wtf
Beyond the pale. Far, far, far beyond the pale.
Where @ShreeParadkar provides "context", claims the designated terror organization Hamas isn't all that bad, and suggests Israel is only the "wronged party" because of Western bias.
Shame on @TorontoStar for publishing this crap https://t.co/T3tlDfWpyE
— Mark Goldberg (@Mark_Goldberg) February 23, 2024
Spring came early to Canada’s housing market.
Home sales rose for the second month in a row in January, up 3.7 per cent, after four straight months of decline. The latest gains brought sales back to where they were last summer.
“The upturn suggests that the sharp correction triggered by soaring interest rates has likely run its course,” said Robert Hogue, an economist with the Royal Bank of Canada.
Wondering why rents in Canada are breaking records? This chart offers a clue. In fact, @BMO chief economist Douglas Porter says there is “zero mystery.”
The pop. of people 20 to 29 years old has shot up 6.2% in a year.#vanre #internationalstudentshttps://t.co/UXoqB3EHT5 pic.twitter.com/05p9VAe5Cd— DouglasTodd (@DouglasTodd) February 23, 2024
In a decade where successive Irish governments have successfully navigated significant changes to the Irish constitution—becoming the first country to introduce same-sex marriage by popular vote in 2015 and removing the constitutional prohibition on abortion in 2018—the progressive movement may be about to meet its first defeat. This time the issue at stake is how Ireland’s constitution recognizes the contribution women make to society and the very definition of the family.
American law enforcement officials spent years looking into allegations that allies of Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, met with and took millions of dollars from drug cartels after he took office, according to U.S. records and three people familiar with the matter.
The inquiry, which has not been previously reported, uncovered information pointing to potential links between powerful cartel operatives and Mexican advisers and officials close to the president while he governed the country.
There were a lot of mixed feelings about Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin, but Russia’s president was right on when he took a moment to address and condemn Canada for the federal government’s full-time public relations disaster in which Justin Trudeau, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and members of the Canadian Parliament “gave a standing ovation to a WWII-era Nazi who is a veteran of the Waffen-SS.”
A malfunctioning vending machine at a Canadian university has inadvertently revealed that a number of them have been using facial recognition technology in secret.
Earlier this month, a snack dispenser at the University of Waterloo showed an error message – Invenda.Vending.FacialRecognition.App.exe – on the screen.
There was no prior indication that the machine was using the technology, nor that a camera was monitoring student movement and purchases. Users were not asked for permission for their faces to be scanned or analysed.
HOLY SHLIT. The ADL says they’re not classifying the far-left Nashville Trans Shooter as a Left-Wing Extremist because she used the word “f*gg*t.”
They claim every extremist-related m*rder in 2023 was done by right-wingers.
The ADL is a far-left propaganda arm for the… pic.twitter.com/plV8xsBcUW
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 23, 2024
Screw the ADL.
She says so much that really makes you think.
Err…ummm…what exactly is she saying, though? pic.twitter.com/dAaz7Yttwz
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) February 23, 2024
The NDP says it has reached a deal with the governing Liberals to introduce the first piece of a national pharmacare program that includes coverage for birth control and diabetes medication.
The deal is a critical piece of the supply-and-confidence pact between the two parties and comes ahead of a March 1 deadline to table legislation.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith found themselves at loggerheads yet again Wednesday after he suggested that at least some in the oilpatch have prioritized profits over securing a long-term future for its workers.
In an interview on Real Talk Ryan Jespersen, Trudeau said that parts of the oil and gas industry, by “dragging its heels” on decarbonization, had in fact turned its back on oilsands workers. Those remarks caught Smith’s attention, who fired back on social media, calling his comments “absurd” and accusing him of using Alberta as a punching bag to win votes.
Stupid, tone deaf yet fanatical.
A left-wing anarchist who said he wanted to kill at least 50 politicians has been found guilty of terrorism offences after compiling and sharing a bomb-making manual.
Jacob Graham, 20, a computer science student at Hugh Baird College who modelled himself on Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, dedicated his manual, called the “Freedom Encyclopaedia”, to “terrorists past and future, anarchists etc”.
The Liberals and NDP still have reasons to work together — are they good enough?
If the 44th Parliament can hold it together until April 28, it will become the longest-lasting minority Parliament in modern Canadian history.
This Parliament’s longevity is already well above average — 823 days as of Thursday. The 10 minority Parliaments that existed between 1957 and 2021 lasted an average of 526 days.
The chance to make history isn’t the best reason the Liberals and NDP have to reach an agreement on pharmacare, but there’s something to be said — maybe even a lot — for stability.
I’m afraid to say that Britain’s diversity chickens have very much come home to roost. pic.twitter.com/kco1MCkFQd
— Darren Grimes (@darrengrimes_) February 22, 2024
