Governments can ease the cost-of-living crisis – they just don’t want to

Canadian governments have the power to make life more affordable. But in some sectors of the economy, they just don’t want to.

Supply-chain issues, pent-up demand and interest rate hikes have all helped boost prices in the past couple of years, as the market reacts to a world recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Governments have tried to ease these problems, with tax relief or short-term programs.

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Female inmates’ views on sharing prison with trans convicts ‘kept secret’ by Scottish Prison Service

Female prisoners’ views on transgender inmates in Scotland will be kept secret after the prison service blocked requests for a poll to be made public.

Critics accused the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) of silencing women’s voices after refusing to disclose their responses to a survey carried out as part of a review of its controversial transgender prisoner management policy.

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Trudeau’s Liberals ‘not pulling the fire alarm’ on NDP deal, health minister says

Health Minister Mark Holland says he has “every confidence” his government can deliver pharmacare legislation by the promised March 1 deadline, and that the Liberals are “not pulling the fire alarm” on their confidence-and-supply deal with the NDP over the issue.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said this week there will be “repercussions” if the Liberals don’t table a sufficient piece of pharmacare framework legislation by next month, and signalled he’ll consider a missed deadline to mean they’ve “walked away” from their confidence-and-supply agreement.

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‘Jihad Capital’ Claim Brings on a Torrent of Selective Outrage

There’s more anger at a Wall Street Journal op-ed for noticing radical rhetoric in Dearborn than at the rhetoric itself.

Democrats and journalists are upset at the Wall Street Journal.

They can’t explain why, exactly. They only know the paper did a terrible thing.

“27,000 people dead in Gaza,” Washington Post Baghdad bureau chief Louisa Loveluck, currently reporting on the war in Gaza, wrote last week on social media, “most of them civilians, as the world’s most powerful newspapers publish stories likening Arabs to insects, aid operations to terrorist outfits, and an entire Muslim community in Michigan to jihadists. The world is upside down.”

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The American People Know the Real Hamas

It’s always good to listen to people in their own language, in their own words. Memri.org, the website of MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute) provides that ability for those of us not fluent in Arabic or Parsi, the languages that the purveyors of terror in the Middle East mostly employ. When they speak in English, they modify their content to keep in place the illusion of moderation, although, as they believe they are riding a worldwide wave of hatred, they feel less need for duplicity today than even a few months ago.

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So who is in charge of America? We really don’t know

So who you gonna call when you need assistance? If, say, you are the prime minister of Israel. Benjamin Netanyahu, and there is urgent business to discuss, you call, but nobody answers.

So who is in charge of America? We really don’t know

A Special Counsel, hired by the Department of Justice, has found Joe Biden too feeble to serve as president.

That’s the crux of it, as the report goes on to call him. “an elderly old man with a poor memory.”

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A Marriage Made in Hell

The Red-Green alliance at war with the West.

On Saturday, January 13, marking almost 100 days after the Muslim terror group Hamas’ savage massacre in Israel last October 7, thousands of left-wing, pro-Palestinian demonstrators rallied at the White House. They were united there to condemn President Joe Biden for his administration’s defense of Israel and to demand that he press the Jewish state for a ceasefire in its righteous campaign to eliminate Hamas once and for all.

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Hollywood’s finances are collapsing, and it brought this on itself

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Hollywood is experiencing a disastrous winter. People aren’t going to the movies, opting instead to stay home. Obviously, part of the issue is streaming, which has upended the old business model. However, one cannot ignore the fact that today’s movies are awful, whether because they’re mechanical, recycled garbage, or because they’re preachy, painfully woke garbage. Watching a couple of movies from 51 and 50 years ago, respectively, will help you appreciate just how bad most modern movies really are.

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Unhinged progressives are a gift to Trump

The woke zealotry of the Biden administration is turning vast numbers of Americans into reluctant Trumpers.

In 1931, the slogan of the German Communist Party became: ‘After Hitler, our turn.’ This kind of wishful thinking is making a comeback in contemporary America. Prominent Democrats and the ‘progressive’ apparat of the Biden administration see the nomination of Donald Trump – their version of Hitler – as the best way to mobilise their shaky coalition and to keep hold of power.

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Eric Idle hits out at Terry Gilliam as Monty Python money ‘runs out’

Eric Idle has criticised his fellow Monty Python star Terry Gilliam while complaining that he has to keep working at the age of 80 because his money has run out.

Idle spoke of his ­surprise that income had dried up from the comedy troupe, which was responsible for films such as Life of Brian, Monty Python and the Holy Grail and The Meaning of Life and the stage show Spamalot. “I don’t know why people always assume we’re loaded,” he said on Twitter/X. “Python is a disaster. Spamalot made money 20 years ago. I have to work for my living. Not easy at this age.”

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Eastern Europe Could Be Where Western Civilization Makes Its Stand: An Interview with Jordan Peterson

At the end of October, London Magazine hosted a conservatively minded gathering called the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC). Inspired and started by world-renowned professor Jordan Peterson, this conference-styled event aimed at giving voice to those thinking about saving and strengthening Judeo-Christian civilization instead of letting it slide into a controlled decline amidst postcolonial guilt and moral relativism. About 1,500 people, mostly from Europe and Anglo-Saxon countries, were invited to share ideas and start building an international community. Legacy media nicknamed it AntiDavos and, maybe, rightly so. Time will tell if it can live up to that designation. Yet the challenges that created the dire need for such an alliance are here and ever-present. Vytautas Sinica from Lithuania sat down with Dr. Peterson to talk about the troubling effect of ideologies, cultural Marxism in particular, and the unique role that might be awaiting Eastern Central Europe in the culture war ahead.

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WTF?

Looks like half a dozen Hamas supporters. How much is this costing us?

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Huge majority of Americans say Joe Biden too old for another term, poll shows

A new poll released on Sunday found that 86 per cent of American voters believe that 81-year-old Joe Biden is too old to serve another term.

In a report released on Thursday, special counsel Robert Hur described the US president as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory”, and thus ruled he should not face further scrutiny over allegations he mishandled confidential documents.

Despite growing evidence suggesting Mr Biden is an electoral liability, experts warn that ditching him as the Democrat nominee for the November presidential election is fraught with difficulty.

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