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Freedom of Expression Under Attack: The Liberal Government Moves to Have the CRTC Regulate All User Generated Content

Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault appeared before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage last month and was asked by Liberal MP Tim Louis about “misinformation that somehow this [Bill C-10] would control, or regulate, or censor social media.”

FERNANDO: The Spectre Of Inflation Is Haunting Canada

“Those who forget the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.”

Unfortunately, that saying applies to Canada in a big way.

The Trudeau government is embarking upon an experiment in ‘Modern Monetary Theory,’ the idea that printed money (or money created on a computer from thin air) can be used to finance endless debt and deficits almost without limit.

Canada is not ready for the shut down of Line 5

It looks like the worst energy crisis in recent history is coming – and Central Canada and our federal government are not ready.

In less than a month the Governor of Michigan intends to shut down Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline which brings the oil that creates half of the gasoline, diesel, propane and jet fuel that Ontario and Quebec consume. The closing of Line 5 will, in short order, cost Ontario access to 540,000 barrels of oil a day and threatens over 28,000 jobs. 

If you are transitioning to male but still have the body parts to be pregnant, you are a woman. You will always be a biological female anyway.

And identifying as non binary, or whatever else, doesn’t change the fact that you have a woman’s body.

I don’t buy the woke nonsense. https://t.co/nntAl4JBW4

— Maxime Bernier (@MaximeBernier) April 24, 2021

Hahaha! pic.twitter.com/Q9HUcMBdy3

— AG 🔥 (@Yolo304741) April 23, 2021

Humans can infect cats with COVID-19 — what that means for scariants

The findings are especially worrisome, given that animal transmission may encourage the breeding of new coronavirus scariations, and set off a new wave of infections.

Kamala Harris Claims ‘Extreme Climate’ Is One of the ‘Root Causes’ of the Border Crisis

Harris made her comments at a roundtable on the Northern Triangle, where she discussed the ongoing migrant crisis at the overwhelmed U.S.-Mexico border.

CNN hosts climate-change event after leak of plan to sell ‘climate fear’

CNN is hosting a live climate-change townhall in the wake of a staffer disclosing in a hidden-camera exchange with Project Veritas that the network plans to pivot its focus from COVID-19 to climate change, noting “fear sells.”

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The many myths on which this budget is based

To read the budget – the first in two years – you’d swear at times it was written in April, 2020, rather than April, 2021. Perhaps this was the budget the government intended to deliver then, before it decided not to bother.

Pregnant women in Ontario moved to highest risk category for vaccine eligibility

“In response to emerging data on the increased risk of severe illness for pregnant women, all pregnant individuals will be eligible to register for vaccination appointments under the highest risk health conditions in the Phase 2 prioritization guidance,” the Ontario Ministry of Health said in a statement.

As Canada’s federal and provincial budgets swell, sales-tax increases may follow

Canada’s provincial and federal government debt has ballooned during the COVID-19 pandemic, as it has for governments around the world, as they cope with both the costs of a health emergency and the need to use taxpayer dollars to prop up their economies.

But in Canada, some of the new public spending will settle at a permanently higher level or resume an upward trend once life goes back to normal, some economists say.

‘They Are Telling You Don’t Believe Your Own Eyes’: Vince Coglianese Slams The Media’s Spin On Ma’Khia Bryant Shooting

“The most amazing thing about this story is, they don’t come out, the left doesn’t come out and, like, conceded that they were wrong and said ‘well the visual evidence shows that this was totally justified,’” Coglianese continued. “They don’t point to the fact that black lives were actually saved by the police officer, that the people who made the phone call to the police were black, asking to be saved from an imminent stabbing.”

Ex-Cop: ‘People Need to Stop Doing Things That Get Them Killed’

As media/political activists on the left promote the idea that racist police are targeting black people, Americans don’t often hear the other side of the issue — why police are showing up in the first place.

