A UK woman recently received a sentence of 15 months in prison for a Facebook post under the country’s new Online Safety Act, legislation that is similar in many ways to Canada’s proposed Online Harms Act.
The UK law, enacted in 2023, will come into full effect next year, but the part relating to “false and threatening communications” came into effect Jan. 31 this year and is already being enforced.
A leftist group financed by self-appointed Minister of Truth George Soros is partnering with a Big Tech-backed organization in an attempt to interfere in the 2024 election.
The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) boasted in an Aug. 21 press release how it was leading a joint effort for “Helping Election Officials Combat Misinformation in 2024” with a “course” co-led by the Google and Facebook-backed Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL), which was significantly involved in the whole “Zuck Bucks” scandal to influence the 2020 election. Notably, Soros pumped at least $1,496,000 into the coffers of CDT and its international affiliate between 2016 and 2023, according to grant disclosures reviewed by MRC Free Speech America.
Name of Tortellini, owner of my brother and his wife. Truce observant with pup Crumpet.
Soon to have a first cousin to cousin meeting. They can discuss they’re 3 am habits.
As promised, Xavier playing with his new toy, he offers many thanks for the kindness. Inset, it is a catnip infused squid.
Xavier with new treat! He says thanks for snacks!
A pub has been closed after inspectors found multiple food hygiene problems, including a food handler who was observed repeatedly scratching his bottom.
The Bulls Head in Denby, Derbyshire, was told to improve its procedures following the inspection, including an instruction that food handlers “must not repeatedly touch/scratch their backsides”.
MONTREAL—“One second we were talking and the next he was gone, I don’t think we will ever get over it,” Raquel Ohnona Look, whose son Alexandre Look, 33, was murdered at the Supernova music festival by Hamas terrorists, told JNS.
As the dust continues to settle from the initial excitement of Kamala Harris’s nomination and the Democratic National Convention, Democrats are now likely to start wondering if they made the right choice.
The federal government is allowing more Ukrainians fleeing the war to enter Canada this year while making it easier for some of those who have already arrived to stay longer, including some whose status was set to expire next year.
The government announced new measures last week following months of uncertainty about whether it would extend the Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel program (CUAET), which has allowed about 300,000 Ukrainians and their family members to enter the country in the past two years with a deadline of March 31 for successful applicants.
China’s production of batteries for electric vehicles is “definitely not clean,” says energy expert Diana Furchtgott-Roth.
Without its own vast natural energy resources, China is the world’s largest energy importer, but has seized on the economic opportunities of the “green energy” movement. Yet the production of products such as EVs is causing harm to the environment, says Furchtgott-Roth, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment.
h/t SL
Pierre Poilievre and Doug Ford don’t have a lot in common, except maybe their desire to hold elections early.
Yes, they are conservatives and chances are that the many Ontarians who have voted for Ford are likely leaning toward voting for the federal Conservatives when the next election comes.
Both leaders in their own ways would call themselves populists, too.
The British taxpayer is footing the bill for a record number of out-of-work migrants, who are reportedly costing the government up to £8.5 billion per year.
A record 1,689,000 foreigners are currently unemployed or otherwise “economically inactive” in the UK, according to analysis of government figures by the Centre for Immigration Control. The think tank noted that the current level is the highest in British history, surpassing the previous high in 2012 of 1,628,000.
There are indications of unmarked graves at a former residential school site in Opaskwayak Cree Nation near The Pas.
Community leaders announced the findings from a team that specializes in searching for graves and human remains detection dogs at the Former Mckay Indian Residential School grounds Friday.
Band says cadaver dogs found something.
CBC jumps to conclusion that it’s graves.
CBC doesn’t report they’re of children murdered by their teachers but the band takes that additional leap:
“Children want to be found.”
Why?
Because they were murdered.
Duh. https://t.co/UxOWeg76qa— Jim McMurtry (@JimMcMurtry01) August 31, 2024
h/t XC
Some time in 2022, Iran began building its first aircraft carrier. Two years later, Shahid Bahman Bagheri is nearing completion. Recent photos reveal important finishing touches to the nearly 800-foot vessel, including an angled flight deck with markings to help guide landing aircraft.
Bagheri is not a proper purpose-built carrier like the US Navy’s thousand-foot supercarriers. Instead, she’s a commercial container ship with modifications that allow her to launch and land small aircraft – almost certainly drones.
We’re gonna love this new warfare.
In both world wars surreptitiously armed merchant ships were sent to roam the seas preying on the unwary.
City bureaucrats ordered a 140-year-old stone carving depicting Christopher Columbus to be removed from display and hidden in a wooden area in Scarborough’s Guild Park in 2021, the Toronto Sun has learned.
After five weeks of slobbering media coverage akin to the rhetorical version of a hot stone massage, Kamala Harris finally left the bubble that has carried her to record fundraising and competitive poll numbers with Donald Trump in key swing states.
And then the bubble burst.
Down with the Canadian International Air Show
Summertime in Toronto is marked by days and nights at beaches, park gatherings and, of course, festivals. From Salsa on St. Clair to Taste of Manila to the Caribbean Carnival, they reflect the immense ethnic and racial diversity of this city, which has a population that is more than 50 per cent people of colour and home to many immigrants and refugees.
Among these many festivals is an event that is marred by controversy.
