It was a challenging task but an esteemed panel of NewsBusters editors led by MRC President L.Brent Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2023 and on December 18 announced The Brian Stelter Memorial Award for Quote of the Year.
Canada’s price on pollution is supposed to help battle global warming, but as it nears its fifth anniversary, nothing in Canadian politics is hotter.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has so successfully convinced Canadians the carbon price is to blame for inflation that he even earned begrudging respect for his “axe the tax” campaign from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Of course, Trudeau doesn’t agree with Poilievre’s sentiment.
The saboteurs managed to place four explosives on a Russian freight train carrying diesel and jet fuel, roughly 3,000 miles from the Ukrainian border. But more important than the destruction of the train, Ukrainian intelligence officials said, was the timing of the blast.
They needed it to blow up as the 50 rail cars were traveling through the nine-mile-long tunnel through the Severomuysky mountains, the longest train tunnel in Russia.
Quick show of hands- who is currently wearing a diaper and standing in line over at Times Square besides this guy? pic.twitter.com/UtB9ogGJNO
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) December 31, 2023
H/T Mauser
A pair of Toronto activists have launched a fresh bid to convince city hall to keep Henry Dundas’s name on city landmarks, saying the long-dead Scottish politician is not a villain and should not be treated as one.
Daniel Tate and Jonny Pottins’ petition to keep the Dundas name was launched after city council approved Sankofa, an African word that alludes to making peace with the past, as the new name for Yonge-Dundas Square. It has gathered nearly 20,000 signatures.
Sankofa means shit for brains.
On the streets of San Francisco, the updated version of Tesla’s driver-assistance software still took the wheel in places it wasn’t designed to handle, including blowing through stop signs
Last weekend, my Tesla Model Y received an over-the-air update to make its driver-assistance software safer. In my first test drive of the updated Tesla, it blew through two stop signs without even slowing down.
In December, Tesla issued its largest-ever recall, affecting almost all of its 2 million cars. It is like the software updates you get on your phone, except this was supposed to prevent drivers from misusing Tesla’s Autopilot software.
In eight years, Justin Trudeau has managed to destroy Canadian unity to the point where confederation is fraying on all sides.
While all prime ministers have issues with national unity, most try to heal the wounds, but Trudeau picks at them and makes things worse.
If he had even half a brain I’d suspect it was deliberate.
Smash-and-grab crime crippled retailers in Democratic-controlled cities across the United States throughout 2023.
Also known as “flash mob” robberies, smash-and-grabs are defined as criminal actions conducted after “breaking a window of a car, store, etc., and stealing whatever can be taken quickly.”
You can’t help but admire the audacity of his hopes as Justin Trudeau’s horrible year ends.
The prime minister faced marital separation on the home front, endured political challenges across Canada and stoked global controversies in 2023.
Yet he still defiantly declares, without giving himself even a millimetre of wiggle-away room, that he will stick around to lead another campaign to victory, an optimistic expectation without much supportive evidence.
Global conflicts. Rising costs of living. The migrant crisis.
Mix in a presidential election which threatens to stretch political divides to breaking point and it’s easy to see why many Americans fear what 2024 has in store.
But some aren’t just braced for hardship ahead, they’re convinced the ‘perfect storm’ of crises will herald a catastrophe like no other.
As Canada vies for a seat on the United Nations human rights council, Indigenous leaders and environmental advocates have launched a co-ordinated campaign drawing attention to Canadian companies operating in the Amazon region and raising questions about their environmental and human rights track record.
Seizing on Canada’s efforts to land a seat on the 47-member council, a vote that will take place in 2027, the group has called on the federal government to take greater responsibility for how it monitors the resource companies in the country’s large and influential extractive industry.
For decades America’s credentialed liberal elite thought of itself as uniquely immune to the appeal of racial bigotry. The rest of the country—the right-leaning suburbs, the rural places, the Archie Bunkers—were constantly prone, in the minds of America’s intellectuals and enlightened academics, to indulge in racial grievances. But not the university-educated, well-heeled elite. Not the exponents of mainstream-press conventional wisdom. Not the readers of the New Yorker and the Washington Post.
Few outside journalists have been able to enter Gaza, but developments in satellite technology over the past decade have made it possible to accurately assess from space the destruction brought by the war in the small Palestinian enclave.
Some of the tools being used to track bomb damage in Gaza were developed to measure deforestation or damage following natural disasters.
In addition to taking bird’s-eye-view photos of rooftops and streets, satellites can aim radar at an angle, causing it to bounce off buildings and scatter in a way that allows operators to “see” not only rooftops but also the sides of structures. Computers can then compare it to baseline data collected before the bombs hit.
It’s called war. You’re supposed to blow shit up especially when fighting animals like Hamas.
China is laughing hysterically at the United States
We are our own worst enemy https://t.co/TrDsQDzr9x
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) December 31, 2023
The US military shot down three boats operated by Iran-backed Houthi rebels – killing their crews – after the militants had attempted to attack a Maersk container vessel in Red Sea waters near Yemen early Sunday, officials said.
Helicopters from the USS Eisenhower and USS Gravely warships opened fire at “four Iranian-backed Houthi small boats” – sinking three of them – while responding to an SOS call from the Singapore-flagged vessel Maersk Hangzhou around 6:30 a.m. local time, according to the US Central Command (CENTCOM).