‘I Didn’t Want to Go Through the Rioting’: Juror in Chauvin Trial Makes Stunning Admission over ‘Guilty’ Verdict

During the course of the trial, Judge Peter Cahill mentioned that the court case was getting dangerously close to mistrial. A new interview with an alternate juror named Lisa Christensen, who lives in Brooklyn Center, provides new insight into the courtroom dynamics.

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Canadian Constitution Foundation releases “Know Your Rights” guide for Ontario stay at home order

The guide follows a chaotic weekend in Ontario where the government granted the police enhanced powers to stop and question people outside their homes, and then the near immediate repeal of those powers.

Burnaby School District bans crazy hair days for causing offence

According to the school district, the term “crazy” is offensive to people suffering from mental illness and the event itself is not inclusive for people who wear head coverings like turbans or hijabs.

I was hoping it was because someone knotted a bone on their head.

Ontario and Quebec premiers call for stricter measures at land and air borders

Ontario Premier Doug Ford and his Quebec counterpart are calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to introduce “stricter” measures at land and air border crossings to ensure that all non-essential travel is “curtailed” amid a devastating third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This girl needs some time with based cat. 😼👋🏽
https://t.co/6QL6pYnRGo

— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) April 21, 2021

While leftist “Squad” calls to defund police, they spend big bucks on their own security

You’ve got to love leftist hypocrisy.

From Patrisse Cullors of Black Lives Matter buying millions of dollars of real estate in primarily white neighborhoods to Nancy Pelosi having an eight-foot fence with concertina wire on top to “protect” the U.S. Capitol, their chutzpah knows no bounds.

Now we’re finding out that the members of the neo-Marxist “squad”, who have been calling for police to be defunded themselves pay tens of thousands of dollars on private security…for themselves.

This Trial Was A Disgrace

I don’t pretend to know if Derek Chauvin is guilty in the objective sense – Judge Mom, a conservative who sent a lot of people to jail as a prosecutor before doing it from the bench, made a convincing argument to me for a murder conviction soon after the incident – but I do know one thing. This trial was a travesty, a kangaroo court, and as a country, we should be ashamed of ourselves.

Biden’s climate envoy John Kerry says we need to ‘remove carbon dioxide from the air’ and criticizes Trump for leaving the Paris climate deal without ‘facts or science’

President Biden’s climate envoy John Kerry blasted the Trump Administration for pulling out of the Paris climate deal he helped negotiate – then jolted even some environmentalists when he called to pull carbon dioxide ‘out of the atmosphere.’

Yeah no plants, cool.

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We’ve run this before, but in light of several articles in this morning’s Continental Breakfast, it seems worthy of posting again.

Over 50% Of Liberal, White Women Under 30 Have A Mental Health Issue. Are We Worried Yet?

A 2020 Pew Research study reveals that over half of white, liberal women have been diagnosed with a mental health condition at some point. Does this mean there’s a correlation between progressive ideas and mental health?

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The Perils of “COVID Zero” Policies

The backlash from citizens and police to the Ontario government’s expansion of police powers was swift. True North contributor Anthony Furey said on The Andrew Lawton Show Ontarians were, in part, rejecting the “COVID Zero” mindset adopted by a number of governments, which gravitates towards extreme policies to get cases to zero rather than measured and risk-based approaches.

Jesse Kline: Chrystia Freeland’s budget tries to paper over failed COVID response

Our government completely let us down the one time we actually needed it to keep us safe.

Commercial Airline Pilots Keep Reporting UFOs Over Canada

VICE World News has uncovered dozens of recent UFO reports from Air Canada, WestJet, Porter, and other airlines in a government aviation incident database.

‘One Cop Almost Down… A Million More Cops…To Go’: Rutgers Prof’s Hopes For the Future

Chenjerai Kumanyika, whose “research and teaching focus on the intersections of social justice and emerging media in the cultural and creative industries,” according to Rutgers, tweeted, “One cop almost down. A massive carceral system and a million other cops, capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy, ableism, misogyny, to go.”

EXCLUSIVE: ICE Officers Instructed to Censor Arrest Reports Per New Biden Policy

The email tells officers to redact information prior to submission to Immigration Courts or the public as part of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The source, who wished to remain anonymous, believes the instructions are designed to hide the full truth when criminal aliens are released instead of deported and then commit subsequent crimes.

