Police will be unable to make arrests if prisons are full up with rioters, it has been suggested.
The Prison Officers’ Association (POA) predicts that ministers will be forced to impose new bottlenecks within days to avoid prisons filling up.
That would require triggering Operation Early Dawn, which prevents inmates being taken from police cells to court unless a prison space is available for them.
Charles Adler, a longtime radio and TV broadcaster, former newspaper columnist and my former colleague, is now Senator Charles Adler. The announcement of Adler’s appointment came from the PMO on Saturday, making it 82 people that Justin Trudeau has now appointed to the chamber of sober second thought.
Not content with its assault on free speech in the spoken and online spheres, Britain’s new Labour government is now considering banning wrongthink.
The Home Office, fronted by Labour bigwig Yvette Cooper, could prohibit silent prayer outside abortion clinics, according to The Daily Telegraph.
Many questions are left unanswered around the foiled alleged terrorist plot in Toronto covered by a publication ban, especially on how one of the suspects obtained citizenship and whether any other similarly inclined individuals could be lying in wait.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said this week that departments are conducting a review of the matter and findings would be shared at the “appropriate moment.”
English-speaking residents of Québec report feeling increasingly alienated and unwelcome due to restrictive language policies, according to a federal study by the Commissioner of Official Languages.
Blacklock’s Reporter says the study highlights the growing discontent among anglophones who feel pressured to abandon their language in favor of French.
The far-left, anti-Israel National Lawyers Guild has been mobilizing to assist the tens of thousands of protesters expected to hit the streets of Chicago.
If demonstrations unfold as expected at the Democratic National Convention next week, look for an occasional fluorescent-green hat among the protesters. This is the signature headgear worn by National Lawyers Guild (NLG) legal observers, who can often be found attending major left-wing protests in support of the demonstrators. They represent an organization that has long been one of the most deeply radical activist groups in the country and one that harbors a particularly virulent hostility toward Israel. They have expressed that hostility in some truly appalling ways.
Hezbollah’s commander Fuad Shukr lived a life so secret few knew his name or face before an airstrike killed him and helped put the Middle East on the brink of war
BEIRUT—Fuad Shukr had eluded the U.S. for four decades, ever since a bombing killed 241 American servicemen in a Marine barracks in the Lebanese capital, which it says he helped plan. At the end of July, an Israeli airstrike found him on the seventh floor of a residential building not far away.
The militant was one of the U.S.-designated terrorist group Hezbollah’s founders and most senior operatives, a longtime trusted friend of the leader Hassan Nasrallah who played a key role in developing the missile arsenal that has made Hezbollah the world’s best-armed nonstate militia. For the past 10 months, he had commanded the group’s increasingly intense cross-border skirmishing with Israel.
Many had dismissed it as a costly indulgence for a nation facing economic hardship, while some condemned it as a dangerous diversion from the deepest political crisis France faces since the 1950s.
And, yet, the two-week long Summer Olympics hosted by Paris is now universally lauded as a success in organizational, artistic, and of course sporting terms. For two whole weeks the usually grumpy French, some of them in civil war mood, sheathed their daggers to have a good time together.
The old ditty that sport unites while politics divides sounded more plausible than ever.
French politics are ridiculous.
The media and other Democrats have been working very hard to say that Kamala has not been responsible for the open border policy that allows millions of illegals, including terrorists and gang members, to flood our country.
Sanctuary cities and states have been whining continuously about Texas sending these illegals to them and begging Gov. Greg Abbott to stop.
They are complaining about how much these illegals are costing and how they are running out of room. They are begging the federal government for money.
Heavier and longer summer monsoon rains are said to be fuelling a rise in child marriages in Pakistan, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). Human rights workers are warning such weddings are on the rise “due to climate-driven economic insecurity”. Great story since it holds out a small hope that banning hydrocarbon use can help solve a problem of forced and under-aged female abuse that has been endemic in many cultures since time immemorial. It is just a shame about the facts. According to the World Bank climate change knowledge portal, monsoon rains in June, July and August in the period 1991-2020 were marginally less in Pakistan than fell during 1961-1990.
The elite crusade against ‘fake news’ is authoritarian, anti-democratic and deeply hypocritical.
The transatlantic campaign to stanch ‘misinformation’ burgeoned with the elites’ revulsion at the outcome of the 2016 Brexit referendum in Britain and the election of Donald Trump, also in that year. That campaign has intensified with the prospect of Trump’s re-election in the US and in the wake of the recent riots in the UK, which were sparked by erroneous online reports that the person who fatally stabbed three children in Southport on 29 July was an asylum seeker. In both countries, the right-on, smart take is to embrace, in the name of democracy and social justice, such doublethink as the Labour government’s new enthusiasm for the policing of and crackdown on ‘legal but harmful’ online content.
Vice President Kamala Harris has spent the last 6 months pandering to Hamas supporters and there’s no sign that she’s about to stop. Instead all signs point to matters getting worse. The DNC convention is expected to include an anti-Israel activist as a speaker along with a family of a hostage (presumably a carefully chosen one opposed to Israel continuing the war on Hamas).
And Kamala reportedly met in private with the mayor of America’s Jihad Capital.
The ruling class knows that free people who have the liberty to dissent are more difficult to govern. It is harder to tell them what to do, and expect them to obey.
In the spring of 2021, on my first fellowship at the Danube Institute in Budapest, I arranged a meeting with a leading anti-Orbán dissident. My goal was to find out what the Fidesz government’s opponents disliked about it. My interlocutor, a university professor, recited a list of complaints. Among them: Hungary does not allow same-sex marriage and same-sex couples to adopt children. The professor, a liberal, said he believes strongly in gay rights. “But I’m not sure what I think about the transgender issue.”
At the end of our talk, the professor concluded, “Despite all that, I can say anything I want in my classroom, and no one from the government will bother me.”
Intimate texts exchanged between an ousted Royal Bank of Canada boss and her junior colleague have been revealed amid the latest round of legal wrangling over their secret office relationship.
Canada’s biggest lender fired its CFO Nadine Ahn in April after uncovering an alleged decade-long courtship with her subordinate Ken Mason, who reportedly received promotions and raises as a result of the connection.
Nothing really spicy but the texts clearly contradict her denials.
When Dylan Plakstis died of illicit fentanyl poisoning in December 2020, his mother Tammy Plakstis decided to donate the 29-year-old’s organs. Although Tammy Plakstis doesn’t regret granting the gift of life to another, she has begun to wonder whether fentanyl is being allowed to circulate nationally as a way to increase organ donations.
“It hurts my heart to think that but the thought has come to my mind,” Tammy Plakstis told The Epoch Times. “It could be a money thing. Fentanyl poisoning is an epidemic and crisis.”
Raymond J. de Souza: Euthanasia’s grisly transformation of the Canadian medical regime
My colleagues at Cardus have done a signal service in telling Canadians what the government does not want us to know, namely that euthanasia is far more widespread in the country than we think.
The study, entitled “From Exceptional to Routine: The Rise of Euthanasia in Canada,” was released this past week. The shift from exceptional to routine refers to the practice of euthanasia, which has exploded from 1,018 deaths nationally in 2016 to 13,241 in 2022, the last year for which data are available.
Monsters live among us.
