Bank of Canada report shows Canadians resistant to having Mark of the Beast tattooed on their forehead

BoC report shows resistance to digital currency among Canadians

A significant number of Canadians would likely reject the introduction of a digital Canadian dollar, according to a recent report from the Bank of Canada.

Blacklock’s Reporter says many citizens, particularly older Canadians and those wary of digital technology, expressed concerns about privacy, security, and government overreach, which they felt could be tied to the launch of a digital currency.

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King Felipe and Queen Letizia endure being pelted with mud and objects by anguished locals as they try to ‘calm tensions’ in aftermath of Valencia floods

Spain’s King Felipe and Queen Letizia have endured being pelted with mud and objects by anguished locals as they tried to calm tensions in the aftermath of the deadly floods in Valencia.

The monarchs had mud and objects like drink cans thrown at them by angry survivors of the floods that killed more than 200 people as they walked through the muddy streets in Paiporta, one of the hardest-hit towns on the outskirts of Valencia.

Boy. I sure hope this never happens to Trudeau.

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Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump had some bad moments and some oddly friendly ones — but here’s what will really matter if Trump is re-elected

OTTAWA — Word came unexpectedly in January 2017 that President Donald Trump wanted to talk to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Officials scrambled to connect the two leaders and racked their brains: what urgent matter had they not foreseen?

I doubt Trump will much care knowing Junior is on the way out.

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The Liberals are desperate, so they are raising abortion as an issue again

There are two good reasons why Justin Trudeau’s Liberals are once again accusing Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives of wanting to take away abortion rights. First, the Liberals are desperate. Second, as a political ploy, it works.

The federal government announced this week that new legislation will require pregnancy counselling centres, many of which are faith-based, to tell patients up front whether they provide access to abortion and birth-control services. Those that do not provide that information could lose their charitable status.

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Will it Really be a Cliffhanger?

I think it wise to just vote and ignore the polls and pundits, many of whom are dealing from the bottom of the deck and bluffing. I’d also ignore those doomsters who claim on the basis of the 2020 election that it will be stolen. Sure, as I note below, there has been and will be a lot of cheating, but the Republicans are getting better at monitoring it and reducing it. Sure, the press is lying again, but as I show below, the legacy media has blown its credibility and alternate content providers are capturing audiences away from them.

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What’s Behind Kamala Harris’ Connection To A Mass Murdering Cult Leader?

As the major presidential candidates proclaim their faith credentials in the final days of the election, it’s noteworthy that Kamala Harris got her big boost into politics from a lover who was a close ally of the cultic mass murderer Jim Jones.

In 1978, Jones led more than 900 followers to their deaths in the jungles of Jonestown, Guyana, by having them drink poisoned juice. It was one of the darkest days of the revolutionary after-life of the 1960s in America.

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Welcome to Sadiq Khan’s London: Where Images of Wedding Cake and Hotdogs Are Banned But Radical Islamic Preachers Burning Dollars Are Welcome

Back in those far-off days when colour TV was still brand-new and expensive, my grandfather saw a newspaper advert for a series of special screens which, if you only placed them over the top of your usual TV, the spiel said would immediately and miraculously render the image in full Technicolor for a fraction of the price of a new machine. Sending off for it, he was disappointed to receive a packet full of flimsy rectangles of various-coloured cellophane which you were supposed to stick to the set so that it looked like everything on it was suddenly being viewed through the prism of a single different hue of the rainbow. If he had only thought to pin the brown one up over an early 1950s BBC Jane Austen adaptation, he could have invented Bridgerton seven decades early.

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The gross injustice of slavery reparations

Commonwealth leaders concluded last week’s summit in Samoa by announcing that Britain should commit to reparations for its role in the transatlantic slave trade.

UK prime minister Keir Starmer had tried to refocus the summit around ‘future-facing’ challenges such as climate change. His chancellor, Rachel Reeves, was more blunt. She told the BBC last week that ‘We’re not going to be paying out the reparations that some countries are speaking about’. Yet in the end, it was to no avail. A day later, the 56 heads of government, including Starmer, signed a letter agreeing that ‘the time has come’ for a ‘meaningful, truthful and respectful conversation’ about Britain paying reparations.

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Peanut the Squirrel was no match for the administrative state

The modern American bureaucratic state revealed itself in all its absurd glory last week, not through some grand policy initiative or sweeping regulation, but through the tale of a squirrel known as “P’Nut.” In an era of endless crises — migrant surges, shrinking police forces, rising urban crime, housing shortages — New York state marshalled its considerable resources toward a singular mission: dispatching 10 agents to conduct an extensive raid targeting a rescue animal with a social media following.

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Kidnap or rescue: Was ‘Hezbollah operative’ abducted by Israel a double agent?

A Lebanese ship captain abducted by Israeli special forces may have been acting as a double agent.

Imad Ahmaz, described by the Israeli military as a “senior Hezbollah operative”, was extracted from a residential building in Batroun, 20 miles north of Beirut, in Lebanon, on Friday.

At least 12 naval commandos from Shayetet 13 – Israel’s version of the Royal Navy’s Special Boat Service (SBS) or the US Navy’s SEALs – were involved in the dramatic raid, which was launched from an unknown location in the Mediterranean sea.

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A contentious partnership, high-profile resignations and accusations of antisemitism. Inside the turmoil at Canada’s most prestigious literary prize

The executive director of the Giller Prize privately told authors that she was working to end the Giller’s financial partnership with its lead sponsor, Scotiabank, amid growing controversy surrounding the bank’s ties with an Israeli arms manufacturer.

But despite behind-the-scenes assurances from Elana Rabinovitch that the foundation responsible for the literary award was planning to “extricate” itself from Scotiabank, the organization appeared to abruptly change direction, publicly doubling down on the partnership, which began in 2005.


Not just a Canadian thing …

Purging Jews From the Arts

Sally Rooney is a clarifying figure in the literary world. She does not go for complexity or nuance, and she doesn’t like to leave herself open to interpretation. Rooney has now written the same novel four times, likely to avoid any possible confusion over what it is she wants to say. And rather than hide behind some disingenuous claim of “just anti-Zionism,” she does things like oppose her last novel’s translation into Hebrew, an act of overt hostility to Jews and only Jews.

h/t Patti Jo

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‘Trudeau, sociologically and politically, is an idiot’: Ujjal Dosanjh on why PM is to blame for Sikh extremism in Canada

“A silent majority of the Sikhs do not want to have anything to do with Khalistan. They just don’t speak out because they’re afraid of violence and violent repercussions,” reports Ujjal Dosanjh, as a Sikh living in Vancouver, B.C.

The call for a separate Sikh homeland in Punjab, India — to be called Khalistan — has been brewing since the 1930s, when British rule in India was nearing its end. Although the movement now has marginal support in India, it has taken wings in Canada and escalated into the present derailing of relations between two friendly Commonwealth democracies, India and Canada.


This mess is on Trudeau.

He provided a safe haven for Khalistan militants in exchange for Sikh votes never thinking there might be repercussions.

Not that he cares.

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