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The Americans Who Left

Some of the United States’ Vietnam War opponents found refuge in Canada. Fifty years after the end of the war, they’re still worried about the future.

The presidential pardon signed by Jimmy Carter in 1977 was a sweeping invitation to thousands of Americans to come home and help heal a nation torn apart by the Vietnam War. Those who had left for Canada to avoid the draft had wanted no part of the conflict, which killed about 60,000 Americans.

Canada had offered a refuge. It did not support the war and was willing to welcome, with few questions asked, those crossing the border.

Many war resisters, or draft dodgers as they were often called by others, were not interested in returning when Mr. Carter made his amnesty offer. Their decisions had come with high costs: ruptured family ties, broken friendships and, often, shame. While some hailed those who went to Canada as principled, others considered them cowardly.

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The Future Is Dim for US–Canada Relations

How would the media react if Donald Trump had received a quarter of a billion dollars from Russia or China just prior to his presidential bid? It’s easy to guess: screaming headlines, indignant calls for impeachment, prosecution, demands for the electric chair. Every news anchor, political pundit, intelligence expert lining up to denounce the travesty with letters signed by infinite lists of former and acting national security officials, etc. And that’s for starters.

But progressive technocrat Mark Carney flies to Beijing to obtain $300M from the Bank of China four months prior to being appointed prime minister by Canada’s Liberal Party, calls snap elections, which he wins without a majority, and the media only praises him. Conservative rival Pierre Poilievre highlighted Carney’s compromised relations with China on nationally televised debates. He also pointed out how the former Bank of Canada governor and U.N. point man on climate change staunchly supported CCP-linked Liberal MP Paul Chiang, calling for goon squads to persecute opponents.

h/t Mauser

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4 Million Canadians Live Below Poverty Line, Number Continues to Go Up: StatCan

About 4 million Canadians were living below the poverty line in 2023, as the number continued to rise for three consecutive years, according to recent data released by Statistics Canada.

The Canadian Income Survey 2023 published on May 1 measured income among various Canadian households for that year, including single parents and seniors.

It found that about 10.2 percent of Canadians lived below the poverty line in 2023. That rate was 9.9 in 2022, and 10.3 percent in 2019, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.

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No, Joy Reid: Rome didn’t fall due to a lack of ‘diversity’

Former MSNBC host Joy Reid recently delivered a peculiar history lesson to her social media audience. In her mind a reproach to Donald Trump, Reid warned that the Roman Empire “died because it wasn’t diverse enough,” implying that sticking with “just white folks” leads to inevitable civilizational decline. If history were written by cable news soundbites, we might soon learn that Napoleon lost Waterloo because he lacked a DEI department.

In reality, Rome didn’t fall because of a lack of diversity. Nor is Europe today crumbling because of too many white people. Societies fail for many reasons, but skin color has never been one of them. If anything, Europe’s slow-motion collapse is a story not of racial homogeneity, but of something far less fashionable to discuss: falling birthrates, loss of communal purpose and the gradual abandonment of shared civilizational values.

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This Group Wants to “Affirm” Pedophilia

B4U-ACT is part of a growing movement to legitimize sexual attraction to children.

An alarming new movement insists that sexual attraction to minors is not a psychiatric disorder to be managed but an identity to be affirmed. Leadin      g this effort is B4U-ACT, a Maryland-based organization founded in 2003 to support pedophiles, or as they call them, “Minor-Attracted Persons” (MAPs). From May 2 through May 4, 2025, the group will host a conference in Ohio to train mental-health providers in “affirmative MAP therapy,” which seeks to help clients accept their “age of attraction” as an intrinsic and valid part of their identity. This approach abandons clinicians’ traditional risk-management focus when treating pedophiles and raises serious concerns about public safety.

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Canada’s Islamist Takeover: ‘It’s Open Season On Jews And Jewish Institutes’ – An Active Front In The Clash Of Civilizations

Media reports and videos on social media, immediately after the October 7, 2023 attack and to this day, document a significant segment of Canada’s Muslim community’s targeting, bullying, and trying to intimidate the Jewish community in the country, with disturbing protests often thousands strong. As one recent X post stated, “it’s open season on Jews in Canada.”

While the U.S. has had its share of extremist pro-Palestinian supporters, marching with signs, flags, and banners of Hamas, Hizbullah, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and other terror groups, and targeting of the U.S. Jewish community, the size and scope of this phenomenon in Canada is even more pervasive and severe – and at times terrifying.

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David Hogg’s reign of terror

Radical Democrats aren’t weakened by defeat; they’re unbound by it

A lonely caravan, ambushed on the open frontier, circles the wagons. The settlers bring out their long rifles to fight for survival. They endure the first onslaught, but dusk is falling – and the battle has only begun.

It’s a familiar scene in Hollywood westerns. In recent weeks, on Washington’s political prairies, the mainstream Democratic establishment has been living it, too.

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Bare shelves are just weeks away as trade war disrupts flow of goods

We’re just weeks away from finding out what happens when you shut down trade between the world’s two largest economies.

A trade embargo has effectively been in place between the United States and China ever since the two countries slapped prohibitively high tariffs on each other last month.

Ocean shipments from the world’s manufacturing superpower to the U.S. have dwindled. The disrupted flow of goods should become apparent to North American consumers in short order.

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CBS Warns an African Pope May Disappoint LGBTQ Activists

Ahead of next week’s papal conclave, Friday’s edition of CBS Evening News was caught in a tough situation. On one hand, being the diversity-conscious liberal show that it is, Africa correspondent Debora Patta lamented Africans are not reflected in the Vatican’s halls of power despite Catholicism growing in the area. On the other, Patta warned that an African pope would not be the pro-LGBTQ reformer liberals would want him to be.

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TDSB Told: Balance your budget or be taken over, education minister warns Toronto school board

The Toronto public board needs to balance its budget or the province will step in and take over, Education Minister Paul Calandra threatened as trustees there push back against the $58 million in cuts they need to get out of the red.

“The Toronto District School Board has been running multi-year deficits. What they’re being asked to do is find savings of less than two per cent on an over $3 billion budget,” Calandra said Thursday during daily question period, adding it could be “finding savings by reducing the amount of superintendents that they have, by going after the $35 million of paid leave that they have.”

The TDSB is a nest of lunatic leftists.

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