Bob Zimmer: Liberal’s Bill C-10 is an unprecedented attack on free speech
I have heard from many of you locally, as well as from Canadians across the country, who are deeply concerned about the Liberal government’s efforts to regulate freedom of speech online.
I know what you’re thinking: This should be the world’s shortest column, right? If it comes from the “mainstream,” “legacy,” or “corporate” media—whichever term you prefer—it’s probably false. Perhaps, but there’s actually a little more to it than that. You can know something is false, but offering a cogent rebuttal for the less enlightened is another matter.
Biological Male Who Smashed Women’s Weightlifting Records Will Likely Represent Them in the Olympics
Imagine being a female weightlifter so gifted and well-trained that you managed to beat out the best of the best in your country, only to make it to the 2020 Olympics and be forced to compete against a man.
This is the harsh reality that dozens of Olympians could soon be facing if one Laurel Hubbard makes the New Zealand team, as the transgender athlete who identifies as a woman inches closer to the Tokyo games.
Brewery creates nasty ‘Torched Earth Ale’ to show how climate change will affect beer taste
New Belgium Brewing made its flavor, “Torched Earth Ale,” using “less-than-ideal ingredients that would be available and affordable to brewers in a climate-ravaged future without aggressive action now to confront the climate crisis,” the company said on April 19.
Trudeau And Guilbeault Can’t Be Trusted To Amend Bill C-10
The Liberals are trying to pull a fast-one on Bill C-10 after immense backlash, and are proposing ‘changes,’ while keeping the main legislation intact.
CEWS: A massive subsidy, shrouded in secrecy
The costliest, most expansive federal assistance program in Canadian history is shrouded in secrecy more than a year after its rollout – and has been plunged even deeper into the shadows after Ottawa ceased publishing a list of recipients.
Kenney announces COVID-19 vaccine partnership between Alberta and Montana
Premier Jason Kenney announced details of the vaccine partnership at a morning news conference on Friday. saying commercial truck drivers who are required to transport goods into the United States will be able to receive an inoculation.
Whistleblower: Dominion Rigged 2020 Election
Alex Newman interviews Melissa Carone, a whistleblower and former employee from Dominion. She discusses her observation of several counts of fraud in the 2020 election, including how she overheard her manager discuss fraudulently filling out ballots on Election Night.
Scientists Believe These Photos Show Mushrooms on Mars—and Proof of Life
Could there be mushrooms on Mars? In a new paper, an international team of scientists from countries including the U.S., France, and China have gathered and compared photographic evidence they claim shows fungus-like objects growing on the Red Planet.
Biden amnesty for 90% of illegal immigrants, US now a ‘sanctuary country’
Biden has limited who can be deported to a tiny group, including suspected terrorists, very bad criminals, and the handful of illegal immigrants who crossed into the United States after Election Day. That essentially leaves 13 million off the hook.
Why the Guilbeault Amendment to Bill C-10 Makes CRTC Regulation of User Generated Content “Crystal Clear”
For the past week, Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault has promised to address widespread concern over Bill C-10, the Broadcasting Act reform bill. After the issue emerged as an increasingly prominent part of House of Commons debate, Guilbeault stated;
we also want to make sure that the content that people upload on social media won’t be considered as programming under the act and that it won’t be regulated by the CRTC. And that’s why we will be bringing forward another amendment that will make this crystal clear.
Public Safety ignored Antifa, violent left-wing groups in banned terror group report
The Trudeau Government failed to consider any violent left-wing protest groups associated with urban riots and bombings when compiling its annual list of banned terrorist groups, True North has learned.
According to a new document exclusively obtained by True North, the Department of Public Safety did not provide any records to the Minister on a long list of Antifa-affiliated groups who operate in Canada.
Only An Incredibly Foolish Country Would Be Reliant On Line 5 When We’re Awash In Oil
Canadians shouldn’t even know the name of the Line 5 pipeline.
It should be completely inconsequential to our fortunes.
If you are reluctant to get the COVID vaccine and beginning to feel overrun by forces pressuring you to get vaccinated, you aren’t alone and you aren’t crazy. There’s a reason you feel the way you do. You are being manipulated.
