The top of the Wednesday New York Times offers quite a contrast in headlines: a whiny piece on how Donald Trump may be gaining because of America’s “collective amnesia,” next to a puff piece “White House Memo” on “Campaign Shifts Strategy to Let Biden Be Himself.” As if he isn’t authentically fumbling and bumbling?
OTTAWA – Government officials say online hate speech would have to portray a group as “inherently violent” or “unhuman” to meet the threshold to be probed by a human-rights tribunal under a newly proposed law.
Justice officials briefed reporters today on the Criminal Code provisions in the government’s proposed bill to tackle online harms.
Those changes have come under harsh criticism from civil liberties groups and legal experts who are voicing concerns about the potential to chill free speech.
During the Section 13 Wars the CHRC visited my blog every day. Even Christmas.
When the nation finally learned that the President “was a pharmaceutical miracle, with his own speed connection,” as part of a “crazy-quilt array of drugs” that kept him mostly functional, at least during public appearances, it came as no surprise. The doctor in charge of it all even had the perfect nickname: Dr. Feelgood.
The President was John F. Kennedy and the time was 60 years ago, but the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Only 58 per cent of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) would be able to respond if called upon in a crisis by NATO allies right now — and almost half of the military’s equipment is considered “unavailable and unserviceable” — says a recent internal Department of National Defence (DND) presentation obtained by CBC News.
The presentation, which touches on everything from readiness and equipment to recruiting and ammunition supplies, is dated Dec. 31, 2023.
It’s the latest comprehensive snapshot of the state of the military.
The fact-checking director who oversees Mark Zuckerberg’s misinformation program on Facebook has been caught in secret emails colluding with a now disgraced operation which suppressed journalism during Australia’s Voice referendum.
International Fact Checking Network Director Angie Holan runs the body which certifies Facebook fact checkers and has the power to investigate allegations of bias and strip fact checkers of certification in the event rules are broken.
Former British Columbia cabinet minister Selina Robinson has quit the NDP, citing antisemitism in the ruling party’s caucus.
Robinson, who is Jewish, says she can no longer remain in the party because it is not properly addressing antisemitism in the province or among her former colleagues.
Robinson told an impromptu news conference in a hallway of the B.C. legislature that she will now sit as an Independent.
BERLIN (AP) – German authorities carried out raids Thursday across Germany against people suspected of posting misogynistic hate speech online.
Police raided homes and interrogated 45 suspects in 11 states early in the morning, German news agency dpa reported. None of the suspects were detained.
The raids were part of the annual “combating misogyny on the internet” day of action, which began in 2022 and comes one day before International´s Women´s Day.
When Flavio Volpe’s Uber pulled up at the AGO on Saturday evening to attend an event with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni, he immediately sensed there was going to be trouble, he says.
Unlike the heavy security normally seen at events involving heads of government, the streets had not been blocked off and police presence was minimal. There were protesters everywhere.
“I fully expected there would be hundreds of protesters there, the prime minister is a legitimate target (of protest),” said Volpe. “But I also expected police to have secured the site to provide safe passage for guests.”
The prosecution pointed to a photo of the film’s armorer, arguing she had brought the live rounds. Her lawyers tried to focus attention on the movie’s primary ammunition supplier.
Ever since a real, live bullet discharged from the gun that Alec Baldwin was rehearsing with on the set of the film “Rust” in 2021, killing the cinematographer and wounding the director, one question has vexed everyone involved: How did live ammunition end up on a film set, where — all agree — it absolutely should never have been?
The film’s armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, was found guilty on Wednesday of involuntary manslaughter in the death of the cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, and faces up to 18 months in prison. The jury found that Ms. Gutierrez-Reed, 26, had behaved negligently by failing to check that all of the rounds she loaded into Mr. Baldwin’s revolver were dummies, which are inert rounds that look real but cannot be fired.
The NDP is calling on the federal government to announce a national school lunch program in the upcoming federal budget, to be released on April 16.
The party says a national program would help children learn by providing them with healthy meals every day, while offering some relief to parents who are struggling with high food prices.
“Parents are doing everything they can to take care of their kids, but the cost of food just keeps going up,” NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said in a media statement released Wednesday.
This is how lunch went down back in the olden days:
1st week of the month, Ham, Tuna or Salmon sandwiches.
2nd week – Mystery meat or one of the 1st week selections.
3rd week – PBJ’s
4th week – Cheeze Whiz sandwiches.
h/t Damn I forgot sorry
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday that it had thwarted a planned “terrorist attack” on a Moscow synagogue, Russian news agencies reported.
The FSB said that a so-called “Islamic State” (IS) cell, based in Kaluga, situated southwest of Moscow, had planned on attacking Jewish worshippers.
“While being arrested, the terrorists put up armed resistance to the Russian FSB officers, and as a result were neutralized by return fire,” the security service was quoted by the TASS news agency as saying in a statement.
ATF agent can't disassemble a glock pistol on Face the Nation.
The added commentary is hilarious.pic.twitter.com/8E2NZV7IHB
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) March 7, 2024
h/t DS
A new survey from Nanos Research and CTV News shows a majority of Canadian adults express at least some discomfort around policies on transgender inclusion in sports, hormone treatments for youth and changes to students’ pronouns in schools.
Conducted between Feb. 28 and March 2 this year, the survey asked a random sample of Canadians 18 and older about their comfort level toward a variety of topics around gender identity and inclusion. The results reveal a snapshot of public sentiment broadly against some policies that have increasingly become central social issues of debate in Canadian politics.
It appears that respondents were not given a stronger choice of answer beyond “Uncomfortable” to express their disapproval of the Trans lunacy.
1/🧵WPATH — the organization that creates the widely accepted Standards of Care for “trans medicine” — was a radical cult from the very beginning. Watch my full exposé into their sordid & untold history: https://t.co/59knoR0lYP
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) March 6, 2024
Outgoing Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (SPEC) John Kerry claimed that people would “feel better” about the ongoing war in Ukraine if Russia would “make a greater effort to reduce emissions.”
“If Russia wanted to show good faith, they could go out and announce what their reductions are going to be and make a greater effort to reduce emissions now,” Kerry said during a foreign press briefing on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., his last as the SPEC, as he departed from the position Wednesday to reportedly join President Biden’s presidential re-election campaign.
“Maybe that would open up the door for people to feel better about what Russia is choosing to do at this point in time,” he said.
h/t Mauser
Most Canadians believe “everything is broken in the country right now,” and more people agree with that statement than just one year ago, according to a new national survey.
Canadians across political lines were on the same page when it came to the perception that Canada is broken, with 70 per cent agreeing with the statement. Most Conservative voters (85 per cent) backed the idea. Notably, two-thirds of NDP voters (66 per cent) agreed, in addition to 58 per cent of Bloc Québécois voters and a fair number of Liberal ones.
