The firing of a New York University (NYU) professor who was the subject of a petition from students who said his class was too hard continues to stoke controversy, as some parents and teachers say the incident points to a lowering of academic standards.
Maitland Jones Jr, a professor of organic chemistry, was fired by NYU after more than 80 students from his 350-student course signed a petition complaining about grades, teaching and help received during the Covid pandemic.
For years now, we’ve seen woke schools hiring drag queens to perform for young kids as some sort of exercise about tolerance and diversity. If you spoke out about it, you were a bigot.
Tim Forte, an Amazon analyst, says he was worried about the performance of the company’s billion-dollar Rings of Power boondoggle.
So he decided to give the show a look.
After giving the show a look, he’s even more concerned.
Why?
Like most of us, he fell asleep.
The world is waking up to the fact that the climate policy goal of achieving “net-zero” CO2 emissions brings crippling economic pain. Fossil fuel prices shot up by 26 per cent across industrialized economies last year and will rise globally by another 50 per cent this year. Politicians blame Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but the long-term trend stems mostly from governments demonizing fossil fuels while their societies remain dependent on them. Since the 2015 Paris climate agreement, global investment in fossil fuels has halved, inevitably driving up prices.
An investigation into allegations that communist China is operating unofficial overseas police stations in Canada is underway, officials say.
Testifying before the parliamentary Canada-China committee on Sept. 4, Weldon Epp, director general for Global Affairs Canada’s North Asia and Oceania Bureau, said should the allegations be proven true, the activity would “fall outside of any legitimate police-to-police liaison role” between the two countries, and that Ottawa would make “serious representations” to Beijing.
Canada’s Supreme Court will for the first time hear a Canada-US asylum pact case that will weigh whether the country can consider its southern neighbour “safe” for those seeking refugee status.
The outcome of Thursday’s hearing could determine whether Canada can trust that the US treats migrants properly, and could answer whether Canada holds any responsibility for migrants turned back at its border.
At the heart of the matter is the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) – a pact between the two countries that has been in place since 2004 and that requires refugee claimants to request protection in the first “safe” country they reach.
OTTAWA – Chief of the defence staff Gen. Wayne Eyre is ordering an immediate halt to all non-essential activities in favour of boosting military recruitment and retention, with the Canadian Armed Forces facing an unprecedented personnel crisis.
Eyre issued the sweeping order to senior commanders across the country on Thursday, saying dramatic action is needed to ensure the military has the troops it needs to respond to growing demands and threats at home and abroad.
As Europe faces a winter of skyrocketing natural gas prices driving millions of people unable to afford to heat their homes into energy poverty, it’s alarming how western leaders — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau among them — continue to take precisely the wrong message from what has happened.
From Trudeau, to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and other European leaders, to the Biden administration in the U.S., their misguided battle cry is the same.
After Russia’s chaotic retreats in Kherson – less than a week after Vladimir Putin illegally annexed the Ukrainian province alongside three others – the region’s Moscow-appointed governor, Kirill Stremousov, sought to calm the mood.
Far from a rout, the withdrawal was a tactical “regrouping” to “deliver a retaliatory blow”, Stremousov said on Wednesday.
His comments – among the first public admissions of Russia’s retreats in Kherson – attempted to mask what even many vocal supporters of the war now say: the situation is the most dire the Russian army has found itself in since the start of the invasion seven months ago.
Russian BMP crew surrendered to Ukrainian Forces 🇺🇦 #UkraineRussiaWar #RussianArmy #NAFO pic.twitter.com/sEtbZjpluQ
— Ukraine War Now ✙ (@uarealitynow) October 5, 2022
A top ISIS leader accused of killing an American officer was shot dead by US special forces in a midnight raid deep in the heart of government controlled-territory in Syria.
Local sources said that US troops landed in the village Muluk Saray in the countryside of the Qamishli region in northeast Syria, where territory is controlled in part by US-backed Kurdish fighters and partly by the Russia-backed government.
They told news channel Al Mayadeen that the victim was named Rakan Abu Hayel, originally from the village of Tuwaimin in the eastern countryside.
Google is launching a campaign against the Liberal government’s controversial online streaming legislation, warning Canadians Bill C-11 could mess with their YouTube feeds.
I don’t care. The Liberal government and YouTube/Google are both steaming piles of shit that should burn in hell.
OTTAWA—The Canadian government has not yet designated Iran’s revolutionary guard corps as a terrorist entity over concerns the action would be overbroad, difficult to enforce and unfairly target potentially thousands of Iranians in Canada who may have been conscripted by Iran’s military, sources tell the Star.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday his government will hold the “bloodthirsty regime to account,” and that Canada will continue to sanction the leadership of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, but he stopped short of answering yes or no to Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s demand he recognize the IRGC as a terrorist group.
They won’t do it because the LPC sucks Mullah dick.
Pierre Poilievre’s official YouTube videos included a hidden tag appealing to misogynistic online movements that Canada’s intelligence agencies view as a danger.
A Global News analysis of 50 of Poilievre’s most recent YouTube videos showed that they included a tag — hidden from viewers, but not from the videos’ publisher — used by a misogynistic online movement. The tag helps promote Poilievre’s videos among those circles, and signals to YouTube what users might be interested in the Conservative leader’s messaging.
Sabotage or Stupidity by an underling? Seems an awfully small demographic to warrant the inclusion of a dedicated hash tag and frankly I just don’t see it attracting an audience of any appreciable size. Am I wrong? Maybe. In the meantime I’ll blame Patrick Brown!
The article cites the SPLC as an “authority” so keep some salt handy.
Pierre Poilievre a rising star for the world’s far right
Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones recently said he’s a big fan of Poilievre, calling him part of a global movement of far-right leaders.
You can’t get much lower — or more vile — than Alex Jones.
The far-right American radio host and conspiracy theorist is back in a Connecticut court this week, facing his second defamation trial over his “hoax” lies about the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in 2012.
But the trial hasn’t stopped Jones from hosting his regular Infowars show and website that together have millions of followers in the U.S. and around the world, including in Canada.
Just last week, Jones told his audience that he’s a big fan of Pierre Poilievre, calling him part of a “rising” movement of far-right leaders “all over the world.”
Meanwhile Trudeau has met and been photographed with child molesters, rapists, terrorists and all manner of deviants that make up the LPC family.
One of whom is being sentenced for sex assault today.
When Russians took over the city of Balakliya, eastern Ukraine, they turned the central police station into a base for brutality.
During the six months it spent under enemy occupation, scores of local residents were locked in overcrowded cells in the basement. Survivors told of being dragged to a torture chamber where they were beaten, electrocuted and forced to endure mock executions.
The interrogations were carried out by officials from Russia’s Federal Security Service, according to documents retrieved after the town’s recapture last month during Ukraine’s stunning counter-offensive.
