Brian Giesbrecht: The RCMP Failed Canadians at Kamloops

The RCMP has a long and honourable history, and has served Canadians well. RCMP top brass and regular officers have always insisted on doing their job in their own way. They have robustly specifically resisted all attempts by politicians to interfere in their clear mandate to enforce the law.

However, in May 2021 at Kamloops, the RCMP abandoned that honourable tradition, and abdicated their most important responsibility.

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White pupils excluded from extra Saturday literacy lessons

White pupils have been excluded from extra weekend literacy classes at schools in North London, The Telegraph can reveal.

Parents at a primary school in Haringey have been told that schools will fund Saturday school places for children from black and black heritage families to “accelerate progress in reading and writing whilst also developing the children’s knowledge of black history and culture”.

However, no comparable offer was made for white pupils despite parents arguing that evidence shows white working-class boys have fallen behind their peers.

This sort of diseased thinking crops up too often for it to be accidental.

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Nearly one in three Canadians can’t cover their bills, new survey suggests

Nearly one in three Canadians can’t cover their debt, a new survey suggests, as inflation and rising interest rates continue to be top of mind.

Credit reporting agency TransUnion, which surveyed 956 Canadian adults, found 32 per cent of respondents expected to be unable to pay off their current bills or loans in full. Of those, only 38 per cent planned to cover a partial amount.

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UN says climate change ‘out of control’ after likely hottest week on record

The UN secretary general has said that “climate change is out of control”, as an unofficial analysis of data showed that average world temperatures in the seven days to Wednesday were the hottest week on record.

“If we persist in delaying key measures that are needed, I think we are moving into a catastrophic situation, as the last two records in temperature demonstrates,” António Guterres said, referring to the world temperature records broken on Monday and Tuesday.

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Bremen ‘Fridays For Future’ Disbands After Racism Claims

Greta Thunberg Climate Hysteria Puppet

There appears to be no future for the Bremen branch of the climate change alarmist group “Fridays for Future,” which was originally founded by Swedish climate wunderkind Greta Thunberg in 2018.

On July 3rd, the Bremen Fridays for Future (FFF) wrote on their website that they would be dissolving and accused the German national branch of FFF of being “structurally racist” and claimed that “Black, Indigenous, People of Colour (BIPoC)” people had suffered abuse from other activists with the FFF movement.

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As change comes to an ancient Irish city, inhabitants strive to be blasé

For centuries, the Irish fought British Protestants and, eventually, southern Ireland prevailed to become the independent Republic of Ireland. However, there’s a new theocratic overlord headed their way, and they don’t seem inclined to fight this time. Preemptive surrender appears to be the chosen pathway, at least for those people in Galway who were told the most common boy’s first name in their city.

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Why no one can end the Ukraine war

Five hundred days on, both sides are caught in the same paradox

At an otherwise newsy event last month, Jens Stoltenberg, the Nato chief, made a low-key administrative announcement: “We are working on a multi-year package with substantial funding…”

Not the stuff of headlines, but a rather sobering admission that, as the war approaches its 500th day tomorrow, there is no end in sight. Not this year, or next year or the year after. That should be deeply concerning, especially because, contrary to received wisdom, all those who really matter — the Ukrainians, Russians and the Americans — are actually trying very hard to end it.

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Did drug lords end the French riots?

‘Dealers told the rioters to stop the violence so that they could resume drug dealing’

It wasn’t President Macron who brought six days of rioting in France to an end, nor the brave bands of mothers who called for calm in some of the inner-city estates. It wasn’t even the presence of 45,000 police and gendarmes on the streets that persuaded the rioters, arsonists, vandals and looters to stand down. Instead, it seems that it was the drug gangs who decided enough is enough. Having so many boys in blue patrolling the streets was bad for business and so gang leaders exerted their influence and ordered the young hoodlums back to their bedrooms.

I have wondered at the sudden de-escalation.

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Elizabeth Tsurkov was Kidnapped in Iraq. Leave Her There.

She works for a Muslim Brotherhood group, smeared Israel and defended Hamas.

Elizabeth Tsurkov was kidnapped in Baghdad by Kata’ib Hezbollah: an Iraqi Shiite militia that has attacked Americans and answers to Iran. Even though the leftist activist had entered Iraq using her primary Russian passport, Prime Minister Netanyahu announced that Israel was doing what it could to get her out. Israel would do better to pay attention to the security of its actual citizens rather than to a career terrorist supporter who for a time used Israel as her base.

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China is preparing for war

Tensions between the West and China show no sign of easing. Interdependence and mistrust continue to mix uneasily. Triggers are many and varied including; human rights, relations with Russia vis-à-vis Ukraine, microchip manufacturing and the big one, Taiwan.

Then there is the rhetoric. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is in Beijing for talks aimed at easing some of these tensions. It’s ironic, but not unprecedented, that at the exact same time, President Xi is telling the troops of the Eastern Theatre Command – the one that faces Taiwan – that they need to step up their combat readiness and “… persist in thinking and handling military issues from a political perspective, dare to fight, be good at fighting, and resolutely defend our national sovereignty, security, and development interests.”

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Texas Walmart shooter Patrick Crusius gets 90 life sentences, may still face death penalty

EL PASO, Texas — A white gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack on Hispanic shoppers at a Walmart in a Texas border city was sentenced Friday to 90 consecutive life sentences but could still face more punishment, including the death penalty.

Patrick Crusius, 24, pleaded guilty earlier this year to nearly 50 federal hate crime charges in the 2019 mass shooting in El Paso, making it one of the US government’s largest hate crime cases.

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