Things are starting to heat up on the Ukrainian front line once more. After a long period of attrition warfare and static front lines, we are starting to see movement that could bring the war to its next phase. The Russians are now advancing on Pokrovsk, a key transport and logistics hub in Donetsk. Some analysts think that if Pokrovsk falls, the entire Ukrainian front line in the Donbas will start to collapse.
The Trudeau Foundation and former Northwest Territories premier Stephen Kakfwi are seeking more than $37,000 in surety from an Indigenous activist suing the foundation and Kakfwi for $2.25 million over alleged sexual harassment.
In a document filed in Quebec Superior Court on Aug. 14, lawyers for the defendants request that Cherry Smiley provide “suretyship for security for the legal costs that the Court could award in favour of the Foundation.”
A northern Manitoba First Nation wants to cancel all non-indigenous moose hunting licences on its territory this fall, while the wildlife federation wants them expanded.
An injunction was filed in court Monday at the Court of King’s Bench by Pimicikamak Okimawin (Cross Lake) to cancel moose tags given for their area by the province.
That’s racist!
Trump needs a pro-worker policy agenda — and fast
About 60 percent of all registered voters are working-class, defined as adults without a college degree. Many knowledgeable observers seem to think that Donald Trump owns their votes. For instance, Patrick Ruffini, a well-respected Republican pollster, argues that the Trump-led GOP represents a “multiracial populist coalition” and is now America’s “working-class party.”
The consensus that emerged among pollsters and pundits across the political spectrum after RFK Jr.’s shock endorsement of Donald Trump was that it would have little effect on the outcome. But does that consensus reflect the same groupthink that missed the Trump surprise in 2016?
The editorial board of The Wall Street Journal warned that while Kennedy’s backing could possibly help Trump marginally in battleground states, “the price could be high if it includes putting Mr. Kennedy in a second Trump Administration,” concluding that “Mr. Trump’s best response is to thank RFK Jr. for his support, make no promises about the future, and by all means avoid joint campaign appearances” to avoid the taint of association with his fringe positions.
The murder of six more Israeli hostages — Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi and Ori Danino — captured by the terrorist group Hamas appears to be leading many Israelis, along with most of their ever-gullible media (remember the Oslo Accords?) to think that if only their government would agree to a ceasefire, they would get their hostages back. Most people, at least in the West, would desperately like that — not just the American ones — all 120 of them, especially before Hamas finishes murdering them. If the Israelis really want their hostages back, however, they had better think again.
BERLIN—Antiestablishment populism is on the rise in Europe, fueled not just by migration and economic and security fears, but by a deeper trend: Eroding confidence in governments’ ability to overcome those challenges.
In Germany on Sunday, the far-right AfD and a new far-left populist party obtained almost half the votes cast in the eastern state of Thuringia, and together also took more than 40% in neighboring Saxony. In Thuringia, the AfD finished first, the first time a far-right movement has won a state election in postwar Germany.
In France, a legislative election that returned a hung parliament and gave the far-right National Rally almost a quarter of all seats—up more than 50% from the last election—has yet to yield a government two months later.
Kamala Harris has flip-flopped on her E.V. stance. Her campaign staff, particularly communications official Ammar Moussa, contends it’s a “lie” that she supports E.V. mandates. However, then-senator Harris was a co-sponsor of the Zero Emissions Vehicles Act of 2019, a bill that proposed to require 100% of new car sales to be E.V.s or otherwise be emissions-free by 2040.
The key is “emissions-free.”
Demographer, historian, and author Neil Howe hasn’t just coined the term “Millennial,” he’s also predicted the future to an eerie degree—and he thinks America’s in for very rough seas ahead. He says a civil war in the U.S. is far more plausible than most people think, and he dismisses the reasons Americans often discount that possibility.
In 1997, he published a book with Bill Strauss, “The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy—What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America’s Next Rendezvous with Destiny.” In that book, he suggested five catalysts for a major crisis—and four of the five have already come to pass.
“Two possibilities exist,” physicist and science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke once wrote. “Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” Chinese science-fiction author Liu Cixin begs to differ. In his mind-bending trilogy Remembrance of Earth’s Past, adapted by Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss as 3 Body Problem for Netflix, he convincingly argues that we’d be better off if we were alone in the universe and, barring that, that we should hide from whoever or whatever might be out there.
Remembrance of Earth’s Past divides the history of humanity into two halves: before and after first contact with an intelligent alien civilization. It tells a fictionalized history of that second half, from the moment of first contact until 17 billion years after the beginning of time.
The Travis Walton alien abduction was verified by witnesses.
Pals of the Duke of Sussex are said to be planning his return. The royals will be thrilled
Well knock me down with a very small feather, Prince Harry’s apparently bored and wants to come home. Eight years since he met Meghan, six years since he married her, four since they flounced off to America, he’s back in touch with old friends and advisers and seeking to “rehabilitate” his image. That’s quite some brass neck. He’s spent the intervening time saying he was hounded out of the land of his birth and had to take a “freedom flight” to Canada.
Vice President Kamala Harris will apparently favor attacks on former President Donald Trump rather than “substance” at the September 10 ABC News presidential debate, according to a report.
So long as Drunk Southern Black Accent Kamala shows up I’m happy.
Justin Trudeau’s exchange with a steelworker at the Algoma plant in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., last Friday suggests two things — that the prime minister’s position is objectively hopeless but that he is not, in fact, totally helpless.
Let me explain. The worker — (and it appears he was a worker, not a Conservative plant, as some online have charged, given he was wearing a Local 2251 shirt in a secure part of the Algoma property at shift change) — was about as rude as Canadian voters ever get when they meet a politician. Namely, he wouldn’t shake hands and told Trudeau he didn’t believe a word he said, before urging the prime minister to “have a nice day.”
Trudeau just got castrated by a steel worker:
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 1, 2024
There are many things to love about the modern age, but ubiquitous virtue-signalling in popular media is not one of them. Try turning on the TV or opening a magazine without being bombarded by political messaging. Righteous activism is now constantly being injected into places where it does not belong.
Alone in my home office, I feel unprepared to be wrestling with the death of God.
On my computer screen, Toronto-based psychologist turned conservative culture warrior Jordan Peterson paces and points and gestures as he begins his eight-hour deep dive on Friedrich Nietzsche, the 19th century German poet and philosopher whose career burnt brilliantly but short. Nietzsche famously declared God a fiction and, as Peterson tells it, predicted an unravelling of meaning and morals from which we’re still trying to dig ourselves out.
