Federal Health Minister Mark Holland says Ottawa will not be contesting Quebec’s law that allows advance requests for medical assistance in dying (MAID).
Instead, the federal government will launch a countrywide consultation on the issue next month, with a report set to be published in March 2025.
The province passed a law updating its assisted-dying legislation last year, but delayed accepting advance requests so that the Criminal Code could be amended.
In 2016 I believed Hillary would triumph, and dressed up as her for Halloween. I won’t make the same mistake again
I’m rummaging through our dressing up drawer, trying to find inspiration for this year’s Halloween outfit.
When I see it. Hillary Clinton’s face hasn’t aged well. The cheeks are sallow and concave, the forehead pockmarked where the latex has begun to deteriorate – and yet despite these ravages the former Secretary of State is still baring her teeth in a rictus grin.
I last wore this mask eight years ago, almost to the day, and suddenly I’m taken back to the night I put it on and went trick-or-treating in the streets around our house in LA. It was eight days before the 2016 election and the general, pretty smug consensus was that Hillary was going to win.
Over the weekend, Toronto budget chief Shelley Carroll conducted a mock budget session with listeners on Newstalk1010 Toronto and I give her credit for doing it.
However, her response on just one issue should be instructive to any taxpayer in any city, town or territory in Canada.
She was asked why Toronto still adheres to a policy that only allows contracts — on an estimated $1.65 billion in construction — to companies whose workers belong to a group of favoured unions.
Vice President and Anointed Democrat Presidential Nominee Kamala Harris doesn’t seem to have a clue about running an effective presidential campaign — or much of anything else, for that matter. To call her campaign “scattershot” would be an insult to 12-gauge shotguns with three-inch barrels. Harris-Walz has been the Spaghetti Approach campaign, throwing everything against the wall and hoping something sticks.
Good thread on the TrumpHitler gambit …
Hitler denaturalized and then mass murdered Jewish citizens. Trump is proposing to deport non Americans who entered the country illegally. If you think these are the same thing, you agree with Hitler much more than Trump does.
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) October 28, 2024
h/t Patti Jo
Federal government going ahead with high-speed rail between Quebec City and Toronto
The Trudeau government will announce plans for a high-speed train linking Quebec City and Toronto in the coming weeks, Radio-Canada has learned.
Proponents of the project hope the train will take passengers from Montreal to Toronto in three hours. By car, it takes about five-and-a-half hours to travel between the two cities.
Sources told Radio-Canada the train will travel 300 kilometres per hour — double the speed of Via Rail’s current trains.
You just know that LPC palms and the MAFIA will be well greased, the trains not so much.
It has become an annoying and an obsolescent truism to claim that the presidential election is a toss up, a coin toss. This is the opinion of the Democrats still desperately clinging to the possibility of electoral deliverance from a fate so horrible that they had banished it from their imaginations for most of the last four years: the reelection of Donald Trump.
It is also the last refuge of the Never Trumpers, a group that persists and festers in the Republican establishment and a few related elite grips, but amongst the electorate, the Never Trumpers are almost extinct. Almost none of his comments, unlike four or eight years ago, need to be walked back; instead of the vintage Ugly American bully that his opponents represented him as throughout his first term as president, we now have the author of what could be the greatest comeback in American political history, surpassing even Richard Nixon.
I am not so bold as Conrad Black but I do sense the optimism generated by Kamala’s Kollapse.
A welcome sign in the lobby of Montreal’s newly renovated city hall depicting a woman wearing a head scarf will be removed in the name of secularism, Montreal’s mayor says, following criticism that the image is offensive.
Valerie Plante said during a talk show that aired Sunday night that the drawing of a woman wearing what looks like a hijab, or Islamic head scarf, will be taken down because of the “discomfort” it causes but also because institutions must strive to be secular.
Support for the Democratic Party among Jewish Americans has reached its lowest point in four decades, with only 63% expressing intent to vote for Kamala Harris, according to a survey by the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI).
Despite declining support, Harris retains the backing of the majority, while a notable 24% plan to vote for Donald Trump, largely due to his stance on Israel.
The survey highlights a marked divide in voting priorities, particularly around Israel and antisemitism. Among Jewish Americans who firmly support Trump, 95% cite Israel as a primary factor influencing their vote, compared to only 31% of strong Harris supporters.
Justin Trudeau, who promised “sunny ways” as he won an election on a wave of public fatigue with an incumbent Conservative government, is now facing his darkest and most uncertain political moment as he attempts to defy the odds – and a bitter public – to win a rare fourth term.
The Canadian prime minister appears to have ignored both the demands of a handful of his own MPs calling for him to resign and threats from a separatist party looking to unravel his party’s tenuous hold on power.
