Author: Blazingcatfur
Nearly 60% of retirees are supporting adult children financially, survey finds
The majority of Canadian retirees are supporting their adult children financially, which they say is having a negative impact on their own finances, a new report has found.
According to Fidelity Investments Canada’s annual retirement report for 2024, 59 per cent of retirees report helping their non-student adult children with both day-to-day expenses and big-ticket items like home purchases, weddings and even education savings for their grandchildren.
Comedians outraged by stand-up’s death threat to ‘Zionist’ woman
A comedian who has appeared on a number of BBC shows has sparked outrage for posting a threat on social media to kill a female “Zionist” comedian.
Dane Baptiste, 42, has apologised for posting the message on Wednesday in which he warned the unnamed woman that he was prepared to “sit in prison while your family sit in the cemetery”.
Michael Higgins: Speaker Greg Fergus is a failure
Tradition demands that a newly-elected Speaker of the House of Commons is “dragged” unwillingly to the chair because it is such a thankless position.
In olden days, the Speaker would have to communicate the wishes of the British House of Commons to kings and queens who if they didn’t like what they heard still had the power to have heads chopped off.
The tools of the Speaker, therefore, are tact and diplomacy. And when they fail, more tact and more diplomacy.
Why US Gaza protesters’ plea for ‘no bagels’ sparked an anti-Semitism row
This time last year, two little words amid an inventory of campus protesters’ requests might well have gone unremarked upon by most. But when a list of “needs” allegedly drawn up by the Palestinian Solidarity Encampment at UCLA in the US specified “no bagels”, many were quick to see this as a very pointed culinary demand.
A list of desired donations was circulated online by protesters on Thursday, under a heading that read: “Please ensure the donations are BDS [boycott, divestment, sanctions] compliant”. It was said to have been issued by the Students for Justice in Palestine movement manning the barricades at the University of California, Los Angeles, and whoever wrote it was firm: they wanted hot food for lunch (stressing the importance of this in capital letters), and they wanted vegan and gluten-free choices. This being California, they wanted ice. And they did not, on any account, want packaged food, coffee, bananas, nuts – or bagels.
FUREY: Olivia Chow backs push to decriminalize hard drugs for kids and teens
It was over a year ago, last March, when Toronto’s Medical Officer of Health Eileen de Villa went rogue and submitted an expanded application to the federal government to see Canada’s largest city exempt kids and teens from the criminalization of hard drug possession.
Abacus Data Poll: Conservatives lead by 21 as the budget fails to change opinions
If an election were held today, 44% of committed voters would vote Conservatives with the Liberals at 23%, the NDP at 17% and the Greens at 4%. The BQ is at 33% in Quebec.
There has been no significant change in any of the party vote shares since our latest survey, but at 21-points, this Conservative lead represents the largest we have ever measured for the party.
Swing-State Voters Broadly Oppose Biden Administration’s Electric Car Agenda, Poll Finds
The Biden administration’s stringent environmental regulations and prioritization of electric vehicles are both deeply unpopular among swing-state voters, according to new polling shared exclusively with National Review.
A Man Killed Four Cops And Broke ‘Gun Control’ Laws, But Media Aren’t Invested In The Story For Some Reason
A white man shot black law enforcement officers this week, ultimately killing four of them and wounding four more, and he did it as they were attempting to arrest him for breaking “gun control” laws. Where are all the stories about “white supremacy” and “assault weapons bans”?
Wait, never mind. The suspect is black and all four victims are white. Nothing to see here, after all!
The dark side of veganism
Veganism is a phenomenon. Young people are going vegan en masse. The “plant-based movement” is taking hold across the West, while eco-socialist campaign groups such as Greenpeace and Peta are becoming bolder than ever in their insistence that anyone who eats meat or drinks milk wants to see the Earth burn.
The science paints a different picture; going vegan hurts the planet rather than helps it – and causes a wealth of other problem, too.
The future is female (robots)?
The future of robots is mostly female — but not feminist. If algorithms with “the right stuff” are coursing through their circuitry, the fembots will yet be demure and deferential toward their male creators.
It’s socially divisive when confused feminists spew misandry like “the future is female.” It’s hardly worth a rebuttal, other than to remind that it’s mostly men who invent, build, rescue, and fix things. The feminists like to dwell in our buildings; travel along our infrastructure; and thrive in cozy, climate-controlled comfort — all beneficiaries of so-called male toxicity.
Climate Jihad Joins the Campus Jihad
Fueling the surge of violence from the Neo-Nazi Left.
Last December, the Biden White house welcomed leaders of the Climate Defiance group, including co-founder Michael Greenberg, for consultations with Biden’s clean energy czar John Podesta. On April 18, Climate Defiance disrupted a Washington event for Sen. Lisa Murkowski, accused of being an “ecocidal pyromaniac.” Climate Defense now aims to “shut down” the annual congressional baseball game at Nationals Park on June 9. While that awaits, legislators might dial it back to June 14, 2017.
Ukraine is running out of battlefield options
Earlier this month, Ukraine’s military intelligence chief Kyrilo Budanov warned that from mid-May onwards, the country will face a battlefield situation that is “difficult” but “not catastrophic”. As Russian troops exploit February’s costly victory in Avdiivka by pushing westwards with increasing speed and success, Ukraine’s best hope is that he is correct.
How Baton Rouge school plagued by racial tensions and violence drove military veteran to spearhead successful campaign for wealthy white residents to form new city of St George
On May 3, 2013, violence erupted in the hallways of Woodlawn High School.
As many as six separate fights between unruly students broke out that day – part of an annus horribilis that saw 61 arrests made at the racially diverse school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Looking on in despair was Norman Browning, who had recently spent 15 years volunteering as a sports coach at Woodlawn.
A suburb of Atlanta sought to secede as well.