Jamie Sarkonak: Liberal vetting no match for human rights chief with two names

The federal Liberals had two years to make sure the guy appointed to head the Canadian Human Rights Commission wasn’t wholly inappropriate for the job — and they failed.

On Monday, incoming human rights commissioner Birju Dattani resigned before he could even take his chair. He had, according to the external law firm tasked with investigating his appointment, “intentionally omitted” key information about his past in relevant forms and interviews. Namely, his record of speaking at anti-Israel academic functions.

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DOJ and the Media Are the Real Story in Belated Biden Corruption Revelations

Here is what the New York Times doesn’t tell you.

I can’t decide which is my favorite part of the story dribbled out by the media-Democrat complex’s mothership last night.

It’s probably the part, 16 paragraphs down, in which the New York Times explains how it knew the Biden-Harris State Department was stonewalling on the production of documents showing that, while Joe Biden was vice president, his ne’er-do-well son Hunter beseeched the Obama-Biden State Department to lobby the Italian government on behalf of Burisma — the corrupt Ukrainian energy company that was lavishly paying Hunter so it could have access to Vice President Biden and his political influence.

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Federal Civil Rights Complaint Accuses Cleveland Clinic Of Racial Discrimination

Cleveland Clinic, widely regarded as the top-performing hospital globally, is accused of racial discrimination in an official civil rights complaint issued Wednesday by anti-discrimination healthcare organization Do No Harm (DNH).

The complaint, filed with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, alleges the clinic’s Minority Stroke Program and Minority Men’s Health Center engage in discriminatory practices by systematically excluding white patients in favor of minorities. The clinic receives federal funding and is subject to anti-discrimination laws that make such practices illegal.

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Iran is Helping the Kamala Campaign

The Mullahs create pro-Kamala site, hack Trump accounts, leak materials to media.

With headlines like “Harris Surges Ahead: A New Era of Democratic Enthusiasm and Opportunity” and “Former Friend Exposes JD Vance’s Radical Transformation: A Study in Political Opportunism”, you might mistake NioThinker for another mainstream media outlet.

Only the occasional odd word choice and convoluted bit of grammar hints that the digital media site flowing with enthusiasm for Kamala and contempt for Trump isn’t really American.

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The march of Kamala’s brides: Miserable young women are the Democrats’ foot-soldiers

In a recent appearance before the National Association of Black Journalists, Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump caused a furore by questioning the racial “identity” of Democrat Kamala Harris. “Is she Indian or is she black?” Trump wondered. “I respect either one, but she obviously doesn’t, because she was Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden she made a turn, and she became a black person.”

Lost in the days of press attacks that followed was the fact that both Trump and his critics were stuck in an outdated American electoral calculus of identity politics grounded in race. In fact, the key to a Harris win in November won’t be the support of black Americans or Indian Americans or even “brown Americans” — though she has identified at various points in her political life as all three. Rather, Harris is a flesh-and-blood avatar of a much more numerous, powerful, and radically dissatisfied demographic: never-married and childless American women between the ages of 20 and 45.

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Flaming out? Burning Man festival fails to sell out for first time in a decade

Last year it rained, stranding many.

For more than a decade, tickets to Burning Man have sold out almost immediately – sometimes in a matter of minutes.

But this year, less than two weeks before the festival kicks off, tickets are still available – raising questions about the future of the annual desert revelry in the face of the climate crisis and economic instability.

Burning Man takes place each year in Nevada’s remote Black Rock desert and began on a San Francisco beach in 1986. It has has sold out each year since 2011, said Alysia Dynamik, executive director of the Generator, a maker space in Reno, Nevada, who has attended the festival since 2010.

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The Super-Rich Prepare for the Apocalypse

The survival bunkers of the elites are a sign that they are suffering from the same fears that grip so many ordinary people in a world coming apart at the seams.

Several years ago, actress Aubrey Plaza informed Conan O’Brien that she had purchased helicopter lessons for her boyfriend. “He never showed an interest in flying,” she deadpanned, “But I just gave them to him in case the world has gone to sh*t and we need to fly away. I need to be with someone that can operate the helicopter.” The audience laughed, and Conan did a double take. “First of all, why don’t you take the helicopter lessons?” he asked. “Because I’m in charge of guns and ammo,” she answered smoothly.

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‘Descent into hell’: Quebecer with long COVID requests MAID over lack of home support

Tired, in pain and worried about being a burden to his family, a 44-year-old Quebecer suffering from long COVID has requested medical assistance in dying.

To be legally eligible for MAID, one must have a serious and incurable illness, experience persistent and unbearable suffering, and make the request in a free and informed manner. Since 2021, in Canada, people whose natural death is not reasonably foreseeable are eligible.

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RUBENSTEIN: When there’s money in the genes, expect false claims

Pretendianism — pretending to be an Indian for fame and fortune — has been commonplace for generations.

But since the 1982 entrenchment of special indigenous and treaty rights in Sections 25 and 35 of the Canadian Constitution and their gradual but relentless expansive interpretation by the courts, indigenous identity theft by non-aboriginals has skyrocketed in lock-step with the growing status, influence, privilege and wealth that faking Indian pedigree now yields.

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‘Disgusted’ immigration minister looking into revoking citizenship of Toronto terror suspect

The federal government is looking at whether the citizenship of a man accused of planning a terror attack in Toronto should be revoked, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said Wednesday.

“I’m as disgusted as any Canadian. But I have a responsibility to get to the bottom of it and I will,” he said during a morning news conference in Church Point, N.S.

“I’m also going to take the next step, which is to start the preliminary work with the evidence at hand to look at whether the individual in question’s citizenship should be revoked.”

Bullshit.

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Christopher Dummitt: Conservatives are weird — because progressives have bastardized cultural norms

Desperate to try any tactic to dig them out of the hole they find themselves in, the Liberals appear to have looked south and borrowed the Democrats’ idea of calling conservatives “weird.”

The tactic might just work for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her party. There are, after all, more than enough fringe Republican elements to make this somewhat convincing, especially as a sop to the Democrats’ political base and to independents who find political shenanigans ludicrous in general.

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Joe Oliver: The walls are closing in on Justin Trudeau

Among the myriad problems Justin Trudeau is confronting, two have an immediacy that must be especially troubling. One is political, the other economic.

The political problem is the miraculous improvement in presidential prospects for the Democratic Party since its power brokers, who had shamelessly insisted until the very end how “sharp” Joe Biden was, finally confronted reality and threw him under the bus. Their motivation was not patriotic concern (though that’s their story and they’re sticking with it). The disastrous June 27th debate merely revealed what everyone in contact with the president already knew and what 70 per cent of Americans had been telling pollsters for months: Biden’s obvious cognitive and physical decline made him incapable of serving four more years in office. The bus only arrived, however, once polls began to show he was certain to lose to a Republican they viscerally despise and fear.

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