The random tweet of a Liberal MP does not, of course, represent Liberal government policy. But when Liberal Whitby MP Ryan Turnbull tweeted it was ‘scary’ that a ‘Poilievre-led government would end subsidies to mainstream media and defund the CBC,’ you can bet he is channeling Liberal water-cooler conversation.
Worried about money? Statistically, you probably are: New research from Meridian Credit Union asked more than 1,500 people from coast to coast about how they really feel about their finances. Experts predicted it wouldn’t be great, but no one knew it would be this bad: More than half of Canadians — and nearly two-thirds (62 per cent) of Ontarians — reported their lifestyle was becoming unaffordable due to rising costs. Forty per cent of women (compared to 18 per cent of men) worry about their long-term financial future.
Surely not even Nostradamus could get it right all of the time.
Allan Lichtman had correctly forecast the result of nine of the past 10 US presidential elections (and even the one he didn’t, in 2000, he insists was stolen from Al Gore). His predictive model of “13 keys” to the White House was emulated around the world and seemed all but indestructible.
Until, that is, Donald Trump, the notorious human wrecking ball, came along and broke his crystal ball. Lichtman had prophesied that Democrat Kamala Harris would win eight of his keys, claiming the presidency, forcing him to face the harsh truth that his winning streak was over. Was it a big personal blow?
Good morning pic.twitter.com/gzO14U5zJs
— shellshock (@shellshockkk) November 14, 2024
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — On the last night of their lives, Jagdish Patel, his wife and their two young children tried to slip into the U.S. across a near-empty stretch of the Canadian border.
Wind chills reached minus 36 Fahrenheit (minus 38 Celsius) that night in January 2022 as the family from India set out on foot to meet a waiting van. They walked amid vast farm fields and bulky snowdrifts, navigating in the black of an almost-moonless night.
The driver, waiting in northern Minnesota, messaged his boss: “Make sure everyone is dressed for the blizzard conditions, please.”
BREAKING: Pro-Palestine protestors forced iconic Christmas window display event in Australia to cancel their yearly tradition after threatening to crash their grand opening celebration. pic.twitter.com/wjku8xkhd8
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 15, 2024
The entire political atmosphere in the United States has miraculously changed: the ludicrous lamentations about possible violence have come to nothing, and there have not been any allegations of election irregularities. The new administration has a clear majority, and a seat change has occurred down to sweeping out the criminal-coddling district attorney of Los Angeles and evicting the inept Democratic mayors of San Francisco and Oakland. The ballots are still being counted, but so far, it appears that the Democratic majority in California has shrunk by more than two million in 2024, and, in New York, by almost one million, and the Republican majorities in Texas and Florida have both grown very substantially. More tellingly, although Trump’s vote has increased by almost two million since 2020, the Democratic popular vote has decreased by approximately eight million, which may be partly explained by the extensive use of harvested ballots in 2020. We will never know for sure but I would argue Trump may be the only U.S. president except Franklin D. Roosevelt to have won three consecutive elections.
What do you mean there is a mental health crisis? This is a normal 21 year old man.
Pronouns used are he/they/its. pic.twitter.com/lfaWireJhR
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) November 16, 2024
A police force refused to prosecute a man who sent an image of the Star of David intertwined with the Nazi swastika to a Jewish students’ organisation, on the basis it was not offensive enough.
Cambridgeshire Constabulary concluded that the image, sent on social media to the Union of Jewish Students, was not “grossly offensive” and therefore not a crime, it has emerged. As a result, the incident was reported as a non-crime hate incident (NCHI).
I don’t believe the Hibachi girl was bothered by the TPS.
Suicidal Empathy and the Decline of the West
h/t Patti Jo
The party’s handling of the issue played a key role in its defeat on November 5. Now, some voices are starting to speak out about it.
The Democrats’ catastrophic performance on November 5 showed their vulnerability on a number of key issues, but none perhaps as obvious as on transgender policy. So powerful is transgender activism’s chokehold on the Democratic Party that, when Kamala Harris was asked whether she would uphold her promise from 2019 to use taxpayer dollars to fund sex “change” procedures for incarcerated illegal immigrants, she did not disavow it. To repeat: Sex change surgeries for illegal immigrants in prison, paid for by taxpayers. Harris couldn’t have touched more third rails had she tried.
“We will defeat the trumpers” pic.twitter.com/MGxzyH4p57
— shellshock (@shellshockkk) November 14, 2024
A week after Israeli soccer fans were attacked in the streets of Amsterdam, triggering damning accusations of a “Jew hunt” in a city with an ugly history of antisemitism, a clearer picture of what happened that night is slowly emerging.
It suggests a far more nuanced take on events than Dutch authorities had initially indicated.
Never underestimate the power of an administration’s single term or the harm that policies – whether constructive or poorly-informed — can have on the international stage.
As President Joe Biden’s administration approaches the end of its term, it is hard not to see the global volatility, emboldened adversaries, and fractured alliances.
Those are lessons to be learned about the costs of weakness in leadership and the consequences of strategic missteps in foreign policy.
Toronto-born journalist Catherine Herridge has spent 37 years working for some of the biggest media outlets in the U.S., including broadcasters ABC, CBS and Fox. But she’s now become the central figure in a high-stakes legal battle over freedom of the press and whether journalists can be compelled to disclose confidential sources.
Ms. Herridge, 60, was held in contempt of court last February by a district judge in Washington for refusing to identify the source for a story about U.S. academic Yanping Chen and her alleged ties to the Chinese military.
Lacey, Washington is a suburb of Olympia with a population of about 50,000. In October a man was seen chocking a girl outside of a public high school. Investigators have since determined the man was the girl’s father and he was attempting an honor killing because the 17-year-old had refused to participate in an arranged marriage.
Canada’s parliamentary budget officer says the federal government is overestimating the impact its new immigration plan will have on the country’s housing shortage.
In October the Liberal government announced it was cutting the number of permanent residents allowed into the country between 2025 and 2027.
APEC forced the President of the United States to stand in the back corner.
Do you think they’d try this with Trump? pic.twitter.com/UhI13bM51E
— Jessica (@Jessica_4_Trump) November 16, 2024
h/t Mauser
