Is 13 too young to work? A Saskatchewan proposal has reignited debate around kids and labour

Look at the joy on these young faces! Coal dust is invigorating! No school just 60 hour weeks hanging out with your chums! It don’t get no better!

Saskatchewan residents are due to vote in a general election later this year and a business group in the province hopes the next government will lower the province’s “absolute minimum” working age to 13 years old.

In a set of pre-election policy recommendations, the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce highlights challenges from a “labour shortage” in the province and suggests the existing age of 14 is too high.

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Trump ally Steve Bannon turns himself in to prison

Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s former top adviser, vowed he would only be “bigger and more powerful” in prison as he reported on Monday for a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress.

Bannon, 70, who served as chief strategist to the Republican former president during his time in the White House, was convicted in 2022 over his defiance of subpoenas concerning the House of Representatives’ investigation into the January 6 Capitol Hill riot.

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Auditor says plan to hire more black workers into civil service has failed

Now showing more anti white bullshit

A federal program launched to increase hiring of black employees has failed to deliver, according to a Treasury Board report.

Blacklock’s Reporter says The Centre on Diversity and Inclusion, established in response to the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, has made little progress in four years, despite employee efforts.

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A Labour government could well abandon Israel to its fate

If we are trying to decipher what a Labour government will mean for British policy towards Israel, and the impact of such policy here in the UK, it probably makes sense to look at the most recent opportunity for Labour politicians to demonstrate where they stand. In that context, one could make a plausible case that the most important support by any British politician of Israel’s right to self-defence after the massacre of October 7 – and thus of its having spent the past eight months hunting down Hamas in Gaza – has come from Sir Keir Starmer.

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The crumbling of the French establishment

When Emmanuel Macron first ascended to the French presidency in 2017, he was hailed as the man who could see off the hard right. His re-election in 2022 was taken as further proof that the ‘liberal’ centre could hold – that the ‘leprosy’ of populism, as Macron himself described it, could be contained by his technocratic centrism. Even just three weeks ago, when he dissolved the National Assembly and called snap legislative elections, following the right-wing National Rally (RN)’s thumping victory in the EU elections, Macron and his allies assumed that the populist wave would quickly peter out. Voters would ‘see sense’, they believed, and rally back around the supposedly sensible centre.


It’s France, elections are never “over”

France election results: More than 150 candidates pull out of race to block hard-Right win

More than 150 candidates have withdrawn ahead of France’s second round of elections on Sunday in a bid to block a hard-Right win.

Candidates from Emmanuel Macron’s party and the hard-Left announced they had pulled out on Monday afternoon, avoiding the potential for them to eat into each other’s vote share.

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The Real Story of the Soviets and the Nazis

Marxist activists and historians, along with their left-wing allies often make the claim that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics under Joseph Stalin should somehow receive our thanks and praise for the defeat of Nazism. They often back this up with the statistical figure that many more Soviet soldiers died defeating Nazi Germany than American soldiers or the Western Allies.

While this statistic is true, it does not mean that the USSR should be thanked for defeating Nazi Germany, or that without the USSR, Nazi Germany would not have been defeated. This myth will be debunked thoroughly in this article.

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Is Dolly Parton really a ‘white saviour’?

Celebrities spending their money encouraging children to read is “white saviourism” now, or so we’re told. An academic has published a dissertation criticising veteran country singer and philanthropist Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library — an international initiative that sends free, quality books to any child under 5 who requests them — for wrongthink, including depicting heterosexual parents or implying it might be good to get a job when you grow up.

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The Center Cannot Hold

The center of Western politics is dead, and the ones who killed it are the managerial liberals who lived by lies—and believed their own lies.

Until Joe Biden took the stage in last week’s debate with Donald Trump, the most catastrophically stupid presidential political decision of the year was Emmanuel Macron’s calling a snap election after the National Rally’s impressive showing in European parliamentary elections. After events over the past few days, it is still uncertain as to which blunder will have been the most consequential. Whatever the outcome, we are all watching corrupt systems collapse in real time. Amid this apocalypse—literally, an unveiling—we are seeing a kind of Reformation, the messy birth of a new order.

This is more the case in France than in the United States. The strong National Rally results in Sunday’s first round of voting occasioned an outpouring on France’s streets that could have been scripted by Camp of the Saints author Jean Raspail.

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Footage shows millionaire Jonathan Kaye being attacked by group hurling anti-Semitic slurs – as he turns himself in to police for punching woman during the scuffle

Dramatic new footage has revealed the moment New York investment banker Jonathan Kaye was attacked by a group of revelers hurling anti-Semitic slurs at him – for the first time since he was accused of punching a woman during the altercation last month.

Kaye, 52, the now former managing director at Moelis & Company, made headlines in early June after viral video showed him throwing a vicious punch at a female reveler at the Brooklyn Pride Parade on June 8.

The millionaire banker was reported to have resigned from his high-paying role last week after being placed on leave as his firm investigated the incident.

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