Greta Thunberg: COVID & Climate are ‘interlinked’ – We can no longer separate the health crisis from the ecological’ & ‘climate crisis’

Greta Thunberg: “Today, up to 75 of diseases come from animals. As we are cutting down forests and destroying habitats, we are creating the ideal conditions for diseases to spill over from one animal to another and then to us.” – “We can no longer separate the health crisis from the ecological crisis. And we cannot separate the ecological crisis from the climate crisis. It’s all interlinked in many ways.”

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Trudeau minister says internet censorship bill will make Canadians ‘safer’

Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault will introduce the first-ever internet control bill to be tabled in Parliament within the “next couple of weeks,” he revealed during a videoconference.

“My job is to ensure the safety and security of the Canadian population,” said Herr Goebbels.

Sean Speer: The budget is a sign that progressives are winning the battle of ideas

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a massive opening to see these political ideas come to fruition.

Liberal budget promises new funding for the CBC

Over the next year, Canada’s state broadcaster will receive an extra $21 million in addition to the CBC’s annual $1.2 billion federal grant.

Executive Order Canceling the Constitution

On April 15, Preident Biden signed an Executive Order on Blocking Property with Respect to Specified Harmful Foreign Activities of the Government of the Russian Federation. Contrary to its title, this EO is not about Russia. It is designed to allow the Biden administration to deprive American citizens and organizations of their rights and property by arbitrarily linking those persons to real, imagined, or vaguely defined activities of the Russian government.

h/t Mom

AOC says ‘trampling’ of ‘indigenous rights’ and ‘racial justice’ is a cause of climate change

“The climate crisis is a crisis born of injustice, and it is a crisis born of the pursuit of profit at any and all human and ecological cost, which means that we must recognize in legislation that the trampling of indigenous rights is a cause of climate change,” the New York Democrat said, “that the trampling of racial justice is a cause of climate change because we are allowing people and we are allowing folks to deny ourselves human rights and deny people the right to healthcare, the right to housing and education.”

Biden Education Department Wants To Prioritize Critical Race Theory And 1619 Project In School Curriculum

The Education Department has proposed a rule that would prioritize grant applications to school districts wanting to include critical race theory, the 1619 Project, and so-called anti-racism studies into their civics curriculum.

Legal Insurrection reported that the Education Department proposed the new rule on Monday in an apparent move to continue reversing the Trump administration’s prohibition on critical race theory in the federal government trainings.

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Erin O’Toole Is Treating Canadian Conservatives With Undisguised Contempt

When someone lies to you over and over and over again, so blatantly, without even pretending to tell the truth, and then expects you to go along with it, what does that person think of you?

How angry is the Tory backbench right now?

The Doug Ford government has not, as of Monday, come anywhere close to fixing what it broke on Friday. That could cost the Tories the next election, if Ford even makes it that far.

It’s often said that success in politics is about dividing your enemies and unifying your allies. Ford, his cabinet, and his caucus have managed the rather spectacular feat of dividing their allies and unifying their enemies. And the task of getting back on a solid footing for next year’s election is going to be in large part about trying to reverse the damage of the past two weeks — and especially the damage of the past 96 hours.

NDP leader asks Trudeau to consider invoking Emergencies Act in Ontario

The act, which has never been used, gives the federal government the power to override provincial laws to ensure “safety and security” during national emergencies.

.@GretaThunberg:

"It is completely unethical that high-income countries are now vaccinating young and healthy people if that happens at the expense of people in risk groups… in low- and middle-income countries.

Vaccine nationalism is what's running the vaccine distribution." pic.twitter.com/iBJQKTpV6Q

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) April 19, 2021

‘Non-Political’ Fauci Calls Gun Control “A Public Health Issue”

While refusing to answer any basic questions about when endless lockdowns and mask mandates will be scrapped, Chief Medical advisor to Joe Biden, Anthony Fauci, is now appearing on TV to advocate for more gun control.

