A new report says the average asking rent for a home in Canada in April was up 9.3 per cent compared with a year ago, while a slight month-over-month increase was also recorded for the first time since January.
The report by Urbanation and Rentals.ca, which analyzes monthly listings from the latter’s network, says the average asking rent for all home types was $2,188 last month.
Jonathan Martin has written a column over at Politico asking the same question I’ve been hammering on relentlessly since at least April of last year: “Between Protests and a Rookie Mayor, Is Chicago Ready for the DNC?” If you’re familiar with Betteridge’s Law of Headlines or my written corpus to date, you already know the answer is “No.” And it’s primarily because of the unique combination of malevolence and incompetence embodied by Mayor Brandon Johnson …
In an environment of endless protest from the left, trans activists have moved from public disruption to simply disabling systems they do not like. On May 1, 2024, Utah launched a reporting form to enforce H.B. 257, a law signed by Gov. Spencer Cox in January that protects sex-designated spaces such as restrooms or locker rooms from intrusions by members of the opposite sex. The state auditor is required to investigate these reports, but within a week, the office received around 10,000 false complaints from trans activists attempting to overwhelm the system to make reporting and enforcement impossible.
Tributes and remembrances from across the political spectrum have poured in for Rex Murphy, who died aged 77.
Mark Critch, a fellow Newfoundlander who parodied Murphy on the CBC program This Hour Has 22 Minutes, recalled that Murphy had worked with his father at VOCM radio in St. John’s, N.L. “You might not always agree with what he had to say but oh, could he say it,” Critch wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “I hope he makes it home to Gooseberry Cove.”
Carbon capture and underground storage (CCUS) tops the list of silly schemes “to reduce man-made global warming.” The idea is to capture exhaust gases from power stations or cement plants, separate the CO2 from the other gases, compress it, pump it to the chosen burial site, and force it underground into permeable rock formations. Then hope it never escapes.
An Australian mining company who should know better is hoping to appease green critics by proposing to bury the gas of life, CO2, deep in the sedimentary rocks of Australia’s Great Artesian Basin.
H.R.7109 or The Equal Representation Act passed the House on a party line vote. Its objective is simple.
“To require a citizenship question on the decennial census, to require reporting on certain census statistics, and to modify apportionment of Representatives to be based on United States citizens instead of all persons.”
What happens when you mix chauvinism with continental camp?
As the protests in Malmo over Israel’s inclusion in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, like the anguished defences of taking part by British and Irish contestants show, the kitschy spectacle is an inherently geopolitical format. In the interests of fairness then, should Palestine, like its neighbour Israel, enter Eurovision?
It is difficult to imagine a coherent argument against it on cultural grounds: after all, one of the arguments Israel’s supporters currently find most objectionable is that Israelis (most of whom are now descended from Middle Eastern Jewish refugees) “really” belong in Europe. In fact, the question is not technically a cultural one: as Palestine is not a member of the European Broadcasting Union, it is not eligible to join. Yet all the other Arab states neighbouring Europe are EBU members, and free to take part if they wish to: Morocco’s 1980 entry was — so far — the only Eurovision entry to be performed in Arabic, while Lebanon only withdrew its planned 2005 entry once the state broadcaster realised it would not be permitted to censor Israel’s performance. But that the question immediately asserts itself as a cultural one — a drawing of borders between our European home, and outsiders — reaches to the very heart of the contest’s meaning.
Riley Gaines slammed a ‘cowardly’ college administrator who protested her commencement speech at Adrian College by wearing a trans flag – but removed it before she turned around.
The swimmer, 24, took to X to lash out at the educator, saying she didn’t even realize his silent protest until she watched her speech back again.
‘In truly cowardly fashion, the administrator behind me cloaked himself in a trans flag only after I got to the podium and removed it before I turned back around to see,’ she said.
Its collapse could be sudden and irreversible
At first glance, the world economy looks reassuringly resilient. America has boomed even as its trade war with China has escalated. Germany has withstood the loss of Russian gas supplies without suffering an economic disaster. War in the Middle East has brought no oil shock. Missile-firing Houthi rebels have barely touched the global flow of goods. As a share of global gdp, trade has bounced back from the pandemic and is forecast to grow healthily this year.
Look deeper, though, and you see fragility. For years the order that has governed the global economy since the second world war has been eroded. Today it is close to collapse. A worrying number of triggers could set off a descent into anarchy, where might is right and war is once again the resort of great powers. Even if it never comes to conflict, the effect on the economy of a breakdown in norms could be fast and brutal.
Ukrainian men caught avoiding the call-up to fight will face increased fines under new measures—which will also allow authorities to detain ‘draft dodgers’ for up to three days—supported by Parliament on Thursday.
The bill, which has yet to be signed into law by President Volodymyr Zelensky but is backed by most lawmakers, comes amid fears about Russia gaining momentum on the battlefield and of soldier shortages in the Ukrainian army.
Zelensky said in February that 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed since Russia launched its invasion, or the ‘special military operation’ in Kremlin-speak, two years ago—the first figure he has given since the war started. The true number is undoubtedly much higher.
They were supposed to be outstanding – on paper. In the real world, they’re closer to the upper end of mediocre. So much promise, never realized. Reputation is way up here; results are somewhere down there.
I’m talking about the Toronto Maple Leafs. I’m also talking about Canada.
OTTAWA – Canada abstained on a motion at the UN General Assembly Friday designed to move the international body towards recognizing Palestinian statehood.
The motion passed by a wide margin, with only the U.S., Israel and a handful of other countries opposing the move. The motion recognizes that a Palestinian state is ready for admission to the UN. The UN Security Council has already rejected granting a Palestinian state full diplomatic recognition and Friday’s vote calls on the Security Council to reconsider that choice.
Abstention is just cowardice in this instance. Too many votes at risk for Junior to do the right thing I suppose.
Canada presses Germany to boost parts production as Ukraine struggles to field its Leopard tanks
Germany’s defence minister acknowledged Friday that countries like Canada — and to a lesser extent Ukraine — are in a tough spot when it comes to maintaining older variants of the Leopard 2 main battle tank and keeping them in the field.
Boris Pistorious, who visited Ottawa and met with his counterpart Defence Minister Bill Blair, was asked about the world-wide shortage of spare parts affecting the A4 model of the Leopard, the type overwhelmingly used by the Canadian Army.
It’s also the model which Canada, Poland, Norway, Denmark, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands and Portugal all donated to Ukraine.
A grown man who dresses up as a girl sits at a Disney park with children nearby and discusses how he got his t*sticIes removed and how he's so excited to get a fake v*gina. pic.twitter.com/aERZ5Za3Og
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 9, 2024
A new data analysis from the Angus Reid Institute has combed through 50 years of political polls and uncovered some historical trends and oddities. Most recently, it found that the popularity of Canadian federal party leaders is at a five-decade-year low. And that’s not one of them — it’s all of them.
