OTTAWA—Elizabeth May is preparing to run for the federal Green Party leadership, sources say, confirming speculation that has swirled within the party that the former long-time leader would one day try to reclaim the position.
One source with direct knowledge of party affairs told the Star on Thursday that May is collecting required signatures from party members to apply as a candidate in the leadership race ahead of the Aug. 5 deadline.
Indigenous leaders have welcomed the apology by Pope Francis as a historic first step toward reconciliation for survivors of residential schools and the families of the estimated 6,000 Indigenous children who went missing — a call to action made by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) for the Catholic Church.
This is not the first time the Pope has spoken publicly about this topic. He first apologized on April 1, 2022 at the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. But apologies, no matter how many, aren’t enough.
This garbage is just another instance of Islamists latching on to Aboriginal issues.
MONTREAL – B’nai Brith Canada is backing a McGill student’s lawsuit against the university for failing to withhold student fees after repeated anti-Israel referendums, in violation of the university’s own policies.
The lawsuit names McGill University, the Student Society at McGill University (SSMU) and Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR), which promoted the referendum.
Members of SSMU endorsed a document accusing Israel of engaging in “settler-colonial apartheid against Palestinians,” and committing SSMU to boycotting all entities “complicit” in this activity, among other measures. The document’s language was so broad that it would have compelled SSMU to boycott virtually all Jewish clubs and associations on campus.
The Germany city of Hanover has become the first big city in Europe to ban hot water and central heating in public buildings in response to Vladimir Putin’s weaponizing of gas supplies.
The drastic step comes as Germans have been told to expect sky high electricity bills and sweeping gas rationing measures that will affect their day-to-day lives.
In a sign of things to come, Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony in the north west of the country, will cut off the hot water in public buildings, swimming pools, sports halls and gyms.
Service Ontario employees among 28 people charged after police bust major auto-theft organizations
Following the supreme court’s abortion decision, urologists say more men are taking charge of their reproductive health, to permanent ends
Shawn never really wanted children. A 32-year-old software engineer and amateur weightlifter living in central Florida, he had long contemplated a vasectomy. When he met his fiancee and learned that she also held no grand designs on reproduction, the matter was all but settled. He was, by his estimate, “90% certain”.
The supreme court’s recent overturning of Roe v Wade, and the nationwide convulsions over abortion access, was the final push he and his partner needed. When he read that Justice Clarence Thomas mentioned, in his opinion concurring with the controversial ruling, that the court should reconsider access to contraception, Shawn knew he had to move fast.
Farmers in Saskatchewan, a province that has nearly half of Canada’s arable land, say production will fall sharply if they are forced to use less fertilizer and pay increasingly high carbon taxes on fuel.
The government is moving ahead with its goal, first announced in December 2020, to reduce absolute levels of greenhouse gas emissions from fertilizer use by 30 percent below 2020 levels by 2030. Specifically, it aims to reduce nitrous oxide emissions associated with synthetic nitrogen fertilizer use.
The city’s public schools teach K-5 students to subvert the sexuality of “white colonizers” and begin exploring “the infinite gender spectrum.”
Portland Public Schools has launched a war against the “gender binary” and adopted a radical new curriculum teaching students to subvert the sexuality of “white colonizers” and begin exploring “the infinite gender spectrum.”
I have obtained a cache of documents from a source inside Portland Public Schools that exposes the nature of this curriculum. The lessons seek to turn the principles of academic queer theory into an identity-formation program for elementary school students; it has been adopted in many of the district’s K-5 classrooms.
China this weekend, according to reports, privately delivered a message to US national security officials reinforcing an earlier Chinese Foreign Ministry statement: if US Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi goes ahead with her planned August visit to Taiwan, it would be met with a “resolute and strong measures.”
China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao Lijian stated on July 19 that the visit “would seriously undermine Chinese sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
The Jean Charest campaign has written to the Conservative leadership election organizing committee urging the party to fine Pierre Poilievre’s campaign for a statement it claims “brings direct reputational harm” to the Conservative Party.
Frankly I believe the “elites” of the conservative party have accepted that Poilievre is likely to be elected the next leader.
He may not be their first choice but they will still manage to sort out a working relationship with PP.
The latter will continue his popular feisty ways occasionally tossing a tiny scrap of red meat to the hoi polloi while upholding the “acceptable conservative” positions on matters of substance.
Three letters to the editor in the Toronto Sun Wednesday all raised the same invalid points in defending Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax.
They said a recent report by the Parliamentary Budget Officer that found most households in Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba will be paying more in carbon taxes than they get in rebates between 2021 and 2030 was flawed.
QUEBEC CITY (AP) — The Canadian government made clear Wednesday that Pope Francis’ apology to Indigenous peoples for abuses in the country’s church-run residential schools didn’t go far enough, suggesting that reconciliation over the fraught history is still very much a work in progress.
The official government reaction came as Francis arrived in Quebec City for meetings with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Governor General Mary Simon at her Quebec residence, the hilltop Citadelle fortress, on the second leg of Francis’ week-long visit to Canada.
The government’s criticisms echo those of some survivors and concern Francis’ omission of any reference to the sexual abuse suffered by Indigenous children in the schools, as well as his original reluctance to name the Catholic Church as an institution bearing responsibility.
FBI officials are allegedly pressuring agents to reclassify cases as “domestic violent extremism,” despite weak evidence that the cases belong in such a category.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, said in a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday that whistleblowers at the FBI say the bureau is “padding domestic terrorism data” to make the threat seem larger than it is. The bureau is misclassifying cases as due to Domestic Violent Extremists (DVEs) to support an administration “narrative” about the threat presented by DVEs, Jordan said.
The FBI sounds more and more like the SPLC and the ADL – The ADL’s extremism statistics make it seem like ultraright-wing violence in the US is more common than it actually is
“… The surge in popularity for Duhaime’s party comes as conservative libertarians across the country, at both the provincial and federal levels, are feeling emboldened by frustrations at pandemic restrictions.
Recent polling suggests anti-mandate libertarians, at both the federal and provincial levels, are attracting support of Canadians who are distrustful not just of government regulations, but of scientific authorities, mainstream media outlets and democratic institutions in general.
… A recent study, based on polling data, found that 50 per cent of the party’s supporters were either “convinced” or “moderate” adherents of conspiracy theories.
Among Quebec Liberal supporters, 31 per cent were classified as conspiracy theorists and so were 29 per cent of Parti Québécois supporters.
Distrustful of government regulations? That just being prudent. The government is never your friend said a wise lady I know.
Distrustful of Scientific authorities? Would they be the ones who tampered with the Alzheimer studies? Or the ones who with Big Pharma pushed meds for depression when no proof of their efficacy has been established?
Distrustful of Media! Thanks for the laugh CBC.
Distrustful of democratic institutions in general? This from the same CBC that ran with the Russia Collusion hoax for literally years?
