Last year, Old Dominion University professor Allyn Walker was forced to resign after an uproar about his campaign to destigmatize pedophilia, which included the suggestion to rebrand the word “pedophile” as “minor-attracted person” and to provide child pornography to offenders to appease their illicit desires.
Author: Blazingcatfur
We should know which politicians got China’s money
Can we take a break from lecturing Americans about the state of their democracy and focus for a bit on problems with our own?
Canadians love to watch from a safe distance when all the horrors and glories of the American political system are on display, as they are this week as we comb through the results of their midterm elections.
We especially love to pat ourselves on the back for the fact that our system is, for the most part, mercifully free of the most extreme elements of U.S. politics. That’s mostly just good for our national self-regard, but it would be a shame if it distracts us from the disturbing possibility that a foreign power has been actively interfering in our own recent national elections, even changing the outcome in at least one case.
From the Star no less.
We Remember
My Dad. Landed at Juno, severely wounded by shrapnel several weeks into the Normandy campaign. Not a hero. Just a common soldier.
A sense of the sacrifice was passed down to my generation first hand.
Many had parents or knew friend’s parents, or had granddads, uncles and cousins who served in WW I, WW II and Korea.
My Godfather lost a hand in WW I. He always gave me a buck on my birthday. You don’t forget that.
I only had to look at the scars on Dad’s body and his deformed leg.
Today our armed forces can’t meet recruiting goals.
The succeeding generations of the people who sacrificed lives, bodies and minds in our defense no longer desire to join Canada’s military.
What can you say when our Prime Minister goes on vacay for Remembrance Day and hangs out with drag queens.
53 per cent of Ontarians support mask mandate, poll suggests
Slightly more than half of Ontarians currently support a return to a provincial mask mandate, with nearly three-quarters saying they would follow masking requirements should the government bring them back, a new public opinion survey by Forum Research suggests.
The poll, conducted for the Star, found 77 per cent of respondents said they either already wear masks or that they are prepared to wear them again.
Fears of ‘bloodshed’: Trudeau aide’s notes detail call with premiers before Emergencies Act invoked
Handwritten notes from one of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s top advisers are shining a light on conversations that took place between the federal and provincial governments just hours before Ottawa announced it would invoke the Emergencies Act to end a series of anti-pandemic measure protests.
A collection of deputy chief of staff Brian Clow’s notes were entered into evidence Thursday before the Public Order Emergency Commission, which is investigating the federal government’s decision to trigger the never-before-used law on Feb. 14. The notes cover Trudeau’s call with the premiers hours before invoking the Emergencies Act.
Iran Says It Has Built Hypersonic Missile
U.N. atomic agency separately reported that Tehran continues to stonewall its investigation into Iranian nuclear activities
TEHRAN–Iran said Thursday it has built a hypersonic missile capable of penetrating any air-defense system, as the United Nations atomic agency reported that Tehran continues to stonewall its investigation into Iranian nuclear activities.
As senior officials lashed out at Tehran’s neighbors and other foreign foes they accuse of fomenting protests sweeping across the country, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh said the new missile could maneuver both inside and outside the atmosphere, according to state media. He provided no evidence to support the claims.
Bank of Canada signals more rate hikes to come
‘We will come out of this,’ Tiff Macklem pledges as central bank signals more rate hikes to come
In much the same way that Canadian households were forced to adjust on the fly to high and escalating prices, Canada’s job market and overall economy will see some painful changes in the coming months as Canada’s central bank steps up its fight to wrestle inflation into submission.
That was one of the main takeaways of a wide-ranging interview with Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem on Thursday, one in which the central banker said he understands the pain that Canadians are feeling about their finances right now. But he is more resolved than ever that the bank’s actions to establish price stability will be worth it in the long run.
One suspect in anti-Jewish Brooklyn gel pellet attack held on bail, two others freed
One of the goons who allegedly blasted a Hasidic Jewish mom and her adult son with gel pellets in an alleged hate crime assault in Brooklyn was held on bail Thursday as the other two suspects were sprung on supervised release.
