Social media influencers, including those on TikTok, are increasingly becoming part of Ottawa’s strategy to capture the interest of young voters.
Ottawa has paid content creators on a wide variety of social networks, including the popular short-form video hosting app, to broadcast government messaging despite TikTok being deemed a potential security threat by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).
An art installation at a historic cathedral which is designed to highlight the impact of climate change looks like “fly-tipping”, residents have claimed.
The wooden sculpture depicts a house perched on top of a cliff edge and is supposed to remind passers-by of how homes can be affected by coastal erosion and harsh weather.
But the “timber pile” in front of 900-year-old Salisbury Cathedral and near the city’s historic Cathedral Close has angered locals, who have asked for what one called a “monstrous debacle” to be removed.
In the ordinary course of heated political controversies, Canadians can sort out the issue that’s launching their politicians at one another’s throats. In the “foreign interference” upheaval that has in turns paralyzed, confounded and outraged Canada’s political class in recent days, we’re not even allowed to know what the federal party leaders are arguing about, exactly.
The European Union’s Asylum Agency’s (EUAA) annual report for 2023, published a few days ago, highlights some of the key data about the state of Europe’s asylum system, including a further increase in overall applications and a consistently low level of deportation of failed asylum seekers—as well as the failure of the so-called Dublin system.
The 321-page report, published on June 14th, concludes that the EU countries continued to host “a record number of people in need of protection” in 2023, with 1.1 million granted temporary protection during the year and an additional 1.1 million new applications registered in the same time, marking a steep 25% increase from 2022.
A federal law passed by the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last year mandating regulation of online platforms such as YouTube and Netflix to ensure they meet government requirements will indeed affect content uploaded by ordinary users, admitted federal lawyers.
Despite successive Heritage Ministers stating that any user-generated content would not be affected by Bill C-11, known as the Online Streaming Act, that was passed into law in April 2023, a recent legal battle with Google regarding revenue compensation has exposed that this might not be the case.
Lawyers for Canada’s Justice Department admitted that Bill C-11 “does allow for regulation of user-uploaded programs on social media services.”
Canada’s population grew to top 41 million in the first quarter: StatCan
The agency says the population reached 41,012,563 on April 1, a gain of 242,673 people in the first three months of the year.
OTTAWA – Statistics Canada says the country’s population topped 41 million people in the first quarter of this year as it grew by 0.6 per cent.
Our elites are criminals for visiting this immigration horror on us.
Black lawmakers and community leaders aligned with Joe Biden have spent months issuing a not-so-subtle warning to the president’s reelection campaign: The incumbent’s message isn’t getting through to many black voters, particularly men and younger voters, and time is running out for the campaign to change course.
Hamas terrorists, backed by Iran, invaded Israel on October 7, 2023. They massacred more than 1,200 people; burned families alive, tortured and raped women, children and men, and abducted roughly 250 hostages, including babies and children.
Since the October attack, however, Israeli women have faced public doubts and questions about the brutality and sexual violence they experienced at the hands of Gaza’s Muslim men.
Despite the silence, and sometimes even outright denial, by many women’s organizations around the world, Hamas’ sexual crimes are well-documented. The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel published a report in February entitled “Silent Cry – Sexual Crimes in the October 7 War”.
An imam in Bologna doesn’t mince words: in Islam, “extremism means following the fundamentals”. Extremism means slitting infidel throats, raping infidel women, and bombing infidel places of worship. And that’s just basic Islam, following the example of the prophet as recorded in the Koran, the Hadith, and the Sunna.
h/t Kiki9
In the trailer for the disastrous Netflix documentary Queen Cleopatra, classics professor Shelley Haley states, “I remember my grandmother saying to me, ‘I don’t care what they teach you in school. Cleopatra was black.’” The documentary goes on to depict the queen as black, or at least biracial, with Adele James starring in the title role.
Look at it this way.
If you’re with the Chicago Teachers’ Union which is demanding $145,000 salaries, free abortion and weight loss surgeries (and do they ever need those) and money for migrants and ‘green schools’, it’ll help if your voting base can’t do math.
Islamist leaders are turning neighbourhoods into ghettos.
Hanan Serroukh is a social educator and coordinator of the Islamic Studies Area of GEES (Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos—a think tank that collaborates with the State Security Forces). Serroukh has just published Coraje: El precio de la libertad (Courage: The Price of Freedom), an autobiographical work that analyses how Islamism and its leaders have penetrated the structures of Spanish society.
Neither the West nor its enemies are prepared to fight
Neither the West not its enemies are prepared to fight. Some 30 years ago, I coined the phrase “post-heroic warfare” to acknowledge a new phenomenon: the very sharp reduction in the tolerance of war casualties. My starting point was President Clinton’s 1993 decision to abandon Somalia after 18 American soldiers were killed in a failed raid. But in truth, post-heroic attitudes had already emerged — and not just in affluent democracies. In 1989, the Soviet Union, whose generals could once lose 15,000 men before breakfast without batting an eyelid, abandoned Afghanistan after 14,453 of its soldiers were killed over almost a decade.
Nor was the post-heroic phenomenon strictly related to the merits, or lack thereof, of any particular act of war. Margaret Thatcher stayed up all night writing personal letters to the families of every one of Britain’s 255 dead in the Falklands. But it did not mollify her critics, who argued that Britain should never have used force, even if it meant that Argentina would be allowed to conquer the islands.
A cult leader who forced her followers to eat faeces and used pliers to pull out their teeth as punishment has been jailed for more than 10 years in Singapore.
Woo May Hoe, 54, convinced about 30 people that she was a deity, while subjecting the group to cruel physical abuse and defrauding them of more than $10 million (£7.8 million).
In a rare case of cult crime in Singapore, prosecutors said she had instituted a “reign of terror” over eight years, convincing her followers to part with their money, which she claimed would be used to build temples in India.
When I was a cub reporter working at the Washington Post a half-century ago, being a journalist was first and foremost a craft. I once tried to slip my opinion into an article, but my editor wrote on the copy that ‘nobody gives a shit what you think’.
It was harsh, but good training. Our primary job as journalists was not to indoctrinate but to inform. Even when writing an opinion piece, you would try backing up assertions with facts and leave room for the possibility that your point of view may not be the only permissible one.
