The Conservatives are calling for an emergency debate in the House of Commons on the Trudeau government’s scheduled increase of the federal carbon tax.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has written to House Speaker Greg Fergus requesting the debate, pointing to public opposition to the hike, set to take place on April 1.
An artist was allegedly told she needed to give 24 hours’ notice to attend her own exhibition and reported to the police, after saying she believed it was harmful for children to try to change sex.
Victoria Culf, 43, was setting up her independently funded exhibition at Watford Museum when a borough council employee began talking to her about transgender issues.
Culf claimed she politely revealed that, because of her beliefs and her experience with children and young people, she believed transitioning them was harmful.
It’s become crystal clear why there have been four ministers of foreign affairs in the past five years under the Trudeau government: it is are a rudderless ship with no vision for how Canada should be represented on the world stage. The prime minister’s leadership has been catastrophic for Canadian foreign policy.
The Liberals have failed to meet our NATO commitments, leaving our allies questioning our ability and our resolve. They’ve failed to stand with our Israeli allies, who are facing an existential threat. They’ve left Canada’s image degraded, tarnished and nearing the point of total collapse.
America First Legal (AFL), a public interest law firm, has obtained documents through a lawsuit which reveal a government agency’s recommendations for censorship.
The documents, created by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), encourage national governments and private entities to combat disinformation. Its recommendations are vaguely expressed — “regulate ad networks”, for example — but the report spells out various censorship methods in positive terms without explicitly endorsing them. These include disrupting the finances of disfavoured information sources by getting advertisers to pull funding, and shaping the way the public interprets the news through “media literacy” programmes in schools.
Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says provincial premiers who are calling on the government to scrap a planned increase on the carbon tax have their facts wrong.
In an interview airing Sunday on Rosemary Barton Live, Wilkinson defended the federal government’s landmark climate policy against a growing chorus of provincial leaders who hope to either delay or ditch altogether the impending April 1 increase.
“Based on the facts, the seven premiers are just wrong,” Wilkinson told guest host David Common.
It’s troubling how willingly some societies will forsake civil liberties in the name of a purportedly greater or more urgent cause.
Because there are very few, if any, really, in a liberal democracy which eclipse precious rights of freedom of speech, assembly and beliefs. Even what most of us might condemn as outrageous expression or heretical — hateful — ideologies.
Governments wade into the murky end of the suppressing pool at our peril. And they’re never more baleful than when cloaking themselves in virtue — by way of shielding us from what they’ve decreed to be harmful.
If Donald Trump is elected president in November, he will have assembled a coalition unlike any Republican nominee in my lifetime.
For decades, GOP success has depended on support from college-educated white voters in the suburbs and non-college-educated white voters in manufacturing centers and rural areas. Republican candidates tried to maximize turnout among this electoral base, while adding a majority of independent voters to the GOP column. Presidents Nixon, Reagan, and the two Bushes used this strategy to great effect. Donald Trump did, too.
Commercial airlines are being routinely “jammed” or “spoofed” by military powers including the Russians, a pilot has told The Telegraph.
Flight decks on passenger planes have suffered satellite and communications blackouts triggering warning alerts as Global Positioning System (GPS) systems are attacked and either disabled or deceived.
A series of internal messages, seen by The Telegraph, which were sent to pilots at one airline also expose the “widespread” problem affecting airspace over war zones and regions experiencing increased military operations or border tensions.
Last 46 hours Baltic Jammer has been running in south Baltics.
At least 873 unique aircrafts has had their navigation equipment jammed. Each one a passenger jet filled with civilians.
E.g. Ryanairs SP-RKS has been without GPS for at least 2 hours going in and out of Vilnius. pic.twitter.com/hMWhKzbaiH
— Markus Jonsson (@auonsson) March 16, 2024
h/t Mauser
Our cultural guardians do not allow us to consider the role that voodoo plays in shaping how Haitians see the world and their place in it.
Back in 2018, President Donald Trump referred to Haiti as a “s**thole,” and was roundly denounced for being a racist. While watching a clip of a “cannibal gang” member eating a piece of roasted human leg on the streets of Port-au-Prince the other night (it’s revolting; you have been warned), it struck me that Trump’s judgment has held up pretty well.
Why is Haiti the way it is? Everybody has an explanation. The most popular one is that Haiti was horribly exploited by its former colonial master France, which imposed reparations on it that weren’t paid off until 1947. That’s true, and morally obscene. But the Dominican Republic, with which Haiti shares the island of Hispaniola, was just as poor as Haiti in 1947, and today is six to seven times richer.
Post 10/7 Looks a Lot Like Post 9/11, Only Worse
News that the U.S. will build a “temporary pier” in the Mediterranean Sea to facilitate transfer of humanitarian aid to the Hamas-occupied Gaza Strip should tickle the déjà vu receptors of anyone who was politically aware at the dawn of the 21st century.
After the worst terrorist attack against the U.S. in its 225-year history on September 11, 2001, “the world” reacted sympathetically at first. But it didn’t last long. After the worst terrorist attack against Israel in its 75-year history on October 7, 2023, the world’s sympathy was as ephemeral as an Ivy League “pro-Palestine” hunger strike.
The U.S. and Israel were consoled and pitied – until they fought back. Then they were suddenly portrayed as aggressive colonizing villains, each seeking to impose its version of “empire” on an oppressed “other” while meting out “collective punishment.”
h/t MT
Prepare to read a remarkable statement: “everything is broken in this country.”
According to a recent poll, 70 percent — seventy! — of Canadians agreed with that assertion. Those surveyed say that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s (radically) Liberal government is too focused on climate change and the war in Ukraine, and not dealing with issues important to them, such as the high — and rising — cost of living.
Ireland’s latest referendum exposed just how zealous and reckless the elites’ culture war has become.
Hands down my favourite part of the referendum revolt in Ireland last week was the discovery of ‘miraculous medals’ among the ballot papers.
A miraculous medal is a small pendant that features the Blessed Virgin. Normally, she’s shown crushing a serpent beneath her feet. They’re devotional medallions. They come in silver or gold. And to some Catholics, they’re a means of asking the Virgin Mother for an intercession, for her holy assistance in the healing of a sick person or the enactment of some other kind of miracle. And would you believe it – electoral officials found some stuffed among the ballots, no doubt by voters hoping Jesus’s mum might miraculously make the dual referendums go their way.
A pickup truck plowed into a crowd during an unruly ‘street takeover’ event in South Los Angeles, triggering a swarm of spectators to run towards the crash and film it.
The wreck happened at the intersection of Normandie Avenue and West Gage Avenue Friday night and was filmed live on the streaming platform Kick.
STREET TAKE OVER:
A truck crashes into a crowd of people in a LA street takeover. pic.twitter.com/mZGi9Jrioe
— Orbital News (@orbital_news) March 17, 2024
Donald Trump has de facto secured the Republican presidential nomination for the election in November. He has done this facing a storm of open hostility from his political adversaries. Much of that hostility has been centered around the report from the January 6th Congressional committee, which purported to find evidence of Trump inciting an insurrection after the 2020 election.
From that committee to increasingly absurd court cases against the former president, the political establishment has been doing everything it could—or dared—to keep Trump from making a presidential comeback.
The Washington Post’s Kathleen Parker called on Vice President Kamala Harris to step aside “for the country’s sake” in an editorial published on Friday.
Parker agued that although she had hoped to see Harris thrive and shine in her position as second-in-command, she — and may Americans along with her — had been disappointed by the vice president’s actual job performance.