Nearly two dozen backbench Liberal MPs signed a letter last week calling for the prime minister to step down amid fears within the party that his unpopularity could lead to a crushing electoral defeat in the coming months. The letter was separate from a “code red” petition to grassroots party supporters calling for a secret ballot vote on Trudeau’s leadership.
The teenager accused of murdering three young girls in Southport has been charged with possession of a study of an Al-Qaeda terror training manual and manufacture of the poison ricin.
Axel Rudakubana, who is charged with carrying out a knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in July, is accused of producing ricin – a biological toxin – and keeping a handbook made by the terrorist group.
The manual, a PDF titled “Military studies in the jihad against the tyrants: The Al-Qaeda training manual” and the poison were found during a search of his home, police said.
Al-Qaeda…
But legacy media told me he was a Welshman and a Christian?
How can this be?! https://t.co/0547jG9LFw
— Fr Calvin Robinson (@calvinrobinson) October 29, 2024
The media is still using that ludicrous childhood photo of the little monster.
h/t Patti Jo
Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet said Tuesday he will work with the other opposition parties to bring down the Liberal government after Ottawa failed to deliver what he wanted: a pension hike for some and further protections for supply-managed farm sectors.
After the NDP pulled out of its deal to prop up the Liberals, Blanchet stepped into the mix, saying he would back the Liberals on non-confidence votes if it passed two Bloc private member’s bills that hike Old Age Security payments for people between the ages of 65 and 74 and exempt dairy, poultry and eggs from future trade negotiations.
Sean “Diddy” Combs was extremely particular about the women who attended his “Freak Off” sex parties — with one party planner telling The Post she kept a scale in her car to ensure no female guest weighed more than 140 pounds.
“We would do a weigh-in, if necessary,” said the organizer, who worked with Diddy in 2004 and 2005, and asked to remain anonymous. “The girls had to be young and hot, so I always had a scale nearby in case I needed to make sure. The number was 140 pounds, but if a girl was really tall, there was a little bit of discretion involved.”
My expectation is we will never learn who is on the Diddy tapes.
The establishment media’s control over framing the election narrative is “shattered,” Axios’s Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen acknowledged Monday.
The report confirms Gallup polling that shows Americans’ trust in the media is at an all-time low. For years, the media has pushed false narratives that involved Hunter Biden’s laptop story, Russian collusion, the source of the 2020 pandemic, the January 6 investigation, and numerous other hoaxes.
It appears the decision by many papers to abandon the tradition of candidate endorsement was guided at least in part by the market forces hammering the media.
Kamala alone is good reason to take a pass but some owners have decided that in a tough market it no longer makes sense to alienate a huge segment of the public by reporting your bias rather than the truth.
Jeff Bezos says yes: No One Trusts Journalists and It’s Journalist’s Fault
We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion. It would be easy to blame others for our long and continuing fall in credibility (and, therefore, decline in impact), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility.
Thankfully The Star, a mouthpiece of the Liberal gov’t and the recipient of involuntary tax payer funding, explains that the Washington Post and LA Times are bending the knee in fear of TrumpHitler who surely will silence all critical media! Case closed. Science settled. You are Hitler.
Billionaire owners of Washington Post and L.A. Times are bending the knee to Donald Trump
… The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times — or more precisely the billionaire owners of those papers — announced late last week that they won’t endorse a candidate in the presidential election now only days away. Both organizations issued statements along the lines of “not telling our readers how to vote.” But it’s not much of a leap to conclude their owners are worried about retribution against their other business interests if they endorse Kamala Harris (as their editorial staffs wanted to do) and Donald Trump is elected.
Oh my … h/t DS
When US President Joe Biden walked through Kyiv in February 2023 on a surprise visit to show solidarity with Volodymyr Zelensky, his Ukrainian counterpart, air sirens were wailing. “I felt something… more strongly than ever before,” he later recalled. “America is a beacon to the world.”
The world now waits to see who takes charge of this self-styled beacon after Americans make their choice in next week’s presidential election. Will Kamala Harris carry on in Biden’s footsteps with her conviction that in “these unsettled times, it is clear America cannot retreat”? Or will it be Donald Trump with his hope that “Americanism, not globalism” will lead the way?
Your choice America – a box of wine or Trump.
OTTAWA—Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party is testing a group of digital ads and is producing a series of broadcast advertising, including negative ads targeting his Conservative rival, as the Liberal leader insists he is staying on to lead the party into the next election.
The digital ads, in English and French, were produced over the past two weeks, while the broadcast ads are in production, with the aim being not just to highlight the government’s work and themes, but to paint the contrast with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, said a party source with knowledge of the campaign in the works, who spoke on a background-only basis.
PoilievreHitlerTrump 24/7
