It seems that Steven Guilbeault, the Environment Minister of Canada, isn’t a popular as he thinks he should be, what with saving the world and all. His “suck it up, Shriners” message, announced yesterday as part of the Trudeau government’s draft regulations to move Canada ever closer to NetZero, have really ruffled some feathers.
On July 13, 2023, Don Rosenberg, the father of Drew Rosenberg who was killed in a grisly crash by an unlicensed illegal alien in 2010, testified before the House Judiciary Committee on “The Consequences of Criminal Aliens on U.S. Cities.”
The revelations revealed by Rosenberg who is the president of Advocates for Victims of Illegal Alien Crime (AVIAC) in his testimony were quite shocking and would have most Americans up in arms if only the media would have covered it (instead of ignoring it).
h/t Kiki9
Akwesasne Mohawk police say they recently detained 13 people who were allegedly attempting to cross illegally into the United States from Canada.
Police say they received a call on Saturday regarding foreign nationals on the American side of the territory in the village of Kana:takon, also known as St. Regis.
Officers found a family of four walking down the road and another family of nine in a private home, and turned them over to Canadian authorities.
It’s bad when the illegals are bugging out.
Now who will build our houses?
Three years after stepping down as working royals, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have this week seen their HRH titles quietly erased from the British monarchy’s website.
… If I know anything about the working class, it’s that they constantly refer to themselves, in the manner of a particularly cringey museum exhibit, as “common people” who delight in primitive “festivals.” And they absolutely view dirty boots as something to preen about, like an especially successful Halloween costume.
But the bigger problem with Mr. Poilievre’s class tourism is this: He has grasped a real thing that is simmering just below a boil. Too many people feel like they can’t afford any sort of reasonable life or even pin the hopes of such a thing to their children. And many people – some included in the group above, some not – feel ignored, maligned and scolded by the current federal government.
Poilievre is a career politician, a part of our Ottawa permaclass and as the column points out he is comically out of touch with the “common man.”
I like Poilievre primarily because he isn’t Justin but I do not trust him on key issues I care about.
It’s one thing to raise money on a promise to defund the CBC, another to actually do it.
We’ve had our hopes dashed before. Yes the jury is out until he’s elected but bear in mind the CBC is part of the same Political Permaclass he belongs to.
On the question of mass immigration it’s already clear Poilievre will offer more of the same Ponzi scheme Trudeau is foisting on us.
Identity politics and mass immigration are a part of every politicos hymnal in Canada and all with rare exception belong to the UNIPARTY choir.
I wish him luck. People are getting so sick of that preening twit in Ottawa and his buddy Sideshow Singh the conservatives may just win the next election.
But please Pierre spare us the proletarian pantomime.
Some 200,000 people are thought to have been killed in fighting between Russia and Ukraine since February 24, 2022, when President Vladimir Putin opened the latest—and perhaps final—chapter of Moscow’s 30-year effort to hinder Kyiv’s westward drift and regenerate a neo-imperial sphere of influence.
Putin’s military gambit has not gone to plan. The stunning failure of Russia’s thunder run on Kyiv in the early days and weeks of the invasion proved a harbinger of Moscow’s battlefield struggles. The demands of large-scale, mechanized, 21st century warfare pulled back the veil on Russia’s supposedly modernized force, illuminating the kind of corruption and incompetence that have hamstrung Moscow’s militaries for years.
#Ukraine: A Russian T-80BV tank with a Kontakt-1 cope cage was destroyed by the Ukrainian 77th Airmobile Brigade near Yahidne, #Donetsk Oblast. pic.twitter.com/yzjPOsjfxn
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) August 11, 2023
When you’re listening to the federal government’s eco-propaganda on its new clean electricity plan (especially when you’re listening to their bumf on how the plan will save your family money), remember these are the very same politicians, activists and bureaucrats who told you the carbon tax would make your family money when rebates were included.
New research found that liberals are particularly susceptible
The recent conviction of Tou Thao, an officer involved in the killing of George Floyd, marks yet another chapter in the ongoing national conversation about police brutality and racial bias. This case, and the protests it ignited, thrust the issue into the media spotlight, shaping public perceptions of police violence against black Americans. But, as urgent and resonant as these events have been, it’s still critical to ask whether the heightened media attention distorted our understanding of the true scale and nature of police use of force.
Record numbers of international students coming to Canada is making the already inflated cost of housing worse, said Steve Pomeroy, a policy research consultant and senior research fellow at Carleton University’s centre for urban research.
