This is unbelievably accurate. If you watch one thing today, make it this!
Is this too close to reality to be funny? I’m on the fence. pic.twitter.com/jlQvESPaM6
— Hillel Fuld (@HilzFuld) May 15, 2024
h/t Patti Jo
Author: Blazingcatfur
With an election on the horizon, Poilievre’s Conservatives sign up dozens of new candidates
The next federal election could be more than a year away but political parties are already deep into planning their next campaigns — and recruiting new candidates.
Well ahead in the polls and reporting record-breaking sums in political donations, the Conservatives are also leading the pack on nominating candidates new to federal politics.
To date, the Conservative Party of Canada has nominated about 40 new faces as candidates. The party currently has 118 members of Parliament.
Journalist who filmed Wuhan Covid outbreak missing after jail term
A Chinese journalist who was due to be released from prison has disappeared after serving a sentence for reporting on the initial outbreak of coronavirus, campaigners say.
Zhang Zhan, 40, travelled to Wuhan, the pandemic’s presumed origin, as the virus began to spread in early 2020.
She was due to be freed from Shanghai women’s prison on Monday after a four-year sentence, but she has not responded to attempts to contact her. Her family said it was “not convenient” to reply to requests for information, often a sign that people have been put under pressure by the police.
Joe Oliver: A principled Canada would protect its Jews
… In Canada, as elsewhere, Israel’s enemies target it with unhinged ferocity. Too many decent people don’t recognize that this vilification is unjustified and one-sided because it’s been normalized by an accommodating establishment and mainstream media. Moral clarity was always an endangered species in the Middle Eastern conflict.
A principled Canada would protect it’s Jews? Really?
Would that be the principled Canada of Jews for Gaza?
Would that be the principled Canada of Bernie Farber’s CAHN?
Would that be the principled Canada that has demonized White people through DEI and CRT for the past decade?
Would that be the principled Canada of fake mass graves and burning churches?
Would that be the principled Canada that force marched us down the one way street of multiculturalism and diversity while denigrating our nation as founded on genocide?
Would that be the principled Canada whose elites have flooded the nation with incompatible immigrant cultures yet demands that we bigots learn to be tolerant?
Would that be the principled Canada that declares White supremacism a major threat while allowing multiple imported ethnic conflicts to be fought out in our streets?
Would that be the principled Canada that smeared you as a racist for daring to point out the folly of Mass Islamist immigration?
Would that be the principled Canada where some of the same super tolerant blowhards who called us Islamophobes are suddenly the most enthusiastic of Islamophobes?
Would that be the principled Canada whose security services play down the threat of Muslim terrorism to please their political masters?
Would that be the principled Canada where identity politics is so out of hand that they appointed an Islamophobia Tsar who doubles as an Hamas cheerleader?
Would that be the principled Canada where the Mayor of Toronto declares a ceremonial flag raising “divisive”?
Would that be the principled Canada where most of the government media is as suspect as Press TV?
You see I’m a little confused. I consider myself to be a decent person even if I am one of those Islamophobic Demon Whites this country’s elites hate so fucking much so I’m more than a little surprised you’re asking for my help.
PS. That principled Canada you refer to is a thing of the past. Our principled elites trashed it or have you forgotten?
Germany: Stabby Muslim jailed for life for train knife attack
A 34-year-old man has been given the toughest penalty in German law after attacking people with a knife on a train in 2023, killing two and wounding four others. The defense argued he should be put in psychiatric care.
… The 34-year-old grew up in Gaza and had been in Germany since 2014 but was still trying to secure residency rights.
The prosecution alleged that frustration following an unsuccessful appointment at the migration office in Kiel, seeking one of the last legal avenues to stay in the country that was still open to him, led to him stealing a knife from a supermarket and then attacking people on the train with it.
Panel Advising Heritage Minister on Future of CBC Dominated by CBC Veterans
Seven people have been chosen to advise Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge as she examines the role of the CBC/Radio-Canada. Despite their varied current roles, most are veterans of the CBC itself.
The seven-member panel of media experts, including four with experience at the CBC, will meet regularly with Ms. St-Onge to discuss “a range of questions dealing with funding, governance and mandate” as she examines the role of Canada’s public broadcaster, the ministry said in a May 13 release.
