Following weeks of speculation, former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi has officially entered the race to be the next leader of the Alberta NDP.
“I’m Naheed Nenshi, and I’m running to be leader of the Alberta NDP and your next premier,” he said in a video posted online on Monday.
“Together, we can beat Danielle Smith and the UCP.”
I’m sorry that you have to learn this about me right now, but I agree with this woman.
Tipping culture is out of control. pic.twitter.com/X1HmwReT98
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) March 11, 2024
IN FEBRUARY OF LAST YEAR, Donggang Jinhui Foodstuff, a seafood-processing company in Dandong, China, threw a party. It had been a successful year: a new plant had opened, and the company had doubled the amount of squid that it exported to the United States. The party, according to videos posted on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, featured singers, instrumentalists, dancers, fireworks, and strobe lights. One aspect of the company’s success seems to have been its use of North Korean workers, who are sent by their government to work in Chinese factories, in conditions of captivity, to earn money for the state. A seafood trader who does business with Jinhui recently estimated that it employed between fifty and seventy North Koreans. Videos posted by a company representative show machines labelled in Korean, and workers with North Korean accents explaining how to clean squid. At the party, the company played songs that are popular in Pyongyang, including “People Bring Glory to Our Party” (written by North Korea’s 1989 poet laureate) and “We Will Go to Mt. Paektu” (a reference to the widely mythologized birthplace of Kim Jong Il). Performers wore North Korean colors, and the country’s flag billowed behind them; in the audience, dozens of workers held miniature flags.
If his supporters continue to gaslight voters about his obvious incapacity, Biden will lose in November.
It was inevitable that the corporate media would applaud President Biden’s State of the Union address if he had the vitality to stand upright for two hours and the vision to read a teleprompter. For ordinary voters who aren’t paid to praise him, Biden’s performance last Thursday night probably confirmed many of their fears about leaving him in office for another term. This, for example, is how he described the current state of our domestic politics: “Not since President Lincoln and the Civil War have freedom and democracy been under assault here at home as they are today.” If your uncle said that during a family dinner everyone would agree that another trip to rehab was in order.
Faced with uncomfortable truths, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau often evades or misleads. Confronted recently about why Canadians are angry, Trudeau blamed wedge issues, conspiracy theories and the “right.” Such deflection will do little to quell the anger — but it does highlight how out of touch the prime minister is with the lives of Canadians.
A disturbing new Leger poll for Postmedia paints a grim picture of the emotional state of the country, and indicates why Canadians feel so livid and bleak.
If Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis were prosecuting citizen Fani Willis and her former boyfriend Nathan Wade for perjury, conspiracy and obstruction of justice, she would have an extremely strong case. The evidence of perjury is overwhelming; many individuals have been convicted on far less evidence.
Recall that Willis and Wade testified under oath to the material fact that Willis did not hire Wade as special prosecutor while they were having a romantic relationship. They both testified that the romantic relationship began after the hiring decision was made. If that was a deliberate lie, it satisfies all the elements of perjury.
Tegan Rose’s job involves going into the community to support people aged 14 to 35 who have been in a state of psychosis for what’s believed to be the first time.
The registered nurse and support worker is in the early intervention psychosis program under the umbrella of the Canadian Mental Health Association’s Windsor, Ont., branch.
Rose said they’ve seen a “large increase” in cannabis-induced psychosis cases the past several years — “especially in young people.”
This is pot legalization’s dirty secret.
Former Fox host Chris Wallace came over to CNN to be a major pillar of CNN-Plus. Oops. Now he hosts a weekend show with panels that are almost all liberal. A token Trump-distancing conservative is allowed. On Saturday, for example, they discussed CNN’s daily obsession: How can Trump be defeated in November?
A new report says the average asking price for a rental unit in Canada was $2,193 per month in February, marking a 10.5 per cent jump year-over-year and the fastest annual growth since September 2023.
The data released Monday by Rentals.ca and Urbanation, which analyzes monthly listings from the former’s network, shows the average monthly cost of a one-bedroom unit in February was $1,920, up 12.9 per cent from the same month in 2023. The average asking price for a two-bedroom was $2,293, up 11.3 per cent annually.
A new US State Department-funded study calls for a temporary ban on the creation of advanced AI passed a certain threshold of computational power.
The tech, its authors claim, poses an ‘extinction-level threat to the human species.’
The study, commissioned as part of a $250,000 federal contract, also calls for ‘defining emergency powers’ for the American government’s executive branch ‘to respond to dangerous and fast-moving AI-related incidents’ — like ‘swarm robotics.’
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says Canada is pledging $1 million to support victims of sexual violence by Hamas in Israel during last October’s attacks.
The funding comes with an offer of RCMP support for investigations three months after a group of women who hold political office in Canada called on Ottawa to provide this type of support.
If you had the opportunity to take a few billion dollars in free money from Presidentish Joe Biden but the catch is that your company would have to embrace the administration’s DEI policies, what would you do? If you’re a chipmaking giant like Intel, Samsung, or Taiwan Semi, then the answer is increasingly obvious.
Last year, Mexico became the United States’ biggest trading partner, surpassing Canada and China for the first time. This humiliating fact is simply the latest statistic that illustrates Canada’s economic decline since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took power in 2015.
Belfast band Kneecap have pulled out of South by Southwest (SXSW) in Texas over the arts festival’s sponsorship with the US Army.
The group is the latest to cancel their sets at the event in protest against the military’s support for Israel in the war in Gaza.
Other artists who’ve announced they won’t be performing include Lambrini Girls, Scowl and Sprints.
BBC Newsbeat has contacted organisers of the festival for comment.
OTTAWA — Some of the Liberal government’s proposed efforts to crack down on hate speech and hateful conduct has some experts wondering whether Ottawa has gone too far in introducing legislation that was initially meant to address dangerous content on social media.
Last week, Justice Minister Arif Virani introduced Bill C-63, a sweeping piece of legislation largely aimed at regulating how social media platforms should respond to harmful content online. That part of the legislation, the Online Harms Act, would focus on egregious content that targets youth, disseminates intimate images without consent, promotes hatred, or incites violence, terrorism or violent extremism.
