HALIFAX—Is democracy becoming a form of hope in which people no longer believe?
A hint of that has surfaced in a number of ways that could be described as declining citizen interest: apathy toward elections, political events, public meetings, and voting itself. Ontario offers a disquieting insight into the depth of that apathy.
Three employees at a California coffee shop who were seen blocking a Jewish woman from using the bathroom while making anti-Israel comments in a now-viral video are now out of a java job.
Amy and Chris Hillyard, the owners of Farley’s East in Oakland, posted on social media Sunday that the employees seen on the video berating the customer “was shocking and unacceptable” and they are now jobless due to their actions.
Just how low can a Canadian prime minister go when dealing with the needs of military and RCMP veterans?
Certainly, I once thought it was then-prime minister Paul Martin’s decision in 2005 to eliminate disability pensions in favour of meagre lump sum payments. A policy since reversed after much public complaint.
First, Gay lifts an entire paragraph nearly verbatim from a paper by Lawrence Bobo and Franklin Gilliam’s, while passing it off as her own paraphrase and language.
More … Is Claudine Gay a Plagiarist?
Aside from STEM universities are failed institutions.
h/t DS
The Canadian governments Sustainable Development Technology Fund, often referred to as a “Trudeau’s green slush fund,” is under fire yet again today.
Member of Parliament Michael Barrett this morning on Twitter has revealed that yet another member of the board of directors, Guy Ouimet, is under investigation following allegations of a conflict of interest. The investigation follows the resignation of Leah Lawrence, President and CEO of the agency, whom stepped down after it was revealed that SDTC chair Annette Verschuren had received funding from the agency for her own organization. Verschuren has also stepped down from her role with the organization.
The Metropolitan Police has asked the public to help identify pro-Palestine protesters with anti-Semitic placards on Saturday.
A man wearing a keffiyeh scarf was pictured holding aloft a sign that showed the Israel flag with the words “the final solution”, which was the title of the Nazi plan for Jewish genocide during the Second World War.
The placard also depicted two people trying to topple the Star of David with a US flag emblazoned on it.
Donald Trump’s former lawyer and “fixer,” Michael Cohen, warned on Saturday that the former president would invade U.S. allies Mexico and Canada if he’s reelected to the White House in 2024.
Cohen has been a staunch critic of his former boss in light of Trump’s plethora of legal troubles. In 2018, he pleaded guilty to campaign finance charges and lying to Congress, and was sentenced to three years in jail. Cohen’s charges were in connection to hush-money payments made in 2016 on behalf of Trump—who faces 34 felony counts in Manhattan over allegations that he falsified business records to cover the payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels who alleged she had an affair with Trump. The former president has denied the affair and maintains his innocence in the case.
A few days ago Tucker Carlson did a video about the elite “anti-human death-cult” that’s using “climate change” to reverse the industrial revolution. Returning us to an age where abject poverty — even famine — was a daily reality, while freedom was a distant memory.
During the 15 minute interview, Michael Shellenberger said something that bears comment, that “The pillars of civilization are cheap energy, meritocracy, Law and Order, and free speech. And all four of those pillars are currently under attack.”
Ep. 44 Another half-demented 80-year-old yelling about things he doesn’t understand. These are our leaders. They don’t care about our future because they don’t have one of their own. pic.twitter.com/iylpXALJjZ
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) December 4, 2023
h/t Mauser
Ottawa eyes change to border rules for Indigenous communities. ‘It is an injustice that continues to divide our people’
The territory where Tim Argetsinger’s ancestors once moved freely and hunted in the Arctic spanned 2.5 million square kilometres of land — about a quarter of the size of Canada.
Today, that same land crosses a slew of international borders — parts of Canada, Greenland, Alaska in the U.S., and the Chukotka region of Russia, dividing up the members of his nation and community.
So when Argetsinger travels from the Native Village of Kotzebue, his hometown in Alaska, to Nuuk in Greenland, where his wife is from, and Ottawa, where his employer is, he must follow the same immigration laws and border rules as an American.
Two girls aged 13 and 14 have been arrested after a Jewish woman was violently robbed in north London in what police are saying is a possible hate crime.
A 20-year-old orthodox Jewish woman was filmed being hit, wrestled to the ground and kicked by two girls who appeared to be wearing their school uniform on Rostrevor Avenue in Haringey on Thursday.
The neighbourhood group Shomrim, which released CCTV footage of the attack at around 4.30pm on Sunday, said the victim was “beaten unconscious” and that attackers “stood over” her “joking about her being dead”
Two black teenage girls beat a Jewish woman unconscious and the legacy media won’t cover it because it doesn’t fit their narrative.
Imagine if this was two white teenagers attacking a black woman completely unprovoked. It would be headline news for days.pic.twitter.com/7S4uowTVRZ
— Wolf 🐺 (@WorldByWolf) December 9, 2023
Canada’s newest premier says that in an ideal world, Ottawa would provide his territory with a blanket exemption from the carbon tax.
“I mean, ideally, a complete exemption for the territory is what we would hope for,” said R.J. Simpson, chosen this week as premier of the Northwest Territories, in an interview Sunday on Rosemary Barton Live.
“The costs are already high — higher costs are not the solution up here.”
An Alberta woman whose son was killed while fighting with Islamic extremists in Syria is worried anger over the conflict between Israel and Hamas could lead to an increase in radicalization.
Chris Boudreau says she expects extremist groups are going to seize on the conflict.
“That’s what they use to engage — the anger, that burning desire on the inside,” she said in a recent interview with The Canadian Press.
“Helplessness is a powerful thing. Fear is a powerful thing. And unfortunately, as human beings, emotions tend to prevail over logic.”
I feel sorry for this mother’s loss however she needs to understand that Islam is not considered “radical” by it’s adherents.
The hate on our streets is a satanic calling straight from the hell of Islam’s heart.
Historic levels of immigration shouldn’t be on autopilot.
Do you remember the big national debate on whether the United States would adopt a policy to make the foreign-born share of the population the highest it’s ever been?
Neither do I.
For the simple reason, of course, that there wasn’t one.
A new report recently revealed that Yale University is apparently handing about grades in the A-range like they are candy. An estimated 78.97% of all the grades given to undergraduates at the prestigious university fell within the A-range.
The surprising development has left both students and faculty alarmed that high grades appear to have lost their value, according to the New York Times. Shelly Kagan, a philosophy professor, said: “When we act as though virtually everything that gets turned in is some kind of A — where A is supposedly meaning ‘excellent work’ — we are simply being dishonest to our students.”
h/t Mauser
In the 60s, in America, three young men were active on behalf of civil rights for African Americans.
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, spent the summer of 1964 registering African Americans to vote in Mississippi where they were brutally lynched by the KKK, their bodies tossed in a shallow grave.
Chaney was African American. Both Goodman and Schwerner were Jewish.
The sacrifice of these 3 men gave rise to the Civil Rights Acts of the same year.
