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Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Climate Change > Canada to punish oil and gas sector, damage economy, make no difference in climate

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Canada will soon end 'inefficient' fossil fuel subsidies.

But what does that mean?

Benjamin Shingler · CBC News · 
Posted: Jun 26, 2023 1:00 AM PDT | 

A flare stack lights the sky from the Imperial Oil refinery in Edmonton, Alta. Canada has committed to ending
inefficient subsidies to oil and gas companies by the end of 2023. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press)


Canada has for years forked over billions of dollars in subsidies to oil and gas companies — an approach that critics say flies in the face of the country's climate goals, and impinges on efforts to turn toward renewable energy sources.

Now, the federal government is preparing to release a new policy that will put an end to "inefficient fossil fuel subsidies," a commitment Canada made more than a decade ago.

A spokesperson for Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said the new policy will be released in July.

But the strength of that commitment, environmental groups say, will hinge on how exactly the terms "inefficient" and "subsidy" are defined.

Julia Levin, associate director of national climate for the advocacy group Environmental Defence, said Canada has an opportunity to become a global leader in reducing fossil fuel subsidies if it's done right.

"If it's a strong assessment framework, it sets a great precedent. It kind of cements a bit of climate leadership for Canada," she said in an interview.

"If it's weak, it sets an incredibly dangerous precedent."

I would suggest that if it is weak that it sets no precedent at all, that has already been set.


What it will do is raise the price of gas and oil again after it has doubled in the past few years. That will result in higher costs for shipping anything that moves, higher inflation, higher interest rates, and a dreadful drop in the economy. And, it will make no detectable difference in the climate of Canada or the world. 


No improvement we can make in Canada will actually affect the Canadian climate. We cannot reduce the number of wildfires in Canada by lowering our temperature. It's absurd to link the two. Only the major polluters - USA, China, India, etc., can make a detectable difference in Canada's temperature.


Trudeau is destroying the country to make himself look good.


There is more to this story at CBCNews - Where is Canada at with fossil fuel subsidies?

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In a world so desperate for the truth, 51 of America's top intelligence officials are either liars or fools

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Confirmed: Intel Top Dogs Knowingly Lied When They Said

Hunter’s Laptop Was Russian Disinformation

JUN 26, 2023 7:00 AM 
BY ROBERT SPENCER
New in PJ Media:

It was bad enough that 51 of the nation’s top intelligence officials declared in Oct. 2020, at the height of the presidential campaign, that Hunter Biden’s laptop “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” But now the flagrant dishonesty of the whole affair has gotten exponentially worse, for any lingering doubt that these officials had access to adequate information when they published their assessment has been put to rest: it has now come to light that the FBI found the laptop to be authentic months before the intelligence officials told the world that it wasn’t. The last doubt that the 51 officials were brazenly lying to the American people has been removed.



It’s important to remember exactly who it was who lied to us. The chief signatory was James Clapper, who is listed on the letter as the former Director of National Intelligence, former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, former Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

You can’t get more of a U.S. intelligence insider than James Clapper. Clapper, 82, has spent practically his entire life in the intelligence field; he has been working in intelligence since he commanded a signals intelligence detachment in Thailand during the Vietnam War. To be sure, he has previously shown his willingness to sacrifice the truth to political expediency. Back in 2011, he notoriously labeled the Muslim Brotherhood, which has repeatedly stated its goal of imposing Sharia (Islamic law) over the entire world, as “largely secular.”

That was right around the time that the Obama administration was selling Muslim Brotherhood uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa as a secular “Arab Spring” flowering of democracy, so Clapper was doubtless reflecting his boss’ agenda. Still, he showed himself to be either clueless or craven and only confirmed that by becoming the chief signatory to the Biden laptop letter even when he must have known that it itself was disinformation.

Also signing the letter were three more of the heaviest hitters in Washington’s intelligence establishment: Michael Hayden, former Director of the CIA, as well as of the NSA; another former CIA director, Leon Panetta, who also served as Secretary of Defense during the Obama administration; and a third former CIA director, John Brennan, who also served as White House Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor and Director of the Terrorism Threat Integration Center.

There were, of course, 47 other signatories, including two former CIA Acting Directors, John McLaughlin and Michael Morell; Russ Travers, former acting director of the National Counterterrorism Center; and Emile Nakhleh, former director of CIA’s Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program.

