A robot artist is set to make history as the first to have a work put up for sale by a major auction house, with the portrait of Alan Turing expected to fetch up to £150,000 (€180,000, $196,000), organizers announced on Wednesday.
Author: Blazingcatfur
Dissatisfied Liberal MPs plan to ask PM Trudeau to step aside at next caucus meeting
Liberal MPs who have spent the last 10 days organizing to formally ask Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step aside from the leadership of the Liberal Party plan to plead their case directly to him at next Wednesday’s caucus.
Multiple sources familiar with the plan told CTV News the overarching objective is to be direct with the prime minister and keep the discussions private. Some MPs will be designated in advance, based on their comfort level speaking on the issue, to reflect the group’s sentiment that Trudeau should step aside for the good of the party in the next federal election.
Americans’ Trust in Media Remains at record Low
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans continue to register record-low trust in the mass media, with 31% expressing a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence in the media to report the news “fully, accurately and fairly,” similar to last year’s 32%. Americans’ trust in the media — such as newspapers, television and radio — first fell to 32% in 2016 and did so again last year.
For the third consecutive year, more U.S. adults have no trust at all in the media (36%) than trust it a great deal or fair amount. Another 33% of Americans express “not very much” confidence.
h/t DS
Pro-LGBT Canadian school counselor charged with sex crimes against a minor
A leading female gender ideology activist, who also worked as a school counsellor, has been charged with grievous sexual offenses involving a minor.
The woman, who has been identified through court documents as 41-year-old Bethany Jean Toombs, is now facing charges from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Major Crimes Unit from the province of Prince Edward Island.
Poilievre Responds: Release The Names!
Release the names. pic.twitter.com/lbuBZtpC6f
— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) October 16, 2024
When Trump Did This, You Knew This Bloomberg Editor Was Cooked
Suppose you Googled Donald Trump’s discussion with Bloomberg’s John Micklethwait at the Economic Club of Chicago today. In that case, you’ll see that everyone in the opposition press thought he crumbled at the forum. Kamala Harris was invited, but she declined, likely because she lacks the intelligence to engage in an economic discussion. We’re at a point where you know to think the opposite of whatever the establishment press writes about Donald Trump.
Jamie Sarkonak: Education activists need to leave the kids alone
Some Ontario schools use a little program called Strong Start to help kids learn to read. For years, it’s done so by using games: its “Three Bears Alphabet” board game centres around a mother bear, a father bear and a child bear; its “Treasure Hunt” game takes place on a sandy beach with trading ships off the coast. And the “Race to the Castle” game has children move along the board doing just that.
New York Times Defends Article That Accuses the IDF of Shooting Children in the Head After Experts Refute the Evidence
The New York Times is defending an opinion essay published last week that claims to show evidence of Palestinian children having been shot in the head by Israel’s Defense Forces after experts cast doubt on the credibility of the analysis.
“Times Opinion rigorously edited this guest essay before publication, verifying the accounts and imagery through supporting photographic and video evidence and file metadata,” the editor of Times Opinion, Kathleen Kingsbury, stated on Tuesday. “We also vetted the doctors and nurses’ credentials, including that they had traveled to and worked in Gaza as claimed.”
Busted solar panels are an early example of a looming problem
In a sprawling industrial building in Brooks, Alta., about two hours east of Calgary, is a former pheasant hatchery that’s now stacked waist-high with thousands of dusty, damaged solar panels.
Dan Carrocci, who’s worked in renewable energy construction for more than a decade, has long been troubled by the lack of end-of-life options for this infrastructure and is stockpiling the old panels in hopes of developing a commercially viable means of recycling them.
I’m surprised CBC ran this.
Fake ‘Neo-Nazi MAGA Supporters’ Try to Crash Trump Boat Parade, Taste Epic Humiliation
You hear it from the Dems and the corrupt media all the time: MAGA white supremacists are out there daily, like boogeymen, waiting in the shadows to commit unspeakable violence on women, minorities, perhaps your pets—anything you can think of. Yet it was leftists who in 2020 rioted across the country and destroyed at least a billion dollars in property and caused the deaths of at least 25 Americans.
Some Democrat bad actors put Nazi flags on their boat and tried to join a Trump boat rally yesterday. Didn’t go as planned.
This may be the most satisfying video you’ll see today. pic.twitter.com/LxhqLoqd7X
— UltraSuperDuperMAGA (MLK Parody) (@super_ultraMAGA) October 14, 2024
Trudeau tells inquiry some Conservative parliamentarians are involved in foreign interference
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has the names of Conservative parliamentarians who are involved in foreign interference.
In explosive testimony before the foreign interference inquiry today, Trudeau said he has instructed the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) to warn Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and protect the party’s integrity.
It is never wise to trust a word Trudeau says especially given he is desperate however it should not come as a surprise that all our mainstream parties have been infiltrated by spies.
“Multicult” has turned Canada into a nation of 5th Columns.
Arizona Voters Registered with ‘Residence‘ as Strip Club, Abortion Clinic
At least hundreds of Arizona voters have commercial businesses listed as their residence on their voter registration forms, the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) reveals. Those businesses include an abortion clinic, a strip club, a high school, and the Arizona Cardinals Training Facility.
h/t DS
From swastikas to shootings, Israel releases detailed report on Canadian antisemitism
In a rare move, the Israeli government has released a detailed report singling out Canada as a hotbed of antisemitism since the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel.
Published by the Israeli Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism on Monday, the paper raises the alarm about a record-breaking level of Canadian antisemitism. Since the October 7 terrorist attacks, the report notes, antisemitism in Canada has increased by 670 per cent, with the targeting of Jewish places of worship, community centres and day schools. On Saturday morning, the Bais Chaya Mushka Elementary School, a Toronto Jewish girls’ day school, was shot at for the second time.
This is yet another Trudeau problem and is not a reflection on Canadians. Trudeau should be extradited and tried for harboring Sikh and Muslim terrorists.
I think it’s time Justin lectured us on our Islamophobia.
@fancypants_s https://t.co/NXMa5wpTDw
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) October 16, 2024
The electric car backlash could be about to take its biggest scalp yet
You certainly have to admire the breathtaking speed at which Kamala Harris seems to change her positions. She thought Joe Biden was in great shape for a second term until suddenly he wasn’t. She was vehemently opposed to fracking, and then suddenly she was all in favour of it. And now, in the kind of screeching U-turn you could only execute in a top of the range, big engine sports car, she doesn’t want to tell people what cars to drive.
And like on all the other occasions, it’s unlikely to convince anyone. If you fear that a Harris presidency will witness the final demise of the internal combustion engine, it’s not time to relax yet.
The Verdict Is In: Non-Merit Based Hiring Has Diminished Quality at Canadian Universities
The Times Higher Education, widely regarded as among the world’s leading journals for reporting on higher education in the UK and worldwide, has released its yearly university rankings. Alarmingly, Canadian universities are experiencing a significant decline in their rankings. Over 40 percent of Canadian universities have dropped from their previous year’s positions, a trend that should urgently concern us all.
Phil Baty, the Times Higher Education chief global affairs officer, noted: “Canada has some of the world’s very best universities, with three in the top 50 and eight in the top 200. However, the continued fall of a significant number of Canadian universities is a cause for concern.”