Addictions Minister Ya’ara Saks is pushing back against claims that the decriminalization of cocaine and opioids in BC is responsible for a recent surge in overdose deaths.
Blacklock’s Reporter says in a briefing note, her office stated it is “inaccurate to claim” that the policy change is the cause of the 16.5% increase in overdose fatalities reported during the decriminalization period.
OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says the median family after-tax income in 2022 fell compared with 2021, after adjusted for inflation, with young people being the hardest hit.
The agency says the median family after-tax income of Canadians was $60,800 in 2022, up 2.5 per cent from 2021.
But after adjusting for an annual rate of inflation of 6.8 per cent, the figure was down four per cent from the previous year.
House Republicans have concluded their impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden after finding that the president engaged in “impeachable conduct” to further his family’s years-long influence-peddling campaign, which racked up more than $27 million from foreign sources made to believe they could influence the operations of American government through their access to the Biden family.
Right-of-center groups and individuals that don’t usually agree on much have been delivering the same warning to former President Donald Trump: Shut up about Vice President Kamala Harris’ race and stick to attacking her on policy.
Yet they cannot hide what everyone knows to be true: Harris is the ultimate DEI candidate. Candidate Joe Biden chose her as his running mate in 2020 because she is a black woman, and she ascended to the apex of national politics due to her race and sex.
Just before Donald Trump held a rally in Doral, Fla., on July 9, Secret Service officials delivered his campaign a message: The former president and his advisers would notice additional security because the U.S. government had credible intelligence of threats against him.
“The bad guys are at it again,” an adviser said, describing the Secret Service’s message.
If you leave the media bubble with its insistence that Kamala is brilliant and joyful and, instead, look at Kamala objectively, it’s clear that something is very wrong there. Most of us have assumed that she’s an ambitious dim-bulb who’s been stage-managed into a situation beyond her minimal capabilities and that she responds with strange word salads. However, there are now reports that Kamala’s real problem is that she’s an uncontrolled alcoholic who is showing up drunk at a lot of events. Is this true? I have no idea, but it’s certainly a reasonable explanation for what we’re seeing.
She’s drunk.
Many of the Arab journalists reporting on Israel and Gaza for the mainstream Western media, as well as for the Qatari propaganda outlet Al Jazeera, turn out to be longtime supporters of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. These are the people on whom many in the gullible West have been relying for information, unaware of these journalists’ long associations with terror groups. Now one of their number, Bisan Owda, who works for Al Jazeera, and who turns out to have been for a long time a PFLP enthusiast, has been nominated for an Emmy in the category of “hard news feature story.” Robert Spencer wrote about this briefly here, and more on this scandalous state of affairs can be found here: “How Terrorist-State Propaganda Became the Norm for U.S. Audiences,” by Seth Mandel, Commentary, August 8, 2024 …
Months before riots erupted in the UK, Dublin was rocked by its worst street violence in decades. On 23 November 2023, more than 60 officers were assaulted, buses and a tram were destroyed, and over a dozen shops were looted or vandalised when an anti-immigration protest turned into a riot. Earlier that day, a man stabbed three children and a care assistant at a Dublin primary school. He was rumoured to be an illegal migrant. Since then, anger over Ireland’s migration crisis has only grown. Asylum applications rose fivefold between 2019 and 2023, with tens of thousands of newcomers now arriving each year, placing pressure on already strained services and adding to an already chronic housing shortage. Asylum hotels in deprived and rural areas have become targets of both peaceful protests and, despicably, arson attacks.
Snow White remake star Rachel Zegler has triggered another storm of controversy while promoting the long-delayed Disney film.
The 23-year-old, who has repeatedly sparked anger with her woke views, waded into the Israel-Palestine conflict on X while promoting the blockbuster movie, despite branding experts warning that such antics could trigger a boycott.
The New Jersey native took to X on August 12 – two days after posting the trailer – to reply to her own post by saying: ‘And always remember, free Palestine.’
This is yet another addition to my “How does this creep have a career?” list.
As I write these words, June 10 was not too long ago, but being before the European, British, and French elections, in some ways it feels like an eternity ago. June 10 is White Rose Day, the day on which, in 1688, the de jure King James III and VIII of England, Scotland, and Ireland was born. It precipitated the overthrow of his father in the so-called Glorious Revolution, the ongoing subjection of the British Monarchy to the political factions dominating Parliament, and the Jacobite uprisings so dear to song and story. In commemoration of the day, this writer had lunch with several other like-minded folk.
There will be a place in Canada’s history books for the divisive and dramatic blockade at Coutts, a busy border crossing between Alberta and Montana that saw a clamorous protest against COVID-19 health measures in 2022.
Although it stretched just 18 days, its repercussions continue in Canada’s courts, politics, national security and policing.
Some news organizations have begun to bare their teeth and their bias in the fight to retain federal subsidy dollars.
In doing so, they are displaying a willingness to unashamedly defend Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government, in order to preserve the funding regime it established for media unable to adapt to the digital age.
Liberal-appointed Sen. Charles Adler in a radio broadcast once called Indigenous people uncivilized “boneheads” who should “get a job.”
Adler’s remarks on Radio CJOB Winnipeg were so vulgar they prompted a formal complaint by the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, records obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter show.
Pierre Poilievre just might be the only truly conservative politician left in the West, certainly among those leading or about to lead governments. Unlike his counterparts elsewhere, who are laser focused only on “anti-wokeness,” he has been able to marry a rejection of liberal excess with free market economics, which other conservatives have abandoned.
If he wins next year’s election and lives up to even a quarter of his promise, it will be a relief after a near decade of arguably the most obnoxiously progressive government in the world.
