Throughout the Biden presidency, there’s been a constant refrain that eliminating fossil fuels will solve all our environmental problems. A big part of that narrative is the push to encourage, cajole, and force everyone into buying electric vehicles (EVs).
Canada weathered the first Donald Trump presidency and will be ready should he win the U.S. election in November, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says.
“It wasn’t easy the first time and if there’s a second time, it won’t be easy either,” Trudeau told business leaders on Tuesday at an event organized by the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal.
The United States is poised to reclassify Yemen’s Houthis as a terrorist organisation, reversing a decision by President Biden to delist the rebels in 2021.
The designation of the Houthis as a “specially designated global terrorist” entity is expected on Wednesday in response to the Iran-backed group’s attacks on commercial and military ships in the Red Sea, one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes.
The Department of Fisheries is currently reviewing a taxpayer-funded electric auto battery factory in Quebec, owned by Northvolt, amid concerns of potential environmental impacts.
This review includes assessing the risk of wetland destruction and fish habitat harm, as first covered by Blacklock’s Reporter. Despite Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s previous endorsement of the Northvolt plant as “the world’s cleanest,” these concerns bring a new dimension to the project.
Katharine Birbalsingh has said she was forced to ban Muslim prayers after teachers were racially harassed.
The school leader, known as Britain’s strictest head teacher, is facing a High Court challenge from a Muslim pupil over the prayer policy at Michaela Community School.
Commenting on the row for the first time, she warned that “multiculturalism can only succeed” when every group makes sacrifices “for the sake of the whole”.
OTTAWA – Canada is good at pointing fingers at other countries but is missing in action on the international scene when it is most needed, said former Liberal deputy prime minister and foreign affairs minister John Manley on the podcast The Global Exchange.
Manley, who famously said two decades ago that Canada cannot sit at the G8 table and then excuse itself to go to the washroom when the waiter arrives with the bill, was asked if the country is now pulling its weight on the international scene during an episode recorded with former Quebec premier Jean Charest and former Conservative defence minister Peter MacKay.
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The CEO of Paramount Foods refuses to condemn his antisemitic tweet. This interview is very revealing. https://t.co/NeHksNfUkh
— neveragainlivepodcast@gmail.com (@neveragainlive1) January 17, 2024
Just a reminder to readers: The Falafel King is very litigious. You’ll find lots of words to accurately and safely describe him after listening to this frankly incredible interview without risking a libel suit.
h/t SweetPea
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada “believes in the work” of the International Court of Justice, but declined to say how his government would react if the court finds Israel is committing genocide.
South Africa has put a case before the ICJ accusing Israel’s military actions in Gaza of being a genocide. Israel launched an invasion in the territory following the Oct. 7 attacks where Hamas fighters invaded Israel killing 1,200 people and taking another nearly 250 hostages.
Did you miss the Emmy Awards on Monday? You’re not alone.
The Emmy Awards was a ratings catastrophe, drawing a record low of 4.3 million viewers for Monday’s live broadcast on Fox, according to preliminary figures. While the final tally could rise slightly, the evening represents an unqualified disaster for Emmy producers, who were hoping for a comeback following the pandemic.
Who wants to watch an industry that hates them celebrate itself?
As a teenager in Beijing, I attended an international high school for students who wanted to go to university in Canada. My parents thought I’d have a better education in Canada, which they’d heard was a safe country with more affordable tuition than the U.S. In Grade 12, I did a half-year exchange to Bathurst, New Brunswick. I fell in love with the small-city vibe there—the population was only 15,000, compared to 21.7 million in Beijing. The experience made me realize that I didn’t like bigger cities. Everyone was so friendly, and there were lots of French speakers, which I thought was charming.
Pretty bad when they start preferring Smog City.
The overwhelming majority of Americans said on Tuesday they are unlikely to consider buying an electric vehicle (EV). The poll comes as EVs strand drivers at their homes and off the sides of roads amid a winter freeze sweeping the United States.
Rasmussen Reports released the poll, finding that 65 percent of American adults said they are not likely to consider buying an EV when purchasing their next car — including 37 percent who said they are “not at all likely” to buy an EV. Fewer than 3-in-10 Americans said they would consider buying an EV.
Canadian harm reduction activists believe that “safer supply” can reduce overdoses and deaths by providing addicts with easy access to “safe” pharmaceutical opioids—but we already tried this experiment 20 years ago. It was called the OxyContin crisis and it had nightmarish results. So why are we making the same mistakes all over again?
Hunter Biden was loaded in more ways than one in October 2018, federal prosecutors alleged Tuesday in a scathing response to the first son’s attempt to dismiss weapons charges against him.
Five years after the now-53-year-old’s sister-in-law-turned-lover Hallie Biden dumped Hunter’s firearm in a trash can behind a grocery store in Delaware, FBI officials re-examined the pistol.
Canada’s economy has been making headlines for leading the G7, but many aren’t feeling the effects. That’s because gross domestic product (GDP) per capita has barely moved. Rather than growing the economy through economic improvements, Canada has only added more consumers through immigration. Adjusting for population, US households have seen their economic picture grow 10x faster over the past decade. The OECD previously warned Canada was heading into dangerous territory with their reliance on a debt-driven housing bubble.
Those charged with protecting our children from being raped allowed them to be raped, regularly and consequence free, for decades.
Those very same people trained the police who walk the streets today.
Apologies aren’t enough. The police are the problem.pic.twitter.com/8PEsYFgyz5
— Laurence Fox (@LozzaFox) January 16, 2024