China Launches New App Allowing Citizens to Report Others For Expressing “Mistaken Opinions”

The new website and app was proudly unveiled by China’s Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), with authorities calling on users to play an “active role” in helping to identify “malicious people distorting facts and confusing” others.

Biden Wants Your Guns

Citing a “gun violence public health epidemic,” President Biden has promised both executive and legislative action against firearms rights. Epidemic? Homicides, including gun homicides, trended steadily downward from the early 1990s through 2019. The surge in crime and homicides starting in 2020 coincided with the riots, urban disorder, and defund-the-police activism that roiled America last summer.

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Big Lockdown and the Permanent Emergency

Justin Trudeau says even with vaccines people must continue to wear masks and abide by lockdowns and restrictions. This comes as provincial governments double down on lockdowns that have proven ineffective over the past year. True North’s Andrew Lawton discusses.

Trudeau Liberals to pile on record debt steering Canada out of pandemic

Justin Trudeau is set to unveil a vision for Canada’s post-pandemic recovery that will double as election platform, heavy on new spending and assurances the mounting debt is affordable.

5 things to watch for when the Liberals unveil the federal budget

First budget in two years expected to bet on child care, green economy to drive pandemic recovery.

Do NOT listen to this, you will not be able to contain your rage.
If you lost someone to this scam, lawyer up. #DemandJustice #EndTheCharade https://t.co/HRVfUUlbcn

— What’s Up Canada? Still Standing (@WhatsUp_Canada) April 18, 2021

Republicans Introduce Bill to Defund United Nations’ Population Control Program

The UN agency, referred to as UNFPA, promotes abortions across the world and historically has received massive amounts of money from the U.S. It also has been linked to the Chinese Communist Party’s oppressive population control measures, which include forced abortions, forced sterilizations and limits on the number of children families can have.

Hours After Maxine Waters Told Rioters To Be More Confrontational There Was A Drive-by Shooting Of The National Guard In Minneapolis

According to the Minneapolis Police Department, at around 4:15 a.m., a light-colored SUV fired shots at a Minnesota National Guard and Minneapolis Police team who was providing neighborhood security in the vicinity of Penn Avenue and Broadway Avenue.

How Wokery Dominates Society

We live in a continually changing world, with new concepts and ways of developing practical arguments and evaluating moral truths on race, sex, and sexual issues. Today, those ways are seen through the prism of racial justice, emphasized in colonial and post-colonial studies, Critical Race Theory, intersectionality, queer studies, gender studies. These are part of the present obsession with race and sex. At the heart is the pessimistic, postmodernist contention critical of the possibility of objectivity, questioning whether there can be reliable knowledge about a reality that exists independently of human perception.

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Our plan to fight the third wave is a silent admission some Canadians are more valuable than others

As COVID-19’s third wave in Canada continues to mount, we’re beginning to learn what cannot be readily conveyed by tracing the daily number of new infections: Who are the people behind the numbers shaping the vertical walls of the third wave? And where are the fuelling stations turbo-charging the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus?

Canadian Taxpayers Federation says Erin O’Toole’s carbon tax is a broken promise

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation says Conservative leader Erin O’Toole’s climate change plan is a broken promise, reneging on a “no carbon tax” pledge O’Toole signed during the leadership race less than a year ago. CTF federal director Aaron Wudrick joined The Andrew Lawton Show to discuss.

CLEMENT: O’Toole’s carbon tax is a bureaucratic mess

“It’s puzzling why O’Toole is reinventing the wheel, when Michael Chong’s proposal of using the revenue to reduce income taxes would be appreciated from taxpayers. If we are going to have a carbon tax from Conservatives, should it at least not be a conservative one?”

Have you ever been stopped by the police when you’re walking down the street? Regulation 58/16 prohibits the ARBITRARY collection of identifying information by police.

