Joe Biden’s easy ride with reporters

Joe Biden’s easy ride with reporters

Following Donald Trump’s departure from the White House, journalists across America breathed a collective sigh of relief. After four years of feeling “burnt out” by the psychic trauma of Trump’s presidency, now was finally time that they could “get back to normalcy” and report on a “mostly, a normal, sane, empathetic presidential voice. FINALLY”.

The bravery of these indefatigable reporters notwithstanding, it is heartening to see that they are FINALLY ready to get back to the business of reporting.

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The Backlash to Biden’s Transgender Agenda Is Already Brewing

The Backlash to Biden’s Transgender Agenda Is Already Brewing

President Joe Biden promised to be a president “for all Americans,” even for those who did not vote for him. Yet in his first few days in office, Biden signed divisive executive orders championing the nebulous concept of gender identity over biological sex. Biden’s new orders threaten to upend science and fairness in many segments of American society, including women’s sports, women’s private spaces, the military, and medicine. Republicans in at least 13 states are fighting back.

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Senior Liberal MP urges Trudeau cabinet to ‘wake up and smell the roses’ on China

Senior Liberal MP urges Trudeau cabinet to ‘wake up and smell the roses’ on China

The Liberal chair of the Commons finance committee says a budget recommendation calling on Ottawa to pull out of the Beijing-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank should serve as a “wake up and smell the roses” moment for Canada.

Liberal MP Wayne Easter, who also served as solicitor-general under Jean Chrétien in charge of Canada’s security agencies, told The Globe and Mail Tuesday that Canada needs to recognize the serious threat China poses to western democracies. He also criticized the fact that universities are still conducting research projects with Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.

The finance committee in a report Tuesday made the recommendation to withdraw from the AIIB, which the Trudeau government joined in 2017, with plans to contribute US$995-million.

It should be all MP’s period. The China class is well embedded in our political class.

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Between Two Childhood Plagues

In the fall of 1954 I was five years old. It was a plague year, not unlike this year. It was also a politically dangerous year. ’54 was the year I scared my parents very badly. Well, to be fair I was pretty frightening from the outset. I was very premature. It was touch and go for a week or so. I was born with what they now call Infant Respiratory Distress I had a gnarled- almost clubbed- foot and pronounced strabismus in my left eye. The doctor who delivered me told my parents that If I defied the odds and lived, I would probably never walk normally. Fortunately for me, Mom did not buy it.

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The tyranny of vaccine passports

The tyranny of vaccine passports

The vaccine itself can set us free. But ‘vaccine passports’ will remove people’s rights.

The vaccine rollout has been a rare success for the UK government. Not only have the most vulnerable people received shots in their arms ahead of schedule, but vaccine take-up has also been far higher than expected. For those aged 70 and above, the take-up was 90 per cent, rising to an astonishing 97 per cent among those aged 75 to 79. Hospitalisations and deaths are on the verge of plummeting. And yet, the calls for ‘vaccine passports’ – which would entail de facto mandatory vaccination – are growing louder and louder.

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Why China is terrified of Christianity

From destroying churches to jailing priests, the Communist Party is bent on eliminating religion

Religious freedom in China is facing the most severe crackdown since the Cultural Revolution — and most people don’t even realise. Yes, in the past year, the plight of the predominantly Muslim Uighurs has drawn increasing attention. At least a million, perhaps as many as three million, have been incarcerated in prison camps, where they face systematic torture, rape, slave labour and forced sterilisation. Likewise, the continued persecution of Falun Gong, a Chinese spiritual discipline in the Buddhist tradition, has inspired worldwide condemnation.

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Trudeau refuses to call Chinese actions genocide

Trudeau refuses to call Chinese actions genocide

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada must make sure “all the I’s are dotted and the T’s are crossed” before citing China for genocide.

“The primary concern we have as a government that has always been responsible about using this extremely loaded term is not applying it to things that don’t meet the very clear, internationally-recognized criteria around genocide,” said Trudeau at a press conference.

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The False and Exaggerated Claims Still Being Spread About the Capitol Riot

What took place at the Capitol on January 6 was undoubtedly a politically motivated riot. As such, it should not be controversial to regard it as a dangerous episode. Any time force or violence is introduced into what ought to be the peaceful resolution of political conflicts, it should be lamented and condemned.

But none of that justifies lying about what happened that day, especially by the news media.

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John Robson: Trudeau’s ‘wilful blindness’ to the evils of Chinese communism

John Robson: Trudeau’s ‘wilful blindness’ to the evils of Chinese communism

If you’re wondering what it would take for the Trudeau administration to get over its crush on Chinese communism, I have no idea. Especially once we learned that despite everything, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) is doing its best to pour our industrial secrets into the Politburo’s pockets via … wait for it … Huawei. And by “despite everything” I mean massive evidence of the Chinese Communist Party’s hostility to human rights and decency, including putting history’s worst mass killer on their banknotes in case anyone was struggling with the concept of “brutal communist dictatorship and loving it.

This is Globalism, Canada’s China class is hard at work.

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Maverick MPP Roman Baber denied motion to have parliamentarians take a massive pay cut to CERB levels

MPP Roman Baber, ejected from the Progressive Conservative caucus by Premier Doug Ford for opposing COVID-19 lockdowns, wants his colleagues to put their money where their mouths are.

Baber (York Centre) introduced a private member’s bill on Wednesday to temporarily slash MPPs’ salaries to the equivalent of federal CERB payments to underscore the impact of shutting down the economy to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

That would reduce MPPs’ wages from about $2,240 a week before taxes to the Canada Emergency Response Benefit’s $500.

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Time to End Hostile Powers’ Influence Operations at American Universities

Time to End Hostile Powers’ Influence Operations at American Universities

For years, they’ve been taking money under the table from China, Qatar, and elsewhere.

American universities are awash in foreign money, with at least $12 billion in gifts and contracts reported from 2013 through June 2019. Research by Congress and the Department of Education (DoE) demonstrates that no one knows exactly how much foreign support academe has received or to what ends it has been used. Acting in concert, the Biden administration and Congress could end this influx of dark money by requiring universities to be transparent in their reporting of any foreign support.

Instead, Joe Biden has just ensured that Americans will remain in the dark regarding a major source of those funds: China.

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What Multiculturalism Has Wrought

The elevation of every world culture as “equally meritorious” has created a deep inequality in our own.

On his final day in office, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo criticized multiculturalism in a tweet. “Woke-ism, multiculturalism, all the -isms—they’re not who America is,” he wrote. “They distort our glorious founding and what this country is all about. Our enemies stoke these divisions because they know they make us weaker.”

It is a recipe for disaster, Canada is lost.

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US charges three North Koreans over $1.3bn theft

Three North Koreans have been charged by US authorities over a scheme to steal and extort more than $1.3bn (£940m) from banks and businesses around the world.

They are also accused of deploying malicious cryptocurrency programs.

A Canadian-American citizen was also charged with money laundering.

The men are also accused of being part of the Wannacry cyber-attack of 2017, which crippled UK health service computer systems on a national scale.

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