Actress-turned-activist Alyssa Milano backed herself into a corner after she bragged about ditching her Tesla electric vehicle. Milano hinted that she got rid of her Tesla because Elon Musk is the CEO of the electric vehicle brand, suggesting that nobody should do business that aligns with “white supremacy.” However, reactions on Twitter pointed out how her new electric car is problematic.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes the case for using Emergencies Act
We didn’t spend the last six weeks seeking answers about whether the invocation of the Emergencies Act was politically popular. A commission of inquiry was not probing whether it was effective in clearing Ottawa streets and preventing further border blockades.
Thirty days of testimony from politicians, police and protesters was meant to determine whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had the legal justification to use such a sledgehammer, suspending civil liberties, to break an occupation in the nation’s capital and ensure there would be no further attempts to block crucial commerce routes. Was there a threat to national security? Had all other enforcement avenues been exhausted?
Protests against China’s stringent Covid restrictions have intensified, as a wave of civil disobedience triggered by a deadly fire in the far west reached levels in the mainland not seen since Xi Jinping assumed power a decade ago.
At Beijing’s elite Tsinghua University, students shouted “freedom will prevail” and called for an end to lockdowns, while crowds also returned to Middle Urumqi Road in Shanghai for a second day, and pushed down pandemic barricades in Wuhan.
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— NEWS ALL TIME (@NEWS_ALL_TIME) November 27, 2022
In the halls at Woburn Collegiate Institute, students knew a fight was brewing before class let out at 3:15 p.m. on Halloween.
Outside, the anticipation was palpable as at least one teen pulled out her cellphone and started filming, her voice rising as at least four boys appeared to get into it — one backing through the parking lot with three others moving toward him. There was shouting. Some students seem to gather around knowingly as others headed home.
Then the shooting started.
Mayor Jello makes an appearance noting he recently promised another 20 million to defeat the scourge harshing our Diversity.
Smart parents do not send their children to TDSB schools.
A recent online article from CNN argued that Daylight Savings Time disproportionately affects the sleep and health of minority communities.
The piece, published on Friday by CNN Health reporter Jacqueline Howard, argued that Daylight Savings Time often disrupts sleep, throws off people’s circadian rhythms and can contribute to general health problems.
No redactions have evoked as much frustration as the government’s claim of solicitor-client privilege, which it used to hide legal advice it received before invoking the Act
OTTAWA — After six weeks and 76 witnesses, including the prime minister and much of his cabinet, public hearings on the use of the Emergencies Act are done, but some crucial questions remain.
What did the government hide behind document redactions, and what was the key legal advice cabinet leaned on to invoke the act?
Sergey Skvortsov and Elena Koulkova “seemed like everyone else” until police swooped on their home on the well-to-do island of Varmdo
In the months before they stopped posting updates on Russian social media, Sergey Skvortsov and Elena Koulkova appeared happy with their life in Sweden. In one picture taken in 2013, they smiled for the camera as they danced together.
Skvortsov, 59, and Koulkova, 58, from Moscow, settled in Saltsjo-Boo, an affluent area on the island of Varmdo in the Stockholm archipelago, in 2015, having secured residency in Sweden. “They seemed like everyone else in the area, they chatted about gardening and always greeted us in a friendly manner,” one neighbour said this week.
OTTAWA – Canada’s military forces are “ready” to meet their commitments should Russia’s war in Ukraine spread to NATO countries, but it would be a “challenge” to launch a larger scale operation in the long term, with ongoing personnel and equipment shortages, according to Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre.
Eyre told Joyce Napier on CTV’s Question Period in an interview airing Sunday that while the forces in Europe are “ready for the tactical mission they’ve been assigned,” he has larger concerns about strategic readiness. He said there’s a lack of people and equipment, and further concern around the ability to sustain a larger scale mission in the longer term.
New technologies are changing the balance of power and penetrating what should have been impregnable counter measures
It wasn’t the biggest bang of the war. But a sudden flash that briefly illuminated the Russian port of Novorossiysk on November 18 had a significance that went well beyond its blast radius.
The explosion is believed to have been caused by a Ukrainian uncrewed surface vehicle – maritime drones that are changing the balance of power in the Black Sea and could profoundly reshape the future of naval warfare.
The price tag for the inquiry probing the government’s use of the Emergencies Act hasn’t been finalized yet — but it could be roughly $18.8 million, according to the Privy Council Office (PCO).
A PCO spokesperson told CBC News that while the total won’t be known until the Public Order Emergency Commission completes its work, the federal government approved $18.8 million to cover its costs.
Amid the media praise for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s performance as the final witness at the public inquiry into his invocation of the Emergencies Act, keep in mind his government refused to give the inquiry a key piece of evidence Justice Paul Rouleau wanted to see.
It was intended to be a child-friendly drag show, organized by the owner of a craft distillery whose son is a performer.
But the event in Roanoke, Tex., quickly became a showcase for a new contest for armed supremacy in American civic life, when a group of armed leftists, some of them transgendered, encircled the venue, masked and dressed in black, several clutching AR-15 guns.
An alternate universe!
The government has four bills before Parliament to reign in tech giants at a time when the industry is retrenching.
Back in the spring my colleague Cade Metz, who covers artificial intelligence, driverless cars, robotics, virtual reality and other new technologies for The New York Times, declared Toronto to be “the third-largest tech hub in North America.”
Toronto moved into that position, he reported, because of investments by global technology giants including Google, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, which all have offices in the city. During the pandemic, he found, a rapidly rising number of people were working from home for Meta, formerly Facebook. Days after Cade’s article appeared, Meta announced that it, too, was formally joining the rush to Toronto and would open an engineering center with 2,500 people.
LAST week the British Medical Journal published an article that was extraordinary even by its own very variable standards, entitled Understanding and neutralising Covid-19 misinformation and disinformation.
You will have no problem guessing the content of this patently unscientific piece of propaganda. It was clearly targeted at the doctors and scientists whose evidence-based research and professional observations and medical experiences have given them no option but to challenge and question the official Covid narrative.
You can’t make this up. Earlier this month, some dough-faced dork named Sam Bankman-Fried—an MIT grad and son of Stanford law professors—vaporized the GDP of a small country after successfully conning the entire world of so-called educated elites.
All of them. The freaks in Silicon Valley, the freaks on Wall Street, the freaks in Hollywood, and the freaks in Washington. Even (or especially) the journalists who are supposed to be holding everyone accountable. The smartest, most enlightened professional experts and self-appointed moral referees.
