Powerlifter reacts to biological male taking women’s national record: ‘Completely unfair’

A competitive female powerlifter responded to a record-breaking win from a transgender athlete who lifted 200 kilograms more than the second-place winner, calling it “completely unfair.”

April Hutchinson discussed Anne Andres, a 40-year-old trans woman setting all-time records at the Canadian Powerlifting Union’s 2023 Western Canadian Championship Sunday.

Share

Alec Baldwin: Report casts doubt over Rust actor’s account of shooting

A new report into the fatal shooting on the set of the movie Rust appears to cast doubt over star and producer Alec Baldwin’s accounts of events.

Mr Baldwin denies pulling the trigger of the prop gun which went off, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

Weapons experts have now said the trigger would have “had to be pulled”.

The actor’s representatives told the PA news agency they had no comment to make on the latest development in the ongoing case.

Charges of involuntary manslaughter against the actor were dropped in April, but prosecutors said it did not “absolve Mr Baldwin of criminal culpability”.

Share

Tasha Kheiriddin: Poilievre’s populism appeals because elites abandoned the working class

How do you do common peoples?

It’s been a big week in America. A grand jury in Atlanta indicted former U.S. President Donald Trump for conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the state of Georgia. Trump’s fourth indictment adds 13 felony charges to his rap sheet, including a charge of criminal conspiracy. Yet polls show Trump would still handily win the Republican nomination, and possibly the presidency, in 2024.


None of Canada’s mainstream parties care much for the working class.

Instruction by the BOC to the corporate class to fight inflation by denying working people wage increases.

Wages already artificially low thanks to suppression by mass immigration.

Wages so low they can’t afford to rent or own homes and still Big Business wants to import even more wage slaves because there’s money to be made in critical shortages.

Carbon taxes that accomplish nothing but increased costs across the board and fail to change the weather in China.

Pierre needs to give sober thought to immigration policy. Without that he is just another UNIPARTY candidate.

Share

France: Serial Sex Offender Arrested for Barbaric Rape; Left Worried About ‘Racism’

Left-liberal leaders express concern the crime could be ‘exploited’ by the Right.

A migrant known to French authorities for a litany of criminal acts, including incestuous sexual assault, is sitting in pre-trial detention after having been arrested and charged with committing an unspeakably barbaric rape against a 29-year-old woman in the city of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin.

Share

More people than expected are dying in Canada in 2023 for reasons that are not yet clear

COVID-19 case counts are down dramatically from a year ago, according to federal data. Hospitalizations are higher than during the first two pandemic summers, but are hovering around their lowest point since December, 2021. And there are now fewer than 30 COVID-19 deaths reported across the country per week.

But owing to limited testing and COVID-19 deaths that are undetected or not yet reported, the real toll COVID-19 continues to take on Canadians is not yet known.

Share

Renaming Toronto’s Dundas Street: An ‘important first step’ or wasteful expense?

For some people, renaming Toronto’s Dundas Street is a necessary step to confront the history of a city built in part by individuals connected to the British Empire’s transatlantic slave trade.

Others say the estimated $8.6-million cost of renaming the 23-kilometre thoroughfare is a wasteful expense for a city facing a financial crisis, including a looming budget shortfall estimated at $1.5 billion.

Share

Thieves caught on camera robbing Nike store in East Los Angeles

A trio of brazen thieves was caught on video pilfering bags of merchandise from an East Los Angeles Nike store over the weekend — just one day after over $300,000 in stock was swiped from a nearby Nordstrom.

One man and two women entered the Nike Community Store on Whittier Boulevard just after 5:30 p.m. Sunday and began boldly grabbing whatever they could carry, in full view of staff and other shoppers, the video circulated on the Citizen app shows, KTLA reported.

Share

Colby Cosh: Nonsense for Trudeau to open immigration, but not the economy

This week, the Wall Street Journal, a strong candidate for “best newspaper in the English-speaking world,” became the latest news outlet to lift a questioning eyebrow at Canadian immigration policy. WSJ’s superb Ottawa reporter Paul Vieira gestures, for the benefit of his paper’s international audience, at facts most of our readers already know well. Inflexible, highly regulated parts of the economy like housing, medicine and transport are screaming under the burden of immigration levels with few precedents anywhere — levels the Liberal government has done nothing but increase.

Share

Squamish van dwellers running out of places to park as local Walmart limits long-term stays

People living in their vehicles in Squamish, B.C., are running out of places to park their cars overnight after the local Walmart announced it would no longer allow long-term parking.

The notice comes two years after the district council in Squamish, located about 64 kilometres north of Vancouver, passed a bylaw prohibiting people who live in their vehicles from spending the night parked on municipal streets.

The latest restriction means there are fewer and fewer places to sleep for people who can’t live in a home for any number of reasons.

Share

Fani Willis’s Flawed RICO Charge against Trump

I was waiting for the Fulton County, Ga., indictment of former president Donald Trump — and, it seems, a cast of thousands — with an open mind. Fani Willis in Atlanta, like Alvin Bragg in Manhattan, is first and foremost an elected Democrat and, in this era (which I hope fades away soon) it is good politics for an elected Democrat to wield the law-enforcement powers with which she has been trusted against the party’s nemesis. That, naturally, does not make for good law enforcement — quite the opposite.

Share

Hillbilly Anthem: With His Viral Protest Song, Oliver Anthony Is This Year’s J.D. Vance

Here we go again.

In 2016, I read Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance’s moving, insightful memoir of growing up in the struggling white working class of Appalachia. Vance was, and is, a young man who wrote with critical passion about his people and their despair. He criticized structural economic reasons for their suffering, but also criticized self-sabotaging cultural beliefs and practices.

Share

San Francisco staff told to work from home as crime wave makes office unsafe

Hundreds of US government staff in San Francisco have been told to work from home because rampant crime has made it too unsafe to go to the office.

The Department of Health and Human Services told employees at the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building to “maximise the use of telework for the foreseeable future” due to “conditions” outside the building.

The office houses a variety of federal employees, plus staff working for Ms Pelosi, the former speaker of the House of Representatives.

Share

Elites around the world are wilfully blind about Trump

Loads of commentators on the left of the political spectrum seem completely unhinged when it comes to former President Trump.

Remember the celebrity philosopher Sam Harris who embarrassed himself by comparing Trump to an asteroid hurtling towards Earth, thereby making just about any response supposedly justified? Did this include justifying the political opposition lying, weaponising the FBI, or anything really…? And then we have our own Troy Bramston who sees Trump as a foundational threat to democracy (somehow missing that it wasn’t Trump as President who was trying to lock up for life his main political opponent on charges two Democrat-voting law profs – Alan Dershowitz and Jonathan Turley – mock).

Share