We are being bombarded with commercials pushing us to be socially responsible. Medical professionals, celebrities, and folks in our communities admonish us not to shirk our civic duty. Suddenly, the vaccine is the only way to normalcy.
Michelle Obama Worries Racist White Cops Will Kill Her And Her Daughters
Michelle Obama, who has lived a privileged life by any standard, really wants us to believe she is “regular folks.” An even greater need for her is that people see her as an oppressed black victim of systemic racism. Despite the fact that she was in the White House for 8 years, she wants people to think that at any moment a racist white police officer could kill her and her daughters.
Ivermectin works – it’s that simple
How wicked are the culprits of this COVID enterprise, that they violate our rights and destroy our society, while pushing dangerous experimental injections on us, and obstructing safe, affordable, and effective treatments like Ivermectin?
Regulating What Canadians See Online: Why Bill C-10 Would Establish CRTC-Approved TikTok, Youtube and Instagram Feeds
The uproar over Bill C-10 has rightly focused on the government’s decision to remove safeguards for user generated content from the bill. Despite insistence from Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault that users will not be regulated and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that users will not be required to make Cancon contributions, the reality is that the removal of Section 4.1 from the bill means that all user generated content is treated as a “program” under the Act and therefore subject to regulation by the CRTC.
PBO Report Provides Further Evidence Of How Dangerous The Debt-Binging Liberal Budget Is To Canada’s Future
Judge indefinitely extends lockout of Trinity Bible Chapel
Under the new order from Justice John Krawchenko of Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice, the Trinity Bible Chapel in Waterloo Region will be indefinitely locked out of its building.
Bill Gates calls for global alert system and ‘pandemic fire squads’ for post-Covid-19 world
Social media users are recoiling at Bill Gates’ call for a global disease alert system, questioning why a tech billionaire with no medical expertise or elected office is plotting what they fear could become a platform for tyranny.
Climate alarmists could ‘cancel’ your pets
Talk about a pet peeve. The climate alarmists have come for your pets. No, really. A new report from Vox.com is now urging the public to consider offering a home to other pets besides dogs and cats. Why?
The report says their respective diets and lifestyles contribute to global warming for various reasons. In addition, the toilet needs of contemporary dogs include the use of pastel-colored poop bags while cats visit litter boxes where the filler is not necessarily made of natural, eco-friendly materials like wood shavings.
“Are our pets gobbling up the planet? From the meat-based meals to kitty litter to plastic poop bags, pet care is unarguably bad for the environment,” Vox said, offering ways to reduce pets’ carbon pawprint and citing the perils of pet waste — equivalent to “the annual trash of 6.6 million humans.”
h/t Mom
Never-Before-Seen Drone Footage from Charlottesville 2017 Protests Reveals Enormous Extent of Media Lies and Propaganda
Shows there was almost no chance convicted driver James Fields knew that he was turning onto a street with extreme left-wing protesters as a gathering left-wing crowd waited while protesting through the whole city.
Could be critical evidence in the pending appeal by James Fields of his double convictions in both state and federal courts, leaving the then-20 year old with a life without probation sentence plus 419 years.
Shows that the pro-Lee protesters looking to protect a statue of Robert E. Lee from being taken down were literally pushed by Democrat police agents and funneled through a hostile crowd of left-wing agitators.
Shows militant Antifa, ‘alternative left’ Communists, outnumbered pro-Lee protesters by 10:1, yet media only covered the presence and violence of pro-Lee protesters. Left-wing violence was officially sanctioned by media, government and police during the protest.
Law enforcement never requested this footage; this full footage has never been seen before!
Video makes clear the ‘alternative left’ could protest anywhere, assault anyone, and police would not stop them. The pro-Lee protesters were repeatedly shut down by police and had to fight for months in federal court to even get a protest permit.
Pastor speaks out after Ontario government locks his church’s doors
Ontario’s attorney general has been granted a court order to lock the doors of the Trinity Bible Chapel to prevent pastors or members of the congregation from being on the premises, after the church received millions of dollars worth of fines for holding regular services.
