Iranian protests and the Freedom Convoy

The fake news is glorifying the Iranian protests right after they demonized the Freedom Convoy. I find that somewhat suspicious. Once again it's all about the oil. The same people jacking up the price of gas at the pump while the price of oil has significantly dropped are telling us to support "freedom" in Iran. This is 1953 Operation Ajax all over again. Buyer Beware.

"Iran oil exports could rise further after June-July increase" - That's what this is about. "Iran increased its oil exports in June and July and could raise them further this month by offering a deeper discount to Russian crude." That's why the price of oil is dropping.

The globalists are upset. First they created a conflict in the Ukraine to justify a ban on Russian oil to raise prices. Now they are launching a ban on Iranian oil. Remember when the US assassinated an Iranian General responsible for defeating ISIS in Syria? The conflict in Syria was about opposing Iran's pipeline to protect the monopoly and jack prices up.

Women have a lot more rights in Iran than they do in Saudi Arabia. The fake news' double standard is obvious. In Iran women are encouraged to attend university and get an education. In Saudi Arabia they are not. In Iran, the Muslim women rock their hijab back so some of their hair is showing. In Saudi Arabia they do not. None of my neighbors from Syria do that.

Tragically Rebel News has joined the legacy media's quest. It just shows that no two people agree on every issue. Likewise, no two people disagree on every issue either.

Ezra Levant posted a disturbing commercial of a Muslim woman taking off her hijab in support of freedom. Let's put that into perspective. How would we feel if we saw a elderly Sikh man taking off his turban protesting for freedom? How would we feel about that?

Here in Surrey Sikhs have fought for the right to wear their turban. For them it is not a sign of slavery, it is a sign of religious conviction. How would we feel about a commercial that showed a Jewish Rabbi taking of his Kippah in the name of freedom? Or an orthodox Jew removing his hat and cutting his locks in the name of freedom? People have a right to wear religious clothing.

Drea Humphrey, the popular superhero from Rebel News recently reported on a protest in Vancouver that contained a banner that said Down with the Islamic State in Iran. How would we feel about a banner that said Down with the Jewish state in Israel? Some would say oh you can't say that, while others would cheer ready to tear down another statue. That would be anti Semitic.

Many of those who would eagerly say down with the Islamic State in Iran would just as eagerly say Down with the Jewish State in Israel. They would also eagerly cheer at the burning of a church because of their agenda. I would not. I support religious freedom.

I am not a fan of an Islamic State or a Jewish Sate but I do believe that Israel has the right to form a Jewish State just like Iran has the right to form an Islamic State. I have seen how problematic the Jewish State in Israel is. If you're not Jewish, you can't be a citizen of that state and I understand why. Many of the Muslims in Palestine's hate the Jews and want to drive them off the face of the earth. That makes the mandatory service in the military somewhat problematic.

My point is simple. The Agenda is to ban all religion and all civil liberty. That is not freedom. First you ban one religion. Then you adopt a state religion and ban all others. Then you ban the state religion and as George Bush would declare, mission accomplished. New World Order. Just sayn.

Clinton Jaws on Lucki's lies: Gabe Wortman's guns were not legally obtained

Canada's Chief Firearms Officer admits she doesn't know anything about guns despite the fact that "they" have been working with the Liberal government to ban legally obtained guns for years. Legal gun owners aren't the ones trying to defund the police. The same people who are trying to ban legal guns are the ones who also want to defund the police. Do the math and look at the agenda. Legal gun owners believe in law and order. Liberals and criminals do not - gundebate.ca

Provinces push back against Trudeau’s gun grab. If the RCMP start confiscating firearms in Alberta, the provincial government will likely get rid of the RCMP and form a provincial police force. "They" have been working to ban legally obtained guns for years. It's *almost* as if the Nova Scotia mass shooting was designed to coordinate with the gun legislation. Every crime has a motive yet gun control is the only motive for the Nova Scotia mass shooting. Why did a mild mannered denturist kill a cop and shoot all those people? There is no motive.

Why did the RCMP deposit all that money into Gabe Wortman's bank account? They won't tell us. Why did two RCMP officers spray the roll up door of a fire hall with bullets knowing full well that was a safe house set aside to protect civilians? They told the fake inquiry that they thought they were shooting at the suspect. They lied. The inquiry wasn't trying to uncover the truth. They were trying to give them an opportunity to rationalize what they were caught doing.

If you look at the bullet pattern on the roll up door, it is obvious they weren't shooting at a suspect. They were trying to do damage to the weakest part of the building. Do I really believe Blackwater mercenaries would kill a cop? In a heartbeat. They do whatever they are paid to do because they are mercenaries not soldiers. They are part of the agenda.

I do not believe Gabe Wortman shot all those people. Someone definitely did but it wasn't him. All we know is that it was someone dressed as a RCMP officer driving a RCMP car and they withheld that information until their well paid scapegoat was shot dead. That's all we know.

