In the country-by-country data, the divergences grow even bigger. Perhaps most striking, given both self-flagellating American narratives about the pandemic and current events elsewhere on the globe, is that the worst-hit large country in the world was not the U.S.
The registered sex offender who was given three months in prison by Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominated for the Supreme Court by President Joe Biden, is speaking out and seemingly thanking the judge for her lenient sentence in his case.
A women’s rights group meeting to discuss single-sex spaces was protested by trans activists – leading to police being called.
Around 200 protestors holding up placards that read ‘Some women have penises’ and ‘If you are transphobic – do one’ gathered outside a venue in Manchester where Women’s Place UK were holding their discussion.
The group was hosting its annual conference to consider ‘the importance and future of single-sex provision in policy and law’.
Sure they do.
It is a brazen thing to go to other countries like some John the Baptist for the democracies, shortly after having trampled all over the rights of those involved in a largely peaceful democratic protest.
Let me make a plain, direct statement: The trucker protest was not an attempted coup. It was not a rebellion. It was not an assault on Canada’s democracy. It was none of those things.
President Joe Biden on Saturday compared Poland’s taking in more than 2 million Ukraine refugees to the migrant situation on the Southern border of the U.S.
The odd comparision came as Biden was thanking Polish President Andrzej Duda for his country’s response to the humanitarian crisis and pledging U.S. financial aid.
‘We do acknowledge Poland has taken on a lot with all of the responsibility,’ Biden said.
A Conservative MP has accused a media outlet and a Liberal cabinet minister of spreading “misinformation” about loaded firearms being found among protestors when police dispersed the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa in February.
Conservative MP Dane Lloyd made the claim while questioning Ottawa Police Service (OPS) interim chief Steve Bell at a meeting of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety on March 24. Lloyd made his statement in reference to an article published in the Toronto Star on March 19.
The article said: “Fears that there were weapons inside some of the trucks proved prescient: A police source said loaded shotguns were found.”
Brigitte Belton was never in any of the headlines, and when the “Freedom Convoy” press conferences were given, she flanked the speakers instead of taking the mic herself.
But, in what may come as just one little-known fact of many in the story of the convoy’s origins, there’s no doubt the 52-year-old from Wallaceburg, Ont., was among the first to get the headline-grabbing protest rolling — and that she helped keep it going.
She says it amazes her how the movement she started talking about to the selfie camera in the cab of her truck eventually spread to a surge of sentiment that has seemingly come to define populism in Canada today.
“I have never in my life protested ever,” Belton told the Star. “I never thought there was something so serious that I needed to risk my job. Risk my criminal record.”
Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre promised Friday a government led by him would take a hard line on what he calls “polluting dictatorships” by dramatically curbing foreign oil imports from countries like Saudi Arabia while boosting Canadian production to make up the shortfall.
Oil imports have moved to the forefront of the political agenda since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine last month. In response to that violent incursion, many Western democracies have signalled they’ll boycott Russian energy products to cut off a crucial source of foreign currency for Putin and his regime.
How about declaring energy a matter of national security and building pipelines?
Young immigrants may leave Canada due to high cost of living: survey
A new poll suggests 30 per cent of new, young immigrants to Canada could leave the country in the next two years.
According to a national survey conducted by Leger for the Institute for Canadian Citizenship (ICC), 30 per cent of new Canadians aged 18-34, and 23 per cent of university-educated new Canadians, said they are likely to move to another country in the next two years.
While the Canadian adults and new Canadians surveyed both generally believed Canada provided a good quality of life for immigrants, researchers said Canadians were more likely to have a positive outlook on Canada’s prospects for immigrants than the immigrants themselves.
I don’t think it a secret that many immigrants view Canada as a waystation on their way to the US.
Alberta’s premier has called fellow Conservatives “lunatics” who are “trying to take over the asylum” as a populist mutiny in his party foreshadows a bitter fight for the future of Canada’s Conservative movement.
