Government policy tells CRTC to exclude social media users from online streaming bill

OTTAWA – The federal government is telling Canada’s broadcasting regulator to exclude individual social media creators in the regulations to implement the government’s new online streaming law.

The bill is meant to force platforms such as Netflix, YouTube and TikTok to contribute and promote Canadian content.

It passed in April but the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission must now develop regulations to implement the bill’s intentions.

Watch what they do not what they say.

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Ukraine launches ‘wave after wave’ of assaults on key Russian lines in counter-offensive

Ukraine’s counter attack has begun, US officials and Ukrainian military sources have said, following a sweep of attacks along the front line.

Kyiv’s ground forces launched ‘wave after wave’ of assaults on Russian lines in the south of the country, Russian sources claimed on Wednesday night.

The reports were followed by officials briefing US media that the long-awaited counter attack was now underway. The start of the campaign was confirmed by a number of senior Ukrainian officers near the front lines.

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IMF warns Canada at highest risk of mortgage defaults

Canada runs the highest risk of mortgage defaults among advanced economies, the International Monetary Fund warns, while other reports show Canadians are increasingly struggling with debt.

The IMF flagged Canada, Australia, Norway, and Sweden at greatest risk of mortgage defaults using data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, a group of 38 economies.

h/t Mauser

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Why Singapore is the only place in the world selling lab-grown meat

It looks like chicken, it smells like chicken and, what do you know, it tastes like chicken.

You would never guess that the piece of meat in front of me did not come from a farm. It was made in a laboratory on an industrial estate just a few miles down the road.

I’m in Huber’s Butchery and Bistro in Singapore, which is the only restaurant in world to have so-called cultivated meat on the menu.

Feedback from customers has been “phenomenal”, according to the restaurant’s owner.

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Canada Is Drowning in Cannabis – The Saturated Canadian Market Has Over 3.3 Million Pounds of Excess Weed

According to MJ Biz Daily, despite business failures and consolidation efforts, Canada’s unsold cannabis stockpile grew in the final quarter 2022. This alarming trend indicates that companies may face challenges due to declining prices and margins.

The latest data from Health Canada reveals that the combined inventory of packaged and unpackaged dried cannabis reached a record-breaking 1.47 billion grams (3.2 million pounds) by December 2022. This figure includes unsold stockpiles from licensed producers, wholesalers, and retailers, highlighting the significant amount of cannabis that remains unsold in Canada.

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HALF of independent voters say Biden’s age ‘severely’ limits his ability to do his job

Independent swing voters think that Joe Biden’s age and health are impacting his ability to serve as president, with nearly half of all surveyed saying these factors are ‘severely limiting’ the chief executive.

With increased verbal gaffes, mumbles and physical fumbles – including actually falling to the ground during commencement at the Air Force Academy last week – Americans are expressing concern over the 80-year-old president who is running for reelection.

A new Economist/YouGov poll conducted June 3-6 shows 48 percent of independent voters think Biden’s age and declining health ‘severely limits’ him, and only 8 percent of this same voting bloc think that his age isn’t a factor.

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US Has 12 Or More Alien Spacecraft, Say Military And Intelligence Contractors

In April, the director of the Pentagon’s new program for studying UFOs said he had seen no evidence of alien spacecraft. “I should also state clearly for the record,” said Sean Kirkpatrick, the Director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), “that in our research, AARO has found no credible evidence thus far of extraterrestrial activity, off-world technology, or objects that defy the known laws of physics.”

The statement, which was part of a hearing on the topic, generated headlines around the world. “UFO sightings are up,” noted Politico, “but no proof of aliens yet, Pentagon official says.” Wrote News Nation, “UFO Chief: No ‘credible evidence’ of extraterrestrial activity.”

But on Monday, an Air Force whistleblower contradicted the Pentagon’s claim, telling The Debrief and News Nation that the U.S. government is in possession of “quite a number” of alien spacecraft. “I thought it was totally nuts,” David Grusch said. “I thought at first I was being deceived.”

