Elon Musk announced that his human tech startup Neuralink has inserted a chip implant into the brain of its first human test subject.
The billionaire said the person had the chip surgically implanted into their brain on Sunday and “is recovering well”
“Initial results show promising neuron spike detection,” Musk wrote on X, the social media he owns.
It wasn’t a good look, to put it mildly. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke to his caucus the other day to feed them their latest attack lines. These lines included a dog whistle against a popular young politician, Jamil Jivani, who is running to be the Conservative MP in the swing-riding of Durham.
Trudeau was going on a rant against the new additions to the Conservative family under leader Pierre Poilievre—both those who have won recent by-elections and upcoming candidates.
Is it just me or has Trudeau lost his edge? https://t.co/nJqaTAHnU1
— Alan Fryer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@alanfryermedia) January 29, 2024
Canada is sending another $40 million in aid to organizations that are helping Palestinians in Gaza after pausing funding to the UN’s relief agency in the region.
The funding will go to groups including the World Food Program, UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the International Committee of the Red Cross, Ahmed Hussen, Minister of International Development, announced Tuesday.
Canada suspended funding to UNRWA, the UN agency that supports Palestinians in Gaza, in response to allegations that its staff played a role in the Hamas attack in Israel on Oct. 7.
OTTAWA – Tensions flared on the prickly issue of the carbon tax as the House returned from its break Monday, with Conservatives accusing the Liberals of being “pathologically obsessed” with the tax, while Liberals said the Tories wanted to take rebate cheques out of the hands of Canadians.
The Israeli forces which eliminated three Hamas terrorists in Jenin’s Ibn Sina hospital completed their task within about ten minutes.
The three terrorists were eliminated by undercover officers from Israel’s National Counterterrorism Unit, some of whom were dressed as doctors and nurses. The forces raided the hospital, in a smooth operation which lasted only a few minutes, eliminating the terrorists who were in a hidden room on one of the levels.
Israeli special forces disguised as doctors, nurses, cripples & patients stormed the Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin (the West Bank) last night and liquidated Muhammad Jalamneh, a top commander of Hamas in the West Bank
2 other Hamas terrorists were killed too pic.twitter.com/LIQkGeeW9V
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) January 30, 2024
How long till we hear the war crime cry?
It was my privilege and pleasure to participate with perhaps the most eminent contemporary Canadian, Prof. Jordan Peterson, and the prominent American television and internet commentator, Tucker Carlson, in a spontaneous presentation to a live audience of 8,000 in the principal indoor stadium in Edmonton on Jan. 24.
I was ostensibly the moderator, but that consisted in presenting a topic for discussion which all three of us would then tackle in sequence. It was a rollicking and, speaking for the three of us on the dais, a most enjoyable evening. Tucker Carlson is a charming man personally and publicly, with an excellent sense of humour, and alternates profound statements of principle with the provocative apercus of an engaging gadfly. Jordan Peterson makes no pretence to being a barrel of laughs but is an eye-wateringly erudite psychological and philosophical scholar. He presents his views in a rolling thunder of brilliant and intense articulation. I just played it down the middle, added a few light touches, and where it seemed appropriate, smoothed some of Tucker’s more flamboyant reflections, and helped explicate a few of Jordan’s more complex formulations.
An investigation of ArriveCan spending has found outsourcing companies repeatedly won contracts by listing subcontractors who ultimately did no work, one of many findings that led the federal procurement ombudsman to conclude contracting rules were not followed.
The report specifically singles out contract work by two-person IT staffing company GCStrategies, saying the company frequently failed to prove that its proposed team of subcontractors had the résumés and work experience required.
Federal Polling:
CPC: 43% (+9)
LPC: 26% (-7)
NDP: 16% (-2)
BQ: 6% (-2)
GPC: 4% (+4)
PPC: 3% (-2)
Others: 2%Mainstreet Research / January 26, 2024 / n=909 / MOE 3.2% / IVR
(% Change With 2021 Federal Election)
Check out federal details on @338Canada at:… pic.twitter.com/Rz2WRgJuF7
— Polling Canada (@CanadianPolling) January 29, 2024
What if only men voted?
