After a couple of years in the doghouse, the policing technology nicknamed Digidog is returning to the mean streets of New York. Withdrawn by former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2021 after protests by civil liberties groups, the four-legged robotic friend, made by Boston Dynamics, is being brought back by current Mayor Eric Adams, alongside a Knightscope K5 security robot and a device that fires a GPS tracker onto a fleeing vehicle.
Jordan Peterson has been selected to receive the 2023 George Jonas Freedom Award from the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms because of his exceptional contributions to Canada as a free society.
Peterson’s courage and tenacity were on full display on Jan. 3, when he shared with the world that the College of Psychologists of Ontario (CPO) had demanded that he submit to mandatory social-media retraining, or face a disciplinary hearing.
A businessman whose reported donations to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation led to the resignation of its CEO is the president of a Chinese cultural organization that says it operates under the authority of the communist government.
Federal Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says Chinese community members in Vancouver have told him of “intimidation, harassment and abuse” linked to foreign governments or their proxies, confirming the need for a foreign agent registry.
Mendicino said he met Wednesday with a “robust cross-section” of people from the communities.
The results, he said, reinforced the need for a registry of agents who are acting on behalf of foreign governments in Canada.
The LPC should be registered as a foreign agent.
In explaining her mandate as Bud Light’s VP of marketing last month, Alissa Heinerscheid made sure to hit all of the requisite buzzwords. “If we do not attract young drinkers to come and drink this brand,” Heinerscheid warned, “there will be no future for Bud Light.” “What I brought to that” endeavor, she continued, “was a belief in, okay, what does ‘evolve and elevate’ mean? It means inclusivity. It means shifting the tone. It means having a campaign that’s truly inclusive and feels lighter and brighter and different and appeals to women and to men.” “Representation,” Heinerscheid concluded, “is sort of the heart of evolution.”
Former U.S. President Donald Trump has opined on who he believes is responsible for the damage to the Nord Stream Pipeline in the Baltic Sea in September 2022, hinting that his own country is to blame.
“I don’t want to get our country in trouble, so I won’t answer it,” Trump said during an interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News. “But I can tell you who it wasn’t was Russia … It wasn’t Russia.”
If it weren’t so serious, Gavin Newsom’s current assault on red states would be hilarious. What he is peddling as “democracy” is totalitarianism in its worst form. What’s frightening is that there are millions of voters throughout America who will lap up what he’s selling.
They scream loudest when it hurts the most.
Look, they are always going to call you a fascist, but if they are not screaming about what you are doing as loud as their high-pitched voices can go, you are not going against the left anywhere near hard enough. They will insist that any use of conservative power – whether by a Florida governor elected with a 20-point margin or a Tennessee 3-1 supermajority – is illegitimate authoritarianism in their Marxist narrative. This is why we conservatives, instead of caring about the lies that we are “fascist” or “authoritarian” or – of course – “racist,” should use the volume of their howling solely as a metric of our success.
Does Generation Z take anything seriously? Earnestness is “cringe,” being in love makes one a “simp,” and ambition makes one a “try-hard.”
There is a “deeper ideology lurking in the minds of younger millennials & Gen Z,” as Esmé Partridge writes, “the rejection of idealism in all its forms.” Disenchanted with the world, plagued by hopelessness and nihilism, we have become a generation of zombies — a group of youth that is too dead to live and too alive to die.
Worldwide demographic decline will soon pose a serious challenge for humanity.
Today, the spectre haunting the global order is not communism, as Marx predicted, but seemingly relentless demographic decline. We can already see its consequences in everything from the fight over pensions in France to the persistent labour shortages across almost all the high-income world. In the future, a lack of human labour is also likely to accelerate a shift towards automation, reshaping economic and political conflict for decades to come.
A video of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s exchange with a People’s Party of Canada supporter is garnering attention on social media.
Trudeau speaks to a self-proclaimed PPC supporter about the Liberal dental plan, but the conversation quickly veers to religion and abortion, in the two-minute clip posted on Reddit.
PPC Supporter tries to argue with Trudeau at UofM campus this morning.
by u/NoahFromCanada in Winnipeg
For left-wing academics, violence against the right targets is a form of patriotism.
Aaron Hillegass attended New College of Florida as an undergraduate, had a successful career as a software engineer, and returned to the school this January to teach in its new data science program. But there was one problem for him: Florida governor Ron DeSantis.
Hillegass believes that DeSantis’s democratically approved higher-education reforms are a form of “fascism” and that the new slate of conservative trustees at New College, including me, are dangerous “sycophants” and “chuckleheads” who have “terrified the students and faculty.” Hillegass has been teaching at New College for only three months, but the reforms—designed to improve the struggling college, which ranks dead-last on Florida’s state performance metrics—were too much.
Probably some of our readers are chuckling this week at the chaos that has broken out on Twitter over the correct verification labels for various public broadcasters. A couple of days ago, Elon Musk, the owner and CEO of the social media site, made an appearance on BBC television and was challenged on Twitter’s decision to give the BBC’s main account a “government-funded media” label. The “government-funded” tag isn’t meant to be purely a criticism or warning: in Twitter’s scheme of tags, a media company or news agency that is directly government-controlled and used to promote a country’s foreign policy would attract a different “state-affiliated” label.
At the end of a winding country lane on the shores of Lough Allen in County Leitrim sits a beautiful little cemetery, seemingly all alone in the world. I discovered it while looking for the resting place of my grandad’s long-lost father; a man he’d never known and about whom we still know little. My grandad was raised in a Catholic orphanage in Liverpool. His mother had moved to England sometime before he was born, desperately tried to keep in touch but eventually lost contact after going into service. Such was the world that was.
Can’t say I blame the Irish🤣🤣#Ireland #IrelandisFull pic.twitter.com/V4ShgBSlrR
— • ᗰISᑕᕼIᗴᖴ ™ • (@4Mischief) April 13, 2023
h/t Mauser
Protesters barricaded the entrance to France’s Constitutional Council with rubbish bins on Thursday, as people took to the streets around the country over Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms.
Police expect around 400,000 to 600,000 people to take part nationwide. That would be fewer than half the nearly 1.3 million reached in March at the height of the protests against the reforms, which include raising the retirement age to 64 from 62.
🇫🇷The French Revolution Continues🇫🇷
Protesters storming Louis Vuitton HQ
Silence still from fascist tyrannical authoritative dictator Macron – I’m sure his WEF puppet masters are disapproving as he awaits instructions.#France #Paris #Macron pic.twitter.com/6zMKhxxOmT
— Concerned Citizen (@cotupacs) April 13, 2023