I don't suppose an apology to both Russia and the American people is in the works? Can the Russian embassy sue in American courts? Can Americans sue for being misled during an election?

There is more. Read the rest here.

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Monday, June 26, 2023

European Politics > Near Hysteria in western capitols and media after Wagner's brief revolt in Russia; Germany's AfD won its first district election as far-right party grows

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Wagner fears ‘wounded’ Putin, could launch purges like 

‘never seen before’: UK official

By Lee Brown, NYPost
June 26, 2023 8:08am  Updated

Russian President Vladimir Putin likely feels “mortally wounded” by the weekend’s military mutiny — risking purges “like we’ve never seen before” and even the possibility of a full-scale “collapsed Russia,” according to UK officials.

Alicia Kearns, the chairman of the UK’s foreign affairs select committee, told LBC Radio that the attempted coups by the powerful Wagner Group over the weekend created a “really dangerous inflection point.”

Wagner Group never really intended a coup, according to Prigozhen, he just wanted fair treatment from the Russian military for his troops.

“The risk of a collapsed Russia is not insignificant,” she warned of the country with the world’s largest nuclear arsenal.

“We don’t know how far Putin will go to keep power, but let’s consider it to be significant. If he’s successful, we will see purges, I think, like we have never seen before,” the senior politician said.

Only if you have forgotten about Stalin.

She also warned that “what could come next could be a lot worse.”

Putin was “mortally wounded” by the mutiny, a UK pol said.
AP

“There are no good options here and I think we really should be worried,” she said.

Although Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin — a former top Putin ally — seemingly agreed to turn back from Moscow and accept amnesty in Belarus, Kearns warned that the upheaval “is definitely not over.”

“No one believes that Prigozhin is going to Belarus and live out his life quietly there,” Kearns told the Daily Mail.

“No one believes that Prigozhin is going to Belarus and live out his life quietly there,” Kearns said of the Wagner chief.
AP

“Putin … is mortally wounded but I don’t think anyone can say Putin is finished,” Kearns warned, saying that the revolt “has raised questions about the wholescale stability of the country.”

Doesn't 'mortally wounded' mean you are 'finished'?


Kearns said the UK government “knew for a few days that something was coming” — suggesting that other dark forces were involved in Russia given how Putin appeared to have been blindsided by the revolt.

“Did Russian intelligence not believe he [Prigozhin] was capable of marching on Moscow or did they lie to Putin because they were scared of him?” Kearns asked.

The UK knew for days that something was coming, raising the possibility that Putin’s military kept it from him.
AFP via Getty Images


Senior UK government sources also told the Times of London that the West “must prepare for a whole range of different scenarios.”

“From the very beginning of the invasion [of Ukraine], one of the most obvious scenarios was that the war could lead to political unrest back home in Russia,” one senior UK government source told the UK paper.

But this is not about 'political unrest', it is about 'military mistreatment', and, I believe, that's all it's about.

“We have to wait, watch and see what comes next,” another said. “This could be chapter one of something new.”

Kearns said she “would just urge caution” from those hoping to see the back of Putin, noting that history has taught that military coups typically end with “some sort of military, far-right extreme rule.”

That's the most intelligent thing she has said.

John Foreman, the former British defense attaché in Moscow, told the UK Times that Prigozhin toppling Putin would actually be the “worst-case scenario.”

“You’ve got to be careful what you wish for,” he said. “Prigozhin is not some sort of liberal, peace-loving democrat. He’s a fascist.”

A country that is weakened politically will often resort to increased military aggression in order to stabilize itself. The fall of Putin could mean the beginning of WWIII.





Germany’s far-right AfD party wins historic victory in local election


Germany's far-right AfD won its first district election Sunday, a further boost

to the anti-immigration party as it surges to record highs in opinion polls.


Issued on: 25/06/2023 - 21:44
2 min
Text by: NEWS WIRES

Robert Sesselmann of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is pictured at an election event in Sonneberg,
eastern Germany on June 25, 2023. © Martin Schutt, AFP


Robert Sesselmann, a lawyer and regional lawmaker, came out on top in a closely watched runoff vote for district administrator in Sonneberg in the central state of Thuringia, near the border with Bavaria.

Sesselmann took 52.8 percent of the vote, according to the electoral office.

