Canadian government scientists created headline news worldwide just before Christmas when they told the media Western Hudson Bay polar bear numbers appear to have declined by 27 per cent between 2017 and 2021, according to a survey report that still has not been made public. This is called “science by press release,” a practice that is actually anti-scientific, since real science proceeds by publication, criticism, debate and either replication or refutation.
Montecito is on mudslide alert, its residents nervously awaiting an evacuation order. I wake up on the morning of my meeting with Prince Harry to a media storm – his book, Spare, has found its way into Spanish shops almost a week before publication – and a meteorological storm, this normally bone dry part of southern California being battered by rain. Both squalls are doing a good job of reminding me that, while you might be able to run 5,000 miles from the source of your pain, you can rarely escape from it.
When I finally reach Montecito’s most famous resident – and possibly, right now, the world’s – he is nonplussed about the weather, which some have described as biblical, but I might describe as… well, British. Prince Harry tells me that the day before I arrived, he put on his waterproofs and headed down to the beach in the pouring rain with his dog, Pula, ignoring all offers of an umbrella from those around him. (I don’t tell him that I already know this, having seen pictures of said outing on a website that morning.)
It’s difficult to visualize Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaping from his bed in an epiphany about spending on Canada’s military, shouting: “Lord God Almighty, I’ve seen the light!”
Given that, there is something strange going on with military procurement in our country.
The #MeToo Puritans have removed Elvira Mistress of the Dark’s iconic cleavage and appear to have done so with the okay of Elvira herself. Will the Woke Gestapo ever cease?
In the wake of a church-burning on New Year’s Eve in rural Alberta, The Epoch Times followed up with police on the status of investigations into the fire as well as the torching of multiple churches in Canada in the summer of 2021.
The fire investigator has determined that arson was the cause of a blaze that destroyed St. Joseph Lutheran Church near the village of Hay Lakes, just north of Camrose and about 50 kilometres southeast of Edmonton, late on Dec. 31, burning it to the ground.
Camrose RCMP Cpl. Kevin Krebs says plain-clothes officers are doing interviews and collecting witness statements.
Popular chatbot ChatGPT appears to generally favor left-leaning positions when asked about a variety of cultural and political issues, according to queries of the software by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Following four days of hearings, including top-secret testimony on the final day of proceedings, a federal court judge will now decide if Canada has violated the rights of dozens of its citizens imprisoned in northeast Syria.
Proceedings have been public except for Friday’s hearing, where classified evidence was presented to Justice Henry Brown as he weighs whether to order the government to bring the Canadian detainees home within a set timeline.
They joined ISIS because they wanted to kill for Islam. They deserve no mercy beyond a single bullet to the head.
“I know it’s still early, but this will be a strong contender for my favorite defensive gun use of the year when 2023 comes to a close.
A Georgia man who attempted to rob a gas station at gunpoint ended up in police custody after three armed citizens put a stop to the crime, without ever having to pull the trigger themselves.”
Canada’s provincial and territorial leaders are pushing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to consider changes to Canada’s bail system, especially when it comes to some firearms offences.
In a Jan. 13 letter to Trudeau, the 13 premiers said they wanted to see a specific change that would make bail harder for those accused of a charge related to the offence of possession of a loaded prohibited or restricted firearm. They also called for a review of other firearms-related offences.
“There have been a growing number of calls for changes to prevent accused persons, who are out on bail, from committing further criminal acts,” reads the letter. “The justice system fundamentally needs to keep anyone who poses a threat to public safety off the streets.”
A Californian teenager sobbed before the city council as she told of her trauma at seeing ‘a naked man’ she says was a transgender woman inside the women’s changing rooms at her local YMCA.
Rebecca Philips, 17, addressed the meeting in Santee, a city suburb of San Diego, on Wednesday night to demand reform to the existing policy after encountering the unidentified individual.
She told the council how, two weeks ago, she was getting changed after swimming at the Santee YMCA when she saw a transgender woman naked in the changing rooms.
The National Hockey League (NHL) has reacted to allegations of discrimination from the office of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis by backtracking on some of the eligibility criteria for a job fair that was meant to be restricted to select minority groups.
A spokesperson for the NHL told The Epoch Times that the event—the Pathway to Hockey Summit—is now open to anyone 18 years of age or older and that the original wording for a LinkedIn announcement for the event was “not accurate.”
The NHL’s post on LinkedIn—which has since been deleted—said that the event was limited to a narrow range of job-seekers from a list of “underrepresented communities.”
The World Economic Forum (WEF), which begins its annual gabfest in the Swiss resort town of Davos on Monday, is not some conspiracy to force a socialist world government on the sovereign nations of the world.
On January 16 the European Parliament will debate adding the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) to the European Union’s terrorist list. Proscribing the IRGC as a terror organization by the European countries represents a robust political stance, serving multiple purposes: protecting human rights in Iran, preventing further terror attacks in Europe, and punishing the Revolutionary Guards for arming Russia and participation in war in Ukraine.
The IRGC is the premier and the largest terrorist organization in the world, created on May 5, 1979, by order of Ayatollah Rohullah Khomeini, the founding father of the Islamic Revolution. It was formed primarily for two specific goals: defending the regime and exporting the Islamic revolution to neighboring countries through terrorism. Over time, the IRGC, aided by its proxies, carried out dozens of terror attacks around the world against American and Israeli targets and took effective control of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen.
At one Minnesota university, administrators fired a professor for showing a painting of Mohammed that many Muslims are fine with.
In the past two decades, the world has seen various controversies over visual depictions of the prophet of Islam. They include the 2005 “cartoon crisis” in Denmark, where caricatures of Mohammad led to death threats and widespread violent protests, or the Charlie Hebdo affair in France, where similar cartoons published by the magazine in 2012 were followed by terrorist attacks that left twelve dead.
The leak from various federal law enforcement actors now, as Biden begins his second term, suggests there is real internal turmoil over at the Democratic National Committee.
The second half of Joe Biden’s presidential term has officially gotten off to an ignominious start.
Earlier in the week, CBS News first broke the story that Biden had been storing classified documents, taken from his previous stint as vice president to Barack Obama, at the Chinese-funded Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement “think tank.” Those classified documents were first identified by Biden’s personal attorneys, CBS reported, on Nov. 2—a full six days before the midterm elections. Richard Sauber, Biden’s special counsel, claimed that the White House counsel’s office quickly notified the National Archives, which seized the documents posthaste.
This would not surprise me.
