John Ivison: Trudeau and other partisans should rein in the rage

Trudeau’s ‘misogynists and racists’ outburst is ever more typical of the illiberal left — and of his government in particular

The sight of a man in his 50s flashing his (Ed. Culturally appropriated!) Haida raven tattoo as he received his booster was a timely reminder that Tuesday was the first day that over-55s could get the shot in Quebec.


Trudeau says Canadians are ‘angry’ and ‘frustrated’ with the unvaccinated

With the Omicron-driven pandemic wave sweeping the country, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canadians are growing more angry and frustrated with people who still refuse to get vaccinated.

Trudeau said that while most Canadians have stepped up to get their shots — putting Canada near the top of the list of countries with the highest vaccination rates — the unvaccinated remain a problem.

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What vegan propaganda ignores

Cutting out animal products will kill us, not save us

Curious how acceptable veganism has become. George Orwell scathingly described vegetarians as “that dreary tribe of high-minded women and sandal-wearers and bearded fruit-juice drinkers who come flocking to the smell of ‘progress’ like bluebottles to a dead cat.” Somehow, via Linda McCartney’s textured soya sausages, veganism has become a mainstream path, not just to health, but to a bright future. As George Monbiot, the high priest of British veganism, exhorted his Guardian readers, “The best way to save the planet? Drop meat and dairy.” It’s the cows. They belch methane.

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Four Football (Soccer) Deaths in Four Days

Infobae is an online Spanish language newspaper. Based in Argentina, it claims 100 million readers across the Spanish-speaking world.

On December 27th, it published a news story headlined: Four footballers killed by heart attacks over Christmas week intensifies expert attention. This describes the demise of four extremely fit young men within four days.

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Iran’s “Nuclear Blackmail”: Iran Has No Interest in Negotiating a New Nuclear Deal

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid’s observation that Iran is engaging in “nuclear blackmail” with Western negotiators provides a damning indictment of the current state of play regarding the negotiations being held in Vienna on Tehran’s nuclear activities.

With Western intelligence agencies warning that Iran could be just weeks away from producing the weapons grade uranium required to build nuclear warheads, there is mounting concern over progress being made at the Vienna talks, which are trying to revive the flawed 2015 deal agreed by the Obama administration.

I suspect Israel will act alone.

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FBI is STILL hunting for 350 Capitol rioters one year later

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is still hunting 350 people involved in the deadly siege of the Capitol a year ago.

The agency are still seeking to identify 250 people seen on video assaulting Capitol police, including a man who appears to have used an electric prod disguised as a cane on a cop, after the riot. Another 100 have been identified but not yet apprehended for multiple crimes tied to January 6.

The investigation has been a massive undertaking for federal law enforcement who have charged more than 700 people.

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Prince Andrew: Duke’s disastrous interview answers are critical to sex assault case

It is more than two years since I sat down with Prince Andrew in a Buckingham Palace ballroom and posed questions that seemed almost too surreal to ask.

It is two years since the world heard his defence – about a birthday party in Woking, a trip to Pizza Express, and his inability to sweat – and shook a collective head, trying to work out what any of it meant. At the time, the specifics seemed almost comical. They spawned memes and riffs, quiz-show questions and stand-up routines. But now, suddenly, they feel deadly serious.

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GOLDSTEIN: Former CBC staffer Tara Henley said what many Canadians think

Tara Henley’s takedown of the CBC as a woke, state-funded palace of the absurd, while eloquently written, really didn’t say anything its critics haven’t been saying for years.

It was just that this time a former CBC journalist said it. Henley reflected the view of many Canadians who today consider the CBC unwatchable, given its liberal and Liberal bias.

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Germany: Man threatened with €250,000 fine and prison time for calling his trans neighbor by previous male name

Guy called Sophie

A court in Germany has ruled in favor of a trans woman who had sued her ex-neighbor for repeatedly addressing her by her male birth name, a judgment first reported by the Rheinische Post.

Sophie Vivien Kutzner was born a biological male, but Kutzner says she never felt like a male. In recent years, Kutzner began dressing a woman, painting her nails, and gave herself a new male name. Kutzner brought the court case after her male neighbor refused to call her by her new female name, instead opting to call her by her male birth name, “Rüdiger” — a concept known as “deadnaming.”

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Omicron’s Silver Lining

Omicron’s Silver Lining

The highly contagious Covid variant is by all indications less severe, so it will provide widespread immunity—and maybe even hasten the end of the pandemic.

New Covid-19 infections are reaching record levels in the U.S. and Europe. The surge is due both to the Delta variant that flourished over the past six months and to the new Omicron variant, which, in the week of December 19–December 25, became predominant, accounting for approximately 60 percent of U.S. cases. The rise of Omicron has largely been greeted with apprehension, but the new variant, which tends to cause mild illness, offers hope for a more promising path forward.

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