OTTAWA—With the prospect of a federal election looming, the Green party’s interim executive director convened a virtual staff meeting last Wednesday to announce that nearly half of the party’s employees would soon be out of a job.
But when Green Leader Annamie Paul denounced the cuts, going back and forth with interim executive director Dana Taylor on a Zoom call, the embattled leader was told she was going to be put on mute.
Well isn’t that Progressive!
Former President Donald Trump, who has complained about censorship by social media giants, plans to announce class action lawsuits today against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, sources tell Axios.
Ontario is reporting just under 200 new COVID-19 cases today as the rolling seven-day average continues to decline.
Provincial health officials logged 194 new cases of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus today, up slightly from 184 one week ago.
COVID-19 pandemic forced 75% Canadians to delay major life goals, survey shows
As the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted people’s lives and shifted priorities, a majority of Canadians put major life decisions on hold over the past 15 months, a new survey published Wednesday showed.
Physical restrictions and mental challenges got in the way of people achieving their goals this past year, with more than 50 per cent of Canadians saying they were unable to meet objectives.
Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse has been killed in an attack on his home in the nation’s capital, according to the country’s interim prime minister.
Claude Joseph said the president’s home in Port-au-Prince was stormed by unidentified armed men at 01:00 local time (05:00 GMT).
First Lady Martine Moïse was injured in the attack.
Mr Joseph said that “all measures had been taken to guarantee the continuity of the state”.
German federal prosecutors arrested and charged a semi-retired think tank head Tuesday on suspicion of spying for China.
The political scientist, identified as Klaus L., 75, under German privacy laws, ran the Hanns Seidel Foundation in Munich according to broadcaster ARD since 2001 before later establishing the Institute for Transnational Studies.
The foundation is associated with the Christian Social Union (CSU), a sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), in Bavaria.
Those pesky guns — that Lori Lightfoot blames for Chicago’s extraordinary murder statistics — had a busy holiday weekend in the Windy City. The Chicago Tribune laments in sorry detail.
President Joe Biden is of a generation that appreciated the Jewish state as America’s closest and most reliable Middle East ally. He and the likes of the late U.S. Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson (D-WA) were staunch friends of Israel. Most Democrats in the U.S. Senate shared with Jackson and Biden their appreciation of Israel. Today however, the “progressive” wing of the Democrat party no longer shares that kind of appreciation, and support for the Jewish state.
… According to the US Department of Defense, the total military expenditure in Afghanistan (from October 2001 until September 2019) had reached $778bn.
In addition, the US state department – along with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and other government agencies – spent $44bn on reconstruction projects.
That brings the total cost – based on official data – to $822bn between 2001 and 2019, but it doesn’t include any spending in Pakistan, which the US uses as a base for Afghan-related operations.
Human rights groups and politicians in Spain have spoken out after a court ruled that a controversial and false election poster for the far-right Vox party should not be withdrawn because it is legitimate political expression, and because the unaccompanied foreign minors it depicts in a relentlessly negative light are “an obvious social and political problem”.
A panel of superforecasters considers the likelihood of an imminent global conflict
We’ve been lucky, for the last 70 or so years, to live through an essentially unprecedented period of world peace. It doesn’t necessarily feel like that, because there are always enough small wars and conflicts to fill 24-hour news channels – but there have been no direct conflicts between major powers since the Korean War of 1950-1953.
Related: Beijing issues protest after Japan signals that it would join US to defend Taiwan in case of Chinese attack
Hobgoblins
The Joe Biden administration would have you believe the nation is crawling with toothless “white supremacists” patrolling black neighborhoods in rusty F-150s looking to pick off black grannies. Check your calendar, Mr. President, and check the videos of today’s racial violence.
Data?
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the FBI agree the Klan is dying. Their numbers have been dwindling for decades. Though certainly abhorrent, they are the toothless boogeymen of white supremacy.
See also – Jonathan Kay: If there really are 300 neo-Nazi groups in Canada, why can’t anyone name them?
President Joe Biden’s immediate executive order to cease construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline cost Americans thousands of jobs, but now on top of that, it may cost us billions more as the Canadian firm that owned the line is now looking to get the money it lost on it back.
Afghan troops have been filmed laying down their arms to the Taliban as the terror group shows off the American-made weapons it has seized after US and Nato troops beat a hasty retreat.
The Afghan army is collapsing across the country and the Taliban appear to be winning the propaganda war with videos to prove that they will welcome surrendering soldiers – as long as they hand over their state-of-the-art weapons and Humvee armoured cars.
The US left Bagram Airfield last week – its fortress in the country for nearly 20 years – by slipping away in the night without telling the base’s new Afghan commander who discovered they had gone the next morning.
Chicago police arrested 61 people Sunday night after the group took over the street, danced on cop cars and set off fireworks, among other raucous behavior, according to multiple reports.
More than 100 people took to the streets and sidewalks in the Chicago area known as the Loop late Sunday, according to Fox 32.
#Chicago wildings caught on camera.
Youths throw fireworks at police. pic.twitter.com/orkcfEqYGQ— 16th & 17th District Chicago Police Scanner (@CPD1617Scanner) July 5, 2021