In a leaked recording of a meeting with caucus staff on Tuesday, Premier Jason Kenney warned a far-right element – skeptical of coronavirus measures and wedded to conspiracy theories – could seize control of the party in the coming weeks as the United Conservatives hold a leadership review.
“I will not let this mainstream conservative party become an agent for extreme, hateful, intolerant, bigoted and crazy views. Sorry to be so blunt with you but you need to understand what the stakes are here,” he said, before alluding to the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory with a warning that “people who think I am involved in a global conspiracy to traffic children” would show up to vote for his removal.
Is the Russian military having to change its plans? Perhaps even reduce the scale of Moscow’s ambitions in Ukraine?
It’s probably too early to tell, but there’s definitely a shift in emphasis.
A top Russian general – Sergey Rudskoy – says the “first stage” of what President Vladimir Putin calls Russia’s “special military operation” has been mostly accomplished and that Russian forces will now concentrate on “the complete liberation of the Donbas”.
This is likely to mean a more concerted effort to push beyond the “line of contact” that separates Ukrainian government-held territory in the east of the country from the Russian-backed separatist “people’s republics” of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Russia reasserts right to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine
The Kremlin again raised the spectre of the use of nuclear weapons in the war with Ukraine as Russian forces struggled to hold a key city in the south of the country.
Dmitry Medvedev, a former Russian president who is deputy chairman of the country’s security council, said Moscow could strike against an enemy that only used conventional weapons while Vladimir Putin’s defence minster claimed nuclear “readiness” was a priority.
Russian general Yakov Rezantsev killed in Ukraine
Ukraine’s defence ministry says another Russian general, Lt Gen Yakov Rezantsev, was killed in a strike near the southern city of Kherson.
Rezantsev was the commander of Russia’s 49th combined army.
A western official said he was the seventh general to die in Ukraine, and the second lieutenant general – the highest rank officer reportedly killed.
It is thought that low morale among Russian troops has forced senior officers closer to the front line.
#Ukraine: A Russian tank stuck by Ukrainian fire, as viewed from a drone; it is completely destroyed.
Location/date unknown, but the footage appears to be new. via @Arslon_Xudosi. pic.twitter.com/9WOZ2zAacs
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) March 25, 2022
#Ukraine: Another Russian Tigr(-M) IMV was destroyed by Ukrainian Special Forces, likely during a night raid. pic.twitter.com/NoApvhDI91
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) March 26, 2022
Wow, who could have predicted this? (Me). pic.twitter.com/SCDNvZbTgi
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) March 25, 2022
Tucker Carlson says that a European MP who stood up to Justin Trudeau is a hero. pic.twitter.com/1jmP7OkdVt
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) March 25, 2022
People used to talk about “resistance” to President Donald Trump. That’s old hat. Now it’s resistance to the woke.
And we’re seeing more and more of that resistance. University of Michigan economics professor Mark J. Perry is working with numerous folks across the nation to file equal-opportunity complaints with the federal Department of Education when colleges and universities discriminate on the basis of race and sex.
The sudden prominence of transgenderism in the West owes in large part to compassion becoming unmoored from reason—and to ethics being reduced to compassion.
If a single image could sum up Lia Thomas’s victory in the 500-yard freestyle event at the NCAA swimming championships last week, it would be that of Thomas and the runners-up taken right after they were awarded their medals. Behind a sign with the number “1” on it stands Thomas, who seems barely able to conceal embarrassment at what is undoubtedly an awkward situation. To the right, noticeably keeping their distance and a full head or two shorter, are the runners-up. Their smiles seem no less awkward.
It’s human nature to sympathize most with what’s familiar.
Millions of Ukrainian refugees are on the move across Europe and have been received by neighboring countries with open arms. Even Hungary, usually criticized for its hostility toward asylum seekers, has been generous in response. American and European commentators have remarked on how shocking it is to see a war in a “civilized” country, affecting people “like us.” To some observers, such as H. A. Hellyer, writing for the Washington Post, this is evidence of “racist biases in Western media and politics.”
