The Liberal government’s proposed Bill C-63, the online harms act, is terrible law that will unduly impose restrictions on Canadians’ sacred Charter right to freedom of expression. That is what the Liberals intend. By drafting a vague law creating a draconian regime to address online “harms,” they will win their wars without firing a bullet.
The STASI would approve Bill C-63.
Lawfare is bad; lawfare without law is worse. Today, a small blow was struck against lawless criminal charges, and in favor of the idea that people can be prosecuted only for violating laws that have been written down somewhere.
After another round of coalition negotiations with three other parties, the hard-right populist said his love for voters was ‘more important’ than his position
Geert Wilders will not become the Dutch prime minister despite winning the largest share of votes in what was a shock election victory for his hard-right nationalist Freedom Party last year.
Following a second round of coalition negotiations with three other conservative and right-wing parties Wilders, 60, renounced any ambitions to lead a new government.
“I never thought this would happen to Reese, but you have to get it through to people that it can happen to anyone.” Grief and sadness envelops Wendy Chisholm as we talk in her snow-dusted suburban house in the hills above Vancouver. She is telling me about her “lovely, easy-going, thoughtful” teenage daughter, whose face beams out from a photo on the fridge in the kitchen. She takes me upstairs to show me the sports-mad girl’s room. It is filled with trophies, pictures of Reese in her soccer kit and with a black belt from taekwondo, her name picked out in yellow thread.
In the 1930s, when Hitler was rising to power, there were some Germans who correctly foresaw that the end result would be catastrophe for Europe and for the German people, as well as for Jews and others. They attempted to persuade their fellow Germans to oppose the impending dictatorship — as history tragically shows, to no avail.
“The warning lights are blinking.”
Two recent interviews — one with former Navy SEAL and Blackwater founder Erik Prince and one with Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., — pointed to the gathering threat of terror violence inside the country this year.
Aside from these two and a few more, though, there seems to be scant attention being paid to the likelihood that a confluence of threat indicators will erupt into street violence on a scale we’ve not seen since the summer of 2020.
Why the ‘right to die’ is an affront to humanity.
A head teacher has apologised to parents over school caterers who “can’t bake a potato”.
Jason Ashley, who leads Redbridge Community School in Southampton, said he was “exceptionally unhappy” with the dishes being served to pupils aged 11 to 16 by a private caterer.
In a letter to parents, the head teacher supplied photos of bland-looking meals, showing pie and mash, baked potato and tuna, chicken and veg, and chips and beans.
Dutch comedian Hans Teeuwen on Tuesday found himself the target of a police raid mere hours after publishing a video ridiculing Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema’s defense of allowing a pro-Palestinian demonstration at the opening of the city’s Holocaust museum over the weekend.
Police in the Netherlands visit Dutch comedian Hans Teeuwen after he made jokes about the mayor of Amsterdam. pic.twitter.com/izDEHkc2D8
— Catch Up (@CatchUpFeed) March 12, 2024
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his goal is not to win a popularity contest as he doubled down on his government’s carbon tax despite calls from Conservatives and seven premiers, including Canada’s lone Liberal premier, asking him to halt the planned increase on April 1.
h/t DS
The word woman is confusing and for clarity, we should use the term person with a vagina, that’s the takeaway from the Supreme Court of Canada’s latest ruling.
The countdown is on. It’s 17 days until the next potential capitulation by a government trying to plug the drain that’s sucking its re-election into a death spiral.
Expect the carbon tax boost set for April Fool’s Day to be axed. And you can credit beer for the move.
When Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland chopped a planned beer excise tax hike(opens in a new tab) to two per cent from 4.5 per cent and froze future increases until after the next election, it almost guaranteed a similar carbon tax move in the offing.
Good summary of the history of slavery https://t.co/hhZnq9DJhN
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 13, 2024
The military has dropped its aptitude test from the application process for dozens of jobs and plans to start accepting recruits with pre-existing medical conditions — trial efforts meant to boost the Canadian Armed Forces’ dismal recruitment numbers.
Brig.-Gen. Krista Brodie, the commander overseeing military recruitment, said the new trials are meant to test out possible solutions as CAF continues to lose more people than it brings in.
“We’re changing things and measuring and adjusting as we go,” Brodie told CBC News. “We don’t always get it right but it’s moving in a positive direction.”
This is Dani Lalonders, a nonbinary game developer. She was hired by @CliffhangerDevs to create a game based on @Marvel's #BlackPanther.
She says she doesn’t hire white people because they’re unsafe and it’s hard to work with them and only hires people of color.
Is this… pic.twitter.com/zVodAvagLN
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 12, 2024
