After the October 7 attacks, thousands took to American streets to celebrate. Some explicitly praised the heinous acts of rape, beheading, and kidnapping of civilians. Among these demonstrators were many noncitizens, including those on student visas. Universities such as MIT refrained from suspending students who neglected their classes in order to protest, seeking to protect those students’ immigration status.
Hard habit to break for our politicians, they like the votes.
It’s a rare day in Canada that sees overt debate about class and power. But after Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland released her latest budget, that’s apparently what we got.
The triggering element wasn’t the deficit, the debt or new program spending. It was an increase in the capital-gains tax inclusion rate to 67 per cent from 50 per cent for businesses and for personal investment income above $250,000, a move that will generate $20-billion in tax revenue in the next five years.
After the budget, facing much backlash from the business community, Ms. Freeland said something I haven’t heard her say before: The tax changes were part of keeping the wheels of democracy turning.
A budget that angers the rich and does nothing to ease the burden of Canada’s impoverished.
Three law enforcement officers were killed and five more were wounded in a shooting incident in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Monday afternoon, police said.
At the time of the shooting, the U.S. Marshals Task Force was serving a warrant in an investigation in the area “when they were engaged by active gunfire from a subject,” police said Monday.
The suspect, who has not yet been identified, was also killed in the standoff.
🚨🇵🇸🇺🇲🇮🇱 According to Charlotte police head, 8 officers were shot including 4 US MARSHAL while 3 among them has tragically died, 4 CPD cops were only injured excluding one who is tragically injured #Charlotte #Northcarolina #CharlotteAusitn #CharlotteAustin #CharlotteShooting… pic.twitter.com/Cy2JzN3S57
— THE SQUADRON (@THE_SQUADR0N) April 29, 2024
International students will be allowed to work 24 hours a week starting in September
OTTAWA – Immigration Minister Marc Miller says international students will be able to work off-campus up to 24 hours per week starting in September.
The Liberals temporarily waved the 20-hour cap on work hours for international students during the COVID-19 pandemic in a bid to ease labour shortages.
There is no labour shortage – Canada’s Much-Touted Labour Shortage Is Mostly A Mirage
And … ‘No One Wants To Work Anymore’: Employers Complaining About Labour Shortages May Simply Not Be Paying Enough
Finally, back from their spring break, Monday was the first day the liberal ladies of ABC’s The View were able to spout off about the anti-Semitic, pro-Hamas encampments sweeping across college campuses. Staunchly racist and anti-Semitic co-host, Sunny Hostin (the descendant of slave owners) didn’t disappoint as she threw her lot in with the students chanting for the murder of Jews. She decried those who told the truth about the students and whined about the anti-Semitic designation.
British Columbia has abruptly reversed course on its landmark experiment decriminalizing the possession of certain illicit drugs, citing mounting public frustration and “disorder” in the Canadian province.
Premier David Eby said on Friday that he had asked the federal government to reintroduce a ban on public drug use, formally ending the country’s first large attempt to gauge the effects of decriminalization.
“Keeping people safe is our highest priority. While we are caring and compassionate for those struggling with addiction, we do not accept street disorder that makes communities feel unsafe,” Eby said.
Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) has committed the most astounding act of political suicide since Gary Hart.
By many accounts, Noem, a popular governor with a growing national brand, was on former President Trump’s vice presidential shortlist. Even if he didn’t choose her, there was little doubt Noem had a political future—she’s a beauty with made-for-TV looks, conservative, rural, and, in this era consumed by identity politics, being a woman doesn’t hurt. One could easily see her assuming a role in a future President Trump’s cabinet, and then running for president in 2028.
The current state of Canada’s military and defence spending has been the subject of international criticism and a source of growing isolation from key allies. In a world of evolving geopolitical tensions and new and emerging threats, Canada’s underinvestment in national defence represents a major vulnerability.
Israel has reduced the number of hostages it demands to be released in the first phase of a hostage deal with Hamas to 33, according to a Monday Kan News report.
According to a New York Times exclusive, Israel initially sought to release 40 hostages, including women, children, the seriously ill, and female soldiers. However, a revision occurred partly due to Israel’s belief, as indicated by one official, that some of the 40 captives may have died while in captivity.
Trudeau tells Grit MPs not to expect any dramatic boost in public support until next year
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Liberal MPs at their most recent national caucus meeting in Ottawa not to expect any significant change in public opinion polls until next year, according to some politicians who attended.
“Don’t expect us to be neck and neck in two months’ time or six months’ time, even,” said a Liberal MP when describing the gist of Trudeau’s (Papineau, Que.) message to MPs at the April 17 national caucus meeting, one day after the federal budget. “He’s [Trudeau] trying to downplay expectations. It’s like treading water when you’re drowning. [He was telling us] to not freak out while you’re drowning, that you stay calm, and you can get back to the top for a lot of the Members who are below water.”
Trudeau’s government has caused immense generational harm and there is no way he can fix it.
There is now a Frinkiac for Star Trek: TNG! Go check out @MemeItSo, who just hopped in my mentions from a year ago in response to a post begging for this very thing pic.twitter.com/dOWJV7o9nE
— Dylan Roth has a Patreon now (@DylanRoth) April 22, 2021
I’m a left-wing Jew. I’ve never been to Israel. I’ve abhorred Netanyahu for years. I’ve always wanted peace to prevail. And here’s how 7/10, yhe war, and the way “peace protestors” have changed the way I see things permanently….
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— SK Tedeschi (@skedeschi) April 29, 2024
Read the whole thread.
I wish him well but frankly remain perplexed that there aren’t more like him.
h/t SweetPea
The centrepiece of last week’s federal budget was the Trudeau government’s plan to build 3.87 million homes by 2031. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. estimates that 1.87 million homes are already going to be built – and Ottawa aims to more than double that pace.
How likely is that? Not very.
NATO countries have failed to deliver in good time what they promised to Ukraine, the alliance’s chief said Monday, as Russia rushes to exploit its battlefield advantages before Kyiv’s depleted forces get more Western military supplies in the war that has lasted more than two years.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that “serious delays in support have meant serious consequences on the battlefield” for Ukraine.
“NATO allies have not delivered what they promised,” Stoltenberg said at a news conference in Kyiv with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, referring to delays by the U.S. and Europe in sending weapons and ammunition.
The Toronto Police Service is making the public aware of 12 arrests and 102 charges laid in a major synthetic-identity fraud investigation dubbed Project Deja Vu.
Watch news conference here.
In October 2022, the Toronto Police Service Financial Crimes Unit began investigating a synthetic-identity credit fraud scheme that began in 2016. The perpetrators are alleged to have created more than 680 unique synthetic identities, many of which were used to apply for and open hundreds of bank accounts and credit accounts at various banks and financial institutions across Ontario.
h/t Patti Jo
An Iranian court’s decision to pass the death sentence against Toomaj Salehi, a popular Iranian rapper and regime opponent, has led to international protests and damaged Iran’s fledgling efforts to exploit crackdowns on unrest in US university campuses over Gaza as an abuse of human rights.
Crowds gathered in the US, Europe and Canada on Sunday to support Salehi, while dozens of political prisoners in Iran’s Ghezel Hesar prison issued a statement condemning the death sentence, calling it “the culmination of gross human rights violations in Iran”. Salehi has also won the support of major US rappers, as well as human rights groups.
