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Sophie Gregoire Trudeau shares family vacation photos from Tofino trip
BC/NWT residents evacuating fires and millions of Canadians are struggling to pay mortgages/rent.
What is Sophie Trudeau up to while on vacation with her soon-divorcing husband Justin? She's taking a kooky $1,000 seaweed bath at a fancy Tofino spa. pic.twitter.com/yea9BiTvVN
— Dean Skoreyko (@bcbluecon) August 19, 2023
I am so tired of the Trudeau blight.
A looming disaster …
Olivia Chow does not speak for ppl who have lived here & worked their ass off for decades & drive a car. If you can barely afford life but are managing & drive… fuck you… get a bike.
She makes me sick. Pedal your shit elsewhere, Olivia! pic.twitter.com/FUG1DfHmgZ— Canada's Darci🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦 (@DarciCanada) August 17, 2023
Will Ford sign off on Toronto’s sales tax? Council will need to make the case for revenue tool
A major piece of Toronto’s new plan to address its long-term fiscal woes hinges on the cooperation of Doug Ford, as the city faces the daunting task of persuading the premier to support a municipal sales tax.
That tax is part of a slew of new “revenue tools” proposed by city staff as a way to address over $46.5 billion in financial pressure faced by Toronto over the next decade. The city’s financial problems have been mounting for years but were made worse by the pandemic as the shelter system strained under the pressure of increased demand and transit ridership — and revenues — hit rock bottom.
Microsoft has removed an article that advised tourists to visit the “beautiful” Ottawa Food Bank on an empty stomach, after facing ridicule about the company’s reliance on artificial intelligence for news.
But an unnamed Microsoft spokesperson later blamed the article’s publication on “human error,” rather than “unsupervised AI.”
Published last week and titled “Headed to Ottawa? Here’s what you shouldn’t miss!” the article listed 15 must-see attractions for visitors to the capital.
I don’t see what’s wrong. Ottawa has little to recommend it.
While our American neighbours are transfixed with the high-drama prospect of Donald Trump’s return to the White House next year, up here in Canada our government is considering “scenarios.” And one aspect of these scenarios, according to Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, is the “radicalization” of Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives.
During an interview with a Montreal radio station Wednesday, Joly hinted at a “game plan” in the event that the Nov. 5, 2024 presidential election produces ominous results, about which Joly spoke ominously. One scenario might be a “difficult situation.” Whatever happens, there will be mayors involved, and premiers. People like that.
When you've been in the cult compound for too long and you talk to the normal people in town…pic.twitter.com/1qKrz6n0MK
— Stephen Taylor (@stephen_taylor) August 18, 2023
A teenage boy who had been a nominated “carnival queen” has lost the title after a gender row.
The adolescent, known as James, had been crowned “queen” and was expected to lead the traditional Ringwood carnival parade in Hampshire next month.
This decision was shared by the carnival’s committee on Aug 6 to its Facebook page, in a post that has since been deleted.
Elizabeth May frustrated by lack of detail in top secret documents on foreign interference
“We don’t know their motives. We don’t know who they are and they seem to think that they can be protected by their own narrative that they’re whistleblowers,” said May. “I don’t buy it.
“Every Canadian should care to ensure that our security and intelligence establishment be reliable, that the people who work there take their oath seriously.”
The CSIS Whistleblower performed an invaluable public service in shining a light on China’s influence over a corrupt Liberal government and in revealing the extent of the rot caused by Canada’s China class. May is unfit to carry water for the unknown CSIS staffer.
Since the day he came into office, Biden has opened America’s southern border, an illegal act that should see him not only impeached but indicted and imprisoned. But that’s not the world in which we live. We live in a world in which millions of illegal aliens stream into America, a substantial number of whom are Mexican cartel foot soldiers. That’s why you should know about the horrible deaths that five childhood friends suffered at the hands of the cartel in Jalisco, Mexico.
Imagine sending your kid to LGBTQ drag summer camp where they’re groomed into becoming youth drag queens by staff who are drag queens pic.twitter.com/jyCIuCsgst
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 18, 2023
‘Kids know they’re trans before they’re 5 because of what toys they play with or clothes they like.’
I’m so thankful I could play with dinosaurs and the boys in my family could play with Barbies and no one told us we had to cut our parts off for it. pic.twitter.com/uK0wX4QAQs
— TroonyToons 💜🤍💛 (@troonytoons) August 18, 2023
The Walt Disney Company has one win and five losses at the box office so far this year, and the rest of the year is looking equally dismal.
It’s what happens when the money machine seeks profit at the expense of audience.
With July inflation ramping up again on Tuesday, it’s obvious the battle ain’t over yet. The headline inflation rate jumped to 3.3 per cent from last month’s 2.8 per cent. While mortgage costs and food are major contributors to our stubborn inflation, energy prices have risen 5.8 per cent in the past four months, thanks in part to the carbon tax hike last April 1.
As the world continues its march to net-zero emissions by 2050, an interesting debate is rearing its head as to whether the energy price inflation will affect monetary policy. That point was made last year by Isabel Schnabel, a member of the European Central Bank’s Executive Board: “As we build a more sustainable economy, we face a new age of energy inflation … that can be expected to lead to a prolonged period of upside pressure on inflation,” she warned
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is seeking 33 years in prison for former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy earlier this year in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
He and four other Proud Boys in May were convicted of entering a seditious conspiracy against the U.S. government to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election.
Elon Musk’s pledge to make Twitter (or “X”) a free-speech-friendly “digital town square” has been brought into question following reports that the social media account of a leading AfD politician and MEP has been shadowbanned.
A pig’s kidney transplanted by surgeons into a brain-dead man has continued to function normally for more than a month – a critical step toward an operation the New York team hopes to eventually try in living patients.
The latest experiment, announced on Wednesday by New York University Langone Health, marks the longest a pig kidney has functioned in a person, albeit a deceased one, and it’s not over. Researchers will track the kidney’s performance for a second month.