We don't need more Stat holidays

I just want to restate the obvious. We can't keep adding more and more stat holidays indefinitely. At some point we are going to have to draw the line and now is as good a time as any. My employer pays me for 11 stat holidays in the year. That's almost one a month. That's enough. We can negotiate weeks of holidays for years of service but companies have to make a profit.

Politicians love to spend other people's money. Christy Clark made that family day in February. So what happened? I lost my floater and got a fixed day in February. Thanks for nothing Christy.

The Queen just died and they want to make another holiday for her. We can't keep adding stat holidays for every monarch that dies. Charles is in his 70's. We can't make another one for him. It's getting ridiculous. We already have Queen Victoria Day. We could simply make that honour your monarch day. One day to remember all of them. That's good enough.

Today is Truth and Reconciliation Day. Aside from having absolutely nothing to do with Truth or Reconciliation, we can't make another stat holiday for that as well. We already have Labour Day in September and Thanksgiving in October. Adding one for Queen Elizabeth and another for Truth and Reconciliation Day would be three Stat holidays in one month. That is ridiculous. Businesses need to be able to operate. Liberal whack jobs have absolutely no concept of fiscal responsibility. They're determined to keep spending us right into slavery. That is their end game.

Reconciliation mean to reconcile. To restore friendly relations between two estranged parties. I am totally supportive of celebrating aboriginal culture. Chief Dan George, Chief Seattle, there are many noble Aboriginal leaders in history. The Sacred hoop is about bringing all the races of the earth together in harmony. It's not about breaking people up into systematic hatred by rewriting and misrepresenting history. Yet that is what the left is doing to manipulate their agenda.

We have seen that there are no Aboriginal rights is Communist China. Their mistreatment of the Tibetans and the Uyghurs is evidence of that. So listening to Communist China accuse Canada of genocide is somewhat hypocritical as well as false.

Rebel News has a new documentary about the Residential school discovery called Kamloops: The Buried Truth. They claim no bodies have been found. I'm not aware of that but I know they wouldn't make that statement without having some evidence to back that up. I have a different view of the residential school system. I recognize that it was far from perfect but I also recognize that the intent was not malicious. Education is good. Free education is great.

Feed a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Helping Aboriginal leaders become doctors, lawyers and dentists is in everyone's best interest. If England wanted to oppress Aboriginals, they certainly wouldn't be educating them. They would do what the left does and prevent them from getting an education.

Contracting the residential schools out to the Catholic Church might not have been the best thing to do. Many Catholic run private schools in Boston, Ireland and around the world have resulted in a horrific amount of sexual abuse. The Catholic Church does not condone sexual abuse. Pedophiles were drawn to that profession so they could prey on children. Just because a hockey coach sexually abused kids doesn't mean hockey is bad.

I do want to address the genocide accusation because it is simply false and perpetuating that lie breaks the scared hoop it does not mend it. There is a big difference between cultural genocide and actual genocide. We need to vist that. When you sign up for French immersion you just speak French. You don't speak English. That's how that works.

My mother was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia. When she was a little girl her father died of scarlet fever and had to move out west to live with her aunt and uncle because back then everyone was poor. Back in the time of the residential schools infant mortality was very high.

One of the residential school journals recalled how the nuns dressed one of the children who died of tuberculous in a pretty dress and gave them a proper burial. Nuns were volunteers like Mother Teresa. They dedicated their lives to service. We need to remember that.

I don't believe in white privilege, red privileged, black privilege or hereditary privilege. All people are equal regardless of race, colour or creed. That is what I believe and that is what the US Constitution and the Canadian Charter of Rights guarantees. That is worth defending.

I was born in North Vancouver. That doesn't make me any better than someone who has moved here from somewhere else. We are all equal and we all share this planted. None of us own the planet. We have to learn how to live together without lies, misrepresentation or privilege.

We need to mend the sacred hoop not break it.

Alberta drug bust tied to the red and white

CBC is reporitng that "Fifteen people and a Calgary business have been charged following a cross-border, $55-million drug bust. It's believed they were moving cocaine and methamphetamine produced by Mexican cartels to Alberta, says a police organization dedicated to serious and organized crime. Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT) said Wednesday the investigation started in 2020 and involved Calgary police, U.S. Homeland Security and officers in Niagara, Ont., Saskatchewan and Osoyoos, BC."

"Fifteen people now face more than 80 charges. Meth and cocaine believed to be on the way to Alberta was seized in the United States and elsewhere in Canada, ALERT said. Lead investigator Sgt. Tara McNeil said the drugs seized were destined for the streets of Calgary and across the province. Among those charged is Calgarian Talal Fouani, 46, said McNeil. In August, Fouani and his wife were shot in his Bentley outside their southwest Calgary home."

Alberta's gang enforcement is rock solid. BC's is not. Talal Fouani was tied to the red and white.

