What are the “third rail” policy issues of Canadian politics?
The “third rail” of politics refers to a controversial issue that is so politically charged and potentially damaging that touching it can result in severe political consequences, much like the dangerous third rail on a subway track that carries a lethal electric charge.
A fun little exercise that for whatever reason excludes Trudeau’s mass immigration assault on Canada.
Extreme misogyny will be treated as terrorism for the first time under Government plans to combat the radicalisation of young men online.
Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, has ordered a review of Britain’s counter-terrorism strategy to urgently address gaps in the Government’s stance on extremism, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.
It will look at tackling violence against women and girls in the same way as Islamist and far-Right extremism, amid fears that current Home Office guidance is too narrow.
Given this is the UK under a crazed Labour gov’t expect “Extreme Misogyny” to be interpreted by lunatics. Raising a daughter in a White heteronormative environment, forbidding the sexual mutilation of a child and expressing “right-wing” views in front of female identifying thingamabobs etc will earn you long jail terms.
Luc Sabourin, a former CBSA officer, chokes back tears as he recalls the day a man from one of Canada’s most violent crime families — a refugee from Palestine linked to Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel — stood outside Sabourin’s home in Gatineau, Que., and uttered brutal and visceral threats against Sabourin’s children.
Sabourin — a whistleblower who has complained of numerous serious incidents inside Canada Border Services Agency that he believes are due to organized crime infiltration — thinks a particular colleague may have leaked his home address to the drug trafficker, whom Sabourin was scheduled to testify against.
I would not be surprised.
The government is exploring whether it can cancel the Irish passport obtained by Tommy Robinson, the British far-right anti-Islam campaigner who has been cultivating links with the Irish anti-immigration movement.
The Sunday Times has learned that Robinson’s use of an Irish passport is being examined by the Department of Foreign Affairs after his detention by authorities in Canada in June over alleged immigration offences.
An immigration form issued by the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) to Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, stated that both his country of birth and country of citizenship was Ireland.
Earlier this year, the American news website Vox introduced its broad readership to Pierre Poilievre. They accounted for the popularity of the Canadian Conservative leader with recourse to an American phenomenon: the right-wing populism of Donald Trump. The piece painted Poilievre as an embodiment of “Canada’s polite Trumpism.”
Such a diagnosis may rattle many Canadians, who regard the grotesquerie of Trump and his “MAGA” ideology as uniquely symptomatic of life below the 49th parallel. Trumpism (we’d all like to believe) has about as much place in Canada as AR-15s or four-down football. But you needn’t worry: some basic overlap in rhetoric and ideology aside, the Poilievre/Trump comparison falls short. As anyone watching the two national campaigns may have gleaned of late, Pierre Poilievre isn’t Canada’s Donald Trump. He’s our JD Vance.
King Charles has fired the security team stationed at Prince Andrew’s longtime lavish mansion as the disgraced royal reportedly refused to “downsize” from the property.
Charles told the ten-man detail that their contracts would not be renewed in October at the 31-room Royal Lodge home, according to the Sun.
“They are all working the final weeks of their contract till the end of October. It’s not thought anyone is being lined up to replace them,” a palace inside told the outlet.
Andrew is the saddest of Princelings.
The City of Toronto is poised to spend roughly $150 million to extend a popular railway trail for pedestrians and cyclists in the west end, but some councillors are questioning the project’s inflated price tag.
In 2016, the two-kilometre extension, to be built by provincial transit agency Metrolinx on the city’s behalf, was estimated to cost only $23 million.
But now the city is planning to spend $125.7 million on the extension because of costs they say weren’t factored into the initial estimate. The federal government is kicking in an additional $23 million.
Why don’t they build it with homeless people?
Emissions would come down. It would create a high skill, high wage economy. And it would reboot industry, accelerate productivity, and deliver a boost to growth. For years we have been told that moving to Net Zero would create hundreds of thousands of jobs, and billions of euros, dollars and pounds have been thrown at the companies promising to make that happen.
But hold on. Now it turns out that the green jobs are disappearing at an accelerating pace – and the investment in creating them will have been squandered.
🇩🇪 In Germany, 8 years after shutdown, cooling towers of Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power plant exploded
The 143-meter structures, which once symbolized energy independence, were reduced to rubble in a matter of seconds. Grafenrheinfeld was one of the safest stations in the world. pic.twitter.com/hVq5rium2F
— Маrina Wolf (@volkova_ma57183) August 17, 2024
h/t DS
In the past three decades, especially between 2019 and 2023, the average Canadian family’s tax bill has grown significantly more than what they’ve paid for shelter, food, or clothing.
A man who led a violent mob and chased three Romanian migrants from a moving car has received the longest sentence in connection to the far-right riots so far.
David Wilkinson, 48, admitted violent disorder, attempted arson and racially aggravated criminal damage after he admitted to playing a “prominent role” in a far-right rally in which businesses were torched and shops looted in Hull on August 3. He was sentenced to six years in jail on Friday.
A Chilliwack, B.C., woman has been arrested over what police are describing as racially offensive content she shared via social media.
Police say the woman was arrested on Aug. 7, but has since been released to appear in court at a later date while prosecutors consider “several” possible recommended charges. Police declined to share the suspect’s name or the account she allegedly used.
She says the woman was allegedly targeting members of the South Asian community, adding investigators learned of several examples but believe one person is responsible for all the content.
h/t Mauser
KYIV — Ukraine and Russia were set to send delegations to Doha this month to negotiate a landmark agreement halting strikes on energy and power infrastructure on both sides, diplomats and officials familiar with the discussions said, in what would have amounted to a partial cease-fire and offered a reprieve for both countries.
But the indirect talks, with the Qataris serving as mediators and meeting separately with the Ukrainian and Russian delegations, were derailed by Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Russia’s western Kursk region last week, according to the officials. The possible agreement and planned summit have not been previously reported.
Suspect sought in suspected hate-motivated assault at Finch West Station: police
Toronto police say they are looking for a suspect allegedly involved in a suspected hate-motivated assault at Finch West Subway Station earlier this week.
On Tuesday at 5:40 p.m., police said officers were called to the subway station at Keele Street and Finch Avenue West for an assault.
What’s an Anti-South Asian slur?
Thousands of Afghan citizens who have claimed asylum in Germany have flown back to their home country for a holiday before returning to Germany according to an explosive report by the German television channel RTL. The revelations shore up the argument made by anti-immigration parties that many of those seeking ‘refuge’ in Germany are actually abusing the asylum system and have only headed to Western Europe to gain social benefits.
OTTAWA — Veteran broadcaster and political commentator Charles Adler has been appointed to the Senate.
The newly-appointed representative for Manitoba was announced Saturday, along with Tracy Muggli, a registered social worker and former Liberal party candidate, who will represent Saskatchewan. Both will sit as independent senators, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office said in a statement.
This is a new low.