Kenney Announces Overbearing Ontario-Style Lockdown Restrictions in Alberta
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney was expected to implement harsher lockdown measures after weeks of climbing COVID-19 and variant infections in spite of already tough lockdowns that have evidently failed to curb the spread throughout the province.
Speaking Out on Bill C-10 and the Regulation of User Generated Content
The past week has seen a groundswell of public concern over Bill C-10 and the government’s plan to regulate user generated content. I have given numerous interviews, many of which do a nice job of distilling the key issues in an accessible manner.
Push for U.S. ‘vaccine passport’ grows as Canada announces its own
The Biden administration has insisted it won’t cross the civil liberties barrier of requiring “vaccine passports,” but coordination already is underway with corporate world and now Canada’s health minister says America’s northern neighbor “absolutely” will require them for international travel.
Mark Meadows — It’s time to break up twitter and facebook
“It’s a sad day for America. It’s a sad day for Facebook because I can tell you, a number of members of Congress are now looking at do they break up Facebook? Do they make sure they don’t have a monopoly?” Meadows asked rhetorically on “America’s Newsroom.” “And I can tell you it’s two different standards: one for Donald Trump and one for a number of other people that are on their sites and suggesting more nefarious things than what the president has been accused of actually go unnoticed often.”
Biden pushes for diversity in transition to clean energy
As the nation pushes to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels and use cleaner energy sources, President Joe Biden’s administration says it wants to ensure diversity among the communities that benefit from the transition and the people who are hired to do the work.
Toronto councillor wants “white and male” politicians replaced on Canadian currency
The motion, which is entitled “Diversification of Depictions on Canadian Coins and Bills to better reflect a more Heterogeneous and Inclusive Society,” asks the City of Toronto to urge the Bank of Canada and the Royal Canadian Mint to print currency that better reflects “multicultural, gender diverse and multiracial” values.
Free Speech Under Threat: The Real Consequences of Steven Guilbeault’s Battle with the Web Giants
My new Macleans op-ed notes that government legislation tends to attract a wide range of responses. Some bills grab the spotlight and become sources of heated debate for months, while others fly under the radar screen with few Canadians taking notice. Until recently, Bill C-10, the government’s Broadcasting Act reform bill, fell into the latter category. Introduced last November as part of Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault’s mission to “make web giants pay”, the bill was steadily and stealthily working its way through the Parliamentary process with only a few days of “clause by clause” review left before a final reading and vote in the House of Commons.
Trudeau seeks international allies for vaccine passport implementation
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sounded committed to the idea of a vaccine passport for incoming travellers, but added that implementing the idea would require cooperation from like-minded countries.
Bias: Chauvin juror Brandon Mitchell
I have to say I assume that many jurors either either lied outright or simply were unaware of their preconceived notions or the strength of them and how that would affect their ability to be fair in Chauvin’s trial. This is always a hazard in a high-profile emotionally- and politically-laden case such as Chauvin’s. It’s one of the reasons the judge should have bent over backwards to do everything he could to minimize the risk, such as changing the venue or at the very least allowing more challenges for cause when jurors seemed to have biases.
‘Deplorable’ professor creates ‘anti-indoctrination mill’ with new education startup
Michael Rectenwald got himself chased out of New York University when the self-identified communist copped to tweeting against trigger warnings, safe spaces and bias reporting under the pseudonym “Deplorable NYU Prof.”
The professor left two years ago with a golden parachute — the result of a legal settlement with the private university that included a retirement package.
He’s not content anymore with just writing polemical books and fiction in retirement. Now Rectenwald is scouting for academics to join an educational startup, American Scholars, that is launching this summer.
Basecamp Bans ‘Wokeness’ At Work, And Their Tantrum-Throwing Woke Employees Prove Them 100% Right
According to reports, one-third of Basecamp’s 57 employees have since resigned, with some celebrating those who decided to leave the company.
