Pakistan’s national airline has come under fire for a “tone deaf” advert that appears to show a plane flying into the Eiffel Tower.
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), which was banned from flying to the UK, US and EU in 2020 amid safety concerns, on Friday announced it had resumed flights to Europe after the ban was lifted.
The bread price-fixing scandal investigation marks its 10th anniversary this year. Initiated in 2015, the Competition Bureau’s work remains incomplete. That’s right, it is still ongoing.
While Loblaw, Weston Bakeries (since sold), and Canada Bread (also sold, now owned by Mexico’s Grupo Bimbo, which paid a record-breaking $50-million fine) have faced consequences, four other companies — Sobeys, Metro, Giant Tiger, and Walmart — remain under investigation. This prolonged timeline is extraordinary and does little to foster consumer trust.
When the Great Fire swept through London in 1666, the fleeing citizens were convinced God was punishing them. ‘The dreadful judgement’, they called it. London’s been set alight for its ‘deadly sin of gluttony’, they wailed. A plaque put on the smoky ruins of the bakery where the fire started said: ‘Here by permission of Heaven, Hell broke loose…’ Fast forward 350 years and this view of fire as retribution, as the hellish judgement of sinning humanity, still holds. Only now the fire is set not by God, but by Gaia.
Nothing to see here. The guy seen lighting fries with a blowtorch doesn’t mean he’s an arsonist. Now if it was a white republican male then it would be an arsonist. https://t.co/EkOXDMbbiJ
— HJ (@PhillyHj) January 10, 2025
h/t patthedog
An alleged terrorist is no longer teaching at Carleton University following backlash.
Hassan Diab, 71, was convicted of having taken part in a 1980 Paris synagogue bombing that left four dead and dozens injured.
Only in Canada will you see a headline like this. pic.twitter.com/6S5mjGVY2q
— Ryan Gerritsen (@ryangerritsen) January 10, 2025
h/t Mauser
A little late to the game, perhaps, but accurate nonetheless, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria noted over the weekend that progressive politicians are in retreat throughout the West. His comments came roughly two weeks before Donald Trump’s scheduled inauguration after an election campaign that he and his populist-right Republican Party handily won, despite expectations of a close election believed to slightly favour Kamala Harris and the Democrats. Instead, Americans turned out to repudiate what Zakaria rightly recognized as the arrogance and authoritarianism of the left.
An interagency fight appears to be brewing within the outgoing Biden administration over the origins of so-called “Havana Syndrome.”
In advance of an intelligence assessment slated for release today, the Miami Herald revealed the details of a November 18 meeting in the White House Situation Room in which National Security Officials confessed that the conclusions about the phenomenon U.S. intelligence officials arrived at in 2023 “were no longer valid.” That assessment asserted that it was “very unlikely” that the hundreds of U.S. governmental personnel who exhibited symptoms associated with the affliction suffered as a result of a clandestine operation conducted by a hostile foreign power. The victims’ symptoms — which include nausea, headaches, memory loss, tinnitus, and dizziness, often after “hearing a noise coming from a particular direction” — were attributed to their individual preexisting medical and psychological conditions.
Less than a week into 2025, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, often known as the “Crown Prince of Woke Politics,” announced his resignation — an event that is likely to reshape the Canadian political landscape nearly ten months before the country’s general election.
Trudeau, the eldest son of former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, took office in 2015 and presented himself as a leading figure in leftist politics. He declared that Canada under his leadership would become the “first postnational state,” characterized by “no core identity” and “no mainstream,” only “shared values.”
Recently, Elon Musk reignited a controversy by criticizing the U.K. government’s handling of rape gangs. Musk has accused Prime Minister Keir Starmer of complicity in these crimes, suggesting that he should resign and face charges for his role during that period. Unfortunately, this is not isolated to the U.K. but is a broader epidemic that has been plaguing European nations for over a decade. It is the direct result of wholesale adoption of multiculturalism — at any cost.
