UK cat cull was considered early in Covid crisis, ex-minister says

The UK government considered whether it might have to ask people to exterminate all pet cats during the early days of the Covid pandemic, a former health minister said.

It was unclear whether domestic cats could transmit coronavirus, James Bethell said.

He told Channel 4 News: “What we shouldn’t forget is how little we understood about this disease. There was a moment we were very unclear about whether domestic pets could transmit the disease.

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Joe Oliver: The just transition is taking a slow boat to China

Most Western democracies, but especially Canada, passionately advocate climate policies that are weakening their collective ability to compete with an aggressive and antagonistic communist China. The green agenda helps China several ways: It saps the West’s economic prosperity and undermines its energy independence, while bolstering China’s economy and strengthening its national security, thereby advancing President Xi Jinping’s geopolitical ambitions.

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Why is the FBI confirming the Covid lab leak theory now?

Of all the acrimonious debates in Covid science — and there have been many — the one about laboratory leaks has been the most unpleasant.

One reason there is so much heat is that there has been so little light. Fundamentally, the debate hinges on what happened, unnoticed, in a previously unremarkable city in central China, involving a couple of particles so small that a million would fill this full stop.

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Canada Pension Board Invests in TikTok’s Chinese Parent Firm; App Just Banned on Gov’t Devices Over Security Risks

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board holds investments in ByteDance, the Chinese company whose TikTok video-sharing app was just banned on government-issued devices by Ottawa due to security concerns.

The pension board currently lists ByteDance under its holdings in the “Private Equity Asia” category on its website.

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Student who refused arranged marriage was stabbed in the chest with a metal spike by her uncle and dumped on Bradford industrial site in ‘honour killing’

A young female student who refused to enter an arranged marriage was brutally murdered by her uncle with a metal spike in her chest in a suspected ‘honour killing,’ a court has heard.

Somaiya Begum was found with the 11cm-long ‘Bradawl’ tool – a sharpened metal woodwork implement – stuck in the right side of her chest.

Prosecutors allege the 20-year-old’s uncle, Mohammed Taroos Khan, used the tool to kill her.

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Opposition parties plan motion demanding public inquiry on foreign interference

Justin Trudeau and Han Job Dong

OTTAWA — Opposition parties are set to propose a motion Wednesday calling on the Trudeau government to establish a public inquiry into foreign interference in recent federal elections, the National Post has learned.

Several media reports over the last few weeks, citing government intelligence sources, have suggested there was a dedicated effort by the Chinese government to interfere in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections.

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Trudeau’s government calls for euthanasia program to ‘treat’ children with naysaying parents

Treat human life as anything less than sacred, and humanity is rapidly dehumanized.

Canada’s MAiD, like all medical homicide programs, is the metaphorical foot in the door, an obstinate wedge, breaking the seal of a once-closed divider. Or we call it what it is (genocide), and MAiD is like an axe-wielding Jack Nicholson in The Shining.

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Angela Davis’ ancestry reveals the folly of reparations

The radical activist’s ‘settler’ roots remind us why no one should feel guilty about the actions of their ancestors.

Angela Davis’ encounter with her own ancestry has unwittingly exposed the follies of America’s reparations debate.

The name Angela Davis is a by-word for black radicalism in America. While a student at Brandeis University in the 1960s, she joined the Black Panther Party and also the Communist Party USA. She studied under Professor Herbert Marcuse, a living link between German Marxism and American liberation movements. In 1969, she was fired from a teaching post in California for being a Communist, at the order of then governor Ronald Reagan.

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New York Times, MSNBC, CNN slammed for claiming COVID lab leak theory was ‘debunked’

New government intelligence that found that the coronavirus pandemic was most likely caused by an accidental laboratory leak ignited criticism of mainstream news outlets that insisted the theory was “debunked,” including the New York Times, CNN and MSNBC.

“How many employees of media corporations who repeatedly mocked the COVID ‘lab leak’ theory as a ‘debunked’ lie that only insane conspiracy theorists believe (because Fauci told them to say that) will apologize now that much of the USG (US government) believes this?” tweeted Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald.

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Document reveals first known Canadian UFO study in nearly 30 years now underway

The Canadian government’s top scientist has launched a study into unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP: a term that is replacing “UFO” and “unidentified flying object” in official circles.

Known as the “Sky Canada Project,” the study, being conducted by the Office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada, is the first known official Canadian UFO research effort in nearly 30 years.

According to a February 2023 PowerPoint presentation obtained by CTVNews.ca, the study seeks to understand how UAP reports are handled in Canada, and to offer recommendations for improvements if needed.

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What happened to the anti-war Left?

This once reliably vocal faction has gone quiet

As Labour prepares for government, Keir Starmer has cracked down on dissidents and fringe groups within the party. More insidious, perhaps, is the decline of what was once a reliable and vocal faction: the anti-war Left. At the weekend Clive Lewis, MP for Norwich South and stalwart of the Labour Left, questioned the Ministry of Defence over its failure to provide Ukraine with used Apache helicopters in the country’s “hour of need”. This came days after John McDonnell, shadow chancellor under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, argued in a piece for Labour Hub that “a refusal to provide the weapons the Ukrainians need” would mean that “the chances of the Russian invasion succeeding are significantly increased”.

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Black Murders Matter

The police are too afraid to solve black murders.

In the 1960s, 90% of murders were solved. That fell to 75% in 1980, and 60% in 2000. In the year of Black Lives Matter, the homicide clearance rate fell so low that it became a ‘coin flip’.

The media reported that only 50% of murders were being solved. What was less reported was that this mainly reflected a drop in solving black murders. Homicide clearance rates for white people have actually improved since the 1980s and reached a high during the Obama administration even as black homicide clearance rates dropped catastrophically.

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