Fake News Still Gaslighting America with Phony Polls
Opinion polls, particularly in the buildup to a presidential election, are not designed to reflect public opinion, but instead to shape it. For the media, objectivity is only of historic interest, a journalistic tenet from a bygone era. Now most of the media is embedded within the Democrat party, serving as an advocacy arm or political action committee to influence elections and agendas.
h/t Mom
1 in 5 electric vehicle owners in California switched back to gas because charging their cars is a hassle, new research shows
In roughly three minutes, you can fill the gas tank of a Ford Mustang and have enough range to go about 300 miles with its V8 engine.
But for the electric Mustang Mach-E, an hour plugged into a household outlet gave Bloomberg automotive analyst Kevin Tynan just three miles of range.
Prince Harry Pushes Vaccine Equity In Speech
Prince Harry recently recorded an address for Global Citizen’s Vax Live concert to air on May 8 in a push to promote vaccine equity.
The organization previously said that the Royals “will serve as campaign chairs of VAX LIVE, encouraging the private sector to make donations to COVAX, the vaccine pillar of the ACT-Accelerator, to ensure everyone, everywhere can access COVID-19 vaccines.”
Liberals and NDP Block Debate On Updated Charter of Rights and Freedoms Review of Bill C-10
The Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage continued its clause-by-clause review of Bill C-10 on Friday. As reported in the National Post and iPolitics, the meeting featured a motion brought by Conservative MP Rachael Harder calling on the committee to suspend review of the bill until an updated review of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms implications can be conducted by the Minister of Justice in light of the removal of Section 4.1, that provided safeguards against regulating user generated content under the Broadcasting Act. The motion also calls on the Ministers of Justice and Canadian Heritage to appear before committee to discuss the issue.
Activists demand Halifax libraries pull “dangerous” book skeptical of transgender ideology
LGBTQ activists and some concerned parents are hoping to force Halifax Public Libraries to censor a book that’s skeptical of transgender ideology from its shelves because they see it as being “dangerous” and “transphobic.”
Evidence Finally Uncovered Big Tech Colluded with Biden Campaign to Censor Trump’s Election Claims
One of the mysteries of the 2020 election is why Big Tech firms suddenly came up with an unprecedented ‘standard’ to censor one of the most powerful political figures in the world: Donald Trump. Now, we finally have insight about some of the behind-the-scenes communications between a state government, a Biden-linked firm, and Big Tech companies during the 2020 campaign.
How science has been corrupted
The pandemic has brought into relief a dissonance between our idealised image of science, on the one hand, and the work “science” is called upon to do in our society, on the other. I think the dissonance can be traced to this mismatch between science as an activity of the solitary mind, and the institutional reality of it. Big science is fundamentally social in its practice, and with this comes certain entailments.
‘Skinning The Cat’ Irreversible Damage To The Philosophy Of Freedom
On the surface, the people of the country seem to be very divided right now. If, however, you take out the fanatic fringes of both the left and right, we really aren’t. We all want a peaceful place to live, decent jobs, a good economy, opportunity, fair and equal treatment…in short, the pursuit of happiness.
What has always been at issue is not whether these are good and proper things to want, but how we might obtain them. The highest-profile issue at the moment is immigration. As I mentioned, other than the fringe radicals, most Americans want to accept immigrants from other places but disagree on the process to use so that we can be assured that the desires enumerated above are not threatened, but are enhanced.
If Bill C-10 isn’t a fireable offence, this interview should be. Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault is simply unable to respond coherently to basic questions about his own legislation and flailing for talking points that seek to blame tech companies or opposition parties for the fact that he introduced legislation that exempted user generated content, removed the exception, and has no answer for why. Watch the interview and decide whether Canadians can trust Guilbeault to defend freedom of expression online.
Conservatives say government still has no plan for Trudeau’s two-billion tree pledge
“We’re two years into that commitment, almost two years into it, and they’re still acting like they still have another 10 years,” said Conservative environment critic Dan Albas.
Albas says the government has provided few details on how the government will source approximately 222 million seedlings per year and find viable land to plant them.
