Sponsor of Islamic conference addressed by Justin Trudeau raided and listed as terrorist entity

IRFAN-Canada, a Muslim "relief" group was raided by the RCMP and listed as a terrorist entity by the feds.

 IRFAN had it's charitable status revoked in 2011.In 2012 it sponsored the Reviving Islam Conference which featured Justin Trudeau as a speaker.

See also stories by The Toronto Star, the CBC, the Globe and Mail and Maclean's.  Note that, unlike Sun News and the National Post, none of these bothered to mention Trudeau's controversial link to this story. 

Here's Michael Coren:

Robocall "scandal" officially over - Elections Canada declares "nothing to see here"

Ezra sums up three years of anti-Harper derangement:







Update [via a link from the comments]: Here's Greg Renouf's (GenuiNEWitty) very detailed account of the who was behind the fraudulent promotion of the Robocall affair as a "scandal".  Some teasers:

... I saw an event posted on Facebook by a man named Jon Allan, a meeting to plan a protest. 

... Walking into the meeting, one would never had expected it was anything but grassroots.

... as time passed and the first protest came to fruition, it quickly became obvious I was observing an AstroTurf fraud.

... When Libby Davies warned us about “American style dirty politics”, she wasn’t kidding us- only, the tricks she was referring to were coming from her own side!  Just like their smaller sibling LeadNow, MoveOn.org has been conducting the same type of anti-robocall campaigns in the US.

The Psychology of Anti-Capitalism

Peter Foster's new book "Why We Bite the Invisible Hand: The Psychology of Anti-Capitalism" has been excerpted in the National Post:

Socialism’s die-hard true believers;

Biting the (invisible) hand that feeds us; and

The perils of ‘do-it-yourself economics’

Book review here - looks like a great read!
Available at Amazon.com (but, oddly, not at Amazon.ca).

Another slow news day - so let's stoke the climate scare

Vancouver Sun, front page, above the fold:

VANCOUVER — British Columbia Environment Ministry staff have warned their minister that the province’s dreamed-of liquefied natural gas industry poses some big challenges with greenhouse gas emissions.

... Internal briefing notes prepared for Environment Minister Mary Polak ... single out methane emissions for concern.

... emissions remain a hurdle for the provinces, which has legislated targets for reductions. Legislation dictates that emissions are to be reduced by at least a third below 2007 levels by 2020. ...

 

 

 

 Okay, I know that politics demands that Ms Polak at least nod in the direction of the climate hysterics, but it's long past time to be realistic.

Even IF there's a chance that "warming" is a problem, and it's a mighty big IF, nothing that BC (or Canada) does to limit GHGs (even limiting them to absolute zero) will have any measurable effect on global climate.  The mere increase in China's annual emissions is enough to swamp Canada's (and 10 times BC's) entire annual output.  Then there's India.  Then there's the rest of the developing world.  Then ...

Polak's (or her eco-bureaucrats') apparent concerns are a drop in Canada's bucket and the world's ocean of emissions.   It is not worth the sacrifice of one BC job to pursue what are at best symbolic gestures towards avoiding that big, remote IF.

Suzuki calls for "a war on cars"

there is no war on cars — but there should be:

... We can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by cutting back on car use, choosing fuel-efficient vehicles, joining a car pool or sharing program and reducing speed. ...

Hands up, how many think that Suzuki would actually do any of that himself?

Now the Green Gestapo are coming after your meatballs

James Delingpole:

IKEA ... are considering changing the recipe of their most popular food line - meatballs - in order to help save the world from global warming:

... "On methane...we are aware of the meat issue with greenhouse gases. We are looking at all our food products from a sustainability perspective but specifically meatballs. They are very popular and they are also our most carbon-intensive food item on our menu."

... IKEA actually admits to allowing the kind of food it serves in its restaurants to be dictated not by the needs of its customers - who order 150 million plates of meatballs every year - but by activists from a hard-left environmental NGO like the World Wildlife Fund. That's not capitalism. That's not customer service. That's eco fascism.

... As Donna Laframboise has often noted, WWF activism is rife at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) too.

As evidence of warming wanes, the climate nuttery worsens.

Shocking new phenomenon: HuffPo admits global cooling

James Delingpole:

Scientists believe they have discovered a near-unprecedented phenomenon - rarer, more elusive and mysterious than even the God Particle: an article in The Huffington Post on the subject of the environment and climate change which doesn't once mention 'man-made global warming."...

... How can this possibly be?" asked Professor Otto Spengler of the University of East Anglia's Department of Environmentalist Bullshit Studies.  

... Professor Spengler and his team have been working through the night to try to analyse the phenomenon and have come up with two competing theories. 1. It's a terrible accident.... ,or 2. There has been an incredible, tectonic shift in HuffPo's understanding of the world. ...

"But we think the first explanation is more likely," added Prof Spengler. 

"The HuffPo - like the Guardian and the BBC - doesn't really do science because the readers find it upsetting.  ... [Predictably the HuffPo comment thread on its article is crammed with "deniers" - of global cooling, that is.]

Classic Delingpole (who, btw, is no longer with the Telegraph).