A federal grant program aimed at encouraging more women to enter the skilled trades was exploited by men who falsely self-identified as female to receive the higher funding, according to a report by the Department of Employment.
The Apprenticeship Grants: Evaluation Report found that applications were approved solely based on self-identification, with “a few focus group participants, 18%,” reporting that male apprentices received the grant by declaring themselves female on forms
Neera Tanden, former head of Biden’s Domestic Policy Council, admitted that she authorized autopen signatures without knowledge of who issued the final approval in a closed-door hearing before the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday, according to Fox News.
In her role as staff secretary, before she was moved to the Domestic Policy Council, Tanden “was responsible for handling the the flow of documents to and from the President,” sending decision memos to “Biden’s inner circle” and affixing the president’s autopen signature to the documents when she received approval. Tanden was not privy to any of the decision-making process or who was giving the final approval. She rarely interacted with Biden. The system, according to her opening statement, was a relic of previous administrations.
The Autopen authorized it.
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons won a Nobel Peace Prize for its opposition to the existence of nuclear weapons. Its slogan was ‘We must eliminate nuclear weapons before they eliminate us.’ Unless the nukes are in the hands of Islamic terrorists.
After Israel launched its campaign to end Iran’s nuclear weapons program, ICAN denied that Iran was developing nuclear weapons and instead condemned Israel for striking Iran’s nukes.
“… But two questions from participants brought into sharp relief how immigration raids and the rolling back of trans rights is scaring some Canadians away from U.S. visits.
“A lot of members of the queer community — a lot of Canadians feel unsafe, Canadians who are 2SLGBTQI+ absolutely feel unsafe going there,” said Vivian Myers-Jones, a member of the Saint John Pride board.”
Without Fake News CBC I would not know that hordes of Canadian transvestites routinely descended upon Maine in the halcyon days before Trump.
I bet the Governor was surprised as well.
Back in my younger days, my parents loved a song by Les Baxter, “The Poor People of Paris.” To this day, hearing the song reminds me of that cheap GE record player that we bought when we came to the U.S. It was a major achievement finally getting our own set and not having to listen to music on the radio. The song was about life in Paris when it was a French city and not whatever it is now.
During a music festival in France this weekend upwards of 140-150 women were stabbed with syringes and 12 suspects have been arrested.
The mass needle stabbings then led to chaos and violence in the crowd.#CityLife #france #enrichment #invasion #syringes pic.twitter.com/aOmTvlOW7G
— Mrgunsngear (@Mrgunsngear) June 23, 2025
To survive the geopolitical turmoil of the 21st century, the West needs to revive its industrial base.
As recent events in Iran have so aptly demonstrated, technological progress married to industrial might produces the most tangible form of power. In the recent conflict in the Middle East, this meant that a second-tier power like Iran was clearly outmatched – first by Israel, then by America.
The West needs to learn this lesson and apply it to its rivalry with a far more formidable foe: China. Unlike the theocrats of Tehran, China’s ambitions are distinctly material. And, until recently, China has made tremendous headway facing relatively little, and largely ineffective, Western opposition.
Yes I watched this entire series.
On Monday, Prime Minister Mark Carney said — not for the first time — that Canada is “the most European of non-European countries.”He said it in May, too, in France; and Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said it as well, in an interview with BBC. So it’s obviously a deliberate talking point. What’s weird about it is that Carney and Joly offer no explanation. They just say it as if it’s an established fact that all Canadians accept — which they obviously would not.
Asylum seekers have been told by police to treat women with respect and not harass them or risk being arrested.
Officers have drawn up a PowerPoint presentation for asylum seekers in hotels on the key points of “UK culture” which they are told they should respect.
It includes recognising that women “have the same rights as men”, so “must be treated with respect and courtesy”. “If you harass or abuse any female, you can be arrested,” it states.
At around 6 a.m. this morning, hundreds of people across Germany awoke to police officers at their door. Their only ‘crime’ is to have openly made critical or offensive comments on the internet, many about specific politicians.
This is not a scene from the Third Reich or the German Democratic Republic, but from the Federal Republic in the 21st Century. Officers from the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) intend to make approximately 170 house visits today, to investigate ‘hateful’ or insulting comments made online. Suspects have had their tablets, laptops, and phones confiscated, and their homes searched. This operation has been taking place annually for several years now, to enforce paragraph 188 of the German criminal code. This was amended in 2021 to make it a criminal offence to insult a political figure, punishable by a maximum sentence of three years in prison.
Prime Minister Mark Carney said he met with European defense suppliers about jets and submarines, and expects to conclude a review of a major contract for Lockheed Martin Corp. F-35 jets as soon as this summer.
The remarks came minutes after he signed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization pledge to increase core defense spending as a share of gross domestic product to 3.5% from 2% over a decade. Carney has said Canada should stop sending the vast majority of its defense dollars to the US, after President Donald Trump imposed punishing tariffs and repeatedly said Canada should be an American state.
Labour board upholds firing over ‘white people’ comment
A federal labour board has ruled that Employment Insurance’s call-centre management acted properly when it fired a probationary agent whose on-the-job tirade questioned Black Lives Matter protests and asked coworkers, “When will there be a day to remember white people?”
Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board adjudicator Christopher Rootham said the remarks showed the worker “unsuitable to serve in a diverse public-service workplace committed to equity and respect.”
Nothing but racists.
From soft power to hard muscle.
I’ve been throwing punches and kicks for the better part of a decade now. Boxing, kickboxing, the usual rotation of compound movements in the gym — nothing revolutionary, just the steady accumulation of speed and skill that comes from consistent work. It’s meditative, really. The rhythm of training, the incremental progress, the quiet satisfaction of knowing your body can do what you ask of it.
But something curious has happened in recent years, something that crystallized when my fiancée asked me a question that stopped me cold: “Is this what men find attractive now?”
OTTAWA — In spending much more on national defence, the federal government might have to cut back in other areas, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday, as he hailed a new and more aggressive target of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to crank up its military budget over the next decade.
Those “trade-offs,” as Carney put it, are expected closer to 2030. But evolving threats and global dangers mean Canada must bolster the Canadian Armed Forces and devote tens of billions of dollars in annual spending to the military and defence-related infrastructure.
Oh No! Will the Trannies be made to do without?
He just signed the deal and can’t be bothered trying.
Forbes writer Chloe Sorvino is very worried about ICE raiding and deporting illegal aliens, because then there might not be anyone to pick her fruits and vegetables pic.twitter.com/8OIMO53ZEz
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 25, 2025
Canada’s elections commissioner says she has no evidence the result of the federal election in April was affected by foreign interference, disinformation or voter intimidation.
In a preliminary report Wednesday, Commissioner Caroline Simard says her office received more than 16,000 complaints about the spring campaign which ended on April 28.
