Let’s be honest here. The only thing shocking about Joe Biden pardoning his son, Hunter, was the timing. He was always going to do it. I think most people, myself included, figured he’d wait until January.
Layoffs could be on the table for public servants. Here’s everything you need to know
The federal government is currently looking for ways to tighten its budget and curb the size of the public service. In order to do that, it’s undertaking a multi-billion dollar spending review.
The LPC has been on a civil servant hiring spree, in many quarters job growth in the public service outpaces the private sector.
There’s a reason for that besides the economy sucking, the public service is a valued vote bloc for the LPC.
She’s Chief Resident of Yale’s Child Psychiatry Program. She Also Says Her Husband Can’t Have White Friends ‘Unless They Meet Me First.’
Ahead of the holiday season, Amanda Calhoun appeared on MSNBC’s The ReidOut to deliver a message to its liberal viewers: It’s okay to cut off your conservative relatives.
“So, if you are going into a situation where you have family members, where you have close friends who you know have voted in ways that are against you,” Calhoun told Joy Reid earlier this month, “it’s completely fine to not be around those people and to tell them why. I think you should very much be entitled to do so, and I think it may be essential for your mental health.”
h/t GR
Canada launches global ad campaign warning asylum-seekers that making a claim is difficult
Once presenting itself as one of the world’s most welcoming countries to refugees and immigrants, Canada is launching a global online ad campaign cautioning asylum-seekers that making a claim is hard.
The $250,000 in advertisements will run through March in 11 languages, including Spanish, Urdu, Ukrainian, Hindi and Tamil, the immigration department told Reuters.
They are part of a broader shift in tone by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s unpopular government on immigration and an effort to clamp down on refugee claims.
‘Italian’ purees in UK supermarkets likely to contain Chinese forced-labour tomatoes
“Italian” tomato purees sold by several UK supermarkets appear to contain tomatoes grown and picked in China using forced labour, the BBC has found.
Some have “Italian” in their name such as Tesco’s “Italian Tomato Purée”. Others have “Italian” in their description, such as Asda’s double concentrate which says it contains “Puréed Italian grown tomatoes” – and Waitrose’s “Essential Tomato Purée”, describing itself as “Italian tomato puree”.
A recipe for mass poisoning.
Trudeau’s Canada: Ontario food banks cutting back amid ‘unprecedented surge in demand’
About 40 per cent of food banks in the province have scaled back the amount of food they provide each visit amid “record-high demand,” according to a new report by Feed Ontario.
The report, which was released Monday, reveals that usage has “surpassed the capacity and resources” of Ontario’s food bank network, adding that provincial food banks were accessed by more than a million people between April 1, 2023 and March 31, 2024. This marks a 25 per cent increase over the previous year. About 43 per cent of those visitors had never used a food bank before, the report states.
A message from the CEO combined with a land acknowledgement in a hunger report. Tell me this isn’t an industry designed to take advantage of rather than alleviate the problem.
How much of foodbank usage is due to Trudeau’s migrants?
Last year, 97.6 per cent of population growth in Canada was due to immigration, however, the increase in people who have “been in Canada for 10 years or less” has contributed to only a third of the growth in food bank visitors in Ontario. This is inclusive of temporary workers, students, refugees, and immigrants who have lived in Canada for up to a decade and are struggling with the cost of living.
So 33% of food bank usage is due to migrants, but in the same breath the report calls that a myth.
That cost of living is exasperated by the extreme rise in rents and costs of home ownership created by a housing shortage fueled by … Trudeau’s migrants.
Mexican Authorities Dissolve Migrant Caravan Headed to U.S.
Mexican immigration authorities dissolved one of the large migrant caravans moving through southern Mexico as they provided the group with bus transportation to other parts of Mexico and promised to help them with their paperwork. The move comes soon after Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum had phone calls with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump over the threats of tariffs if Mexico does not halt the flow of drugs, migrants, and asylum seekers headed north.
Lion Electric temporarily lays off 400 workers, gets extension from creditors
MONTREAL – Electric bus manufacturer Lion Electric is temporarily laying off 400 employees and shutting down production at its Illinois plant after getting a two-week reprieve from its lenders.
The St-Jérôme, Que.-based company said in a statement Sunday that it has secured an extension to Dec. 16 for a loan and a credit agreement with a syndicate of lenders, after a Saturday deadline passed.
Steve Bannon: Maga can rule for 50 years and Farage will be PM
Under a cloudless desert sky on the day before Thanksgiving, one of Donald Trump’s top henchmen is denouncing a range of enemies including, but not limited to: the Department of Justice, federal bureaucrats, the Republican leader of the Senate and liberal former talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, who reportedly moved to the UK after the Republican electoral victory.
“They’re all infesting the Cotswolds,” gripes Steve Bannon, stretching out on a sunchair at his holiday home in the shadow of Arizona’s Santa Catalina mountains. “F*** them. They’re not resilient … They had every advantage of state power. They had the high ground. And guess what, we broke them and now they’re whining like little children.”
So they dodged a bullet then …
Agents of Indian government interfered in Patrick Brown’s Conservative leadership campaign: sources
Agents of the Indian government allegedly attempted to derail Patrick Brown’s campaign for the leadership of the Conservative Party in 2022, according to sources who spoke to Radio-Canada.
Brown’s national campaign co-chair, Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner, allegedly was pressured to withdraw her support for Brown in the 2022 Conservative Party of Canada leadership race, confidential sources told Radio-Canada.
Rempel Garner categorically denies the allegation.
‘Sorry I can’t understand your accent’ could be racial discrimination
Telling someone with a foreign accent you can’t understand them could be racial harassment, a senior tribunal judge has said.
Commenting on or criticising the way someone from another country or ethnic group speaks could breach employment law, Judge James Tayler said.
The senior circuit judge of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) made the ruling following a case about a university worker who sued when she received criticism over her “strong” Brazilian accent.
h/t Patti Jo
Poilievre accuses Trudeau of coming home empty-handed after Trump, PM hail ‘productive’ Florida meeting
As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. president-elect Donald Trump hail their surprise meeting in Florida on Friday night as “productive,” federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Trudeau came home empty-handed for Canada.
Poilievre made the comment Sunday in response to a reporter’s question about the Trudeau-Trump three-hour dinner at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla. The pair talked cross-border issues including Trump’s threat to slap massive 25-per-cent tariffs on Canadian products being imported into the U.S.
The map that shows Russia’s ‘secret war’ with the West has now begun
Taken in isolation, they could just about be explained away as coincidences – freak accidents, one-off attacks, unfortunate infrastructure failures. The DHL cargo plane that crashed on Monday as it approached Vilnius airport. The recent bomb scares that have hobbled London, from Euston Square and Gatwick Airport to the US Embassy. The drones spotted circling near US Air Force bases in the UK. The explosion at a weapons manufacturing facility in Wales in April.
WTF?
Stop telling Black women how they supposed to celebrate Black Friday. pic.twitter.com/lNnSBprnMl
— Rev. Ray Cistman ✊ (@RevRayCistman) December 2, 2024
Cans of pop as missiles that’s new!
Jamie Sarkonak: Walmart’s DEI retreat a major win for the common sense crowd
Now that the largest employer in the United States — Walmart has 2.1 million employees, with 1.6 million of those in the U.S. — is retreating from many of the progressive political commitments it made circa 2020, it just became a heck of a lot easier for smaller fish to follow suit.