They were arrested for posting during the riots – will it change anything?

For Tyler Kay and Jordan Parlour, justice for what they posted on social media has come fast and heavy.

Kay, 26, and Parlour, 28, have been sentenced to 38 months and 20 months in prison respectively for stirring up racial hatred online during the summer riots.

Charges in the aftermath of the disorder felt like a significant moment, in which people had to face real-life consequences for what they said and did online.

There was widespread recognition that false claims and online hate contributed to the violence and racism on British streets in August. In their wake, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said social media “carries responsibility” for tackling misinformation.

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Birth tourism families could reap ‘never ending chain’ of Canadian citizenship abroad: critics

Proposed changes to the Citizenship Act have prompted concerns of a “never-ending chain of citizenship” for Canadians choosing to live abroad, including for the children of so-called birth tourists.

Bill C-71 is a proposed amendment to the Act that intends to allow Canadian citizenship to be continuously passed down by citizens who were born abroad to their children who are also born abroad, as opposed to the current first-generation limit.

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Majority of all Canadians now disapprove of Trudeau — except Toronto Star, CBC and CTV reporters

Majority of all Canadians now disapprove of Trudeau — except hardcore Liberals: poll

A new Postmedia-Leger poll has found that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is popular only with an ever-dwindling coterie of hardcore Liberal voters, with every other voter demographic wanting him gone.

“While this partisan split is not unusual, it is particularly marked at the moment,” said Sébastien Dallaire, an executive president at Leger, in an email to National Post.

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October/September Surprises!

An October surprise is usually defined as the well-known (and more often left-wing) tactic of manufacturing or unloading a news story right before voting to surprise a rival without allowing them time sufficiently to respond or recover.

Think of the last-minute bombshell disclosure, five days before the 2000 election, that candidate George W. Bush had been cited for drunk driving over a quarter-century earlier. That surprise may have cost Bush the popular vote that year.

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Oh No! Susan Delacourt Is Mad At Pierre Poilievre!

Pierre Poilievre acts as if there’s power in being unlikeable. It’s not a good look

Conservatives appear to be trying everything this fall to turn their poll lead into eventual election victory, with the exception of one force in politics — likeability.

Nothing in Pierre Poilievre’s repertoire in the Commons the past two weeks has been aimed at making people like him, beyond those who already do. He insults, he taunts, he name-calls, he sneers — all the things that parents tell their children not to do if they want to make and keep friends.


Mean and nasty is the default setting for Conservatives.

Delacourt is upset that there were repercussions for the “journalists” who literally spread a lie about Poilievre. Imagine if the same happened to Justin or Jagmeet?

More “Journalists”

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Trudeau gov’t dragging its feet on NORAD modernization

Documents reveal why Trudeau government needs to speed up NORAD modernization, expert says

OTTAWA—The federal government is off to a slow start on its 20-year plan to improve Canada’s contribution to the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) that it shares with the United States, new documents show.

Tabled in Parliament last week in response to a written question from Conservative MP Bob Zimmer, the documents detail how much money was spent over the first two years of the government’s $38.6-billion “NORAD modernization” plan. As of June this year, the government had spent $69.7 million on the initiative, more than half of which was used for expanding internal government services to start shepherding through the promised projects, which include new radar and communications systems, the documents show.

Trudeau would weaken the ability of NORAD to track Santa.

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China PooCano!

Gross video shows ‘poo-cano’ blowing 33 feet in air, covering pedestrians and cars: ‘I’m drenched in poo’

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Canadians are not buying the ‘climate change’ narrative: government poll

Government polling reveals that most Canadians are not alarmed over “climate change” and will continue to eat meat.

According to in-house Privy Council research obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter, over one third of Canadians think “climate change” could benefit Canada while almost half believe that “adapting to the impacts of climate change is cheaper than preventing it.”

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France charges ISIS bride with crimes including genocide

Brides of Satan

The French anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office on Tuesday opened its first-ever genocide case against a French citizen, a jihadist it has charged with enslaving and torturing a Yazidi teenager.

Sonia Mejri, 35, is suspected of having “inflicted acute mental suffering,” “deprivation of food and water” and physical violence on a Yazidi woman who had been kidnapped at the age of 16 and raped by Mejri’s husband — a leader within ISIS — in Syria.

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