“Because Shut Up!”

Pennsylvania pastor survives attempted shooting during service

A Pennsylvania pastor survived a shooting in the middle of his Sunday sermon when the attacker’s gun jammed, giving congregants time to subdue him.

Footage of the attack shows pastor Glenn Germany diving behind his lectern after a man approaches, raises his arm and aims a gun at Mr Germany.

Police identified the gunman as 26-year-old Bernard Polite.

… The case centred around a pro-Israel demonstration organised by the Campaign Against Antisemitism in central London on November 26th. According to reports, the organisation had contacted police to request Robinson be barred from attending the demonstration, despite the activist’s longstanding public support for Israel and the Jewish people.

The CEO of the Campaign Against Antisemitism CEO Gideon Falter — who grabbed headlines last week after police barred him from approaching a pro-Palestinian protest — said of the move to try to block Robinson from their November 26th rally: “No one wants to march with Tommy Robinson” adding that they hoped the police would prevent him from attending.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s ex-wife “re-partnered” with an Ottawa pediatric surgeon months before the country’s first couple announced they were separating.

Sophie Grégoire Trudeau — who shockingly revealed in August that she was splitting up with the leader after 18 years of marriage — struck up a relationship with Dr. Marcos Bettolli, 48, months before, according to Canada’s National Post.

Principles for effective use of math in policy research, Part 1

Last November, I had the privilege of speaking at UCLA in the Jacob Marschak Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the Behavioral Sciences. My lecture was titled “Mathiness where Science Meets Politics,” and I provided a tour of research that I’ve been involved in over the past 30 years that has — for better or worse — made its way into highly contested settings where science, policy and politics collide.

h/t DS

During a speech in Ottawa on Thursday, Member of European Parliament Christine Anderson announced that she would not be backing down despite attempts to cancel her events.

Galen Weston is officially out as the head of Canada’s largest grocer, Loblaw Companies Ltd.

In an earnings update on Wednesday, Weston announced he has stepped aside as president, with the Danish grocery veteran Per Bank joining Loblaw as its new CEO earlier this month — a transition that was first announced in April.

The roots of the problem are not confined to Canada, where a school district recently canceled any books published before 2008.

Peel School District — located in Ontario, Canada, and bordering Toronto — is reportedly weeding books from its libraries with publication dates prior to 2008. The district’s school board has yet to respond specifically to parents’ and Ontario officials’ questions, raising concerns about the book-weeding’s effect on the students’ educations and the district’s approach to education in general.

The Canadian government’s campaign for complete control over what you can hear, see, and say is rolling like a platoon of tanks across what once were the wide open spaces of the internet.

It’s not enough that its Online Streaming Act puts all audio and visual content under the sweeping Sauron-like eye of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), notorious for its spoon-feeding of approved content to consumers who gag on its broccoli.

Conservative campaign operatives are accusing the Liberal Party of running a “racist” campaign in the recent Oxford federal byelection, claiming slogans that highlighted winning Tory candidate Arpan Khanna’s past ties to Brampton, Ont. are an example of dog-whistle politics.

In a letter posted on LinkedIn, Hamish Marshall, a long-time Conservative strategist and pollster who ran the party’s 2019 federal election campaign, said the Oxford race was “the most disgusting, overtly racist campaign I’ve ever seen.”

If the Conservatives had campaigned in this “local” manner Justin’s MSM would be lit up for days.

Archeologists and their friends in the media are losing their minds over author and journalist Graham Hancock’s alternative ancient history Netflix series “Ancient Apocalypse.” According to The Guardian, “Ancient Apocalypse is the most dangerous show on Netflix.” It’s “an all out attack on archaeologists,” reads one hit piece on the series. It “promotes a whole lot of bunk,” Slate accuses. “[Graham’s] whole theory is steeped in racism and white supremacy,” alleges another.

The outrage articles don’t seem to have stopped anyone from watching “Ancient Apocalypse,” though. The series reportedly garnered 24.62 million hours of viewing in its first week of release, earning it a spot on Netflix’s “top 10” in 31 countries.

OTTAWA—The advisory panel tasked with making recommendations for Canada’s pending legislation on online safety has failed to come to an agreement on how online harms should be defined, and whether dangerous content should be scrubbed from the internet altogether.

On Friday, the federal government published the findings from the expert panel’s tenth and final session, which summed up three months of deliberations over what a future legislative and regulatory framework might look like.

… Most of the panel found that child exploitation and terrorist content should be handled in “an unambiguous manner by future legislation.” Others deemed the five categories “deeply problematic,” in one instance, taking issue with definitions of terrorism for focusing on “Islamic terror” and omitting other forms.