This clip will always make me laugh.
– House destroyed.
– African tenants become violent.
– Middle class Irish landlord regretting his decision to house migrants.Who could have possibly foreseen this?
There's a lesson to be learned here, on a national level. pic.twitter.com/ExXL9aInAb
— MichaeloKeeffe (@Mick_O_Keeffe) October 20, 2024
Canadians today have less freedom to decide what to buy, where to work, and whether to start a business than they did in the late 1970s, partly due to the size of government, which has grown since the pandemic, a new study suggests.
After maintaining an economic freedom score above 8 out of 10 since the late 1970s, Canada’s score reached its lowest level in four decades during the pandemic–a trend observed in many countries–at 7.86 points in 2020, according to the Fraser Institute’s economic freedom ranking. The score remained below 8 points until 2022, the last year of available data.
In 2020 they overthrew the United States government in secret,
In 2024 they’ve announced it.
Pennsylvania: won’t have vote totals on election night, co-conspirator Al Schmid
Arizona: won’t have vote totals on election night, co-conspirator Adrian Fontes
Michigan: won’t have… pic.twitter.com/tEZ6tSOoyL
— RealRobert (@Real_RobN) October 20, 2024
H/T Mauser
Internet chatter and Oklahoma arrest of alleged would-be IS attacker indicate terror group’s planning
After the FBI arrested an Afghan man in Oklahoma planning an election day shooting on behalf of the Islamic State, the terrorist organization re-entered what has become one of the most chaotic news cycles leading up to a November vote.
Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, of Oklahoma City admitted to investigators he and a co-conspirator expected to die as IS martyrs as they opened fire on crowds on election day, according to charging documents.
Warnings about IS-sponsored or -inspired attacks in the west have intensified in recent weeks.
Under Sharia law, if a woman is raped, it’s considered sex outside of marriage, and she is to be punished.
In most Sharia countries, women are stoned do death if they report they were raped. So the one in the video got ‘lucky’ for only being flogged.
— Dr. Maalouf (@realMaalouf) October 20, 2024
Gazan refugees arriving in Canada will receive free health care, language training, work and study permits, and other financial assistance, the Department of Immigration announced this week.
However, the department did not disclose the total cost of the program.
“Financial assistance will help Gazans meet their basic needs such as food, clothing, and housing as they arrive in communities across Canada and find jobs,” the department said in a statement. “More details about this program will be shared when available.”
Islamist terrorist groups in the UK could get a “boost” after the death of Hamas’s leader, a former head of MI6 has said.
Yahya Sinwar, the chief architect of the October 7 attack on Israel which murdered about 1,200 people in the south of the country, was killed by the IDF on Wednesday.
Sir John Sawers, who led the UK’s foreign intelligence agency between 2009 and 2014, told Sky News that “Islamic terrorism may actually get a further boost, if that’s the right word, from events in the Middle East”.
It’s getting harder to recall a time when the west did not have to worry about Muslim terrorists.
Susan Delacourt: Earlier this week, for non-column purposes, you and I were chatting about the fire hose of news in what was supposed to be the post-Thanksgiving “break.” Justin Trudeau is facing a caucus mutiny, a diplomatic blow-up with India and, let’s not forget, the all-day testimony before the foreign-interference inquiry. Assuming that nothing else explodes into the headlines next week, maybe we should start with this question: which one of those things is going to cause Trudeau the most headaches when the Commons returns from the so-called break?
What do Canadians — permanent residents and citizens — owe to Canada regarding the politics of the “old country” conducted here?
With the astonishing allegations of criminal activity, including extortion and homicide — “well over a dozen credible and imminent threats to life” — made against the government of India by the RCMP, long-standing issues in Canada’s Sikh community were brought into the spotlight. But diaspora politics is a bigger challenge than any one community, as this past week also highlighted in regard to foreign interference by China.
That will depend on where the “newcomers” hail from.
Canada is a case study illustrating the import of incompatible cultures that have no connection to our heritage and traditions is a recipe for disaster.
Do not vote for those who wish to replace you.
Defending yourself and your family’s best interests does not make you a racist.
The Democratic candidate’s boosters have telegraphed how they really think the Bret Baier interview went.
We all know campaigns will say anything if they think it’ll move a vote.
It’s why we have to ignore the overt messaging and look at the subtext.
To get inside a campaign’s thinking — whether it believes it’s winning or losing, whether it’s confident or in a full-blown panic — we have to listen for what’s not being said in the midst of all the insisting and the shouting.
Across the Arab world, U.S.-aligned governments find themselves in difficult positions as clerics and citizens praise Yahya Sinwar
For more than a year, Mustafa Muhammed, a displaced Palestinian, had sensed other Gazans living in tents there turning against Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader who orchestrated the Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Some people sleeping on the street or among the debris of their homes after waves of Israeli bombardments were growing openly scornful, he said.
That is, until Sinwar was killed—not deep in a tunnel, or fleeing Gaza, as many people suspected would be the case, butdying in an encounter with Israeli soldiers in the south of the strip.
Sinwar’s final moments were on display in a video released by Israel that apparently showed the Hamas chief critically injured, throwing an object at a surveillance drone shortly before his death. When Gazans saw the footage, many changed their minds, Muhammed said.
Elon Musk has told a tragic and hilarious story about his run-ins with the government when he was trying to get SpaceX in the air. It’s the kind of thing that explains why America’s greatness is slipping, and the world will suffer for it.
In her relatively short lifespan compared to the world’s other nations, America has generated an extraordinary number of new ideas or refinements on old ideas. This explosive creative energy has rescued humankind from the stagnation of the old world. And yes, the beauties of the old world as much as the next tourist, but the reality is that, for the most part, the operating theory was that because what they’d done worked, there was no need to change.
Here is something that might surprise you. Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader recently killed by an Israeli air strike, could see a positive side to the creation of the state of Israel that his organisation is committed to destroy.
A couple of days ago, The American Mind published a scary tale in which I pondered the question: what would America be like in the (admittedly unlikely) event that Kamala Harris should win the 2024 presidential election?
The brief answer: it wouldn’t be pretty.
OTTAWA—Justin Trudeau reinvented Canadian politics when he was elected prime minister at the age of 43 in 2015, with a brand built around his good looks and energy.
Almost a decade later, Trudeau is fighting for political survival. About two-thirds of the public disapproves of his performance. His Liberal Party is losing once-safe seats, and some members of his caucus say Trudeau needs to go. And the Trudeau brand is now stubbornly unpopular as Canadians say they are simply tired of him.
“He was youthful, sexy, and you know, Mr. Selfie,” said Andrew Perez, a strategic-communications adviser and Liberal Party supporter. “Now there’s a disdain for Trudeau, even among very progressive people.”