Canada Will Require Using A Vaccine Passport For Entry
Canadian Health Minister Patty Hajdu says her government supports the idea of a “vaccine passport” and will come up with a form of vaccine certification to allow vaccinated Canadians to travel internationally.
Antifa Infiltrated: From Target Lists To Recorded Threats to “Kill People,” And “Kill Some Cops” To Doxxing And Threatening A Mayor, We See Who The Real Terrorists And Insurrectionists Are
While Joe Biden, the media and Democrats (all the same, I know!) focus on the events on January 6, 2021 at the Capitol, terrorizing Americans by claiming it was an “Insurrection!!!!,” the terrorism of the past decade from Antifa and BLM groups aren’t mentioned, or it is downplayed to the point where high profile “news” personalities try to justify and defend their violence.
Perhaps because Antifa is used as the paramilitary arm for the Democrats, so of course their riots, arson, looting and million of dollars in destruction, are not heavily covered or criticized.
Challenging Technocensorship: Rutherford Institute Petitions Court To Prohibit Facebook From Censoring, De-Platforming COVID-19 Vaccine Critics
Warning against the rising threat to free speech posed by the government’s collusion with large technology companies in order to regulate and control what ideas can be shared on the internet and through social media, The Rutherford Institute has asked a federal court to prohibit Facebook from censoring and de-platforming critics of the COVID-19 vaccine in violation of the First Amendment. In an amicus brief filed in Children’s Health Defense v. Facebook, Rutherford Institute attorneys argue that Facebook acted in concert with U.S. government officials and agencies to suppress and punish Children’s Health Defense for sharing information critical of the dangers of the COVID-19 vaccine.
White Farmers Sue Biden Admin Over USDA Loan Forgiveness Program Aimed Only at Minorities
Democrats and their surrogates in the media, academia, and the entertainment world have been pushing the lie of “systemic racism” caused by “white supremacy” really hard in the past few years alone, but their effort has been ramped up significantly since Joe Biden ‘won’ the presidency in November.
Steven Guilbeault says only “extremist element” opposes internet regulation bill
In Question Period Thursday, Conservative MP Rachael Harder accused the Liberal government of being “deceptive, sneaky, crafty and wrong” by attempting to argue that Bill C-10 – which would regulate online publishers and even user-generated content – will not threaten free speech.
Regina Councillors Try to Block Trans Person Warning of Dangers of Hormone Treatments for Kids
Although Smith identifies as transgender, he strongly opposes gender/sex transitioning children using strong puberty-blocking drugs, and other invasive medical treatments, especially due to the fact that the vast majority of children who identify as transgender in one way or another desist before the age of 18.
Smith’s attempt to reach the members of the Regina City Council did not go over well with the majority of the board seeming to refuse to hear even the most basic factual overview for why the medical transitioning of children is mentally and physically dangerous to their health. Multiple councillors repeatedly cut Smith’s testimony off claiming it was off-topic or irrelevant.
‘It’s shocking:’ More than 1,000 parking tickets issued at Calgary’s mass vaccination site
Weyman said he didn’t know the free parking being offered by the Calgary Parking Authority (CPA) at the site was only valid for 90 minutes.
“It was fairly chaotic, but all we were told was to put our license plate number into ParkPlus and go get in line, which is exactly what we did,” he said.
Knife-Wielding Ma’Khia Bryant’s High School Stealthily Adds Her To Honor Roll After Mother Claimed She Was An “Honor Roll Student”
The high school of the knife-wielding teen shot by police while attacking another woman quietly added her to their honor roll after her mother had claimed she was an “honor roll student”.
Independence High School in Columbus, Ohio updated the honor roll list on its website to show that Ma’Khia Bryant had recently earned honor roll status for the past nine-week quarter.
Let’s Not Give Statehood To The Third World Country Of Washington DC
In their latest leftist power-grab, Democratic lawmakers in the House of Representatives voted last week to admit Washington, D.C. as the 51st state in the union, tossing the measure to the Senate, where it faces an uphill battle. That’s because, as even some Democratic senators know, conferring statehood on the District of Columbia is a horrible idea — and not just because the founders wouldn’t approve.
