John Robson: Ottawa’s Neglect of RCMP and Armed Forces a Case of Bad Policy Driving Out Good

Once upon a time bell-bottoms, mullets, and “Gestalt” theory were trendy. Until someone realized two fashion blunders didn’t cancel out and people had always seen patterns. Like this one where the RCMP is desperately understaffed.

As the National Post reported, “The force provides police to provinces across the country, but it is missing [recruiting] targets in every region, with vacancy rates up to 17%.” You might say it’s not a pattern, even with the Armed Forces also officially short some 16,000 members, probably far more. It’s just as ugly as the purple jumpsuit Burt Reynolds wore on the “Tonight Show” in 1973 that the state cannot protect us from internal or external threats, its most basic duty.

Share

Mississauga man Kenneth Law is accused of selling kits to people contemplating suicide in over 40 countries. Here’s why the world will be watching his case

Kenneth Law, 57, is accused of selling over 1,200 kits to vulnerable people contemplating suicide around the world. Law’s alleged offerings, displayed on now-defunct websites with names like “Imtime Cuisine” and “Escape Mode,” ranged from sodium nitrite, a lethal substance which can kill humans in small doses, to flow regulators and gas masks.

An April investigation by the Times of London shoved Law into the international spotlight, leading to his eventual arrest by Peel police. The Times investigation caught Law on tape advising how to use his products, as well as assuring the reporter that “many, many people” had died taking sodium nitrite. Law later confirmed those details in-person when the Times spoke with him outside a post office in Mississauga.

Share

Hunter Biden lawyer accused of misleading clerk to block release of damning evidence

First son Hunter Biden’s legal team appeared to pull a dirty trick Tuesday to block the release of damning evidence ahead of his expected guilty plea to federal charges of tax evasion and weapons crimes.

The drama began in the morning when the House Ways and Means Committee filed an amicus brief to Delaware US District Judge Maryellen Noreika arguing that the 53-year-old had benefited from “political interference which calls into question the propriety of the investigation” into alleged crimes including money laundering, felony tax evasion and failure to register as a foreign agent.

h/t Mauser & XC

Share

Secret criminal trial in Ontario the latest in series of undisclosed hearings

A secret criminal trial in Ontario in which the identities of the judge, lawyers and accused were all concealed from the public is the latest in a series of undisclosed or confidential court hearings to be revealed in Canada in the past year and a half.

The secrecy extends to where the alleged crimes occurred, what they were and what police agency investigated them. Not only are the files sealed, even the docket number is a secret. The level of court at which the trial was held has not been publicly specified.

Share

Thousands of Cubans Flown Illegally Into Europe

An intercontinental criminal network smuggled 5,000 Cuban citizens into Europe via Serbia, taking advantage of the lack of visa requirements to enter Serbia, according to a press release on Monday, July 24th, from Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency.

An investigation by Europol and Interpol was triggered in October 2021 after Serbian, Greek, North Macedonian, and Finnish authorities reported an increased number of Cuban citizens attempting to enter Europe with false documents.

Share

Ottawa rewards failure with taxpayer-funded bonuses

Bonuses are for people who excel at their job, not for people who fail at their job. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, who is ultimately the federal government’s paymaster, needs to be reminded of that.

The Bank of Canada handed out $20 million in bonuses in 2022 even as it hiked interest rates seven times and inflation reached a 40-year high. The central bank’s overarching objective is to keep inflation around “two per cent inside a control range of one to three per cent.” But though inflation climbed fully 4.8 percentage points above its target, the Bank of Canada gave 80 per cent of its workforce a bonus of $11,200 per person on average.

Share

The Jaw-Dropping Hunter Biden–Investigation Revelations

The compelling congressional testimony of two IRS whistleblower agents has established three things.

First, the investigation into Biden corruption — millions of dollars pouring into the family coffers from apparatchiks of corrupt and anti-American regimes seeking to buy Joe Biden’s political influence — is real and has been thwarted by the Biden Justice Department. Second, the president’s son Hunter Biden received preferential treatment, and, next week, a federal judge should reject the sweetheart plea deal he was given by the Justice Department. Third, Attorney General Merrick Garland owes the country an explanation for why the Biden investigation has been sabotaged from within, even as he maintains publicly that it was conducted with independence and integrity.

Share

How war veterans helped to uncover one of the Battle of Waterloo’s greatest finds

When Clement Boland, a former private with 2nd Battalion, The Mercian Regiment, saw a 50-metre wide depression in the ground where the first shots of the Battle of Waterloo were fired, the first thing he felt was “sadness”.

There, beneath layers of soil, in a quarry that archaeologists believe may be the first evidence of a mass grave from that notoriously bloody fight over two centuries ago, was a piece of French musket flint. The poor state of the flint, dated 1812, indicates that the weapon was jamming as it was being fired.

Share

The fantasy explanations for excess deaths as panic sets in

ON Saturday the Daily Express headlined a story ‘Experts call for urgent investigation as excess deaths spark “dangerous” theories’. UK excess deaths in 2023 have risen to levels commensurate with 2020 alpha variant deaths during the height of the pandemic, but the article admits that the 2023 excess is not due to Covid. Most concerning is the death toll in the 15-44 age group which exceeds 2020 and prior years, an age group which was mostly mildly affected by Covid.


And … Everybody seems to be getting blood clots

Share

An 1863 letter explains what reparations should be

Marxists in California must have missed CNN (Confederate Network News) on January 1, 1863, when Republican President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all the slaves from Democrat southern states. Following the Union victory over the Confederacy at the Battle of Antietam, the executive order declared that any enslaved person in Confederate states would be set free.

Share

‘Stay Out of China!’ – Before it Collapses?

Evergrande China Real Estate Collapse

What Americans need to know about their greatest enemy.

I have recently written much about China for several reasons. Americans need to know about their greatest enemy, whose No. 1 goal is to replace the United States as dominant world power and subjugate all of humanity under a murderous, slave-creating, Leftist dictatorship. I must do it because Joe Biden, the Washington Uniparty, and American media and academics won’t. Biden and the Democrats are too busy destroying America themselves to realize somebody else is trying to do it, too. Or, more accurately, using them as their “useful idiots” to accomplish it.

Share

The 1683 defeat of the Turks at Vienna was in vain

Old Vienna, in the midst of a demographic crisis, is a museum inhabited by elderly people strolling in the Prater. Islam has won.

340 years ago, on July 15, 1683, an Ottoman officer approached the walls of Vienna with a proposal to surrender. The message was delivered to a Croatian soldier: “Accept Islam and live in peace under the Sultan! But if you resist, then death, desolation and bondage will be the fate of you all!”

In Vienna, two months later, Europe defeated the Ottomans and only the battle of Marathon in 490 BC. C. – where the Athenians defeated a Persian expeditionary force – had the same significance for Western culture.

Share