On Friday’s PBS NewsHour, the Week in Review segment dove into the New York Times “scoop” that the flag flew upside down for a few days in January 2021 outside the home of Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito. This was Big News? Two years ago, when a man showed up outside Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s house intending to assassinate him, the NewsHour didn’t find that worthy on Friday June 10, 2022.
Canada’s Ambassador to the United States says she’s “not aware” of any plans for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to meet with former U.S. president and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump before the November American election.
“I think that’s a question for the prime minister,” Kirsten Hillman told CTV’s Question Period host Vassy Kapelos, in an interview airing Sunday. “I’m not aware of any plans in that regard.”
Prime Minister’s Office spokesperson Mohammad Hussain said there is no meeting scheduled between Trudeau and Trump during the prime minister’s visit this week.
Trump turned him down I bet.
Earlier this month, the Biden administration floated a trial balloon, suggesting “senior officials across several federal U.S. agencies have discussed the practicality of different options to resettle Palestinians from Gaza who have immediate family members who are American citizens or permanent residents.”
Justin is no doubt enthralled.
Canada’s standard of living on track for worst decline in 40 years
Canada is experiencing one of the country’s worst declines in the standard of living in 40 years, according to a study.
The authors of the study by the non-partisan Fraser Institute said the figures should serve as a “wake-up call” for the country’s Liberal government, led by Justin Trudeau, to enact “fundamental policy reforms”.
While Canada’s gross domestic product (GDP) has grown in recent years, driven by high population growth and labour supply, its GDP per person has fallen dramatically, the study said.
Thank Trudeau.
English courts are in talks to abandon compulsory wigs for barristers amid claims that they are “culturally insensitive”.
The Telegraph understands that the judiciary is poised to update its court dress code following complaints by some barristers that the traditional headpieces discriminate against those with Afro-Caribbean hair.
Judges are currently reviewing proposals made by the Bar Council, which represents barristers in England and Wales, with changes expected to be made this autumn at the earliest. No decisions have been made.
Can’t they come up with a Bro’ Wig?
It’s all about the land, the price of dirt.
The facts and figures are discouraging for people who don’t own urban property, which in a few decades has become the greatest source of wealth in the English-speaking world.
Although land inflation is a global urban phenomenon, Metro Vancouver residents suffer from the worst from it. The cost of dirt in Vancouver, for instance, hyper-escalated by 500 per cent between 2008 and 2016.
President Biden will set foot on a college campus Sunday for the first time since universities around the country became hotbeds for protests over the Israel-Hamas war.
Biden is delivering a commencement speech at Morehouse College, an historically Black college in Atlanta, a move that roiled students and faculty of the school and whose president said he would end the ceremony before letting police intervene to stop any potentially disruptive behavior.
Everyone wanted to do something to join in and support the protest movement that emerged after the killing of George Floyd in May 2020. Everyone wanted to help. Everyone wanted to give. Maybe it was just posting a black square on Instagram to show solidarity, but often it was more. Friends started sending money and organising others to do the same. I started giving to a few new groups myself.
Organisations that already existed in places such as Minneapolis — where Floyd was killed — and the new organisations that sprang up to capture this energy were flooded with volunteers and, most importantly, cash. People marched and people gave. Corporate America did too. And they all kept giving.
At the reopening of Sir John A. MacDonald’s Belleville House Saturday historian Channon Oyeniran talked of Canada’s past as being “steeped” in racism and white supremacy pic.twitter.com/chD1CtclIH
— Joe Warmington (@joe_warmington) May 19, 2024
H/T Miss Trixie
New Democrats say they’re rolling out a new line of attack against the Conservatives as their leader Pierre Poilievre targets NDP-held ridings.
On Tuesday, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh started dropping a new line — “The price of Pierre Poilievre” — an echo of Poilievre’s frequent references to what he calls the “Liberal-NDP costly coalition.”
The party is also pushing for passage of the pharmacare bill — C-64, one of the centrepieces of its confidence and supply deal with the Liberals — before Parliament rises for the summer. The party says it wants to use it and other policy wins to advance its strategy.
The center of Dublin glitters with architectural showpieces, the offices of global corporations. But there are increasingly tents at the base of the glass facades. Some of these belong to people excluded from housing, a scarcity across Ireland and simply unaffordable for many people in the booming capital. The housing crisis is the dominant topic in Ireland right now. When he took office as taoiseach, or Ireland’s head of government, in April, Simon Harris promised to provide 250,000 new homes by the end of the decade.
The situation on bus in Dublin. pic.twitter.com/CzpVSy7XBa
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) May 18, 2024
What do you notice about this data around 2020?
Why did it go thru the roof?
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— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) May 18, 2024
The comments are fun.
Journalists who follow Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for any length of time know he is almost never early for anything.
So it was refreshing when Trudeau bounded into a multi-purpose room at Elwick Community School in the Maples just after noon Friday, seven minutes ahead of schedule.