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REPORT: FBI Helped Ukraine Censor Twitter Users, Stifle Dissenting Journalists

Leaked emails indicate that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has assisted a Ukrainian intelligence initiative to regulate social media users and gain access to their personal data. In March 2022, an FBI Special Agent forwarded a list of Twitter accounts to the platform on behalf of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the country’s primary intelligence agency.

FBI? What country do they work for?

h/t Mauser

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Pride Month Is Inflaming the Culture War Across Canada

Children of all ages in schools across Canada took part in pervasive discussions about sexual orientation and gender identity during the first week of June. Such discussions inevitably arose around Pride Month events, and parents concerned about their age-appropriateness are reacting more strongly than in past years, says parental rights advocate Shannon Boschy.

“I’ve talked to people from Prince Edward Island, from Fredericton in New Brunswick, from Vancouver, Nanaimo, Kamloops, and Kelowna in British Columbia. Parents are all feeling the same thing: They’re frustrated that the school boards are not listening, that they’re shutting down parent concerns at every level and pushing this controversial ideology on the insistence that this is human rights,” Boschy told The Epoch Times.

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GOLDSTEIN: On foreign interference Johnston’s the sideshow, Trudeau’s the problem

For me, the three hours of testimony by David Johnston — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s “independent special rapporteur” on foreign interference — before a House of Commons committee, jumped the shark an hour into the proceedings.

What was all that bullshit about a “Man of Integrity?”

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Smoky New York isn’t climate change — it’s bad forest management

While New Yorkers have become inured to the pungent smell of cannabis smoke wafting through the streets, the Canadian wildfire smoke currently turning the sky orange is taking our tolerance to new levels.

By Wednesday we were registering the worse air pollution of any major city in the world and COVID mask maniacs were back in their element.

But don’t fall for the propaganda that climate change is to blame.

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6 wounded in a knife attack, including 4 young children – The suspect, Abdalmasih H., a Syrian migrant, was granted refugee status in Sweden; he was refused asylum in France 4 days ago

Note – Google Translate – Six people were injured by the assailant. Among them, a brother and a sister of 2 and 3 years old. They are both in absolute urgency.

Two other children, a 22-month-old of German nationality, another 2-year-old of English nationality, were also injured.

Two adults are also among the victims: two men, one of whom is 78 years old.

The attacker was born in 1991, of Syrian nationality, according to information from CNEWS, and entered French territory regularly. He submitted his asylum application to the Ofpra (French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons) in Grenoble in November 2022.


Here’s a twist. Note claiming Christianity to gain refugee status is a common ruse by Mohammedans.

Syrian refugee screaming ‘in the name of Jesus Christ’ stabs a child in their pram in front of screaming mother as four kids aged 22 months to three – including British girl – are knifed while holidaying at French resort before cops shoot and arrest him

Note – Abdalmasih, the perps name is commonly used by Arabic speaking Christians, so I will have to eat my earlier assumption of this being a Mohammedan attacker.

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‘It’s just a bad photo!’ – Mrs Russia organisers forced to defend pageant winner’s looks

Organisers of the Mrs Russia beauty pageant have been forced to defend their winner, blaming a photograph taken at a bad angle after she was mercilessly mocked online.
Images of Natalya Oskar, from Khabarovsk, who won the contest on Tuesday, became an object of vitriol as social media users – many of them from Ukraine – ridiculed her looks.

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Canada attends first-of-its-kind UFO briefing at the Pentagon

The Canadian government has confirmed its participation in a first-of-its kind international meeting on unidentified flying objects hosted at United States military headquarters.

The gathering at the Pentagon late last month comes amid a burst of activity in Washington and eye-popping news reports related to so-called Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).

It featured a U.S.-led briefing to visitors from nations of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance, which includes Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.

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