When your non-binary child needs advice, I suggest asking a Drag Queen. pic.twitter.com/66E6ss48dw
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) October 5, 2024
Conrad Black: Pro-Trump argument carries the house
The C.D. Howe Institute has invited me to use this column to summarize the Regent Debate that the institute held in Toronto on Sept. 24. It was a well-attended and rollicking affair with a learned audience of several hundred or more people. The former governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, and I defended the motion that the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States would be an opportunity for Canada. Our very worthy opponents were the former minister of finance John Manley, and the former Liberal politician and chair of the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary, Martha Hall Findlay. It is well-known that after Christie described president Trump as “Donald Duck” during one of the Republican candidates’ debates (which Trump ignored and dismissed as “an audition for vice-president”), their relations are unlikely to resume anytime soon.
WTF?
Targeting a lawyer like this…
This level is deep shit, Canada.
Can’t believe this is real.“My chosen mother is Palestinian. She’s lost people. My spouse is a Jew.”
“This is harassment.”: @SMohyeddin https://t.co/MJXL8ucqxo pic.twitter.com/ODqNIksVft
— Sait Simsek (@Sait_Simsek_) October 4, 2024
Hamas rally in Toronto
Maybe a 4K crowd at its height?
#WATCH: | Massive Protests Are Taking Place World-Wide Including Toronto Marking 365 Days Of G3n03ID3 In Palestine Which Is Now Expanding Into Lebanon pic.twitter.com/jnPzsi9eij
— Habibi6ixtv (@habibi6ixtv) October 5, 2024
This is shameful. These people are calling for the end of the Jewish state and Toronto allows it. Can you imagine calling for the end of "Palestine"? https://t.co/hlgXkWtvEV
— Diane Weber Bederman (@dianebederman) October 5, 2024
They are now starting to march up Yonge Street to the Israeli embassy. The say they want to show Toronto "shock and awe"
This has to stop.#TakeBackCanada pic.twitter.com/GTUerWhUGu
— Jon Fraser (@JonFraserTF) October 5, 2024
Beautiful and massive rally for Palestine in Toronto. Hands off Lebanon and end the genocide in Gaza! pic.twitter.com/ddoiJoU0yS
— Spring Magazine (@springmagca) October 5, 2024
Sunday and Monday may see larger crowds.
Elon Musk for President?
The Constitution limits eligibility to natural-born citizens, but that’s what constitutional amendments are for.
Need a made-in-the-U.S.A. reusable space rocket to end NASA’s reliance on Russia to access the International Space Station? Go to Musk. Need to bolster your party’s war on fossil fuels with a stylish made-in-the-U.S.A. electric car? Go to Musk. Need to develop a functional commercial space program? Go to Musk. Need a low-orbit satellite system to bring internet access to isolated and underserved populations? Go to Musk. Need a rapid relaunch option in case Russia or China starts shooting our satellites out of orbit? Go to Musk.
On the Moral Status of Addicts
They have become a potent American metaphor.
Anyone raising children in an American city these days has had to confront the following disconcerting scene: a person unconscious or semiconscious, in filthy clothes, stoned at midday, a nuisance if not a menace. As you lead your child gingerly around an adult prone on the sidewalk, the questions come: Why is that person lying there? Are they okay? Why do they take drugs if they know it could kill them? We tie ourselves in syntactic knots trying to formulate credible answers. We want to emphasize personal responsibility: that person made choices, but you can make different ones. We also don’t want our children to think us hard-hearted: that person is still a human being; somebody loves them. This conversation is even more difficult for the millions of Americans who have addicts in their own families.
What’s floating around between Justin Trudeau’s ears right now
Basically all the chatter in Ottawa at the moment reflects some desire to can-opener the top of Justin Trudeau’s skull and peer into his brain: Will he step down? Does he know he’s toast? What does he think will happen next?
All of those answers live in the Prime Minister’s head and only in his head, and that often feels like a you-can’t-get-there-from-here problem. To be fair to Mr. Trudeau, the blunt questions the media bark at him don’t really invite introspective sharing. And to be fair to the question barkers, Mr. Trudeau’s communication style means his answers usually don’t offer much more enlightenment than a Magic 8 Ball.
