OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is headed to Africa as her government assembles a long-delayed plan on how to engage with the continent.
Joly is heading to Ivory Coast today before visiting South Africa for two days starting Wednesday.
Her office says the trip to Ivory Coast is aimed at exploring shared counterterrorism priorities and affirming Canada’s ties with both English- and French-speaking countries.
A handful of delegates is threatening to pierce the Democratic Party’s kumbaya for Kamala as its national convention kicks off in Chicago today.
These potential spoilers are known as the Uncommitted Movement, representing voters who deliberately declined to back Joe Biden when he was seeking a second term in the primaries. The movement has drawn delegates from three states—Michigan, Minnesota, and Hawaii—where they voted “uncommitted” in their state primaries this spring. The Uncommitteds argued that voters should use their leverage to change Biden’s policy of supporting Israel’s war in Gaza, and at the DNC this week, they say they are planning to agitate for a “ceasefire, anti-war, pro-peace narrative.”
WTF?
This is tomorrow morning's schedule at the DNC.
Constituents will be separated by race.
Democrats love segregation. pic.twitter.com/JukvRqHCYq
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 18, 2024
h/t Mauser
Every year at the Fraser Institute, we calculate the total tax bill — which includes income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, fuel taxes, etc. — for the average Canadian family. This year we found the average family paid 43.0 per cent of its annual income in taxes in 2023. That is more than it spent on basic necessities such as food, clothing and housing combined, and significantly higher than the 33.5 per cent it paid in 1961.
Put differently, the average family’s tax bill has increased 2,705 per cent since 1961 — or 180.3 per cent after adjusting for inflation.
The Fraser Institute in The Star? Sign of the End Times!
h/t DS
The attack on the Nord Stream pipelines was shocking, the damage enormous, and the geopolitical consequences are still keenly felt almost two years after the attack. The 1,200-kilometer (746-mile) Nord Stream 1 served as the key delivery system between Russian energy giants and their buyers in Germany, with Berlin braving the ire of its allies to construct another undersea delivery system, Nord Stream 2, which would run mostly parallel to the first one and carry another 55 billion cubic meters (1.942 trillion cubic feet) of gas per year.
It was not to be. A series of underwater blasts on September 26, 2022, crippled the pipelines, which were already out of action due to tensions between Berlin and Moscow provoked by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Nearly two years later, no suspects have been arrested, and it is not fully clear who was behind the sabotage.
One of Doug Ford’s first acts as premier of Ontario, just days after taking office in 2018, was cancelling more than 750 renewable energy projects, including a large wind farm that was already partially built.
Fast forward to today, and Ford’s Progressive Conservative government is poised to oversee the biggest expansion of green energy that the province has seen in nearly a decade.
Ontario has laid out plans to procure an additional 5,000 megawatts of renewable energy by 2034. By comparison: the capacity of all wind power projects currently installed across the province totals about 4,900 megawatts.
Palms must be greased.
❌❌ More incredible developments on the tragic "Twins of Gaza" one of the biggest story in the media and socials this week.
This time, "follow the money" and discoveries behind their donation page and a suspicious NGO called "Heal," founded by a former president of a… pic.twitter.com/SPdX3o3pCb
— Ouriel 🇮🇱 (@OurielOhayon) August 19, 2024
h/t Patti Jo
If the message of this week’s Democratic National Convention is “We’re going to make America more like Chicago” then run for the hills.
After nearly 100 years of Democratic rule, the Windy City is a basket case. Soaring crime, high taxes, crippling debt, crumbling infrastructure, and a declining population are just some of the miseries inflicted on its citizens.
Updated GPS data reveals that over 88,000 foreign and domestic Antifa members are in Chicago to protest the DNC—61,000 foreign and over 27,000 domestic.
