Vaccine mandates have, rightly, all but disappeared across Canada — but some universities seem intent on bringing them back.
This week, Western University announced (of course, after students had already paid tuition) that it’ll mandate masking and at least one vaccine booster dose in classrooms this fall. A few weeks ago, the University of Toronto ruled students must have at least one booster dose to live in its residences.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has delivered a stark warning about Russia’s and China’s growing presence in the High Arctic, listing several recent steps by Moscow to increase its military strength in the region.
Speaking Friday at a news conference with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Cold Lake, Alta., Mr. Stoltenberg noted that the shortest path to North America for Russian missiles and bombers is over the North Pole.
A team of investigators claim to have unmasked a deep-cover spy from Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU, who spent a decade posing as a Latin American jewellery designer and partied with Nato staff based in Naples.
The investigators say the woman went by the name of Maria Adela Kuhfeldt Rivera, and told people she met that she was the child of a German father and Peruvian mother, born in the city of Callao, Peru.
In fact, she was a career GRU officer from Russia, according to research by Bellingcat in partnership with a number of media outlets including La Repubblica in Italy and Der Spiegel in Germany, and shared with the Guardian before publication.
Two criminal justice PACs founded by Shaun King have spent more than half a million dollars in donations to pay for legal fees in a defamation case, public records show.
Activist King and a group he founded, Real Justice PAC, are both being sued by Carlos Vega, a former Philadelphia prosecutor who lost a Democratic primary race against the city’s progressive District Attorney Lawrence Krasner in May 2021. Vega accused King of spreading “false statements” about his 35-year law enforcement career to his millions of social media followers in order to get Krasner re-elected.
Our elites got us into this mess, only we can get us out.
Six years after Britain voted to ‘take back control’, once again it feels like no one is in control.
Ofgem announced today that already high household energy costs are to be hiked a further 80 per cent, taking the average annual bill to £3,549 as of October. If more government support isn’t forthcoming, half of households could fall into fuel poverty.
The wonks at Cornwall Insight, who predicted the energy-price-cap rise almost to the figure, make clear the worst is yet to come. By April, the average bill could be £6,600 per year. And inflation continues to soar. Citi says it could peak at a staggering 18 per cent in the first quarter of 2023.
A school in Canada recently brought in a drag queen to perform for students pic.twitter.com/tPGoQvSM1b
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 26, 2022
That using the Emergencies Act to clear out the freedom convoy protest this past winter was an overreaction should be the inescapable conclusion of all but the most ardent of Trudeau apologists. The judicial inquiry set up by the government as required by the act and which begins next month will hopefully provide clearer answers as to why a state of emergency was declared. But, unless previously unheard of evidence that Canada’s democracy really was an inch from collapsing emerges, a terrible precedent will have been set. Don’t agree? Just imagine a future government using the act to clear away, say, climate protesters.
This is a preschool teacher pic.twitter.com/m9QmnLZFnP
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 26, 2022
LONDON (Reuters) – No more ironing, limited oven use and showering at work – Europeans are trying to keep their energy use down but the bills keep climbing.
As wholesale gas and electricity prices surge, millions of people in Europe are now spending a record amount of their income on energy, data show.
In the east England town of Grimsby, Philip Keetley didn’t turn on his cooling fan at home as Britain sweltered under a record heat-wave this summer.
A look at his bank account showed he couldn’t afford to.
The State Department is standing by its decision to spend $10,000 in taxpayer funds on a film festival that featured movies with incest and pedophilia, according to communications with Congress obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
The State Department is defending a $10,000 grant awarded to Queer Lisboa, an international queer film festival held in Portugal, saying that it has no problem awarding taxpayer funds to a film festival that displayed controversial movies featuring drag queens, acts of incest, and pedophilia.
A former American Express employee filed a class-action complaint Tuesday alleging that the credit card company exhibited “callous indifference” to civil rights law by terminating him because he is White and spoke out against its “racially discriminatory” policies.
Brian Netzel, who worked a decade for Amex until he was terminated in 2020, told FOX Business that he sued the company on behalf of himself and potentially thousands of other similarly situated employees following “an avalanche of bad things coming to White people in that company once George Floyd was killed.”
A “pink education” phenomenon in Hungary that favours women could endanger the economy, lower birth rates and disadvantage men, a report says.
Women are over-represented in Hungarian higher education, according to parliament’s economic watchdog, seen as close to Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
The authors warned that an increase in female graduates could make women less likely to marry and have children.
If you follow Libs Of Tik Tok you may just agree at the least that the wrong sort of “Wimmins” predominate.
KABUL, Aug 25 (Reuters) – The Taliban have not found the body of Ayman al-Zawahiri and are continuing investigations, group spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said on Thursday, after the United States said they killed the al Qaeda leader in an airstrike in Kabul last month.
ROCKVILLE, Maryland — President Joe Biden says members of the Republican Party are embracing a political philosophy that is edging dangerously close to fascism before November’s midterm elections.
“What we’re seeing now is either the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy,” Biden said Thursday at a million-dollar fundraiser, according to a pool report. “It’s not just Trump; it’s the entire philosophy that underpins the — I’m going to say something, it’s like semifascism,” he added of former President Donald Trump.
“I respect conservative Republicans,” Biden added later. “I don’t expect these MAGA Republicans.”
Toronto’s Catholic elementary teachers’ union has launched a grievance against the school board — and is seeking a $25,000 payout — after a sudden influx of Ukrainian children from the war-torn country last spring boosted class sizes beyond their caps, the Star has learned.
A copy of the grievance says class sizes ended up higher than the limit set out in the collective agreement — at least two senior elementary classes had about 40 students, or nine students over the limit — along with other contract violations.
Greedy much?
