OTTAWA — Riding a wave of anger and frustration with high grocery prices, the New Democrats will force a vote in the House of Commons on a motion to tax the excess profits of large grocers, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh announced Tuesday.
The non-binding vote, expected in the coming weeks, comes as concerns with the cost of living have soured public opinion on grocery store chains — and Justin Trudeau’s government.
When it comes to Canadian PM Justin Trudeau’s Orwellian Online Harms Act, tech titan Elon Musk gets it: “This sounds insane.”
Insane is putting it mildly…
By seeking to hoard influence unto themselves, repeatedly misleading the public, and stifling opposing ideas, the duplicitous duo did a disservice to the country.
The Covid pandemic was devastating, not only for society generally, but also to the reputations of our once-trusted health agencies. Two of America’s once-leading public-health officials bear great responsibility for this debacle — former National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci, who led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases between 1984 and 2022.
The FBI was authorized to use “deadly force” against former President Donald Trump when the Biden administration agency raided Mar-a-Lago in search of classified documents, according to newly unsealed court documents shared on X by independent journalist Julie Kelly.
h/t Mauser
Gee’s Bend is a unique aspect of Alabama history. It’s a settlement situated on what was once a plantation, and the people who live there are direct descendants of former slaves; after the war officially ended in 1865, former slaves stayed on the land and worked as sharecroppers and tenant farmers, but when the the economic instability of the 1930s hit, the federal government purchased ten thousand acres of the plantation and created loan programs for these black families to acquire land ownership.
When a banana duct-taped to a wall is juxtaposed against a Monet, the absurdity of this cultural revolution is starkly apparent.
In the intellectual and cultural arenas of the Western world, a counter-revolution to the burgeoning woke ideology is underway. Yet, the bastions of academic arts have entrenched themselves deep within the doctrines of intersectionality, pushing their agendas with a zeal that borders on the religious. This persistence is partially reshaping the cultural landscape, transforming the zeitgeist into a mere tool for career advancement rather than a beacon of diverse thought. Today’s cultural dialogue is one that is commodified, delivered by way of push notifications on smartphones that signal not groundbreaking ideas but adherence to the latest politically correct trends.
A British passenger has died from a heart attack following a bout of very severe air turbulence on a Singapore Airlines flight from London to Singapore which had to divert to Bangkok. Over 30 people were injured mainly, it seems, because they were not wearing their seatbelts at the time of the terrifying and dangerous incident.
Aviation is always at risk of unexpected turbulence. Nevertheless, the BBC has the story and, unsurprisingly, according to its website the cause of all our woes – climate change – is the smoking gun…
Klaus Schwab has decided it’s time to go. The 86-year-old Swiss-born entrepreneur is stepping down as the executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the elite social networking group he founded in 1971.
For over 50 years, Schwab has overseen the rise of a formidable business empire, worth £345 million in 2022/23, the most recent year for which we have annual accounts. The group includes the convention itself, which takes over Davos every January, and sister organisations such as Global Shapers, Young Global Leaders and Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneurs, the latter boasting “over 500 city based hubs”. As well as a networking event, WEF is both a think tank and a sprawling network of ersatz NGOs.
On brand.
You probably don’t recognize the name Kehinde Wiley, but you might recognize his ridiculous official portrait of Obama in which one of the worst men to ever squat in the White House appears to be sitting in a chair inside a bush or some hedgerows.
The wheels of justice grind slow, but they grind exceedingly fine.
If you’re like me, you may have been losing faith in the U.S. justice system, as it has been politicized, weaponized, and turned against Donald Trump and his supporters. But as time has passed, the cavalcade of bogus cases against the past and future president has been disintegrating like comets passing into the Earth’s atmosphere. Let’s begin with the most recent meltdown.
Canada ‘very closely’ monitoring top court’s push to prosecute Gaza war crimes: Joly
OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says Canada is “very closely” following a push from the International Criminal Court to prosecute the Israeli prime minister and Hamas leaders over the war in the Gaza Strip.
The court’s chief prosecutor requested arrest warrants Monday for Benjamin Netanyahu, his defence minister and senior Hamas leaders.
Ottawa has so far avoided supporting or denouncing the idea of charges, and ministers are only weighing in a day after peer countries took clearer stances.
Ditto for Trudeau
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is refusing to support or condemn a push from the International Criminal Court to prosecute the Israeli prime minister and Hamas leaders over the war in the Gaza Strip.
As anti-Israel encampments at Canadian universities grow in both size and vitriol, some are accusing the schools of harbouring double standards when it comes to banning dissenting viewpoints from campus.
The now three-week-old encampment occupies a lawn at King’s College Circle in the university’s downtown Toronto campus — and despite other schools requesting police to forcibly remove the activists from school property, the U of T has so far allowed the encampment to continue.
On a January morning in 2022, Supt. Stacy Clarke sat inside a Toronto police interview room, her lawyer by her side.
The first Black female superintendent in the history of the service was being read her rights. She was the focus of a criminal breach of trust investigation.
Her intentions were in no way honorable. She’s a crooked cop, end of story.
OTTAWA—Last week, there was seemingly some good news for Canada’s beleaguered Armed Forces. A May 7 Toronto Star news headline noted that “The number of applicants to join Canada’s military is soaring.”
Unfortunately the text continued with: “Why hasn’t that resulted in more of them in uniform?” The answer, it turns out, is that the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) are unable to process the applications they receive in a timely fashion. As a result, the gap between recruiting and those serving personnel who are releasing from the CAF continues to widen.
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