Alberta premier says 14 active and proposed federal legal challenges show breadth of Ottawa’s overreach

The Alberta government has about 14 active and proposed legal challenges against the federal government alleging constitutional overreach, Premier Danielle Smith said Thursday.

Appearing virtually before a federal parliamentary committee Thursday morning, where she was invited to explain her opposition to the federal carbon tax, Smith said the number of ongoing legal challenges her government has against the federal Liberal government illustrates the degree of federal meddling.

“That should give you an indication of how often we think the federal government violated the spirit of the constitution,” Smith told reporters later at an unrelated news conference.

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Paris School Headmaster Threatened With Death By Muslims

The headmaster of a school in Paris has been threatened with murder—after asking one of his pupils to remove her headscarf—forcing him to leave his job. In turn, the French government has announced that it intends to lodge a complaint against the young woman behind the scandal.

The affair is further proof of the authorities’ inability to deal with Islamist threats, particularly in schools.

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Poilievre supports Manitoba’s attempt to get exemption from federal carbon tax

WINNIPEG — Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Thursday he supports Manitoba’s request for an exemption from the federally imposed carbon tax.

“The fact is that Manitoba produces a phenomenal amount of green energy through its hydroelectricity, and a carbon tax will come nowhere near the environmental benefit of expanding that energy,” Poilievre told reporters following a meeting with Premier Wab Kinew at the legislature.

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Foreign Agents Can Easily Impact PM Selection via Unvetted Canadian Party Memberships: Study

Lax membership criteria in major political parties, such as allowing international students and foreign nationals to join, leave Canada vulnerable to foreign interference and could potentially impact the selection of prime ministers, a recent study says.

“Foreign actors could also influence the selection process of party leadership, and hence the prime ministership, simply by purchasing party memberships that hand out ballots in leadership races without verifying the identities of new members,” said the study “Beyond General Elections“ published by Sage Journals on March 18.

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Going electric requires electricity. Who knew?

A lead article in the sober-sided New York Times is seldom funny. Yet ‘A New Surge in Power Use is Threatening US Climate Goals’ earlier this month cracked me up. Check out this sternly dramatic first paragraph: ‘Something unusual is happening in America. Demand for electricity, which has stayed largely flat for two decades, has begun to surge.’ Personally, I’d have headlined that article ‘Well, duh’ – perhaps with the subhead ‘Aw, shucks’.

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Gunshot-Detection Tech Has Saved Hundreds of Lives. The Left Says It’s Racist

It was late on a December 2021 evening when Joshua Junior Carter was shot in the leg and torso. He collapsed in a Winston-Salem, N.C., field. He didn’t have a phone to call for help.

No one called 911 to report the gunfire at a time when killings in the city were near record highs, according to reports. So, Carter remained in the field, alone and bleeding.

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Google Warns Freedom Center to Censor Mentions of Islamic Terror

When Front Page Magazine applied to join Google’s AdSense advertising program, we were turned down. Since Google, like other Big Tech monopolies, has censored and deplatformed us in the past, we weren’t too shocked. But this time, Google told us why we had been banned.

Usually Big Tech monopolies censor, shadowban and deplatform you without telling you why.

BCF was demonetized from YouTube and Adsense a decade ago.

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Clues from 200 mobile phones over who visited Epstein’s island

Before Jeffrey Epstein died in jail while awaiting charges for sex-trafficking minors, and in the years afterwards, a trail of documentary evidence identified associates and famous friends of the financier who visited his Caribbean island.

Flight logs named passengers aboard his jet, his calendar showed meetings planned at Little St James with a scientist, a prominent diplomat and a venture capitalist. Emails revealed in court documents showed a banker lounging in a hot tub there with a glass of white wine.

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Revealed: The secret deal for Wallis Simpson to leave Edward

As the Abdication crisis reached boiling-point in the dying days of 1936, was Wallis Simpson ready and willing to be bought out of her forthcoming marriage to King Edward VIII?

Newly viewed Cabinet documents indicate that, at the height of the crisis, the question of a cash settlement to get rid of the twice-divorced American was actually proposed by her lawyer.

Had the deal been struck it could have had far-reaching consequences lasting down to the present day, 88 years later, resulting in a different monarch occupying the throne – not King Charles.

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Roscoe the robot dog takes the bullets instead of police during armed raid

A police force has paid tribute to its robotic dog which was shot three times during an armed raid.

Roscoe, part of a Massachusetts state police bomb squad, was sent into a house to find an armed suspect during a seven-hour stand-off on March 6.

Justin Moreira, 30, had allegedly held his mother at knifepoint, Barnstable Police Department said.

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Islamic State: Fresh Wave of Terror Attacks Coming to Europe

In a 40-minute audio message published on Thursday, the terrorist group Islamic State (IS) threatened attacks on Jews and Christians all over the world, while once again claiming responsibility for the Moscow massacre that left more than 140 dead and 360 injured.

In the message, IS spokesman Abu Hudhaifah al-Ansari called on the movement’s “lone wolves” to “attack and target crusaders (Christians) and Jews everywhere,” particularly in Europe, the U.S., and Israel during the month of Ramadan (which ends April 10th). 

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