OTTAWA—Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is calling the federal carbon tax a “sin tax on productivity,” saying it is contributing to Canada’s declining economic prospects.
“I have a friend who described to me the carbon tax; her view of it is it’s essentially a sin tax on productivity. Isn’t that what it is, when you think about it?” Ms. Smith said at the annual Canada Strong and Free Network conference in Ottawa on April 12.
A heroic police officer fatally shot a knife-wielding maniac who killed five people and stabbed several others — including a small child — inside a popular Sydney mall Saturday afternoon.
Authorities received calls around 3:30 p.m. local time that a knife-wielding man was attacking people at Westfield Bondi Junction, NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Anthony Cooke said during a press conference.
Known to police, not terrorism we think.
‘He [the suspected attacker] is known to law enforcement but we are waiting to identify him formally’
NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb speaks to reporters after six people were killed in a stabbing attack at a Sydney shopping centrehttps://t.co/Oq1g17Fb5I
📺 Sky 501 pic.twitter.com/8emYFS4EZI
— Sky News (@SkyNews) April 13, 2024
‘An additional person has also died in hospital’
Sky News Australia reporter Julia Bradley provides the latest update on events in the wake of the Sydney mass stabbing. pic.twitter.com/k9R0SqMfLH
— GB News (@GBNEWS) April 13, 2024
Islamic terrorist goes on stabbing frenzy at the Bondi Junction Westfield mall in Australia, killing 5 women and 1 man.
The man, also stabbed a mother and her baby before being shot dead by a heroic female officer.
The attacker was KNOWN to police.
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) April 13, 2024
‘First-time mum Ash Good was pushing her nine-month-old daughter Harriet in a pram through Westfield at Bondi Junction, when the knifeman leant inside and stabbed the baby girl. Then he turned his fury on her.’https://t.co/IgONcKRJb2 pic.twitter.com/7TbsJ7Prc0
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) April 13, 2024
Twitter – Australia.
When the $86-million low-interest loan for SoHo Italia apartment tower in Ottawa was announced in the summer of 2020, the federal government press release led with the line: “Every Canadian deserves a safe and affordable place to call home.”
The project would provide housing for the middle class and “those working hard to join it,” said Ahmed Hussen, the cabinet minister then responsible for the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp., which lent the money under the largest program in the Ottawa’s national housing strategy.
The Liberals are relentless scammers.
Sir Salman Rushdie has described the moment he saw his would-be killer “coming in hard and low – a squat missile” before he was stabbed more than a dozen times in a lecture hall in 2022.
In his first television interview about the attack, the novelist said he had sometimes envisioned a killer striking in a public place, and his immediate thought was: “So, it’s you. Here you are.”
The Booker Prize winner was told by doctors he was lucky to escape with his life, saying the man who stabbed him “had no idea how to kill a man with a knife”.
If they build it, they will come.
And, likely, never leave. Why would they? Drug addicts have everything they could ever want right here in the heart of the city.
The government of Canada has upgraded its travel advisories to Israel and the West Bank, instructing Canadians to avoid all travel amid escalating tensions in the region.
Previously, the federal government had advised Canadians to “avoid non-essential travel” to Israel and certain areas of the West Bank.
Justin Trudeau is not going to solve the housing crisis.
He can’t do it on his own and he can’t seem to recruit the necessary collaborators among Canadian governments to get it done.
For several weeks culminating in an ambitious set of federal housing initiatives announced Friday the prime minister and his cabinet colleagues have crossed the country announcing housing initiatives.
If you believe Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the carbon tax imposed on Ontario is Premier Doug Ford’s fault. Not only that, the PM would like voters to think he’s the champion of building housing faster and Ford’s the guy holding things up. It’s as if Trudeau has stepped into an alternative universe where Ford is responsible for the housing mess, not the guy with the aggressive population expansion policy.
Harvard University’s gender and sexuality department will offer a wide-range of classes next semester: Gender as Technology; Gender and Sexuality in Korean Pop Culture; Feminism in the Age of Empire; Gender, Race and Poverty in the United States; Decolonization; Love’s Labors Found: Uncovering Histories of Emotional Labor; and more. Decolonization is as relevant to feminist theory as the songs of BTS are to Korean gender roles in Harvard’s gender studies department. As NR’s George Leef has written, gender studies is “not really an intellectual enterprise, but ideological posturing,” one that “is not about trying to understand the world, but is all about trying to change it in certain ways.”
In late January, six pro-life activists were convicted on charges of violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, for blocking the entrance to an abortion facility in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee in 2021. The FACE Act, signed into law by President Bill Clinton, punishes “violent, threatening damaging, and obstructive conduct intended to injure, intimidate, or interfere with the right to seek, obtain, or provide” abortions.
For their peaceful demonstration — that included hymns and prayer — the defendants each face a maximum sentence of more than a decade in prison and three years of supervised released, plus up to $260,000 in fines.
Truong My Lan, a Vietnamese property developer, was convicted of taking out $44 billion in “ghost loans” from the Saigon Commercial Bank (SCB) and was sentenced to death. She managed the feat over 11 years as the Communist country relaxed its strict controls on the economy.
Go big or stay at home they say.
JK Rowling is furious. And who can blame her? The recently published Cass Review has proven what she has been saying – and demonised for – for years. On Wednesday, the author and philanthropist posted on X to suggest that she wouldn’t forgive the actors-cum-activists she made famous for turning on her.
The thing about the Overton Window is that yes, it’s a way to make the formerly unacceptable (open borders in which millions of invaders enter the country with no recourse) seem acceptable, but it leads to backlashes that make the formerly unacceptable seem acceptable in the other direction.
Self-hating Jews, Queers4Palestine, and conservatives walk into a bar and ask for the strongest drink available. The bartender says, “Are you sure? It’s pretty potent.” One from the groups replies, “We’re not afraid of extinction; we’re embracing it!”
Now that you have wiped the laugh tears from your eyes and your knees have stopped hurting from the slapping, let’s look at why this joke works.
A California mayor who came out as transgender after being elected to office is facing a recall vote — blaming it on transphobic “bullies” despite outrage over rampant homelessness and crime.
Raúl Ureña, 26, was elected mayor of the border town of Calexico with 70% of the vote in 2020 — before coming out as transgender and gender fluid following her re-election victory in 2022, the Los Angeles Times reports.
The mayor — who accepts “all the pronouns,” with a preference for “she” — went from office attire of suit and pants for a penchant for low-cut dresses showing off a still-hairy chest, proudly saying she looks “sexy as hell” in office.
