When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau turned up at the annual Calgary Stampede on Friday, he was wearing his annual good-guy white cowboy hat.
But for many Albertans, Trudeau is forever the bad guy in the black hat, the Snidely Whiplash of Alberta politics who, politically speaking, evicts widows and ties people to train tracks.
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) will be taking its strike to Amazon’s biggest sales event of the year: “Prime Day.” Starting on July 11, Amazon “Prime Day” offers some of the best deals the retail behemoth has to offer, with some deals going as high as 65 percent off. The WGA will be reframing this as “Crime Day,” the WGA will be picketing at the Amazon Culver City Studios on Wednesday, according to Deadline.
I post these updates just to remind myself that the writer’s strike is still a thing.
My impression is Hollywood and the writers are expediting their own irrelevance.
For about as long as most politicians and voters alive today remember, Canada has been a solidly pro-immigration nation. Until now, public opinion was effectively unanimous, at least outside of Quebec, that more newcomers represent an absolute good.
This allowed us the luxury of being rather superficial about immigration policy. It was far from a matter that decided elections — in fact, it’s such a historic nonstarter, pollsters rarely bothered to include it when asking Canadians about what issues mattered to them.
After a significant decline in market capitalization and nationwide boycotts, Bud Light is now no longer among America’s top 10 most popular beers according to a prominent survey—with women ranking the brand lower than men.
Canada’s military is facing “significant challenges” on a number of fronts which threaten its ability to fulfill its mission, an internal report by the Department of National Defence has concluded.
While those findings are not new and have been previously voiced by various stakeholders and observers, they summarize a strategic view held by the Assistant Deputy Minister (Review Services), the department’s branch in charge of providing independent reviews of the military’s policies and activities.
Germany is set to insist on delaying Ukraine’s accession to Nato over fears the move could take the alliance to war with Russia.
An alliance source said Berlin would use the annual Nato summit in Vilnius, Lithuania this week to urge others to focus on security assurances, rather than membership proposals, to help Ukraine defend itself in the absence of accession.
Bad choice there Ukraine – Ukraine looks to Trudeau to play key role in NATO membership bid
#Ukraine: Two Russian Uragan 9P140 220mm multiple rocket launchers (one with a cope cage) were destroyed by GMLRS strikes of the Ukrainian army in #Zaporizhzhia Oblast. pic.twitter.com/WWc1opR8wm
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) July 8, 2023
With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Doug Ford throwing our money at Volkswagen Group and Stellantis-LGES to build electric vehicle battery plants in Ontario, it’s probably a bad time to mention Volkswagen is cutting back on the production of EV vehicles in Germany, due to “strong customer reluctance in the electric vehicle sector.”
Only stupid people and grifters are on board with EV’s.
Police say the victim, who has been identified as Karolina Huebner-Makurat, 44, of Toronto, was struck by a stray bullet while walking in the area. She was transported to a local hospital, where she was later pronounced deceased.
Both suspects are descripted as Black men.
Anyone notice something odd here?
I see very little “outrage” over this unfortunate woman’s murder.
I guess that’s the new normal in Chowtown.
Attorneys representing the six female students who sued their sorority for admitting a male into their sisterhood blasted his written demand that the court throw out their lawsuit Friday as an “irrelevant diatribe” filled with “untruthful, misleading attacks.”
Border Patrol agents in Texas recovered the bodies of four migrants, including a baby, who drowned attempting to illegally cross the Rio Grande last weekend — but could not verify their identities because none of the river’s victims carried documentation.
“The identities of the deceased remain unknown since none possessed identifying documents,” a Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman confirmed on Twitter on Monday.
We need to stop saying identity politics, wokeness, or whatever else we want to call it, is progressive. We need to stop referring to the people who are actively reviving racial, misogynistic and homophobic thinking – under the guide of being ‘racially aware’ and ‘trans inclusive’ – as left-wing radicals. They are anything but. These people are reactionaries and bigots. And it’s high time we started naming them as such.
The Opec powers are forming new alliances
Oil might be a source of power, but trying to control its price is a politically hazardous business. Led by the odd pairing of the Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammad Bin Salman (MBS), and Vladimir Putin, the Opec Plus oil producers’ cartel exists to maintain a price floor for its fractious members in an energy environment where oil prices have crashed three times over the past two decades. But its importance in a geopolitical world defined by Sino-American competition is beginning to extend well beyond the gyrations of oil markets. Opec Plus has remained resilient even as the Beijing-Moscow-Tehran axis has hardened since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as well as the recent Chinese-brokered rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran. This raises questions about whether Saudi Arabia is now defecting into the anti-Washington camp.
Riley Gaines is a former NCAA female swimmer who has spoken out against the so-called right of males to compete as females. In response, she has been attacked, verbally and physically, by transgender activists and their supporters. Recently, after speaking at San Francisco State University, she was forced to barricade herself in a room while she was assaulted by a mob of transgender rights protesters. According to Gaines, police in San Francisco “failed miserably” to defend her and stated, according to Gaines, that “it was not ideal for them to be seen as anything other than an ally to this community.”
Years of bad immigration policy are finally seeing their comeuppance.
The inflammable cocktail of immigration, crime, real or alleged racism, hard-handed police tactics, and fiery left-wing politicians is again exploding in France’s face. Never before, however, has the c-word — “civil war” — been bandied about so openly.
President Joe Biden, the Biden grifting conglomerate, the Department of Justice, and the FBI under its fourth consecutive weaponized director, are in danger of subverting the American system of law.
They are in various ways undermining the tradition of self-reported income tax computation and voluntary compliance.