Jacob Hernandez, 38, begged for mercy as he was led away in handcuffs on $7,500 cash bail while the other two suspects, Zakaria Moataz and Dorian Watt, walked out of the courtroom with their faces covered.
New Yorkers must love this stuff, they voted for more.
Sabrina Maddeaux: Pierre Poilievre’s crusade against the ‘money printing orgy’
In person, federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is relaxed and even cheery. But get him talking about the Bank of Canada (BoC), and he suddenly seems to vibrate on a higher intensity level.
“When I’m prime minister, we’ll have sound money. The Bank of Canada will have one job, and that’s to keep inflation at two per cent with an eye not just to CPI inflation, but asset price inflation. And that’s how we’re going to stabilize demand for assets like housing,” he says.
Taliban ban women from parks and gyms in Kabul
The Taliban have banned women from entering Kabul’s parks and gyms, accusing them of breaking Islamic laws in the capital.
A spokesman from the vice and virtue ministry said that Afghans managing the city’s parks, gyms and fairgrounds had been ordered to turn women away, including those with male chaperones.
The Taliban had been enforcing gender segregation rules that gave women access to parks on three days a week — Sunday, Monday and Tuesday — while men were allowed to visit on the remaining four days.
John Robson: Beijing’s Influencers Are Hidden in Plain Sight and We Do Nothing
Even now he thinks they’re “games.” After all the warnings about the Chinese Communist Party’s sinister intentions and methods, our prime minister told a news conference: “Unfortunately we’re seeing that countries, state actors from around the world, whether it’s China or others, are continuing to play aggressive games with our institutions, with our democracies.” If these manoeuvres are “games,” the state actors are playing for keeps. We don’t seem to be.
GOLDSTEIN: Canadian health care — high costs, long waits
Canadians pay more for health care through their taxes than 29 comparable countries with universal health care, while enduring the longest wait times for treatment among the 10 that track this data, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.
With New Ruling, Sandy Hook Families Win Over $1.4 Billion From Alex Jones
The Infowars conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones must pay the families of eight Sandy Hook shooting victims an additional $473 million in punitive damages for defaming them, a judge in Connecticut ruled on Thursday, bringing the total damages to nearly $1.5 billion.
Last month, a jury in Waterbury, Conn., awarded the families and an F.B.I. agent implicated in Mr. Jones’s false claims $965 million in compensatory damages. The jury also awarded the families punitive damages in the form of lawyers’ fees, to be calculated by the judge. The $473 million awarded on Thursday by Judge Barbara N. Bellis of Connecticut Superior Court represents those damages.
U.S. races to shore up European support for Ukraine strategy
U.S. officials are increasingly worried about keeping their allies on board with Washington’s approach to countering Russia in Ukraine as economic pressures grow across Europe.
American officials based in Europe are issuing internal warnings to Washington colleagues that some countries with populations that support Russia are growing angry over sanctions and blame the U.S. for rising costs. That sentiment could put pressure on European leaders to pull back support for the sanctions, officials said in internal reports circulated throughout the administration in recent days and viewed by POLITICO.
The NordStream pipeline sabotage seems more like a hostage taking everyday.
These Germans are trying to dance the cold away amid Europe's energy crisis as part of an initiative called 'Let's move – Tanzt Euch warm,' which translates to 'warm up by dancing' pic.twitter.com/V76iiGeJsz
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 10, 2022
What’s it going to take for the Liberals to crack down on Chinese subterfuge?
God only knows what it’s going to take.
Twelve years ago, the warning came from Richard Fadden, then the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. At least two provincial cabinet ministers and several municipal politicians were more or less puppets of the People’s Republic of China, he said, initially avoiding mentioning China by name, for the sake of discretion. “I’m making this comment because I think it’s a real danger that people be totally oblivious to this kind of issue,” Fadden said at the time.
Unless a very damaging leak emerges nothing will be done.
Canada’s China Class exemplified by sleazebags such as Dominic Barton, currently involved with turning what’s left of Canada into a 3rd world shithole via mass immigration, hold sway with our political class.
Canada has been sold out by our elites.