While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau raised carbon taxes April 1 and pledged deeper cuts to Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions at a virtual climate change summit convened by U.S. President Joe Biden last week, global emissions are projected to skyrocket this year.
Former professional soccer player Lori Lindsey claimed Saturday that banning transgender athletes in women’s sports was a way to “uphold white supremacy.”
I’m convinced “Stupid” is a gender.
Bergen City Council aims to pass a decision that that no new streets, squares or municipal facilities will be named after men until the gender balance has changed significantly.
The way things are now, about 90 percent of the streets are named after men, while only 10 percent of the streets are named after women, which is a problem, according to City Councillor for Culture, Diversity and Gender Equality Katrine Nødtvedt of the Greens.
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A growing number of Western lawmakers and human rights groups are calling for a boycott of the next Winter Olympics, set to take place in Beijing in February 2022.
The calls for a boycott have come in response to burgeoning evidence of human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, a remote autonomous region in northwestern China. Human rights experts say that at least one million Muslims are being detained in hundreds of internment camps, where they are subject to torture, mass rapes, forced labor and sterilizations.
Anger is also simmering over China’s political repression in Hong Kong, Tibet and Inner Mongolia; its increased intimidation of Taiwan; its threats to its other neighbors; as well as its continued lack of transparency over the origins of the Coronavirus pandemic, which has resulted in the deaths of more than three million people around the world, according Johns Hopkins University.
Thousands of protesters have rallied in Paris and across France after the killer of a Jewish woman was declared unfit to stand trial because he was judged to have suffered a psychotic episode caused by cannabis use.
Kobili Traoré is accused of beating 65-year-old Lucie Attal – better known as Sarah Halimi – and throwing her from the balcony her Paris apartment in 2017.
French courts have recognised the killing as an antisemitic crime but declared that 32-year-old Traoré, currently in a psychiatric hospital, could not be tried as he was in the grip of a drug-induced “delusional fit” and not in control of his actions.
It’s Hollywood’s biggest night on Sunday – the Oscars – when stars are anointed and future classics crowned. Except this year the pandemic, and a longer-term trend away from mass-market movies, mean the nominated films have struggled to cut through.
In case it passed you by, the leading contender for the Academy Awards this year with 10 nominations – four more than any other film – is Mank, Netflix’s black-and-white homage to old Hollywood, starring Gary Oldman as Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman J Mankiewicz.
It’s a movie about the making of one of the greatest movies ever made – the type of film the Oscars like, even if others are less keen.
Always a silver lining. We can thank the pandemic for hastening Hollywood’s implosion.
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell grinning with Bill Clinton during a VIP tour of the White House has been revealed in new photos.
The paedophile is seen smiling and shaking hands with the president as Maxwell looks on during the visit in September 1993.
The pair were VIP guests of Clinton and they toured his residence and the East Room during a lavish reception for donors.
… Read that again: “all the programming that is on those services would be subject to the Act.” Despite the warning, Parliamentary Secretary Julie Dabrusin put forward a motion to remove the exclusion, which gained the support of the committee.
This is a remarkable and dangerous step in an already bad piece of legislation. The government believes that it should regulate all user generated content, leaving it to regulator to determine on what terms and conditions will be attached the videos of millions of Canadians on sites like Youtube, Instagram, TikTok, and hundreds of other services. The Department of Justice’s own Charter analysis of the bill specifically cites the exclusion to argue that it does not unduly encroach on freedom of expression rights. Without the exclusion, Bill C-10 adopts the position that a regulator sets the rules for free speech online. As Emily Laidlaw tweeted, human rights apply online and offline.
Vitamin D is “fake news” according to our ever-wise federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu.
In an exchange with an independent MP during Question Period on Thursday, Hajdu dismissed a question about how vitamin D supplements may help prevent illnesses like COVID-19.
Scientists studying bat diseases at China’s maximum-security laboratory in Wuhan were engaged in a massive project to investigate animal viruses alongside leading military officials – despite their denials of any such links.
Documents obtained by The Mail on Sunday reveal that a nationwide scheme, directed by a leading state body, was launched nine years ago to discover new viruses and detect the ‘dark matter’ of biology involved in spreading diseases.
One leading Chinese scientist, who published the first genetic sequence of the Covid-19 virus in January last year, found 143 new diseases in the first three years of the project alone.
For the third time over the past week, Ontario is reporting fewer than 4,000 new COVID-19 cases today.
Provincial health officials logged 3,947 new cases of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus today, down from 4,094 on Saturday and 4505 on Friday.
The rolling seven-day average is now 4,017, down from 4,341 one week ago.
WARMINGTON: Two Amazon centres first businesses shut down under new edict to slow COVID spread
BRAMPTON — Gigantic Amazon corporation is the first target of Peel Public Health’s new policy to shut down businesses with more than five COVID-19 cases to control outbreaks.
Using Section 22 powers, Peel Public Health announced at noon that sections of two Amazon Fulfillment Centres have been ordered closed. Calling it “partial” closures these measures affect the Amazon operations at 8050 Heritage Rd. in Brampton and 12724 Coleraine Dr. in Bolton.
Have the wokesters finally reached a tipping point?
Leftists of multiple stripes have been making public schools horrible places, and now students are bolting.
Earth Day destroyed more of America than any environmental catastrophe ever could.
Grouches complain that a lot of fake holidays are created by companies, but Earth Day is actually a fake holiday created by a sharp Madison Avenue ad agency, and the name comes to us from the same guy who coined, “Timex: It takes a licking and keeps on ticking”.
The Earth takes a licking much better than Timex watches, but it’s the job of ad agencies to convince us that consumer products are permanent, while the world is ephemeral.
Big Tech has showered Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors’ PAC and charities with millions in donations — and censors her online critics — as she backs their battle to control the internet.
Philanthropists linked to Facebook, Twitter and Netflix have donated more than $7.5 million to a host of non-profits controlled by Khan-Cullors, who has helped them lobby for “net neutrality.”
IN 1947, Walter Lippmann wrote a small book called The Cold War: A Study in U.S. Foreign Policy. Based on a series of newspaper columns, it was hardly an endorsement of American strategy in the U.S.-Soviet rivalry. Lippmann, rather, wrote his volume in response to George Kennan’s “X Article,” published in Foreign Affairs earlier that year, in which Kennan outlined the concept of containment. Lippmann, at the time perhaps America’s most prominent pundit, issued a blistering critique of that concept, calling it a “strategic monstrosity” that would fail at an exorbitant price. Containment, he wrote, “cannot be made to work” and “the attempt to make it work will cause us to squander our substance and our prestige.” One of the first prophets of American defeat in the Cold War was the man who gave that conflict its name.
