I didn’t believe until right now that a specific stand down order was given by the Secret Service to leave the assassin alone. But now that we know Cheatle refused to record or archive the comms (or potentially even deleted them), I don’t think there’s any other conclusion to… https://t.co/XMoQNgxLTt
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 22, 2024
Bibi Netanyahu, who is in the midst of a war with Hamas, is flying to the United States to speak to a joint session of Congress.
Kamala Harris, as President of the Senate, is supposed to preside. She is declining to do so, and has also declined to even meet with the Israeli Prime Minister.
A startling number of Torontonians are now asking, to quote the famous Clash song: Should I stay, or should I go?
According to a new poll from the Toronto Region Board of Trade and Ipsos, fully 53 per cent of residents in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area have considered moving outside the region to escape our now legendary gridlock. Among those aged 18-34 — our city’s current and future prime workforce — that number rose to a troubling 64 per cent.
City Hall hates cars and the rolling homeless shelter known as the TTC is not going to win hearts and minds.
Anjem Choudary, the notorious Islamist preacher, is facing life in jail after he was found guilty of directing a terrorist organisation following an unprecedented joint investigation by MI5, Scotland Yard, the New York Police Department and Canadian police.
Choudary, 57, was released early from a five-year sentence for inviting support for Isis in October 2018 but his licence conditions prevented him from using the internet until July 2021.
Update – Canadian gas station attendant and British preacher convicted in U.K. terrorism case
… Ms. Moreland was asked why Mr. Hussein wasn’t arrested and charged in Canada. She said each national investigation was at a different stage in 2023, but Mr. Hussein’s trip to London presented an opportunity to have him arrested in Britain and face charges under its terrorism legislation. Unlike the U.K., neither ALM nor ITS is banned in Canada.
Canada is a “Don’t Offend The Muslims Zone”
The Canadian government has announced an ambitious – and expensive – plan to triple the size of the Royal Canadian Navy’s submarine fleet.
Expect setbacks. Ottawa has struggled to maintain its existing undersea warfare capability, and does not spend much money on defence. Hugely expanding its submarine force could prove … difficult.
Hi All!
Some readers have complained that Disqus is throwing up an unresolvable “email verification” pop up that has effectively shut them out of commenting on my site and others.
This entry from the Disqus support blog sums up the situation:
“I am getting the same popups asking to verify my email. That would be fine except that I need to change my email on my account (the one I signed up with 15+ years ago isn’t valid anymore). When I go to my profile and enter a new email address, it will not save the change. The “save” button goes grey and no error message pops up with a correction or solution.Any ideas? Do I need to start a new account with the current email address?”
If you have encountered this let me know if it went away on it’s own or if you found a fix.
Thanks. BCF
Donald J. Trump and his political team spent nearly two years tailoring a campaign to defeat an old white male president who is conspicuously frail and who most Americans had told pollsters they doubted could handle another four-year term.
Suddenly, Mr. Trump faces a starkly different opponent: a vice president who is a Black woman, nearly 20 years younger, and who brings her own strengths and weaknesses but who adds new uncertainty into what had been a remarkably static race.
Allies of Ms. Harris have already telegraphed that she will run a campaign framed around a “prosecutor versus felon” theme, highlighting her experience as a prosecutor and underscoring the fact that Mr. Trump has been indicted in multiple jurisdictions and convicted of 34 felonies.
The Canada Summer Jobs program is currently undergoing a performance review by the Auditor General and the findings are scheduled to be reported by year’s end, according to a federal government memo.
It is the first audit since those administering the government program were accused of discrimination by Christian employers applying for Canada Summer Jobs (CSJ) grants.
While Canadians have watched in disbelief as European Union members such as Ireland considers culling 200,000 cows to save the climate from farts, our Federal Liberal government upped their proposed methane emission cuts for Canada’s oil and gas sector to 75% below 2012 levels by 2030.
The best thing any group of Republican senators has done in recent memory is chase Kimberly Cheatle down the hallway at the RNC last week.
The head of the Secret Service is an appropriate target for outrage.
She should have been gone the night of the attempted Trump assassination, and now is a symbol of the incompetence and lack of responsibility that has destroyed trust in our institutions.
In announcing he would no longer be the Democrats’ presidential candidate on Sunday, Joe Biden professed he was doing so because he believed it “in the best interest of [his] party and the country.” While Biden did not elaborate further on his reasoning, he promised to address the country later this week with more details about his decision.
For now, I’m taking at face value that Biden has withdrawn from the presidential campaign via a tweeted-out letter, with the promise of a live statement to follow. However, a surprising number of people believe that, considering how consequential Biden’s statement is, a tweeted-out letter suggests a coup rather than a voluntary resignation. More than anything, this reveals how the Biden administration has destroyed all trust in the government.
In an article titled ‘Fact-checked: Republican national convention and Trump’s speech‘ a Guardian supposed ‘journalist’ claims to be: “Unpacking false claims made by former President and other speakers as he formally accepted Republican nomination.”
In theory, people being more political sounds great. Less dreary conversations about the weather and the ‘footie’, and more water-coolers surrounded with colleagues fizzing with enthusiasm about democracy and its pleasures. But the actual practice of this presupposes that we will all be open-minded and curious and – unless we are extremely learned about something – that the opinion of all citizens shall be equal. Above all, it fails to observe that pontificating about something you’re not an expert in – just because you have a more elevated station than the people you’re preaching to – totally negates this democratic dream. It simply sets the stage for a silly symphony of busybodies.
The ineffectual VP isn’t worthy of higher office
Following Joe Biden’s belated withdrawal from the presidential race, the onslaught of felching flattery about his heroically sacrificial character and his administration’s astonishing, unprecedented, better-than-FDR-scale accomplishments began within minutes. From the Democratic party’s grand poohbahs and their lickspittles in the media, this fawning admiration is intended to compensate for having done nothing but insult, undermine, and leak against the President for three weeks. Now his detractors are suddenly Biden’s greatest fans. But don’t expect smarmy, unctuous if subtly guilt-ridden bootlicking from this columnist.