The victory came despite appeals from mainstream parties for voters to rally behind the incumbent candidate, Joergen Koepper from the conservative CDU.

With only around 57,000 people, Sonneberg is one of Germany's smaller districts, but the landmark victory makes it the first to be run by the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.

"Robert Sesselmann has made history," tweeted AfD co-chief Alice Weidel.

The milestone comes as recent surveys put support for the AfD at a record 18 to 20 percent, neck-and-neck with Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats and behind only the conservative CDU/CSU bloc.

The AfD is polling even better in the former communist East German states of Thuringia, Brandenburg and Saxony, which will see regional elections next year where the AfD is hoping to score major breakthroughs.

Germany's best-selling Bild newspaper called Sesselmann's win a political "earthquake" and "a remarkable success for the ultra-right party".

Thuringia's interior minister Georg Maier, from the Social Democrats, called the outcome "an alarm bell for all democratic forces", according to Bild.

More like an alarm clock trying to wake up the fools running the country.

The AfD's regional party leader in Thuringia is the far-right firebrand Bjoern Hoecke, whose past statements on Germany's Nazi past have caused outrage.

Hoecke, considered an extremist by German intelligence services, has called Berlin's Holocaust monument a "memorial of shame" and urged a "180-degree shift" in the country's culture of remembrance.

Created in 2013 as an anti-euro outfit before morphing into an anti-Islam, anti-immigration party, the AfD has benefited from growing discontent with Scholz's three-party coalition amid concerns about inflation and the affordability of the government's climate plans.

High immigration also remains a key voter concern.

The AfD stunned the political establishment when it took around 13 percent of votes in the 2017 general elections, catapulting its lawmakers into the German parliament.

It slid to around 10 percent in the 2021 federal election.

In Germany, where coalition governments are the norm, mainstream parties have always ruled out forming an alliance with the AfD.

(AFP)





Saturday, June 24, 2023

Islam - Current Day > Sweden dramatically altering their migration policy; Muslims bully Hindu youth - Bhopal; French nutcase a terrorist, or not?

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Sweden’s prime minister vows change in migration policy

to the ‘EU’s strictest’ amid soaring violent crime

Center-Right Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has finally declared a drastic shift in the immigration policy of a once-peaceful country that has become a haven for the most violent foreign gangs, due to its infamous open-door welcome at the height of the migration crisis that has continued since 2015. 

Kristersson announced that Sweden is changing its “migration policy to the EU’s strictest. The Sweden Democrats were handed a virtual no-win predicament when they joined the government in 2022, caused by the previous Socialist Democratic Party. Almost all 5,000 gang members” in Sweden are migrants, and their proliferation is threatening to get worse without state intervention.

Here’s a brief picture of how Sweden’s open-door policy is now haunting the country:

That Sweden has become one of Europe’s most violent countries has finally attracted international attention. The French newspaper Le Monde lamented “Sweden’s powerlessness in the face of organized violence.” The paper quoted Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson from the Moderate Party stating that the situation is “uncontrollable” and may “get worse before it gets better.” Kristersson labelled the dozens of criminal gangs in Sweden “domestic terrorists.”

I have been saying for many years that the situation in Europe with Islamic migrants will have to get worse before it gets better, much worse.

 

According to the Brookings Institution, Sweden took in the most refugees per capita:

In 2015, Sweden had a record-high of 162,877 applications for asylum, primarily from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan—or about 1.6 percent of Sweden’s population of 10 million. This would be proportionally equivalent to over five million people applying for asylum in the United States, which in fact only received approximately 83,000 asylum applications that year

Since 2016, police in Sweden admitted losing control of 55 no-go zones. By 2017, Swedish politicians were calling for the army to be deployed to these areas. That same year, Sweden was reportedly on the brink of civil war, as its National Police Chief Dan Eliasson spoke on national television and pleaded for assistance: “Help us, help us! In 2020, Muslim migrant gangs were terrorizing Sweden’s streets with bombings and murders, while the global spotlight on Sweden has been over so-called “Islamophobic” Qur’an burning incidents.