You can learn more about your rights during street checks by visiting https://t.co/Yg922UfTvc#KnowYourRights

— Toronto Police (@TorontoPolice) April 16, 2021

Media Commits To Creating 25% More Racism In 2021

“Racism is our lifeblood, it’s what we live to talk about every single day,” said CNN President Jeff Zucker. “We work diligently to find it everywhere we can– and when we can’t find it, we must create it. This year, we are redoubling our efforts to bathe the American public in racial resentment until everyone is living in despair and agrees how terrible our country is!”

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Expands Mask Mandate to 2-Year-Olds

Children under the age of 5 had previously been exempt. But now, kids at camps and child care must be covered.

“A good faith effort is made to ensure that children aged 2 to 4 years wear a mask when participating in gatherings,” the order said.

Adam Carolla And Jason Whitlock Fight Back: ‘Never Apologize To These Satanic Mother*’

On the latest episode of Candace, comedian Adam Carolla discusses how he’s been able to stave off the “cancel culture” mob and how to spot a conservative in Hollywood.

Ahead of his appearance, Carolla was joined by sports writer Jason Whitlock on the latest taping of his podcast “The Adam Carolla Show.”

Whitlock, known for not going along with the woke crowd, was recently suspended by Twitter after posting about Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors and her reported $1.4 million home purchase.

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Court rules Canada can turn away asylum seekers entering from the United States

Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal has ruled that the agreement that allows Canada to turn back asylum seekers from the United States does not violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Censorship is only going to be more common

It’s no secret that censorship by Big Tech has been an issue. The topic was driven to the forefront of discussion when these Silicon Valley companies came together to censor the then-sitting president of the United States, Donald Trump, back in January of this year.

So, after news broke yesterday that Rebel News had received a strike and subsequently was suspended for a week from YouTube, True North’s Andrew Lawton joined Ezra Levant as the guest on yesterday’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show.

Why the Liberals Have Become the Most Anti-Internet Government in Canadian History

The Liberals led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau were first elected in 2015 on a platform that emphasized transparency, consultation, and innovation. The signals were everywhere: it released ministerial mandate letters to demonstrate transparency, renamed the Minister of Industry to the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development to point to the importance of an innovative economy, and soon after the cabinet was sworn in, Canadians were awash in public consultations (I recall participating in an almost instant consult on the Trans Pacific Partnership). With promises of entrenching net neutrality, prioritizing innovation, focusing on privacy rather than surveillance, and supporting freedom of expression, the government left little doubt about its preferred policy approach.

https://twitter.com/CanAditude/status/1383147402807406598

https://twitter.com/TinaYazdani/status/1382828603893821442

Cogito ergo sum→→Sentio ergo ita est

Historians consider that this René Descartes statement epitomizes the spirit of the Age of Reason. The 17th century philosopher was looking for an unalterable foundation to build the knowledge, a fixed point from which knowledge could be erected. The quote comes from the Discourse on Method by René Descartes, writing which altered the course of history, ushering in a transformation also known as the Enlightenment.

Now we have a new awakening and a shift away from reason and objectivity in favor of emotion and subjectivity. The effects of this spirit are apparent in the Twitter mobs, legacy media propaganda, in academic intolerance, and extends into virtue signalling corporate executives.

Democrat Rep. Mondaire Jones: ‘Supreme Court Expansion Is Infrastructure’

Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY) took to social media Wednesday and announced, “Supreme Court expansion is infrastructure,” shortly after news emerged Democrats intend to roll out a court-packing bill this week to increase justices from nine to 13.

Sen. Warren’s ‘Snotty Tweets’ Exchange with Amazon Highlights the Dangers of Weaponizing Antitrust

A century ago, American antitrust law more or less meant the government could pick winners and losers. We can’t let that happen again.

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After a year of COVID, what has the federal government learned about how it operates?

At times, it seems scarcely a segment of the economy has been left untouched by Liberal government largesse, which by the end of January had pushed the federal net debt to $1.1 trillion. This represented more than half the country’s gross domestic product, not a record by any means, but up from less than one-third practically overnight. This does not include the rapidly deteriorating balance sheets maintained by the provinces.

