The Conservative Party is attempting to keep its MPs quiet on a leaked U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding Roe v. Wade that would overturn abortion rights in that country.
In a memo to Conservative MPs, interim leader Candice Bergen’s office instructed MPs that the party would not comment on the leaked court decision that has sent shockwaves through the U.S.
There is an endlessly repeated witticism by the poet Anatole France that ‘the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.’ What France certainly did not foresee is that an entire country – and an ostentatiously progressive one at that – has decided to take his sarcasm at face value and to its natural conclusion.
Since last year, Canadian law, in all its majesty, has allowed both the rich as well as the poor to kill themselves if they are too poor to continue living with dignity. In fact, the ever-generous Canadian state will even pay for their deaths. What it will not do is spend money to allow them to live instead of killing themselves.
h/t NP
Those who care about norms, decorum, civility, institutions, and rule of law must hold the leaker and any co-conspirators fully accountable for this egregious breach.
The Supreme Court is poised to relinquish its nearly 50-year stranglehold on abortion law and return the debate over whether states may protect unborn human life to the American people and their elected representatives, according to a draft opinion that was leaked to Politico reporters. If the draft opinion authored by Associate Justice Samuel Alito stands, it would be a momentous course correction for the court.
The pro-migrants lobby inside the European Union has won: Fabrice Leggeri, director-general of Frontex, the European agency tasked with guarding the EU’s borders, was forced to send a letter of resignation on April 28, 2022. His resignation was accepted by the board.
Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, was created in 2004 to help EU member states and countries associated with the Schengen area — countries allowing passport-free movement between them — to protect the EU’s external borders.
In 2021, Frontex had a budget of 544 million euros (half a billion dollars) and employed 1,000 European officials. By 2027, their number (coast guards and border guards) will increase tenfold. There are also plans that the European coast guards will be armed.
… The Russian-state-owned energy company Gazprom says it has cut off supplies to Poland and Bulgaria and will not restart these until payments are made in roubles.
Many other EU countries are set to face the same issue around mid-May when payments are due.
Payments in roubles would shore up the Russian currency and benefit its economy.
“Phony War”
A Philadelphia cop has been charged with murder for shooting dead an unarmed 12-year-old boy after a chase last month that began when the boy fired his own gun into the officer’s unmarked car.
Edsaul Mendoza has been charged with first degree murder for killing Thomas ‘TJ’ Siderio on March 1.
At a press conference, District Attorney Larry Krasner said a grand jury had been shown a video of the shooting that is not yet public, but which proved the shooting was a murder and not self-defense.
The German public is divided on the issue of military support for Ukraine. Many fear the delivery of tanks and training of Ukrainian soldiers in Germany may drag the country into the war.
After mounting pressure from the German public and its allies, the German government announced last week that it would send tanks to Ukraine. A day later, on April 28, the ruling coalition of center-left Social Democrats, Greens and neoliberal Free Democrats joined forces with the main opposition, the center-right Christian Democrats, to approve the delivery by a large majority in the federal parliament, the Bundestag.
However, the latest opinion polls show a rift in the German electorate as to whether or not to support that move.
Belgian authorities carried out 2,515 age tests on self-professed underage migrants last year and of the 2,435 results, 69 per cent were found to be adults and just 31 per cent were declared to be minors.
Parents at a Washington, D.C., elementary school were livid after the school shared an “Antiracism Fight Club” guidebook that asked them to evaluate their own racism and advocate removing police from schools.
A Chinese Communist Party propagandist is calling on Elon Musk to remove the “state-affiliated media” label from the former’s Twitter account when Musk takes over the tech company amid speculation that China may attempt to use the billionaire’s Chinese business dealings as leverage.
The Conservative Party of Canada today released the list of candidates who will appear on the ballot when party members vote for a new leader in September — and it doesn’t include three candidates who say they collected enough money and signatures to qualify.
If you like a good mystery, trying to identify the individual who gave Politico reporter Josh Gerstein an early draft of the Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v Wade is right up your alley.
The Supreme Court spoke for the first time Tuesday following the leak of a draft opinion that seemingly signals the overturning of Roe v. Wade, with Chief Justice John Roberts saying an investigation has been ordered into how it was published.
In a statement, the court confirmed the draft that was leaked is “authentic” but stressed it does “not represent a decision by the Court.”
‘NBC basically saying Republicans are Nazis’: Elon Musk slams MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan for saying ‘America’s far-right wants to give us white supremacy and no democracy’
A lot of racists out there.
B’nai Brith Canada on Monday wrote to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), the revenue service of the federal government of Canada, demanding that it examine the charitable status of mosques that facilitated the recent Al-Quds Day hate-fest in downtown Toronto.
In a statement, B’nai Brith said that on Saturday, protesters who were mostly bused in from pick-up locations at mosques near Toronto, gathered downtown to call for the elimination of Israel.
As they marched around Nathan Philips Square, they chanted “Long live the intifada!”. In addition, protesters chanted, “We heed your call, oh Nasrallah!” in reference to Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, a designated terrorist entity in Canada.
Thanks to the kool-aid drinkers Canada is just too multicultural to revoke a mosque’s charitable status.
