Huw Edwards pleads guilty to making indecent images of children
Huw Edwards, the former BBC News presenter, was sent 41 indecent images of children on WhatsApp including one photograph depicting a child as young as seven, a court was told.
Appearing at Westminster magistrates’ court on Wednesday, Edwards, 62, who left the BBC last year, pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children between December 2020 and April 2022.
Bureaucrats love to think of themselves as “public servants,” but who is really serving who around here?
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau added another 10,525 bureaucrats to the taxpayer payroll last year. Since becoming prime minister, he has added more than 108,000 new federal bureaucrats.
That’s a 42 per cent increase in the federal bureaucracy in less than a decade.
That’s a huge chunk of the LPC base purchased with your tax dollars.
The English Defence League (EDL) could be proscribed as a terror organisation in the wake of riots in Southport, Angela Rayner has suggested.
Supporters of the EDL were blamed for the violence on Tuesday night, in which police officers were attacked with rocks and a police van set on fire.
Demonstrations following the stabbing of three girls turned violent after misinformation about the suspect was spread online.
@fancypants_s https://t.co/dbq6OmK3sv
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) July 31, 2024
OTTAWA — Irwin Cotler, the former Liberal cabinet minister and former MP for Mount Royal, says he recommended his successor Anthony Housefather resign from his party’s caucus and sit as an Independent this spring as he prepares to face a “formidable” Conservative opponent next election.
Two Liberals playing both sides.
Desperate Olympic organisers are offering tourists bargain tickets to watch the games in Paris – with some selling for as little as £12
The major fire-sale has been sparked after a disappointing opening few days to the sporting spectacle saw stadiums plagued by empty seats.
OMG! @fancypants_s https://t.co/Dt0LqQEXmc
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) July 31, 2024
Crooks was just a patsy. It seems likely the Deep State plotted to kill Trump by enabling Crooks.
h/t Patti Jo
It can’t be a great summer to be a Liberal, if MPs back in their ridings are hearing the same kind of thing that Liberals were getting at the doorsteps in the St. Paul’s byelection in June.
It is, however, a pretty good summer for one type of Liberal, much in demand — the anonymous Liberal, willing to share their discontent over everything from Justin Trudeau to Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland to the current makeup of cabinet.
Trudeau’s Canada, where if you post the truth on social media that the Government doesn’t like, they’ll send the police to your home to intimidate & interrogate you. Unbelievable.
pic.twitter.com/ViXGAVPajb— Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 (@ryangerritsen) July 31, 2024
h/t Patti Jo
It’s official. Vice President Kamala Harris will be the only candidate on the Democratic National Committee (DNC) virtual roll call ballot for president after her effortless rise to become the party’s standard-bearer.
For several years, activists and self-styled “advocates” have been attempting to change the way we speak about social problems like homelessness, drug addiction, crime and unsocial behaviour.
The intention is clear: to remove stigma and any overt suggestion of personal responsibility. The new names are meant to reorient our thinking so that we understand that the real causes of misfortune to be societal or systemic. If a word has shameful connotations, that seems to be enough to warrant change. The goal here is to refrain from describing anyone who could plausibly be identified as a victim as having any personal responsibility for their own fate.
Tens of thousands of angry Venezuelan voters marched through central Caracas yesterday, defiantly pumping the tropical air with their fists. They chanted the decades-old mantra of Latin America’s left: “El pueblo unido jamás será vencido.” In the upside-down of today’s Venezuela today, this roar of “The people, united, will never be defeated” was a demand to end a quarter century of socialism and the resignation of its leader, President Nicolás Maduro.
Venezuela's socialist dictator Maduro claims he won re-election. But leaked vote tallies show Maduro lost.
The saying goes, "you can vote your way into socialism … you may not be able to vote your way out."
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— John Stossel (@JohnStossel) July 30, 2024
Needs no translation …
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El cofundador de Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, ha expresado su enojo por el apoyo de Elon Musk a la oposición democrática en Venezuela. 👇 pic.twitter.com/1tPIHTUy9k
— UHN Plus (@UHN_Plus) July 31, 2024
Who is the vicious Vicki Campbell @merry123459, a so-called "55-year-old Liberal Grandmother" on Twitter (X)?
She is actually a 34-year-old hard-left NDP activist Jill Piebiak.
(She's Jill Piebiak on Facebook).
She lives in Overbrook, an urban neighbourhood located in the… pic.twitter.com/hwNRhLdXl8
— Conservative Non-Conformist (@AlbertaBound9) July 31, 2024
Emergency Preparedness Minister Harjit Sajjan lobbied in April for the Canadian Armed Forces to send about 100 soldiers to act as backdrops at a Vancouver concert by Punjabi pop star Diljit Dosanjh, one of India’s most popular singers and actors.
Mr. Sajjan’s office confirmed that he received a request on April 15 from the singer’s manager, Sonali Singh, for Canadian soldiers to participate in his April 27 sold-out performance at BC Place. The following day, Mr. Sajjan sent a letter, dated April 16, from the manager, “along with his endorsement,” to Defence Minister Bill Blair, Mr. Sajjan’s press secretary Joanna Kanga said.
What an asshole.
The threat from international and domestic terror presents a “breadth of challenge greater than it has ever been”, according to senior US and UK police officers who oversaw the successful prosecution of Anjem Choudary.
The Islamist preacher from east London is starting a life sentence for directing a group banned under UK terror law, and encouraging support for it online.
The officers say his case highlights the continuing danger posed by radicalisers – and the violent groups they support.
“People fascinated by violence” should probably be read as criminalizing dissent.
Recommendation #32: In fulfilling her responsibility in approving General Officer and Flag Officer (GOFO) promotions, the Minister should be assisted by a senior civilian advisor, not currently a member of the Defence Team. In her consultation with the CDS, the Minister should examine what efforts are being made to correct the over-representation of white men in GOFO ranks.
Recommendation #36: The CAF should establish a system of progressive targets for the promotion of women in order to increase the number of women in each rank, with a view to increasing the proportion of their representation in the GOFO ranks above their level of representation in the overall CAF workforce.
WTF? No wonder they have a recruiting crisis.
H/T Canminuteman
