Besides Accused Translator, Other Accused Items Were also in The Room With Canada’s Prime Minister

Accused Russian Spy-FNT-Small.pngOTTAWA – Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, is involved in yet another media- steered drive-by scandal. According to articles in The Globe and Mail and CBC News, an:  “Accused Russian spy was in the room for Trudeau talks with Ukrainian PM.”  The event, which was captured by a photo attributed to CBC, took place in Canada in October of 2017. Apparently the man was standing close to power.

The accused Russian spy happened to be a translator who travelled to Canada with the Ukrainian political delegation. He has now been arrested in Ukraine and accused of treason by one of the many departments of that country’s security apparatus. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), which is the successor of the former Soviet KGB when Ukraine was part of the USSR, alleges that the translator “passed information to his Russian contacts.”

In the rush to get out the earth-shattering scoop however, the articles fall short of identifying other accused things that were also in the room along with the now accused translator (top left in the photo), the Ukranian Prime Minister, Volodymyr Groysman (2nd from right in the photo) and Prime Minister Trudeau (extreme right in photo).

There is Prime Minister Trudeau’s desk, which has occasionally been accused by cleaning staff of scratching the finish of the floor when it was moved aside to tidy up the room. It too, is often very close to power.

Then there is the photographer and the person in the extreme left of the photo with some sort of a reddish hat. He (seems to be male) is accused of not being identified in the photo, so they might possibly also be Russian spies as well. Once the accusations start being slung around, one can’t be too careful.

As the meeting between the two Prime Ministers was clearly high-level, then there is also the matter of the un-vetted sofa in the room which could certainly be accused of making serious dents in the carpet if someone hadn’t put those little coasters under its feet. Did anyone check for that? I thought not.

According to the article, a statement from the SBU indicated that the translator “had been under surveillance for a while but was allowed to go about his business as security officers gathered evidence.”

In spite of the sense of potential dire consequences to Canada that is implied by the news articles, this would seem to indicate to less paranoid folk that he wasn’t actually considered a threat to anything particularly important at all. Source: FNT Staff

Photo credit: Original image at: CBC ,

Ontario Government Cancels Christmas Because of Increased Health Care Costs Due To Over-eating

Christmas Meal Cancel-FNT-Small.pngTORONTO – Queens Park rushed through emergency legislation to cancel Christmas indefinitely in Ontario, just in time to stop the yuletide celebrations this year. According to one government analyst, Derrick Roebarton, the move will save the province more than $40 million in OHIP payouts, for 2017 alone.

After reading a seven-year-old federal report on the economic implications of obesity. the government’s spreadsheet warriors have determined that overweight people cost the province’s health care system $4.5 billion. When asked if any of the physicians in the province had been consulted as to the actual effects of that on an individual’s health, Roebarton was shocked.

“Not my problem, man” he said. “I just crunch the numbers and if we can save the treasury a few bucks it means a bonus at year end.”

When a number of Ontarians were stopped on the streets of Toronto and asked what they thought about the abrupt cancellation of Christmas, most were ambivalent.

One man from Mississauga, who said his name Ronald Selwin, replied with a shrug. He said that he had thought long and hard about it and felt that as a Canadian he had decided to apologize to the Ontario government for his behavior and, that of his fellow citizens. He also explained that he considered it bad form to use the word Christmas.

“I mean, I get it,” he said. “We overindulge in everything during holidays and that can lead to obesity. I’m guilty of it myself. So we’re really abusing OHIP; anyone should be able to see that. So, as for cancelling the holiday, I guess we deserve it and although government is our friend, it’s not as if we’re not used to being disappointed by it.”

Roebarton, the financial analyst, said that he wouldn’t miss having Christmas in Ontario, as he usually went to his parents place in New Brunswick, anyway, because now that he had a decent government job, he could afford it. He did profess to be disappointed in one aspect of the situation, however.

“Man, if we’d only twigged to that obesity information back in February or March,” he said, “we could have tripled or maybe even quadrupled the savings. I would have made the sunshine list this year.” Source: FNT Staff

Photo credit: Original images at: BBC , OHIP ,