Adam Zivo: B.C. NDP forcing unwanted, ruinous injection site on Vancouver

Adam Zivo: B.C. NDP forcing unwanted, ruinous injection site on Vancouver

The B.C. NDP wants to reopen an infamously mismanaged Vancouver-based supervised consumption site despite opposition from the local mayor and city council. Not only is the province acting undemocratically, such sites have been shown to fuel crime and do not actually save lives.

This controversy began earlier this month, when Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), a provincial health authority, announced that it had acquired a new permanent downtown location for its Thomas Donaghy Overdose Prevention Site (TDOPS), which is expected to resume operations within the coming weeks.

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Schoolchildren taught black people cannot be racist to white people

Schoolchildren taught black people cannot be racist to white people

Children are being taught that black people cannot be racist towards white people as part of an education initiative aimed at countering racism.

Teenage pupils are told that black people can be racially prejudiced towards white people but that this is not racism because that can be exhibited only by those who hold cultural power, such as white people over black people.

Children as young as seven are also being taught that white people are likely to be privileged because of the colour of their skin.

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GIGUERE: Governments should not be opening grocery stores

GIGUERE: Governments should not be opening grocery stores

If there has been an observable trend in recent decades, it is surely that of excessive intervention and a growing willingness of governments to try to replace markets. We have another fine example of this with the latest fashionable idea from the world of municipal politics, notably in Toronto and New York and taken up by the federal NDP: The creation of public grocery stores.

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Drones are even replacing snipers because they are ‘more efficient and cheaper,’ says famed Ukrainian sniper

Drones are even replacing snipers because they are ‘more efficient and cheaper,’ says famed Ukrainian sniper

The battle between Ukraine and Russia has long come down to drone warfare, but now, drone warfare is even replacing highly-trained snipers on the battlefield, as proven by Ukrainian special forces soldier Vyacheslav Kovalsky.

“I used to be the sniper and everyone danced around me. Now everyone dances around the drone pilot, including me,” Kovalsky told the Wall Street Journal, as cited by Mandiner:

Kovalsky is known for his world-record shot back in 2023, when he shot a Russian officer from a distance of almost four kilometers. However, nowadays, he mainly assists drone operators.

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Ottawa Accused of Lying About Its Own Surveillance Bill on X

Ottawa Accused of Lying About Its Own Surveillance Bill on X

Public Safety Canada is under fire after a social media post trying to downplay its new lawful-access legislation was slapped with a community note on X. Critics and privacy advocates are accusing the federal government of misleading the public about the true scope of Bill C-22.

The backlash started when the official Public Safety Canada account posted on Friday that Part 2 of the bill would not create new authorities for police and CSIS, but would simply ensure electronic service providers have the technical capabilities to respond to court orders.

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Why would anyone want to join the EU?

Why would anyone want to join the EU?

As prime minister, Mark Carney claims to be guided by pragmatism, albeit “principled pragmatism.” But his enthusiastic pursuit of deeper alignment with the European Union risks selling out Canadian sovereignty for romantic symbolism and a mountain of red tape.

In his now-famous speech in Davos, Carney said that “nostalgia isn’t a strategy.” Yet his approach to the EU reveals a deeply nostalgic view of Europe as a vibrant counterweight to North American realities. But the numbers say Europe’s economy, far from being vibrant, is in decline. Forecasts for this year project growth of one per cent or less. The EU is beset by stagnation, demographic decline, high energy costs and chronically poor competitiveness. Why would Canada seek even tighter alignment with a bloc that’s in decline when it already enjoys comprehensive trade access through the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and other multilateral channels?

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Keir Starmer’s sickening libels against the British people

Keir Starmer’s sickening libels against the British people

Something truly callous happened in London on Saturday. Shortly before the grieving mother of a young woman who was murdered by an illegal immigrant was about to go on stage and share her heartbreak, activists flashed the slogan ‘Immigration makes Britain brilliant’ on a huge screen. As the mum was no doubt going over her notes, steeling herself for her nervous speech about the horrors inflicted on her daughter, ‘progressives’ decided to remind her and her dumb admirers that actually immigration is fab. And there it was: the iron fist of cruelty in the velvet glove of ‘Be Kind’.

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The Best Thing for England Might be the End of Britain

The Best Thing for England Might be the End of Britain

The Telegraph splashed last week that Sinn Féin intends to work with the SNP and Plaid Cymru to “break up the UK”. Cue the usual outbreak of pearl-clutching from Westminster, where people who cannot run a railway timetable suddenly speak as if they are Metternich preserving the Congress of Vienna.

But perhaps we should all calm down and ask an awkward question.

What if they’re right? Not morally right. Not romantically right. Not Braveheart right. But economically, culturally and politically right.

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Before Oil, How Did Islamic States Get Rich?

Before Oil, How Did Islamic States Get Rich?

Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Libya are all among the world’s top oil producers, and mega-rich oil sheikhs have been a fixture of the international cultural landscape for decades. But there were wealthy and powerful Islamic states before anyone had need for massive quantities of petroleum, and the way that they became wealthy and powerful should make Western political leaders think carefully about their foreign and domestic policies. Not that they will actually do so, of course.

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Inside the life of a Hells Angels gambling collector — dodge your debts and ‘here comes the guy who does the fingers’

Inside the life of a Hells Angels gambling collector — dodge your debts and ‘here comes the guy who does the fingers’

Once a week, as predictably as death or taxes, the collector makes his rounds.

He drives to GTA restaurants, coffee shops and businesses, handing out winnings and collecting from losers.

The collector generally travels alone, but it would be dangerous to attack and rob him. He’s acting on behalf of frightening people in the Hells Angels and the Mafia.

If the losers balk at paying, they likely have a small window to reconsider, says a retired GTA-area organized crime cop whom the Star is not naming because he is not authorized to speak on behalf of the RCMP about his investigations into the Toronto collector, and others like him.

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ET Still Works for the CIA

ET Still Works for the CIA

The Trump administration continues to release tranches of previously classified documents on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), the preferred term that includes traditional sightings of UFOs.  “Traditional sightings” is a strange admission, don’t you think?  Aliens and UFOs have been part of our national conversation for eighty years, long enough to constitute a “tradition,” even though the public has few answers for the questions this “tradition” brings.

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BARBER: Carney’s anti-Trump strategy is backfiring on Canadian workers

BARBER: Carney’s anti-Trump strategy is backfiring on Canadian workers

Candidate Mark Carney presented himself as someone capable of securing a strong deal with President Trump for Canada. Both before and after his becoming prime minister, his comments about President Trump and the US have been framed by his negative narrative and often fail to discuss the facts. He has also made a number of negative comments critical of America while implying that the President is a problem without being direct. At the same time, Brookfield Asset Management, where Mr. Carney previously served as chair, remains headquartered in New York rather than in Toronto, where it used to be. He had advised the company’s shareholders to support the move to America. He has positioned himself as a spokesman for the world’s “middle powers.” He promotes a “new world order,” but critics argue that this largely repackages the hyper-globalization economic model of the late twentieth century. This is not how one engages in international diplomacy and trade. Furthermore, he has not negotiated a new trade agreement between Canada and the US.

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