It’s gotta be tough being Justin Trudeau these days.
The Conservatives have said they plan to bring a non-confidence motion to defeat the Trudeau government as soon as Jan. 30. The Bloc Quebecois and NDP have said they believe Trudeau must go — though not all NDP MPs agree.
Drag marks have been discovered on the Baltic sea bed, stretching for dozens of kilometres, where a tanker linked to Russia is suspected of breaking a power line and four telecoms cables with its anchor.
The Eagle S, registered in the Cook Islands and carrying Russian oil, was boarded by Finnish police and coastguard officials on Thursday. It has been detained and sailed into Finnish waters. Its crew have been questioned.
December 30, 2024 – At the end of what has already been a bruising year for federal Liberals, they are on the precipice of a very unhappy New Year.
Amid growing calls for their leader to resign, the latest public opinion data from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute shows the party’s support among decided and leaning voters down to just 16 per cent.
How do you fundamentally transform a nation? If you don’t like your country as it is, how can you reshape it into something more to your liking?
Perhaps the simplest way to change a country peacefully is to change its constitution. The constitution is the foundational document that essentially establishes a country by formulating the structure of its government and listing the rights and responsibilities of its citizens.
Liberals say they want ‘livable’ cities, but their policies produce high taxes, crime and chaos.
New York is the backdrop for famous holiday films such as “Miracle on 34th Street,” “Home Alone 2” and “Elf.” This year came a less felicitous kind when a video appeared of a woman burning to death on the subway while the man who lit her on fire fanned the flames. It was a nightmare before Christmas.
The video ignited conversation at my family’s table and doubtless many others. What happened? On Dec. 22, a 33-year-old undocumented immigrant from Guatemala allegedly lit the sleeping subway rider on fire. Police identified his most recent address as a homeless shelter in Brooklyn for men with substance-abuse problems.
The video is a snapshot of the city’s problems: crime, mentally deranged and intoxicated vagrants, undocumented migrants and unsafe subways. It’s also an apt metaphor for the destruction of the Big Apple and of other once-great cities by progressive arsonists.
A female former inmate sued the Washington state department of corrections last week for housing her with a transgender-identifying male child molester who allegedly sexually assaulted her in their shared room.
Among the most significant advances in upholding the Second Amendment has been the spread of Constitutional Carry (CC). Circa January 2024, 29 states allow CC …
21 House Dems Demand Biden Aid Black Klansman
18 members of the Congressional Black Caucus, along with Rep. Rashida Tlaib and two other non-black members, signed a letter asking Biden to exonerate America’s first black Klansman.
The letter does not mention that Marcus Garvey had allied with the KKK, admired Hitler, told his followers to read Mein Kampf and declared, “what the Negro needs is a Hitler.”
The carbon footprint of a long-delayed new “green” ferry will be far larger than the 31-year-old diesel ship that usually serves the route between the Scottish mainland and the island of Arran.
An emissions analysis by CalMac has calculated MV Glen Sannox will emit 10,391 equivalent tonnes of CO2 a year compared with 7,732 for MV Caledonian Isles.
The dual-fuel ferry has more car capacity but requires larger engines which also emit methane, a greenhouse gas with a far greater global warming effect than CO2.
The current clashes over high-skilled immigration between Donald Trump’s right-wing base and his ‘first buddy’, Elon Musk, reveal a fundamental divide within the US president’s odd coalition. On one side are the populists concerned with jobs being prioritised for American workers. On the other, libertarians fret about how businesses can compete on a global scale.
A CIA whistleblower has said that Americans should be ‘terrified’ of alleged government gaslighting of former intelligence employees who believe they have been struck down by ‘Havana Syndrome’.
The medically-retired CIA officer spoke anonymously with investigative journalist Catherine Herridge about her experience with the debilitating mystery disorder, and how the authorities have treated her since.
Speaking under the pseudonym Alice, the former CIA employee said she spent two years in government service and began experiencing ‘Havana Syndrome’ – also known as Anomalous Health Incidents (AHIs).
Boris Yeltsin had earned a reputation for the unexpected, from ordering tanks to attack his rebellious parliament to drunkenly directing a military orchestra in Germany. Yet he saved one of his biggest surprises for last.
“I am leaving. I have done all I could,” President Yeltsin said, slurring his words in a televised New Year address in 1999, as the world prepared to celebrate the new millennium. Russia’s ailing leader still had half a year of his second term left to run and no one had expected him to stand down early.
“Why cling to power for six more months when the country has a strong leader who can be its president, a man on whom nearly all Russians are pinning their hopes for the future? Why stand in his way?” he said.
Law follows politics. Politics follows culture. Culture, to a large extent, follows education.
The gradual decline in education in recent decades, in particular the failure of schools to teach history properly (or at all), has resulted in a cultural decline that will take years, even decades, to reverse.
It was another year of living stupidly.
In Toronto and hereabouts.
A city council that went far left-away and a Queen’s Park dictatorship that willy-nilly took away traditional municipal powers. Local pols chafed; the premier paid no mind.
Carjackings became the crime of massive choice, often with juvie-proof teens at the wheel. Catch me if you can nyah-nyah-nyah. But offenders were still mostly dumb as a sack of hammers. Cops too, on occasion.
Over the holidays, the relatively few Americans who remained tuned into politics were treated to yet more evidence that President Joe Biden’s categorical denials of any knowledge about his now-pardoned son’s overseas business dealings were lies.
