As a city of tents sprang up outside India’s capital city New Delhi in December 2020, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau waded into a debate around protests taking place halfway across the world.
From Ottawa, he promised that Canada would “always stand up” for the right to peacefully protest.
“We believe in the importance of dialogue and that’s why we have reached out through multiple means directly to the Indian authorities to highlight our concerns,” he said.
Nobody ever asked us if we wanted green energy. They just did it
It has been said that the road to net zero carbon emissions runs through the homes of the poor. This statement is echoed in UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s decision this week to water down net zero commitments, a political manoeuvre, no doubt in response to growing concerns over the costs of the energy transition.
Perhaps the Prime Minister has recognised, as Nigel Farage has been saying for some time, that there has been a democratic deficit around net zero that is similar to the deficit that eventually led to the Brexit vote. Because, as with EU membership, political elites have taken us down the road to net zero without waiting to see if this is a road we, the public, wish to travel.
Some MPs worried about waning enthusiasm among their constituents for supporting Ukraine’s defence say they hope President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit changes some hearts and minds.
“It’s important that we continue to stay unified as Canadians … and advocate for the aid necessary to ensure Ukraine wins the war,” said Toronto-area Liberal MP Yvan Baker, chair of the Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Friendship Group.
Oh oh…
TORONTO: Trudeau and Zelensky leave Royal York Hotel as an even bigger crowd of protesters shout “F**K YOU” “GET OUT OF OUR COUNTRY”
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pic.twitter.com/iwiYU8wkJT— Kat Kanada (@KatKanada_TM) September 23, 2023
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s convocation of the leading food retail companies in order to scold them about rising food prices is one of the most egregious acts of political flimflam in this country in many years. Last year the combined profits of the three largest grocery retailers (Loblaw, Sobeys, and Metro) was $3.6 billion, but that was against $100 billion in sales. That is not, by general corporate standards, a high return, especially as it is a business that is unusually vulnerable to inventory shrinkage — outright theft by employees and customers is generally more than one per cent of overall sales.
Trans activist admits that trans ideology is completely made up and is based on absolutely nothing pic.twitter.com/P7iogdht2X
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 22, 2023
Ibram X. Kendi has done as he promised. In 2020, freshly anointed as the director of Boston University’s new Center for Antiracist Research (CAR), Kendi announced his intention to “transform how racial research is done.” Previously, “research” had been understood to involve collecting data, analyzing trends and gathering new insights through the careful application of sustained thought. But these expectations were hallmarks of white supremacy. This week, as allegations of wanton mismanagement emerge from Kendi’s staff, it appears that what it means to do “racial research” has indeed been transformed: it now entails taking vast sums of other people’s money, then using it to produce almost nothing.
The roots of the problem are not confined to Canada, where a school district recently canceled any books published before 2008.
Peel School District — located in Ontario, Canada, and bordering Toronto — is reportedly weeding books from its libraries with publication dates prior to 2008. The district’s school board has yet to respond specifically to parents’ and Ontario officials’ questions, raising concerns about the book-weeding’s effect on the students’ educations and the district’s approach to education in general.
… To put into perspective how odd this is, imagine if Trump had made the sign of the cross as he was meeting with Netanyahu. There would have been a new round of “Trump is an antisemite” articles in the establishment media. The ADL would have issued another in their long series of furious denunciations of the Bad Orange Man. The gesture would have been portrayed as a recrudescence of the bad old days of blood libels and false accusations against the Jews that culminated in the Holocaust. When Biden does it, on the other hand, no one sees it.
Russell Brand says it has been an “extraordinary and distressing” week after rape and sexual assault allegations were made against him.
In a video published on social media, he thanked followers for their support and for “questioning the information that you’ve been presented with”.
They are his first public comments since allegations were published by the Sunday Times and Channel 4’s Dispatches last weekend.
Brand has denied the claims.
Not only is the Biden administration turning a blind eye on the growing alliance between Iran, Russia, China and North Korea, and looking the other way on their evasions of sanctions, it is also financing the ruling mullahs of Iran with billions of dollars to put the finishing touches on the country’s nuclear program and for delivering more weapons to Russia with which to attack Ukraine.
The hit series Yellowstone has handily beaten Disney in a new fan survey of the top entertainment franchises — a notable feat considering the western series starring Kevin Costner is only five years old.
Yellowstone ranked No. 7 in entertainment and gaming company’s Fandom’s annual survey — which polled 5,000 fans — while the Disney brand trailed at No. 10, according to the results reported by Deadline.
It may be months, if ever, before Ottawa gets to the bottom of who was responsible for the gangland-style murder of Canadian Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
Given that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said there is “credible” intelligence that India played a role in the slaying, it’s hard to imagine any thorough investigation taking place that doesn’t include the full co-operation of the government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
India can ban Junior. That’s a win.
In a newly resurfaced paper from 2012, Dr. Anthony Fauci argued that the benefits of gain-of-function research are worth the increased risk of a potential pandemic-causing lab accident.
h/t Mauser
Behold union leadership…
President of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) of Ontario Fred Hahn says he and the union stand in support of ANTIFA
pic.twitter.com/Z0EYQAccuP— Marie Oakes (@TheMarieOakes) September 22, 2023
h/t Mauser
