The politics surrounding the price on carbon have reached a fever pitch. The latest increase in the pollution price, and the dollar-for-dollar jump in rebates that are built into the revenue-neutral system, have been so clouded by partisan posturing that basic facts are being ignored — or deliberately misrepresented.
New York Attorney General Letitia James is facing mounting pressure to prosecute comedian Jon Stewart after it was revealed that he overvalued his Manhattan home — the same so-called “offense” for which James is prosecuting former President Donald Trump.
If you want to be part of the Queer Fat Club, you really have to be fat. It’s a requirement. pic.twitter.com/TZrrzDSTd7
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) March 29, 2024
All Toronto Police hear is they need to be tougher on the dangerous TTC subway.
But as soon as cops make an arrest it’s the officers under scrutiny more than the suspect alleged to have roughed up and robbed a female passenger.
Didn’t kick him hard enough.
Toronto Police officers were seen dragging and brutally kicking a man on the TTC pic.twitter.com/WiFas3KMKH
— 6ixBuzzTV (@6ixbuzztv) March 29, 2024
Last year, British Columbia (BC) became the first province in Canada to decriminalise the use of hard drugs as part of its efforts to tackle a deadly opioids crisis. But the policy is facing pushback, leaving its future uncertain.
Every Monday, former Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart would receive an email listing all the people who had died in the city from a drug overdose the previous week.
One day, three years ago, that list included the name of a relative – his brother-in-law’s sister, Susan Havelock.
Downtown Los Angeles has been described as ‘third world’ after shocking footage revealed a homeless encampment with open fires in the street and trash-covered sidewalks.
The startling video, posted to X by Fox News reporter Bill Melugin, shows dozens of homeless people sitting and standing on filthy sidewalks on the corner of San Pedro Street and 6th Street in the Skid Row neighborhood of LA.
Some are seen standing around an open fire in the street, just moments away from the Midnight Mission, a $17 million center for the homeless.
Good morning from downtown LA… pic.twitter.com/8vxnaD9moO
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) March 19, 2024
For those who closely follow the news about the Canadian Armed Forces in general and the Royal Canadian Air Force in particular, it will come as no shock to learn that they are currently suffering from a crippling shortage of trained personnel.
At a recent defence & security conference in Ottawa, Minister of National Defence Bill Blair admitted that the inability of recruiting to keep pace with retirements from the CAF have left Canada’s military institution in a “death spiral”. Blair offered no plan to correct the course of action, he simply said that the leadership “needs to do better.”
National Education Union calls on members to campaign for Palestine and says it will publish ‘educational resources’ about the conflict
Britain’s biggest teaching union is to blame Israel for the war in Gaza and publish “educational resources” about the conflict for teachers.
Leaders of the National Education Union (NEU) are calling on their 300,000 members to actively campaign for Palestine and “increase understanding” of the conflict.
The union’s executive board has backed a motion, to be discussed at the annual conference next week, which declares that “Israel’s hard-right, racist government is the main driver of conflict, violence and war in Palestine and Israel”.
Canada’s Royal Canadian Mounted Police are warning that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s policies have been so disastrous that its citizens may soon engage in a violent, populist revolt. When you pair this news with a recent video of Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s powerful ‘Minister of Everything’ twitching and smirking at a political event, it’s enough to suggest that we really need to start worrying about our northern neighbor.
Canada’s Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland appears completely out of it as she displays erratic body movements and bizarre facial expressions during a press conference. pic.twitter.com/4EZDX7Hkyo
— Mats Nilsson (@mazzenilsson) March 29, 2024
After playing a key role in securing Sam Bankman-Fried’s conviction, three former members of his inner circle must now await their fate on fraud charges related to the multi-billion dollar collapse FTX.
Caroline Ellison, Nishad Singh and Gary Wang admitted their roles in defrauding customers and clients of FTX, a cryptocurrency exchange, and its sister company Alameda Research of an estimated $8 billion and are due to be sentenced in the coming months.
All three of the former crypto executives provided damning testimony at Bankman-Fried’s trial in return for leniency.
Imagine one day you discover that your adult daughter, who still lives with you, wants to be euthanised. As far as you are aware, she is healthy. She suffers from autism and ADHD, but no physical illnesses or disabilities that you know of. You know that she has faced many difficulties in her life, but you love her and desperately want to prevent her death. You are left fighting against her doctors, who encourage her decision and are perfectly happy to help her go through with this. To make this nightmare even worse, no one will even tell you why your daughter has been approved to die.
Tory MPs plan for migrant crime league tables
The migrant nationalities with the highest rates of crime will be revealed in league tables under plans to be considered by ministers.
The proposal, backed by senior Tory MPs, would require the crime rates of each nation’s migrants in England and Wales to be published annually.
Ministers would present a report to Parliament each year detailing the nationality, visa status and asylum status of every offender convicted in English and Welsh courts in the previous 12 months.
Canada’s skyrocketing cost of living has been an issue plaguing the Liberal government. Few things undercut support for a government more than citizens having trouble making ends meet, whether the government is responsible for it or not.
The Trudeau government has appeared to ignore the issue and remains fixated on carbon taxes, social justice, and overseas diplomacy. But when a person can’t pay the rent or afford groceries, policies in the name of climate change and conflicts in foreign nations become secondary concerns.
Horrific footage revealed the moment an angry mob dragged a suspected child kidnapper and killer out of a police car and beat her to death in the Mexican tourist town of Taxco.
The unnamed woman was being hauled away by police, after she had allegedly been caught on surveillance video helping a man dump the body of Camila Gomez Ortega who had disappeared Wednesday.
The villagers dragged the woman out of the police car and began wailing on her and tearing at her clothes.
"I don't know a single person in Canada who's not struggling right now"
"Everyone is on the brink of LOSING everything"
"We're literally just working to scrape by to survive"
"It's almost impossible to leave Canada because that's expensive"
"There's this huge feeling of… pic.twitter.com/GxtC901yCV
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) March 29, 2024
h/t DS
