It’s curious how the more vocally tolerant people dominate public debate, the uglier it gets. Consider the death of Queen Elizabeth II. If there were one event where you’d think people could swallow their bile briefly, it would be this one. But you’d be wrong.
Crux reports that the trial of Cardinal Joseph Zen, a stalwart opponent of the atheistic Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is set to begin this week in Hong Kong. Zen is facing charges for his association with the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund, which “provided financial and legal aid to pro-democracy protesters” who publicly opposed a law that allows Hong Kong’s citizens to be extradited to mainland China. Prosecutors say that the organization was not properly registered. The trial has been delayed — likely for two days — because the presiding judge tested positive for COVID.
Zen was arrested earlier this year on charges of “collusion with foreign forces” in violation of the CCP-imposed national security law.
In addition to being condescending and divisive, the phrase “people of color” also obscures reality.
The expression “people of color” has always seemed to me in equal measure stupid, condescending, and vicious. It divides humanity into two categories, whites and the rest, or rather whites versus the rest; it implies an essential or inherent hostility between these two portions of humanity; and it implies also no real interest in the culture or history of the people of color, whose only important characteristic is that of having been ill-treated by, and therefore presumably hating, the whites. Compared with the phrase “people of color,” the language of apartheid was sophisticated and nuanced.
Families of the victims in Canada’s deadliest mass shooting say an inquiry into what happened has left them with “more questions than answers”.
The joint provincial and federal inquiry is hearing from family members and their representatives as it wraps up months of public hearings this week.
Twenty-two people died in the April 2020 attack in Nova Scotia.
The inquiry was launched following fierce criticism of the police response to the mass shooting.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro this June during a visit to Iran signed a multidimensional, 20-year cooperation treaty. The pact includes agreements on science and technology as well as deals on agriculture, communications, culture and tourism. The Maduro regime’s startling provision of one million hectares (roughly 2.5 million acres; nearly 4,000 square miles) of farmland to Iran was kept under wraps until Iranian agrarian economist Ali Revanizadeh disclosed it to the Venezuelan media.
OTTAWA – Statistics Canada says the country’s home ownership rate is on the decline, with young millennials in particular less likely to own a home in 2021 than they were in 2011.
According to the latest census release, two-thirds of Canadians owned a home in 2021, down from a peak of 69 per cent a decade earlier.
Since the days of the Gold Rush, California has been a magnet for those seeking wealth. A backwater barely a century ago, with just over 3 million residents compared to nearly 40 million today, the Golden State established dominance over everything from agriculture and film to space travel and the internet.
But new data suggests that the tide may be turning, and a rich hegira is afoot.
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Large numbers of Russians rushed to book one-way tickets out of the country while they still could Wednesday after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilization of military reservists for the war in Ukraine.
Flights filled up quickly and the prices of tickets for remaining connections sky-rocketed, apparently driven by fears that Russia’s borders could soon close or of a broader call-up that might send many Russian men of fighting age to the war’s front lines.
Men who eat meat should be banned from having sex, the animal rights group Peta has demanded, claiming that devouring sausages and schnitzel is a symptom of “toxic masculinity” which is killing the planet.
Peta’s German operation cited research from the scientific journal PLOS One which showed that men caused 41 per cent more greenhouse gas emissions than women largely because they consumed more meat.
Peta demanded a “sex ban for all meat-eating men” and called on women to “go on sex strike to save the world”.
The Canadian government has a plan if questions about unidentified flying objects are raised in Parliament.
Transport Minister Omar Alghabra would lead the response to UFO-related questions in the House of Commons, according to documents obtained by CTVNews.ca. Acquired through an access to information request, the documents also include UFO talking points prepared for the minister’s office and emails about a May 11 UFO briefing attended by his staff.
Tonight the NewsBusters staff is attending the Media Research Center’s 35th Anniversary Gala, “Night of the Unwoke!”
To mark this luminous event we’ve put together the 35 most obnoxious quotes of the MRC’s history.
Transgender ideology might be the most destructive concept plaguing our nation today. Countless people are being brainwashed into thinking they have been born in the wrong body and are electing to mutilate themselves in order to appear more like the gender they “identify” with. The most troubling part of the trans movement is how it is targeting children and convincing them to make life-altering decisions, the consequences of which they aren’t capable of fully understanding.
The number of migrants on the US terror watch list crossing illegally over the southern border has gone up by 400 percent from last year, with an expert warning that a violent extremist may already be in America planning an attack.
US Customs and Border Protection reported that 78 immigrants on the US terror watch list have been apprehended crossing over the border last year, nearly four times as much as the 15 in 2021.
Last year’s report was up from three in 2020, with the US previously reporting zero in 2019, six in 2018, and just two in 2017.
Amazon-owned MGM’s Ring Nation show hasn’t debuted yet and has already generated controversy from leftist activist groups who believe the series will glorify digital surveillance culture. Now come accusations that the light-hearted show — think America’s Funniest Home Videos but based around Amazon Ring security cameras — is racist, with claims that it will harm “black and brown people.”
The Duke and Duchess are being frozen out of Hollywood, one red-carpet event at a time
What does it mean to be an A-list Hollywood power couple? Celebrity, yes, but also respect. Look at George and Amal Clooney, a high-powered heartthrob and his equally high-powered human-rights-lawyer wife. Or look at Beyoncé and Jay-Z, hip-hop royalty and dedicated philanthropists. You and your partner can buy a mansion in the right zip code, hang out with the right people and say the right things at the right charity events, but that doesn’t make you a Hollywood power couple. Modern-day stardom is about more than name recognition. It takes charisma, dedication and charm. For all their striving, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle just don’t have it. Britain has realized this — and Hollywood is starting to realize it too.
She’s quite the fantasist.
