When even Prime Minister Justin Trudeau thinks your Pride event is too aggressively weird and disruptive, it’s probably time to reconsider. Instead, Ottawa’s Capital Pride doubled down on its berserk anti-Israeli views, because ideas have consequences and bad ideas have terrible ones.
It’s a win for Trudeau IMHO.
He gets to pretend he supports Israel but in fact he’s really appeasing the Muslims he covets who don’t approve of him prancing about at Pride Parades.
BERLIN (AP) — Two men accused of planning an attack in Sweden for an affiliate of the Islamic State group in response to the burning of copies of the Quran have been charged in Germany, where they were arrested earlier this year, prosecutors said Wednesday.
The two Afghan citizens, identified only as Ibrahim M.G. and Ramin N. in line with German privacy rules, were charged with conspiring to commit a crime and violating export laws. Ibrahim M.G. was charged with membership in a terrorist organization and Ramin N. with supporting one.
In the span of just over a year, immigration went from a political non-starter to regular headline news. Now, just about everybody–including the federal Liberals–agrees immigration simply can’t continue as is. Unfortunately, “can’t continue as is” is manifesting more as a rebranding exercise than a substantial policy overhaul.
In 2022, the federal government dramatically expanded the low-wage Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) stream, which predictably resulted in exploitative working conditions, surging youth unemployment, and stagnant wage growth. The Wild Westification of the program has been bad for Canadians and newcomers alike.
In the face of right-wing criticism, Joe Biden’s pro-Israel backers said they aren’t concerned after he said pro-Palestinian protesters “have a point” in his speech at the Democratic National Convention.
The remark, made in the middle of Biden’s address Monday night, has become fodder for attacks on the president. A social media account associated with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is sharing the clip, and other accounts on X are posting Biden’s quote above videos of protesters who declare support for Hamas or call for Israel’s destruction.
You’re poorer than you think.
That’s the message from a Statistics Canada report that looked at the impact of inflation on after-tax family income. The report, issued Monday, showed that median after-tax family income in 2022 rose by 2.5% to $60,800.
The bad news is inflation wiped out that out, meaning families were worse off.
Romanian police have searched the houses of controversial influencer Andrew Tate as part of an investigation into new allegations against him.
The internet personality was already awaiting trial for rape and human trafficking, but could potentially now face additional charges of sex with, and trafficking in, underage persons, as well as money-laundering and attempting to influence witnesses, prosecutors say.
Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan, who have a massive following on social media, have denied all previous charges against them.
Liberals go hog wild on immigration, hoping to secure victory in 2029 and beyond
You would think a government that’s down 20 points might want to telegraph an aura of sanity, rather than spend its days finding new ways to eviscerate an immigration policy that has served Canada well since Lester Pearson led the Liberal party.
In a vacuum, some of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s changes might seem justified: whether it be the streamlined $7 electronic visas, or broadening refugee claims beyond the U.N.’s definition of those facing “persecution” to include accumulated “intersectional” experiences.
Why this sounds like the Great Replacement!
The Star is now publishing content on immigration that would have had them calling you a racist 1 or 2 years ago.
Shooting guns in weddings is very common in the Arab world.
It doesn't always end well…
(especially when you give the gun to a toddler) pic.twitter.com/KS9I8bSyP2— Hamas Atrocities (@HamasAtrocities) August 21, 2024
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been mocked as “cringe” and “bizarre” after she was accused of putting on a fake new accent during her fiery Democratic National Convention speech.
The lefty congresswoman, 34, was ripped on social media in the wake of her rousing, minutes-long address to delegates in Chicago on Monday night — with many asking, “What accent is AOC using here?”
Where did @AOC Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez get the new accent during her screamfest? #Democrats scream speeches because they're not saying anything important so they don't want you to understand. Occasional Cortex is no different. Remember when she cost her district all those jobs? https://t.co/RyXSHkoFzB
— Kira (@KiraWal13810301) August 20, 2024
The U.S. military has made its largest move so far in a novel national-security effort to fund mining initiatives in Canada.
The Pentagon on Tuesday announced a $20 million US grant to create a cobalt refinery in northern Ontario’s Temiskaming Shores. The money will go to the Toronto-based Electra Battery Materials Corporation; the government of Canada is adding $3.6 million US ($4.9 million Cdn) of its own to the project.
Do they not know the US Military is armed?
A rioter who shouted in a police dog’s face has been sent to prison for 20 months.
Bradley McCarthy, 34, joined an anti-immigration march and was involved in clashes with counter-protesters and police in Bristol.
McCarthy, who was heard to have a “stable family life” was one of more than 490 people to be charged in connection to the riots that spread across the country earlier this month.
A Toronto arbitrator ruled a Toronto hospital must compensate 40 healthcare workers who were fired “with cause” for refusing the COVID-19 injection and 42 who were suspended.
The proceedings covered the 82 personal grievances as well as a policy grievance.
Few were privy to the battle plans being hatched in the heart of the Ukrainian government for the largest foreign invasion on Russian soil since the Second World War.
At 3am on Tuesday, August 6, Ukrainian soldiers crossed the border into Russia in a highly co-ordinated assault that regained the battlefield initiative from Moscow.
The invasion of the Kursk region by several thousand of Kyiv’s troops may have changed the narrative of a slow, grinding attritional war in the east of the country — although it remains uncertain how much it could ultimately change the course of the conflict.
Mark Milke, president and founder of the Aristotle Foundation, says they decided to undertake the study partly to educate that “prejudice” and “actual institutional racism” are two different concepts and shouldn’t be conflated.
… He adds that another motivation for the study was to point out that the modern “so-called ‘anti-racism’ movement is not that.”
“It is instead about trying to address past wrongs with new, additional wrongs. That is anti-individual and illiberal,” he said.
