Ford, Freeland, among others encouraging Tory not to resign as Toronto mayor: source

Ontario Premier Doug Ford, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland and the Toronto police union have reached out to Toronto Mayor John Tory, encouraging him not to resign, a source tells CityNews.

In a shocking announcement, Tory announced in a late-night press conference on Friday he would be stepping down as the city’s mayor after revealing he had an affair with a former staffer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tory said the relationship with the woman, reportedly 31 years old, ended mutually in early 2023.

Nothing says Establishment Uniparty better.

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America Is Becoming a Corrupt Country

There may be no more important fight in the next decade than the reassertion of basic honesty and lawfulness.

America has been drifting toward a level of corruption incompatible with a free society and a free-market economy.

Political and economic freedom depend on the presence of a level of honesty that makes it possible for people to interact with one another with a sense of trust.

Consider recent corrupt, criminal events and their implication for the future of American culture.

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Prayer Is Becoming Criminal In The U.K.

Prayer, even silent prayer, could be a prosecutable offense in the United Kingdom, thanks to recent developments. Catholic priest Father Sean Gough from Birmingham, England, finds himself in the midst of a legal battle for allegedly violating a censorship zone banning prayer on public streets around an abortion facility. This marks the latest in a string of thought crime cases rocking fundamental freedoms in the U.K.

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The Covid Coup Attacked the Right to Travel

Law Professor Randy Barnett describes the Constitution as “the law that governs those who govern us.” When our government officials violate the constitutional order, they cannot expand citizens’ liberties; instead, they free themselves of legal restraints in order to augment their power to the detriment of the freedoms of the people they represent.

Under the guise of Covid responses, our leaders overthrew our constitutional system of individual rights to increase their power over the citizenry.

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Chinese balloon sensors recovered from ocean, says US

The sensors from the first suspected Chinese spy balloon shot down over the US have been recovered from the Atlantic Ocean, the US military says.

Search crews found “significant debris from the site, including all of the priority sensor and electronics pieces identified”, said US Northern Command.

The FBI is examining the items, which the US says were used to spy on sensitive military sites.

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‘The Global Gateway’: More Empty Promises from the EU?

It has been just over a year since the European Union launched its Global Gateway infrastructure project to compete with China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

The Global Gateway project was launched in December 2021. Meanwhile, China’s BRI was launched in 2012 and has spread all over the globe, especially to Africa, Latin America and Asia, where it has gained China vast influence. The Communist Party newspaper China Daily recently claimed that in 2022 alone, China had signed new contracts with BRI countries worth nearly $100 billion.

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Daily Show Creator Rants Against ‘Anti-Abortion Garbage’ Super Bowl Ads

Lizz Winstead, creator of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, really was not a fan of this year’s Super Bowl commercials. First she melted down over Fox crowning Greg Gutfled “the new king of late night” and on Monday’s edition of The Daily Show she lamented “A hundred million dollar ads with people who are funding anti-abortion garbage” while “we are having bake sales.”

All of Hollywood loves baby killing.

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University of Regina strips Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond of honorary degree

Grey Owl is sad.

A major Canadian university has stripped former B.C. representative for children and youth Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond of an honorary degree.

In a Monday statement, the University of Regina said it had rescinded an honorary doctor of laws degree it bestowed on Turpel-Lafond in 2003.

The school said the decision came following a request from the Indigenous Women’s Collective to revoke such degrees.

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On anniversary of Trudeau’s invocation of Emergencies Act, anticipation builds for release of commission report

On the one-year anniversary of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act, anticipation is building for the release of the national inquiry’s report into the historic series of events surrounding the powers used to end “Freedom Convoy” Ottawa occupation and Canada-U.S. border blockades.

So far, the occasion is being marked in a muted way on Parliament Hill, where Wellington Street remains closed to vehicle traffic and is devoid of “Freedom Convoy” protesters, a marked change from this time last year when the street was jammed with transport trucks, inflatables, and numerous anti-Trudeau and anti-vaccine signs.

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Rising seas threaten ‘mass exodus on a biblical scale’, UN chief warns

An increase in the pace at which sea levels are rising threatens “a mass exodus of entire populations on a biblical scale”, the UN secretary general has warned.

The climate crisis is causing sea levels to rise faster than for 3,000 years, bringing a “torrent of trouble” to almost a billion people, from London to Los Angeles and Bangkok to Buenos Aires, António Guterres said on Tuesday. Some nations could cease to exist, drowned under the waves, he said.

Wow what an hysteric.

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Toronto’s left sees political opportunity with Mayor John Tory poised to resign

It’s been more than 16 years since a left-of-centre candidate won a mayoral election in Toronto, but political organizers on that side of the spectrum believe the circumstances are ripe for a progressive to get into the mayor’s chair.

Mayor John Tory intends to stay in his post at least through Wednesday’s budget meeting at city council, but has said he will resign over what he called a lapse in judgment, a relationship with one of his staff members.

This opens up the prospect of an election for mayor at a yet-to-be-determined date in the coming months.

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