Information manipulation poses the single biggest threat to Canadian democracy, concluded commissioner Marie Josée Hogue, in her final report on foreign interference in federal elections, earlier this year.
It probably came as no surprise to the commissioner that emerging technologies amplified the falsehoods during the recent general election.
Generative AI has emerged as a new player in the disinformation game, enabling malign actors to create huge quantities of misleading content.
This is like one of those brain teasers: a stripper pole belongs next to a crib the same way that a gentleman’s club belongs next to a pre-school. pic.twitter.com/7064vMnhUt
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) May 21, 2025
One of the major societal shifts in Canada in recent decades is that we’ve gone from being a tolerant society to one that tolerates intolerance.
The current political and policing paralysis when it comes to dealing with pro-Hamas demonstrations, ostensibly calling for the destruction of Israel, but whose real agenda is to foster hatred against Jews in Canada, is the latest manifestation of it.
This is what happens when you criminalize dissent.
Threatening citizens with hate crime charges for calling out Islamist predation has helped lead us to our current state of affairs.
But make no mistake the greatest crime was the demonic decision by our elites to invite Islamist settlers to Canada.
Why do they hate us?
is done.
Toronto is done. A city with a community of 225,000 Jews.This is the work of all levels of government. @TorontoPolice and the Islamists embedded in key institutions. https://t.co/kqyi1ke4qa
— Vivian Bercovici (@VivianBercovici) May 22, 2025
Pete Hegseth on making the US military great again:
"The warrior ethos is simple: Readiness, accountability, lethality, warfighting. None of this woke DEI, CRT, gender pronoun, green new scam stuff. That's all out."
YESSSS pic.twitter.com/sfqrhougzs
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 22, 2025
President Trump had South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in for a little chat on Wednesday. Once everyone was seated in the room, Trump dimmed the lights and played videos of the genocide of whites by black goons backed by a government that sings Kill the Boer while confiscating the land of white farmers.
The American media—which had promoted isolating South Africa over apartheid 40 years ago—refused to accept the reality that the black people in charge are killing white people, necessitating give white South Africans refuge. We shall see if any of the holier-than-thou sanctuary cities take them in.
Notice how they cite the SPLC and other Marxist groups, which work in South Africa to promote genocide.
Anti-white hatred is a worldwide goal of these organizations. https://t.co/4YYW4cfQgZ
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) May 21, 2025
FLASHBACK: President of South Africa says he will take away land without compensation.
Why isn’t the media covering this?? pic.twitter.com/RAZTaIsmY9
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 22, 2025
Two Israeli embassy aides were killed in an anti-Semitic attack, the latest in a string of left-wing violence.
Israeli embassy aides Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim were murdered Wednesday night in Washington, D.C., gunned down by an anti-Israel radical as they were leaving an American Jewish Committee Young Diplomats reception.
D.C. police charged 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez, of Chicago, for the crime. Rodriguez reportedly said that he “did it for Gaza,” and chanted “free, free Palestine” as he was taken into custody.
Trump just posted this on
Truth ! https://t.co/RW31byk5VE pic.twitter.com/oZIUZv4QLK— Fletch17 (@RealFletch17) May 22, 2025
H/T XC
In a less partisan, more conciliatory political environment, there would be cross-partisan consensus about the need for a by-election in the Quebec riding of Terrebonne.
It’s not simply that the margin of victory was razor-thin, with the Liberals’ Tatiana Auguste winning the riding by a single vote. Nor is it about the flip-flopping of the result: Terrebonne was first won by Ms. Auguste, then it flipped to the Bloc Québécois’ Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné after a validation process, then flipped back to Ms. Auguste following a judicial recount.
It’s a big mess.
In many respects, Hamas, the Iran-backed terror group, has always been more forthright and honest about its goals regarding Israel than its rivals in the Palestinian Authority (PA). When one listens to leaders of the PA and the leaders of Hamas in Arabic, it is almost impossible to tell the difference between them. Their rhetoric, for instance, to vilify Israel, is identical: “The Zionist Enemy”, “the Zionist Entity”, the State of Occupation”, and “the Apartheid State”.
Hamas and the PA both view the establishment of Israel as a “catastrophe” (nakba) and call for flooding it with millions of Palestinian “refugees” so that Jews become a minority to eliminate or cast out.
Bonus Ilhan Omar vid …
Ilhan Omar refuses to condemn the ass*ssination of two Israeli diplomats in DC by a radical pro-Palestine activist pic.twitter.com/ie5raihUWW
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 22, 2025
h/t patthedog
It is peculiar how the prosecution is doing so much of the heavy lifting for the defence in the trial of five former junior hockey players who’ve pleaded not guilty to a fistful of sexual assault charges.
Far be it for me to question trial strategy. I don’t believe myself to be smarter than a lawyer — which was the trap door that the complainant occasionally fell into during her nine days in the witness stand.
After decades of mystery, new research has shed light on a question that has long stumped scientists and cat lovers alike – what exactly makes orange cats, well … orange?
Two studies published in Current Biology last week by separate teams at Stanford University and Japan’s Kyushu University at last provided some answers. Scientists have known for more than a century that orange cats inherit coloring differently from other mammals. Now – with help from hundreds of cat owners – researchers have identified the genetic mutation that gives orange cats their signature hue.
Catching flies is that simple pic.twitter.com/EwzaLAAm5i
— Posts Of Cats (@PostsOfCats) May 21, 2025
Out walking on a Saturday night in January 2022, two groups of young men converged by chance outside St. Paul’s Church on Bloor St. E.
Within a few minutes, a physical fight between them ended with 20-year-old Ryerson journalism student Olivier “Oli” Dundas dead on the sidewalk from a gunshot wound to the back.
It’s the same old pattern. An obvious hate crime. An obvious act of terror.
Yet public authorities and the media are reticent about calling it for what it is. Worried about offending certain groups, and being accused of hate themselves?
OTTAWA – Most Canadians feel attached to their country, province and municipality but only about half of them trust their governments, a new poll suggests.
The Leger survey, which polled 1,537 Canadians between May 16 and 18, suggests that 82 per cent of Canadians feel attached to their country.
Because the poll was conducted online, it can’t be assigned a margin of error.
There’s still no word yet as to whether Kamala Harris will run for governor of California or hold out for another doomed attempt at the presidency. But it might be a moot point in light of revelations in Jake Tapper’s new book “Original Sin” about the Biden administration’s systematic cover-up of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline. Oh sure, we all knew Biden was impaired, but the difference between today and the four years of the Biden presidency is that now even the liberal media is talking about it, and Kamala can’t run from her role in the cover-up.
