For a policy that requires sacrifice, at least for the masses, the climate agenda lacks one critical element: public support. Even in ultra-green Europe, there is a growing resistance among politicians and the public towards extreme climate policies. In America, too, climate scepticism is growing. Given that Joe Biden rolled out new pollution standards for non-electric cars last week, this public shift should provide discomfort among the Democratic establishment.
More than 130 killed, more than 140 injured – that is the grim toll of an attack by gunmen on the Crocus City Hall in the north-western suburbs of Moscow on Friday evening. Responsibility was quickly claimed by an Islamic State affiliate, with the United States endorsing that attribution as credible. The US also made it known that it had warned Russia, via some of the few channels still open between the two countries, of a pending terror attack, although Russia appeared not to have acted on the tip.
A sessional engineering lecturer is reportedly no longer teaching at the University of Guelph and the University of Waterloo after publishing a paper that argues the difficulties of dating from a male perspective with numerous sweeping claims, including that “girls” make “strange excuses for rejection” and feminism is “getting out of control,” Toronto Star reports.
No group has a right to be listened to by the government simply because it claims to represent a ‘community.’
By the end of the 20th century, the postwar ‘golden age’ of party democracy in the West was fast receding. Gone were the days when mass political parties spoke directly to an engaged social constituency. The political party, once a bridge between citizen and state, was now increasingly fused with the state. They relied more and more on public funds rather than private donations; they owed their enduring positions more to privileged access to the national media than any compelling message. Turnouts fell. By the noughties, a new elite, itching to remake society, found itself woefully bereft of any base of popular support from which to do so. As political scientist Peter Mair’s book title famously had it, it was now “ruling the void.”
The US government has released images of seven alleged Chinese hackers wanted on charges of infiltrating the communications of targets in Britain and America over a 14-year period.
In a newly unsealed indictment, the Department of Justice (DoJ) accused the men of taking part in a state-sponsored hacking ring, known to US authorities as APT 31 or by the codename “Violet Typhoon”.
The documents lay bare the scale of China’s illicit incursion into Western public life, through the use of malicious emails designed to harvest data on their targets.
During the debate on the NDP’s proposal to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state last week, Global Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said the government could not change foreign policy based on an opposition motion.
At the 11th hour, the Liberals reached a deal with the NDP to water down the proposal on Palestinian statehood to avoid a divisive public schism in their own ranks. A number of Liberal MPs had spoken in favour of the NDP motion and indicated they would vote for it.
Her only known diagnoses described in court earlier this month are autism and ADHD.
A Calgary judge has issued a ruling that clears the way for a 27-year-old woman to receive medical assistance in dying (MAID) despite her father’s attempts through the courts to prevent that from happening.
A publication ban protects the identities of the parties and the medical professionals. CBC News will identify the daughter as M.V. and the father as W.V.
While Justice Colin Feasby acknowledged the “profound grief” that W.V. would suffer with the death of his child, he ruled the loss of M.V.’s autonomy was more important.
OTTAWA—A federal election is likely more than a year away. It’s a sunny weekend afternoon, the first warmish day in well over a week. Across the city, spring recreational programs are starting up, it’s prime time for the seasonal Ottawa tradition of going to a maple syrup farm and the stores are packed with pre-Easter shoppers.
And yet, a convention centre a few minutes away from the Ottawa airport is packed to capacity with people eager to hear from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.
Yes, I deal with depression, OCD, ADHD, and have long suspected I’m on the spectrum, but after watching this, I am thinking maybe I am just trans? pic.twitter.com/RtpijOmQxU
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) March 25, 2024
As part of a surprise outlay of cash announced at a summit in South Korea, the Prime Minister’s Office has approved $8.4 million to study how autocracy thrives in warming temperatures.
“Today I’m announcing that Canada is investing $8.4 million on research across the global south to better understand how climate change interacts with democratic decline,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a video address to the third annual Summit on Democracy, a gathering orchestrated by the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden.
After watching this, I will be intentionally running fifteen minutes late as my ancestors would want.
Deal with it. pic.twitter.com/5G5BgEmMjc
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) March 25, 2024
Bataclan, Paris, 2015: in the ballroom which takes its name from the operetta Ba-ta-clan by Jacques Offenbach, 90 French infidels are slaughtered by an ISIS commando.
Manchester Arena, England, 2017: at an Ariana Grande concert, a boy named Salman Abedi blows himself up, taking 22 English infidels with him.
Nova Festival, Israel, 2023: 364 Israeli infidels are torn to pieces by Palestinian Arabs from Gaza.
Crocus City Hall, Moscow, 2024: 143 Russian infidels are murdered by an ISIS cell.
“Hello, I am Freya. I make a deal with demons for my rituals and spells, so all my spells come true.”
So proclaims the introduction to an Etsy shop that sells “Special Black Magic” for the price of $135.52 — a supposed 50 percent discount on the usual asking price of $271.04. A “Powerful Death Spell” from the same shop will run a person $271.04, though this too is on sale “for a limited time” from its usual fee of $542.08.
A major Canadian telecommunications company is calling upon the government for enhanced security protocols to address the growing problem of copper theft.
Bell Canada in a statement recently announced that they had installed aerial alarms to fight against and protect communications infrastructure from being tampered with, as thieves, especially since 2022, have been breaking into telecommunications substations to steal copper cables.
You really need to keep an eye on the Department of Injustice these days because you never know what they’re up to. The latest example comes to us from Forbes this week. It involves Google and a collection of YouTube videos that have attracted the attention of the feds. It’s not just the creators of the videos who are of interest, however. Forbes uncovered warrants showing that the FBI had demanded user data on everyone who watched particular videos.
