Canadian professional tennis player. Se reached a ranking of singles number 5 in his career on September 9, 2019, according to the classification of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA). On August 11, 2019, Andreescu became the first Canadian woman to win the Canadian Open in singles since Faye Urban in 1969. She defeated Serena Williams in the 2019 U.S. Open final, becoming the first Canadian and the first player.

Without a doubt, Andreescu, who is a teenage champion, could be considered a remarkable Canadian success story. In fact, it could be said that it is the ideal immigrant success story. Where parents go in search of a better life, they have a child and she has the opportunity to cultivate her talent in a way she might not have had.

Certainly, Andreescu has often been decidedly informal. She has always known that this was possible, which probably comes from the fact that throughout the season, all she has done is beat almost everyone who took the court against her.

Clear goals for the future

It should be noted that with a full interview room and cameras clicking, someone asked Andreescu if he was ready for the fame that comes from being a great champion. She has often said that she dreamed of winning that game, she visualized beating Serena Williams in a Slam final, but nevertheless, she wonders if she also expected fame.

Andreescu wrinkled his face as he thought about it. There was a pause. “I guess it is, yeah”, she said, emphasis on the guess. “I never really thought about being famous. My goals have been to just win as many Grand Slams as possible, become №1 in the world. But the idea of fame never really crossed my mind”.

In addition, she added, “I’m not complaining, though”. The smile was bigger now. “It’s been a crazy ride this year. I can definitely get used to this feeling. ”

It has been said that she has put in her ear some of the stereotypes of Canadian behavior. She is safe and a bit cheeky, and plays an aggressive style that is marked with many loud screams and punches. A New York Times tennis writer described Andreescu as porting herself “as an alpha” more than any WTA newcomer in recent memory, and that seems correct. She is not demure, or just happy to be there; She appears, crushes the winners and throws a shout that tells her opponent that she is not playing.

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Source: Scott Stinson | The Province

5G Review: I tried 5G. It will change your life - if you can find it

Like all wireless network technologies that are “next generation”, with 5G your phone will have a faster connection, in fact, experts say it will be about 10 times faster than 4G. That’s enough to stream an “8K” video or download a 3D movie in 30 seconds.

In addition, the additional capacity will make the service more reliable, allowing more devices to connect to the network simultaneously.

Likewise, it is essential to bring up that 5G goes far beyond smartphones. Sensors, thermostats, cars, robots and other new technologies will connect to 5G someday. And current 4G networks do not have enough bandwidth for a large amount of data that all those devices will transmit.

Thus, this is established as the future promise of 5G technology in less than a decade; Internet connections so fast that they will admit a completely new way of life.

The soul of the new economy

The great electric car race is just beginning

Battery packs are assembled inside Audi's e-tron factory in Brussels. - Credit: Stefan Warter/AUDI AG

It is already well known that electric cars are used to transport people or goods, which are powered by one or more electric motors, using electric energy normally stored in rechargeable batteries. It is important to mention that electric motors provide electric cars with instant torque, providing rapid acceleration from standstill and continuous. In addition, they can be up to three times more efficient than an internal combustion engine.

It is appropriate to mention that in December 2018 it was announced that there are at least 5.3 million electric vehicles in circulation in the world, counting pure electric and plug-in hybrids.

That being the case, one could say that the great electric car race is just beginning. In reference to this, several questions arise, as well as, can Tesla maintain its leadership in the global race towards the electric car?

Undoubtedly, established car manufacturers around the world are improving their business models in the hope of adapting to a new world in which electricity replaces gasoline and diesel. Factories are being checked to produce electric cars, and car manufacturers are running out of all the batteries they can find.

Whatever the cost is necessary

Forget The Amazon Hype, Fires Globally Have Declined 25% Since 2003 Thanks To Economic Growth

The land area burned by fire has declined 25% from 2003-2019 thanks to economic growth. Nasa

It is already well known that the Amazon is a vast region of the central and northern part of South America that includes the rainforest of the Amazon River basin. This Amazon rainforest is the most extensive tropical forest in the world. It is considered that its extension reaches 7,000,000 km² also stands out as one of the ecoregions with the greatest biodiversity on the planet.

In relation to the Amazon, the news about the forest fires that are affecting the Brazilian Amazon has shocked the entire world, because of the images of complete destruction and lack of control that the fire has caused in one of the vital areas of the planet.

And it has been made headlines by The New York Times, CNN and the mainstream media around the world that ensure that the entire world is burning. In fact, they have claimed that the Amazon could soon “self-destruct”. Likewise, they have emphasized that in consequence of the fires the world’s largest rainforest could be erased from the earth.

Fires Globally declining

The Unstoppable Surge in Negative Yields Reaches $17 Trillion

The global stock of negative yield debt now exceeds $ 17 billion, as the growing market volatility lends additional strength to this year’s unprecedented bond recovery.

It should be noted that thirty percent of all investment-grade securities now have returns below zero, which means that investors who acquire the debt and hold it until maturity are guaranteed a loss. Despite this, it is curious that buyers are still accumulating, seeking to benefit from greater increases in bond prices and favorable cross-coverage rates, or at least to avoid further losses elsewhere.

It is a fact that the phenomenon of negative performance is becoming the head of financial markets.

Effects that are already established

We’re Running Out of Helium, and Two Geologists Might Have a Fix

Grad student Karim Mtili (right) collects gas samples in Itumbula, Tanzania. PHOTOGRAPHER: ADRIANE OHANESIAN FOR BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK

Helium is a chemical element. It belongs to group 18 of the periodic table of the elements since having the complete energy level presents the properties of a noble gas. That is, it is inert (does not react) and, like these, it is a colorless and odorless monoatomic gas that has the lowest boiling point of all chemical elements and can only be liquefied under very large pressures and cannot be frozen.

It should be noted that during 1903 large reserves of helium were found in natural gas fields in the United States, which is the country with the highest production of helium in the world. Helium is the second lightest and second most abundant element in the observable universe, constituting 24% of the mass of the elements present in our galaxy. Most of the helium in the universe is present in the form of the isotope helium-4 (4He), which is believed to have formed about 15 minutes after the Big Bang.

The possible solution proposed by two geologists