NDP convention featured far-left radicals, virtue signalling and more

It’s been nearly a week since the NDP concluded their 2021 federal policy convention and the party is still reeling from a number of embarrassing and controversial policy resolutions, including a plan to abolish the Canadian Armed Forces as well as accusations of anti-Semitism.

Beware of corrupt business practices in China, Canadians are told

The Dangers Of Engaging In Corrupt Practices — a federal guide for Canadian investors — warns of Communist Party fronts, extortion, bid-rigging and “bribery required to get things done,” according to Blacklock’s Reporter.

Devastating Open Letter from a BC doctor to Dr. Bonnie Henry, BC Provincial Health Officer. Very interesting! 👇 pic.twitter.com/9bvHDQ2Osj

— Paul Mitchell (@PaulMitchell_AB) April 14, 2021

Pfizer says we need a third dose of the vaccine, maybe every year, forever

People will “likely” need a third shot of the Pfizer vaccine as a booster within 12 months of being fully vaccinated, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla told CNBC on Thursday.

COVID-19 vaccine boosters are expected to become a regular part of life for years to come, as variants continue to spread and become dominant strains in some countries.

That will work out very nicely for the investors like Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci.

Black Lives Matter activist Bree Newsome defends rioting and looting as ‘a legitimate, politically-informed response to state violence’

Bree Newsome, 35, made the passionate remarks in a series of tweets this week, arguing that police are not limited to non-violence, and that a violent response to injustice can be appropriate and justified.

Apply this same logic to #BLM and Antifa.

The deplatformed conspiracy theorists are being proven true… will Big Tech ‘replatform’ us?

The mainstream media and Big Tech have labeled anyone that does not go along with the mainstream narrative as “wild conspiracy theorists that are a danger to society.” To combat this imaginary enemy, they’ve resorted to cancelling us, completely deplatforming us off of their platforms. The idea is that if we don’t have a voice on their platforms, they can limit our ability to spread “harmful disinformation.” However, with the Pentagon announcing they’ve got a microchip to be administered through vaccines and it’s now proven that the COVID-19 vaccines DO have side effects, will Facebook, Twitter and YouTube allow us back on now that we are proven to be truth-tellers?

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Tucker Carlson slams Trudeau’s vaccine statements

“The leader of Canada just explained on television that according to the science, the vaccine doesn’t stop COVID. Either the coronavirus shot works or it doesn’t, but the shot cannot be simultaneously highly effective, but not restore peoples’ lives to normal; that doesn’t make sense,” Carlson said Tuesday.

FERNANDO: With UBI, The Liberals Have Abandoned Any Last Remnants Of Fiscal Responsibility

Canada is now left with two quasi-socialist parties in the Liberals & NDP, and a Conservative Opposition pledging not to balance the budget until a full decade from now.

B.C. moves forward on drug decriminalization, new overdose emergency response funding

OK, we can’t call COVID-19 the Wuhan virus. (Although the hypocritical guardians of wokeness don’t seem to have any trouble in labelling the mutations the U.K. variant, the Brazil variant and the SouOfficials with the Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions and Health Canada have been working on an agreement that outlines how the Province of B.C. will work with Health Canada to apply for a provincewide exemption to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, which governs simple drug possession.

https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1382393077260779526

Killing of Daunte Wright: Here’s what the manslaughter charge against Kim Potter says

Kimberly Potter, the former Brooklyn Center officer who fatally shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop on Sunday, has been charged with second-degree manslaughter.

WATCH: Black Lives Matter Take Over Dallas Restaurant, Chant ‘Who Burn Sh-t Down? We Burn Sh-t Down’

The group went on to demand that “silence is violence” and intimidate people who weren’t playing along with their public temper tantrum — even kicking drinks off of tables.

Federal Prosecutors Release Statement — Ashli Babbitt Shooter Will Not Be Charged

There will not be justice for Ashli Babbitt as decided by a court of law. On Wednesday, federal prosecutors dropped the case, as well as any potential charges.

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Like Many Statist Politicians, Chrystia Freeland Seems Quite Excited About The “Political Opportunity’ A Year Of Suffering Has Created To Push An Agenda

Often times, oversimplification is a negative thing.

