McTEAGUE: Bad ideology makes Canada’s EV investment a bad idea

What does Donald Trump’s resounding win in the recent U.S. election mean for Canada? Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to have been much thought about the answer to this question in Ottawa, because the vast majority of our political and pundit class expected his opponent to be victorious. Suddenly they’re all having to process this unwelcome intrusion of reality into their narrow mental picture.

Well, what does it mean?

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Trump, the MSM and an avalanche of ignorance

WE KNEW the mainstream media in this country hate Donald Trump and have vilified him ever since he began campaigning for office nine years or so ago. But their reaction to his victory last week shows not only that they are unhinged, but childishly naïve as well.

Take one example. The day after the result, Harriet Harman appeared on ITV’s This Morning. Quite why her views on the electors’ choice in the US should have any relevance to anybody is a mystery. Nor could her political opinions be regarded as balanced or representative, but the presenters nevertheless accepted everything she said without challenge. Harman’s disgust for Trump was evident, and she concluded that he would take away women’s reproductive rights, with her hosts nodding in agreement like a pair of donkeys.

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Trump’s Triumph Over Jack Smith Sends the Special Counsel Toward Resignation and an Uncertain Future

If Special Counsel Jack Smith resigns before President Trump takes the oath of office for a second time, he will likely take his two criminal cases against the 45th president with him into the sunset.

Mr. Smith was hired by Attorney General Garland in November 2023, two days after Trump declared he would stand again for president. Now, Trump’s success in achieving that goal puts the prosecutor at an impasse born of immunity. The New York Times reports that he “plans to finish his work and resign along with other members of his team” before Trump takes office.

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Shock Horror: Islamophobia Outbreak At McDonald’s

These are generally days of mourning (mixed with a generous helping of hysterical fearmongering) for the left, but the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is all smiles. Its Massachusetts chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MA) announced Thursday that the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) has found “probable cause” in a discrimination case involving a Muslim woman who claims that a McDonald’s employee deliberately and maliciously served her pork. No, it wasn’t Donald Trump, but the victim and her CAIR allies are furious, and looking for justice, otherwise known as a big payday.

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The Kafkaesque thoughtpolicing of Allison Pearson

Now even newspaper columnists are being investigated for their tweets.

As she was getting ready for a Remembrance Sunday memorial last weekend, Telegraph journalist Allison Pearson heard a knock at her door. Two policemen had turned up, she claims in an article published last night, to accuse her of a ‘non-crime hate incident’ – a tool used by police to record accusations of ‘hateful’ speech, even when no law has been broken. When she asked what tweet this was regarding, and who had made the complaint against her, she was rebuffed by the officers, according to her account.

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I’m a 31-year-old preschool teacher – I will never have children because Donald Trump is president

A teacher in South Carolina has declared she will not have children for as long as Donald Trump is president.

Kate Medlin, 31, posted a TikTok last week after it appeared Trump would win the election saying she and her fiancé decided they would not be having kids in the next four years, ‘especially in the state we are now.’

However, the preschool teacher added that when Trump leaves office, she’ll be nearly 36 years old, making her a high-risk geriatric pregnancy, which means children are ‘probably never going to happen for me.’

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Wilders: Deport Antisemitic Immigrant Rioters and Revoke Their Dutch Citizenship

Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch anti-immigration Party for Freedom (PVV), has demanded that authorities take away the Dutch citizenship of those who were involved in the antisemitic attacks on Jewish football fans in Amsterdam.

Speaking in the Dutch parliament on Wednesday, November 13th, Wilders, whose party is the largest governing party in the centre-right coalition, said: “For the first time since the Second World War there was a hunt on Jews. I am sick of being criticised when I tell the truth.”

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Michael Higgins: The woke takeover of Remembrance Day

Left to our virtue-signalling elites, our hapless leaders and our ignorant educators, Canada would have forsworn its solemn duty to remember the dead and honour those who served.

Thankfully, ordinary Canadians are less susceptible to the vagaries of woke culture and DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) policies, and understand that bravery, duty and sacrifice are virtues that require us occasionally to pause, reflect and honour those who served.

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The Democratic Party Civil War Will Be Gloriously Entertaining

If you like the idea of watching a cage match in which Democrats beat the hell out of each other, you will be pleased to know that it won’t cost you the outrageous price of a pay-per-view purchase or a ticket to watch ringside.

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Canada is far from ready for the chaos coming our way

Now that the people of the United States have elected a fascist to lead them – a felon to “take care that the laws are faithfully executed,” an insurrectionist to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution,” a rapist, a racist, and a narcissistic psychopath to hold the country’s highest position of honour – the question on everyone’s lips, naturally, is: what does it mean for Canada?

Andrew Coyne is a mental case.

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