For a few weeks in June, concerns ran high on Parliament Hill about unnamed MPs or senators possibly being compromised, perhaps even consciously, by foreign states — fears raised by a startling but opaque report by the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians.
“We cannot and must not remain indifferent in light of such a revelation,” Bloc Quebecois MP Rene Villemure said.
A moustached man refused to leave a nightclub’s female lavatory because he “identifies as a woman”.
Connie Shaw, 20, was attending a club night for students at the Warehouse in Leeds, West Yorks, on Monday when she confronted the man in the women’s lavatory.
She was kicked out of the New Democrat caucus at Queen’s Park for insubordination last fall, but the party has left the door open for Hamilton Centre MPP Sarah Jama to be its candidate in next provincial election.
NDP Leader Marit Stiles confirmed Wednesday that the party’s executive is preparing an analysis on “electoral implications” involving Jama, who has been sitting as an Independent and has stated publicly she plans to seek re-election as one.
The Speaker of the US House Mike Johnson has demanded that Ukraine fire its ambassador to Washington, as a feud between the Republican Party and Volodymyr Zelensky escalates.
Johnson’s intervention comes after President Zelensky visited an arms factory in Scranton, Pennsylvania – the hometown of President Joe Biden in a key swing state – with several top Democrats.
In a public letter, the top Republican said the visit was “designed to help Democrats” and claimed it amounted to “election interference”.
Parliament is back in session, with fireworks in the Commons over the New Democratic Party’s continued support for the Trudeau government. But instead of focusing on (often-contrived) political drama, the media would better serve Canadians if it critically evaluated government policy, with a keen eye on government finances and taxpayer money.
After reading the tea leaves, the Harris-Walz campaign discovered that it was a problem that Kamala wasn’t doing interviews, and so they basically decided to put her out there and hope for the best.
They are importing voters https://t.co/catIutSCrU
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 26, 2024
NATO says it wants its members to develop national plans to bolster the capacity of their individual defence industry sectors, a concept Canada has struggled with — or avoided outright — for decades.
At the NATO leaders summit in Washington in July, alliance members agreed to come up with strategies to boost their domestic defence materiel sectors, and to share those strategies with each other. Almost entirely overshadowed at the time by debates about members’ defence spending and support for Ukraine, the new policy got little attention.
Signing on to the racist DEI scam is not a good look B'nai Brith – "Adopting the policy, B’nai Brith contends, would demonstrate schools’ “commitment to combating antisemitism as both a form of prejudice and a legacy of colonial oppression.” https://t.co/dhmEjrIAFD
— Fancypants Maloney (@fancypants_s) September 26, 2024
“Antisemitism is a form of colonial oppression historically used to marginalize and oppress Jewish people.” AND “Antisemitism continues to impact Jewish communities as a legacy of colonialism.”
Someone needs to ask B’nai Brith who they consider to be the Apex Oppressors in Canada given they have now declared themselves part of the DEI victimhood fellowship. It can’t be the Muslims they’re fellowship brethren. Maybe the Islamists have internalized the racism and antisemitism of the oppressor class! Yea that’s the ticket!
Former student volunteer at a Europe Migrant Crisis-era refugee centre relates how the reality on the ground was carefully stage managed for the cameras and how the scales fell from her eyes in 2015.
The Liberal party and I have always been close. Inseparable, really. At age 21 in 1968, and freshly eligible to vote, I cast my first ballot for one Pierre Elliott Trudeau, new Liberal leader and MP for Mount Royal. It was immensely satisfying.
The night before, I’d been on Sherbrooke Street as the Jean-Baptiste parade grew violent and Trudeau, who was there, stood defiantly as separatist hurled missiles his way. Throughout the campaign, I’d worn my Trudeau button proudly, joining enthralled crowds at appearances.
This woman likely needs detox.
Chances are we will never know a small fraction of the story behind P. Diddy’s arrest.
While the allegations sound awful, and I hope his victims get a measure of justice for the crimes alleged, I am not a celebrity culture guy, and Diddy interests me not at all. It may be impossible to avoid news when a celebrity is involved, but my life would be improved if I never heard another word about him.
“For two decades Diddy was the Democrats’ biggest black celebrity influencer.”
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) September 18, 2024
Terabytes of video. The stuff nightmares are made of.
h/t patthedog
With a federal election that could come any day now, and the Liberal government’s public favour continually waning, some, shall we say, unorthodox media practices appear to be afoot, particularly in terms of how Pierre Poilievre is being presented to Canadian viewers. The Conservatives are always complaining about progressive media bias. This is what they mean.
h/t DS
Two petrified Met Police officers struggle to arrest one man and are forced to rely on a member of the public to do their job for them.
It’s just depressing seeing how weak our police force is. pic.twitter.com/VXpVxwRgPp
— Turning Point UK (@TPointUK) September 26, 2024
An inexperienced Secret Service agent was stuck on a drone helpline during the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a rally, a Senate investigation has found.
Multiple Secret Service failures during the July rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, were “foreseeable” and “preventable”, according to the bipartisan report released on Wednesday.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee inquiry found multiple failures on almost every level, including in planning, communications, security and allocation of resources.
Canadian politics are getting fiery.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the young scion of a Liberal family who swept the global political scene off its feet a decade ago, is now a 52-year-old leader with approval ratings worse than President Biden’s.
He is rapidly losing ground to the Conservative Party’s leader, Pierre Poilievre, who, despite having vague policy plans, has deployed punchy sloganeering that has kept Mr. Trudeau on the ropes.
Another one from the Katie Telford rolodex.
