The new Swedish Folklistan (The People’s List) party, launched last month by MEP Sara Skyttedal, formerly of the Christian Democrats, has learned the hard way that when you open your doors to anyone, anyone can enter.
Folklistan, created explicitly for the EU elections, made their candidate list for the EU elections open and were less than thrilled when notorious Danish-Swedish Quran-burner Rasmus Paludan decided to put his name on it.
It wasn’t nice.
“Mr. Speaker, the Conservative leader is wearing more makeup than I am today,” Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said of Pierre Poilievre earlier this week in question period.
Her words were not technically as “unparliamentary,” as when the opposition leader called the prime minister “a wacko” or when Poilievre said “WTF” in the House, and then tried to convince the speaker he meant “where’s the funds?” — an acronym the Conservative party is now using to sell T-shirts.
But Speaker Greg Fergus reprimanded Freeland: “We do not comment on the appearance of members.”
A British Columbia First Nation is calling for the suspension and removal of an RCMP officer from Bella Bella over social media posts he made before joining the Mounties.
Heiltsuk Tribal Council Chief Marilyn Slett says in a letter to the Bella Bella detachment of the RCMP that the officer posted “racist text and images.”
The judge in Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial has stacked the deck against the former president.
How far out on a limb is Judge Juan Merchan willing to go to help Manhattan’s elected progressive Democratic district attorney, Alvin Bragg, convict former president Donald Trump based on inadmissible evidence?
An ambitious U.S. effort to get aid into Gaza via a floating pier in the Mediterranean Sea has gotten off to a sluggish start, facing many of the same logistical challenges that have throttled broader attempts to ease the humanitarian crisis in the besieged Palestinian enclave.
The Pentagon spent $320 million and engaged 1,000 soldiers and sailors to open a major maritime corridor last week, delivering on President Biden’s promise in March that the U.S. military would install a temporary dock off the Gaza coast for cargo ships to unload food, water and other supplies. Fourteen ships from the U.S. and other countries are involved in a mission supported by humanitarian groups and several nations including Israel.
Despite the flashing of actual swastikas at pro-Hamas protests among the Dearborn set which votes Democrat, Joe Biden is determined to pin the ‘Nazi’ label on President Trump, which is falling flat.
He’s done it at least once, errantly hammering over and over again the misheard, out-of-context “fine people” statement President Trump made about a riot. And in his raging warnings about Trump being a threat to ‘democracy,’ he’s looked distinctly Hitlerian himself against a red backdrop.
One would not like to become overconfident about the coming European election results—the steady-on advice of The European Conservative’s Ellen Fantini is a must-read—but perhaps we can allow ourselves a moment to savor the taste of flop sweat oozing from the pores of anxious liberals. They sense that something terrible is about to happen to them, and they don’t know what to do.
Just five years ago, the 70th anniversary of the birth of the post-war German democratic state was accompanied by euphoric celebrations across the country. This week, by contrast, few Germans were in the mood to party. Aside from the Federal Republic of Germany’s economic woes, the prevailing opinion is that German democracy isn’t in very good health.
Who is to blame? The liberal-centrist consensus is that the country is facing an unprecedented threat from nefarious populist and far-Right forces — most notably the AfD, which aims, according to the country’s vice-chancellor, to “turn Germany into an authoritarian state”. But one may very well argue that Germany is already displaying worrying signs of authoritarianism, at the hands of those very same liberal-centrist forces that claim to be defending democracy from the barbarians at the gate.
The marriage of convenience between Moscow and Beijing is a product of American decline.
The West has been sent into a wild panic by the prospect of a China-Russia alliance. Since last week, when Russian president Vladimir Putin brought a large, high-powered delegation to meet Chinese president Xi Jinping in Beijing, the Western media have been suffering from a neurotic spasm.
The fourth anniversary of George Floyd’s drug overdose death wrongly mischaracterized as a killing by leftist activists who used his overdose to trigger nationwide race riots and seize power has been met with a Biden statement pushing another pro-crime bill, a documentary about how Floyd “changed the world” and more racism.
What it has not been met with is justice for the victims of the largest race riots in decades.
An Italian school’s decision to exempt Muslim children from studying Dante because the mediaeval poet placed Mohammed in hell in The Divine Comedy has sparked a backlash and a debate over cancel culture.
Politicians from both the Left and Right said that Dante was a pillar of Italian literature and that it was unacceptable for children to be exempted from studying his writing because of their faith.
The row broke out after a secondary school in Treviso in the north of the country reportedly allowed two Muslim children, aged around 14, to not attend classes in which The Divine Comedy was being studied.
Canada Post ended the week with more grim financial news, announcing an operating loss of 221 million Canadian dollars for the first three months of the year. That came on top of an announcement at the beginning of the month that it had lost 748 million dollars last year.
The government-owned postal service has now accumulated more than 3 billion dollars in losses since 2018, and it offered a bleak look ahead in the 2023 annual report it released this month.
… Not only did the central core resemble a ghost town – mostly because thousands of civil servants, backed by powerful unions, refuse to return to their office desks – but many of the walking routes I used to take through downtown have morphed into a distressing obstacle course of homeless people camped out on the sidewalks. In fact, the last time I felt like that – and I’ve been to some of the meanest cities in the world – was in Pretoria, South Africa, around the time of the BRICS summit last year, when a wrong turn to the diplomatic quarter brought a few anxious encounters. On many strolls through my former home, I shook my head in disbelief thinking, “This isn’t the Ottawa I know or love.”
The pro-Palestinian encampments that have plagued campuses across North America have flared up like infected sores, spreading the same message of inciting violence and genocide against Jews from Columbia University to our very own University of Toronto.
In Germany a new song is sweeping the country called "Ausländer Raus". It means "foreigners out".
Looking at the Islamist marches calling for the overthrow of the secular govt to impose Sharia Law, it does not seems illogical.
Catchy tune. pic.twitter.com/DtuWDrRSOg
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) May 25, 2024
