The Ottawa police officer facing dismissal for donating to the Freedom Convoy protest was recognized for exemplary service in the Canadian navy and commended for assisting in a dangerous rescue as a rookie cop.
As Const. Kristina Neilson awaits her fate in an Ottawa Police Service disciplinary hearing, new details are emerging about her years of public service in the military and policing.
Neilson, 41, joined the Ottawa Police Service in 2013 and previously used the last name Correa.
Straddling the B.C.-Alberta border lies the most valuable Canadian resource you’ve never heard of: the trillion-dollar Montney Formation, a giant gas field the size of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia combined. Its potential is huge but its future is uncertain. With the federal government’s proposed emissions cap, it may remain a sleeping giant.
Winnipeg mayoral candidate Glen Murray was forced to leave his “dream job” as the head of a clean energy think-tank after one year, following complaints about his management, according to former staff and communications obtained by CBC News.
Murray’s lawyer denies this, claiming he resigned “for personal and family reasons.”
A CBC News investigation into the 370 days Murray spent in 2017-18 as the executive director of the Pembina Institute — a Calgary-based environmental organization — also revealed allegations Murray used sexual innuendo in the workplace, physically harassed a former employee at a company gathering and drank to excess at some organization functions.
A garbage human. I always felt his leaving Ontario was rushed.
Any suggestion racism played a part in Sgt. Andrew Harnett’s traffic stop of a Calgary teen charged with the officer’s murder was a figment of the accused killer’s imagination, a prosecutor said Thursday.
Crown lawyer Mike Ewenson said there was nothing in the conduct of Harnett and two other officers who arrived on the scene to show the teen feared he was being racially profiled.
“We want to make this a national monument to the ‘Invisible Founders,’” said the Rev. Larry Walker, a trustee at Montpelier, the home of James Madison, father of the Constitution, in announcing plans to build a national slavery monument right on the grounds of Madison’s home. The Montpelier board is planning on a massive scale: “Our memorialization project is not going to be limited to a bench and a plaque,” Walker declared, as the board compared the projected monument to the Lincoln Memorial. If this thing is built, future visitors to Montpelier will come away with one overwhelming message: James Madison was an evil man who enslaved other human beings.
Unified School District facilitates secret child sexual transitions and allows students to identify as “it.”
San Francisco Unified School District has released a guidebook for teachers to facilitate secret child sexual transitions and to let students use the pronoun “it” at school.
According to documents obtained from a whistleblower, in 2021 the district celebrated “International Pronouns Day,” teaching students that they can adopt a wide range of genders and sexual identities. In elementary school, the district tells students that they may not “feel like a boy OR a girl” and can identify as “non-binary” and use “they” pronouns. For secondary students, the district teaches that they can be part of the “bisexual umbrella” and identify as “fluid,” “pansexual,” “omnisexual,” “hetero-, homo-, lesbi-curious,” “hetero-, homo-, lesbi-flexible,” and “queer.”
American Islamists rushed to offer tributes this week to a radical Egyptian cleric and spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood who had a long-established support for violent jihad and murdering Jews.
Hopes that post-Soviet Russia would join the ranks of prosperous liberal democracies have proven to be a chimera
The collapse of the Soviet system led to a period of hope in Russia. Throughout the 2000s, it was popular to describe Russia as a “normal country.” The changes it went through during its transition from Soviet communism to a Westernized, market-based economy and parliamentary system were agreed to be irreversible, setting the stage for the country to eventually join the club of liberal democracies.
Thirty years later, however, it seems clear that Russia’s much-heralded modernization effort was a failure.
In the early 1990s, the political scientist Claus Offe explained the nature of the unique challenges faced by countries across the post-communist region, which he called the triple transformation: the political transition from autocracy to democracy; the economic transition from planned to market economy; and a national transition from empire to nation-building. While post-communist countries saw varying degrees of success, it is the failure to modernize along all three dimensions that distinguishes Russia.
THE European electricity grid is hurtling towards disaster, a new paper from the Global Warming Policy Foundation warns.
Countries are closing reliable nuclear and fossil-fuelled power stations while hoping interconnectors – cables linking different grids – will make up the deficit. But they won’t, according to the paper’s author, Alexander Stahel, a Swiss-based commodities expert.
He explains that the European grid has relied on French and German power surpluses for many years. However, with nuclear power in both countries being wound down and the two likely to soon become net power importers – and with fierce international competition for scarce gas supplies – the whole continent is now left hoping for Scandinavian hydro power and occasional surpluses of UK wind to save it.
Wow! European Union bureaucrats and heads of governments are learning the hard way to stop threatening and dumping on the choice of Italian voters to entrust their government to Giorgia Meloni.
Pope Francis abandons the Catholic Church’s opposition to abortion
A high-ranking Vatican official stunned Catholics during a recent television interview by inadvertently confirming the Catholic Church’s retreat from one of its fundamental moral positions — a retreat FrontPage Magazine explored more than a year ago.
The official in question said on Italy’s national network Aug. 26 that the church had no interest in opposing that nation’s law allowing abortion. Enacted in 1978, Law 194 legalizes abortions in the first trimester and permits them afterward only if the mother’s life is in danger or if the fetus displays “serious abnormalities or malformations,” the law states.
Decades of green scaremongering have brought Germany to the brink of blackouts.
In Germany, as in the rest of Europe, the energy crisis is deepening. The German government was even forced last month to delay its long-scheduled shutdown of Germany’s two remaining nuclear power plants, out of fear its energy supplies would not last through the winter.
It is seen in the boring hysteria about Giorgia Meloni.
The European elite’s sour reaction to the rise of Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s next prime minister, reveals less about her politics than its own. It harbors a death wish for Europe — a willfulness passed off as a “progressive” ideology that has led to a culture of death, demographic implosion, a floundering economy, and the prospect of a Eurabian future. Consequently, any European politician with even a modicum of common sense poses a grave threat to the elite. Its description of Meloni as a “fascist” is gaslighting of the first order — a lame projection of its own desire to build a coercive one-party state.
“Actually, I love Calgary.” This is the sort of statement that, when uttered to other Toronto-based millennials, used to earn me blank stares and dubious eye rolls. Most could never see themselves leaving the city for nearby Hamilton, let alone Alberta. I might as well have professed my fondness for Saturn’s third ring.
Green Party cancels first round of voting in leadership race: ‘We did not have the capacity to deal with it’
OTTAWA — The federal Green Party is changing course in the middle of its leadership race, dropping from two rounds of voting to one in the latest sign of turmoil for the troubled political organization.
The party’s internal governing body, the federal council, voted on Wednesday night to eliminate the first round of voting in the leadership race. The move was announced Thursday morning in a news release that said voting in the contest will now begin on Nov. 12 and conclude as scheduled with an announced winner and new leader on Nov. 19.