The most important thing to know about Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley is that she is the first LGBTQ fire chief in the history of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
It’s also the only thing worth knowing about the woman in charge while Los Angeles burned.
JUST IN: Los Angeles Fire Department chief Kristin Crowley turns on Los Angeles leadership, says they failed her.
Remarkable interview.
Crowley called out the city for having no water in the Santa Ynez Reservoir.
Reporter: "Did the city of Los Angeles fail you and your… pic.twitter.com/fUQPoW32QA
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 10, 2025
h/t DS
There are ways to make decisions and there are the actual decisions one makes. The former is about procedures, the ‘how’ questions. The latter is about substantive calls, the ‘what’ questions. Now it only takes a moment’s thought to realise that no method or procedure for making decisions will be perfect. We are fallible, biological creatures. We humans are in the ‘least-bad’ business. And for me, it has long seemed that the least-bad way to make political decisions was to let the numbers count. Majoritarianism. Democracy in other words, at least in its old-fashioned sense of counting everyone equally and voting. (Human rights lawyer types and top judges have these past couple of decades tried to redefine democracy so that it includes a hefty substantive component, namely that these elites also approve of the decisions made – and of course the judges don’t put it that way; they talk in terms of a decision having to be in keeping with ‘the rule of law’ or ‘sufficiently rights-respecting’ or some such.) But the point is any procedure will sometimes misfire. Majoritarianism misfires, hence Winston Churchill’s famous quip that democracy is the worst form of government… except for everything else. But then, too, letting a bunch of unelected judges have a veto over majoritarianism misfires too. No option is – make that can be – perfect. You pick your poison.
And no government policy or program can fix their problems.
The shocking murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson a few weeks ago by what appears to be the son of an affluent family and a product of elite educational institutions, Luigi Mangione, manifests deep festering problems for the children of elites. There is no simple way to describe what is going on because it is multi-faceted. Ironically, children from the most “privileged” backgrounds tend to have a high rate of psychological pathologies due to: over-active parenting; high stress, performance-oriented educational structures; woke teachers, professors, and administrators; and insulated sheltered social circles.
The ongoing mystery surrounding the drones in the night sky seen in several East Coast states may soon be explained, as President-elect Trump is promising to deliver a major report on the matter.
Trump told Fox News’ Peter Doocy that the government knows exactly what’s been happening in the skies and he cannot understand why the public hasn’t been informed.
From an excellent NaTGeo UFO series, worth a watch.
The ghosts of 1911 are not far away
“It is her own soul that Canada risks today.” Rudyard Kipling’s cable to a Montreal newspaper was an explosive intervention in the country’s 1911 election, which turned on a familiar question: should Canadians submit to the “economic force” of the United States? The Liberal Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier had gambled that Canadians would welcome an expansive free trade agreement but Kipling urged this young nation not to yoke itself to a reckless people who “have so decimated their resources” that they needed “virgin fields” elsewhere. His words decisively reinforced Laurier’s Conservative opponents, who alleged he was colluding with Americans to annex Canada. Laurier soon went down to a crushing defeat.
The Liberal Party of Canada’s upcoming leadership race is shaping up to be an absolute dumpster fire, with questionable due diligence and a rushed timeline that puts party interests ahead of the nation’s well-being. The party’s decision to maintain free membership and lax verification processes raises serious concerns about the integrity of the voting process.
That was the message Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had for Jake Tapper during his Thursday afternoon interview on CNN when the PM was asked about his historically-low approval rating.
In Washington to attend the state funeral of President Jimmy Carter, Trudeau rebuffed Tapper’s implications that his impending defeat — much like President-elect Donald Trump’s recent election win — signals voters have had quite enough of left-wing governments and left-wing policy.
Trudeau appearing on CNN to talk tariffs is so quintessentially Trudeau
If you want to speak to the President and his supporters, you go on Fox. Doug Ford knows this
But if you want to virtue signal to the like-minded and make it seem like you’re doing something, you go on CNN https://t.co/QEhQsgPmE6
— Robyn Urback (@RobynUrback) January 9, 2025
