OTTAWA — Jewish-Canadian groups are voicing concerns after special anti-Islamophobia representative Amira Elghawaby met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last week to urge him to adopt a federal definition of “anti-Palestinian racism.”
Critics warn that embracing the concept could end up targeting Jewish Canadians by conflating pro-Israel speech with racism, while insulating pro-Palestinian interpretations of history from criticism.
The Welsh Government has been advised to create dog-free zones to help make the outdoors “anti-racist”.
Labour’s devolved administration has pledged to rid Wales of racism by 2030, and set out a plan to ensure “all areas” of public life were transformed.
According to a report submitted to the Welsh Government to steer “anti-racist” policy, dog-free zones should be created to make the outdoors more inclusive.
Sometimes mass executions have an appeal.
The satirical news source The Onion outbid rivals for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims owed more than than $1 billion in defamation judgments against the broadcaster for calling the massacre a hoax.
(Bloomberg) — Canadians broadly support Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s plan to drastically slash immigration targets, but the move has done little to boost his waning popularity, a new poll suggests.
Despite three in four respondents agreeing with the immigration reduction, just over half said it has no impact on their impressions of Trudeau, according to a survey by Nanos Research Group for Bloomberg News. Some 17% stated it negatively affected their opinion of the prime minister, while 28% reported a positive impact.
The cuts are just cosmetic.
Republicans have secured a majority in the US House of Representatives, extending their hold on the lower chamber and delivering a governing trifecta in Washington that could give Donald Trump sweeping power to enact his legislative agenda.
The Associated Press determined on Wednesday evening that Republicans had won at least 218 seats in the 435-member House after a victory in Arizona, a call that came more than a week after polls closed across the US and as Trump made cabinet announcements that sent shockwaves through Washington.
The call ensures Republicans will continue to have a large say in key matters such as government funding, debt ceiling negotiations and foreign aid, and it spells an end to Democrats’ hopes that the lower chamber could serve as a blockade against Trump’s agenda.
I can’t wait for the inauguration. The Guardian will implode.
OTTAWA — Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault says his shifting claims from being “non-status adoptive Cree” to recently stating his adoptive mother is “status Métis” are a “reflection of his family exploring their own history” and not him claiming Indigenous status.
Boissonnault’s spokesperson Alice Hansen sent National Post a statement Tuesday offering new details about the minister’s changing stories about his adoptive family’s identity, which had raised concerns among some Indigenous people.
Private jet arrivals at Baku’s international airport have soared in the past week as world leaders and business people jet in for Cop29.
The annual UN climate conference, held this year in the oil-rich capital of Azerbaijan, has become a magnet for the rich and powerful who rub shoulders with politicians and diplomats.
Data from FlightRadar24, the tracking website, revealed that 65 private jets landed in Baku in the week to Monday. Of those, 45 arrived on Sunday and Monday as the conference got under way.
You must not realize who you’re taking about: pic.twitter.com/1ys0HPazij
— Hashem (@HashemAllMighty) November 14, 2024
As a reader pointed out Parrish can’t be faulted for simply representing the wishes of her constituents. Just imagine what comes after her.
Ordinary Canadians are not responsible for the current state of affairs.
Our “Elites” imported the Islamists and millions more from other incompatible cultures.
Our “Elites” poisoned our universities.
Our “Elites” demonized us as immutably racist oppressors simply because we have White skin.
Our “Elites” hate you and me.
One of India’s most wanted terrorists has been arrested and charged in connection with a recent alleged shooting in Ontario.
Arshdeep Singh Gill is known on the streets of India by the alias “Arsh Dalla”, a name that in recent years has become synonymous with violence in India.
After the deadly car attack in Zhuhai, the local government published a guide on what to do during car rampage attack. Very useful information you can only find in China, the self-proclaimed safest country in the world. pic.twitter.com/1DVbn3dPzX
— The Great Translation Movement 大翻译运动 (@TGTM_Official) November 14, 2024
Dozens killed in China after car driven into sports centre
Sadiq Khan has said Donald Trump criticised him in the past because the US president-elect is “racist”.
Mr Khan, the Mayor of London, said that, had he been white, Mr Trump – who won the US election earlier this month – would not have “come for me”.
And he repeated his accusation that Mr Trump’s policies were “sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic, racist”.
Joy Reid just deleted her X account pic.twitter.com/sqwZyJkBYA
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 14, 2024
My statement on leaving Twitter pic.twitter.com/9tYcfqHhhC
— Don Lemon (@donlemon) November 13, 2024
h/t Mauser
All the consternation over what Donald Trump might do to our fair land after his jolting re-election triumph is not misplaced. But it isn’t the response strategy of Justin Trudeau and his Liberals that should be drawing all the attention.
There’s less than a year to go until our next election. There’s about an 80- to 90-per-cent chance Mr. Trudeau will be gone by then.
Howdy Ya’ All
My building will be without power from 9AM until 2PM today, maybe a bit less, but no worries I have scheduled posts to get us through that shutdown.
I installed a WordPress update yesterday which seems to be causing the Category listing to default to “uncategorized” in some but not all posts, though it may be it affects only posts that include WTF? as a category label. Once it has defaulted it can’t be changed with an edit. At any rate it will likely be fixed in the next update.
If you see any other weirdness happening let me know in the comments.
Thank you for your help.
PS. If you have any news sites or favourite blogs you think I should use as sources let me know in the comments.
Thanks, BCF
Ukraine could develop a rudimentary nuclear bomb within months if Donald Trump withdraws US military assistance, according to a briefing paper prepared for the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence.
The country would quickly be able to build a basic device from plutonium with a similar technology to the “Fat Man” bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945, the report states. “Creating a simple atomic bomb, as the United States did within the framework of the Manhattan Project, would not be a difficult task 80 years later,” the document reads.
