Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault and the Liberal government’s response to mounting concern over its decision to remove a legal safeguard designed to ensure the CRTC would not regulate user generated content has been denial. The department’s own officials told MPs that all programming on sites like Youtube would be subject to regulation, yet Guilbeault insisted to the House of Commons that user generated content would be excluded from regulation as part of Bill C-10, his Broadcasting Act reform bill.
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Why Abbas Does Not Want Elections
Those who claim that the recent violence in Jerusalem erupted because the Israel Police did not allow Arab Muslims to hold nightly celebrations during the fasting month of Ramadan have no idea what they are talking about.
Those who say that the violence erupted because Israel did not allow the Arab residents of Jerusalem (who hold Israeli-issued ID cards in their capacity as residents, and are not citizens of Israel) to participate in the Palestinian Authority elections also have no idea what they are talking about. What they all seem to have no idea about is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Oklahoma House Votes to Ban Teaching of Critical Race Theory in Public Schools
The Oklahoma House on Thursday voted to ban public schools and universities from teaching critical race theory in civics and history classes.
After hours of discussion and debate, the GOP-controlled House voted 70-19 in favor of the bill, HB1775, which now heads to Gov. Kevin Stitt’s desk to be signed into law.
Canadians who flout quarantine laws could face stiffer penalties, Trudeau says
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today his government is open to stricter penalties for travellers who violate the mandatory quarantine period.
The PM also appeared to swat away Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s call for stronger restrictions at the land border, arguing the measures now in place are working.
“We’re always looking at doing more enforcement, at stepping up on the penalties on that, and we’ll continue to work with the provinces on that,” Trudeau told a media briefing in Ottawa today.
‘SNL’ cast won’t be forced to appear with controversial host Elon Musk
“Saturday Night Live” cast members won’t be forced to appear alongside controversial billionaire Elon Musk when he hosts the show, Page Six is told.
“Speaking historically, if a cast member has been that unhappy, they don’t have to do it,” a source told us. “[‘SNL’ boss Lorne Michaels] won’t ever make them do anything they don’t want to do.”
Dutch couple move into Europe’s first fully 3D-printed house
A Dutch couple have become Europe’s first tenants of a fully 3D printed house in a development that its backers believe will open up a world of choice in the shape and style of the homes of the future.
Elize Lutz, 70, and Harrie Dekkers, 67, retired shopkeepers from Amsterdam, received their digital key – an app allowing them to open the front door of their two-bedroom bungalow at the press of a button – on Thursday.
“It is beautiful,” said Lutz. “It has the feel of a bunker – it feels safe,” added Dekkers.
‘Abnormal menstruation’ & other health issues experienced by hundreds of teargassed protesters in Portland – study
Almost 1,000 people who were exposed to tear gas during rallies in Portland last summer reported ‘menstrual health disruption’ after the fact, while hundreds of others experienced other health effects, according to new research.
The study, published in BMC-Public Health Journal this week, was based on an online survey of 2,257 adults who had been exposed to tear gas during the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in Portland between July 30 and August 20 last year.
Trudeau deporting Christian refugee claimants to Islamist Hell Hole Pakistan
…The Charismatic Social Integration of Canada (CIOSC) is a Pakistani Christian advocacy group that recently expressed concern about possible deportations of Christians to Pakistan in this current political climate.
In a press release sent to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the CIOSC stated that “in such a volatile and religiously charged atmosphere, Immigration Canada is making decisions to deport the failed refugee claimants. These decisions are incomprehensible and reprehensible since Canada claims to be a compassionate and humane country.”
Nolte: The Environmental War Against Live Concerts Has Begun
To paraphrase Charles Dickens, Global Warming is a hoax, “this must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.”
How would you like to live in a world without live concerts? Before you answer, please take a moment to really think about that, to think about all the memories you’ve created over the course of your life attending concerts. Not just the music itself, but the friends and family you were with, the joy of the anticipation that begins the moment you purchase a ticket, the experience of being part of a large crowd with which you share a passion…
Risk from COVID-19 variants remains after first dose of Pfizer vaccine, U.K. study finds
“This study highlights the importance of getting second doses of the vaccine rolled out to protect the population,” said Rosemary Boyton, a professor of immunology and respiratory medicine at Imperial who co-led the study.
“People who have had their first dose of vaccine and who have not previously been infected with SARS-CoV-2 are not fully protected against the circulating ‘variants of concern’.”
WARMINGTON: You can’t eat in your favourite restaurant. But actors in a movie can
You can’t legally dine in at a popular restaurant under COVID-19 rules.
However, Hollywood can get around those rules and make a movie about dining in at that same restaurant.
Dozens of First Nations communities still lack safe water despite Trudeau pledge
Curve Lake First Nation, a forested community in southern Canada, is surrounded on three sides by fresh water.
But for decades, residents have been unable to safely make use of it. Wary of crumbling infrastructure and waterborne illness, the community instead relies on shipments of bottled water. The community’s newly elected chief, aged 34, has lived her whole life without the guarantee of clean water flowing from the tap.
“The emotional and spiritual damage of not having clean water, having to look at all of the water surrounding us on a daily basis and unable to use it, is almost unquantifiable,” said Chief Emily Whetung.
Portland cops, FBI reportedly probe veiled ANTIFA death threat against mayor
Portland police and the FBI are investigating a veiled death threat against Mayor Ted Wheeler, days after he promised to “take our city back” from the “anarchist mob,” according to a report.
The chilling threat was made in a video on Twitter Wednesday night in which self-confessed Antifa loyalist vows to continue rioting in the Oregon city — and includes the mayor’s home address as a warning, The Oregonian said.
“Blood is already on your hands, Ted,” says the video’s narrator, wearing a full-face mask and with an “Anonymous”-style altered voice.
Portland cops are not fans of Teddy I don’t think they’ll be looking too hard.
Your free speech is at risk with Ottawa’s push to regulate online content, experts warn. Here’s why.
Liberal government says controversial changes to broadcasting bill will only apply to professional content (ED. Bullshit)
The federal government is facing an uproar over controversial changes to a bill that would bring videos and other content posted to social media sites like YouTube under the purview of the country’s broadcasting regulator.
The changes to Bill C-10 — made at the behest of Liberal MPs on the heritage committee — would allow the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to regulate user-generated content uploaded to social media platforms, much as it regulates radio and TV content now.
The government says the changes apply only to professional content and are necessary to make wildly successful online streaming services and apps contribute to Canadian culture.
Recording captures Green leader venting frustration with party executives: ‘I really am struggling to understand why this is happening’
OTTAWA—Green Leader Annamie Paul vented frustration with how top party officials were preventing her from making key decisions in the first months of her leadership, according to an audio recording of an internal meeting that was obtained by the Star.
The recording from Feb. 11 is the first direct evidence that Paul agrees with more than a dozen Green sources who have described how she is facing internal obstacles from powerful officials in her own party.
It also comes after the party brought in a conflict resolution expert amid ongoing tensions over allegations of racism and calls for high-ranking party officials to resign.