This is a world full of nuance, and trying to package everything into neat little categories leaves much out.

However, there are times when simplification can help to clarify a relevant truth.

And in this case, that truth is that there fundamentally two kinds of politicians:
Those who see public service as a way to defend the rights and freedoms of those they serve, and those who see public service as an opportunity to exercise power and reshape people’s lives.

Rex Murphy: Trudeau’s true face has emerged while in power, and it isn’t pretty

There’s a catchy line in one of T.S. Eliot’s early poems. Actually, now that I think about it there are many catchy lines in T.S. Eliot’s early poems. Many more in fact than in his later ones.

He wrote in Prufrock “there will be time/Time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.” It’s the latter part that stays so solidly in mind that of preparing “a face to meet the faces that you meet.” There in ten short and plain words is the essence of all political campaigning. Political parties, and their leaders particularly, are the masters of this craft of preparing their faces. Today we call it image making, or more stolidly communications strategy, or media relations.

Diane Francis: The Liberal government is Canada’s biggest problem

The Liberal convention involved the usual self-congratulatory nonsense about a job well done, which wasn’t true, an endorsement by a former central banker promoting his new book, and not a single innovative idea as to how to pay for everything they want to give away in order to be re-elected.

https://twitter.com/CanAditude/status/1382054510001057798

Survey: Democrats Say More Important to Make It ‘Easier’ to Vote than Prioritizing ‘No Cheating’ in Elections

A majority of U.S. likely voters believe it is more important to secure the integrity of the election and prevent cheating than make it “easier” to vote, but a majority of Democrats disagree, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Tuesday revealed.

Biden May Indefinitely Suspend Programs Upholding Religious Freedom

“This is a major shift away from international religious freedom – moving away from even calling it religious freedom,” said Nina Shea, who serves as the director of the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute, a conservative foreign-policy think tank. “It’s more of a watered down freedom of belief or religion, and equating religion with belief, which is very dangerous because that would mean you have a right to believe what you want to believe but you may not be allowed to practice it in a public square.”

Stuck: Most still say Biden ‘cheating’ beat Trump

The latest evidence from Rasmussen Reports:

• By a margin of 51%-44%, voters said it is “likely” that cheating affected the outcome. That included 74% of Republicans and 30% of Democrats.
• Some 47% said it is likely Democrats stole or destroyed ballots for former President Donald Trump. That included 75% of Republicans and 30% of Democrats. An even 50% said that it is unlikely ballots were destroyed.

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Hundreds show up for Vancouver rally against child gender transitioning

People’s Party of Canada (PPC) leader Maxime Bernier and independent MP Derek Sloan were two of the featured speakers at the “Stand Up Speak Up” rally in Vancouver on Saturday.

The event was organized to protest child gender transitioning in solidarity with the BC father known as “CD.” CD was arrested on March 16, 2021 and is currently in jail because he spoke out publicly against the medical transition of his 14-year old daughter and violated a court publication ban in doing so.

Trudeau, O’Toole and Singh aren’t all talking about the same problems

Speaking to the Liberal convention on Saturday afternoon, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau argued that politics should be about finding “real solutions” for the “real problems” and “real challenges” that people face.

“My friends, what it all comes down to is this,” he said. “Which party has a real plan for the real problems in the real world?”

That’s easy: PPC.

Ontario closes in-person schools due to rising COVID-19 cases – premier

The Canadian province of Ontario is closing schools for in-person learning due to rising variant-driven COVID-19 cases, Premier Doug Ford said on Monday without mentioning when the remote learning would end.

8 seconds of watching her read was enough

JFC. https://t.co/2e6iUoBDak

— RyMac (@theonlyrymac) April 12, 2021

Pentagon scientists reveal a microchip that senses COVID-19 in your body BEFORE you show symptoms and a filter that extracts the virus from blood

Pentagon scientists working inside a secretive unit set up at the height of the Cold War have created a microchip to be inserted under the skin, which will detect COVID-19 infection, and a revolutionary filter that can remove the virus from the blood when attached to a dialysis machine.

