Social Development Minister Jenna Sudds’ office did not provide evidence to support claims that the national school lunch program will save families $800 a year.
Blacklock’s Reporter says advocates warn that achieving the program’s goals would require billions of dollars, not the $200 million currently budgeted annually.
A Brantford man who robbed two pharmacies with a handgun faced the wrath of an Ontario Court judge when he appeared in court recently.
When Kevin Couture, 43, apologized for traumatizing pharmacy workers during the October 2022 robberies, Justice Gethin Edward vented his frustration with the “woe is me” tale.
The top prosecutor in England and Wales has warned that hundreds more people involved in the riots that have swept the country will be hauled before the courts in the coming days, with the most serious offenders facing up to ten years in jail.
Stephen Parkinson, the director of public prosecutions, said the number of charging decisions is expected to soar with a “new phase” of cases being brought by police.
Many of those charged so far have been prosecuted for violent disorder, which carries a maximum sentence of five years. However, Parkinson said the more serious offence of rioting — which carries up to a ten-year penalty — was now under consideration.
Long-shot American attempt fueled by opposition effort to document strongman’s overwhelming defeat at the polls
BOGOTA—The U.S. is pursuing a long-shot bid to push Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to give up power in exchange for amnesty as overwhelming evidence emerges that the strongman lost last month’s election, people familiar with the matter said.The U.S. has discussed pardons for Maduro and top lieutenants of his who face Justice Department indictments, said three people familiar with the Biden administration deliberation. One of the people said the U.S. has put “everything on the table” to persuade Maduro to leave before his term ends in January.
Another person familiar with the talks said the U.S. would be open to providing guarantees not to pursue those regime figures for extradition. The U.S. in 2020 placed a $15 million bounty for information leading to Maduro’s arrest on charges of conspiring with his allies to flood the U.S. with cocaine.
The talks represent a flicker of hope for a Venezuelan political opposition that meticulously collected voter tallies showing its candidate, little-known former diplomat Edmundo González, defeated Maduro in a landslide in the July 28 election. Over the past two weeks, Maduro has jailed thousands of dissidents, maintained the military’s loyalty and tasked the Supreme Court, stacked with his handpicked allies, with resolving the election impasse, buying him time.
“Today he is the bravest, the wisest and the most popular leader of the Resistance Front.” This is how the Iranian daily Kayhan spoke of guess who.
Wrong guess.
The daily’s editorialists are notorious for their exaggerated praise of the “Supreme Guide” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. But this time it was not Khamenei they had in mind. Believe it or not, it was Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese branch of Hezbollah, who was thus being accoladed beyond his wildest dreams. You may wonder why…. Until recently, the Tehran media treated Nasrallah as something of an Iranian satrap in Beirut. Each time he came to Tehran, he was reported to have asked for an audience with the Great Leader to offer a report on his satrapy.
So much for Keir Starmer’s ‘new dawn’ for Britain. He seems more likely to drag us back to the Dark Ages. According to reports, the PM is thinking about adopting a definition of ‘Islamophobia’ that could lead to people being censured if they say something too stinging about Islam. That is, if they commit the sin of blasphemy, if they make a scurrilous utterance about the Prophet or his followers. Starmer strode into Downing St a month ago wanging on about the ‘sunlight of hope’ – now he threatens to cover Britain with the black cloud of medieval censorship.
The Right has minimised the rioters’ agency
A strange and dramatic metamorphosis has happened over the last few days. On the one hand, Tommy Robinson, the Right-wing activist and former leader of the English Defence League, has shapeshifted into a Left-leaning analyst of political protest. On the other, those who formerly occupied that role have suddenly embraced the Right-coded rhetoric of moral disgust and zero-tolerance policing.
Violence in the streets reflects the breakdown of the ruling class’ habitual management strategy
The riots that have recently wracked the streets of the UK reflect decades of pent up public frustration with the country’s governing elite, especially their total refusal to control mass immigration despite vote after vote demanding they do exactly that. The pot has now boiled over. But the ongoing back-and-forth of ethnic violence also represents a signal that the British elite’s whole broader strategy of governing – one based in the fundamental personality of the ruling class itself – may be beginning to break down. And that carries some significant implications.
Nietzsche can help us understand the phenomenon of self-abasement.
My X feed has recently been flooded with parodies of the “White Women for Kamala” Zoom call, where a kindergarten teacher turned social media influencer “gentle parented” a group of white women, explaining that “our BIPOC sisters have tapped us in as white women to step up, listen, and get involved this election season.” Among many ridiculous and troubling elements of the call—Democrats now support separate but equal political gatherings?—one particularly glaring aspect was the kind of self-flagellation on racial grounds that has gained widespread adoption since at least the publication of Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility.
“As white women we need to use our privilege to make positive changes.” What privilege? All this tells me is that liberal white women think they’re better than me. The condescension is nauseating. https://t.co/chu5phLI4u
— Adele Scalia (@AdeleScalia) July 29, 2024
Elon Musk has described the jailing of riot convicts as “messed up” in a fresh attack on the UK justice system.
The billionaire tech boss, who has clashed with Sir Keir Starmer over his handling of the disorder, criticised the punishments handed to two men linked to the unrest.
Sharing details of the sentences imposed on William Morgan, a 69-year-old rioter, and Tyler Kay, a 26-year-old father of three who stirred up racial hatred online, Mr Musk said both cases were “messed up”.
This is messed up https://t.co/4BKyHl1vIK
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 10, 2024
‘Not a single person has been disciplined, has even been suspended pending the investigation. They’re out still doing security today’
A member of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee is sounding the alarm about more assassination plots against Donald Trump, as the former president continues his quest for the White House this November.
“The plots are ongoing … Trump is still out there,” said U.S. Rep. Michael Waltz, R-Fla., on “Sunday Morning Futures” with Maria Bartiromo on the Fox News Channel.
h/t XC
Four years in the making, the final “Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People,” written by esteemed pediatrician Hilary Cass, was released back in April. It was commissioned by NHS England in the United Kingdom, following well-publicized whistle-blowing over allegedly reckless medical experimentation on gender-confused children at the National Health Service’s prestigious Tavistock gender clinic (which was closed following the Cass Review’s inculpatory interim report in 2022).
What kind of country keeps its founder in a box?
At Queen’s Park, the seat of Ontario’s government in Toronto, a statue of Sir John A. Macdonald, a father of Confederation and Canada’s first prime minister, stands boarded up on all sides, hidden from the public.
The boards went up after protesters vandalized the statue, blaming Macdonald for the establishment of the residential school system for Indigenous children. They have remained there for the past four years – so long that rodents began using the box as a home.
Concerns are mounting over contractors falsely claiming indigenous status to secure federal contracts, a practice Ethics Commissioner Konrad von Finckenstein described as “of great concern” during testimony before the Commons public accounts committee.
Blacklock’s Reporter says the issue, which involves businesses misrepresenting their Indigenous identity to benefit from a federal set-aside program, is under scrutiny, though it falls outside von Finckenstein’s jurisdiction.
Secret Service broke into a Massachusetts hair salon during a Kamala event. They covered the cameras with duct tape and broke inside to use the bathroom, let other attendees use the bathroom, and took candies off the desk.
They reportedly left the store unlocked and left the… pic.twitter.com/JYbiUqo2Zv
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 11, 2024
Secret Service apologizes to salon owner over break-in, bathroom use during Kamala Harris event