Men accused of planning Isis-style attack on Jewish community
Two men who are accused of plotting to carry out an Islamic State-inspired terrorist attack targeting the Jewish community in Greater Manchester have appeared in court.
Walid Saadaoui, 36, of Abram, Greater Manchester, and Amar Hussein, 50, of no fixed abode, allegedly planned for the attack to cause “multiple fatalities using automatic weapons”. Both are charged with the preparation of terrorist acts between December 13 last year and May 9 this year.
ZIVO: Anti-Semitism brewing in Toronto’s gay village
The bathroom of a popular gay bar in the Church-Wellesley village was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti recently – and while this incident may seem minor when viewed in isolation, some Jewish voices say that it is reflective of an unsettling rise in anti-Semitism within Toronto’s LGBTQ community.
Google’s self-driving cars investigated on suspicion of breaking traffics laws
Google’s robot taxis are to be investigated by American regulators amid claims the self-driving cars flouted traffic laws.
The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Tuesday said its investigation would look at 444 vehicles owned by Waymo, a subsidiary of Google’s parent Alphabet.
It follows reports of 22 incidents, including 17 collisions, which included behaviour that potentially broke traffic laws, the regulator said.
Canada Post was wrong to suspend unvaccinated remote workers during COVID, arbitrator rules
OTTAWA — A labour arbitrator has struck down part of Canada Post’s mandatory COVID-19 vaccine policy for employees, ruling it was unreasonable to suspend staff without pay who worked remotely simply because they did not confirm they were vaccinated.
Flemish Left Meltdown Over Vlaams Belang’s Pro-Family Policies
The Left in Flanders is in a tizzy after the Flemish nationalist Vlaams Belang party, inspired by Hungary’s demographic approach to public spending, proposed incentivising couples to have children.
With Belgium’s June 9th elections fast approaching, and Vlaams Belang topping the latest polls by a wide margin (securing a commanding 28% of the vote), leftist establishment parties are doing their utmost to publicize the supposed ‘far-right’ threat Vlaams Belang presents in the northern, Dutch-speaking part of Belgium.
John Robson: Once Again, Our Leaders Are Ignoring Lessons From History
On to Berlin! There’s the battle cry, and rightly so. But our leaders are too busy editing delusional press releases, so history passes them by. Or rolls over them… and us.
In the National Post on May 13, Joe Roberts wrote, “The allies could never have won the Second World War by making clear they would stop short of Berlin.” He was drawing a historical analogy with Israel pressing into Rafah, seeking “complete and uncompromising” victory over Hamas. And while historical counterfactuals are as tricky as they are vital, we know all too well he was right.
British Columbia to bar those guilty of serious crimes from changing names
Canada’s westernmost province has says it will stop people who committed serious crimes from changing their names, following revelations that a child-killer tried to keep his new identity secret.
British Columbia’s health minister said on Monday his government would introduce legislation to amend the province’s name act.
“Allowing these individuals to hide their identity through a name change is extremely troubling to victims and their families and can result in safety concerns for members of the public,” said Adrian Dix. The new prohibition would apply to adults, as well as offenders under 18 but who are convicted and sentenced as adults.
What Must the Jury Be Thinking about Why Trump Is on Trial?
With former president Trump’s criminal trial now in its fourth week of testimony, I wonder what the Manhattan jury must be thinking about the resources the elected Democratic district attorney is devoting to it.
The majority of crime goes unreported. Of that which is reported, the number of crime cases that are “solved” — what police call the “clearance rate” — is alarmingly low. That is especially the case in Manhattan. Last week, the Manhattan Institute’s Tim Rosenberger noted in the City Journal that less than three in ten cases (29.8 percent) are cleared.
Climate Scientist Calls for Mass Depopulation to Fight ‘Global Warming’
A top government climate scientist has called for a major “culling of the human population” in order to fight “global warming.”
Professor Bill McGuire argues that a “pandemic with a very high fatality rate” is required to wipe out a large portion of the human race.
According to McGuire, a mass depopulation event is “the only realistic way” to “avoid a catastrophic climate breakdown.”