I’ve been stunned by the panic over next Monday’s solar eclipse. I’ve lived through many eclipses, solar and lunar, and cannot recall such official hysteria.
I’m not talking about excitement at witnessing a celestial phenomenon. That’s understandable. An eclipse is fascinating and just infrequent enough that wanting to watch one is perfectly natural.
On last night’s episode of CBS’s FBI, the villains were left-wing terrorists who had participated in anti-police riots.
Tuesday’s episode, “Behind the Veil,” began with a bombing at a speech by fictional congresswoman Carol Jones. The bomb kills the congresswoman and much of her audience, as well as a child on the street outside the venue.
“Carol Jones. She’s far-right, controversial,” says an FBI agent who arrives at the scene of the crime.
In July 2019, world-renowned biological researchers Xiangguo Qiu and Keding Cheng were quietly walked out of the Canadian government’s National Microbiology Lab (NML). The original allegation against them was that Qiu had authorised a shipment to China of some of the deadliest viruses on the planet, including Ebola and Nipah.
Qiu and Cheng, a married couple, subsequently lost their security clearances and were then fired by the NML in January 2021. At the time, both were subject to investigations by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canadian Secret Intelligence Service (CSIS). The NML said both had lost their positions for ‘breaches of policy’; it did not say what those breaches or policies had been.
Then the story seemed to go away—until now.
If anyone deserves to be eulogized on film it’s Tony Bobulinski, Hunter Biden’s former business partner.
His public testimony to the House impeachment inquiry into Biden corruption last month is the subject of a new Tucker Carlson short documentary on X, The Man In the Arena.
This is a patriot who is built for combat. The successful Californian businessman is a former Penn State champion wrestler, naval officer, and nuclear submarine instructor, from a family of Navy, Army, and Air Force veterans going back three generations on both sides.
This is so good. Tony Bobulinksi is a patriot who is built for combat. True hero. https://t.co/LjlhzQT7PE
— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) April 2, 2024
Canada’s premiers are finally pushing back on the carbon tax as it hits harder and the magic money rebates get less convincing. And you might think it’s weird that the Trudeau administration really believe trace elements of a gas vital to life are the deadliest peril Canadians and humans generally face. But what’s really weird is that the people fighting back all swear they believe these dodgy propositions too. Whatever happened to intelligent thought, or even mindless partisan bickering?
In July 2020, residents of Seattle set up what became known as the “Capital Hill Organized Protest Zone,” or CHOP. CHOP was set up in response to the death of George Floyd. Originally protesters wanted a 50% reduction in funding for police. Later, they called for the total abolition of the Seattle police and made several other outrageous demands, like ending prisons, that no responsible government could ever fulfill.
Toronto-area cop temporarily demoted after entering peace bond on assault charges, ‘openly’ mocking civilian with mental health issues
Western policy on decarbonisation seems to be driven more by emotion and boosterism than by what is technologically feasible
Never was the old adage “don’t buy the prototype, buy the redesign” more appropriate. Motorists who bought an electric vehicle in the belief that it would hold its value better than a petrol or diesel must be feeling a little sore. According to the AA, the secondhand values of the 20 most popular electric and hybrid cars was down 12 per cent in the first quarter of this year compared with the first quarter of 2023. That is the drop in value of like-for-like cars, not what buyers can expect to lose in depreciation over the first year.
Nearly 600 stolen vehicles have been recovered from shipping containers in the Port of Montreal over the past few months as part of an interprovincial auto theft investigation, and 75 per cent of them were stolen in Ontario.
Speaking at a news conference Wednesday, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) announced the results of “Project Vector” – an operation to recover stolen vehicles that made it to the Port of Montreal and were intercepted before they could be illegally exported.
The Western alliance responded vigorously to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and thoroughly debunked the Sino-Russian background chorus of the time that the Western alliance was now a decrepit myth from the Cold War of no current relevance.
The German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, having started out with a contemptible shipment of helmets for the Ukrainian forces, strode to the podium of the Bundestag and announced that Germany would hereafter meet its commitment to two per cent of GDP for defence and got the ball rolling with a motion for €100 billion to begin the long-deferred task of getting Germany’s armed forces up to strength.
The Trudeau government’s message to our Middle Eastern allies is clear: Canada is a fair weather friend. Stand with us at your peril, because when you’re in the crosshairs, we’ll be too busy polishing our image and playing domestic politics to notice your plight.
Canada made a mockery of not one, but two Middle Eastern allies in the same week — Israel publicly, and the Iraqi Kurds quietly. Make no mistake: the damage we are doing to our friends in the region is catastrophic.
The U.S. warning to Russia ahead of a terrorist attack near Moscow was highly specific: Crocus City Hall was a potential target of the Islamic State, according to U.S. officials.
The warning had the right venue but imprecise timing, suggesting that the attack could come within days. Indeed, the public warning by the United States Embassy on March 7 warned of potential terrorist attacks in the next two days.
BREAKING NEWS:
RCMP deploys 100+ officers in riot gear, some with automatic weapons near a gas station outside of Calgary, Alberta where a peaceful protest against the carbon tax is taking place."We've got so much rampant crime and they wouldn't do anything about it, but… pic.twitter.com/jnch72SQjb
— Mocha Bezirgan 🇨🇦 (@BezirganMocha) April 2, 2024
h/t Mauser
If you’re waiting for Pierre Poilievre to start acting like a “prime minister-in-waiting,” you’ve not been paying attention. While Poilievre is more John Diefenbaker than Stephen Harper, this is not your Father’s Progressive Conservative Party.
Politics traditionally draws the type of person who cares deeply about what others think of them. That’s only natural. To get elected, you need to be more popular than everyone else on the ballot.
With almost 18 months under his belt as Conservative leader, it’s becoming clear that Poilievre has a certain superpower that sets him aside from most of his predecessors, whether they be Liberal or Conservative: he doesn’t care what “we” think of him.
