Author: Blazingcatfur
The Anti-Woke Counterrevolution Is Spreading
A gradual move back to normalcy has become apparent.
Writing in this space five months ago, I argued that an anti-woke counterrevolution was starting on American campuses. While that is certainly even more true today, I am seeing increased signs of a more widespread revolt against relentless attacks on traditional American values such as respect for free speech and private property, as well as a reverence of God, hard work and assessing people on the basis of meritorious accomplishment.
Customers are fed up with anti-theft measures at stores. Retailers say organized crime is to blame
Susan Dennison recently had an unsettling experience at her local grocery store, a Loblaw-owned Fortinos in Burlington, Ont.
Just as she was leaving, the wheels on her shopping cart locked up — making it immobile.
She said a store employee rushed over and demanded to see her receipt.
I find self-checkout to be the worst “advance” in retail. Costco bill check is a minor annoyance. But I do recommend you check grocery bills for billing errors, I have caught several including one from Costco in just the past 6 months. Not huge mistakes maybe 30 bucks in total. My local Farmboy is not to be trusted, and I wonder if it’s as I suspect their “Foreign Student” hiring practices. A constant turnover in staff can’t help.
Russia, China and Iran Must Not Seize Control of Sudan
A modern-day “Scramble for Africa” is taking place in war-torn Sudan, where an unholy collection of hostile autocratic states, namely Iran, Russia and China, are competing for a stake in the country’s key resources, especially the all-important maritime base of Port Sudan in the Red Sea.
Back in the late nineteenth century, the original “Scramble for Africa” was the term coined to describe the efforts of European colonial powers such as Britain, France and Germany to expand their influence throughout the African continent. Their campaign of expansion proved so successful that by the outbreak of the First World War, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained free from the shackles of European colonisation.
Elon Musk Treads Deeper Into Canada Free Speech Debate
Elon Musk’s pledge to pay the legal costs of people who suffer repercussions for speaking their minds on his X social media platform is drawing him deeper into Canada’s battle over free speech.
His platform is providing financial support for a legal appeal by a Brampton, Ont., pediatrician who was professionally rebuked for criticizing Canada’s COVID-era lockdowns. Mr. Musk is also funding a free-speech lawsuit filed by another Ontario-based doctor who had spoken out against COVID-19 health policies.
BBC Runs Hit Piece on Slovakian Prime Minister Hours After He’s SHOT in Assassination Attempt
There is a time and place to be critical of a political leader if you are a news organization. However, the time to be critical of such a person is most definitely NOT just hours after an assassination attempt in which such a person lies in a hospital in critical condition from multiple bullet wounds. And yet the BBC, with the soul of a ghoul, went ahead on Wednesday and did just that hours after the Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico was shot multiple times.
Private jets, exotic cars, luxury vacations: Inside the life of Ontario’s ‘Crypto King’
YouTube videos and quick Google searches.
That is how then 23-year-old Aiden Pleterski, self-proclaimed “Crypto King,” described how he learned about financial markets, foreign exchange and cryptocurrencies.
It was 9:30 a.m. on Nov. 24, 2022 and Pleterski was answering questions from the lawyer for the accounting firm overseeing his bankruptcy after investors claimed he had defrauded them out of tens of millions of dollars.
MANDEL: Admitted child sex abuser can’t practise law — for now
An admitted child sex abuser won’t get to practise law after all — at least for now.
The Law Society of Ontario (LSO) has won a stay in Divisional Court that prevents the lawyer — who, lucky for him, can only be identified by the initials AA — from hanging out a shingle while the legal regulator tries again to overturn the controversial decision that found him of “good character.”
‘Good chance’ we’ll leave US if Trump acquitted, Stormy Daniels husband says
The husband of Stormy Daniels said there is a “good chance” that the couple will leave the US if Donald Trump is acquitted in his criminal trial over paying hush-money payments to the adult film star.
“I think if it’s not guilty, we got to decide what to do. Good chance we’ll probably vacate this country,” Barrett Blade told CNN host Erin Burnett on Tuesday.
“If he is found guilty, then she’s still got to deal with all the hate. I feel like she’s the reason that he’s guilty from all his followers, so I don’t see it as a win-win situation either way.”
MAID in Canada: Euthanasia Escapee Has a Dire Warning
Amir Farsoud — whose sad story I shared with you in 2022 — won’t have to choose between going homeless or being euthanized by the Canadian government. This is what passes for good news some days.
Biden blocks release of special counsel interview tapes showing mental decline
US President Joe Biden has blocked the release of audio recordings of his interviews from the investigation into his handling of classified files.
A letter from the justice department to Republicans in Congress said Mr Biden had asserted executive privilege.
Republicans had demanded the release of the president’s interviews with Special Counsel Robert Hur.
Mr Hur’s explosive report was released in February and it called Mr Biden’s age and memory into question.
Ontario warns Toronto to drop effort to turn city into an Open Air Drug Den with misguided drug decriminalization request
Ontario’s Minister of Health, Sylvia Jones, is warning Toronto’s medical officer of health to drop her request for a B.C.-style exemption from federal laws to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of hard drugs in the city, saying if she fails to rescind its application, the province will be forced to act.
In a terse letter sent on Friday to Toronto Medical Officer of Health Eileen de Villa, Ms. Jones also says that after a review of supervised drug consumption sites, prompted by a fatal shooting outside one such facility in Toronto’s Leslieville area, she plans to bring in unspecified “enhanced accountability measures” for these sites “to ensure that the safety and wellbeing of the public is protected.”
Progressives love it when junkies litter the sidewalk.
Probably the only Michelin Star restaurant I’ll ever be able to afford.
Michelin star awarded to Mexican taco stand for first time
The prestigious Michelin Guide star was awarded to a 10-foot by 10-foot (3-meter by 3-meter) taqueria in Mexico City.
Tacos El Califa de Leon, in the scruffy-bohemian San Rafael neighborhood, is the first such restaurant to receive the prize from the coveted French dining guide.
It is named after the celebrated Mexican bullfighter Rodolfo Gaona, whose nickname in the ring was “El Califa de Leon.”
Tacos? Actually the cost of getting to Mexico means I’ll never get that chance.
GOLDSTEIN: Canadians’ standard of living is on decline, report says
Canadians are currently experiencing one of the worst and longest declines in their standard of living in decades, according to a new report by the Fraser Institute.
“Despite claims to the contrary, living standards are declining in Canada,” study co-author Grady Munro says in the report by the fiscally conservative think tank, “Changes in Per-Person GDP (Income): 1985 to 2023.”
Don’t believe your lying eyes!
Ron DeSantis signs bill scrubbing ‘climate change’ from Florida state laws
Climate change will be a lesser priority in Florida and largely disappear from state statutes under legislation signed on Wednesday by the state’s governor, Ron DeSantis, in a move which experts say ignores the reality of Florida’s climate threats.
The legislation, which comes after Florida had its hottest year on record since 1895, also bans power-generating wind turbines offshore or near the state’s lengthy coastline.
Florida is facing rising seas, extreme heat, flooding and increasingly severe storms.
“Climate change” will eventually join repressed memory in the hysteria hall of fame.