Under a third of Canadians say they have “high trust” in the country’s federal government, according to in-house research conducted by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC).
“Trust, particularly in the government and health care sector, is central to the effectiveness of public health measures,” said PHAC’s report. “While respondents have a lot of trust in hospitals and health care workers, trust in the federal government (e.g., the Public Health Agency) is much lower.”
This week, Vancouver’s Fraser Institute put out tables showing the median employment income in the 141 largest cities in North America.
The highest-ranked Canadian city is Ottawa because bureaucrats have higher incomes on average than private-sector workers. Still, our nation’s capital was only 53rd best on the continent.
But mass immigration doesn’t depress wages! Justin said so!
Thousands of Minors Have Received ‘Gender-Affirming Surgeries’
“… A total of 48 019 patients who underwent GAS were identified, including 25 099 (52.3%) who were aged 19 to 30 years. The most common procedures were breast and chest procedures, which occurred in 27 187 patients (56.6%), followed by genital reconstruction (16 872 [35.1%]) and other facial and cosmetic procedures (6669 [13.9%]).”
What’s the truth about Biden’s public naps?
Most presidents are fact checked about their policies, few have been fact checked about whether they were awake. Joe Biden has had the most sleeping fact checks of any other president, but that’s because presidents usually don’t fall asleep at major events like visits by foreign leaders or commemorations of mass deaths in a recent natural disaster.
I have explored previously at Armageddon Prose the brilliant foresight — despite his obvious issues with morality — of Ted Kaczynski, AKA The Unabomber, in terms of technology’s deleterious impacts on society and the pathologies that it generates.
The expansion of BRICS reflects a striking shift in the global balance of power.
The BRICS summit in Johannesburg this week represents a potentially significant moment in the shifting, fragmenting world order.
BRICS – an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – is an economic bloc made up of the fastest-growing developing countries. From the very moment of its first summit in 2009, this bloc has positioned itself as an alternative to the G7 bloc of advanced economies, made up of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US.
BRIC’s has been described as a collection of failed states, if so can the G7 be described as a collection of incipient failed states?
Everyone remembers the death of Palestinian-American reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, who worked for Al Jazeera. She was standing just outside the entrance to Jenin on May 11, 2022, while a firefight went on between the IDF and terrorists from Jenin camp, when she was shot and killed. The Israelis have said that they believe there was a “high possibiity” that an Israeli bullet had hit Abu Akleh, but that there had been no intent to kill her; in the fog of war, errors are made. And indeed, it would have made no sense for the IDF to have deliberately killed her; there was nothing to be gained, and everything to lose, in the propaganda bonanza that the Palestinians could — and did — exploit as they denounced the IDF’s “deliberate murder.”
Men are no longer trusted to admire beauty
Lost in thought again, I pace the humming street with my eyes down. They get into less trouble that way. If the pavements weren’t so cluttered with abandoned rented bicycles and e-scooters, I’d try walking backwards.
I am brooding over words I wrote several weeks ago when describing that species of social embarrassment called not knowing where to look when you pass a school playground of children. “It takes me a moment to remember,” I wrote, “that a man wandering on his own must no longer pause to look at children running races in their mirth.” I did not, I now think, adequately register the sadness of that loss. Scurry from a playground for fear of appearing sinister and we might as well be scurrying from the vitality of life itself.
Somewhat off topic – I used to have a daily morning walk that took me past a daycare, same time every day.
One day a young girl of maybe 3 or 4 standing away from the other children began calling out to me, calling me “Daddy.”
The first couple of times were amusing and I walked on without concern but she did not give up her efforts.
I began to worry I was traumatizing this poor child who daily mistook me for her father.
Worse yet I was a “Dad” who ignored her.
But I dared not stop to set her right knowing the mess that could be.
I changed my route.
The EU’s top general warned in an interview with the German Die Welt this week that the Russian war machine has much more longevity than most observers believe and that the current Ukrainian counteroffensive is failing to produce the results needed to restore the nation’s full territorial integrity.
Four-star Austrian general and chair of the European Union’s Military Committee (EUMC) General Robert Brieger said he was “cautious to expect a breakthrough” by Ukrainian ground forces as President Zelensky again reiterated his country’s commitment to retaking Crimea, which has been under Russian occupation since 2014.
#Ukraine: A Russian 2S19 Msta-S 152mm self-propelled howitzer was taken out of action by a GMLRS strike of the Ukrainian army near Skelyuvate, #Zaporizhzhia Oblast. pic.twitter.com/xAbES3l0V4
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) August 25, 2023
After 10 months of harrowing evidence and lengthy, rigorous cross-examinations, the neonatal nurse Lucy Letby was eventually convicted of murdering seven babies who were in her care and attempting to kill six more, making her the most prolific child serial killer in modern history.
She has been given multiple whole life terms, and there are calls for a full government inquiry into how this was allowed to happen at the hospital where she continued to work for three years after whistleblowers spoke up. The judge, Mr Justice Goss, said the “cruelty and calculation” of Letby’s actions between June 2015 and June 2016 were “truly horrific”.
AfD voters are rebelling against a failing economy
For decades, Germany was a beacon of centrist political stability. During her 16-year leadership, Angela Merkel led a succession of grand coalitions which neutralised the political extremes, and piloted her country through an era of steady economic growth.
Today, that political settlement has dissolved. Germany’s reliance on Russian gas has devastated its industrial economy, while the surface tranquillity of the Merkel era is a distant memory. Alternative für Deutschland, a far-Right populist party, has been the beneficiary of this chaos, surging in the polls to become the second-most popular party in Germany.
Police in Massachusetts are continuing to cover up information about the death of Obama personal chef Tafari Campbell even after declaring the case closed this week, DailyMail.com can reveal.
The response has prompted an outcry from First Amendment advocates who have been left asking: ‘What do they have to hide?’
And it has also sparked a plethora of conspiracy theories including the role of the former president’s family in the cover-up and Campbell’s relationship with the unidentified woman who witnessed his death.
Canada should follow US lead in decoupling from China, says business professor
The global economy has been waiting for China’s post-COVID economic boom, but that has not materialized. And the opposite could well be playing out, with analysts saying Canada has yet another reminder to wean itself off China.
At issue is China’s bloated property market, which by some estimates makes up over 25 percent of China’s economy. At risk are commodity prices, which had been given a long-term boost from China’s overbuilding of real estate.
Decouple from China? It won’t happen.
The sole purpose of the Liberal Party is to ensure that our China Class is able to enrich themselves at the ChiCom trough.
In return the LPC and friends surrender our nation’s sovereignty to their ChiCom masters.
Normally, schools are getting things ready for the return of students in late August.
But at Nora Frances Henderson Secondary School in Hamilton, they also are preparing for a teacher who formerly identified as a man and now identifies as a woman with large prosthetic cleavage, a blond wig and lipstick.
Bro acted like this is his daily routine pic.twitter.com/WszJIAJ4f5
— CCTV IDIOTS (@cctvidiots) August 23, 2023