Here's what that looks like using the Mainstreet polling pic.twitter.com/DmJW4mOTS6
— Polling Canada (@CanadianPolling) January 30, 2024
The B.C. government will not approve new private postsecondary institutions that cater to international students for a period of two years, Selina Robinson, Minister of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills, announced Monday. The moratorium is part of a package of reforms in the sector, after Ottawa announced a two-year cap on foreign student admissions in a bid to tackle skyrocketing growth and ease the pressure on services such as housing and health care.
The changes mirror measures announced last week by the province of Ontario, which is similarly facing significant reductions in the number of new international students the federal government will permit.
Ultra-conservatives demand apology from artist over ‘effeminate’ and ‘camp’ image to celebrate Easter week in Seville
A poster of Jesus to promote Easter week in Seville has drawn a backlash from Spanish ultra-conservatives, who denounced it as “effeminate” and “offensive” to Roman Catholics.
Designed by Seville artist Salustiano Garcia, the image shows Jesus after his resurrection, standing semi-naked in front of a blood-red background, with the lower part of his body covered by a white cloth.
TEL AVIV — Watching American Justice Joan Donoghue read the decision of the International Court of Justice, live at 2 p.m. Israel time on Friday afternoon, was surreal.
Everything about this legal proceeding is grotesque and represents a perversion of ethics and law that is beyond difficult to process. South Africa, a signatory to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide — as is Israel — brought this application to the court with the support of some rather nefarious international actors. There has been a significant uptick in activity and contact between South Africa and the Islamic Republic of Iran of late, either a coincidence or reflecting an enhanced alignment of values between the two countries. Iran, of course, is the head of the proverbial Islamist snake, openly fomenting antisemitism globally and responsible for significant acts of violence targeting Jewish civilians.
Islamic State was behind the lethal attack on a church in Istanbul on Sunday, Ali Yerlikaya, Turkey’s interior minister has said.
Two masked gunmen burst into Santa Maria Italian church during mass, killing Tuncer Cihan, a 52-year-old man. Afsin Hatipoglu, the church’s lawyer, told journalists that the attackers had held the door open for Cihan, a Muslim, who had arrived as prayers were already under way. Seconds later, they entered and killed him.
#WATCH 🔴 Footage of the shooting in a Catholic church in Istanbul, where one person died, has emerged. The Turkish Ministry of Internal Affairs has already detained 47 suspects in connection with the case. The police do not rule out the involvement of ISIS in the attack… pic.twitter.com/dLQiPjb15R
— Voice of Europe 🌍 (@V_of_Europe) January 29, 2024
Canadian authorities have issued a deportation order against a Chinese woman on the grounds she was part of Beijing’s foreign interference program.
The Immigration and Refugee Board ruled that Jing Zhang had worked for the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office (OCAO), which it said conducts espionage in Canada.
While immigration officials did not argue that Zhang committed espionage, the Refugee Board found that as an 11-year OCAO employee, she had contributed to its efforts to pressure the Chinese diaspora.
OTTAWA—A senior adviser to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is defending her use of crude, sexual language in an online exchange with the right-wing influence group, Canada Proud, stating she was subject to a “co-ordinated harassment campaign” and that Canada Proud trafficks in “vile” disinformation.
The exchange occurred in a series of posts on X, formerly Twitter, over the weekend, in which the PMO’s newly-hired adviser Supriya Dwivedi derided Canada Proud for having a “raging boner” for a female journalist who covers the far right. Responding to how the Canada Proud account implied she was acting unprofessionally and wrote she was having a “public meltdown,” Dwivedi responded: “you can go back to gooning to Jordan Peterson now.”
You could set your watch by it. Whenever there is an atrocious attack on the United States or Israel, if transnational progressives are not subjecting us to the “escalation” drivel, they are subjecting us to the “proportionality” drivel.
