Pressure grows over Canada’s funding of anti-Israel UN educational materials
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing increased pressure over the Canadian government’s decision to fund The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) after it issued anti-Israel education materials to Palestinian schools.
A report by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) found that the education materials “egregiously violated UN values, UNESCO standards and UNRWA’s stated principles.”
Chinese state media calls Canadian efforts to boycott 2022 Winter Olympics “sinister”
When Members of Parliament passed a non-binding motion in Canada’s House of Commons to officially condemn the Chinese Communist regime’s treatment of its Uyghur minority as genocide — a vote from which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet members abstained — the motion also included a request urging the International Olympic Committee to move the 2022 Winter Olympics from Beijing.
Trudeau’s Canada: Low achievement, high self-esteem
Tristin Hopper’s weekend article in the National Post asked why Canada can’t get things done anymore, from procuring vaccines to renovating 24 Sussex Drive. Malaise about Canada’s performance is entirely justified as our pampered public sector fails to deliver and few Canadian brands dominate in the global marketplace.
US militias want to ‘blow up’ Capitol, police chief warns
Extra security measures should remain in place at the US Capitol amid renewed threats by right-wing militia groups, the acting chief of the Capitol Police said.
‘Everything Has Been Criminalized,’ Says Neil Gorsuch as He Pushes for Stronger Fourth Amendment Protections
“We live in a world in which everything has been criminalized. And some professors have even opined that there’s not an American alive who hasn’t committed a felony in some—under some state law,” Gorsuch told the state’s lawyer. “And in a world like that, why doesn’t it make sense to retreat back to the original meaning of the Fourth Amendment, which I’m going to oversimplify, but generally says that you get to go into a home without a warrant if the officer sees a violent action or something that’s likely to lead to imminent violence….Why isn’t that the right approach?”
ABSURD! Study Labels Conservatives, ‘Dark Web’ Members ‘Gateways’ to Extremism
A new Anti-Defamation League study labels conservative commentators and members of the “Intellectual Dark Web” as “gateways” to extremist content.
The five authors of the Anti-Defamation League study titled “Exposure to Alternative & Extremist Content on YouTube” investigated the idea that YouTube’s algorithm radicalizes those on the right. The study’s list of “alternative” YouTube channels that may lead to radical content included mainstream conservative commentators like The Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro and comedian Steven Crowder, and widely popular members of the “Intellectual Dark Web” (IDW) like podcast host Joe Rogan and author and clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson.
