To put it in popular culture terms, believing the Trudeau government is going to achieve any climate change target it sets for itself is like believing Lucy is going to hold the football for Charlie Brown so he can kick it.
Author: Blazingcatfur
Colby Cosh: Elections Canada’s banana republic plan to deregister parties
Last week the chief electoral officer of Canada, Stéphane Perrault, recommended that Canadian federal election law ought to be changed to allow for the deregistration of political parties deemed “hateful.” This was merely one of several recommendations in a statutory report designed to allow the CEO to recommend desirable legal updates, but on its face it would appear to be the most controversial and banana-republic-flavoured.
France: Dangerous for Jews
Lyon, France. May 17, 2022. A district called La Duchère. René Hadjadj, an 89-year-old Jew, was thrown off a 17th floor balcony — an act quickly revealed as a murder. The murderer was Rachid Kheniche, a 51-year-old Muslim Arab, with a Twitter account containing many antisemitic messages. The public prosecutor, who has since partially reconsidered his position, immediately declared that the murder was not an antisemitic crime. The mainstream media never reported the murder; only local Jewish newspapers did. Hadjadj’s family, who live in the same neighborhood, said they preferred to remain silent.
Trillion-dollar crypto collapse sparks flurry of US lawsuits – who’s to blame?
With investors worldwide looking at a collective $1.5tn in recent cryptocurrency losses, a blizzard of class-action lawsuits are being prepared. One big question is: who, if anyone, is to blame – and who could be held to account?
With inflation and interest rates rising, the best-known cryptocurrencies have been hit with heavy and continuing losses: Bitcoin has lost more than 50% of its value this year; Ethereum, its largest rival, is down 65%; and the total value of crypto assets has dropped to less than $1tn from its November 2021 peak of $3tn. US federal regulators say 46,000 people have reported losing $1bn in crypto to scams since January 2021.
Democrats Pressure Google to ‘Fix’ Abortion Searches That Don’t Send Women to an Abortionist
Gaming Google’s search algorithms is an art form that few have mastered, although many have claimed otherwise. The fact is, those algorithms are proprietary information and are tailored to the individual user.
Democrats and abortionists are angry at how Google’s search engine allows some pregnant women to escape the clutches of abortionists by listing links to “pregnancy crisis centers” instead of NARAL-approved abortion providers.
Swimming’s world governing body stops transgender swimmers from competing in women’s elite events
Fina, swimming’s world governing body, has voted to stop transgender athletes from competing in women’s elite races if they have gone through any part of the process of male puberty.
The new policy requires transgender competitors to have completed their transition by the age of 12 in order to be able to compete in women’s competitions.
Fina will also aim to establish an ‘open’ category at competitions for swimmers whose gender identity is different than their birth sex.
Heartbroken mother of California cop shot dead with his partner by criminal on probation for a prior gun charge hits out at woke Soros backed Los Angeles DA George Gascón
The heartbroken mother of fallen Los Angeles police officer killed earlier this week condemned Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon’s woke policies claiming that her son would still be alive today if suspect wasn’t back on the streets.
Olga Garcia, the mother of slain El Monte Police Officer Joseph Anthony Santana, 31, was shot dead and his partner Cpl. Michael Domingo Paredes, 42, on Tuesday afternoon in a motel shootout in suburban Los Angeles.
‘I blame the death of my son and his partner on Gascón,’ Garcia said through tears at a news conference Friday outside police headquarters, Spectrum1 News reported.
Germany to fire up coal plants as Russia turns down the gas
Germany must limit its use of gas for electricity production and prioritize the filling of storage facilities to compensate for a drop in supply from Russia, Economy Minister Robert Habeck said on Sunday.
In a move that goes against the principles of his environmentally-friendly Green Party, the country will also have to increase the burning of coal, Habeck said.
Russian gas company Gazprom announced last week that it was reducing supplies through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline for technical reasons, saying there had been delays in the repair of compressor turbines by the German company Siemens Energy.
Inside the Taliban’s new drugs hell
The country’s heroin reaches all corners of the world, but it is inside Afghanistan itself that a catastrophe of addiction is unfolding
The dark sea of huddled forms is almost impossible to take in at first.
The grimy, bent figures resemble residents of some vast, squalid dungeon. In the filthy riverbed nearby, scattered lifeless figures look like the aftermath of a battle, or an air crash.
There are close to 1,000 drug addicts sheltering under this bridge in a western neighbourhood of the Afghan capital.
Might Vladimir Putin use a nuclear weapon? The calculations are changing
The nuclear bluster and threats from many of those connected to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have, at times, been bone-chilling.
“The horsemen of the apocalypse” are on their way, Dmitry Medvedev warned this past week. The former Russian president, whom many European countries once considered to be relatively friendly to the West, had days earlier condemned the leaders of those same countries, vowing to “do everything to make them disappear.”
But as President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine reaches the four-month mark, there have also been notable shifts in how both sides may be assessing the so-called nuclear “red lines.”
Report: 32 Shot Friday into Sunday Morning in Lori Lightfoot‘s Chicago
The Chicago Sun-Times reports 32 people were shot, three of them fatally, Friday into Sunday morning across Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago.
The weekend’s first shooting fatality occurred around 8:30 p.m. Friday, when a 30-year-old man “in the 8400 block of South Bennett Avenue” was shot and killed while on a porch.
Chicago last night. pic.twitter.com/ttISEAnsV2
— SilencedMajority (@BackthenFoward) June 18, 2022
Canadians Increasingly Losing Trust in Media, Study Finds
Only 29 percent of respondents indicated that the media is free from undue political influence, compared to 39 percent in 2017
A study on how people globally engage with the news found that Canadians are increasingly losing trust in the media.
A report released Wednesday by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism found that Canadians who place their trust in the news fell from 58 percent to 42 percent over the last four years.
British Columbia’s rejection of Britain
AFTER thirteen years in Northern Ireland where I began, I’ve returned to British Columbia and its capital Victoria on Vancouver Island. In my absence the city has undergone a sea-change.
When I left, the vast Empress Hotel on the harbour was the jewel in the city’s tourist crown. Opened in 1908, it was one of the majestic railhead hotels built across the country by the Canadian Pacific Railway whose steel rails sewed this sprawling landmass together.
Poilievre accusations an attempt to distract from crypto plunge: Brown
Conservative Party leadership contender Patrick Brown says accusations by Pierre Poilievre that his campaign reimbursed membership fees are an attempt to distract from his rival’s economic policy pledges.
Brown said Poilievre is hiding behind the attacks as the world’s cryptocurrency market tanks.
FUREY: Canada’s now facing serious issues — and we lack a serious government
The past couple of weeks has brought us an alarming series of reports that indicate life in Canada is about to become a whole lot more challenging for millions of people.