Toronto byelection mirrors choice for voters in next federal vote: Trudeau
… Trudeau was asked Thursday whether he considers the byelection a test of his leadership.
“There’s a real choice that people will make in St. Paul’s, which will mirror the choice people will have to make next year in the federal election,” he said, speaking in French.
He is in denial.
St Paul’s is a suicidally progressive safe seat in a suicidally progressive city and a win won’t prevent next year’s national wipe out.
Update: Mom, dad, 2 kids were the four people found dead in rural Ontario home, mayor says
Ontario Provincial Police are investigating after four people were found dead in the town of Harrow, just south of Windsor.
Essex OPP officers were called to a residence on County Road 13 at approximately 1:30 p.m. on June 20, where they located four deceased individuals.
Vaughan shooting: Four people injured in daylight shooting
Four people have been taken to hospital after a daylight shooting in Vaughan Friday morning, York police said.
Officers were called to the Woodbridge area of Davos Road and Fossil Hill Drive just before 9 a.m. for a shooting.
Two people reportedly have life-threatening injuries while the extent of the injuries of the other two is unknown.
Update – One dead, 3 others injured in ‘targeted’ shooting at Vaughan home
Arabic-language social media has been flooded this week with shocking images from Saudi Arabia. The pictures and videos show people who were undertaking their once-in-a-lifetime Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca collapsed on the side of the road or slumped in wheelchairs, apparently close to death or dead. They are dressed in traditional pilgrim’s white, their faces covered with cloths. In several pictures, corpses appear to have been left where they presumably collapsed.
What started as a rumor on social media was confirmed as the weeklong Hajj pilgrimage ended: Hundreds of pilgrims have died in Saudi Arabia, evidently due to extremely high temperatures and lack of shelter or water.
If you go to the CBC website and search “far right,” you get 2,457 hits. If you search “far left,” you get 219, less than nine per cent that number.
Incidentally, you get exactly the same totals if you use a hyphen, i.e., “far-right” and “far-left,” which means the CBC search engine is hyphen-blind — though I doubt it’s any other kind of blind, given the corporation’s devotion to identity politics. If you search “far out,” by the way, you get 329 hits, 50 per cent more than for “far left.”
A tourist from Punjab was burnt alive inside the police station by an angry mob after being accused of blasphemy. pic.twitter.com/xFXnqaiMbm
— Arshad Yousafzai (@Arshadyousafzay) June 20, 2024
h/t Kiki9
Even before investigating, Toronto’s chief of police had already declared that an electronic billboard advertising van showing videos of Muslim protesters and suggesting Canada is “under siege” was “hateful.”
I’ve said it over and over again, they’re not defunding the police, they’re defunding your police protection.
They will always have walls of men with guns protecting them. When you call the police though, you’ll be told, “Sorry, we have no men available, have you considered checking your privilege.”
#WATCH: Do you enjoy taking the Gardiner in Toronto? pic.twitter.com/q1AdhitOYt
— 6ixBuzzTV (@6ixbuzztv) June 20, 2024
In Justin Trudeau’s inner circle, there is no doubt about it — the prime minister will lead his party into what promises to be a hard-fought election battle against Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives in 2025.
He says he wants to defend his vision of the country. He feels his legacy is under threat. He considered stepping down during his marriage difficulties last year, but decided to stay.
“I just realized, that’s not me. There is so much to do still,” he said during a recent episode of the ReThinking podcast.
Video of the rail bridge fire submitted to @GlobalBC #RichmondBC pic.twitter.com/nEZ77xtSkK
— Jordan Armstrong (@jarmstrongbc) June 21, 2024
In the decade between 2013 and 2023, Pride Month went from an obscure American event to a nearly global—and in many quarters obligatory—celebration of homosexual acts, cross-dressing, BDSM, and gender ideology. For those of us who believe some or all of these things to be immoral (or at least not the stuff of which parades ought to be made), June has become an uncomfortable month.
It seems the stories of a "Gaza famine" are fabrications. This was filmed yesterday. pic.twitter.com/o4xoingOva
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) June 21, 2024
Perched beside a church, two petitioners pose two question for passing pedestrians:
“Do you live in St. Paul’s? Did you know there’s a federal byelection happening?”
I do and I do.
And then a third question: “Do you know about what’s happening in Gaza?”
I believe I do.
The petitioners are polite and to the point: Please sign their pledge vowing to vote against any candidate who “fails to condemn the decades-long injustices perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinians.”
Sales of electric vehicles (EVs) plunged across Europe last month, fuelled by a sharp drop-off in demand in Germany.
Official figures show that sales for new EVs fell by 30pc in Germany last month, which led to a broader fall of 12.5pc across the continent.
It comes a week after Brussels launched a crackdown on an influx of cheap electric vehicle imports from China, which they claim have benefited from unfair state subsidies.
