“One extremist is one too many,” Bishop Garrison told a Center for American Progress seminar.
“One extremist is one too many,” Bishop Garrison told a Center for American Progress seminar.
Garrison, the man tasked by the Biden administration with fighting “extremism” in the military, had reversed Blackstone’s ratio, “It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.” It was better to wreck the careers of a million soldiers to find one extremist.
King Charles has passionate views on everything from organic farming to climate change, education to modernist architecture — and for years the monarch has refused to keep them to himself.
Ignoring protocol that requires the British royal family to remain neutral, the heir to the throne was previously dubbed “the meddling prince” for making his views known to elected officials in Britain, and opining on world events.
He is tone deaf, I predict a rocky reign.
Queen Elizabeth death: What’s next for Canada’s 10 days of mourning
What was billed as a “battle for the soul of the Conservative Party” is looking increasingly like a rout.
Party faithful are set to gather in Ottawa Saturday to hear from the next Conservative leader – the party’s fourth in seven years. Heading into the leadership contest, Pierre Poilievre was viewed as the prohibitive front-runner.
We must not trade Ukrainian sovereignty for cheaper gas.
Western leaders seemed almost pleased with themselves on Friday afternoon. The G7 finance ministers (from the UK, US, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Canada) had agreed a plan to cap Russian oil prices. Meanwhile, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen suggested also capping Russian gas prices. It looked like they were on the brink of reining in soaring energy costs at home, while still putting the squeeze on Russia.
But within hours the mood had soured. Gazprom, the Russian state-owned gas company, announced that the vital Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline to Germany – which supplies approximately 35 per cent of Europe’s gas – would remain shut indefinitely after weeks of intermittent closures. There was more than a whiff of retaliation in the air.
Extremist groups are using blasphemy to silence free speech, a counter-terrorism expert has warned.
William Shawcross, who was appointed by the British government to lead the review of the Prevent counter-terrorism strategy, said the Batley row was an example of how some groups were using blasphemy as a way to curtail free speech.
The furore, which took place at Batley Grammar School in West Yorkshire in March last year, saw an RE teacher go into hiding and receive death threats for showing his students a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad.
A ballooning number of hiring and tenure decisions require candidates to express written fealty to political doctrines
In 2021, the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) School of Medicine—ranked fourth in the country for primary care—released a 24-page “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism Strategic Action Plan,” listing dozens of “tactics” for advancing “diversity and racial equity” over the ensuing half-decade. One of those tactics reads: “Include a section in promotion packages where faculty members report on the ways they are contributing to improving DEI, anti-racism and social justice.” The plan promises to “reinforce the importance of these efforts by establishing clear consequences and influences on promotion packages.”
There are things you can just never unsee and right at the top of that list is White House monkeypox coordinator Demetre Daskhalkis in, take your choice, a leather pentagram, mesh top, or pink daisy dukes.
Americans may have a hard time taking Daskhalkis’ message on the virus seriously if they Google his pics.
When you scroll through the grants section of the Public Accounts of Canada you almost begin to sympathize with poor Ahmed Hussen, federal minister of housing, diversity and inclusion. It was his section of the Ministry of Canadian Heritage that gave a $133,800 contract for the purpose of combating racism in broadcasting to the Community Media Advocacy Centre, whose senior consultant seems to have practised racism in broadcasting — if you count Twitter as broadcasting, as so many people in Ottawa wish to do. So they can control it.
The head of the CIA has said Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine can already be judged as a failure, as Ukrainian troops continue a counteroffensive against Russian occupying forces in the north-east of the country.
William Burns said Putin had underestimated Ukrainian resolve when he decided to invade in February and was now making the same mistake when it came to international support for Kyiv.
The raging energy crisis has claimed another victim: toilet paper.
After enduring the hoarding fiasco brought on by COVID-19 government shutdowns, the future appeared bright for toilet paper manufacturers. Now, however, the energy crisis has wiped out the industry’s success stories in a very short time. The German company Hakle, a traditional toilet paper manufacturer, in business since 1928, has now succumbed to high gas prices and has filed for bankruptcy.
Ilya Yashin had always known that his time as a free man was rapidly running out. The Russian opposition politician was determined to use whatever weeks or months were left to tell his fellow citizens the truth about the war in Ukraine. But the truth is a dangerous thing in President Putin’s Russia.
In early March, eight days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Putin approved a new law that made it a crime to promote “fake” news about the actions of the Russian army. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in a prison camp. Scores of people have been charged under the law in the six months since it was adopted.
The last thing that you’d expect from a group whose historic mission is to monitor and fight anti-Semitism would be to discover that the group is helping to spread woke ideological indoctrination that grants a permission slip for Jew-hatred.
On Thursday morning, while catching up on the news about last weekend’s massacre on (and around) James Smith Cree Nation in northern Saskatchewan, I ran across a truly remarkable Globe and Mail headline: “Saskatchewan suspect’s case draws new scrutiny to statutory release.” I hardly knew whether to laugh or cry at this exercise in the journalistic privilege of agenda-setting. The crimes of Myles Sanderson, who died mysteriously in police custody Wednesday after stabbing 18 people and killing ten of them, ought to “draw new scrutiny” to about a hundred different things about the Canadian state and its philosophy of criminal justice. One hardly knows where to start with the list-making.
