Whenever Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his climate change policies “make the polluters pay” what he really means is that he’s making us pay.
While the PM strives to create the impression he’s only going after “big polluters” like oil and gas companies, he’s actually going after all of us, because we buy the goods and services — often out of necessity for such things as electricity and heat— that the “big polluters” provide.
Police have been told to scan every shoplifting CCTV image reported to them through facial recognition technology as figures reveal some forces are failing to identify suspects in as many as two thirds of cases.
Only one in seven shoplifters were charged over the past year across England and Wales, while 54 per cent of cases were closed with no suspect identified and other evidential difficulties led to a further 20 per cent of cases collapsing.
Critics and members of the opposition have expressed concern over the federal government’s talk of potentially imposing additional taxes on major grocers. They argue that this move could worsen the affordability crisis faced by Canadians who are already grappling with rising food prices.
At the conclusion of the Liberal party’s three-day national caucus retreat in London, Ontario, on Sept. 14, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that his government is exploring various tools, including potential tax measures, to compel major grocery retailers to stabilize food prices.
At this point, “Gotta check with Katie,” is basically a Parliament Hill magical incantation.
She is the quiet voice that carries, the last person in the room, a first-name-only Ottawa main character.
Some prime ministers have employed their chiefs of staff as mercenaries for specific moments and replaced them when the situation demanded something different. Others have held their chiefs close for years as trusted consiglieres.
If Willis is to be believed, a person need not commit or agree to commit any statutory crime in order to be guilty of RICO conspiracy.
Oh, about those 161 “overt acts” in furtherance of a RICO conspiracy that Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis trumpeted in the first few dozen pages of her mammoth indictment of Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants. Never mind. Turns out, according to Willis, that those 161 acts don’t really define the sprawling conspiracy to — well, to do something. They just give you some flavor.
I stopped buying Girl Scout cookies several years ago when they began their trip to wokeville by supporting abortion, Planned Parenthood-style sexual education, and other LGBTQ agendas. I felt the same way when a few years back the Salvation Army called on Christians to “lament, repent, and apologize for racism.”
Dove went woke 20 years ago, but it doubled down by hiring BLM and “fat liberation activist” Zyahna Bryant. Bryant made a name for herself in 2020 with her damaging, race-based attacks on Morgan Bettinger. For that reason, there’s a growing Boycott against Dove. Bryant’s Dove video, however, is a useful insight into America’s societal collapse.
A new book reveals how – and why – our nation has been brought to its present dire straits.
Perhaps the greatest service of Barack Obama’s True Legacy, the recently published collection of penetrating essays on the Obama presidency by a number of knowledgeable and trenchant authors, edited by Jamie Glazov, is its contribution to collective memory.
The cult of victimhood is inflaming tensions between ethnic-minority groups.
A scuffle in a south-east London shop wouldn’t normally be headline news. But in our age of racial identity politics, Peckham Hair and Cosmetics has been thrust on to the frontline; a clash between an angry customer and a cack-handed shopkeeper has been transformed into a damning indictment of ‘white supremacist’ Britain.
That neither of the two players in this sorry story is white didn’t dent the narrative. Protesters gathered outside the shop, on Rye Lane, on Wednesday afternoon, after a video went viral, showing a middle-aged Asian man – the shop’s owner – violently restraining a young black woman, as she tried to bash him over the head with her basket. At one point in the clip, he appears to place his hands around her neck.
Shattered glass lined the sidewalks. Downtown Portland was recovering from nightly riots five days after George Floyd’s police death. I was downtown with friends, helping businesses recover from the latest bout of violence. Officers with the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) were taking reports from damaged businesses.
More than three years later, Portland police are still struggling to respond to crime. The PPB is dealing with high response times, high crime rates, and low staffing levels, according to a Manhattan Institute report released Sept. 14.
Paid $1,000 to kill a pastor’s wife 35 years ago, Kenneth Eugene Smith is now the first inmate to face suffocation by being forced to inhale the gas
Kenneth Eugene Smith should not be alive to tell his story. Ten months ago he was strapped to a gurney in the death chamber at Alabama’s Holman Correctional Facility. An intravenous line was inserted into his left arm to pump him full of deadly chemicals. Later, he claims, his face was covered and a man with a huge syringe stabbed him repeatedly in the chest in an unsuccessful search for a usable vein. Eventually, four hours after Smith entered the room, his executioners gave up trying to kill him.
But the state of Alabama has not admitted defeat. Smith, 58, is now facing a fresh attempt to end his life with a controversial method that has never been used before: forcing the prisoner to inhale pure nitrogen.
Does anyone remember the Maui wildfires? It remains one of the worst wildfires in American history. It’s the one where Joe Biden did not comment about the rising death toll because he was too busy enjoying the beach. The man took two vacations before his little visit to the island two weeks after the blaze killed nearly 100 people and caused at least $6 billion in damages. The fires broke out on August 8, destroying entire communities; Joe arrived two weeks later.
Rising rates of extreme poverty have driven the homeless to occupy unsafe properties across Johannesburg
Walking past the old Presbyterian church in downtown Johannesburg is an assault on the senses.
Damp sewage spills out onto the pavement near the building’s wooden doors, which are permanently bolted. Many of its windows are broken, with clothes left to dry within the empty frames. There are no hymns to be sung here.
Several individuals are said to be living inside, both men and women, without any access to water or electricity. One resident, who claims to have been a professional boxer, says he has called the church home for 21 years.
At least in previous centuries a trail of smoke loitered in the air after the censors were done burning books. The smell of information dying could not be escaped, nor could the haze be hidden.
In the digital era, information is deleted and edited by millions of invisible hands. Entire works of fiction are rewritten by publishing houses given custody of their survival, while historical records are misplaced if they invalidate the ‘current thing’. One wonders how much we have lost in the last 5 years…
These are dangerous times for knowledge.
Even comfortably ensconced in his technocratic ivory tower, World Economic Forum chieftain Klaus Schwab is apparently not impervious to the bottom-up pushback against his various social engineering schemes in the service of creating a one-world government.