246 Fully-Vaccinated Michigan Residents Have COVID, 3 Dead In Three Months

The ‘vaccine,’ which is apparently only ‘good’ for six months, makes getting COVID worse, according to the authorization forms you have to sign, and now, vaccinated people are dying in Michigan.

Joe Biden considers ordering climate confessions

President Joe Biden is readying an executive order that would require companies to disclose the risks they face from climate change, special climate envoy John Kerry said this week.

Kerry didn’t elaborate on the details of the order or the timing, but the move would fulfill a promise Biden made on the campaign trail to require all public companies to report their emissions and climate-related risks.

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FUREY: Does O’Toole have what it takes to beat Trudeau?

While he campaigned as the “True Blue” candidate during the leadership race, we’re not seeing much of that same energy now. Further, when it comes to critical issues like government-enforced lockdowns, O’Toole has been relatively quiet.

GUNTER: Canada’s disturbing censorship conversation

This was a bad week for free speech in Canada.

It has become clear that “progressive” opinion is lining up behind censorship of what Canadians can and cannot say on the Internet, including criticism of politicians and bureaucrats.

How Toronto police will enforce rules during stay-at-home order

Police will focus enforcement efforts on restaurants and businesses that are not complying with closure orders or customer limits, according to a Toronto Police news release. They will also respond to complaint calls for gatherings and will disperse and ticket gatherings of more than five people outdoors.

Swedish Govt Criticised for Proposing Exceptions in Anti-Polygamy Bill

Swedish Liberal Party MP Robert Hannah criticised the government bill this week, claiming that while the proposal is advertised as wanting to ban polygamous marriages, it leaves the door open to exceptions.

No, Chauvin’s knee was not on Floyd’s neck for 9 minutes — fully debunked

We don’t know if Derek Chauvin should or will be found guilty. What we do know is twofold: there will be riots if he isn’t and the media is lying to you. When the riots erupt, it will be their fault.

Antifa barricaded doors to trap people inside, then lit Portland ICE building on fire

If you want to make a mainstream media “journalist” or Democratic politician laugh, tell them about Antifa. They treat the domestic terrorist group with such little interest that we have to assume they think they’re a joke. But things have turned deadly, again, with their latest terrorist attack, this time in Portland.

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Sweet 16 birthday party crashed by COVID cops

Today we are covering another Fight The Fines case, and this one is truly bonkers. A family of 10 celebrating a Sweet 16 in Stoney Creek, Ont. had five police officers crash their “party” — I say “party” because if it’s just your family, is it really a party?

Toronto real estate board ditches term “master” bedroom over “offensive undertones”

The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB) will be replacing the term “master” bedroom from all of its databases and its multiple listing service with the more politically correct term “primary” bedroom.

Liberal delegates endorse a universal basic income, reject capital gain tax hike

With 8.7 per cent of Canadians living below the poverty line and thousands more struggling to make ends meet, backers of this policy say a UBI would “ensure that communities at risk (including Indigenous peoples) are able to feel financially secure.”

Rhetorical question: Why did the CBC insert ‘including Indigenous peoples’?

Bill Gates, George Soros team up to create Orwellian nightmare organization focused on policing “disinformation”

The Aspen Institute Commission on Information (AICI) has been tasked with launching an effort to eliminate “misinformation” and “disinformation” from the internet, and none other than billionaire eugenicists Bill Gates and George Soros are funding the operation.

Study: Biden’s tax raises will cost U.S. one million jobs in first two years

The study found that in the first two years alone, the GDP of the United States would be slashed by $117 billion by 2023. Furthermore, investments in equipment and structures would be $80 billion less in the same period.

Radical Left’s Infrastructure Bill Wish List Includes Climate Change and Amnesty

The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) surveyed its 95 members, which include far-left members of the “Squad” — Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) — and released a list of priorities the CPC as a whole is advancing at the current stage of infrastructure discussions. The list includes five key areas, which include beefing up government-run health care and tackling climate-related issues while providing amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants.

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