Poilievre supports Manitoba’s attempt to get exemption from federal carbon tax
WINNIPEG — Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Thursday he supports Manitoba’s request for an exemption from the federally imposed carbon tax.
“The fact is that Manitoba produces a phenomenal amount of green energy through its hydroelectricity, and a carbon tax will come nowhere near the environmental benefit of expanding that energy,” Poilievre told reporters following a meeting with Premier Wab Kinew at the legislature.
US ‘danger tourism’ YouTuber kidnapped by Haiti gang
A US YouTube star has reportedly been kidnapped after he ignored warnings to travel to Haiti in an attempt to interview a ruthless gang leader.
Addison Pierre Maalouf is understood to have headed to the Caribbean country earlier this month to film content for his social media channel YourFellowArab.
SNOBELEN: Trudeau spending our money on worthless vanity projects
I owe my old friend Kamil a debt he knows nothing about.
Kamil was a truck driver. In fact, he was a darned good one. He immigrated from Eastern Europe, married a lovely lady from Newfoundland and started a family in Mississauga.
Foreign Agents Can Easily Impact PM Selection via Unvetted Canadian Party Memberships: Study
Lax membership criteria in major political parties, such as allowing international students and foreign nationals to join, leave Canada vulnerable to foreign interference and could potentially impact the selection of prime ministers, a recent study says.
“Foreign actors could also influence the selection process of party leadership, and hence the prime ministership, simply by purchasing party memberships that hand out ballots in leadership races without verifying the identities of new members,” said the study “Beyond General Elections“ published by Sage Journals on March 18.
Going electric requires electricity. Who knew?
A lead article in the sober-sided New York Times is seldom funny. Yet ‘A New Surge in Power Use is Threatening US Climate Goals’ earlier this month cracked me up. Check out this sternly dramatic first paragraph: ‘Something unusual is happening in America. Demand for electricity, which has stayed largely flat for two decades, has begun to surge.’ Personally, I’d have headlined that article ‘Well, duh’ – perhaps with the subhead ‘Aw, shucks’.
Gunshot-Detection Tech Has Saved Hundreds of Lives. The Left Says It’s Racist
It was late on a December 2021 evening when Joshua Junior Carter was shot in the leg and torso. He collapsed in a Winston-Salem, N.C., field. He didn’t have a phone to call for help.
No one called 911 to report the gunfire at a time when killings in the city were near record highs, according to reports. So, Carter remained in the field, alone and bleeding.
Google Warns Freedom Center to Censor Mentions of Islamic Terror
When Front Page Magazine applied to join Google’s AdSense advertising program, we were turned down. Since Google, like other Big Tech monopolies, has censored and deplatformed us in the past, we weren’t too shocked. But this time, Google told us why we had been banned.
Usually Big Tech monopolies censor, shadowban and deplatform you without telling you why.
BCF was demonetized from YouTube and Adsense a decade ago.
Clues from 200 mobile phones over who visited Epstein’s island
Before Jeffrey Epstein died in jail while awaiting charges for sex-trafficking minors, and in the years afterwards, a trail of documentary evidence identified associates and famous friends of the financier who visited his Caribbean island.
Flight logs named passengers aboard his jet, his calendar showed meetings planned at Little St James with a scientist, a prominent diplomat and a venture capitalist. Emails revealed in court documents showed a banker lounging in a hot tub there with a glass of white wine.
America’s censors have committed their Guernica
America’s cultural mood calls to mind a bunch of people tentatively peering out from their hiding places in the aftermath of a torrential hailstorm. Is it over? Can we come out now? Are we still cancelling each other to death, or has the vibe finally shifted?
Revealed: The secret deal for Wallis Simpson to leave Edward
As the Abdication crisis reached boiling-point in the dying days of 1936, was Wallis Simpson ready and willing to be bought out of her forthcoming marriage to King Edward VIII?
Newly viewed Cabinet documents indicate that, at the height of the crisis, the question of a cash settlement to get rid of the twice-divorced American was actually proposed by her lawyer.
Had the deal been struck it could have had far-reaching consequences lasting down to the present day, 88 years later, resulting in a different monarch occupying the throne – not King Charles.
Roscoe the robot dog takes the bullets instead of police during armed raid
A police force has paid tribute to its robotic dog which was shot three times during an armed raid.
Roscoe, part of a Massachusetts state police bomb squad, was sent into a house to find an armed suspect during a seven-hour stand-off on March 6.
Justin Moreira, 30, had allegedly held his mother at knifepoint, Barnstable Police Department said.
Islamic State: Fresh Wave of Terror Attacks Coming to Europe
In a 40-minute audio message published on Thursday, the terrorist group Islamic State (IS) threatened attacks on Jews and Christians all over the world, while once again claiming responsibility for the Moscow massacre that left more than 140 dead and 360 injured.
In the message, IS spokesman Abu Hudhaifah al-Ansari called on the movement’s “lone wolves” to “attack and target crusaders (Christians) and Jews everywhere,” particularly in Europe, the U.S., and Israel during the month of Ramadan (which ends April 10th).
Police search for 4 suspects in violent road rage incident in Brampton
Police are searching for four men wanted in a violent road rage incident in Brampton on Wednesday night.
Investigators say there was an interaction between a car travelling on Torbram Road near Eagleridge Drive and the four occupants of a gold-coloured Hyundai Sonata. The four men in the car confronted the victim, threatened them and damaged their vehicle before fleeing the area.
U.S. signs off on more bombs, warplanes for Israel
The Biden administration in recent days quietly authorized the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs and fighter jets to Israel despite Washington’s concerns about an anticipated military offensive in southern Gaza that could threaten the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians.
The new arms packages include more than 1,800 MK84 2,000-pound bombs and 500 MK82 500-pound bombs, according to Pentagon and State Department officials familiar with the matter. The 2,000 pound bombs have been linked to previous mass-casualty events throughout Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. These officials, like some others, spoke to The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity because recent authorizations have not been disclosed publicly.