It used to be that when politicians announced they were stepping down, you got a glimpse of the kinder, gentler side of politics — the joy of public service, the friendships made across party lines.
Now, though, I’ve come to dread learning why many politicians are packing it in — the threats to their safety and mental health, and how the job may not be worth the sacrifice. No longer are we seeing the best side of politics; we’re seeing the worst.
Unions representing Conestoga College’s faculty and support staff are speaking out about the impact of the school’s rapid growth on those who work there.
They feel many of the international students aren’t ready for college and that’s compromising the school’s academic integrity, putting an unnecessary strain on staff, and clouding their reputation.
h/t XC
A new poll suggests a majority of Canadians feel their right to freedom of speech is in danger.
The Leger online survey found 57 per cent of respondents who said free speech in Canada is under threat.
Of those, 34 per cent said it was “somewhat” threatened, while 23 per cent said they consider the threat a serious one.
UNREAL. Middle school in CA in @BonitaUSD invited an adult entertainer to perform for students. He allegedly told students to follow him on social media where he posts s*xually explicit and graphic content.
One student asked him not to come back and he wrote "what you gonna [do]… pic.twitter.com/giMv8tHLLs
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 3, 2024
Don’t fall for Pierre Poilievre’s rants that Canada is broken — it’s an insult to Canadians
These are bitter days for those who believe in the essential role of a healthy American democracy on the global stage. Bitter, too, for a large majority of Americans.
For the rest of the world, terrifying.
For those who cannot digest America’s often irritating arrogance, excesses and even humiliating mistakes, there is one unavoidable reality they must face. A world where the United States is ruled by a corrupt autocrat determined to seek revenge on his enemies at home and around the world, would make today’s nightmares pale by comparison.
When you de-gender a person you are basically guilty of a crime. pic.twitter.com/ioBlBvIWIK
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) May 2, 2024
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s ill-fated 2024 presidential campaign was much criticized for being “too online.” But Democrats are no less prone to fall into that same trap. Now-Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2020 presidential campaign, which generated considerable initial buzz before it abruptly sputtered, was infamous for listening too much to left-wing TV hosts and social media blue checkmarks — not actual Democratic primary voters.
This one is for the morons.
For the students busily cosplaying at being terrorists on our city’s campuses.
The automatons whose new radical-chic uniform is an Arab keffiyeh.
Specifically to the ones who have decided to chant for “Intifada” and unveil a vast banner down the side of Hamilton Hall at Columbia this week.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said universities should be places where ideas are debated but they also need to be safe for students, as a growing number of encampments protesting Israel’s war in Gaza have been set up at Canadian schools.
“Universities are places where the freedom of speech, the freedom of ideas, the challenge of debate, of dialogue, of discussion about how to shape the world, how to see the world, how to go on out after university or college and lead the world are a core part of what campuses are all about,” Trudeau told reporters while visiting Hamilton, Ont. on Friday.
The terrorist threat to Europe from the Islamic Republic of Iran — and Hamas and Hezbollah, its proxies — is growing. European leaders, however, are absorbed with trying to prevent Israel from eliminating the military capabilities of Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, even though that would diminish the ability of these terrorists to operate in Europe.
Even before the October 7 massacre in Israel by Hamas, Mossad Director David Barnea said in September 2023 that Israel’s intelligence services, in cooperation with their foreign partners, had prevented 27 terrorist attacks orchestrated by the Iran just over the last year, “all over the world, in Europe, Africa, the Far East and South America.”
On Monday’s Amanpour & Co., which runs on PBS and CNN International, host Christiane Amanpour took the side of the pro-Hamas campus protesters who are spewing anti-Jewish rhetoric on “progressive” college campuses nationwide — no surprise given her long-standing journalistic hostility toward Israel.
Against all evidence she insisted that the campus occupiers were “mostly nonviolent” idealists and that concerns had been blown “out of proportion.” Occupying private property is illegal, hence police may be called.
A spike in impaired driving-related collisions has caused Ontario’s provincial police to begin enforcing mandatory alcohol screening (MAS) at all traffic stops in the Greater Toronto Area — a move one civil rights group says is ‘not acceptable.’
Speaking with CP24 on Thursday, Shakir Rahim, director of the Criminal Justice program at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA), said that as the new measures do not require officer’s to have reason to request a breathalyzer test, they are unjustifiable.
“This is an unjustified power to interlude into someone’s life without any suspicion [that] they have done something wrong,” he said. “That’s not acceptable.”
Police began clearing out protesters at New York University (NYU) in downtown Manhattan on Friday as pressure continued to build on the city’s mayor, Eric Adams, to divulge more details on identities and affiliations of those within the 282 people arrested at uptown Columbia and City College of New York (CCNY) on Tuesday night – after he blamed “outside agitators” for prompting a crackdown.
Campuses elsewhere were relatively quiet overnight, while the recent weeks of escalated pro-Palestinian protests across more than 40 campuses nationwide have resulted in almost 2,200 arrests, according to an Associated Press tally.
Police show flyers they found at the NYU protest which was being used by pro-Palestinian protesters which read “D*ath to America.”
The enemy is already here. pic.twitter.com/Qlg1e0RVeN
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 3, 2024
The @NYPDnews proudly protects everyone’s right to free speech and peaceful protest.
Here’s a look at just some of the inflammatory literature and signage we observed today at the illegal encampment on @NYU property:
“Enough with De-Escalation Trainings: Where are the… pic.twitter.com/Zo3hSF55rG
— NYPD Deputy Commissioner, Operations Kaz Daughtry (@NYPDDaughtry) May 3, 2024
The federal government says it will provide $104 million to help Toronto host six matches at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
The funding for capital and operational expenses was announced Friday morning at Toronto’s BMO Field, where the matches will be held.
“Today is a great day to be a soccer fan in the city of Toronto,” Mayor Olivia Chow said.
