Climate Barbie Has no time for climate deniers<br /><br />Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says she has “no time” for political adversaries who don’t believe climate change is real.<br /><br />During an interview with CTV Question Period host Evan Solomon, McKenna smacked down critics of the Liberals’ climate change plan and price on carbon.<br /><br />“I have no time for folks who are like, you know, ‘We shouldn’t take action,'” she said. “I don’t have time for politicians that play cynical games about climate action.”<br /><br />https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/mckenna-has-no-time-for-climate-change-deniers-1.3865161<br />On ‘Climate Barbie’ and the art of the insult<br /><br />“Climate Barbie” is a brilliant barb.<br />Wish I’d thought of it myself.<br /><br />Winston Churchill, who sparkled at the withering put-down, has left us with countless gems.<br /><br />Lady Astor: “Winston, if you were my husband I would flavour your coffee with poison.”<br /><br />Churchill: “Madam, if I were your husband, I should drink it.”<br /><br />On Charles Beresford, British admiral and later MP: “He is one of those orators of whom it was well said, before they get up, they do not know what they are going to say; when they are speaking, they do not know what they are saying; and when they have sat down, they do not know what they have said.”<br /><br />Bessie Braddock, Labour MP: “Winston, you’re drunk.”<br /><br />Churchill: “My dear, you are ugly, and what’s more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be disgustingly ugly.”<br /><br />https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/11/07/on-climate-barbie-and-the-art-of-the-insult-dimanno.html<br />Why is a quarter of Canada’s prison population Indigenous?<br /><br />For decades watchdogs and researchers have attempted to draw attention to the disturbing overrepresentation of Indigenous people in the country’s prison systems.<br /><br />Yet despite urgent warnings from domestic and international organizations, the latest report from federal prisons watchdog Ivan Zinger makes clear the situation continues to get worse.<br /><br />https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2017/11/06/what-to-do-about-the-overrepresentation-of-indigenous-people-in-prisons-editorial.html<br />A key Crown witness in the trial of a Saskatchewan farmer charged with shooting an Indigenous man on his property said he lied to police and the Crown about carrying a gun and breaking into a truck on the day his friend was killed.<br /><br />Under cross-examination, 18-year-old Cassidy Cross admitted he changed his story the day before he took the witness stand Thursday in the second-degree murder trial of Gerald Stanley<br />“After the trial started you thought it good to take the Crown and the police officer aside and say actually we did have a gun, it was my gun, we were stealing, we used the gun to try and break into a vehicle?” Defence lawyer Scott Spencer asked. “So that’s all stuff you told the police last night after court?”<br /><br />https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/key-witness-says-he-lied-about-saskatchewan-farm-shooting-1.3785326<br />Texas man gets 50 years in prison for stealing hun
