GET A GRIP CANADA!
Tonight in a Toronto liquor store, my husband tried to intervene while a woman was stealing bottles. He yelled at her to stop and tried to grab her bag. The staff came running over and told him to stop because he could be charged with assault. The security… pic.twitter.com/iDmboJjO7L— Esme Vee (big dragon energy) (@esme_saysno) December 29, 2024
H/T Patti Jo
Holiday dinners are sometimes about making the best of an awkward situation, forcing smiles and exchanging pleasantries with people you’d rather not be sitting next to for very long. That’s just what Justin Trudeau did at the end of November, when he flew to Florida to dine with the incoming president of the United States. There is no bromance between Mr. Trudeau and Donald Trump, but their neighbouring countries are still better off when they can find a way to fake it, at least long enough to get from the appetizer to dessert.
A Russia-linked tanker suspected of cutting Baltic Sea cables has been tugged to port amid reports it was loaded with “spy equipment”.
Finnish authorities boarded the Eagle S tanker at sea after suspecting the vessel of sabotaging undersea power and internet lines on Christmas Day.
The Cook Islands-registered ship was carrying Russian oil when it allegedly slowed down and dragged its anchor along the seabed to damage the Estlink 2 undersea cable, which provides power to Estonia.
I want Justin Trudeau gone as much as the next sane Canadian, but I don’t want the Governor General messing about in the democratic process just to hasten the prime minister’s departure.
To be sure, Trudeau needs to go.
For one, our economy is in meltdown. Productivity is declining. Investment is weak.
Houthis dance on the ship they captured on the Red Sea. https://t.co/uOkHe2XepL
— Jonathan Schanzer (@JSchanzer) November 23, 2023
h/t Hermes
Just Stop Oil has been caught importing T-shirts made by low-paid workers in the Dominican Republic.
The eco activist group was branded a hypocrite for getting merchandise shipped from 4,000 miles away, rather than reducing its carbon footprint by having it made in Britain.
The average textile worker in the Caribbean country makes less than £40 a day, but JSO is charging £20 for the T-shirt.
Mother arrested trying to flee to Canada after she & her husband allegedly tried performing an "honor killing" on their daughter for refusing to be shipped to Iraq for an arranged marriage.
Zahraa Subhi Mohsin Ali was charged with attempted murder, kidnapping, & assault.
The 17… pic.twitter.com/tFisyKoxlz
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 28, 2024
Another year around the Sun is drawing to a close and keeping with what has become the Western Standard tradition, I am honored to write my year end synopsis for 2024 and my thoughts looking ahead to 2025.
My year end synopsis is Canadians must Axe the Tax, Ignore the Cap and utterly Nix Net Zero!
I encourage all Canadians and their Conservative constituency associations to simply prioritize getting back to the basics and demanding that our elected officials retreat from all global commitments and initiatives relating to CO2 emissions.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Saturday restated his backing for Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), calling the party the “last spark of hope” for the country, in an op-ed published by the Welt am Sonntag newspaper.
His remarks triggered anger among German politicians, with the country seven weeks away from a snap federal election.
Two decades ago, I wrote: “Sometime, not too long ago, while no one was watching, Canada became the world’s most successful country.”
The culture of accommodation that we evolved more than a century and a half ago as a way for the French and English populations to co-exist had proved to be ideally suited, I believed, to bringing millions of people from all parts of the world to this country, where they lived, worked and played together in harmony.
A false defense of multicult with a dash of don’t make the Muslims mad.
An investigation by Indian officials that alleges dozens of Canadian colleges and universities might be linked to a scheme of illegally ferrying students across the Canada-U.S. border reveals the “staggering” extent to which holes in the immigration system can be exploited, some experts say.
“If the allegations are true, it reveals shocking gaps in our integrity protocols.… This is deeply, deeply concerning and problematic,” Raj Sharma, a Calgary-based immigration lawyer, told CBC News Network, adding that the allegations suggest “wide-scale human smuggling.”
A commercial jet carrying 181 people skidded off a runway at an airport in South Korea and burst into a massive fireball, killing all but two, who somehow miraculously survived the horrifying aviation disaster, according to South Korean media.
The Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 airplane was arriving from Thailand at Muan International Airport in the south of the Asian nation on Sunday morning when its landing gear failed to extend just after 9 am and it wound up belly flopping onto the ground.
BREAKING: Jeju Air flight with 181 people on board has crashed at Muan International Airport in South Korea. Unfortunately all 179 passengers and crew have died, only 2 survived.
— حسن سجواني Hassan Sajwani (@HSajwanization) December 29, 2024
Bad Day For Boeing.
NEW: A KLM Boeing 737 made an emergency landing and skidded off the runway in Oslo, Norway due to a malfunction in its hydraulic system
Pilots noticed the issue soon after takeoff at around 4,900ft, and quickly diverted to a nearby airfield
It’s not yet known what caused the… pic.twitter.com/g9vtvJB4um
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 29, 2024
h/t Mauser
About a month ago, some bioethicists claimed that bioethics should prevent climate change. My eyes had finally stopped rolling when lo and behold, I learn from three UN Women researchers –in Scientific American, no less — that feminism holds the real key to preventing the planet from cooking.
Analysis of intelligence documents reveals that family members spied on each other, teachers betrayed pupils — and ‘traitors’ were tortured and killed
Secret intelligence documents uncovered by The Sunday Times in Syria have revealed the terrifying extent of Bashar al-Assad’s Stasi-like surveillance state, where family members spied on each other and the slightest suspicion could result in ordinary people — including children — being swept into a network of prisons notorious for torture and executions, with victims buried in mass graves.
Thousands of files, written in neat biro or typed in formal Arabic, detail the way the regime has infiltrated protest and rebel groups since the revolution began in 2011. They reveal details about the vast network of informants that reported to the regime, and how the intelligence services forced the people they arrested to give up names of alleged collaborators — who would in turn be detained.
For the past several decades, Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been everywhere. She has been a New Atheist, a Dutch parliamentarian, and a public intellectual living under Islamist death threats; now, to the shock of many, she has converted to Christianity and launched her own media platform to advocate for the restoration of the West called Couarge.Media.
In retrospect, there were indications that Hirsi Ali was considering Christianity. In 2021, I interviewed both Hirsi Ali and her husband historian Niall Ferguson within a few weeks of each other. Both had just released books; I was reviewing Ferguson’s Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe for The American Conservative and Hirsi Ali’s Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women’s Rights for this publication. Later, going over my transcripts, I noted with interest that both Ferguson and Hirsi Ali had brought up—and defended—Christianity during the interviews unprompted.
