White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre has doubled down after President Joe Biden declared Easter Sunday “Transgender Day of Visibility.”
Jean-Pierre’s statement on X Saturday followed overwhelming backlash to Biden’s animated affirmation of the controversial holiday as the same day as the holiest Christian holiday.
A new secret report by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police warns that the Canadian economy is expected to be “bleak” for the next several years under Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The report claims that living standards will continue to “decline” for “younger generations.”
While a significant portion of the report, which is labeled “Whole-of-Government Five-Year Trends for Canada,” is redacted, the report forecasts economic woes for Canada for at least the next five years.
The Americans now regard Canada as the other “Loony Bin Next Door.”
Report at link below.
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There is a phenomenon producing simmering rage among drivers across the nation, on dark country roads, busy city streets and state highways: Car headlights have gotten too bright.
“This winter it was, like, oh my God, it’s every third car,” says Barbara Banfield, 67, a retired nurse who lives on Whidbey Island in Washington state.
Banfield was traveling a well-lit state highway one night and felt blinded. First she thought an inordinate number of inconsiderate people had their brights on.
No argument from me.
Pope Francis on Israel's assault on Gaza: "This is not war. This is terrorism."
The Assembly of Italian Rabbis have since criticized the Pope and "problematic statements" by the members of the Church. pic.twitter.com/Xwh8yLXYr3
— Hassan Ghani (@hassan_ghani) November 24, 2023
The polls may be tilted in the Tories’ favour, but the Liberals still have cards to play.
Last week, the Abacus polling company revealed that 41 per cent of respondents would vote for a Conservative Party of Canada candidate if an election were held now. Just 23 per cent would vote for a Liberal Party candidate, while support for the NDP was at 19 per cent.
The Abacus numbers mirror the results of nationwide polls recently conducted by Nanos Research and Mainstreet Research.
This is simple to resolve and for me would be reflected with absence of a tip. Consider @ 15% that would be ~ $13 less in their pockets. I will mark Tofino off my list as a place to vacation. https://t.co/EyZxs8OiXA
— Lt. (Retired LAPD) Frank Columbo 🇮🇱 🇮🇱🇮🇱 (@jsam10983741) March 31, 2024
h/t Patti Jo
The potential scenario is horrific: “If Putin gets his way and Ukraine loses the war, this could turn an additional ten million people into refugees,” migration expert Gerald Knaus told DW.
Russia is reporting more military incursions into Ukrainian territory on an almost daily basis. Both sides are launching missiles and drones, but it is clear that Russia is on the offensive and is better equipped. It also recently started to refer to the war as such, and no longer as a “special military operation.” At the same time, international support for Ukraine is beginning to crumble.
Many Canadian economists said last week that while “Canada could abandon carbon pricing and still hit our climate targets by using other types of regulations and subsidies … it would be much more costly to do so.”
That’s similar to the point Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made recently, when he said he brought in his carbon tax because, “I prefer a clean, market-based solution” to addressing climate change, as opposed to “the heavy hand of regulations” and “incentives … subsidies and rewards.”
Pope Francis overcame concerns about his health to preside over Easter Sunday Mass, leading some 30,000 people in a flower-decked St. Peter’s Square in one of the most important liturgies of the year.
Just hours after celebrating the 2½-hour nighttime Easter Vigil, the 87-year-old Francis appeared in good form at the start of the liturgy in the blustery piazza.
Francis, who had part of one lung removed as a young man, has been battling respiratory problems all winter that the Vatican and he have said were bronchitis, the flu or a cold.
It is easy to become somewhat despondent with the apparent condition of the West and of the world generally, but that conclusion is deceptive and unjustified. The war in Ukraine remains a largely unsuccessful act of naked aggression by Russia that has exposed the military of that country as inept and inefficient. Russia has a legitimate historic interest in Ukraine, but as almost the whole world recognized, it had no right to try to subjugate that country, especially having, along with the United States and the United Kingdom, guaranteed the frontiers of Ukraine when it gave up the nuclear weapons it inherited from the USSR. What is needed now is someone of the stature and competence representing an adequately influential jurisdiction, to bring the war to an end on the basis of giving a little to the Russians and securing absolute and ironclad guarantees from Russia and NATO of the revised borders of a sovereign Ukraine.
