Dr. Leslyn Lewis, Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) MP and leadership candidate says she will “restore” Canada’s media “independence” and stop media bailouts at the hands of the federal government should she one day become prime minister.
“Everyone has the right to free speech and to their own views, but the government shouldn’t be paying for the ability of journalists to amplify their opinions,” wrote Lewis in a campaign platform update posted Tuesday titled “Defunding the CBC.”
This is according to a Southern Poverty Law Center poll, conducted by Tulchin Research (warning: FiveThirtyEight.com gives Tulchin mediocre marks, at least as to its campaign polls). The poll was “a nationwide survey of 1,500 adults ages 18+ which was conducted via online panel,” so I expect there were likely only about 150 respondents in each of the demographic categories (such as “Younger Republican Men”) which would mean a margin of error of about 8%, so I’d be hesitant to make much of (say) Younger Republican Women seeming to support assassination more than Younger Republican Men, Younger Republican Women more than Younger Democratic Women, or Younger Democratic Men more than Younger Republican Men.
But it does seem that among the under-50-year-olds, there is about 35-40% support, with no detectable aggregate difference between Democrats (averaging 38-54%) and Republicans (37%-56%).
The Canadian government is on “high alert” for cyberattacks by Russia and others amid a global threat environment that continues to shake the foundations of the post-second World War international order.
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino issued the warning during an appearance at the House of Commons public safety committee on Thursday morning. He told members of the committee that the threat is not just to the federal government but also to provinces and critical infrastructure.
On the very first episode of True North’s newest show Ratio’d, Harrison Faulkner breaks down the very worst of the week on social media.
The show begins with Catherine McKenna (Trudeau’s former environment minister) proposing the idea of mandatory voting. McKenna asked her followers if it’s time to implement this illiberal policy and we break down some of the best responses to that tweet. The CBC wants you to laugh at their state-sponsored stand up comedy, even though it’s really not that funny. For Indigenous History Month, the CBC is posting indigenous stand up comedy bits on TikTok and it’s so, so, so cringey.
A recent study by the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI) found that the number of young people who identify as LGBT has skyrocketed over the last five years.
While the sexual identification of older generations remained static, the percentage of Millennials, Americans born between 1981 and 1996, who identified as LGBT increased from a little over five percent in 2012 to 10.5% in 2021. The percent of Americans in Generation Z, born between 1997 and 2012, who also claimed to be LGBT soared from an already suspiciously high 10.5% in 2017 to an unfathomable 20.8% — one out of five — in 2021.
However, the study critically found that this rapid growth in LGBT identification is caused by people who are exclusively heterosexual in practice. In the 1990s, 96% of Americans under 30 reported that they exclusively had heterosexual partners. By 2021, that had dipped to 92%. That’s a significant increase, but it doesn’t jive with the reported astronomic growth in the young LGBT population over the last half-decade.
Jagmeet Singh’s political career seems to be on the rocks these days. Singh may still be the leader of a major federal party that is polling around 20 percent but it is clear that anything the NDP currently has going for it is all in spite of his leadership.
Back in the 2021 election, it was clear that Singh’s strategy to try and monopolize the youth vote by streaming himself playing video games on Twitch with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and shooting TikTok videos did not pay off at all. Despite Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s deep unpopularity and O’Toole’s limp campaign Singh could only pick up a single seat for the NDP, after a 2019 election where he lost 15 seats.
And somehow things only got worse after the last federal election.
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Theresa Tam Says “We Need To Prepare” For Seventh Covid WaveCanada’s chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam is warning of a potential seventh Covid wave and calling on Canadians to “prepare” for a fall and winter spike.
Tam made the comments while appearing before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health Wednesday. NDP MP Don Davies asked Tam about the Public Health Agency of Canada’s (PHAC) “assessment of the chances of a seventh wave of Covid” for the fall.
Joint Statement On The New Canada-California Climate Action And Nature Protection PartnershipThe world’s leading climate scientists have made it clear – our window to avoid the worst impacts of climate change is narrowing faster than expected, and success requires unprecedented collective effort and transformational change. In direct response to this crisis, California and Canada today launched a Climate Action and Nature Protection Partnership. Guided by shared values and priorities, the Partnership is our next step forward to deliver clean air and water, good jobs, and healthy communities for Canadians and Californians alike.
