For two months, Amanda Lease and her four-year-old dog Krue have been living in her pickup truck — sleeping in underground parkades and in front of friends’ houses in Calgary.
Lease can’t find a rental she can afford, let alone one that accepts pets, she says.
“The housing crisis in this city has put us in this position,” she said.
“Even if you find something in your price range that will allow an animal, they hold bidding wars and take whoever’s got the highest budget.”
Sir, I'm not sure what you expected. pic.twitter.com/HB5KLplzKi
— Males In Disguise (@MalesInDisguise) August 4, 2023
More than half of Canadians (56 per cent) see the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) as “old and antiquated,” according to a recent Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News.
The findings are in line with polling the defence department conducted between Dec. 19, 2022 and Jan. 15, 2023. That phone and internet survey found only one in five Canadians saw the CAF as a modern institution, with 29 per cent saying it’s outdated.
Old? But they have Trannies in arms!
Imagine dropping your kid off at camp and this is what greets you. What’s your reaction? pic.twitter.com/ISf3c7aUAE
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 4, 2023
Everything is the culture war nowadays. It may have started over Black Lives Matter and trans rights. But it hasn’t stopped there. Dip into social media with an opinion on cars, public transport, or cycling, and you’d better be prepared for some serious abuse back.
The Uxbridge by-election brought this to the surface. It was a single-issue vote about Sadiq Khan’s plan to expand his Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) – and the result showed that people in outer London really don’t like it.
Meanwhile, leftist riots and Pride nudity go unpunished.
A Christian teenager was arrested while reading the Bible in protest outside of an all-ages drag event in Wisconsin.
Police claim that Marcus Schroeder was arrested for a sound amplification violation. He was reading a passage from Galatians outside of the “family” drag event on a public sidewalk. Police reported that they had previously warned the group, but Schroeder claimed they had not been given a warning once they had moved outside of the event’s perimeters.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm engaged in multiple conversations with the Chinese government’s top energy official days before the Biden administration announced it would tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to combat high gas prices in 2021.
Granholm’s previously-undisclosed talks with China National Energy Administration Chairman Zhang Jianhua — revealed in internal Energy Department calendars obtained by Americans for Public Trust (APT) and shared with Fox News Digital — reveal that the Biden administration likely discussed its plans to release oil from the SPR with China before its public announcement.
“Secretary Granholm’s multiple closed-door meetings with a CCP-connected energy official raise serious questions about the level of Chinese influence on the Biden administration’s energy agenda,” APT Executive Director Caitlin Sutherland told Fox News Digital.
Police investigating the notorious Gilgo Beach murders announced Friday that have identified the victim previously known as Jane Doe No. 7 as a 34-year-old Manhattan woman.
Karen Vergata is believed to have disappeared around Feb. 14, 1996, Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said Friday morning.
On July 30, thousands of Palestinians in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip took to the streets to protest harsh living conditions and a shortage of power and gas. The protests, held under the banner “We want to live!“, reflected growing discontent among the Palestinians against the Iranian-backed Hamas, which seized control of the Gaza Strip through a violent and bloody coup in the summer of 2007.
At the same time as the Palestinians were demonstrating in the Gaza Strip, armed clashes erupted in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, where at least 11 people were killed, including a senior Palestinian security official, and several others were injured.
France faces an “immense” challenge, President Macron said after disclosing that three quarters of the children prosecuted over this summer’s riots were from single-parent families or in social care.
In an interview with Le Figaro’s weekly magazine, Macron said the figure underlined a breakdown of authority and a decline of trust in parents and schoolteachers, but also in democratic institutions.
His comments were an attempt to flesh out the Elysée’s view that parental failings lay behind the worst urban violence in France for 18 years.
He went to the Justin Trudeau school of crappy lying.
Former President Barack Obama once wrote that he fantasized about having sexual relations with other men, biographer David Garrow said in an interview published on Wednesday.
Hunter’s ex-best friend Archer revealed new details about his personal and business relationship with the president’s son during the second part of Tucker Carlson’s interview that was released Friday.
Archer addressed the toll that Hunter’s struggle with his crack cocaine and alcohol addiction took on their 10-year partnership.
For the initial part of their business partnership Hunter was ‘sober,’ he said. So his addiction struggle ‘wasn’t apart of our relationship.’
Ep. 13 Part 2. Devon Archer pic.twitter.com/R1sxSuPrKq
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) August 4, 2023
The Alberta government has announced it will pause approvals of all wind and solar power projects that are greater than one megawatt.
“Alberta’s government is responding to concerns about electricity projects to ensure future growth is balanced with responsible development,” said a statement issued on Aug. 3.
The government said that the Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) will pause approvals of new large renewable energy projects due to rural concerns until Feb. 29, 2024, and will review the policies and procedures in place for developing renewable electricity generation.
The Edinburgh International Book Festival has said it is “standing by its principles” and backed its event sponsor after Greta Thunberg accused them of “greenwashing”.
The climate activist has pulled out of an appearance at the festival later this month in protest over its sponsors Baillie Gifford, an investment firm she claims invests “heavily” in fossil fuels.
Canada’s new immigration minister said he is open to “having a conversation” on concerns raised by some economists and groups on rising immigration targets amid a housing shortage, but said he still has no plans to lower them in the near future.