Meanwhile in New York the NYPD are back to getting tough on the pro-Pal protesters. Anyone on the street gets arrested. One such arrest leads to an heavy Amazon box being thrown at a cop. Such ‘peaceful’ protests. pic.twitter.com/oh4tqBRrik
— Heidi Bachram 🎗️ (@HeidiBachram) March 30, 2024
Meanwhile in Torontostan … Police set a roadblock limit to the Paliie’s march
@TorontoPolice doing what they do best. Attack peaceful protesters. Shame on TPS. #toronto #TPS pic.twitter.com/uztBfKxZy2
— Zara . زهرا (@Zara9lives) March 31, 2024
Shame on TPS "Toronto Police" , the protest was super peaceful like the past 6 months, yet with no reason or even warning they trapped the protesters and started arresting people. This will just make us more strong and powerful#StopTheGenocide #toronto #tps #freepalestine pic.twitter.com/5AakQBcHud
— Tarek Ghriri-طارق غريري (@TarekGhriri) March 31, 2024
Police cruiser with sirens blaring unexpectedly drives down closed section of Parliament Street in front of 51 Division.
The cruiser narrowly avoided protesters praying on the blocked off road— they were kneeling, at the time. Some personal belongings were run over.
The crowd… pic.twitter.com/xyKcrL3Rbt
— Caryma Sa'd – Lawyer + Political Satirist (@CarymaRules) March 31, 2024
Excellent Ratio.
Today, the @TorontoPolice brazenly accelerated through a blocked roadway in front of 51 Division, disregarding the sanctity of a space where Muslims were gathered in prayer, their vehicle accelerating close to over twenty Muslims bowed down in prayer. Amidst this, personal… pic.twitter.com/pNoLgpVos4
— binish ahmed PhD (abd) 🍉 (@binishahmed) March 31, 2024
Louise Meijer, an MP for Sweden’s centrist Moderate party, apologised to voters for her previous position on open borders. She regrets “making mistakes” by “pleading for openness and refugees [being] welcome”, she says.
Meijer says she “changed her mind” over her views, in an opinion piece for Expressen this week.
“Now, instead, I am advocating an even stricter migration policy than the one I opposed at the time,” she says.
Video shows confrontation with Melanie Joly over Palestinian refugees
A video circulating on social media platforms this weekend showed Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly in a tense confrontation with a man on the street in Montreal over the Israel-Hamas war.
The man who filmed the video implored Joly to “lift the cap on the number of Palestinian refugees” that Canada should welcome while she was walking on Laurier Street in the Mile End neighbourhood on Friday.
Foreign minister @melaniejoly loosing her cool when questioned about Gaza translated into English pic.twitter.com/twXi8H9e4a
— Yves Engler (@EnglerYves) March 30, 2024
‘Let him go’ shouts ring out as man is detained in ‘relation to inviting support for a proscribed organisation’
Pro-Palestine protesters surrounded a police van “to prevent it leaving” after a man was arrested on suspicion of a terrorism-related offence.
Dozens of demonstrators could be seen sitting in the street, while others crowded against the side of the van at the central London rally calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
🚨#BREAKING: The MET police arrest a man who said he supports Hamas during the London march and protest in favor of Palestinians in Gaza pic.twitter.com/9T8VHlgotq
— Dylan Cross (@theDylanCross) March 30, 2024
The federal government needs to develop strategies to restore public trust in the country’s institutions, an internal memo says.
There’s “growing evidence” that the public mistrusts the government, says the memo, acquired by Blacklock’s Reporter through Access to Information.
“Based on our internal discussions and trends we have seen from stakeholders and partners we suggest the following priority topics: There is growing evidence there has been an erosion of trust in democratic institutions,” said the memo by the Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence, which is part of Public Safety Canada.
They could start by ceasing to lie and steal.