U.S. Foreign Policy: Dangerous and Disastrous
During the last four years since the Biden-Harris administration assumed office, the world has been marked by escalating global crises. One of the most significant has been the war against Israel, in which, a year ago, on October 7, 2023, Hamas, a proxy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, launched a brutal attack on Israel. The assault consisted of massacres, rapes, torture, beheadings, burnings-alive, kidnapping and other crimes against humanity.
Possibly emboldened by the perceived weakness of the US, since its surrender to the Taliban in Afghanistan in August 2021, and its constant appeasement of China, Iran, for the first time, took direct military action on April 13, 2024 by launching hundreds of attack drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles at Israel.
Legal action underway to force Canadian Forces to release propaganda documents
A professor is taking the Department of National Defence to court in an effort to force it to release records about the Canadian military’s program to target members of the public in various propaganda schemes.
The application for a judicial review was filed in federal court Sept. 27 in Vancouver on behalf of Emma Briant, an associate professor at Monash University in Australia and an expert in military propaganda.
Democrats fear Kamala Harris being increasingly MIA during campaign home stretch: ‘What the f–k are y’all doing’
Where’s Kam?
It’s a question a growing number of Democrats are asking as the vice president is increasingly MIA on the campaign trail as the 2024 presidential contest enters its final month.
“There’s a time at which you just have to barnstorm these battlegrounds,” Obama campaign guru David Axelrod told Politico. “These races are decathlons, and there are a lot of events, and you have to do all of them because people want to test you.”
EXPLOSIVE new audio of veteran Democrat strategist James Carville trashing the Harris campaign: “What the f-ck are you people doing? Get off your ass! NOW! NOW!” pic.twitter.com/EJjCwugl7W
— Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) October 4, 2024
Kamala Harris' teleprompter went out at the beginning of her speech in Michigan and she turned into a floundering mess until it came back on.
You can literally tell the moment it happened lmfaopic.twitter.com/zs0wAt02Gr
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 4, 2024
H/T Mauser
Federal government plans to warn foreign ambassadors not to interfere in next election
The federal government plans to convene a meeting of foreign ambassadors next month to warn them not to interfere in the next election.
Testifying before the inquiry into foreign interference in Canada, David Morrison, deputy minister of Foreign Affairs, said his department is preparing for the next federal election and wants to make sure that diplomats from other countries know where Canada draws the line between attempts to influence and attempts to interfere.
WTF?
@fancypants_s, this is truly an independent news outlet. https://t.co/yigMpMI9X1
— Kaffir Kanuck (@Kaffir_Kanuck) October 5, 2024
Joe Biden was possibly ‘sick or injured’ as cops prepared to meet him at hospital days before he dropped out of ‘24 race: audio
Police in Las Vegas were told to prepare to meet President Biden at two local hospitals days before he ended his re-election bid, according to newly released dispatch audio, raising new questions about what the White House described as a positive COVID-19 test that forced him to cancel a campaign event.
Biden, 81, was never hospitalized July 17, instead flying Air Force One back to his beach house in Delaware, where he remained before issuing a statement on social media four days later announcing his withdrawal from the race.
LILLEY: Illegal crossings from Canada into USA surge in last year
The number of people intercepted crossing illegally from Canada into the United States over the last year has more than doubled.
Between Oct. 1, 2023, and Aug. 31, 2024, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency intercepted 21,929 people compared to just 8,686 over the same 11-month period a year earlier.
Trump’s return to Butler, Pennsylvania, site of first assassination attempt, is ‘gutsy,’ supporters say
BUTLER, Penn. – Pumped-up spectators poured into the Butler, Pennsylvania, Fair Grounds on Saturday, saying that it was “gutsy” for former President Donald Trump to make an appearance at the location where he was nearly assassinated.
Trump is set to appear at the site where he was nearly killed in a deadly July 13 shooting, with the Republican presidential nominee slated to speak at 5 p.m.