The Bay Area has descended into a post-apocalyptic hellscape
I was last in San Francisco about three years ago. Back then, the City was already degrading. In the years since then, with help from COVID, the Bay Area has degraded even further. This is what leftism does to communities.
Why the Government’s Secret Forthcoming Bill C-10 Amendment Confirms Its Plans to Regulate User Generated Content
Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault (is a lying shitweasel-Ed) and the Liberal government’s response to mounting concern over its decision to remove a legal safeguard designed to ensure the CRTC would not regulate user generated content has been denial. The department’s own officials told MPs that all programming on sites like Youtube would be subject to regulation, yet Guilbeault insisted to the House of Commons that user generated content would be excluded from regulation as part of Bill C-10, his Broadcasting Act reform bill.
However, based on new documents I recently obtained, it has become clear that Guilbeault and the government have misled the Canadian public with their response. In fact, the government effectively acknowledges that it is regulating user generated content in a forthcoming, still-secret amendment to Bill C-10. Amendment G-13, submitted by Liberal MP Julie Dabrusin on April 7th and likely to come before the committee studying the bill over the next week, seeks to amend Section 10(1) of the Broadcasting Act which specifies the CRTC’s regulatory powers.
Pediatricians sound alarm over mental health crisis in youth
A group of Ottawa pediatricians say they’re dealing with youth with a wide range of mental health issues — from eating disorders to major depression — brought on by the pandemic.
“We’re seeing it in our offices,” said Dr. Jane Liddle. “We have never seen this level of kids with major depression, suicidal thoughts and severe eating disorders.”
Liddle is among a group of local pediatricians sounding the alarm about the rise of mental health issues among children, adolescents and teens — psychological effects of the pandemic they fear will linger after the health crisis is over.
Calgary police obtain SECRET warrant to use “any force necessary” to disrupt church service
Rebels, we have an absolute emergency on our hands. There is another pastor in Alberta who could potentially face jail time, just like Pastor James Coates of GraceLife Church.
This pastor is known to you. Actually he’s known to the world. Pastor Art Pawlowski was our first Fight The Fines case, after he received lockdown tickets for feeding the homeless outside in Calgary, Alberta — something the police called an illegal gathering. Art continues to rack up tickets because he refuses to stop feeding the homeless. And he doesn’t wear a mask when he does it outside. Art also doesn’t limit his church services to 15 per cent of fire code capacity. The city hates him for it.
— Cabin Talk / Claudia (@claudia_stauber) April 28, 2021
Outrage as innocent schoolboys are forced to stand in front of class and and labelled ‘oppressors’ – all because they are white, male and Christian
A youth worker forced Year 11 male students at a co-ed public school to stand up in front of the class as she condemned them as historical ‘oppressors’ because they are white, male, and Christian.
The female Kingston City Council worker gave a talk about privilege, pronouns, and intersectionality at Parkdale Secondary College in Mordialloc, Melbourne, last Wednesday.
She then asked students who are white, male and Christian to stand up, The Herald Sun reported.
The woman told these students that they were ‘privileged’ and ‘oppressors’, sparking outrage among parents and local councillors.
Former Obama Administration Chief Scientist Says Global Warming Is Propaganda
President Barack Obama’s Energy Department Chief Scientist Steven Koonin’s soon-to-be-published book will discuss information that the public really needs to have regarding grossly overheated “climate crisis” media hype.
Titled “Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What it Doesn’t, and Why It Matters,” a preview of it’s contents is provided in an April 16 Wall Street Journal interview with the author posted by Holman Jenkins, Jr.
Jenkins’ piece is titled “How a Physicist Became a Climate Truth Teller,” and I recommend it to readers who are interested in a fuller book content and author background account.
NYC Father Moves Daughter to Florida to Escape Critical Race Theory Curriculum
A New York father decided to pull his daughter out of a New York City private school because of the school’s woke race-based curriculum and move to Florida.
“Little children don’t need to feel bad about the color of their skin,” Harvey Goldman told Fox & Friends First on Monday. “That’s what they’re teaching them, to feel bad about who they are.”
