Fertility rates in the United States hit a record low in 2023, according to provisional data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday.
Author: Blazingcatfur
EV sales have slowed. Do massive ̷s̷u̷b̷s̷i̷d̷i̷e̷s̷ corporate welfare payouts still make sense?
Enormous investments in EV technology shook the automotive industry in both Canada and the U.S. this week. Honda promised to spend $15 billion in Ontario on Thursday morning. Toyota unveiled new investments in Indiana that afternoon, bringing its total spending on EVs in that state to $8 billion US.
“In Canada, our target is that 100 per cent of all light duty cars and passenger truck sales be zero emission by 2035,” said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the Honda announcement in Alliston, Ont. “As a great Canadian once said, that is where the puck is going and that is where we’re going to be.”
But the surge in investment comes as the underlying EV industry remains at a crossroads. Growth forecasts have plateaued, charging infrastructure has not kept pace and electric vehicle prices have pushed the cars out of reach of many consumers.
This is a CBC PROPAGANDA piece for the Liberals.
First AI Hate Hoax? White Principal Accused of Racism Based on Fake Audio
A pretty dramatic story out of Baltimore today which reveals what may be the first hate hoax perpetrated with the help of artificial intelligence. The principal of Pikesville High School, Eric Eiswert, was accused in January of making blatantly racist comments behind closed doors after an inflammatory audio file was posted on a popular Instagram account.
‘It’s soul-destroying’: How a malevolent online campaign is targeting Jewish doctors in Ontario
Dox a doc a day.
As anti-Israel — often anti-Jew — protests violently roil campuses across America, a different campaign dripping with malevolence is specifically targeting Jewish physicians right here in Ontario.
There’s no fig-leaf of divestment from Israel, no camouflage exploiting the horrors experienced by civilians in Gaza. Rather, the doxing has been a directed, co-ordinated crusade aimed at physicians whose only “offence’’ is their Jewishness.
It is unfortunate but not much can be done about it as that poisonous plant is now too deeply rooted to eradicate.
You may succeed in slowing its growth but inevitably it will win out.
If you supported Muslim immigration please kill yourself. You owe us that.
h/t Patti Jo
Sadiq Khan apologises to chief rabbi for hinting at Islamophobia
Sadiq Khan has apologised to the chief rabbi for suggesting that Jewish leaders only criticised his call for a ceasefire in Gaza due to his Muslim-sounding name.
The mayor of London called for a ceasefire early in the conflict in Israel and Gaza, but was criticised by Sir Ephraim Mirvis, who said in November that Khan’s call was “irresponsible” and that a ceasefire would be “a stepping stone to yet more Hamas brutality”.
How powerful is Hamas after 7 months of war with Israel?
Israel and the United States have agreed on the need to defeat Hamas, including in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, officials from both countries said after a meeting of the Strategic Consultative Group in early April.
As part of that virtual meeting, the US expressed its concerns with various courses of action in Rafah while Israel “agreed to take these concerns into account,” according to a statement released by the White House.
Between the lines, however, the meeting highlighted that militarily, Hamas has not been defeated in Gaza despite more than six months of war. It remains unclear how long Hamas could be able to fight against the Israeli military.
RCMP’s ability to defend national security is eroding, report warns
The RCMP’s federal wing is at a “critical juncture” and its ability to police key files like foreign interference, terrorism and financial crime is on the line, says a recent report from the Mounties’ independent advisory board.
After studying the sustainability of federal policing for more than a year, a task force set up by the external Management Advisory Board drafted a report that says the RCMP must change to survive — and the federal government needs to step up to protect Canadians’ safety.
George Soros is paying student radicals who are fueling nationwide explosion of Israel-hating protests
George Soros and his hard-left acolytes are paying agitators who are fueling the explosion of radical anti-Israel protests at colleges across the country.
The protests, which began when students took over Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus lawn last week, have mushroomed nationwide.
Copycat tent cities have been set up at colleges including Harvard, Yale, Berkeley in California, the Ohio State University and Emory in Georgia — all of them organized by branches of the Soros-funded Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) — and at some, students have clashed with police.
Food banks are on the brink in Trudeau’s Canada
Canadian food banks are on the brink: ‘This is not a sustainable situation’
Food banks in Canada are being pushed to the brink with high demand and donations not keeping pace. Experts say it’s unsustainable.
The last four years have been financially tumultuous for Canadians. A global pandemic and rampant inflation have led to high grocery prices, with more and more people finding themselves unable to afford the basics.
But what happens when donations to help are not keeping up with demand?
Released teen hostage: ‘The terrorist brought me a ring’
18-year-old Noga Weiss, who was held hostage by Hamas for 50 days, recounted the story of her captivity and how a terrorist wanted her to marry him and raise her children.
“Their moods would always change,” she told Channel 12 about the terrorists who guarded the hostages. “Sometimes they would play cards and joke with us, but then someone would say something they didn’t like, and one suddenly would leave the room and come back with a pistol.”
h/t MP
Giving Pro-Hamas Protesters a Pass While Condemning Poilievre for Attending Tax Protest a Gross Double Standard
The latest faux scandal du jour that has media pundits and Liberal members breathlessly raising alarm bells has to do with Pierre Poilievre’s recent visit to an encampment of people protesting against the federal carbon tax on the border between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
Protests sprung up around the country on April 1 as the tax increased, and many encampments of protesters in RVs have remained in place since. The encampments may be unpleasing to the eye and surely contain some folks with rather strong views, but they have remained peaceful and are hardly the beginning of a national revolution.
James Webb telescope to investigate strongest sign of alien life
The James Webb Space Telescope is set to turn its gaze towards a distant planet in another solar system on Friday to investigate one of the most tantalising hints of alien life ever discovered.
Below the constellation of Leo, too faint for the naked eye, is the red dwarf star K2-18, about half the size of our sun. In orbit around it is a planet called K2-18b, believed to be an ocean-covered world about 2.6 times the radius of Earth.
Hidden in its atmosphere, scientists have spotted signs of something that could ultimately show that the Earth is not alone in being home to life.
Rex Murphy: Hatred of Israel is the great moral disorder of our time
It is the great moral disorder of our time.
Dear Israel is but a spit of earth on a huge globe. Three years after six million Jews were put to torture, humiliation, whippings, rape, medical experiment, starvation, and vile death, was it not surely time — time for all the nations of the Earth who had reached some moral understanding of life and government — to allow Jewish people time to rest, time to mourn, time to see what and who might be left of them.
Hollywood reacts to overturning of Harvey Weinstein rape conviction: ‘Beyond disappointed’
Hollywood has reacted with shock to the news that the disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction has been overturned by a New York court.
The fallen movie mogul was sentenced to 23 years in 2020 for two sex crimes, a decision that a court of appeals has now called the result of an unfair trial.
Weinstein will remain imprisoned after also being convicted of rape in Los Angeles and sentenced to 16 years.