The numbers invading Sweden were unsustainable and led to internal political upheaval from a rightly disgruntled populace, which turned to populist leadership for a sensible solution. This crisis prompted former Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, the leader of the Socialist Democratic Party, to declare  in desperation that “Sweden needs a ‘respite’ from the tens of thousands of refugees knocking at its door….announcing tough measures to deter asylum seekers in a sharp reversal of its open-door policy.” Trying to save face, Löfven, who also served as the President of European Socialists, “criticized the EU for failing to agree to spread refugees more evenly around the bloc.” Yet nonetheless, migrants continued to flow into generous Sweden.

By 2018, the center-right leader of the opposition Moderate Party, Ulf Kristersson, called on Löfven to step down. Löfven ultimately resigned in disgrace three years later after doing grave damage to Sweden, and after losing a no confidence vote. But migrant gangs were already entrenched, along with no-go zones. Police Commissioner Erik Nord acknowledged that mass migration was linked to the surge in fatal shootings.

National Police Chief Anders Thornberg now warns that Swedish gangs are growing by 1,000 new recruits a year.

As many as 30,000 people in Sweden are involved in criminal networks, the country’s justice minister said ….describing the figure as “breathtaking” and vowing to introduce new legislation to fight organized crime.

Between January and May 2023 alone, Swedish police recorded, on average, one completed bomb detonation every two days.

Earlier this month, Prime Minister Kristersson “publicly denounced his country’s poor management of immigration”:

Let me be clear: large-scale immigration and poor integration simply do not work. That is why we are now changing the Swedish migration policy to the EU’s strictest.

Failed globalist politicians and their suicidal immigration policies are not the ones facing the inevitable consequences of their own recklessness, and they manage to dodge demands for responsible immigration policies by calling anyone who questions them “racists.” Those same politicians continue to live and retire high on the hog and with personal security.



India: Muslims force Hindu youth to act like a dog, tie noose

around his neck, threaten to rape his mother, sister

JUN 24, 2023 11:00 AM 

BY ASHLYN DAVIS

On Monday, June 19, a disturbing video of five men subjecting a defenseless youth to inhumane harassment and torture surfaced from the Indian city of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.
The assailants had forced the victim to kneel like a dog; he had a noose tied around his neck. The assaulters also commanded him to bark like a dog and ask for forgiveness. They were heard hurling profanities at the lone victim, beating him barbarically and threatening to rape and molest his mother and sister. The 50-second video went viral within hours. The accused are Faizan, Bilal, Sameer, Mufid, and Sahil. The victim was a Hindu boy named Vijay.

This was not the first time that the Hindu youth’s family has been brutalized and targeted by these Muslim youth. As per news reports, the Hindu youth’s family alleged that  Sahil had also forced him to take drugs, consume beef and convert to Islam. They further alleged that the accused had coerced the victim to rob his house. The victim’s family added that despite approaching the police, the cops didn’t take her complaint.

We must highlight the fact that this disturbing incident is reported from Madhya Pradesh, a state ruled by the political party BJP, which is regularly dubbed an anti-Muslim party by the global Islamic intelligentsia. These propagandists never miss an opportunity to paint Muslims in India as an ever-tormented, threatened and scared minority.

A scared minority. Does this incident look like the act of a minority that in any way, shape or form, is living under the fear of the legal authorities or the governing administration?

After a massive backlash from social media users, the state police have initiated a probe into the matter, and the government has promised action. Once the authorities initiate legal actions against the perpetrators, be prepared to hear fabricated stories of how the anti-Muslim government tortures these scared and marginalized youth.



Nice: the man who shouted that he was ‘like a terrorist’ and that

he wanted to ‘kill people’ given suspended prison sentence




Translated from “Nice : l’homme qui avait crié qu’il était «comme un terroriste» et qu’il voulait «tuer des gens» condamné à de la prison avec sursis,” 

by Nicolas Daguin, Le Figaro, June 21, 2023

The scene took place last Sunday in the middle of the street, on Avenue Jean Médecin, in the city center of Nice. Very quickly, the rumor that the suspect was an S file had spread.

Last Sunday at the beginning of the afternoon, he yelled that he was “like a terrorist” and that he wanted to “kill people.” The scene took place in the middle of the street, on Avenue Jean Médecin, in the city center of Nice. Aged about 30 and from the Comoros, Anli Houmadi was immediately arrested by municipal police officers called in emergency. After 48 hours in police custody, the latter was indicted for “public justification for a terrorist act” and tried in immediate appearance Tuesday evening at the Nice Criminal Court.

