The summer box office season ended up being down 11 percent over 2023’s summer, and let’s not forget that 2023’s summer box office wasn’t all that hot.
The 2024 summer season (defined as May’s first weekend through Labor Day) saw a domestic box office gross of $3.6 billion. That is down 11 percent from 2023 and only a smidge higher (six percent) than 2022’s $3.39 billion summer box office gross.
The government’s national security review agency has dismissed a complaint alleging the RCMP entrapped a Canadian imprisoned in the United States for plotting ISIS attacks.
The National Security and Intelligence Review Agency found the RCMP had conducted a “good faith investigation” into Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy, a Toronto-area resident.
Berlin Police Remove Advice to “Sing” While Being Knife Attacked After Public Backlash
h/t patthedog & KT
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is terminating the supply-and-confidence agreement his party made with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government.
The party is making the announcement in a video being posted on social media Wednesday afternoon. The deal was scheduled to run until June 2025.
“Justin Trudeau has proven again and again he will always cave to corporate greed. The Liberals have let people down. They don’t deserve another chance from Canadians,” Singh said in the video, a transcript of which was obtained by CBC News
The deal is done.
The Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to stop the Conservatives and their plans to cut. But the NDP can.
Big corporations and CEOs have had their governments. It’s the people’s time. pic.twitter.com/BsE9zT0CwF
— Jagmeet Singh (@theJagmeetSingh) September 4, 2024
h/t Andycanuck
NB – Jagmeet’s NDP will still have to vote Justin out, that doesn’t have to happen just because they ended the formal agreement.
The US has charged Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and several other prominent figures in the Palestinian group in connection with its deadly attack in Israel on 7 October last year.
The justice department said it was indicting six Hamas members with seven charges, including the murder of dozens of US citizens, conspiracy to finance terrorism and use of weapons of mass destruction.
The criminal complaint covers decades of alleged attacks by Hamas, as well as last October’s unprecedented assault.
It is the first step by US law enforcement to hold accountable the ringleaders of that attack, but has been seen by analysts as partly symbolic, not least because some of those named in the indictment are already dead.
With nine weeks to go before the antique calendrical phenomenon of Election Day, the campaign is now being conducted between an elusive incumbent in constant motion and a durable opponent that appears to be immovable with a slight lead.
The one soft interview to which Vice President Harris submitted ignores a number of the issues uppermost in the mind of the voters and opened up a sizable credibility gap on the question of the vice president’s views on fracking, and in a range of other areas designed to cover off the colossal failures of the Biden-Harris administration over inflation, reduced disposable income, and the invasion of over 10 million illegal immigrants.
Canada-based activist and former PFLP official Khaled Barakat said in an August 19, 2024 broadcast on Al-Manar TV (Hizbullah-Lebanon) that revoking the charitable status of the Jewish National Fund is an “important victory,” but is “not enough,” it should be criminalized.
Canada-Based Activist and Former PFLP Official Khaled Barakat on Hizbullah TV: Revoking the Charitable Status of the Jewish National Fund Is an Important Victory for the Resistance following October 7, But It’s Not Enough – JNF Should Be Criminalized @JNFUSA @JNFca pic.twitter.com/236eq16npN
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) September 1, 2024
“Canada based” – The faceless unaccountable bureaucrats and our Canada hating pols should be in shackles for inviting mohammedan settlers.
Greta Thunberg was just arrested for blocking the entrance to a Danish university cooperating with an Israeli university.
Part of the cooperation is about developing new Green tech.
Greta hates Israel more than she cares about the climate. pic.twitter.com/SLoQdoauvd
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) September 4, 2024
Could anyone have imagined twenty years ago or even in the darkest days of the Obama administration that Islamic terrorists would feel free to rampage across the streets of Manhattan waving terrorist flags?
Two arrested as dozens of Hamas-cheering anti-Israel protesters descend on Columbia in chaotic start to new school year
NEW: John McCain’s son, Jimmy, says he is so disgusted that Trump would turn Arlington into a "campaign backdrop" that he is voting for Kamala.
Ironically, in 1999, John McCain himself used Arlington National Cemetery as a "campaign backdrop."
In a political ad,… pic.twitter.com/yxrQheAW1x
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 4, 2024
Trudeau should step down to prevent Poilievre from winning election: LGBTQ+ activists
LGBTQ+ activists say Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s pledge to remain the Liberal leader through to the next election, despite dwindling public support, is putting them at risk.
Queer advocates say a Conservative government led by Pierre Poilievre would be dangerous for the LGBTQ+ community, and some are calling on Trudeau to step aside to give the Liberals a better chance at winning the next election — which must happen by Oct. 20, 2025.
Sarah Worthman, executive director of the Newfoundland and Labrador Queer Research Initiative, says she’s seriously concerned about the potential harm of a Conservative government for LGBTQ+ Canadians.
You can’t take people like this seriously, they have a weird need to justify themselves by inventing drama.
Islamists in the UK saying they are disgusted by having to watch women laugh in public on the streets pic.twitter.com/REVcoU6crh
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) September 3, 2024
Instead of having dozens of Secret Service agents on his detail for the July 13 rally, Trump was mostly guarded by Homeland Security agents who only received online webinar training before the event, Hawley (R-Mo.) said in an interview on “Jesse Watters Primetime” Tuesday evening.
“A two-hour, online webinar. And I’m told that half the time, the sounds to the webinar didn’t even work,” Hawley claimed.
This was allowed to “happen.”
Today’s Liberal party energy policies are “absolutely mad, insane” and “a recipe for disaster,” and those advocating them have “no business in public policy,” says former Liberal MP Dan McTeague.
Today, McTeague is President of Canadians for Affordable Energy, a group originally set up by New Brunswick West MP John Williamson, to “challenge governments in Canada to prioritize affordable energy when legislating and regulating environmental and energy policies.”
