Early in this mayoral election campaign, I chatted with Anthony Furey, who had then just announced he was running for mayor. He blamed me for that.
He said that after reading a column I’d written about Mike Layton wrestling with whether they could balance being a good parent with being a good mayor, he’d spoken with his wife about whether you could be a “dad mayor” and she told him that he had to run.
God help us if Chairman Chow gets in.
A primary school teacher has been sacked over a Facebook post he made after yobs threatened to murder and rape his family, he has claimed.
Michael Flynn, 52, allegedly broke his school’s social media policy by posting online following two different incidents involving a group of youngsters at his assisted-living home, where his wife cares full time for her disabled daughter.
On May 23 the group allegedly tried to take a bicycle from the front garden of his home in Gillingham, Kent. His wife Angela, a former American police officer, says she asked them to leave before one of them threatened to stab her and bring people who would rape her and murder the family.
Tell me who your fans are, and I will tell you who you are.
Roger Waters fans attack Jews protesting Waters' antisemitism. The concert happened in Frankfurt's Festhalle where, on Kristallnacht, Nazis rounded up 3,000+ Jews & then deported them to concentration camps. pic.twitter.com/yhgk9vwK6i
— Canary Mission (@canarymission) May 30, 2023
OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government says the re-election of a Danielle Smith-led United Conservative government in Alberta will not hinder Ottawa’s efforts to advance aggressive climate action policies.
The morning after Smith’s victory speech took clear shots at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s environmental policies as a threat to Alberta’s economy, Trudeau slipped into a cabinet meeting via a back door after attending a national prayer breakfast, leaving key cabinet ministers to react to the overnight news of her victory.
More than 400 of the world’s most distinguished experts in artificial intelligence including the creator of ChatGPT have warned of the possibility that the technology could lead to the extinction of humanity.
In a joint statement, backed by the chief executives of the leading AI companies, the signatories said that mitigating this risk “should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war”.
For those who have been involved in politics, there is a handy “rulebook” – “how to defuse a political crisis 101.”
Too bad the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has not read it.
That is the only conclusion one can come to after watching the release of the report from former Governor General David Johnston on Chinese interference in Canada’s democracy.
At first glance, they look like neatly wrapped gifts or chocolates.
But there is nothing benign or celebratory about these packages. Paid for by Toronto taxpayers, the city provides water, sewage, garbage, roadways, crack pipes and special drug-taking starter kits?
Predicting two terms in the White House should he defeat Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination next year, Ron DeSantis said he would go on to “destroy leftism in this country”.
“I will be able to destroy leftism in this country and leave woke ideology in the dustbin of history,” the Florida governor told Fox News.
DeSantis declared his long-expected run last week, in a glitch-filled appearance on Twitter with its owner, Elon Musk.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a warning of “a heightened threat environment,” including possible attacks against such institutions as churches and the police, as the 2024 election draws closer.
Just The News reports that the Memorial Day bulletin issued by the DHS also warned of political violence that could be sparked by “legislative or judicial decisions pertaining to sociopolitical issues.”
Voice of America (VOA), a U.S government-funded public broadcaster, has expunged a video from its website after the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) announced on April 21 that it had “initiated legal efforts” after VOA “falsely defamed” the group as “lobbyists for the Islamic Republic.”
VOA, which “reflects the views of the U.S. government,” told FWI that it is reviewing an episode involving NIAC that originally aired on April 6. The broadcast “was removed from circulation on April 11 for further editorial review, following VOA and industry best practices. The review is in progress. VOA will provide an update when the review is complete,” wrote a VOA spokesperson to FWI.
There is nothing to stop an assisted suicide regime once it has been put into place
Lonnie VanHook was preparing to board the train to Oregon when his body gave out. The Navy veteran is accustomed to these sorts of betrayals. He is quadriplegic and legless to boot; a rare form of cancer is eating away at his skeletal-muscle tissues and bladder. He awoke in a facility surrounded by medical professionals wearing the plastic countenances of concern and sympathy they picked up during the med school lessons on bedside manners. During the interaction, Lonnie told them about the reason for his upcoming trip. You can picture the Oakland native rolling his eyes as he has prepared for the rebuttal. The doctors, no doubt, exchanged astonished glances. Lonnie, what were you thinking?!? You don’t need to take the train. We can do that right here!
If you said that climate lockdowns would be next, you might be a conspiracy theorist.
If you’re making simple observations and drawing basic conclusions about the world around you, you might be a conspiracy theorist.
If you have even the most rudimentary understanding of big government leftism and limited government conservatism, you might be a conspiracy theorist.
There will not be a Germany in a generation.
… Germany saw a 28% increase in the number of people gaining its citizenship last year, with people from Syria accounting for more than a quarter of those who were naturalized, official data showed Tuesday.
Russian partisans who attacked Kremlin forces from Ukraine have “thousands” of applicants waiting to join their ranks and will continue raiding the border until their force is large enough to assault Moscow, their commander has told The Times.
“We have serious capabilities,” the commander of the Free Russia Legion, using the call sign Caesar, said. “We have mortars, armoured vehicles, stinger manpads, portable anti-tank systems and a highly effective drone reconnaissance unit.”
#Ukraine: A Russian MT-LB armored personnel carrier was destroyed by an artillery strike of the Ukrainian 40th Artillery Brigade in #Luhansk Oblast. pic.twitter.com/AtB7ehOdNf
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) May 30, 2023
Every few years, the phrase “birth tourism” seems to re-emerge in the news cycle. It refers to non-residents giving birth outside of their home country to gain citizenship and, occasionally, health care for their newborns. Birth tourism isn’t illegal in Canada, but it’s a fraught issue that tends to kick up discussions about who deserves access to the country’s health care system, especially in times of low bandwidth. Like now.
