How about we leave American decisions on abortion access to Americans and focus on our health-care system, where a lack of both access and timely access to health care is a huge problem, exacerbated by the pandemic and years of federal and provincial government waste, incompetence and neglect?
Some of the most high-profile liberal figures have joined together to encourage advertisers to boycott Twitter if Elon Musk brings in his promised policy of unfettered ‘free speech.’
Twenty six NGOs and advocacy groups signed a letter expressing concern about the world’s richest man’s plan.
Musk himself responded to the letter asking who funded them: the answer being an assortment of ‘dark money groups’ like George Soros’s Open Society Foundation; NGOs founded by former Clinton and Obama administration staffers; wealthy Democrat donors and their family foundations; labor unions; and the governments of European nations.
… The institute’s report — called The Big Switch, Powering Canada’s Net Zero Future — relies on multiple studies that show demand will be double or triple what it is today by 2050. As much as 75 per cent of that additional power will need to come from wind and solar, if Canada is to meet its climate goals.
These are not serious people. Not once is nuclear mentioned.
Pro abortion activists are now openly calling for and threatening violence and unrest. pic.twitter.com/LeE2QaGzEW
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 3, 2022
… You will not learn from mainstream media that the average Canadian does not buy into every sacred Liberal shibboleth, including the most cherished cultural and economic obsessions. And despite strenuous efforts, Prime Minister Trudeau has not radically shifted the spectrum of politically acceptable policies (the so-called Overton Window, after the late American libertarian activist Joseph Overton, who introduced it).
Canadians tend to be middle-of-the-road, commonsensical and patriotic. Overwhelmingly, they are not woke iconoclasts eager to tear down statues or postmodern ideologues preoccupied with identity politics and alternative lifestyles. Rather, they are pragmatic, fair-minded people who support aboriginal reconciliation and acknowledge history’s dark chapters but do not believe Canada is systemically racist or genocidal.
I think the CPC braintrust believes they do.
If you heard about the recent birth of a new government committee called the Disinformation Governance Board—which will operate out of the Department of Homeland Security and be run by a woman named Nina Jankowicz who writes songs about misinformation for fun—you could be forgiven for thinking you hit your head and woke up in 1984. Rest assured, you did not. It’s entirely real.
This week, an anonymous leaker violated generations of Supreme Court norms by passing on to Politico a draft decision by Justice Samuel Alito in Dobbs v. Mississippi, the case considering overturning Roe v. Wade (1973). That draft decision, reportedly supported by a majority of the Court including Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, junks Roe in its entirety, denying the existence of any constitutional “right to abortion”; the majority opinion also trashes Roe’s follow-up case, Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), which substituted a vague and unworkable “undue burden” test to determine whether or not a law restricting abortion was unconstitutional in place of Roe’s trimester framework. Alito writes, “The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority.”
Turkey’s “balancing act” during the Russian invasion of Ukraine is the result of the country’s Islamist leader’s two-decade long indoctrination of a generation of Turks to make them “pious.” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan may or may not have raised pious generations, as he declared was his political mission, but he has definitely raised an anti-Western generation. That anti-Western sentiment once again makes Turkey the odd-man-out in NATO.
Western leaders shrugged it off when, in 2016, Erdoğan said in plain language that Turkey did not need to join the European Union “at all costs” and could instead become part of a security bloc dominated by China, Russia and Central Asian nations. Earlier, in 2013, Turkey had signed up as a “dialogue partner” saying it shared “the same destiny” as members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation — China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) — which was formed in 2001 as a regional security bloc.
How many NATO members still buy Russian gas? Cui Bono?
Russian mercenaries have been accused of summarily executing, torturing and beating civilians in the Central African Republic (CAR).
Witnesses told Human Rights Watch (HRW) that in one incident last July, Russian-speaking fighters shot dead at least 12 unarmed men at a roadblock.
Most victims were put in a shallow hole by the road near Bossangoa, they said.
CAR’s government denies hiring mercenaries from the private Russian Wagner Group to fight rebels.
The survey, conducted exclusively for Global News, suggests that if the provincial election were held tomorrow, the Progressive Conservative (PC) Party under Leader Doug Ford would garner 39 per cent of the decided popular vote.
The survey found the Ontario Liberals — under Leader Steven Del Duca — would receive 26 per cent of the vote, while the NDP, under Leader Andrea Horwath, would collect 25 per cent of the vote.
Superman‘s cape is the stuff of legends, but now that DC Comics has made the latest iteration of the Man of Steel bisexual, the garment that allows him to fly is getting a gay makeover.
The belief that climate change is an “existential challenge,” as evidenced by its appearance in Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s recent budget speech, informs the federal government’s decision to impose tens of billions of dollars in annual costs on Canadians in the form of taxation, spending and regulation.
Nothing like a coherent strategy emerged from 20 years of Nato’s war in Afghanistan; at best there were long lists of aspirations with no clear objectives or assessments of the resources needed to achieve them. But, two months after the Russian invasion, it looks very much as if the US and Nato are beginning to develop a coherent plan for Ukraine. Military strategy has been described as a synthesis of ends, ways and means. Last week, senior US and UK officials clarified the objectives – the ends.
Russia is stepping up airstrikes on key Ukrainian supply lines delivering billions of pounds worth of western arms to the country, including on railway lines and warehousing.
With Moscow and Kyiv-locked in a race to shape the conditions for the current phase of the war in Ukraine, the rapid and growing flow of weapons supplied by Ukraine’s western backers has become an increased focus for both sides.
On Tuesday Russian airstrikes hit six train stations in central and western Ukraine as the Kremlin stepped up its targeting of key infrastructure, including electrical and water supply substations.
#Ukraine: Apparently, the Ukrainian army received Milkor M32A1 40mm multi-shot grenade launchers – and they are already being utilized in combat. The delivery was not announced previously, but likely they were supplied within recent military aid packages from the US. pic.twitter.com/s3SHYza1cc
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) May 4, 2022
#Ukraine: The Ukrainian 25th Airborne Brigade struck two Russian T-72B-pattern tanks and BMP-2 IFV with artillery fire, causing serious damage. pic.twitter.com/4kSRxnNjZF
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) May 4, 2022
It would be difficult to cite a higher American public interest than conducting a criminal investigation of the Supreme Court leak. The current security of the justices and the long-term viability of the court as an institution depend on it.
It was entirely appropriate for the court to confirm that Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion in the Mississippi abortion case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, is not at this point an authoritative ruling of the court. There could understandably be public confusion on that point, so it was incumbent on the court to clarify.