“Schools are supposed to be teaching you confidence,” he added. Goldman also said that most parents and even teachers are “scared to say something.”
With Bill C-10, Trudeau & Guilbeault Show They See Themselves As Rulers, And See You As A Powerless Subject
Politicians would only try this on a people they feel are too weak and easily manipulated to push back.
Travel Restrictions Aren’t a Silver Bullet
The Trudeau government implemented travel restrictions weeks and months after they could help, continuing its pattern of making things up as it goes. Yet those calling for increased border restrictions, such as Ontario Premier Doug Ford and a number of columnists, are calling for solutions that could very easily trample on the rights of Canadian citizens. True North’s Andrew Lawton explains.
Why Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault’s Own Department Officials Don’t Support His Claims on Regulating User Generated Content
Days after the government removed legal safeguards designed to ensure the CRTC would not regulate user generated content as part of Bill C-10, its Broadcasting Act reform bill, the public and political world have awoken to the troubling implications for freedom of expression. Political columnists are comparing Canada to China in censoring the Internet and opposition MPs have launched petitions with promises to fight back against the bill. The issue unsurprisingly became a major talking point during Question Period in the House of Commons yesterday. While Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault retreated to his usual talking points, it is notable that his claims are not even supported by his own department officials.
How Activism In Everything Has Transformed National Life Into A Pantomime
Our flags seem perpetually at half-staff. They came halfway down in honor of the Atlanta shooting victims, and for when we crossed the somber total of an estimated 500,000 Americans who died with coronavirus. They were lowered in honor of U.S. Capitol Police Officer William “Billy” Evans, in honor of the Boulder, Colorado shooting victims, and in honor of the Indianapolis shooting victims. They fell for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Chadwick Boseman.
Perhaps some of these memorial actions are warranted — certainly, it is proper to have some form of public memorialization for the dead. Yet the constant churn of half-staff tributes has become so routine that it has lost its honorary lustre, an action more representative of performative, activist art than a recognition of some especially important public loss.
Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Would Redefine ‘Broadband’ To Justify Spending $100 Billion on Government-run Internet
The Biden administration is manufacturing a market failure to justify spending $100 billion on municipal broadband and other government-run internet projects.
‘It’s all social justice. All day. Every day.’ Socialist OPRF school board members caught gloating on Zoom
Two Roosevelt University professors who also serve on the Oak Park and River Forest High School school board were caught on an open Zoom call bragging about how they promote Marxist re-organization of American society to their college students.
Talking before the start of OPRF’s Feb. 26 board meeting on a live microphone, Gina Harris and Ralph Martire said they were proud to advocate for so-called “social justice” Marxist economic concepts.
McKenna promises to “do a better job” following scathing auditor general report
Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna is promising more accountability after the auditor general found her department continuously failed to meet its goals.
Speaking to the House of Commons transport committee, McKenna said the department needs to “do a better job of explaining” following the condemnations from the auditor general.
NDP’s proposed tax on ‘excess’ profits could rake in $8B: budget watchdog
A new report from the Parliamentary Budget Office estimates corporate income tax revenues could increase significantly if Canada hikes its corporate tax rate on businesses that have seen their profits soar during the pandemic.
Military, civilian health workers heading to Ontario, Nova Scotia
Dozens of health professionals from both the military and federal public service are being deployed to some provinces as the relentless third wave of COVID-19 in Canada continues.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says help is on the way to Ontario and Nova Scotia already and discussions are underway with Alberta.
DHS Launches Internal Probe to Root Out ‘Domestic Violent Extremism’ Within Its Ranks
The investigation will determine how to prevent and respond to racially or ethnically motivated violence and other extremist acts, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said. DHS has cautioned there is a heightened threat for domestic attacks and has designated its effort to counter the threat as a “national priority area” in doling out Federal Emergency Management Agency grants. Mayorkas pointed specifically to the Jan. 6 violent insurrection attempt at the U.S. Capitol Building as evidence that domestic extremism is the most “lethal and persistent terrorism-related threat to our country today.”
