GUNTER: Daft brain-drain tax proposal no answer to Liberal ineptitude

GUNTER: Daft brain-drain tax proposal no answer to Liberal ineptitude

At last weekend’s Liberal Party national convention in Montreal, Partrick Pichette, a Canadian who worked for several years as chief financial officer of Google in Silicon Valley, suggested that a good way to keep talented people in the country so they benefit Canada is to charge them a tax of up to $500,000 for the privilege of emigrating.

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New report finds crashing trucks and killing people, dealing drugs, importing their ethnic hatreds and being involved in regular public shootouts related to their criminal activity has caused an increase in anti-Sikh hate

New report finds crashing trucks and killing people, dealing drugs, importing their ethnic hatreds and being involved in regular public shootouts related to their criminal activity has caused an increase in anti-Sikh hate

New report finds increase in anti-Sikh hate

Every day, Sukhmani, an 11th grader from Scarborough, carefully ties her turban, a practice rooted in faith, discipline, and identity. But she says that the same visible expression of who she is has made her conscious of her identity.

“They are making fun of the fact that I am wearing a Dastaar now, making fun of the fact of me being vegetarian, making fun of the fact that I have hair on my arms and my legs. It’s really not the most encouraging thing to go through, especially right after the pandemic,” she says.


No one buys the article’s “Won’t somebody think of the children” opening anymore. 

We aren’t responsible. h/t Patti Jo

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Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on?

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on?

Sixteen bets made $100,000 accurately predicting the timing of the US airstrikes against Iran on 27 February. Later, a single user would make over $550,000 after betting that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would topple, just moments before his assassination by Israeli forces. On 7 April, right before Donald Trump announced a temporary ceasefire with Iran, traders bet $950m that oil prices would come down. They did.

These bets and other well-timed wagers accurately predicted the precise timing of major developments in the US-Israel war with Iran, creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers and experts over potential insider trading.

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Here’s the ‘experiment’ NDP Leader Avi Lewis is trying to run in Canadian politics

Here’s the ‘experiment’ NDP Leader Avi Lewis is trying to run in Canadian politics

While standing outside the House of Commons, Avi Lewis recalled that it has been five decades since his grandfather — former federal NDP leader David Lewis — stood inside the chamber to advocate for the Canadian left.

After David, there was Avi’s father, Stephen Lewis, a former leader of the Ontario NDP, Canadian ambassador to the United Nations and a longtime journalist and environment activist. He passed away last month at 88, shortly after his son was elected federal NDP leader.

Now, it’s Avi Lewis’s turn to take on the mantle. And going the federal route is a very intentional choice.


My head hurts at the thought Canada is so fecked Lewis may strike a nerve.

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Murder charges will be dropped against Kenneth Law; he will plead guilty to aiding suicide instead, lawyer says

Murder charges will be dropped against Kenneth Law; he will plead guilty to aiding suicide instead, lawyer says

An Ontario man accused of selling a toxic substance online to vulnerable people who used it to end their lives will no longer face murder charges and will instead plead guilty to 14 counts of aiding suicide, his lawyer says.

Kenneth Law, 60, has been publicly accused of running websites that shipped more than a thousand packages of deadly substances and other materials used for self-harm to more than 40 countries. Many of Law’s customers were young people who allegedly used the substance to end their lives; the Star has spoken to parents in Canada, the U.S., Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.


I bet we find out this guy is the diversity added to Ontario’s MAID review board?

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‘I feel like I’m losing her’: the families torn apart by older relatives going far right

‘I feel like I’m losing her’: the families torn apart by older relatives going far right

Graham doesn’t remember his mother ever sharing her political views. He’s not certain she even voted until she met his father, who was a big Labour supporter. She went along with that, only once voting Tory as an act of spite towards the end of their relationship. She later married a farmer who was more conservative, and leaned towards leave in the Brexit referendum. “But, honestly, beyond that, she would never even speak of politics. She just wasn’t interested.”

Graham, who works in the transport industry in the Midlands, noticed a big change in his mother during the Covid pandemic. “I remember walking home from work one day and I got this phone call and all of a sudden she was listing off these conspiracy theories at me.” He now realises how much time she was spending online, on her phone and iPad, cut off from friends, family and the church life that had always been so important to her.


I keep hoping for an expose by some guy of the Crazy Crap he got published in the Guardian, but no luck so far this piece is not satire, well it’s not supposed to be.

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BC NDP denounces Western Standard as ‘racist’ for editorial rejecting 60M Indian immigrants

BC NDP denounces Western Standard as ‘racist’ for editorial rejecting 60M Indian immigrants

VANCOUVER — The BC NDP caucus has accused interim BC Conservative Leader Trevor Halford of promoting a “racist website” by praising the Western Standard while remaining silent on the specific article that prompted his praise.

In a media release issued Friday, NDP MLA Rohini Arora criticized Halford after he described the Western Standard as “independent journalism at its best” and said “B.C. needs more of it.”

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