Who are the problem in Surrey? Shakerz and the Edmonton Hells Angels. Who are the problem in the DTES? Damion Ryan and the Wolf Pack. These are the people the CFSEU protect.

Kevin Van Kalkeren was working out of Osoyoos for David Giles in 2016.

Don Lyons was arrested in Osoyoos back in 2015.

All roads lead to Rome. Well most of them do arond here.

80 kilos of cocaine seized in Ontario

The Hamilton Hammer is reporting that "A 10-month investigation into a huge $67 million drug ring has seen men from Brampton, Hamilton, Milton, Niagara Falls, Port Colborne and other Ontario locations charged." 80 kilos of cocaine were seized along with pot and tobacco. No one cares about the pot or tobacco but the cocaine is significant. That makes a difference.

Coolio dies at age 59

The BBC is reporting that "Stars including Michelle Pfeiffer and Snoop Dogg have been paying tribute to the US rapper Coolio who has died at the age of 59. He was found unresponsive on the bathroom floor of a friend's LA house, his manager Jarez Posey told US media."

"Coolio, whose real name is Artis Leon Ivey Jr, won a Grammy for the 1995 track Gangsta's Paradise, which led the soundtrack for Dangerous Minds. Pfeiffer, who starred in the movie, said she was heartbroken at the news. The exact cause of his death on Wednesday has not yet been revealed. However Mr Posey told TMZ, which first reported the news, that paramedics believed he may have had a cardiac arrest."

Missing woman found dead in Nova Scotia

The Salt Wire is reporting that "Police have identified the body of Cynthia Flemming, who was reported missing from Bible Hill Sept. 1. She was last scene in the Bible Hill area in late August. The body of Flemming, who was 32, was discovered Tuesday in Truro, RCMP said."

"RCMP Public Information Officer Cpl. Chris Marshall said while authorites continue the investigation, they don't believe the death to be suspicious. 'We don't believe that her death is suspicious, but certainly, that could change as the investigation progresses over the next few days and weeks,' Marshall said."

A pretty girl found dead in Truro - that is suspicious. Truro is red and white.

Surrey Connect Councillor Jack Hundial drops out

The Indo Canadian Voice is reporting that "Surrey Connect Councillor Jack Hundial, quite apparently realizing that he doesn’t have any chance of being re-elected, has decided to drop out as a Council candidate. Quite recently, Locke’s campaign manager John Cameron also quit. He told the VOICE he was working for another campaign in a different municipality now."

"Hundial has become increasingly unpopular, especially in the South Asian community, for ganging up with Surrey Connect Councillor and mayoral hopeful Brenda Locke to sabotage Mayor Doug McCallum. The two got elected by using McCallum’s Safe Surrey Coalition and then became puppets of the RCMP and started trying to derail the transition to a municipal police force. This was in spite of the fact that they won on Safe Surrey Coalition’s promise to replace the RCMP in Surrey and to build a Surrey Langley SkyTrain."

Shananana, Shananana, Brenda Locke, good bye.

Brockton Point and our vain regretful tears

Today I hiked up to Brockton Point on Seymour. Just a leisurely reflection. Previously I quoted that old United Church hymn I feel the winds of God today. It states that "It is the wind of God that dries my vain regretful tears." Now vain in this case doesn't mean arrogant. It means pointless like a vain attempt to do something. Sorrow is a part of repentance but regret is pointless.

Life is indeed "like an hourglass glued to the table. No one can find the rewind button, boys. So cradle your head in your hands and breathe, just breathe." "For what's done is done. What's won is won and what's lost is lost and gone forever." All we can do is keep moving forward.

Sunset at Whitecliff and the Eternal Perspective

Tonight I rode down to Whitecliff to watch the sunset. I climbed down and sat on the exact same spot my father and I would sit when I was a young boy. My father was an avid photographer and liked to take pictures of the sunset. We'd always watch the sunset behind Bowen Island.

To the right you can see the mountains along the inlet towards Squamish.

To the left you can see the mountains on Vancouver Island. It's very peaceful. It reminds me of Aswan in Egypt. We sailed down the Nile in a felucca. That was awesome. The tour started in Aswan. We explored the markets with ancient stone ovens then met at a park to watch the sunset behind the hills overlooking the Nile. It was very serene and picturesque.

I chuckled at the though of scheduling in a stop to watch the sunset in our busy day. That's something my father would do and is something we often overlook. Who has time to watch the sunset? I remember a benediction Dr Schuller used to say about that day in which there is no sunset and no dawning. I always used to think that would be a sad time without sunsets or sunrises. I love catching the sunrise from a mountain top.

In Ireland we used to jog on the beach in Bray at sunrise. It was somewhat inspiring. Wherever you are it's always good to make time to watch the sunset or get up early to watch a new day dawn. It helps to put things into perspective.