The biggest strain on Canada’s housing market, he said, isn’t only the rising rate of permanent residents, with more than 400,000 permanent residents in 2022, and the Liberal government determined to hit 500,000 a year in the next couple of years. Those coming here seeking temporary residence, either temporary foreign workers or international students, are fuelling rental price increases.
Related … ‘Something doesn’t seem right here’: International students’ revoked college admissions cast spotlight on Ontario’s public-private partnerships
This week’s news that admission offers to 504 international students have been revoked by an Ontario college is likely to cast a spotlight once more onto partnerships between Ontario’s public and private colleges.
The students in question had been admitted months ago by Timmins-based Northern College to study at Pures College, its private partner in Toronto.
The revoking of the admission offers comes before a new rule takes effect next month that will cap international student enrolment under such partnerships.
A murder investigation has been opened after the body of a 10-year-old girl was found in Surrey.
Officers were called to an address in Hammond Road, Woking, at about 2.50am on Thursday following a concern for safety.
On arrival, they found the girl dead inside the property, Surrey police said. The girl’s family has been informed and is being supported by specially trained officers.
No mention of the usual things not mentioned.
Things keep looking up for the federal Conservatives under leader Pierre Poilievre. Everything for now seems to be heading in the right direction for him to become the next prime minister.
A recent news feature in The Hill Times highlights the all-important numbers of polling and fundraising: “The Conservative Party has raked in roughly $9.5-million more than the governing Liberals so far in the first half of 2023, and combined with recent polling showing the Tories with a nearly 10-point lead, ‘alarm bells should be going off at Liberal HQ,’ says Abacus Data CEO David Coletto.”
The Australian military should have performed a risk assessment on the dangers of swimming in crocodile habitats before two servicemen were attacked in far north Queensland, an inquiry has found.
Australia’s Department of Defence faces a AUD$1.5 million (£770,000) fine and is charged with breaching federal work health and safety laws, two years after one of the soldiers was “death-rolled” by an eight-foot-long saltwater crocodile.
Every government screws up from time to time. Politicians and public service workers are only human, and mistakes will inevitably be made.
However, particularly egregious screwups have become the rule in many Canadians jurisdictions rather than the exception. Each news cycle seems to surface another mind-boggling instance of ineptitude or indifference — sometimes both.
The current fiasco in Ottawa is a perfect example of this. On Canada Day, Pimisi Station, the closest light-rail transit (LRT) station to the city’s celebrations, was closed for public safety reasons. After much public outrage, it emerged that this was because Pimisi Station isn’t designed to handle “substantial crowds” and has a dearth of emergency escape routes.
NEW YORK (AP) — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was sent to jail Friday to await trial after a bail hearing for the fallen cryptocurrency wiz left a judge convinced that he had repeatedly tried to influence witnesses against him.
U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan ordered Bankman-Fried’s bail revoked after prosecutors said he’d tried to harass a key witness in his fraud case last month when he showed a journalist her private writings and in January when he reached out to the general counsel for FTX with an encrypted communication.
The NYTimes article on the Bail Revocation fleshes out the situation a bit more as it should given their involvement.
Evidently Judges look upon witness tampering as a “Bad Thing.” In another pleasant surprise it appears the Illegal Campaign Contribution charges recently dropped due to an extradition technicality are able to be resurrected. Looks like Sammy was expendable after all.
This is the NYTimes article that got SBF’s bail revoked – Inside the Private Writings of Caroline Ellison, Star Witness in the FTX Case
Three months before the cryptocurrency market imploded last year, Caroline Ellison, the 27-year-old chief executive of the crypto hedge fund Alameda Research, was racked with self-doubt.
“I have been feeling pretty unhappy and overwhelmed with my job,” Ms. Ellison wrote in a Google document in February 2022. She added: “At the end of the day I can’t wait to go home and turn off my phone and have a drink and get away from it all.”
Ms. Ellison had a lot on her mind. She did not think that she was well suited to running Alameda or particularly decisive as a leader, she wrote in another Google document. She was also going through a breakup with Sam Bankman-Fried, the billionaire entrepreneur who had founded Alameda and then FTX, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges. They had dated on and off, and Ms. Ellison worried about “making things weird” and “causing drama.”
An organization representing retired Canadian spies says a public inquiry into Beijing foreign-interference operations must be given access to all cabinet documents and transcripts of discussions to determine whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was ever informed of China’s attempts to meddle in the 2019 and 2021 elections.
The Pillar Society, which represents retired Canadian Security Intelligence Service officers and former members of the RCMP Security Service, has joined calls for a public inquiry and expressed concern that further delay could end up scuttling one.
