“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.” — Oscar Wilde, The Importance of being Earnest.
There has been much commentary on the precipitous departure via resignation of Julie Payette from the Office of Governor General. The most telling, to my judgment, came from the always elegant laptop of Father Raymond J. de Souza in Saturday’s edition of this paper.
CNN: Biden Says Impeachment Trial ‘Has to‘ Take Place, Doesn‘t Believe Trump Will Be Convicted
There it is — House impeachment managers deliver article of impeachment against Donald Trump to the Senate, formally triggering a trial. pic.twitter.com/S2pxwq6nT7
— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) January 26, 2021
You have to wonder who’s telling Trudeau it’s a good idea to start planning an election now
Justin Trudeau has so many judgment errors racked up as prime minister you have to wonder who’s telling him it’s a good idea to start planning an election.
The Aga Khan trip. Election reform. The India costume parade. SNC-Lavalin. Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott. The Kielburger brothers and the WE fiasco. Blackface. Vaccine rollout. Julie Payette. It’s not even necessary to provide details; they’re so familiar people recognize them in shorthand. It raises the question of how much the prime minister thinks before he acts.
Repairing free speech is the No. 1 priority in this nation right now.
Here’s a sad truth we now have to live with.
The America we know, the America we grew up with, the America we had until a year or less ago, is gone. The Constitution of the United States of America, the “greatest document ever struck off by the brain and purpose of man at any one time,” as Gladstone called it, lies in ruins.
Among many other catastrophes, we have lost freedom of speech. This just happened within the last few weeks.
Oh boy.
This is Twitter’s attempt to outsource defamation liability for its left-wing, partisan content warnings to a hand-picked pool of users. It’s the ideological offspring of the heckler’s veto and Mao’s communist social credit system. https://t.co/Ma8eWFZOgT
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) January 25, 2021
Pronouns can’t be mandated from above. But that hasn’t stopped the pronoun police from trying.
I recently attended an online conference on student mental health and was struck by the number of attendees whose online identification included not only their name but also their preferred pronouns. There is a growing trend for people to list their preferred pronouns on their social-media profiles and on their personal or work email signature. The third Wednesday in October each year is now International Pronouns Day. Many celebrities and politicians have also got in on the act. Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, in an address at the Pink News awards, introduced himself by declaring that ‘my pronouns are he/him’. For many, these declarations not only express their personal identity, but are also meant to denote their alignment with progressive and subversive political causes.
The Swamp is terrified of Trump – still. That explains their fixation on eradicating him and his movement. “Trumpism” was not extinguished when Joe Biden raised his right hand to become the 46th president.
Fear grips The Swamp. Here is some evidence: the military occupation of Washington, DC; claims of “insurrection”; Speaker Pelosi’s interference with the military command structure; more baseless claims of dark Russian conspiracies; serious discussion of reeducation camps for Trump supporters; marginalizing and criminalizing all things “Trump” – those are all expressions of fear.
Ariel Robinson, age 29, who won Season 20 of Food Network’s ‘Worst Cooks In America’ has been arrested for child murder prompting the broadcaster to eliminate the latest season of its reality series.
Robinson was charged on Tuesday along with her husband Jerry with counts of homicide by child abuse in the death of their adopted 3-year-old daughter Victoria Rose Smith in South Carolina.
Neither side is backing down after weeks of standoff between the Australian government and Google over proposed legislation aimed at better compensating and rewarding local news publishers, while bringing greater transparency to the way algorithms employed by Google, Facebook, and YouTube work.
Canberra is now finalizing the bill which will require Google to obtained licenses for all content published by Australian news companies. Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. oversees an estimated at least 94% of all search traffic in Australia, similar to many other countries globally, at a time it’s coming under increased accusations of using its monopoly power to bully content providers and smaller competitors.
I hope Google gets smashed.
An inquiry into the way prisons deal with convicted terrorists is being launched by the independent terror watchdog amid concerns of growing radicalisation behind bars.
Jonathan Hall QC said there had been a succession of terror attacks on prison officers while other inmates were coming under the influence of “high status” terrorist prisoners.
Hall, the government’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said that if terrorist activity was taking place in jails then it had to be dealt with.
OTTAWA—The federal Liberals have kicked out of caucus Brampton Centre MP Ramesh Sangha, charging him with making “baseless and dangerous accusations against a number of his caucus colleagues.”
In a statement, the chief government whip Mark Holland says that he learned about the allegations late last week and consulted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau immediately.
“The necessary steps were taken. As of this afternoon, Mr. Sangha has been removed from the Liberal caucus,” said Holland, who has not yet replied to a request for clarification.
I smell the usual LPC faggotry.
A firm which provided voting machinery in last year’s US presidential election is filing a defamation suit against Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudolph Giuliani, seeking $1.3bn (£950m) in damages.
Dominion Voting Systems accuses Mr Giuliani of using Twitter and media appearances to promote a false narrative that the election was stolen.
Mr Trump has refused to concede that Joe Biden won the 2020 election fairly.
Mr Giuliani said the case would give him a chance to prove his allegations.
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is right to charge the federal government with being weak in their response to President Joe Biden’s decision to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline.
Considering that it will cost Canada billions of dollars and thousands of well-paying jobs across the country, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s statement that, “we are disappointed but acknowledge the President’s decision to fulfil his election campaign promise” is pretty weak tea.
Greek authorities began issuing digital vaccination certificates for people vaccinated against the coronavirus last week, with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis suggesting the measure should be introduced across the European Union to facilitate travel and tourism.
The Greek government’s vaccination certificate initiative will divide society and constitutes an “apartheid-type,” restriction of freedoms, Nikos Filis, a SYRIZA lawmaker and former education minister under the Tsipras government, has said.
