It’s hard to imagine a worse day in court than having a reliable witness come in, throw his own client, Stormy Daniels, under the New York Subway train, and then completely disembowel the prosecution’s case, at least the one they’re selling to the jury.
Foreign interference in 2019 and 2021 undermined the right of Canadian voters to have an electoral system “free from coercion or covert influence” and may have affected results in a small number of ridings, a public inquiry has concluded in the first of two reports.
While foreign meddling did not alter the overall outcome of those elections, Commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue, a justice of the Quebec Court of Appeal, issued a call to action Friday for the government to vigorously enact measures to tackle this “malign” threat to Canadian democracy.
The British Empire and other major European powers did not significantly enrich themselves through slavery and colonialism but rather may have taken a net loss as a result, a report has asserted.
Contrary to narratives pushed by ‘anti-colonialism’ academics and promoted by leftist talking heads, Western capitalism was not built off the backs of colonialism and slavery, fresh research from Kristian Niemietz of the Institute of Economic Affairs claims.
Just over a month into the new fiscal year and two weeks after the federal budget, the Department of National Defence is struggling to reconcile the Liberal government’s approach to military funding — giving with one hand while taking with the other.
Gen. Wayne Eyre, the country’s top military commander, told the rank-and-file in a remote town hall event last week that he doesn’t have answers to crucial questions about how internal budget cuts and funding reallocation square with promises of additional money in the recently released defence policy.
“We’re being asked to suck and blow at the same time,” Eyre, the chief of the defence staff, told about 1,300 members of the Armed Forces who tuned in for the presentation. A video copy of his presentation was obtained by CBC News.
I can’t say I’m surprised given I predicted this, but that doesn’t make it any less absurd. According to a local news report in California, the violent pro-Hamas students who set up an illegal encampment and trashed the UCLA campus received no jail time.
From the LA Times a fawning review.
With remains of UCLA camp tossed in dumpster, Gaza activists assess the future
With the help of bulldozers, items including tents, chairs and yoga mats were removed Thursday morning from the UCLA encampment occupied by pro-Palestinian protesters and shoved into a large gray dumpster.
Packages of unopened plastic water bottles lay on the grass. Nearby, two white trucks held pieces of wood that had been used by protesters to barricade the camp. A group of four UCLA graduate students walked over to Dickson Court, the area on campus where the encampment once stood, only to learn the camp had been taken down. The action followed the arrests early Thursday of more than 200 protesters by officers in body armor, helmets and face shields.
h/t XC & Mauser
Canadian police have arrested members of an alleged hit squad investigators believe was tasked by the government of India with killing prominent Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, B.C. last June, CBC News has learned.
Sources close to the investigation also told CBC News that police are actively investigating possible links to three additional murders in Canada, including the shooting death of an 11-year-old boy in Edmonton.
The Countering Antisemitism Act overthrows one form of tyranny by replacing it with another. Congress can’t legislate away hate.
The ADL already accused me of being a Holocaust denier.
See the problem?
Anyone who supports this is my enemy. https://t.co/8cGEVMd4vN
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) May 3, 2024
Justin Trudeau’s reputation is in tatters. You don’t have to take that only from me. David Coletto, CEO of Abacus polling, and the Toronto Star’s pollster, is a credible and non-partisan player in Canadian politics. Just now, Colette reports that the Conservatives have more support, 44 per cent, than the coalition of the Liberals at 23 per cent and Jagmeet Singh’s NDP 17 at per cent, combined, and the polls are not likely to change with Trudeau as leader.
The ongoing war in Gaza has prompted debates in Malaysia and elsewhere in Southeast Asia over what is seen as the West’s moral decline.
Bruce Gilley, a Portland State University professor, sparked a scandal in Malaysia late last month. Gilley claimed during a lecture in Kuala Lumpur that the Southeast Asian country could never be a trusted friend of the West because its leaders are supporting a “second Holocaust against the Jewish people.”
His comments referred to the Malaysian government’s public support of Hamas since the Gaza War began.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has twice spoken with the leader of the militant group, Ismail Haniyeh, since the October 7 attacks carried out by Hamas.
Hamas is designated as a terrorist organization by Israel, the German government, the EU and the United States, among others.
At the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, when toilet paper was trading like white gold and no one quite knew what the next few weeks or months would hold, Galen Weston Jr., then CEO of Loblaw, appeared in the inboxes of Canadians and tried to assure them that everything would be okay. “Do not worry,” wrote Uncle Galen. “We are not running out of food or essential supplies.”
BREAKING: The American flag has been removed from George Washington University's flagpole. The Palestinian flag now flies in its place. pic.twitter.com/4cWFCWepdl
— Stu (@thestustustudio) May 2, 2024
h/t Mauser
A lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in America appears calculated to expose as a lie the prevailing claim by National Students for Justice in Palestine that the recent campus protests are home-grown responses to the war at Gaza and expose them as planned, financed, and orchestrated by foreign terrorist groups.
Filed in the federal court in Virginia, the suit alleges that immediately after October 7 terror attacks in Israel, National Students for Justice in Palestine and related organizations answered a call by Hamas for mass mobilization by disseminating a manifesto and a plan of attack aimed at American campuses. The manifesto, the suit claims, confirms that NSJP is “not merely organizing to assist Hamas’s ongoing terror campaign abroad — they are intentionally extending their aid to fomenting chaos, violence, and terror in the United States.”
What will it take for the federal government to deal seriously with Chinese technology theft?
I imagine everyone has heard the phrase “shooting the messenger.” This refers to a tactic where a person who receives bad news, or information that is unwelcome, decides to take his frustration and anger out on the individual who brought it to his attention in the first place. In other words, rather that deal with the consequences of the data and figure out mitigating strategies, just harangue the bearer of bad news. Not a great strategy in all honesty, but one that is used all too frequently.
CUPE president, Fred Hahn celebrating at UoT encampment with the people who would throw him off a building or hang him by the keffiyeh he is wearing.
Thumbs up for self destruction and cultural appropriation that they were crying about just last year. pic.twitter.com/okQDm9Mbf9
— Kirk Lubimov (@KirkLubimov) May 3, 2024
h/t Mauser
The American student protests should be a wake-up call. Without a doubt, many of the students protesting Israel’s military action against Hamas in Gaza genuinely care for the plight of the Palestinian civilians being used by Hamas as human shields. However, it is clear that many student protestors are associating with very dark forces. Some of them have even gone so far as to praise Hamas and to openly call for burning Tel Aviv.
Over here in Europe, similar concerns have been raised. Mohammed Khatib is the EU coordinator for Samidoun, an extremist pro-Palestinian organisation. He lives in Belgium, and enjoys ‘refugee’ status. In a webinar on the terror raid on October 7, he stated that it was “a glorious day” that made him proud. Samidoun is considered a front for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a Palestinian terror organisation notorious for plane hijackings and assassinations. Terrorists linked to the PFLP were also allegedly involved in the October 7 terror attack.
