OAK BROOK, Ill. – Electric vehicles may be the way of the future, but many EV owners are having trouble dealing with Chicago’s bitterly cold temperatures.
Public charging stations have turned into car graveyards over the past couple of days.
Not confidence inspiring.
h/t Mauser
Hundreds of people gathered in Toronto’s streets this weekend to enjoy the company of like-minded people in celebrating — get this — the Houthi faction of Yemen, which declared war on civilian cargo ships in November and has since taken innocent crewmen hostage.
Oh nothing. Just a few peaceful demonstrators in @oliviachow’s Toronto cheering on Houthi terrorists and calling for the murder of Jews.
— Alan Fryer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@alanfryermedia) January 15, 2024
Georgia United Credit Union recently updated their User Agreement — you know, that wall of text that your financial institution flashes at you from time to time and which few people bother to read. The catch: If you rely on Georgia United Credit Union for your purchasing tool, like, say, a debit card, you may no longer use that to purchase firearms, ammunition, firearms parts, or accessories, along with a host of other items.
h/t XC
For years, the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival has been a highlight of Vancouver’s arts scene. I once called it a “beacon of avant-garde light in the dead of winter.”
I won’t be calling it that any more. The festival has now added to the darkness of this already tragic, oppressive season.
Last week, PuSh decided to cancel its planned performances of the Canadian play The Runner at the Simon Fraser University Woodward’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts. The one-person play, written by Christopher Morris, has received rave reviews, including from The Globe and Mail’s J. Kelly Nestruck in 2018.
The Health Ministry on Monday instructed members of the healthcare system not to cooperate with the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, citing its perceived anti-Israel stance.
In recent weeks, senior physicians and hospital staff who treated October 7 victims and released hostages have received letters and emails from the commission, which operates under the UN Council for Human Rights. The commission requested information and interviews for its investigation of international and gender-based crimes since the beginning of the current Israel-Hamas war.
Queen’s University is in danger of going under if its financial situation is not dramatically improved through spending cuts, according to a senior administrator at the Kingston, Ont., school.
Small undergraduate classes of fewer than ten students have already been earmarked to be eliminated from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which is on track to run out of reserve money next year. Graduate classes of fewer than five students are reported to be next on the list.
Is a sense of unfairness in the Biden administration’s use of criminal prosecutions against the leading Republican candidate powering the 45th president’s astonishing surge on the hustings?
President Trump’s victory in Iowa — where he won an absolute majority in a four-person race — will certainly put a spring in his step. It might not be, history suggests, a reliable predictor of who will emerge as the party nominee. The landslide by which he trounced two strong Republicans, though, is remarkable. It goes a long way in putting paid to the notion that, as Conrad Black puts it, the 45th president is a spent political force.
On Tuesday, Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow will hold the first of three telephone town halls to hear from residents about the city budget. Anyone concerned about a 16.5% tax hike should be on those calls this week making their voice heard.
‼️ CEO of Paramount Fine Foods, which owns over 40 restaurants, says Jews who support Israel are not welcome to be his clients.
The Lebanese Canadian, Mohammed Fakih posted: "We don't need your money! Please don't! Our clients are respectful families from all backgrounds. We… pic.twitter.com/DggBgMP5oi
— Awesome Jew (@Jewsarethegoat) January 15, 2024
Bonus Mia Khalifa
Jewish mother confronts disgraced porn star Mia Khalifa for her antisemitism.
Khalifa previously sparked outrage for requesting Hamas film the execution of Jewish people and “flip their phones and film…horizontal.”
The Jewish woman goes up to the adult video model saying… pic.twitter.com/nxQnDl353P
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) January 16, 2024
Highgate Cemetery is set to charge upwards of £25,000 for burial spots next to Karl Marx’s grave.
The north London graveyard, a popular tourist spot for fans of the communist pioneer, will erect new graves after securing £100,000 of National Lottery funding to help its conservation work and landscaping.
The site, which already has roughly 53,000 burial spots, will now make space near the tomb of Marx – a spot particularly coveted by communists.
OTTAWA – The security screening the federal government has brought in for people applying to flee the Gaza Strip is facing criticism from both lawyers who feel its questions are too invasive and others who think it should dig even deeper.
A special program that would allow up to 1,000 people in Gaza with relatives in Canada to apply for visas opened for applications last week, with the federal government seeking an extraordinary level of detail.
King’s College counterterrorism course, on contract to MoD, dangerously downplays extremism
King’s College London is the academic centre of Britain’s military and counterterrorism training. Its counterterrorism course, under contract to the Ministry of Defence, has been designed for civil servants and other professionals involved in this work from a number of government departments.
Now, questions have been asked in parliament after an account of the course written by a former civil servant, Anna Stanley, who participated in it a few months ago and who until this month was an open-source intelligence analyst at the Foreign Office.
It’s just math. And the result of the equation is a negative number.
Thanks to the Trudeau government’s policy of offering an effectively unlimited number of student visas and temporary foreign work permits, Canada’s population grew at a record pace last year – five-and-a-half times faster than the average developed country. One well-known consequence has been upward pressure on housing costs, particularly at the bottom of the market, in rental housing. A less-noticed outcome has been declining gross domestic product per capita.
JK Rowling has been called “Britain’s nastiest novelist” in an article condemned as misogynistic.
A New Statesman review argued that the Harry Potter author has become a “polemicist” and a “liberal pariah” because of her views on gender.
The piece, originally headlined “Britain’s nastiest novelist”, was condemned by many supporters of Rowling, who claimed it was sexist and unfounded.
McMaster University recently felt it necessary to apologize for its “grave oversight” of including “Sir John A. Macdonald Day” in its university calendar of events.
Why? Because, according to McMaster, it is “a day that celebrates a person responsible for the genocide and oppression of Indigenous peoples in Canada.”
