Section 13 ('hate' speech provision) removed from the Human Rights Act.

Senate approves bill:

... A private member’s bill repealing Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, which is known as the “hate speech provision,” passed the Senate this week and received Royal Assent.

... The bill from Alberta Conservative MP Brian Storseth passed the House of Commons last summer, but needed Senate approval. It will take effect after a one-year phase-in period.

Good riddance!

Obama's climate rhetoric "makes flat earthers look like Charles Darwin"

Greg Gutfeld on The Five, hilarious, but true!



Dana Perino: "President Obama today I think did something very wimpy. He went to Georgetown University to give this speech. What would have been really bold would be if he had gone, let's say, to North Dakota or West Virginia, all the places we are expecting to supply us with all the energy we have until the Unicorn dream of Solyndra is realized. ..."

Comedian Guy Earle loses appeal of BC "Human Rights" Tribunal ruling

National Post:

In a ruling that could carry implications for comedy clubs across Canada, the Supreme Court of British Columbia has upheld the right of a bar patron to receive five-figures in damages from a comedian whose performance she alleges gave her post-traumatic stress disorder.

... ruled Justice Jon Sigurdson, while comedy clubs may swirl with “offensive, irreverent and inappropriate” language they are not operating in “zones of absolute immunity from human rights legislation.” [You mean "fake human rights" legislation, don't you judge?]

... In addition to Mr. Earle’s $15,000 penalty, the restaurant was also ordered to pay $7,000 to Ms. Pardy on the grounds that since the owner had given Mr. Earle a small bar tab to host the event, the comedian was legally an employee. Restaurant owner Salam Ismail had already spent at least $13,000 in legal fees defending himself before the tribunal. ...

Thereby, sadly, upholding the fake "human right" not to be offended, strengthening the mandate of "Human Rights" Commissions and Tribunals to continue punishing those who allegedly hurt others' feelings, and encouraging sensitive souls and opportunists to file more complaints.

Update:

David Suzuki: Alberta floods may not be due to global warming ... but

 David Suzuki, writing in the Huff-Po, tries to appear even handed but inevitably blames "climate change" absolutely:

"... caused by global warming? Maybe not but we can say we should expect more of the same - and worse if we don't do something to get our emissions under control."

Thanks to the likes of Suzuki, "climate change" has become the go-to excuse for all bad weather and related damage (it would never be mentioned in connection with a bumper crop).  Last night, for example, CTV's National news story on the Alberta floods had an 'expert' opinion from hydrologist, John Pomeroy, who predictably pointed his finger explicitly in that direction.

The worst of it is that "climate change" has been so thoroughly drilled into the public consciousness by an uncritical media and academia that it's accepted "wisdom" at all levels of government where you would be hard pressed to find a single plan or program that doesn't address it as a key issue.   Any citizen who tries to object or criticize is met by  'officialdom' with anything from a blank stare to the derision due a "denier".
 
Getting rid of this mass psychosis is going to be a long uphill grind.

[Via]

It's 'for the children': Obama to unveil plans to fight "climate change"

Next Tuesday Obama will unveil his  next steps towards ruining the U.S. economy and with it the global economy:

President Barack Obama is preparing to unveil his long-awaited national plan to combat climate change in a major speech, he announced on Saturday.

“There’s no single step that can reverse the effects of climate change,” Obama said in an online video released by the White House. “But when it comes to the world we leave our children, we owe it to them to do what we can.”

... key issue hanging over the announcement — but unlikely to be mentioned on Tuesday — is Keystone XL ... A concerted campaign ... to persuade Obama to nix the pipeline appears to be an uphill battle. The White House insists the State Department is making the decision independently [knowing that opponents are free to use litigation to block KXL indefinitely].

Via WUWT where Anthony Watts notes that the announcement has, so far, been received by the world "with a collective yawn".

New BoC Governor, Stephen Poloz, a breath of fresh air after Carney

Peter Foster:

... first public speech on Wednesday as Governor of the Bank of Canada ...
 
... Mr. Poloz came off as more appropriately modest than his predecessor Mark Carney ...

... former head of the Export Development Corporation, revealed a markedly less hectoring and arrogant style.

... also demonstrated a welcome new humility in noting that macroeconomic models were inadequate, and that the bank had consistently got its growth estimates wrong since the start of the crisis.

...Only on one occasion did Mr. Poloz stray into Mr. Carney’s area of high intellectual allusion.

... Generally, he made all the right noises on Wednesday. Above all he did not come across as somebody who imagines he is the star of the Canadian economy rather than, more appropriately, its Zamboni driver, whose job is to provide the flat surface on which the entrepreneurs and managers can show their creative talents. ...

Laura Ingraham slams O'Reilly for supporting immigration bill

O'Reilly insists the bi-partisan "Gang-of-Eight" bill is a good one, Laura explains why it's laughable, "dead-in-the-water" and based on a "phony, fraudulent narrative":



At the end, O'Reilly looks a little ill, but insists on endorsing the bill - Laura just rolls her eyes.

Hannity and Coulter:  "Republicans are suckers".

Politico.