Vancouver police logged more than $44,000 on overtime during Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s brief February visit to British Columbia.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were in Vancouver(opens in a new tab) and Whistler(opens in a new tab) for three days between Feb. 14 and 16 to promote the Invictus Games, which will be held in British Columbia again in February 2025. Harry founded the multi-sport event for wounded, injured and sick armed forces personnel and veterans in 2014.
Why?
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Bach just said we have zero scientific ways to identify a woman pic.twitter.com/LUqsrNXLr3
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 9, 2024
I’ve said it out loud. I’m sure you’ve said it out loud. But it’s one thing for a private citizen like you or me to say it — and it’s quite another for a former and probably future president of the United States to say it out loud.
As far as breaches of the peace go, Dominic Cardy’s effort last week looked pretty tame. The former New Brunswick cabinet minister and current independent MLA was in Toronto with his wife when he noticed the ruckus from hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters thronging the city’s Yonge and Dundas intersection.
Mr. Cardy said in an interview that he then decided to exercise his own right to free expression by launching a one-man counterprotest, striding into the crowd and shouting “Free Palestine, from Hamas.”
And for that, he was arrested for breach of the peace by police, handcuffed, jailed for two hours and then released.
Toronto police arresting politician Dominic Cardy with force. Dominic Cardy was chanting “Free Gaza From Hamas ” towards the pro Hamas gangs who took over Dundas and Yonge Street yesterday. The pro Hamas gangs had no permit to block the streets and the police turned a blind… pic.twitter.com/VrNQR974xb
— neveragainlivepodcast@gmail.com (@neveragainlive1) August 2, 2024
We have an antisemitism Czar. Her name is Deb. Deb is concerned at the silence she is hearing. Over the years I attended many pro-Israel protests and it resulted in myself and allies being labeled Islamophobes and racists by members of the Jewish community and other of our so called leaders in government and the press. Some of those accusers made careers virtue signaling their anti-racism and became proponents of DEI and CRT. The White working class was demonized as innately racist and deserving of humiliating re-education efforts.
This demonization was supported by our elites who used it to silence dissent and steamroll the mass immigration of incompatible cultures as they reworked Canada’s demographic into the malevolent multicultural nightmare we find ourselves facing today.
On Oct 7 our accusers were among those who sent out cries for help. Now Deb wonders where everybody is.
I agree with the excellent points that Kevin Lynch and Ian Thompson make here:
“Being against antisemitism is not good enough for non-jews — we need to speak out loudly and frequently. We need to push back against disinformation and separate the lies from the facts. We need to…— Deborah Lyons (@DeborahLyonsSE) August 7, 2024
Deb needs to watch this.
The British government is eyeing a crackdown social media, while a member of the public has been arrested for “inaccurate social media” post, and a Covid-era government spy team monitoring the public for “disinformation” has been brought back.
When Australia, Britain and the United States recently came together in a trilateral defence and security agreement, there was one conspicuous absentee: Canada, the country that had had the world’s third-largest navy and fourth-largest air force at the end of the Second World War; and which, as a Five Eyes and NATO partner, could normally be expected to participate in any big security arrangement within the Anglosphere. Canada’s absence was especially striking given that the AUKUS agreement was about ending “foreign country” defence procurement distinctions as well as about providing Australia with nuclear-powered submarines. Despite being the world’s 10th largest economy, right now, with just 1.37 per cent of GDP currently spent on defence, Canada is a mere 27th in terms of “global firepower.”
A Ukrainian rocket attack left a trail of dead Russian soldiers and burnt-out military vehicles in “one of the bloodiest strikes of the war”.
Night-time footage emerged early on Friday showing what appeared to be a line of military trucks ablaze on a road in the Kursk region of Russia.
A separate video, shared on Russian social media, appeared to have been taken by someone driving past the aftermath of the apparent strike.
I don’t I remember seeing such a big convoy of russian military vehicles destroyed and captured on video since the start of the full-scale war. May it not be the last!
The video is shot near Rylsk, Kursk Oblast. pic.twitter.com/j260d6Tftt
— Saint Javelin (@saintjavelin) August 9, 2024
Losing the roof over your head could reduce your lifespan by 17 years.
That’s the takeaway from a new study published Friday, which warns that the gap between life expectancies for housed versus homeless Torontonians has only been growing, and is especially pronounced for younger generations.
It’s a gap that persists even after accounting for the outsized toll of substance use and other mental health-related challenges within the city’s homeless population, said researcher Lucie Richard with Unity Health’s MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions.
President of Smartmatic is among four indicted today by federal grand jury for bribery and fraud related to electronic voting systems.
DOJ names Roger Alejandro Piñate Martinez in the news release, but does not identify him as president of Smartmatic. https://t.co/hMmtnS0niF
— J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) August 8, 2024
Long thread, interesting read.
h/t Mauser
The prime minister has said Elon Musk’s criticism of the policing at a disturbance in Birmingham this week was “dangerous”.
The owner of X (formerly Twitter) claimed the force was guilty of “two-tier policing”.
Musk reacted to a video showing crowds of mainly Muslim men outside a Yardley pub where disorder took place on Monday, and tagged Sir Keir Starmer in a post questioning why all communities “weren’t protected” in Britain.
On a visit to Solihull on Thursday, the prime minister said talk of two-tier policing was wrong and dangerous, because it exposed police to “more danger”.
A non-citizen has been fined for attempting to vote in Canada’s 2021 federal election, after an investigation determined he had made false claims about applying for a special ballot by mail.
Qinan Feng was fined $1,250 for attempting to vote in the 2021 federal election even though he was ineligible to do so. The fine also includes penalties for providing false and misleading information to the RCMP, Elections Canada, and other officials about what happened, according to a notice of violation issued by the Commissioner of Canada Elections on Aug. 7.
US prosecutors in Hunter Biden’s tax evasion case have accused him of accepting money from a Romanian oligarch who sought to “influence US government agencies”.
The accusation is part of a larger case against the president’s son, who is charged with evading $1.4m (£1.1m) in taxes between 2016 and 2019 while spending millions on luxury cars, drugs and escorts.
Republicans have long accused Hunter Biden, 54, of “influence peddling”, although Congressional probes have yet to uncover any wrongdoing.
Who wants you to believe taxes have risen 2000 per cent? Would-be Prime Minister Pierre Poilievre for a start
If we end up with Pierre Poilievre as prime minister, it will be partly because of all the groundwork done by right-wing think tanks in distorting the public debate over taxes.
Most notably, the Fraser Institute, generously funded by wealthy interests, has been using its ample resources for decades to turn Canadians into tax-haters, to disconnect taxes in the public’s mind from all the benefits, services, programs and infrastructure that taxes provide.
Key to promoting this anti-tax agenda has been grossly exaggerating the actual tax burden on Canadians.
SEOUL—It took just seconds for an underground South Korean residential parking lot to be engulfed in flames. The culprit: a Mercedes-Benz EQE electric vehicle that hadn’t been charging.
The blaze incinerated dozens of cars nearby, scorched another 100 vehicles and forced hundreds of residents to emergency shelters as the buildings above the parking lot lost power and electricity. Nobody died, but the fire took eight hours to extinguish.
The blaze dominated national news in South Korea. Some organizations are pushing for EVs to be parked outdoors, residents are protesting and lawmakers are proposing new safety measures.
h/t DS
WTF? @fancypants_s https://t.co/nrHEBYrE5P
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) August 9, 2024
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