Olivia Chow looks to have a sizable lead in Toronto’s mayoral race, which is a shame because some of the other candidates actually have good ideas. They are in contrast to Chow’s platform, which is consistent with her NDP brand, of trying to solve all the city’s problems — many of which are the results of oppressive regulation, high taxation, and government mismanagement — by increasing regulation, taxes, and government control.
A new report shows the depth of mistrust in authority
Up to a third of people in the UK believe in theories such as the Great Replacement Theory, according to a new study. This builds on polling conducted by UnHerd Britain and Focaldata earlier this year, which also highlighted the rise in conspiratorial thinking among the UK population.
Since David Johnston resigned last week as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s special rapporteur, a lot of outlets have been wondering what comes next on the Chinese-meddling investigation.
But not me. I’ve been wondering what comes next for someone with the brilliant investigative skills of our former governor general.
National lockdowns were given “very little thought” ahead of the pandemic and there was a failure to consider the “potentially massive impact” that restrictions on civil liberties would have, the Covid Inquiry has heard.
As the inquiry held its first full hearing two years after it was first announced, Baroness Heather Hallett, who chairs it, was told the country was not prepared for the pandemic and that local health officials found out details of restrictions at the same time as the public.
Giving an opening statement to the hearing, Hugo Keith KC, counsel for the inquiry, said there had been “very little debate pre-pandemic” around whether a lockdown might be necessary and how it could be avoided.
The UK is in the midst of a very robust Covid response analysis, lockdowns are the sort of evil petty tyrants live for.
Where are our COVID-19 public inquiries?
“When the time is right, our government will be very open to examining very thoroughly the response of this country to the COVID-19 crisis,” then health minister Patty Hajdu assured Canadians in April 2021. A year later, a Research Co. poll suggested two-thirds of Canadians were keen on seeing a public inquiry into both the federal and provincial governments’ pandemic responses — and rightly so. The list of questions is practically endless, but most are simply variations on a theme: “Why did you do what you did?”; “Did it work?”; And most crucially, “How do we ensure our health-care and long-term care systems are never so vulnerable again?”
They say everyone has a “tell” — and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has a big one. You know his political future is flashing before his eyes when he starts accusing broad swaths of the Canadian population of being deplorable, reactionary monsters.
He did so throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, ramped up his rhetoric during the 44th federal election and was ultimately rebuked by Ontario Justice Paul Rouleau in the Emergencies Act report for “further embittering” Freedom Convoy protesters with inflammatory name-calling.
Liberals …
Hmm so kids can pick their gender and pronouns, consent to irreversible medical transitioning involving puberty blockers, hormone therapy, top surgery and bottom surgery, but they shouldn't be allowed to protest because they're too young? The logic is strong with this one.🤦♀️ pic.twitter.com/KxSEPICMAL
— Rupa Subramanya (@rupasubramanya) June 14, 2023
Carlson posted a monologue Tuesday evening about Trump’s indictment on 37 counts by Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team of prosecutors.
Ep. 3 America's principles are at stake pic.twitter.com/eJNSUVvvqY
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) June 13, 2023
CSIS director David Vigneault said the spy agency deliberately sent a May, 2021, note warning about China’s targeting of a Conservative MP and his relatives to then-public safety minister Bill Blair’s office and intended for this information to reach the minister because it was considered of high importance.
The testimony from the head of CSIS appeared to be an effort to defend the spy agency as a Commons committee probes why Conservative foreign affairs critic Michael Chong wasn’t warned of the 2021 intelligence collected by CSIS for two years.
A Liberal Cabinet Minister lying! Unheard of.
A West African migrant accused of the murders of three people in Nottingham yesterday is said to be refusing to answer questions from police – as he was described as having a history of petty drug dealing and mental health problems.
The 31-year-old, who is believed to have arrived in the country as a teenager and is not thought to be a refugee, is being questioned over the deaths of two students and a 65-year-old school caretaker – as well as the injuring of three others.
Rumours he may be a convert but nothing solid.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s surprise visit to Kyiv was hosted in part by Andriy Melnyk, a controversial Ukrainian figure recently recalled from Germany after he defended Stepan Bandera, a Second World War Ukrainian nationalist whose forces participated in the Holocaust.
The head of the Black Lives Matter movement in Calgary has been charged with a hate crime for allegedly impeding access to a Catholic school.
Court records show Adora Nwofor was charged with mischief on June 2, in connection with an incident on May 26, for allegedly “wilfully obstructing and interfering” with the use of a property “primarily used for religious worship and educational purposes.”
Steve Pynes is a rarity—he’s the only historian he knows of that is dedicated specifically to the study of fires. And that gives him a unique perspective on Canada’s current wildfires.
“Canada has had fires at both ends burning at the same time—the 1908 fires were just a kind of rolling thunder from Vancouver all the way to Maine. So what we’re seeing is not unprecedented,” Pyne told The Epoch Times.
Abdelmasih Hanoun, the 32-year-old man who knifed four toddlers and injured two pensioners in a playground in Annecy last week, is not a Christian but a Muslim, says Elish Yako. Yako is the Franco-Iraqi secretary general of an association that gives assistance to Christian minorities in the Middle East and to their communities in France. He claims that there is no evidence that the man was ever baptized.
At this point, it is impossible to check whether Yako’s educated guess is accurate. But it does indicate that the attacker’s story, culminating in an act so gruesome as the one he committed against helpless children, raises many questions and that nothing about it can be taken for granted.
True Jihadist Identity of Supposed ‘Christian’ Child Stabber Revealed?
A Middle Eastern man who fled the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (“ISIS”) has just come out to insist that he knows the real identity — and real name — of the supposed “Christian” man who recently stabbed several children in a French playground.
He was convicted of benefit fraud in Sweden, a popular activity of jihadists.
OTTAWA — A national poll suggests that 57 per cent agree that schools should have to tell parents about their child’s desire to change their gender or pronouns.
Meanwhile, less than a fifth — 18 per cent — feel schools shouldn’t tell parents.
The numbers from a SecondStreet.org poll collected by market research firm Leger in May show that Premier Blaine Higgs appears to be on the right side of public opinion, despite public backlash and criticism from the prime minister and members of his own caucus.
White House bans ‘disrespectful’ topless trans influencer Rose Montoya
The White House has banned trans influencer Rose Montoya after she flashed her breasts at President Biden’s Pride party — blasting the stunt as “inappropriate and disrespectful.”
Montoya, 27, was barred from the executive mansion on Tuesday, as footage went viral of her pulling her shirt and cupping her breasts moments after meeting Biden on the South Lawn at a Pride party Saturday.
Initiatives introduced by the city of Toronto and the Toronto Transit Commission have done little to stop major crime on public transit and increase rider confidence, according to data shared by the city on June 12.
Major crime incidents—defined by Toronto police as assault, sexual assault, robbery, shootings, and other violent crimes—were up more than 24 percent on all Toronto transit systems since January 2023. There were also 220 incidents of major crime in May, an increase from 177 in January.
Toronto election reality check: How the top mayoral candidates would fix the TTC — and what the experts say
Each of the leading candidates has committed to revitalize the TTC amid struggling ridership and concerns over safety. We asked three experts about their plans.
