The hijab, a type of head covering, is used by Islamic regimes around the world as a tool to subjugate women. From Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to Afghanistan and Iran, the hijab symbolises women’s oppression. It represents a misogynistic ideology in which women are conceived as sexual objects to be concealed from men.
No matter how much money is thrown at public schools and no matter how many kids fail to read or do math at grade level, the solution is always more money.
When the IRS fails to administer the tax code, they always demand more money. It would help if they all went to the office instead of working remotely.
Biden’s Inflation Increase Act intends to spend $7.5 billion taxpayer money to build charging stations for electric car owners. Two years later, no EV chargers were built. And that’s good.
The modern sheen of the electric car is running into the medieval state of American cities.
Seattle began installing dozens of EV chargers only for thieves to show up and raid at least eight of the charging cables for copper requiring thousands of dollars worth of repairs.
A Christian U.S. Navy veteran has been charged with a hate crime after admitting to beheading the Satanic Temple’s statue on display at the Iowa State Capitol in December.
“I have been covering the push for the normalization of polyamory for several years now, as human interest stories on formalized cheating came into vogue. In California during 2017, a ‘throuple’ of men first successfully petitioned a judge to put all three of them on the birth certificate of a little girl named Piper before authoring a book titled Three Dads and a Baby. Several U.S. cities, including Somerville and Cambridge, Massachusetts, have approved family benefits for polyamorous clusters over the past few years. These stories seemed to fizzle swiftly.”
“To dream the impossible dream.” These words, sung by Don Quixote in Man of LaMancha, reflect a sentiment often felt about the state of Canada’s national security. For decades, our positions on foreign policy, defence and security could only be evaluated as weak. And this is not a partisan perspective: since at least the end of the Cold War, successive federal governments have done as little as possible in these policy areas. Why does a G7 country – one of the richest in the world – systematically prioritize these sectors below virtually all others? We continue to do this while Canada benefits from the international order, which is now clearly at risk.
OTTAWA — Federal politicians condemned CBC/Radio-Canada president and CEO Catherine Tait’s refusal to rule out bonuses for executives this year despite plans to cut 10 per cent of the national broadcaster’s workforce.
OTTAWA – The federal government plans to pour $100 million into the film and TV industry.
Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge says the money will go to Telefilm Canada over two years.
… In a press release, St.-Onge says the funding will also lead to projects that connect Canadians, deepening the population’s shared cultural touchstones.
Shared what?
January 31, 2024—Ottawa—With increasing global migration, Canada is experiencing a rise in the number of people claiming asylum. While housing and supports for asylum claimants are the responsibility of provinces and municipalities, the federal government recognizes the need for all orders of government to work together to address the rise in the number of people claiming asylum in Canada.
Today, the Honourable Marc Miller, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, announced an additional $362.4 million in funding for the Interim Housing Assistance Program (IHAP) as part of the 2023–2024 fiscal year. Through the IHAP, the Government of Canada provides funding to provincial and municipal governments, on a cost-sharing basis, to address extraordinary interim housing pressures resulting from increased volumes of asylum claimants.
Chow lowers budget tax hike to 9.5 per cent
The Star has learned that Mayor Olivia Chow plans to boost Torontonians’ property tax by a total of 9.5 per cent — down from the 10.5-per-cent hike earlier recommended by city staff.
Chow will make the announcement Thursday morning in Scarborough while unveiling the rest of her version of the city’s 2024 budget that will go to city council on Feb. 14, according to a source briefed on the plan.
The mayor’s proposed tax hike — eight per cent plus the 1.5 per cent city building fund dedicated to transit and housing — would be the highest in modern Toronto history, but would remain below the psychological double-digit increase that caused some shock when city staff first proposed it on Jan. 10.
I speak for all Americans when I say, MORE DYLAN! 🎶 pic.twitter.com/SL6tg14f7J
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) January 26, 2024
Every morning in Gaza, schoolchildren stand in a line facing in the direction of Israel and recite these words: “Palestine is our country, our aim is to return. Death does not frighten us, Palestine is ours. We will never forget her. Another homeland we will never accept! Our Palestine, witness, O God and History: We promise to shed our blood for you!”
This isn’t some recent discovery of yet another instance of jihadist indoctrination in a United Nations Relief and Works Agency school revealed by the tireless Montrealer Hillel Neuer of UN Watch, or an anecdote in the Wall Street Journal’s bombshell report Tuesday to the effect that a dozen UNRWA employees had a hand in the Oct. 7 Hamas atrocities that have triggered the bloodiest episode in the Israel-Palestine conflict since the 1940s.
This woman’s relationship went down the tubes because of Drumpf. I see this a lot. pic.twitter.com/LtVuwnnbe9
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) January 31, 2024
Lured to ‘camps’ with the promise of food and money for their families, boys as young as seven are then forced to join the militia’s ranks
It was an offer too good to refuse.
A month or so of food rations during a time of war led Ayman, 14, to a summer camp on the edge of Yemen’s dusty port city of Hodeidah.
There was also the promise of teaching, albeit under the religious zealotry of the Houthi rebels who controlled the camp.
But it wasn’t long until Ayman and his classmates had a rifle in their hands.
… An eyewitness, who asked to stay anonymous, told Sky News: “There was a man in a white car with two children. It looked like he tried to run over a woman. They had been fighting.
“One girl in the back had her hand on the window – you can see the mark on the car.
Sounds domestic related.
9 people including children and police officers have been hospitalized after an assailant threw ACID in their faces in Clapham South, London tonight.
Among the victims are a mother and her two children.
The suspect is currently at large.
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) January 31, 2024
It’s instructive to observe where Americans are moving, and where they are leaving. Such comparisons are particularly revealing when made during, or immediately following, a crisis, such as the recent Covid-19 pandemic. States dealt with that crisis quite differently. Movement statistics from recent years help to establish which of the 50 “laboratories of democracy” responded best to the pandemic.
