The Roxham Road border crossing is suddenly back in the news in a big way. And it’s causing Canadians to take a second look at the issue.
The biggest voice on this file is Quebec Premier Francois Legault, who has been vocal the past few weeks in calling on the federal government to close the makeshift crossing at the Quebec–New York border.
Asylum seekers who arrive on small boats will be removed from Britain and prohibited from returning or claiming citizenship under laws to be announced on Tuesday.
Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman, the home secretary, will bring forward legislation to make all such asylum claims inadmissible. The government will seek to introduce powers to detain tens of thousands of people and place the home secretary under a legal duty to remove them “as soon as reasonably practicable”.
… Trudeau has no interest in (or as it turns out, the skillset for) running a government that even displays a modicum of efficiency, much less an appetite to tackle the emerging issues of this transforming society.
Our prime minister wrestles with such weighty issues as transsexual pronouns, drag queen etiquette and providing more drugs to drug addicts, all the while comforting Canadians that he has their backs and will continue to dole out cash directly to them and to shareholders of major Canadian companies. Is it any wonder many Canadians are left wondering where our country is heading?
Campfire songs enjoyed by generations of Girl Guides have had their lyrics changed to omit references to God as part of an inclusivity drive.
In a now-deleted blog post, Girlguiding said that the tradition of singing songs could have “references that have been hurtful to people” and suggested groups could make changes “so everyone can join in”.
Now linked by extensive military and economic ties, the West and Ukraine still have different “ultimate objectives” concerning the end of the war, says former Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff.
In an interview that aired Sunday on Rosemary Barton Live, Ignatieff said Ukraine’s hatred for Russia was “deep and justified” and it was fighting for its survival. He said he hoped Ukraine could retake its territory and that Russia would soon realize it could not conquer the country.
“The uncomfortable thing we have to look at is that Ukraine wants to win. And the West wants Ukraine to survive — and those are not the same objectives,” Ignatieff told CBC chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton.
The Satanic Temple (TST) made headlines in 2022 for fighting for the right to create after-school clubs for students and has recently been launching new groups across the country, raising concerns for religious advocates about the potential impact Satanism may have on students’ perception of faith.
A municipal councillor from West Nipissing in Ontario has issued an apology to community members who were affected by a mandatory vaccination policy that lasted a year.
At a council meeting on Jan. 3, immediately after the council rescinded the municipality’s mandatory vaccination policy, Councillor Anne Tessier said she wanted to apologize for the policy and proceeded to read a statement. An excerpt of her speech surfaced on social media on March 2, while the original full-length council meeting was posted on the council’s YouTube channel.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may have hoped that this week’s independent review of China’s meddling in the last two Canadian federal elections would tamp down debate on the subject in Parliament. Instead, the report seemed to revitalize the opposition parties.
Here’s a short version of that report, which I wrote about when a redacted version was made public late Tuesday: There is evidence that China, Russia and Iran tried to subvert the 2019 and 2021 elections, but there is no evidence that their efforts “impacted” the results.
The LPC could be jailed, that would be a start.
The country’s high-skilled workers are leaving en masse
Since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, there has been much talk about Russian brain drain — that is, educated professionals fleeing the country. While the total number of emigrants is unknown, it may be as high as 900,000.
People have fled Russia for a number of reasons: to find work, to escape political persecution and to evade the “partial mobilisation” announced last September. According to a survey of 2,000 migrants carried out in March and April, 81% had a university degree — compared to just 27% in the population at large. Russian brain drain is real.
If rival civilizations feel they are ‘second class,’ there’s a reason for that.
The increasingly evident de facto alliance between Russia and China makes the war in Ukraine begin to look a little more like a front in a larger clash of civilizations.
In his famous mid-1990s book of that name, Samuel Huntington briefly contemplated such a partnership: “Russia and China united would decisively tilt the Eurasian balance against the West and arouse all the concerns that existed about the Soviet-Sino relationship in the 1950s.”
In studying history predictions that didn’t happen are often as interesting as those that became real events.
Remember the “clash of civilization” that was to pitch one part of mankind to another in a multilayered cultural, religious, economic and, yes, even racial war? Decades later we see that at least part of the predicted clash is taking place within the same “civilization”. It is in the United States and Western Europe that we witness such phenomena as wokeism and cancel culture while many “emerging nations” are breaking some taboos to open a wider space for discussion and dissent.
It is also in Western democracies that bowdlerization even of classical texts is making a comeback.
The USSR went from having the breadbasket of the world to going into debt to buy wheat from America. Venezuela used to export gasoline, now it’s having to pay others to refine its crude. Cuba used to be the hub for sugar, now it’s rationing it. Socialism works. Sometimes it works so well there’s nothing left.
Virginia Democrats and teachers union kill any thought of a Victims of Communism Day.
So, educating students about the dangers of communism is racist? Who knew?
Virginia Republicans recently introduced House Bill 1816 which would have declared November 7 — the anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution — Victims of Communism Day. The bill stated that the day would be “suitably observed in each public elementary and secondary school in the Commonwealth as a day honoring the approximately 100 million individuals who have fallen victim to communist regimes around the world.” In addition, the Virginia Standards of Learning for history and social science would add “the study of the dangers of communism.”
The media have reduced murder to clickbait.
‘He was a nice, quiet individual. He kept to himself’, said one worker at a petrol station frequented by David Saldana, a homeless man who lived in St Louis, Missouri. ‘He would come in and then he’d go a couple of days without coming in and then he’d come back and get his little snacks.’
This week, Saldana was murdered.
A PhD candidate at the University of Virginia recently published a paper arguing that many women’s fear of being sexually assaulted is connected to their being ‘White’ or ‘Republican.’
Via Instapundit
