COVID-19 rules barring protests in 2021 were unconstitutional: Ontario’s top court

Ontario’s top court has ruled that provincial restrictions on gatherings that prohibited peaceful protests for several weeks during the COVID-19 pandemic were unconstitutional.

The Court of Appeal for Ontario made the finding today in a case brought by former Ontario legislator Randy Hillier, who faced several charges for organizing or hosting protests against pandemic measures while the rules were in effect in the spring of 2021.

Hillier appealed after the judge who heard his application found that while the limits on gatherings did infringe on his right to peaceful assembly, they were justified and therefore constitutional.

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Bill Maher Had This Acute Observation About Trump

There’s a lot of chatter about Bill Maher meeting with President Donald Trump. The noted and vocal Trump critic accepted a private dinner invitation from the president, which the comedian and late-night HBO host graciously accepted. He doesn’t care if his liberal audience finds this a deplorable act, promptly saying these people could f**k off: it’s the president of the United States. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime invitation. You go no matter who occupies the White House. Maher reportedly came with a copy of every insult he hurled at Trump; he autographed it.

h/t DS

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Alberta premier suggests Mark Carney has issues with ‘strong conservative women’

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith responded Monday to Liberal Leader Mark Carney using her as a stump speech punchline, saying Carney has issues with assertive women of opposing ideologies.

“I’ve noticed this with progressive men and how much they talk about how much they support women until they meet a strong conservative woman,” Smith said in Edmonton, responding to questions at an unrelated news conference.

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WashPost Fawns Over Final Season of ‘Handmaid’s Tale,’ Ducks Moss’s Scientology

In a huge, five-page, 3,200-word spread in Sunday’s Washington Post, Style section writer Jada Yuan heaped more liberal bile on the grossly anti-Christian, anti-family, pro-baby death, and far-left crowd behind the show The Handmaid’s Tale ahead of its final season. As is usually the case with puff pieces on the show, Yuan left out that star Elizabeth Moss is a devout Scientology which, if there ever was a dangerous cult, that’s it.

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WARMINGTON: Why punish guy trying to free Sir John A. Macdonald from a box?

So, do you throw the book at guy who spray painted “Free John” on the wooden box that jails Canada’s first prime minister, or give him the Order of Canada?

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China Vows to ‘Fight to the End‘ as Trump Threatens 50% Tariffs

China vowed to “fight to the end” after President Donald Trump threatened to impose a 50 percent duty on imports if Beijing does not withdraw the retaliatory 34 percent tariff it imposed on American products last week.

China’s Commerce Ministry said in a statement that it “resolutely opposes” the president’s escalating threat of tariffs and will not back down.

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Jagmeet Singh says he has no regrets about the NDP’s supply and confidence deal with the LPC it got him his pension

With polls showing his party mired in third place in the federal election campaign, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Monday he has no regrets about how he handled his party’s governance deal with the Liberals.

With the data all pointing toward a two-horse race, Singh said his party’s accomplishments through the supply and confidence agreement with former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s government should convince more people to support the NDP.

Venal is as venal does.

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Immigration is overshadowed in election by Trump and tariffs

For more than a year, immigration has been at the forefront of the political agenda, and the subject of heated exchanges in the Commons. Polls have shown that Canadians’ long-standing support for increasing the number of new arrivals has dropped in the past two years, amid fears about the cost of housing and strains on health care.

But during the election campaign so far, immigration has been relegated to a second-tier concern. The threat to the economy and job security posed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs and other “pocketbook issues” has eclipsed it as an issue, even though border security – fuelled by Mr. Trump’s barbs about illegal migration from Canada – has been in the spotlight for months.

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Council rejects VE Day anniversary parade because it’s ‘too elitist’

A military parade marking the eightieth anniversary of VE Day has been rejected by councillors because it is “too elitist”.

Dacorum borough council in Hertfordshire has eschewed hosting any formal event to mark the end of the Second World War in Europe on May 8.

This is despite the Lib Dem-run council holding a day-long event last year called “50 Fest” – which included a colourful parade through Hemel Hempstead – to mark its 50th birthday.

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Canada’s Silent Compromise: How Fear of Election Repercussions Protects Chinese Interference

Having spent decades in intelligence and security, and through the research presented in “The Mosaic Effect,” the book I co-authored, I’ve seen firsthand how Beijing uses sophisticated non-military tools—what we now define as hybrid warfare—to infiltrate and influence democratic institutions. At the core of this strategy is the United Front Work Department, an agency of the CCP that specializes in co-opting elites, manipulating diaspora communities, and shaping foreign policy in target nations.

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Ukraine captured 2 Chinese nationals fighting for Russia, Zelensky says

Claims he was making an Uber Eats delivery

Ukrainian troops have captured two Chinese nationals who were fighting in the ranks of the Russian military against Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on April 8.

“We have information that there are much more than two such Chinese citizens in the occupier’s units,” Zelensky said. “We have the documents of these prisoners, bank cards, personal data.”

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Smith says she won’t ‘shut up’ after Carney jab at campaign rally

OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Mark Carney joked it would be “a bad idea” to send Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to fight back against U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada.

Smith fired back at Carney on Monday at a press conference in Edmonton.


I suspect Carney is acting on instructions from Beijing.

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US top court allows Trump to use wartime law for deportations

The US Supreme Court has cleared the way for President Donald Trump to use a rarely-invoked wartime powers law to rapidly deport alleged gang members – for now.

A lower court had temporarily blocked the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador on 15 March, ruling that the actions under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act needed further scrutiny.

Trump has alleged that the migrants were members of the Tren de Aragua gang “conducting irregular warfare” against the US and could therefore be removed under the Act.

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