Some of these Antifa members have been linked to past riots and have also accessed keycard-required FBI/DOJ parking garages.… pic.twitter.com/fGx3YPBA7s
— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) August 19, 2024
Protest leadership has no idea what to do now that there's no street left. They're holding a sign and we're all exchanging potluck recipes and trust fund dividends.
We might hand out participation trophies soon to the furries with the most genders. pic.twitter.com/JPghBr89wy
— Tony Kinnett (@TheTonus) August 19, 2024
h/t Patti Jo
I’m so Racist that I’d prefer this guy be Prime Minister..
Take a Listen ! He is spot on 👍🏻 pic.twitter.com/ikqK8yZNeu
— WeGotitBack 🏴🇬🇧🇺🇸 (@NotFarLeftAtAll) August 12, 2024
h/t Mauser
Quebec and Ontario organized crime members are travelling to Western Canada to steal valuable vehicles and ship them to Montreal for illicit export sales, a new federal intelligence report says.
“Once generally regarded as a regional issue affecting mainly Ontario and Quebec, vehicle theft has expanded to Western Canada, with Alberta’s number of vehicle thefts now nearing that of Quebec’s, despite an approximately 45% lower population base,” says a report by the Criminal Intelligence Service Canada (CISC), an RCMP-led national criminal intelligence agency.
🚨 JOE BIDEN HAS COMMITTED IMPEACHABLE OFFENSES🚨
Today, we are releasing our report on the impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden, finding he committed impeachable offenses.
The evidence produced by our impeachment inquiry is the strongest case for impeachment of a sitting… pic.twitter.com/4PHYqjqEnO
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) August 19, 2024
h/t Mauser
Officers from five different forces were brought in to police an anti-immigration protest that fizzled out within three hours.
Anti-immigration protesters congregated at 11am outside Bournemouth town hall on Sunday but were met with activists from Stand Up to Racism on the other side of the road in Central Gardens with drums and loudspeakers.
But the stand-off faded into lone echoes of “stop the boats” from the crowd of anti-immigration protesters, who were drastically outnumbered by counter-protesters.
In the past nine years, perhaps no policy has proven to be as harmful for the Canadian society and its economy than the Trudeau government’s immigration policy.
Conventional wisdom suggests that governments defeat themselves. There is a shelf life of every administration because sooner or later the accumulative negatives outweigh the positives and the populous becomes agitated seeing the same faces providing the same excuses. American author Mark Twain summed up this phenomenon rather colourfully when he observed, “Politicians are like diapers, they need to be changed often, and for the same reasons.”
The far-right agitator’s influence is surging in the wake of the Southport stabbings, but an inquiry into his web of companies may result in a bill for millions
“I f***kin’ need help.” Tommy Robinson was frank when, before the European Parliament elections in May 2019 in which he was standing, he sent a voice note to a friend at a right-wing US think tank.
The previous year, Robinson had been released from prison after serving time for contempt of court offences that almost collapsed the trial of the Huddersfield grooming gang, where dozens of men of Pakistani origin were charged with abusing girls as young as 11.
Since then, he had been on a non-stop campaign against the establishment’s “plot” to silence critics of Islam in Britain. He had been generously assisted by the Middle East Forum, which donated $60,000 towards his rallies and legal fees.
A man is facing several charges after three officers were injured while assisting sheriffs with an eviction late week in Toronto’s west end, say police.
The incident happened last Friday in the Earlscourt neighbourhood, near Caledonia and Rogers roads.
Toronto police said they were called to that area at around noon for reports of a break-and-enter in progress.
On behalf of our members, and the public, we are asking all levels of government to stop pointing fingers and explain why this man was still in Canada and why he was not in custody.@TPAReid @TPACallanan pic.twitter.com/ZohXhaYIEk
— Toronto Police Association (@TPAca) August 17, 2024
Purple haired man tells a school board meeting:
“I’m a transgender woman my pronouns are She/Her and I will only accept these pronouns. I will not be addressed any other way.”pic.twitter.com/oeAAunAiXQ
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) August 19, 2024
