Liberals, NDP and “Other” Voters make up 57% of the 25% of citizens who think Canada gives ‘too much support’ to Ukraine making Conservative voters Evil Trumpists who evily want to put Canada 1st Says CBC

 

“I don’t want to overemphasize it … but what is burgeoning, what is starting to sort of grow from out of the weeds into a fairly healthy seedling here, is this almost the Trump-esque, ‘Canada First’ mentality,” she said.

Growing number of Conservative voters think Canada gives ‘too much support’ to Ukraine, poll suggests

A survey released Tuesday morning by the Angus Reid Institute says a quarter of Canadians believe Canada is offering “too much support” to Ukraine in its fight, up from 13 per cent who said the same thing in May 2022.

Conservative supporters are a driving force behind that result, according to the poll.

The percentage of Canadians who voted for the Conservative Party in the last election, and who now say Canada is doing too much to assist Ukraine, has more than doubled — from 19 per cent in May 2022 to 43 per cent now — according to the public opinion research group’s findings.


Whole lot of spin goin on. Funny how CBC missed the part about how Liberal and NDP voters must make up the remaining 57% of of the 25% of Canadians who think we give too much to Ukraine. Are we to assume that Liberal and NDP voters do not wish to put Canada 1st?

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Asylum seeker converts faking it, says evangelical church leader

Priests must look out for “red flags” when baptising asylum seekers because some are faking conversion, an evangelical church leader has said.

Pastor Graham Nicholls, the director of Affinity, a network of 1,200 evangelical churches and ministries in the UK, said that church leaders “need discernment” to “test whether people are genuine in their beliefs”, adding that in some cases, some prospective converts are “faking it”.

His intervention came as the manhunt for Abdul Shokoor Ezedi, the Clapham chemical attack suspect, continued on Monday with Metropolitan Police detectives saying he could be dead in the River Thames.

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Foreign Interference Inquiry ‘Off to a Very Bad Start,’ Poilievre Says

BRAMPTON, Ont.—Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Canada’s public inquiry into foreign interference had gotten off to “a very bad start” as a human rights group withdrew its participation and the Tories were denied full standing.

The inquiry, focused on probing alleged election meddling, concluded its first set of public hearings last week.

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The State Of Play In The UK

Mauser sent along the Flag link above. It is an excerpt of a much longer video (below). The videographer was late to the flag wavers arrest, but as explained the arrestee apparently ran through the crowd of Hamas supporters waving the English national flag and that triggered them. Hence his arrest. Worth watching the whole video for a slice of life in Liverpool.

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‘Trailblazing’ electric van start-up Arrival runs out of road

Arrival UK, an electric van start-up, has fallen into administration less than three years after a $13 billion float, in a fresh blow to Britain’s green energy ambitions.

EY has been appointed to explore options for the break-up and sale of the group’s operations. Arrival, based in Banbury, Oxfordshire, has two factories in the county. Its parent company, listed in America, employs about 400 people worldwide.

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Cost of Liberals’ ‘affordability’ cabinet retreat rises to nearly $500K, updated figures show

Updated expense numbers put the cost of the Trudeau Liberals’ three-day affordability-focused cabinet retreat last summer at just under half-a-million dollars, including more than $50,000 on a banquet.

Figures contained within online proactive disclosures and newly released responses to order paper questions put the current cost of the retreat, held in Charlottetown Aug. 21 to 23, at $485,196.

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Germany: Spy Agency Sets Sights on Former Chief Over ‘Right-Wing Extremism’

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany’s increasingly politicized domestic intelligence agency, has placed its former chief, Hans-Georg Maaßen, under observation over, among other things, his alleged proximity to individuals in the ‘right-wing extremist’ scene.

In a 20-page letter sent to Maaßen’s lawyer’s office the intelligence agency informed its ex-boss as to the reasons for his surveillance, listing information and details it has collected regarding his activities and associations that it believes are indicative of right-wing extremism.

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‘Not be tolerated’: Alberta files formal response to proposed oilsands emissions cap

Alberta says a federal emissions cap on greenhouse gases “will not be tolerated” as the province’s environment minister meets today with her federal counterpart.

Alberta’s formal response to Ottawa’s proposal says the cap would undercut the work that the province has been successfully pursuing “for decades” to reduce emissions.

The response says oilsands production has already risen above the forecasts that were used to establish the proposed 100-megatonne limit.

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The Hockey Canada scandal shows the harmful escalation of non-disclosure agreements

The Hockey Canada scandal is back in the headlines after five players were charged over an alleged group sexual assault that took place in a London, Ont., hotel room in 2018. The arrests follow the 2022 revelation that Hockey Canada used taxpayer dollars and membership dues to pay off victims of sexual assaults and quiet them with non-disclosure agreements, or NDAs. The victim in the London case reported to police and co-operated throughout – but the police sent her back to Hockey Canada for their own internal investigation. This is a common practice where a powerful institution or corporation is involved.

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Presidents Don’t Get to Run a ‘Basement Campaign’

Joe Biden’s allies probably hoped that this weekend’s NBC News poll would show, as some other pollsters have, that the president’s popularity was improving along with the economy and consumer sentiment. Those hopes proved unfounded.

But then, why would the administration convince itself that the president’s relative standing with voters was an entropic phenomenon? It’s not just that Biden’s policies (from immigration to crime and violence to the economy broadly) are deeply unpopular. He is unpopular.

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Outrage in Italy Mounts After Seven Egyptian Migrants Accused of Gang-Raping 13-Year-Old Girl in Sicily

Italian officials are decrying an alleged rape by seven Egyptian migrants on a 13-year-old Italian girl in Sicily. The young girl’s boyfriend was reportedly forced to watch as two of the migrants assaulted her.

“I beg you, I beg you, don’t hurt me, let me go,” the girl, who has not been identified, said as she was being attacked according to Giornale di Sicilia, a local newspaper. She was allegedly attacked in a public restroom at the seaside town of Catania on the southeastern coast of the island.

h/t Kiki9

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How AI is quietly changing everyday life

Artificial intelligence isn’t just a niche tool for cheating on homework or generating bizarre and deceptive images. It’s already humming along in unseen and unregulated ways that are touching millions of Americans who may never have heard of ChatGPT, Bard or other buzzwords.

A growing share of businesses, schools, and medical professionals have quietly embraced generative AI, and there’s really no going back. It is being used to screen job candidates, tutor kids, buy a home and dole out medical advice.

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Why All of America Could See a San Francisco-Style Homeless Crisis

The homeless crisis in America is set to come to a head with a Supreme Court ruling as early as this spring, in the case of Johnson v. City of Grants Pass, Oregon.

The Supreme Court could—depending on what it decides—force changes in city ordinances and homeless policies across the country.

The decision is one of the most anticipated in years for San Francisco and other cities facing legal challenges from homeless people and advocacy groups.

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Plant-based meats aren’t selling, so companies adjust fire and try a new strategy: real meat

As if you needed any more evidence that the “climate emergency” narrative is nothing more than a profit-driven and anti-human agenda, here you go, from a report by the “Climate Solutions” department of The Washington Post today: “As the plant-based meat market cools, some start-ups turn to a new ingredient: Actual meat.

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