Carbon offsets are unreliable, fraud-ridden financial tokens that often fail to make any environmental impact at all. And if Mark Carney gets his way, they’re going to be Canada’s next big industry.
In his carbon reduction pitch to Liberal voters, Carney pledged himself to “developing and integrating a new consumer carbon credit market” that works with the existing industrial carbon tax, and promised it would bring about price certainty, market efficiency and fiscal neutrality.
An Egyptian NHS doctor who mocked Israeli festival-goers for fleeing Hamas gunmen on Oct 7 has won a legal challenge against deportation.
An immigration tribunal judge backed Dr Mennah Elwan, 34, in her claim that James Cleverly, the home secretary at the time, was wrong to cancel her leave to remain in the UK after ruling that her presence was “not conducive to the public good”.
It followed what Stephen Davies, an upper tribunal judge, said were three “shocking and inexcusable” posts on X in which he agreed with Mr Cleverly that Dr Elwan had supported, justified and glorified the terrorist violence by Hamas.
An internal report blames a lack of communication for a debacle on a Canadian Armed Forces base last fall, when masked men taking part in active-shooter drill fired blanks at civil servants who didn’t know it was a training exercise.
During the drill, which took place on Nov. 12 at a service depot at CFB Longue-Pointe in Montreal, military police also confused a racialized employee with a drill participant playing an active shooter and wrestled him to the ground.
Six living hostages set to be returned to Israel from Gaza have been handed over as the ceasefire holds despite being shaken by the misidentification of the body of the Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas.
The Israeli army said it had received the first two hostages, Tal Shoham, 40, and Avera Mengistu, 39, from the Red Cross after the handover in Gaza. They were then being transported to hospital in an Israeli air force helicopter accompanied by family members, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said.
Hamas freed five hostages and was set to release one more from Gaza in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and detainees https://t.co/3q000bwQtV pic.twitter.com/mIM05FaIqZ
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 22, 2025
Police investigating assault at Waterloo high school
Waterloo Regional Police are investigating an assault at Laurel Heights Secondary School in Waterloo.
Police were told six males went to the school during a sporting event on Feb. 11. Officers were told the males threatened and assaulted multiple students. One student received minor physical injuries.
Investigators believe the suspects are adults and not students at the school.
h/t Patti Jo
Seven months after their daughters were injured in the attack, a family speaks for the first time about the day that shattered their world
It has been seven months since the attack and seven months since the parents last shared a bed. They take it in turns to lie next to each of their traumatised daughters, alternating every night. They have swapped out the singles in the girls’ shared bedroom for a king-size bed, in the hope of snatching a few hours of rest themselves.
Since July 29 sleep, however fitful, has become vanishingly rare. Before bed, the girls insist on checking again and again that every door in the house has been locked. They pore over doorbell video, looking for shapes in the dark.
The Chinese philosopher Confucius is of course a household name for many. He may have lived 2,500 years ago, but many of his sayings still reverberate today. Here is a sampling relevant to the topic at hand:
“Study the past if you would define the future” and “An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.”
In this country, some may be aware of the presence of “Confucius Institutes” on several university campuses and within school boards. These bodies, sponsored by the People’s Republic of China, were founded in 2007 to “promote the learning of Chinese language in Canada, to foster Sino-Canada educational exchanges and to improve the understanding between Canada and China.” Who could argue with such lofty goals?
Berlin – Wassim al M. was a recognized refugee who allegedly fled the Assad regime in Syria at the age of 17 – on Friday he was arrested with blood on his hands after allegedly stabbing a tourist in the middle of Berlin.
During his interrogation, the now 19-year-old Syrian stated that he wanted to kill people out of hatred of Jews. This decision had been brewing in him for several weeks. Investigators found a Koran, a prayer rug and the suspected murder weapon, a hunting knife, in the perpetrator’s backpack. He approached his victim from behind and tried to cut the Spaniard’s throat.
OTTAWA — Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney’s new pitch for separate federal operating and capital budgets has some Albertans feeling a tinge of déjà vu, and not the warm and fuzzy sort.
Trevor Tombe, an economist at the University of Calgary, says he immediately noticed the similarities between Carney’s proposal and short-lived accounting rules introduced by then Alberta Progressive Conservative premier Alison Redford more than a decade ago.
The Conservatives have brought Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney’s business investments into the spotlight , particularly as pertains to a company called ‘Stripe’.
Carney joined the board of directors at Stripe, a global tech company worth $65 billion that “builds economic infrastructure for the internet,” on February 21, 2021, according to the company’s website. Stripe facilitates the internet operations of tech giants like Amazon, Zoom, Slack and Wayfair.
If you spend any time online (particularly after Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show), you’ll find memes saying that blacks built America, a black woman wrote Shakespeare’s work, and black Africans built Western civilization. I’m not convinced.
And finally, the corrupt and wrongheaded FBI might just get cleaned out.
One of the most rancid elements of the corrupt Washington establishment is the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which the Biden regime utilized as one of its foremost attacks dogs in its endeavor to criminalize political opposition and intimidate Americans into silence about its sinister polices. Now, however, the Trump administration is sending in a man to clean house, and the bureau may actually be forced to start investigating threats to the American people instead of harassing and persecuting the American people themselves.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance was firing insults at Europe like ballistic missiles before taking office — emulating his mentor President Donald Trump.
Vance recently lobbed verbal grenades at European officials over a growing culture of tech censorship. They deserved it. In July of 2024, he took aim at the UK over millions of Muslim migrants that have flooded the country in recent years.
What’s not to like?
The Energiewende has led to sky-high energy costs and political instability – for no environmental benefit.
Almost every country on Earth today has pledged to achieve Net Zero carbon emissions. The vast majority of them have also set spurious target dates for doing so – usually by 2050. So far, only a handful of industrialised countries have succeeded in almost fully decarbonising their electricity grids. They have only achieved this with a heavy baseload of either nuclear power and / or hydropower.
Elon Musk posted on his X social media platform on Wednesday, celebrating President Trump’s designation of numerous Mexican and other Latin American drug cartels as foreign terrorist organisations (FTOs). The designation, Musk said, meant that the cartels would be “eligible for drone strikes.”
