Higher taxes and fewer services likely as mayor-elect Olivia Chow tries to dig city of out financial hole
Toronto mayor-elect Olivia Chow has promised a “modest” tax increase. Unfortunately for Torontonians, even something an NDPer would call modest won’t be enough to get the city out of the financial hole it’s in.
More than 1,300 people were arrested in a fourth night of violence in France after the police shooting of a 17-year-old boy.
Forty-five thousand police officers, including special forces, were deployed to respond to rioting across the country on Friday night, with the situation in two big cities – Marseille and Lyon – highlighted as particularly chaotic, with buildings and vehicles torched and stores looted.
The ministry of the interior reported that 1,311 people were arrested overnight, while 79 police officers and gendarmes were injured and 2,500 fires were recorded.
Very vibrant.
💥 French locals being targeted and attacked again tonight by migrant mobs, this time in Bordeaux.💥
France is out of control. Isn't multiculturalism wonderful 🙄
Macron is blaming "social media" and "alcohol" and the UN is blaming the police pic.twitter.com/vSq74shJ3W
— Frantruth (@frantruth) June 30, 2023
White supremacists again …
It is truly horrifying to witness the Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation in Nanterre being vandalized.
This shameful act of disrespect for the memory of the victims of the Holocaust must be unequivocally condemned and those responsible held accountable. pic.twitter.com/B0HT3L9TiF
— European Jewish Congress (@eurojewcong) June 29, 2023
These unsettling scenes are in Lyon, showing a running theme of fireworks in these riots. They have been used to push back police, destroy property, prevent firemen from putting out fires, and also randomly aimed at innocent bystanders to frighten them. #FranceRiots pic.twitter.com/hTJFxBqvVH
— verity ♀ (@verityveratee) July 1, 2023
More video at Fdesouche – 4th night of post Nahel riots (night of Friday June 30 to Saturday July 1)
Immigrants taking the Canadian citizenship oath at ceremonies are receiving maple leaf pins made in China, federal records show.
According to a House “Inquiry of Ministry” document obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter, the Department of Immigration ordered a quarter-million pins from a Chinese vendor last year.
The 250,000 pins were purchased “for distribution at citizenship ceremonies,” wrote the department, in response to Conservative MP John Brassard’s request for the records.
Freeze, thieves!
Shoplifters are running so wild in the Big Apple that pints of high-end ice cream now have special locked lids to thwart cold-hearted crooks.
The Fairway supermarket on the Upper West Side is guarding $6 cartons of Häagen-Dazs with bolted plastic tops — which can only be removed with a device at the register.
How will you get the news now?
That’s a question many Canadians may be asking after tech companies Google and Meta, which owns the social media giants Facebook and Instagram, vowed to remove links to Canadian journalism.
It’s in retaliation for the Online News Act, also known as Bill C-18, that will make them strike agreements with media outlets for “fair compensation” when their news content is shared on the tech companies’ platforms.
I’m not sure this is a bad thing.
Justin Trudeau is looking for ‘full buy-in’ from opposition parties to launch ‘any next process’
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the government would need “full buy-in” by opposition parties to launch “any next process” to look into foreign interference, but political insiders are suggesting Liberals cannot “play politics” as an excuse to escape a public inquiry.
The Supreme Court of the United States this week slashed Joe Biden’s student debt forgiveness plan, did away with affirmative action, and upheld the First Amendment’s protection of religious expression. In dissenting from the majority in both cases, the Court’s liberal justices relied on plainly inaccurate claims.
DR Sucharit Bhakdi is a US-born Thai citizen who studied medicine in Germany, specialised in immunology and infectious diseases at the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg and became professor and chair of the Institute of Medical Microbiology at the University of Mainz from 1990 until his retirement in 2012. Textbooks on immunology draw on his work.
The revelation that more than 100 secret Chinese police stations have been operating globally raises issues about the muted responses of Australian security agencies. The existence of the police stations was revealed by the Spanish human rights group Safeguard Defenders in 2022. Although these revelations have been treated seriously elsewhere, there is little evidence of a similar response in Australia.
The ABC reported last October that an ‘official contact point’ had been established in Sydney by the Department of Public Security in the Chinese city of Wenzhou in 2018. The ABC noted it was unaware of what activities were undertaken here. The federal police had no comment when contacted by the ABC.
What began as drag queen story hour evolved into drag shows for children. Now, naked men peddle bikes in front of children at pride parades in Seattle while LGBT activists in New York City marched through the streets chanting: “We’re here. We’re queer. We’re coming for your children.”
As previously reported by The Epoch Times, the tide is turning on tolerance for transgender ideology.
Despite having the trappings of a functional constitution Russia remains an autocracy in which, from Peter the Great to Stalin, leaders either anoint their successors or are removed by bloody force
In the history of a nation famed for its blood-spattered successions, it was the most savage liquidation of an autocrat — and is ever in the mind of a history-obsessed Russian ruler who this week may be feeling the insecurity of a system in which the despot seems omnipotent but in which there is no orderly succession nor safe retirement and in which the jeopardy is intensified by his own merciless war. At midnight on March 23, 1801, Tsar Paul, successor and son of Catherine the Great, heard footsteps on the stair of his impregnable new residence, Mikhailovsky Castle. He did not have time to wonder how the assassins had gained access, nor how none of his multiple security agencies had reported the conspiracy, nor why this paradomaniacal military enthusiast was about to be challenged by his own elite officers.
Barack and Michelle Obama bemoaned the Supreme Court’s decision to end systemic racism in Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard.
The decision, which effectively ends legal affirmative action in universities for discriminating against Asian and white students, and violating the fundamental principles and laws of the United States of America, was not taken well by the Netflix power couple who took to Twitter to express their longing for systemic racism.
France endured its worst night of rioting yet on Thursday as violence continued across the country. For the third consecutive evening, youths went on the rampage in most major cities, despite the presence of 40,000 police. Shops were looted, town halls attacked, police stations firebombed and vehicles were hijacked in extraordinary scenes of urban warfare.
Far right?
Les milices fascistes sont à l’œuvre dans le pays.
À Angers des nazillons descendent armés dans les rues pour s’en prendre à des passants.
L’extrême-droite doit être mise hors d’état de nuire. pic.twitter.com/1nJtttBTSD— Thomas Portes (@Portes_Thomas) June 30, 2023
🚨 France Enjoying Some Wonderful Multicultural Enrichment
How can this be possible in France 🇫🇷 ?
😢#FRANCE #Nael #FranceProtests #franceViolence #FranceRiots #war #fusillade pic.twitter.com/Ng6aCKhnnT— 🇮🇪 Gerard Delaney 🔞 🇮🇪 (@Ger_Delaney_40) June 30, 2023
Emulating China’s digital currency threatens our civil liberties
The West continues to emulate the authoritarian tendencies of the Chinese state at a rapid clip. We copied various aspects of Xi Jinping’s Covid-19 pandemic response. Our police forces have begun rolling out facial recognition surveillance cameras. Now, it appears as though the introduction of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is next.
It’s often incredibly surreal to remember that concepts and arguments from the left are at all taken seriously in this country. Reading Justice Ketanji “Black Girl Magic” Brown Jackson’s dissenting opinion in the college race-based admissions case is truly one of those times.
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against institutions of higher education using race as a factor in the admissions process, which prestigious ones like Harvard have been doing for years in order to artificially boost black and Hispanic enrollment, at the expense of white and Asian applicants.
