The call to South Simcoe Police Service came from a grandmother who was asking her grandson be removed from her home after causing a disturbance.
Originally, this was not a gun call. But there are no routine police calls.
Author: Blazingcatfur
John Ivison: Economic ‘friend-shoring’ can’t be our only response to tyranny
OTTAWA — The Trudeau government has been criticized for not paying attention to the shifting shadow of tyranny, far less responding to it.
Chrystia Freeland was consequently dispatched to a think-tank event in Washington on Tuesday to offer the most holistic take yet on the government’s new worldview.
WSJ reports that Biden officials begged Saudis to delay OPEC+ output cutbacks until after the midterms
Citing “people familiar with the talks” between Biden administration officials and the Saudis just before OPEC+ announced its production cuts that already have sent oil and gasoline prices soaring, The Wall Street Journal reports that the request was to delay the cuts for one month – until after the midterm election.
I think Biden and Trudeau are neck and neck in the race to see who is the least respected head of state in the world.
Are new provincial demands for power just the same old Ottawa-bashing — or something darker?
Welcome to the Canadian constitutional cafeteria. Please remember to stack your trays by the door when you leave.
It was Pierre Trudeau, father of the current prime minister, who famously said many decades ago that Ottawa should be more than a “head waiter to the provinces” when it came to constitutional matters and national government.
Now, roughly 40 years later, his son is contending with an array of provinces who would like to see the federal government even further demoted — to a busboy, perhaps.
Blackie’s Star is worried!
Conservatives maintain slight lead over Liberals in new poll, but with smaller gap
… The survey asked people which federal political party they would most likely vote for if an election were held today, and 33 per cent of decided voters chose the Conservatives.
That’s compared to 31 per cent who picked the Liberals and 21 per cent who opted for the New Democrats.
Biden’s DHS Secretary Was Told That Border Patrol ‘Whipping’ Story Didn’t Add Up, Emails Show
The Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was informed that the photographer who took pictures of horseback Border Patrol agents said that he and his colleagues didn’t see any migrants being whipped, according to emails obtained by Heritage Foundation.
PayPal warned over speech restrictions by powerful financial regulator
A top financial regulator and liberal ally of Sen. Elizabeth Warren said he was considering investigating PayPal for a policy, now retracted, allowing the company to fine users $2,500 for spreading “misinformation.”
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra commented on a recent update to PayPal’s acceptable use policy that drew accusations that the payments company was positioning itself to regulate the speech of customers.
“I’ve never actually never heard of a payment system thinking that it could fine someone for legal expression that their users are making,” Chopra said during a Wednesday appearance on CNBC.
Seven times ‘disinformation’ turned out to be just the opposite
From Hunter Biden’s laptop to the origins of COVID-19, numerous contentious claims deemed false and misleading by elites have since proven legitimate.
via Instapundit
Are Muslim ‘Officials’ Denying Persecuted Christians Refuge in Europe?
The same Germany that took in over a million Muslim migrants in 2015, and ten thousand non-vetted Afghans in 2021—all people who, by definition, could not be experiencing religious persecution back home as they themselves were Muslim—has refused asylum to a Muslim convert to Christianity, even though one of his relatives was tortured and murdered for the same “crime” of apostasy in his native Iran.
How to prevent World War III – Only mass engagement can restrain our warmongering elites
… The intimate connection between industrial war and proletarian revolution was understood well enough that, as historians Gabriel Kolko and Azar Gat have demonstrated, most of the distinctive military strategies that emerged across the last century were expressly devised in order to avoid imposing the kinds of costs — especially in blood — that necessitated making promises to the masses. This was true of strategies such as the blockade by the Royal Navy, RAF terror bombing, Nazi Blitzkrieg and US containment, among others. It was also believed that de-massifying politics would help defuse the nationalist passions that fuelled conflict, facilitating diplomacy once elites were freed from explicit commitments to their national populations.
Net zero puritans don’t want you to hear the truth
We are told to change lifestyles to reduce carbon emissions. Yet, this will only contribute 10 per cent to meeting climate change targets
Will our lifestyles need to change radically to meet our net zero target? Must we abandon cars; give up flying; become vegetarians; turn our thermostats down; shun fast fashion and disposable goods? And could we persuade or compel people to adopt more frugal lifestyles? These are the crucial questions a Lords select committee set out to address in a report released today. The answer the committee discovered was surprising. So surprising that it decided to omit it from its report. Yes, you read that correctly.
The report deliberately omits the real answer to the question: “How much must lifestyle changes contribute to Net Zero?” – even though that was what our call for evidence asked for. What was the answer? And why did the Lords committee vote to omit it?
An oppressor from Toronto discovers “Israeli oppression”
Jason Sherman searched for the tree he planted -long distance for his bar mitzva and found a way to blast Israel – long distance.
Horrors! A Jewish filmmaker from Toronto thinks he has “discovered” evidence of Israeli misbehavior in 1948. Well, I’ve done a little research, and I’ve discovered some uncomfortable information about the filmmaker’s own home town.
At the center of this manufactured controversy is Jason Sherman, whose interest in Israel seems to have been minimal for most of his life until he was 50 years old, in 2012. According to his film, what triggered Sherman’s belated interest was his desire to locate the exact tree which the Jewish National Fund planted with the bar mitzvah money he contributed.
H/T MP
Biden’s Defense Dept Put Racist in Charge of Educating 60K Military Kids
The investigation by Adam Andrzejewski of Open the Books into Kelisa Wing who made headlines for her racist tweets about white people shines a light into how yet another arm of the Defense Department is being twisted by the Biden administration into radical indoctrination.
The investigation uncovers the expected diversity grift in which DEI officials also “build their own brand”. They’re all ‘coaches’ and ‘speakers’ and ‘authors’ with their books and ways to book them for sessions and seminars no matter where they’re working. And they also often have some sort of side-hustle as musicians, actors or dancers they’re also promoting. Not to mention efforts at rolling in an academic gig. So it’s good to be in the DEI business.
What incels and trans activists have in common
Both have a visceral loathing for women’s rights.
Surveying the sea of men surrounding the female speakers at a Let Women Speak event in Brighton last month, with their black hoodies, black balaclavas, black sunglasses, black bandanas and – for that stylish, finishing touch – black weighted gloves (serving the same function as knuckle-dusters), I reflected that it’s no coincidence that they resembled criminals seeking to conceal themselves from CCTV. It also struck me how much these young men have in common with their alleged enemies on the right – the ‘incels’. The ‘Black Pampers’, as an unidentified feminist wit dubbed them, want more than anything to stop women from standing up for their rights. Like the incels, these trust-fund Antifas want to return to a time when being male automatically meant being on top of the heap, even when sadly lacking in other ways.
Blood for Solar Panels: Politico Honors Vladimir Putin as Climate Influencer of the Year
… Politico argues that the war in Ukraine has been great for the environment because it “forced Europe to finally break its fossil fuel addiction” and helped speed up the continent’s “green revolution.” By launching his brutal invasion and manipulating energy markets to keep oil prices high, Putin has “achieved something generations of green campaigners could not.”
And that is Justin Trudeau’s belief as well.