The CBC got another cash infusion from the Trudeau government and treated itself to a fresh round of bonuses.
Cabinet documents show the government boosted the state broadcaster’s budget by $96 million, bringing annual funding to more than $1.4 billion.
Part of my job as a rabbi is to inspire, to show my fellow Jews beauty in the seemingly mundane. It is to rally, lead and keep the flame of Judaism alight — a flame that’s endured for thousands of years despite repeated efforts to extinguish it.
But with reported or documented cases of antisemitism through the roof since the Oct. 7 attacks on southern Israel — in Spain, France and the U.K., the rise is over 1,000 percent — my role has become even more challenging, to say the least.
Europe’s Muslim problem is far worse than our own but we’re working to catch up. They will stay the course of appeasement.
South Africa might appear to have scored another diplomatic victory propaganda victory by getting the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to accept onto its judicial docket the African state’s charge that Israel’s presence in the West Bank is an illegal occupation. This recent initiative follows South Africa’s December 29, 2023 presentation to the ICJ that Israel’s military operations in Gaza were supposedly acts of genocide against the territory’s civilian population.
On Monday, the day-after-Easter White House press briefing began on a hacktastic note as the Associated Press reporter on duty asked about what could generously be described as hubbub surrounding Easter Sunday falling on March 31 and President Biden issuing a presidential proclamation for Sunday as Transgender Day of Visibility.
A pro-Palestinian activist group called Nakba Education BC has sent an open letter and a petition to Minister of Education Rachna Singh demanding that “the Nakba” be immediately (“NOW”) integrated into B.C.’s elementary and secondary school curricula.
Nakba means “catastrophe” in Arabic; it characterizes the ongoing Palestinian view of Israel’s victory in the 1948 War of Independence.
If we want to rely on nuclear fusion to power the world’s homes, the first step is making reactors that can run as hot and as long as possible.
Now, an experimental reactor called KSTAR in Daejeon, Korea, has set a new world record.
The massive doughnut-shaped device, which has been dubbed ‘Korea’s artificial sun’ ran at 100 million°C (180 million°F) for 48 seconds.
The Canadian and British Columbian economies are in distress, but you could be forgiven for not noticing.
At a surface level, much appears in shape. Official inflation numbers are abating, and it’s true Canada didn’t get as hard-hit as other G7 countries. Unemployment levels seem relatively low and suggest an ongoing labour shortage in an economy of high demand. And the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) indicates growth, albeit at a slight rate.
Look more closely, though, and many economists say a different perspective emerges in the picture.
For Elon Musk and Tesla, 2024 has so far been a rough year.
First, attacks in the Red Sea forced the shutdown of Tesla’s Berlin gigafactory in January. Then, “ecoterrorists” shut it down again in March.
To top it off, mounting competition from Chinese rivals forced Tesla to slow production in Shanghai in the face of weaker sales.
It’s an undo or die situation.
That’s Premier Doug Ford’s plea to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the federal carbon price that rose Monday from $65 a tonne to $80.
“The federal government raised the carbon tax yet again — this time by a whopping 23 per cent. Today, the carbon tax now cost 17.6 cents per litre of gas,” the Progressive Conservative premier said Tuesday in at an East Gwillimbury farm.
Hunter Biden’s attempt to have all his tax charges thrown out was defeated Monday, letting the criminal case against him move forward.
A federal judge in California decided against the younger Biden, The Hill reports.
The decision confirms Biden faces three felony charges and six misdemeanor charges in connection to tax evasion, filing a false return and failing to pay taxes between 2016 and 2019.
Before the last federal election, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government spent billions to hand out a $500 precampaign bonus cheque to Old Age Security recipients and increased payments to those over 75.
That money is gone, but now the Liberals are finding their political problem is a completely different age group: the under-40s, who have abandoned the party in droves. Now Mr. Trudeau’s government is racing to offer them measures that will give them a little disposable income.
Say goodbye to the trucking industry as we know it, and goodbye to the American economy, too.
You might have missed it on Good Friday — which you can be sure was no accident — when the Biden EPA released its new tailpipe rules for semi-trucks, but the new rules will destroy how we move goods around the country.
You almost have to give Justin Trudeau credit for accomplishing the impossible: That’s now twice in his calamitous and divisive tenure that he’s inspired often servile Canadians to come together, en masse, in protest of far-left policies of self-sabotage that only exist for the benefit of a vanishing few.
(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) In a concert during Holy Week, aging pop singer Madonna opened with what appeared to be a Satanic ritual, featuring fire, strange abstract dancing, references to “the deep things of Satan” and a distorted version of a Lebanese hymn narrating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, according to Twitchy.
The show started with what sounded like a reading from the Bible, but it quickly became evident it was something more nefarious.
h/t Sarcasticat
Canadians have never paid so much for so little. We see it every day as the cost of government goes up, driving up the cost of everything else, while service levels go down. The same is true of our public broadcaster, the CBC.
Last December, CBC’s CEO Catherine Tait told Canadians she would be slashing 800 positions (200 of which were vacant to begin with), sending 600 people to the unemployment line during an affordability crisis. She just couldn’t afford them, despite the $1 billion or more in taxpayer dollars they receive every year.
h/t Mauser
