Queen’s Park will not reverse its controversial decision to pull the plug on mandatory electric vehicle chargers for new homes despite spending billions to subsidize EV production.
As Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives update the building code, they are expressing no regrets about zapping compulsory garage plugs from all new houses and condos in 2019.
Yet another sign that EV’s are not the “Thing” our leaders insisted they were.
When Tehran launched dozens of explosives-laden drones to attack Israel, it wasn’t long before they were heard and spotted over the skies of Iran.
Videos posted online tracked them above the Iranian cities of Kermanshah, Khozestan and Andimeshk.
And before long they were filmed over the border in Iraq’s Sulaymaniyah and the city of Karbala.
In the final weeks of the 2015 federal election that would sweep Justin Trudeau to power, the Liberal leader penned an open letter to Canada’s federal civil servants promising that if he were elected, government workers would be a lot better off than they were under the last guy. “I have a fundamentally different view than Stephen Harper of our public service,” he wrote. “Where he sees an adversary, I see a partner.”
By the time throngs of cheering, selfie-snapping bureaucrats mobbed Mr. Trudeau days after he was sworn in as prime minister, it was clear the dynamic between the federal government and its hundreds of thousands of employees was about to shift dramatically after years of acrimony and cuts.
The Liberals are creating a ruling class.
Unemployment figures are considered by serious economists and market watchers to be a lagging indicator. But all too many of us make the mistake of believing that the unemployment rate is a leading indicator despite empirical evidence and objective reason. The lagging indicator argument makes sense, as employers do not usually lay off people until there is confirmation that their revenues and profitability are falling. This is confirmed by historical data.
Consequently, it should be of little surprise that Canadian unemployment rose to 6.1 percent in March from 5.8 percent in February, according to Statistics Canada. In July of 2022, the unemployment rate hit a cycle low of 4.9 percent, while in March 2023, the rate was 5.0 percent. A rise of 22 percent in the unemployment rate in one year is consistent with the start of a classic recession.
Everything has costs and benefits, even climate change, though green ideologues don’t want the public to consider this.
Almost all of us discovered as children that fear is effective. A friend of mine, father of two very active children, ages six and nine, tells them when they don’t want to go to bed and prefer to pillow-fight for hours that if they don’t go to sleep a six-headed monster will come out of the closet and devour them. It works for him. It seems a bit cruel to me (six heads are too many), but his defense is also reasonable: “The dark bags under my eyes are cruel too.” Fear has always worked. And prophetic fear, that which foretells that something terrible is going to happen, is the most effective of all.
A recent Gallup poll showed Democrats’ lead over Republicans with black voters “has shrunk by nearly 20 points over the past three years,” and their lead among Hispanics has dropped “nearly as much.” Gallup found that 66 percent of non-Hispanic black adults identify as Democrat or lean-Democrat, while 47 percent of Hispanics do. Both are enormous drops from 2020 exit polling, which showed 87 percent of blacks and 65 percent of Hispanics voting for Biden.
Far bigger than just a loss of support for Biden, these figures point to a significant shift of partisan loyalty within communities that have been overwhelmingly Democratic. In political terms, their shift signals a potential realignment.
Suicide is a bit of a hit and miss affair. I can think of six cases of people I’ve known who’ve taken their own lives. One, a very successful business executive, threw himself out an office window; he survived the fall, only to hang himself a couple of years later. The girlfriend of a lodger survived throwing herself in front of an underground train: she left it too late and got blown back onto the platform, breaking a hip. She too, some while later completed the job by jumping off Beachy Head. A business acquaintance, having been diagnosed with Parkinson’s blew his brains out with a shot gun, literally, leaving his wife to clear up the mess. The girlfriend of another acquaintance killed herself when her boyfriend went off to university, only for the boyfriend, my acquaintance, to follow suit on the anniversary of her death. Finally, a university fresher I knew, depressed and alone in his halls of residence, killed himself during the first lockdown. Apparently a grim and drawn-out death. I blame Ferguson, Whitty, Boris and the other nutters for that one.
Robert Kennedy Jr. is the strongest third-party presidential candidate in 32 years. Many of his supporters are vaccine skeptics, and the Democrats are panicking.
In 1960, America elected its first Catholic president in John F. Kennedy. He broke new ground not only with his religion, but also through opening for a political dynasty with an almost unique presence in American politics. He convinced the U.S. Senate to approve his brother Robert as attorney general, and in 1962 their youngest brother, Edward, or “Ted,” was elected U.S. Senator from Massachusetts.
After President Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963, Robert continued to serve as attorney general under President Lyndon Johnson; in 1964 he successfully ran for the U.S. Senate in New York. He served alongside his brother Ted while running for president in 1968. He was killed while on the campaign trail, leaving Ted as the de facto head of the political family.
What is it about the left and its obsession with excrement?
Leftists fling poop at political rallies. They employ blue-city poop patrols to clean up their poop-strewn streets. They create poop map apps. They’ve praised communist China for its “night soil” fertilization practices to grow crops.
Jihadists are worse than the Nazis were, neuroscientist and podcaster Sam Harris has claimed.
Citing jihadists’ religious fervour and the popularity of Islamic fundamentalism among ordinary citizens of Muslim-majority countries, Harris warned that they posed a greater threat to humanity than the Nazis did.
London councils did not consider the economic cost of implementing 20mph speed limits across the capital, The Telegraph can reveal.
Eleven boroughs in the capital have blanket 20mph speed limits across all of their roads, a move made in the hope of reducing the number of deaths and serious injuries among pedestrians and cyclists.
Transport for London (TfL) says that every year 1,000 people are injured or killed by drivers exceeding the speed limit.
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Last month the U.S. government’s new UAP investigation office, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), submitted a report to Congress entitled, “Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena” (UAP, the new term for UFO). This new report is itself anomalous for several reasons.
First, who ever heard of a government report being submitted months before it was due? Especially one so rife with embarrassing errors in desperate need of additional fact-checking and revision? Was AARO Director Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick rushing to get the report out the door before departing, perhaps to ensure that his successor could not revise or reverse some of the report’s conclusions?
Second, this appears to be the first AARO report submitted to Congress that the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) did not sign off on. I don’t know why, but Avril Haines and her Office were quite right not to in this case, having spared themselves considerable embarrassment in the process.
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I think younger women misinterpret what older generations understood to be common courtesy.
Given the Gazan war and the tensions that are always present in the Middle East but are particularly high now, a little original thinking would be particularly useful. As I have had occasion to write in this space before, there can be no resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian issue until the terrorist apparatus of Hamas is completely destroyed. This is not just another episode, the latest skirmish, in the endless series of such incidents until on some far-off day by sheer attrition the parties turn their swords into plowshares. Hamas’s attack on Israel on Oct. 7 was an act of war in violation of an agreed ceasefire and was conducted with the maximum possible barbarity, with the support of the Iranians, to sabotage an impending agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia, and specifically targeted against the most vulnerable people — children, women and the elderly, and those who had shown their commitment to reconciliation with the Arabs by choosing to live so close to the border of Gaza. It combined the sneak attack aspect of the Japanese descent on Pearl Harbor with the repulsive notion of a massacre of the innocents as on 9/11 at the World Trade Center in New York. The loss of life was somewhat smaller in Israel, but proportionately much greater.
