Three weeks ago, just days after being formally chosen as the Democratic presidential nominee, Kamala Harris was pressed on her plans for a sit-down interview.
“I’ve talked to my team,” she told reporters on the airport tarmac in Detroit. “I want us to get an interview scheduled before the end of the month.”
On Thursday night, Ms Harris will – just barely – make good on that promise, sitting down with CNN’s Dana Bash for her first major interview.
The “policy” part of a bad immigration policy can be fixed.
The government can, for example, announce a cap on international study permits when it becomes clear that Canada can’t accommodate the 1,028,850 international students it accepted in 2023. It can scale back the number of hours international students are allowed to work off-campus when students who are working close to 40 hours a week are in effect temporary foreign workers with the wrong papers. It can announce a six-month moratorium on applications for some low-wage temporary foreign workers in Montreal when there is a by-election coming up in the city. Wait – no, I meant to say: when unemployment is up in Quebec. Yes, that’s it.
Over $12bn in subsidies awarded for technologies like carbon capture experts call ‘colossal waste of money’
A handful of wealthy polluting countries led by the US are spending billions of dollars of public money on unproven climate solutions technologies that risk further delaying the transition away from fossil fuels, new analysis suggests.
These governments have handed out almost $30bn in subsidies for carbon capture and fossil hydrogen over the past 40 years, with hundreds of billions potentially up for grabs through new incentives, according to a new report by Oil Change International (OCI), a non-profit tracking the cost of fossil fuels.
To date, the European Union (EU) plus just four countries – the US, Norway, Canada and the Netherlands – account for 95% of the public handouts on CCS and hydrogen.
h/t DS
The chair of Canada Post’s board says the organization’s financial situation is unsustainable.
“The board and senior management recognize that Canada Post is at a critical juncture,” said André Hudon at its annual general meeting on Wednesday.
“Significant change is urgently needed to preserve Canada Post’s delivery network, which is vital because it’s the only delivery network built to serve all Canadians.”
Stacy Clarke just now, leaving Toronto police headquarters, saying she is disappointed with the two-year demotion and requirement that she reapply for the rank of superintendent. Says she’s taking some time to consider next steps. No official word yet on appeal. pic.twitter.com/ezbQQZ5LE4
— Wendy Gillis (@wendygillis) August 28, 2024
This is what affirmative action brings to the table.
A shocking video shows a crew of gun-wielding men storm through a Colorado apartment building reportedly overrun by a dangerous Venezuelan prison gang.
The group of heavily armed men — including three with handguns and one with a rifle — enter the troubled apartment complex in the Denver suburb of Aurora and break into a unit, the clip obtained by KDVR shows.
🚨#BREAKING: An armed gang of illegal immigrants from Venezuela has reportedly taken full control of an apartment complex and parts of the town of Aurora⁰
📌#Aurora | #ColoradoNew footage by @vicentearenastv reveals an armed gang at a complex in Aurora, Colorado. Aurora… pic.twitter.com/3xGWP5Yhof
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) August 28, 2024
h/t XC
… It says the girl, who was 13 at the time, was forced to strip naked on four occasions while in custody at a Kingston, Ont., facility in the weeks following her arrest.
The document says she was also made to strip naked twice at a facility in London, Ont., earlier this year while in custody on an unrelated assault charge. She has since pleaded guilty to that charge, court heard.
“I still get that feeling” of feeling dirty, she said, adding she is speaking to a counsellor about it. “It was humiliating, to be honest…. It made me feel really bad about myself,” she told the court.
On the other hand she felt great about offing that homeless guy so there’s that.
The sacrosanct truth that is forbidden to tell: "London is not safe for women due to mass immigration. It is very difficult to talk about it because they accuse us of racism but this is the reality!" Not just London, every European city is like this. https://t.co/qILc15Qzl6 pic.twitter.com/IWOGcmN07H
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) August 29, 2024
For years, residents of Grand-Fort-Philippe in the north of France lived a life largely undisturbed by migrants who attempted crossings from their local beaches.
Relations were cordial even.
Many in the town would exchange polite bonjours with the men, women and children biding their time in the small seaside town located between Calais and Dunkirk until weather conditions turned in their favour.
Tweet translation: Grand-Fort-Philippe (59): around ten cars stoned; a group of angry migrants suspected of being behind the events after a failed attempt to cross the Channel
Grand-Fort-Philippe (59) : une dizaine de voitures caillassées ; un groupe de migrants en colère suspecté d’être à l’origine des faits après une tentative avortée de traversée de la Manche https://t.co/7phGjaLv2A
— monique breton (@moniquebreton10) August 12, 2024
POV
You live in Brampton
and a speculator is turning your neighbour's single home into student housing for 20
No hardhats. No fencing. No permits posted. Nothing.
Welcome to 2024. pic.twitter.com/TfjIgdoKHn
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) August 28, 2024
h/t Mauser
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has written a letter to his NDP counterpart asking Jagmeet Singh to pull his party’s support for the Liberal government so Canadians can go to the polls this fall instead of next year as planned.
“Canadians can’t afford or even endure another year of this costly coalition. No one voted for you to keep Trudeau in power. You do not have a mandate to drag out his government another year,” Poilievre wrote in his letter.
“Pull out of the costly coalition and vote non-confidence in the government this September to trigger a carbon tax election in October of THIS YEAR. Or you will forever be known as “Sell-Out Singh,'” Poilievre said.
Some midweek entertainment..
🧵 A thread of various flip-flops, contradictions, lies, and wonderful displays of hypocrisy.🤪
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1. Fauci rewrites history. pic.twitter.com/FRhy3mOm4k
— MAZE (@mazemoore) August 28, 2024
h/t XC
Authorities not only failed to deport the Syrian asylum seeker, they continued to pay him monthly benefits
German authorities committed a series of failures prior to the terror attack in Solingen. They not only botched up the deportation of the Syrian man responsible for the brutal assault but also continued providing him with social benefits, despite him being a failed asylum seeker.
According to daily Bild, the knife attack committed by 26-year-old Issa al Hasan last Friday not only highlights the consequences of uncontrolled immigration but lifts the lid on the serious failures of Germany’s asylum and deportation system.
Damn that guy is a good shot. pic.twitter.com/BPsscZDgQy
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) August 29, 2024
h/t Mauser
The last four-plus years have been a rollercoaster for millions of Canadians.
The pandemic, which began in early 2020, quickly led to mass layoffs (most temporary) and widespread disruptions to normal life. This was accompanied by hiccups in often-fragile global supply chains, subsequently aggravated by the Russia-Ukraine war.