A few hours after his arrest, the information that he was under an S card had spread like wildfire, fueling fantasies around his intentions and his potential dangerousness. In the end, it was nothing. “It does not appear anywhere that he was once filed with the RPF (file of wanted persons, editor’s note) for some suspicion of radicalization,” certifies his lawyer, Me Laurent Poumarede, of the Nice bar.

Wikepedia - In France, a fiche S (English: S card) is an indicator used by law enforcement to flag an individual considered to be a serious threat to national security. The S stands for Sûreté de l'État ("state security"). It is the highest level of such a warning in France; it allows surveillance but is not cause for arrest.

During the hearing, this filing was never discussed. “We are mainly dealing with a man who suffers from psychiatric problems. Two expert reports have been carried out in this direction and they point to an alteration of discernment, close to abolition, if you ask me,” continues Anli Houmadi’s adviser.

However, if the criminal record of the defendant contains no mention of it, he had already been arrested on April 11 in Nice for having shouted “Allah Akbar” and advocating the establishment of “Islamic laws.” “Certainly, but he doesn’t even know what Sharia is! Moreover, he was not even aware of the attacks of July 14, 2016, in Nice …,” further explains Me Poumarede. Regarding his career, it remains rather vague. During the hearing, the man indicated in more than approximate French that he resided in Treffiagat, in Finistère, and had family in Clermont-Ferrand. “Today he’s a homeless man who hangs out,” continues his lawyer.

In her submissions, prosecutor Sabine Marthouret mentioned a “disturbing profile,” as reported by our colleagues from Nice Matin, present at the hearing. However, the representative of the public prosecutor did not request continued detention, requesting a six-month prison sentence with suspended probation and a ban on residence in the Alpes-Maritimes for two years. This is what he was ultimately sentenced to.

France has to come to the realization that all radical Muslims are mentally ill and need to be segregated from society. That Houmadi was unaware of the terrorism around him and did not understand what Sharia was, makes him no less dangerous. 



Ozzone 8-10 > No normal, healthy saint ever chooses suffering; he simply chooses God’s will, just as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not. Is that you?

 


No saint dare to interfere with the discipline of suffering in another saint! Yet we do it all the time, praying for every conceivable suffering of a brother or sister, instead of praying for the discipline to have its purposed effect.

Notice God’s unutterable waste of saints! We think saints should be witnessing to the world for all they’re worth. And then we read about the likes of Watchman Nee. In the 1930’s and 1940’s, Nee travelled from China to Europe and America and was one of the most popular Christian writers and speakers of his era. And then, in 1950, he was locked up in a Maoist work camp, the likes of which made Russia’s Gulag seem appealing, where he languished for the last 20 years of his life. Like a modern-day Job, he must have questioned God’s providence. It’s not likely that he was put there to witness to a few other inmates, or to the guards, as opposed to the millions he had reached before. Was he there to witness to “so great a cloud of witnesses” (Hebrews 12:1-2) as the angels of God and the souls in Heaven? 


Friday, June 23, 2023

Islam - Current Day > Hungary's Orban predicts another Migrant Crisis created by George Soros' son

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If, like me, you have wondered how the 2015+ migrant crisis developed so quickly and continues to this day, you might have suspected someone like George Soros to be behind it all. According to Viktor Orban, you might be right.





Hungary: Orban accuses Soros of ‘scheming to incite’ another

migrant crisis as Soros’ son preps to take over empire


JUN 23, 2023 11:00 AM 
BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
Jihad Watch

Six years ago, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban candidly stated his views about Soros’ role in the Muslim migrant invasion: “Never underestimate the power of the dark side.” He is correct. An opinion piece by Rebecca Hagelin of the Washington Times captures the Soros legacy:

How are illegal immigrants organized so quickly and young voters corralled overnight to demand open borders? Where did the saturation of transgender and pansexual ideology come from? How is it possible that Black Lives Matter seems to be everywhere? Or that the call for pot legalization is sweeping the nation? Or that there is an international movement for globalization simultaneously occurring in countries around the world?

Follow the money, the George Soros money, through his Open Society Foundation.

In this long season of cultural and political tension, Americans need to know the truth about the source of the conflicts, about why communities and our nation are being ripped apart.

Mr. Soros’ Open Society Foundation also is busy abroad in a well-financed attempt to strip America and other nations of our sovereignty and make us beholden to an international government.