Facebook Oversight Board Member Warns Against Censoring Misinformation
“I regard the category of misinformation as being one where we need to be extremely cautious,” Michael McConnell told the Free Beacon. “There are legitimate differences of opinion on lots of matters, and we need to make sure we don’t squelch legitimate disagreement of historical, scientific, or political nature in the name of misinformation.”
Wealthiest Cities in Bluest States Reap Windfall From Democrats’ COVID-19 ‘Stimulus’
All the municipalities on Bloomberg’s list of the 50 richest places received a total of $100 million worth of bailout aid under congressional Democrats’ American Rescue Plan Act, according to Open the Books.
The “stimulus” bill—so far the most significant legislation signed by President Joe Biden—included $350 billion in direct funding for state and local governments.
Montreal port strike imperils supply chains across Canada, Ottawa poised to legislate end to dispute
Under pressure from both the Ontario and Quebec governments, federal Labour Minister Filomena Tassi signalled on Sunday she was prepared to legislate an end to the work stoppage.
Kelly McParland: Justin Trudeau’s war on committees
The less Canadians know about the government’s mistakes, the easier it is for the government to do nothing about them.
Opinion: There’s more to democracy than majority rule
Trump Isn’t President Any More, But The Left Is Still Blaming Him For Everything
“Trump’s shadow looms over Biden’s presidency and a divided nation.” So ran the headline of the latest piece of propaganda scribed by the Democrat mouthpiece publishing under the banner of the Washington Post. Line after line following that in last Thursday’s purported “analysis” cements the sad reality that journalism dies in broad daylight.
New York’s bail laws keep putting criminals back out on the street
Judge Denise Johnson just cut loose reputed gang member Takim Newson, 32, who had more than 20 priors and stands charged with attempted murder and related crimes. He allegedly shot a 43-year-old man in the groin while trying to steal a cellphone at a bar in Jamaica early on Feb. 14. He served a 3½-year prison sentence for an armed robbery in Nassau County before being paroled in 2011, according to the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Web site.
Supreme Court To Hear 2nd Amendment Case Defending The Right To Self Defense
The Supreme Court of the United States on Monday announced their intent to hear the first Second Amendment case in more than a decade. The case, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Corlett, will force the Court to address whether or not Americans can be forced to prove the need to carry a firearm for self-defense.
Ten times the Liberals dismissed facts as “fake news” or “disinformation”
The Trudeau government has regularly dismissed any criticism as “fake news,” “disinformation” and “conspiracy theories.”
Over the course of the pandemic, the Liberals have waved away real concerns Canadians harbour about vaccine distribution, economic recovery and even going so far as brushing aside official government COVID-19 data.
A glimpse inside the ER during the pandemic’s 3rd wave
As Ontario’s hospitals prepare for the possibility of triaging life-saving care in the event COVID-19 cases further overwhelm resources, one Ottawa doctor says she’s not emotionally prepared to make such choices.
Canada’s response to coronavirus variants does not inspire confidence
It was a rather inauspicious start for Canada’s new phase of international flight restrictions yesterday as Canada’s largest province announced they’d recorded 36 cases of the new coronavirus variant that these restrictions are ostensibly aimed at keeping out.
Let’s call the Biden infrastructure bill what it is: The New Entitlements Act of 2021
If everything is infrastructure, then the word has no meaning.
Liberal Saturday Night Live Viewers Triggered After Elon Musk Announced As May 8 Host
For better or for worse, it’s going to get eyeballs on the show, which is NBC’s endgame. The news triggered the lot of super-liberal SNL viewers, who lashed out at the program on Twitter, which became a group “cancel” effort/therapy session for snowflakes.
“Welcome To The Loopy Left Era of Joe Biden!” Sky News Scorches Adolescent “Post-Truth” Biden Climate Agenda
There was recently yet another climate summit by world leaders. At the summit, adolescent grand-standing by teenage activists was treated like a legitimate basis for multi-trillion dollar authoritarian globalist policies. These policies would completely change the entire economies and societies of every country on earth.
