Snippets 15 (a) & (b)

 When there appears more than one interesting item each day it seemed that this format is suitable -- I hope that you agree.

(a)  Puppies -- Sick dogs trigger questions about imported pets, respected purebred Puppy List.  As Canada faces a surge of thousands of puppies imported from eastern Europe, where puppy mills are rampant, the very organization Canadians might expect to be cracking down appears to be lending legitimacy to questionable sellers.

newsletter@cbc.ca

(b)  Immigrants -- Today marks a day of both hope and anxiety for immigrants desperate to bring their parents or grandparents to live permanently in Canada, as a controversial lottery process for family reunification opens.

newsletter@cbc.ca

Push -- Feature Version

 I am very grateful to John for bringing this very important video to our attention.

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Housing prices are skyrocketing in cities around the world. Incomes are not. Push sheds light on a new kind of faceless landlord, increasingly unliveable cities, and an escalating housing crisis. The film follows Leilani Farha, the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, as she's travelling the globe, trying to understand who's being pushed out of the city and why.

https://www.tvo.org/video/documentaries/push-feature-version

tvo

Snippet 14 -- China Ties to US Riots Exposed

BY ELLA KIETLINSKA & TREVOR LOUDON

Most of the riots that racked the United States within the last few months were organized by two socialist organizations which have close ties with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), said Trevor Loudon, author, and filmmaker, who has been researching radical and terrorist groups and their covert influence on mainstream politics for more than 30 years.

The Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) based out of Minneapolis, an openly pro-CCP organization, and Bay Area-based Liberation Road, with very close ties to the Chinese consulate there and the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA), are behind the recent riots, Loudon said in a recent interview on Epoch Times’ Crossroads program.

Total article click here.

Snippet 13 -- There is a socialist coup unfolding in Canada ...

 ... and we taxpayers are funding it.

""Under this socialist revolution, there is no need to confiscate your property

 — they can simply redistribute your wealth."

Leslyn Lewis

National Post

Canada is quietly going through a socialist coup.

If I had written these words just one year ago, it would have been deemed conspiratorial. But I have heard from too many Canadians over the past six months about what they have seen taking place. Ever since Justin Trudeau tried to grant himself king-like powers at the beginning of the COVID crisis, what we have been witnessing in Canada is a socialist coup that we, the taxpayers, are funding.

Read more here

You Would Never have Thought ...

 ... had I not told you

PHOTOGRAPH BY EMMANUEL RONDEAU, ALAMY

Song: When the humans quieted in COVID-19-stricken San Francisco, the songbirds could hear. With traffic diminished, the songs of the white-crowned sparrow (pictured above) improved surprisingly fast, a new study says. “The songs didn’t change as much as we predicted—they changed even more,”  ecologist Liz Derryberry tells us. “It highlights just how big of an effect noise pollution has.” NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC