Eight months after Pierre Poilievre won the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada, the evidence suggests he is on his way to becoming prime minister.
In politics, nothing is inevitable, and by the time of the next federal election, circumstances could have changed. But if an election were held today, Mr. Poilievre would probably be on his way to whatever residence substitutes for 24 Sussex Dr.
Daniel Penny, the Marine veteran who choked and killed Jordan Neely, a homeless man, on the subway last week, surrendered on Friday to face a charge of second-degree manslaughter.
Mr. Penny, 24, dressed in a dark gray suit, his blonde hair curly and his upper lip covered in a trim mustache, walked through the front doors of the Police Department’s Fifth Precinct at around 8 a.m.
Canada’s expected to fall into recession later this year, but it may already be there by a traditional definition. Real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita data shows the country is in a per capita recession, one of the traditional definitions. These events are associated with an eroding standard of living, and it’s expected to get worse. Not just in the near term, but it’s turning into a long-term issue.
Prison officers have been told not to call criminals “convicts”, as the term could be offensive to some.
Civil servants have also instructed warders not to use the phrase “ex-con” for former prisoners. They should instead refer to them as “persons with lived experience” or “prison leavers”.
A Prison Service spokesman said the term convicts was “inaccurate, given a large proportion of prisoners are on remand ahead of trial and have therefore not been convicted”.
Remember when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau explained his concept of Canada – not to Canadians, mind you, but to The New York Times – after winning power in 2015?
“Countries with a strong national identity – linguistic, religious or cultural – are finding it a challenge to effectively integrate people from different backgrounds. In France, there is still a typical citizen and an atypical citizen. Canada doesn’t have that dynamic,” he told the paper. “There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada.”
Can we bring back tarring and feathering?
Public funding means the government, not the church or the faith, pulls the ideological strings in Ontario’s Catholic school system, some stakeholders say. And this particularly affects how the schools handle matters of gender and sexuality.
It’s a cautionary tale to any institution assured it will remain independent when accepting government funding, says Jake Zwart, executive director of the Ontario Christian Home Educators’ Connection.
Vienna is grappling with a knife crime problem. In the wake of four stabbing attacks over the weekend in the Austrian capital, one of which took the life of an Iranian, FPÖ leader Dominik Nepp has called for a security summit.
On Sunday night, May 8th, in the fourth knife attack in just 48 hours, a 15-year old Syrian national—together with another unidentified assailant—stabbed a 19-year old man who was with his 20-year old girlfriend at the time.
As the couple walked to a bus stop, two young males came towards them, and seemed to follow them. Soon after, the pair started to whistle after the victim and his girlfriend.
“Earlier this week, I reported in great detail how Canada’s “safer supply” strategy is a failure and is making the opioid crisis worse. Unfortunately, safer supply advocates have doubled-down and are continuing to falsely claim that everything is fine.”
A group of high school students in suburban Kansas City organized a walkout over a teacher who went public in an online op-ed about her problems with the district’s diversity, equality and inclusion policies.
The students at Shawnee Mission North High School were met with counter protesters who support English teacher Caedran Sullivan’s outrage. According to her LinkedIn page, Sullivan has taught at the school for 15 years.
Students accuse Sullivan of not using the correct pronouns when addressing transgender students and of critiquing non-white students experiences of racism, reports Fox Kansas City.
OTTAWA – The former deputy chief of staff to Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper says the Liberal government isn’t doing enough to combat foreign interference, echoing similar testimony from experts who study the matter.
Jenni Byrne, who was also the Conservatives’ campaign manager in the 2015 election, is testifying today at a House of Commons committee.
She says the government is too soft on China and is turning a blind eye to the country’s alleged meddling in Canada’s democracy.
Before sunrise on the morning of 29 April 1903, a deep rumble echoed through Crowsnest Valley in western Alberta, Canada. The peak of Turtle Mountain had collapsed, sending a block of limestone nearly 1km wide and weighing 110m metric tonnes hurtling towards the town of Frank, a coalmining community of 600 people.
In less than two minutes, 100 people are believed to have been killed in what remains Canada’s deadliest rockslide. A dozen bodies were recovered, but the vast majority of victims remain buried under boulders the size of vehicles.
Nearly 6 million respondents to Canada’s “2021 Census of Population” marked their ethnicity or cultural origins as “Canadian,” making it the most named of any ethnicity by census users, according to Statistics Canada figures released on May 10.
Question 23 on Canada’s last long-form census asked respondents to identify the “ethnic or cultural origins” of their ancestors—to which just under 5.7 million individuals replied “Canadian,” as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.
Don’t play the identity politics game it’s rigged against you.
As many as 30 percent of schizophrenia cases among young men may be linked to heavy marijuana use, according to a new study of more than six million people in Denmark.
The study, published this month in Psychological Medicine, also found the proportion of new schizophrenia cases linked to cannabis use disorder has risen consistently since the 1970s, likely due to the increasing potency of the drug that many view as harmless.
This is not a lone study, just one of a growing number raising the alarm.