Mr. Soros funds so many of these hateful, disruptive (even violent) efforts here at home and abroad that it’s hard to keep track.

Soros has poured $32 billion into the Open Society Foundation, and presents the Foundation as a do-gooder enterprise. Now Alex Soros, the son of 92-year-old George Soros, is preparing to take over his dad’s empire. The younger Soros has vowed to eradicate conservatives from the Internet and declared: “I’m 100 times worse than my Dad.”


It is no surprise that Orban would accuse Soros of scheming to incite another migrant crisis. When did the scheming ever stop?


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Viktor Orban accuses Soros of scheming to ‘incite’

another migrant crisis

Protothema, June 21, 2023:

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned that the Soros empire, the reigns of which will be handed over to 37-year-old scion Alexander, is planning to “incite” another migrant crisis in Europe.

In his weekly radio appearance, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said according to 24.hu that he believed that the latest migrant relocation scheme from the European Union was a result of pressure from George Soros’ son Alex, who is set to take over the $25 billion financial empire.

Orban, who has long maligned the mal-influence of the 92-year-old Hungarian billionaire in his country and elsewhere, warned that his heir may be more ruthless in achieving the goals of the ‘Open Society’ foundations owned by the family….

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Bits and Bites from around the World > Little Pig takes on Big Black Bear

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Watch this small but mighty pig defend family farm from bear

on Vancouver Island


Barbie-Q, a miniature pig, was captured on surveillance footage charging a black bear


Michelle Gomez · CBC News · 
Posted: Jun 21, 2023 4:22 PM PDT 

A normally shy miniature pig named Barbie-Q is being praised after security footage showed her stepping in
to scare off a bear that had broken into its family's barn. (CHEK News)


A heroic showdown captured on surveillance footage earlier this week shows a brave miniature pig charging a black bear that broke into her family's farm. 

Barn security footage from early Sunday morning shows the pig, named Barbie-Q, standing inches in front of the bear as it slowly steps closer to her. 

She is then seen charging forward, forcing the bear to run back. 



A pet pig from Sooke, B.C., charged at a bear that had broken into the animal pen. Barbie-Q's owner said it looked like she was protecting the other animals huddled against the fence.

Owner Crystal Walls and her husband were away at the time with their four dogs, who usually defend the farm. When her housesitter called to let them know their fence had been breached, the couple rushed home and watched the security footage. 

"Lo and behold, there was our little mini pig Barbie-Q fighting off a bear," Walls said Tuesday on CBC's All Points West.

And the unlikely fight resulted in an even more unlikely winner. The bear sat back on his behind before leaving about 30 minutes later. 

"He definitely did not put up a fight to Barbie. He got out of her way," said Walls.

Walls said it seemed that Barbie-Q was attempting to corral their other animals back into their pen, charging at them to get back every time they came too close to the bear. 

"It was very unbelievable to see."

Barbie-Q was rewarded for her service with a bowl of fruit salad and plenty of belly rubs. 

A pampered pig with a feisty side


Walls said this attack was out of character for her beloved Barbie-Q, who is normally frightened by the family's pet goats and will run away if they get too close. 

"I did not think something that size, that she would even attempt to charge it."

The six-year-old pig has lived a sheltered life. 

A brown miniature pig lying on her side on the grass. A person crouches beside her rubbing her belly. 
Miniature pig Barbie-Q is pictured receiving a belly rub. Earlier this week, she charged at a black bear
in a bold effort to keep her Sooke, B.C. farm safe. (Chek News)


She was raised inside the family's home for her first three years of life, sleeping in their bed, going on camping trips with them, even joining them in attending neighbourhood events. 

Barbie-Q was moved outside to the barn when her younger brother [bacon] Bits joined the family. 

"Everywhere we went with the dogs, she came with us," said Walls, adding that Barbie-Q is an affectionate pig who enjoys kissing and cuddling her owner. 

But Walls says Barbie-Q can be feisty at times, and her pig-headed nature came out Sunday morning. 

Christy Brookes, who was house-sitting for the family at the time, told CHEK News she has noticed the pig likes to be in charge. 

"She'll try to be the boss of anyone.  She is definitely the boss of me," said Brookes. 

But she says Barbie-Q deserves the recognition she is getting for her valiant efforts. 

"I love her even more. She is a star."