Majority Polled Say Canadian Media Intentionally Deceiving CitizensThe 2022 Trust Barometer shows that 61% of people polled said that journalists are “purposely trying to mislead people by saying things they know are false or gross exaggerations.” The figure grew by 12% when compared to last year.
According to True North News, Canadians rank journalists “among the least-trusted professions” according to a new index published by PR firm Edelman Canada.
The Supreme Court just ruled that Border Patrol can enter any home without a warrant and assault you, within 100 miles of the border. And no, you have zero federal protections if they do so.
The area in yellow is affected. pic.twitter.com/TsfAAvM974
— KerrBear (@MPLSKerrBear) June 9, 2022
Amid border surge, Biden admin plans to send migrants to cities deeper inside U.S., starting with L.A., say internal documentsThe Department of Homeland Security plans to transport migrants awaiting immigration proceedings from U.S. cities along the southern border farther into the interior of the country, beginning with Los Angeles in the coming weeks, according to internal documents obtained by NBC News.
The plan would alleviate overcrowding along the border, where record numbers of border crossers have overwhelmed the capacity of shelters in some cities, at times leading Customs and Border Protection, or CBP, to release migrants on the street to fend for themselves.
Whitlock: ‘BrokeBlacks Mountain’ — Washington Post’s Jonathan Capehart Grooms Black People For The LGBTQ AgendaJonathan Capehart, a black editor at the Washington Post and an MSNBC contributor, wrote in a column Tuesday that he and his white husband might flee the United States over a growing fear of “crazy white people.”
He never stated where he and Nick Schmit might relocate, or which nation would be more welcoming of love-the-fruit-hate-the-tree negroes.
DC Launches Ad Campaign To Combat Anti-Trans Hate on Public Transportation. There’s Been One Incident in the Past Two Years.The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority in May launched a campaign—funded with money from its $2.9 million annual advertising budget—at stations across the D.C. area pledging to make “Metro safer” by reducing harassment of transgender passengers. One advertisement features a white male with a man bun and beard yelling “transphobic slurs” at a gender-ambiguous person sitting on a train.
In the immediate aftermath of the May 24 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that killed 19 children and two teachers, Leatherback Gear saw an 800 percent increase in sales, its CEO and founder told TMZ. A company called Tuffypacks saw a 300 percent spike in sales of its armored bag inserts, which can be placed inside any retail backpack, TMZ said.
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With emphasis on ideology and threats to government institutions – the underlying tone is blaming Conservatives and their extreme views like safety, religion, secure borders, fiscal logic, lawful elections, and a responsible government! pic.twitter.com/RM5LdKgOG9
— Shukri Abdirahman (@ShuForCongress) June 7, 2022
Several recent violent attacks by lone offenders against minority communities, schools, houses of worship, and mass transit have demonstrated the dynamic and complex nature of the threat environment facing the United States.
A high-ranking RCMP officer who has helped build the Mounties’ policies for using emergency alerts in Nova Scotia says it’s become a key tool since the mass shooting in April 2020, but major changes are needed provincially and federally to keep citizens and police safe when it’s used.
Remember when the COVID vaccines were going to entirely prevent infections?
Those were the days, right?
Joe Biden said that if you got the vaccines, you wouldn’t get COVID. Dr. Fauci said the vaccines were 100% effective. Rochelle Walensky was on television news explaining that according to the real world data collected by the CDC, the vaccinated could not get or spread COVID.
There are endless examples of experts and media outlets parroting the same talking points — the vaccines stop the spread of the virus to others, making the decision to get vaccinated a societal “good.”
They could not have been more wrong — the vaccines conclusively do not stop transmission or infection.
The deputy minister of justice told the Special Joint Committee on the Declaration of Emergency that television broadcasts influenced the government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act.
While testifying before the committee, deputy minister Francois Daigle said what he saw “by watching TV” made it clear that the government had to adopt emergency powers.
“What I saw by watching TV is that police in Ottawa, for example, because I live in that area and I followed that closely, they had trouble enforcing even municipal bylaws or provincial laws,” said Daigle.
The city of Portland, Maine, raised property taxes on Monday in order to provide more housing for asylum seekers and homeless people, WGME reported Tuesday.
The plan will cost the city $9 million, which has increased property taxes by 4.8%, Portland’s finance director said, according to WGME.
The City of Surrey posted a flier on its website promoting the “Youth Pride Dance” specifically stating that parents are not permitted to enter the dance for the “privacy and safety” of LGBT students.
