As extreme cold temperatures hit a large part of Canada, including the Prairie provinces, the premiers of Alberta and Saskatchewan and Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre are ramping up their campaign against the federal carbon tax on home heating sources.
“It’s freezing in Thunder Bay and local Liberal MPs Patty Hajdu & Marcus Powlowski are making it worse,” Mr. Poilievre posted on social media on Jan. 12.
Why are American pedestrians getting run over so much more often than a decade and a half ago?
You’re not just imagining it: It really has gotten more dangerous to cross the street.
Since 2009, the worst year of the Great Recession, pedestrian death rates per 100,000 people increased 63 percent by 2022, while motorist (driver and passengers) death rates per capita have gone up only 10 percent.
Pro-Hamas protesters keep pushing their luck and pretty soon their luck is going to run out.
Certainly, the city’s patience has run out.
The charge of public incitement of hatred against a Toronto man alleged to have held up what police called a “terrorist” flag during a demonstration last weekend could be difficult to prosecute and highlights the challenges of defining hate crimes, some experts say.
Prosecution of the man police allege waved a flag associated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) while marching through the city’s downtown last Sunday will “be a real uphill battle,” said Barbara Perry, director for the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism at Ontario Tech University.
Barbara Perry is the twit who made up the Myth of Canada’s 5 million gazillion white supremacist groups, she works with the CAHN the Clown Car of anti-racism.
This is why women live longer than us fellas pic.twitter.com/0dIScnlYp5
— J Hans (@blackhawkce457) January 13, 2024
h/t Mauser
A recent survey showed that most Canadians see Justin Trudeau as the worst prime minister of the last five decades. Not the smallest part in this judgment can be attributed to the hypocrisy and moral relativism evident in Trudeaus’s statements and actions.
After being called “sir,” she just gets up and walks out of the restaurant.
How would you handle this if you were the manager? pic.twitter.com/AHpiULZ0Co
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) January 13, 2024
With the federal government planning to phase out sales of new gas-powered vehicles during the next decade, many drivers question how they will fare on cold Prairie days like this week’s.
But two electric car enthusiasts who chatted with host Leisha Grebinski on CBC’s Blue Sky this week say they love driving their vehicles in the winter.
Hmmm…
Fast chargers stop working in Yellowknife due to cold weather
Northland Utilities’ FLO fast chargers stopped working due to the extremely cold weather. The company is working with FLO to find a solution.
No Go Flo!
Real life is hard …
Took my wife into work today for safety sakes. It’s -45 this morning.
Saw a fellow sitting in his EV at a charging station. The businesses were still closed for him to stay warm and dawdle while his car charged.
I briefly spoke with him as he went into the store. He said… pic.twitter.com/INfnWU7eu1
— Mark Bohaichuk (@m_bohaichuk) January 13, 2024
h/t Mauser
Academic historians avoid talking frankly about the twentieth century’s urban crime wave—and the one going on now.
In Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe’s shimmering portrait of 1980s New York, Sherman McCoy’s father offers his son the following advice: if you want to live in the city, “you’ve got to insulate, insulate, insulate” yourself from crime and disorder. “The cynicism and smugness of the idea struck Sherman as very au courant,” Wolfe writes. “If you could go breezing down the FDR Drive in a taxi, then why file into the trenches of the urban wars?”
There aren’t many platforms left on the internet that protect free speech and encourage the exchange of ideas. Social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube have all de-platformed and demonetized users they believe hold extremist views, so when the Atlantic took aim at Substack back in November, accusing the platform of making money off of Nazi newsletters, everyone expected it to cave to the accusations.
At the International Court of Justice in the Hague, Israel is on trial for genocide and, once again, is being judged by standards expected of no other country on earth.
The ICJ, in its 78-year history since its founding by the United Nations in 1945, has never issued a direct finding of genocide against any other country.
Video of dozens of young Israeli civilians murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Nova Music Festival on Oct. 7
Is the International Court of Justice in The Hague watching this?
Via @YosephHaddad pic.twitter.com/pEymhphdOE
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) January 13, 2024
Disney, with depressed stock, a high-profile attack from an activist investor and succession concerns, has embarked on a speculative NFT investment.
Disney Pinnacle, a ‘digital pin and trading experience,’ was launched last month to offer fans the chance to buy and sell Disney, Pixar and Star Wars character NFTs.
These ‘non-fungible tokens’ are digital images which are given unique identification codes using blockchain – the same technology behind cryptocurrency – allowing them to be held as assets and traded online.
This is desperate and or just plain evil. NFT’s were a grift from the get go.
The period of the Biden administration’s leadership has witnessed notable strides in Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities. These encompass advances in range, accuracy and payload capacity. Because of the apparent lack of oversight from world leaders, especially the United States, the rising provision of ballistic missiles by Iran to non-state actors –including terrorist and militia groups, as well as rogue states — now presents a significant source of concern for global security.
Former COVID czar Dr. Anthony Fauci gave closed-door testimony before Congress last week, so it’s time yet again for the Fauci Follies!
The pint-size patron saint of the failed restrictionist policies that lefties and COVID crazies love simply can’t admit he’s lost a massive argument with reality.
The Not-So-Good Doctor got off to a weak start in DC, surprising House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chair Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) with “how much he doesn’t recall” from the start of the pandemic.
