The B.C. government is backtracking on two controversial harm reduction programs that distribute free drug paraphernalia — such as syringes, crack pipes and snorting kits — through vending machines and online home delivery. This new scandal is yet another reminder of how the province, under the leadership of Premier David Eby, has mishandled the overdose crisis and prioritized enablement over recovery.
Britain could widen the arms sales embargo on Israel if more alleged breaches of international humanitarian law come to light.
Export licences are reviewed every six weeks and ministers could act again should further evidence of potential war crimes emerge, a government source said.
“No-one’s patting themselves on the back and declaring an end to the matter,” the source said.
OTTAWA—It was once the driver of Canada’s nascent clean-technology industry, supported by Liberal and Conservatives alike.
Publicly funded but arms-length from government bureaucracy since 2001, Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) was a lifeline to entrepreneurs desperate to find money for their clean-tech innovations.
That was until a damaging mismanagement scandal rocked the agency and the House of Commons last year, forcing the Trudeau government on its heels and prompting it to launch a drastic overhaul of the fund.
It’s a green slush fund.
In honour of Red Shirt Guy, here's a compilation video of people yelling at PMJT. pic.twitter.com/OXG981d6qC
— Alex Zoltan (@AmazingZoltan) September 2, 2024
Volvo has ditched plans to sell only electric cars by 2030 amid waning demand for battery powered vehicles.
The Swedish carmaker blamed the move on changing market conditions, amid fears many of the public continue to prefer petrol and diesel models.
It comes as major carmakers grapple with slowing demand for electric vehicles because of a lack of affordable models and the slow rollout of charging points needed to support electric vehicles.
Dr. Jordan Peterson has pointed out that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), which receives over a billion dollars in taxpayer funds each year, has garnered less than 100 viewers on its last 19 videos, and therefore believes it should be defunded.
In an August 31 post on X, Peterson, a best-selling Canadian author and clinical psychologist, implied that that the CBC is massively overfunded considering its dismal engagement numbers with the public.
The trial against eleven people connected with Swedish waste company Think Pink started Tuesday in Stockholm. The company has been charged with illegally dumping at least 200,000 metric tons of waste from the Stockholm area in 21 places across 15 municipalities in Sweden. In reality, the number of illegal waste sites was much larger—so large that the court had to limit the charges for time reasons.
“If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, it is yours. If it doesn’t, it never was.”
It never feels good to be dumped and Justin Trudeau must be sitting alone in his room right now, listening to his go-to breakup playlist. Alas, Jagmeet Singh left him today, ending his de facto coalition, otherwise known by the dry name “supply and confidence agreement.”
Canada has been blocking border crossings and turning away foreigners seeking visas in what may be an attempt to appease voters ahead of the country’s 2025 elections — while Prime Minister Trudeau has the lowest approval ratings of his career.
July saw the North American country’s Border Services Agency deny entry to 5,853 foreign travelers, the highest such number of refusals since at least 2019, Reuters reports.
Cosmetic.
Kamala Harris should be president of the United States. I don’t mean she should be elected in November, I mean she should be taking the oath of office this afternoon, because Joe Biden has demonstrated, once again, that he is our national elderly grandfather, rambling in semi-coherence, who needs to be in a rest home, not being propped up as our commander-in-chief for the next five months.
The 2023 survey data published this week by the National Centre for Social Research is revealing on the subject of how Britons think about themselves. The survey shows that while the UK is an overwhelmingly inclusive society in terms of how people frame British identity and belonging, there remains a significant minority which continues to support more ethnocentric and exclusionary understandings of these qualities.
The one thing about bubbles is that they pop. In the weeks since Kamala was anointed, the media enveloped her in bubbles, frothy, joyous bubbles, all of which served to obscure the fact that Kamala is a hardcore leftist, inarticulate without a prompter, tied tightly to one of the least popular presidents ever, and herself the least popular vice president ever. However, it’s beginning to look as if these bubbles have peaked and are now popping, with Kamala’s numbers returning to reality.
Islamist terror has returned to Europe. But in truth, it never really went away.
“African-Americans have higher rates of heart disease… It is centuries of slavery.”
In 2019, Kamala Harris appeared at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network convention. The hate group which has been linked to harassment and violence against Jews and Asians, as well as the Freddy’s massacre that claimed the lives of 5 Latino women and others on the scene, had long since become a regular stop for aspiring presidential candidates including Kamala.
