Democrats literally have a more favorable view of wicca/witches than of Orthdox Judaism/Jews. pic.twitter.com/O2FjkAAqMv
— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) January 24, 2023
Author: Blazingcatfur
Trudeau backs down – Gun Grab bill loses amendment critics say hit hunting rifles
The government has withdrawn a controversial amendment to its proposed firearm legislation — one that critics warned could have restricted access to hunting rifles.
The Liberal amendment to gun law reform Bill C-21, which was tabled in a committee meeting in November, faced questions about how far it would have expanded the scope of weapons that are prohibited in Canada.
Internal polling must have sucked bad.
Erdogan: Sweden can’t join NATO if Quran-burning is allowed
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reaffirmed Wednesday that Turkey won’t allow Sweden to join the NATO military alliance as long as the Scandinavian country permits protests desecrating Islam’s holy book to take place.
Turkey, which had already been holding off approving Sweden and Finland’s membership in the Western military alliance, has been infuriated by a series of separate demonstrations in Stockholm. In one case a solitary anti-Islam activist burned the Quran outside the Turkish Embassy, while in an unconnected protest an effigy of Erdogan was hanged. Even before that, Ankara had been pressing Sweden and Finland to crack down on exiled members of Kurdish and other groups it sees as terrorists, and to allow arms sales to Turkey.
What you can and can’t say in Coutts, one year after the convoy
Maybe it’s the sudden snap of cold weather, but the town of Coutts seems too quiet.
Last week, a convoy of trucks and cars commemorated the one-year anniversary of the protests that shut down Ottawa and two Canada-U. S. border crossings, including the one here, for weeks. But it passed without incident, and now everything is frigid, windy and nearly silent. The Smuggler’s Saloon – the village pub that became an impromptu headquarters during last year’s convoy standoff – is closed and dark. No one is walking on the streets. The fading 50s-era playgrounds are empty. The only reliable sound is the rumble of trucks and the squeak of brakes as commercial traffic passes through the border with metronomic regularity.
German public support for Ukraine is falling
New polls show that attitudes to the conflict may be shifting
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine approaches its first anniversary later this month, it remains unclear how this conflict is supposed to end. Nowhere is this more evident than in Germany’s foreign policy, where Olaf Scholz is proving to be something of an enigma. While it is true that Germany has not been Kyiv’s loudest cheerleader, the reality is that military equipment has been delivered continuously. Only the United Kingdom and the United States have provided more provisions to the Ukrainian armed forces.
Customs Agents Did Not Seize Any Contraband From Trains for 4 Years: Federal Records
Canada’s customs agents did not seize any contraband by rail over a four-year period before 2022, federal records show.
“The CBSA [Canada Border Services Agency] did not seize any illegal items from train cars for the years 2018 to 2021 inclusively,” cabinet wrote in an Inquiry of Ministry tabled in the House of Commons by Conservative MP Adam Chambers last November, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
The inquiry had asked for the number of trains the CBSA “physically inspected” since 2018, and of those inspected, “how many contained illegal items.”
Women can’t fly F-35 jets as helmets are too heavy, RAF chief admits
Women in the RAF cannot fly F-35 Lightning jets because the helmets provided are too heavy, Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston has admitted.
Wigston told MPs that the RAF had not approved a lighter helmet because of safety fears. He said a more pressing concern was that women were not being trained as pilots, pointing to a “woeful gender diversity” problem in the RAF.
No cards, no candy: Ontario school bans Valentine’s Day, arguing it harms equity goals
An Ontario elementary school has cancelled Valentine’s Day on the grounds that the traditional celebration of love could “negatively impact our families and students.”
“While we acknowledge the celebration of Valentine’s Day, and are mindful of the popularity of that day, it is not celebrated by all students/families in our community,” reads a notice sent to parents and subsequently forwarded to local media.
Tom Jones: Delilah banned for choirs at Principality Stadium
Choirs performing at international rugby matches at the Principality Stadium have been banned from singing the Tom Jones classic, Delilah.
The stadium said it would no longer be performed by choirs after removing it from half-time playlists in 2015.
The song has caused controversy, with lyrics depicting the murder of a woman by her jealous partner.
A stadium spokesman said it was “respectfully aware that it is problematic”.
h/t Sweetpea
Loblaw says it’s not to blame for higher food prices as grocer faces backlash online
One of Canada’s biggest grocers says it’s not to blame for food inflation after a series of social media posts drew the ire of some consumers.
Loblaw Companies Ltd.’s corporate Twitter account began replying to users earlier this week who tweeted about the end of the grocer’s price freeze on No Name products.
Gun gangs shatter Sweden’s peaceful reputation
At an impromptu shrine outside a shopping centre on the southern reaches of the Stockholm’s commuter belt, teenagers gatherered before photographs of a boy with a faintly goofy smile and voluminous black curls that made him look a little younger than his 15 years.
Ali Shafaei was shot dead here in Skogas on Saturday, the latest victim of a surge of gang violence around the Swedish capital in which at least four teenagers and young men have been killed since Christmas. Over the past month there has, on average, been a shooting or a bombing every day. “It’s extreme out there,” Nikoi Djane, a former criminal turned criminologist, said. “It’s tit for tat. It’s like a game to them now.”
Health chiefs admit vaccine link to heart and kidney damage – and the MSM say nothing
A PREPRINT paper has just been published in the Lancet authored by the New Zealand Ministry of Health, ‘Adverse Events Following the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine (Pfizer-BioNtech) in Aotearoa New Zealand’. The paper reveals that there is a statistically significant association between Pfizer mRNA vaccination and both myocarditis and acute kidney injury (AKI). Here in little New Zealand, you wouldn’t know it though. MSM has not covered it, anywhere.
House Votes to Remove Ilhan Omar from Foreign Affairs Committee over Antisemitic Remarks
The House of Representatives voted Thursday to remove Representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) from the Foreign Affairs Committee over her history of making antisemitic remarks.
AOC goes nutz.
AOC on Republicans taking Ilhan Omar off of Foreign Affairs Committee:
"One of the disgusting legacies after 9/11 has been the targeting and racism against Muslim Americans… and incitement of violence against women of color." pic.twitter.com/OZBeoSTyHG
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) February 2, 2023
The Never-Ending ‘Pandemic’: 360 Million Christians Persecuted Worldwide
In 2022, 5,621 Christian around the world were “killed for faith related reasons.” Another 4,542 Christians were illegally detained or arrested, and 2,110 churches were attacked, many destroyed. Overall, the global persecution of Christians remains higher than ever, with 360 million believers suffering high levels of discrimination and violence.
These are among some of the findings of the World Watch List 2023, recently published by the international humanitarian organization, Open Doors. Each year, the World Watch List ranks the top 50 nations where Christians are most persecuted for their faith by using data from approximately 4,000 field workers and external experts to analyze the persecution worldwide.
If China Cracked U.S. Encryption, Why Would It Tell Us?
When Alan Turing cracked the Enigma code during the Second World War, neither the United Kingdom nor the United States immediately published a paper announcing the achievement. Instead, they kept it to themselves so they could keep reading Nazi messages encrypted using Engima machines. Last month, in contrast, Chinese academics from government-run laboratories and research organizations published a paper claiming to have developed a new mathematical strategy to break RSA encryption, today’s standard.
If the Chinese government can crack RSA encryption, then they can break into every U.S. government and private sector system, seeing and exfiltrating anything and everything, achieving true information dominance over Washington and its allies and partners.