Three-quarters of Canadians are in favour of hefty government subsidies to Stellantis and Volkswagen, a new poll suggests.
… Only 21 per cent of respondents said they were “familiar” with the issue, while 39 per cent had not “heard about it before today” and 40 per cent had “heard about it” but were unfamiliar with the specifics.
… Using online panels based on the Lucid exchange platform, Abacus surveyed 2,000 people between June 6 and 11.
Talk about polishing a Turdeau.
Scientists have created the first synthetic human embryos – using no eggs or sperm – provoking deep ethical questions, according to reports.
The synthetic embryos – only days or weeks old – could help researchers study the earliest stages of human development and explain pregnancy loss.
Nobody is currently suggesting growing them into a baby.
But the rapid progress has outpaced discussions on how they should be dealt with ethically and legally.
OTTAWA — The federal government failed to spend billions of dollars it pledged on a host of climate change initiatives in recent years, raising questions about one of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s core policy commitments and the massive funding publicly devoted to it, a Star analysis has found.
The revelation sheds light on the sometimes stark difference between what the government intends to do and what it delivers. It also highlights concerns about whether the federal bureaucracy can meet the climate crisis with the urgency it demands, as the Trudeau Liberals boast of making $200 billion in long-term “climate commitments” since they took office in 2015.
Suspected state-backed Chinese hackers used a security hole in a popular email security appliance to break into the networks of hundreds of public and private sector organizations globally, nearly a third of them government agencies including foreign ministries, the cybersecurity firm Mandiant said Thursday.
“This is the broadest cyber espionage campaign known to be conducted by a China-nexus threat actor since the mass exploitation of Microsoft Exchange in early 2021,” Charles Carmakal, Mandiant’s chief technical officer, said in a emailed statement. That hack compromised tens of thousands of computers globally.
Toronto’s mayoral election on June 26 will set the path for Canada’s largest city over the next three years with an exceedingly wide choice of 102 registered candidates, including a dog named Molly, who is my second choice. My first choice is Anthony Furey, whose campaign team (full disclosure) I’m on.
The foreign interference threats coming from China differ significantly from those from Russia or other countries, says the boss of Canada’s spy agency.
Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) Director David Vigneault testified before the Commons Procedure and House Affairs Committee on June 13 and answered questions from MPs about the nature of the China threat.
Since at least 2017, China’s People’s Liberation Army has been engaged in virology research with potential military applications at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), according to an investigative report published this week in the Times of London. And according to the secret Chinese communications intercepted by U.S. investigators that inform the Times report, this “covert project of dangerous experiments” being conducted at the infamous lab was likely a direct predicate for the global outbreak of Covid-19.
‘No person has done more to damage Israel’s standing in the world, especially among so-called progressives than Soros’
Who is George Soros? Why does the mere mention of his name provoke a torrent of pejorative comments including many expletives? Antisemites are accused of using his name to foster hatred against Jews in the same way they used to invoke the Rothschilds. Soros is an easy target not only because he is Jewish, but more importantly because of what he does to undermine the West and specifically the US, which he calls “the main obstacle to a stable and just world.”
… And now suddenly, we’re seeing where — in the emergence of shantytowns now beginning to ring America’s major cities such as Houston, making them resemble Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Mexico City, Caracas, Medellín, Lima, Quito, San Pedro Sula, and other places — all of which have nice ritzy centers, housing for the rich and upper-middle classes, and endless rings of shantytowns in the hillsides and valleys outside these big cities, where the desperately poor live in tin-roof hovels, some precariously positioned on cliffs, with no flush toilets, no running water, no paved roads, no electricity, or only pilfered electricity from power lines to power the television sets and sometimes refrigerators inside. When I first saw the shack cities (known as ranchos rather than colonias in Venezuela), I needed to lie down, almost feeling as if I would faint. They were so huge and overwhelming…and awful. I felt the same way when I saw the shack cities ringing Tijuana, utterly horrified that such human misery could be so close to the prosperity of the United States. And Manila, Jakarta, Shenzhen — the same sensation.
A hospital and doctors in California are facing a new lawsuit for removing the breasts of a 13-year-old girl after she claimed she was a boy.
The defendants carried out “ideological and profit driven medical abuse” when they prescribed her puberty blockers and hormones and, later, performed a double mastectomy, Charles Limandri, one of the lawyers representing the plaintiff, Layla Jane, said in a statement.
Replete with terrorist fanatics and an anti-human worldview.
The death in prison last week of ecoterrorist Theodore Kaczynski, the notorious Unabomber who in the Nineties killed three people and wounded 23 with package-bombs. The occasion of his death reminds us how an environmental movement that started by focusing on improving human well-being––providing clean air and water, and practicing prudent resource management–– has devolved into an irrational cult replete with terrorist fanatics and Disneyesque fantasies about humanity’s relationship with the natural world.
Correspondence between WEF (World Economic Forum) chairman Klaus Schwab and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte illustrates clear attempts to lobby the Dutch government on the implementation of the ‘Great Reset.’ Populist critics claim that the Netherlands was specifically selected as a test case for globalist social engineering.
The documents, revealed Monday, June 12th, are the product of a freedom of information request and show the WEF chief asking the Netherlands to play a “leading role” in the roll-out of ‘Great Reset’ policies in the area of managed food supply.
President Joe Biden on Thursday snapped at a reporter who asked him why he was called ‘Big Guy’ by an executive of Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
The nickname was revealed in an FBI memo that Republicans claim proves Biden was at the center of a $5 million cash for influence bribery scheme when he was vice president.
DailyMail.com revealed earlier this week that the executive has also kept 17 audio recordings of phone calls with Joe and Hunter as an ‘insurance policy.’
More … Burisma Energy Accountant, Who Blew Whistle on Biden Bribery Scheme, Found Dead
h/t Mauser
Naked creep busted having passionate ‘sex’ with tree in busy UK park
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Penn State professor Themis Matsoukas accused of performing sexual acts with his dog: ‘I do it to blow off steam’
Germans are exasperated with the establishment parties.
Is populism making a comeback in Germany? ‘I’m worried’, said chancellor Olaf Scholz, after recent opinion polls showed soaring support for the right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party. The latest polls predict the AfD winning between 18 per cent and 19 per cent of a hypothetical vote. That puts the AfD on a par with – or even ahead of – Scholz’s ruling Social Democrats (SPD).
