OTTAWA – An NDP MP has introduced a bill that would criminalize residential school denialism, saying it would help stop harm caused toward survivors, their families and communities.
If the bill is passed, people could be charged under the Criminal Code for promoting hatred against Indigenous Peoples by condoning, justifying or downplaying the historical and lasting impact of residential schools.
On Sunday morning, I had some time to kill in Calgary before a flight home to Toronto, so I grabbed a coffee and started looking for a park bench to sit and read my book. I soon realized that wasn’t going to happen. Every bench was occupied by one or more drug addicts. Over the course of an hour, I saw a man injecting drugs in between his toes, a guy smoking meth while glaring at me aggressively, and hordes of people doubled over from fentanyl. Of the couple hundred people I passed, about 75 were obviously on drugs. I decided to try to find brunch, but few businesses were open. Not surprising. Who’d want to do brunch in this post-apocalyptic environment?
This mother is arguing with a teacher because he refuses to acknowledge her child’s gender change.
Listen to how stubborn he is. pic.twitter.com/RXV9VvGMCK
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) September 26, 2024
Asylum seekers became the focus of a jurisdictional tug-of-war this month when federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller accused conservative premiers of trying to “weaponize” asylum arrivals for political gain.
The federal Liberal government is hoping to alleviate pressure on Quebec and Ontario, where the bulk of asylum seekers are entering through airports in Toronto and Montreal, by resettling asylum seekers more evenly in other provinces across the country.
How do you feel when you see this?
I look back on this time and wonder why nurses stopped dancing. pic.twitter.com/c3kbAqAKLI
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) September 26, 2024
The United States Army has formally eliminated the diversity requirement from the process of selecting candidates for the roles of top noncommissioned officers.
As reported by Daily Wire, the announcement was made by Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Weimer, the top enlisted official in the Army. The new guidance, intended for the process of choosing command sergeants major, removes a single line from the previous version: The line which dictated that candidates must “consider diversity to ensure leaders represent our formations.”
About time.
Looks like media criticism journalism works. https://t.co/LvHjxPF2Wt
— Terry Newman (@TLNewmanMTL) September 26, 2024
She went there … Ratio’d
I think this CTV saying they fired the people who offended a politician. https://t.co/F16izWL7Od
— Susan Delacourt (real) (@susandelacourt) September 26, 2024
h/t Mauser
Polling suggests that voters viewed the September 10 Trump–Harris contest differently from the commentariat.
One thing that commentators of the Left and Right agreed upon after the September 10 presidential debate was that Kamala Harris had resoundingly beaten Donald Trump. Harris had been the aggressor, and Trump had gotten angry, routinely taking the bait and venturing into topics more beneficial to his opponent than to himself. But if Harris won the debate so handily, why haven’t voters clearly moved her way since?
It’s a puzzle. Whatever its answer, its consequences are likely to foment an upheaval in Canada that the coming defeat of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals and the election of a Conservative government should not be expected to forestall.
The puzzle, by the reckoning of urban planner, landscape architect, author and University of British Columbia professor Patrick Condon, can be put this way.
“Transnational repression” is a little-known practice that refers to pressure exerted by a government, through illegal or violent means, to silence expat citizens of other nations, increasingly, those living in the West.
More than 250,000 people were added to Canada’s population between April 1 and July 1 of this year. It’s another massive increase at a time when the country simply can’t handle this kind of rapid growth.
The latest Statistics Canada report on population showed that between July 1, 2023, and July 1, 2024, we recorded a 3% increase in population – more than 1.2 million.
Over the last 48 hours, ABC and CNN have repeatedly hyped a supposed six-figure bounty placed on President Trump’s head. While even the vehemently anti-Trump MSNBC avoided sharing specifics about the bounty so as not “to encourage any sort of potential violence,” ABC and CNN apparently held no such reservations, eagerly mentioning it a combined 21 times in just two days.
For a few weeks in June, concerns ran high on Parliament Hill about unnamed MPs or senators possibly being compromised, perhaps even consciously, by foreign states — fears raised by a startling but opaque report by the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians.
“We cannot and must not remain indifferent in light of such a revelation,” Bloc Quebecois MP Rene Villemure said.
A moustached man refused to leave a nightclub’s female lavatory because he “identifies as a woman”.
Connie Shaw, 20, was attending a club night for students at the Warehouse in Leeds, West Yorks, on Monday when she confronted the man in the women’s lavatory.
She was kicked out of the New Democrat caucus at Queen’s Park for insubordination last fall, but the party has left the door open for Hamilton Centre MPP Sarah Jama to be its candidate in next provincial election.
NDP Leader Marit Stiles confirmed Wednesday that the party’s executive is preparing an analysis on “electoral implications” involving Jama, who has been sitting as an Independent and has stated publicly she plans to seek re-election as one.
