How The Associated Press could admit to being financed by eco-extremist donors and yet still claim to be neutral when it comes to its climate change reporting defies common sense.
Federal Court expands definition of espionage in decision to bar Chinese student from Canada
A Federal Court judge has concluded that a Chinese engineering student is a potential spy and cannot enter Canada in a ruling that broadens the definition of espionage and has potentially wide consequences for foreign researchers.
The student, Yuekang Li, proposed to study under a leading researcher at the University of Waterloo and take what he learns back to China to improve its public-health system.
Anti-Israel Radicals Stage Insurrection in California State Capitol; Assembly Shut Down; No Arrests
Anti-Israel radicals staged an insurrection in the California State Assembly on Wednesday, shutting down the first day of the state legislative session and forcing lawmakers to flee. There were no arrests, as insurrectionists were allowed to linger in the chamber.
🚨BREAKING: Hundreds of Pro-Palestine Protesters have occupied and shut down the California State Capitol
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 3, 2024
Trudeau Lies: Family did not pay for vacay but stayed ‘no cost’ at pals place during vacation PMO clarifies
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office is clarifying that he and his family are vacationing in Jamaica “at no cost at a location owned by family friends,” after initially saying the family was paying for their stay.
The Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement on Wednesday that the federal ethics commissioner was consulted “on these details prior to the travel to ensure that the rules were followed.”
The office offered the clarification the day before Trudeau’s holiday on the Caribbean island is set to conclude. He is there with Sophie Gregoire Trudeau and their three children.
Par for the course Junior is a compulsive liar.
h/t Mauser
Claudine Gay lied in NY Times op-ed by claiming to have ‘promptly requested corrections’ to ‘plagiarized’ work
A leading conservative who led the charge to get former Harvard President Claudine Gay fired is now challenging her New York Times essay to claim she lied about ‘promptly’ requesting corrections of plagiarized work.
Gay, 53, resigned on Tuesday – after just six months in the role – and spoke for the first time since her ouster in a New York Times op-ed claiming her dismissal over plagiarism and anti-Semitism scandals was actually the result of a racist campaign.
Now, conservative activist Christopher Rufo, who first publicly raised allegations of plagiarism in her work, is challenging her op-ed saying, ‘Claudine Gay is lying in the New York Times. She did not “promptly [request] corrections.”‘
Claudine Gay is lying in the New York Times. She did not "promptly [request] corrections." She denied the allegations, intimidated the New York Post into silence, and then corrected them only under duress. There are still dozens of uncorrected instances of plagiarism. pic.twitter.com/JFTv5eIiyU
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) January 3, 2024
Steven Guilbeault, ‘policy-maker of the year,’ is killing economic growth
The Ottawa-based Macdonald-Laurier Institute has named Steven Guilbeault, federal minister of environment and climate change, its 2023 policy-maker of the year. “Ruthless, reckless and damaging,” the cover of the latest issue of MLI’s Inside Policy magazine calls him, announcing its choice.
Standing out for reckless and damaging policy-making is a real achievement in a government now famous for policy disasters. Its economic policy has created crises of unaffordability and stagnation; its foreign policy was recently praised by terror group Hamas ; and its social policy has descended into a parody of wokeness, with international headlines mocking Ottawa for providing free feminine hygiene products in men’s washrooms on Parliament Hill and instructing all federally regulated workplaces to do the same — since providing them only to women would not be equitable.
Hamas calls for demonstrations for Gaza throughout the world
Hamas has called for the Arab, Muslim, and free communities of the world to increase solidarity activities for Gaza over the next few days, specifically over the weekend.
Hamas says the activities must become a symbol of protest against aggression, genocide, and ethnic cleansing of Gaza, and a denunciation of the murder of the leader and murderer Saleh al-Arouri, and Western, specifically American, support of the Zionist occupation.
Military whistleblower calls on Conservatives to demand probe of torture video reports
The former soldier who blew the whistle on alleged torture videos involving Iraqi security forces who were trained by Canadian troops has made a direct appeal to Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre.
In a letter, retired sergeant Mike MacInnis called on the Conservatives to push for a follow-up investigation into how the military handled his warnings.
He said his efforts to get the attention of the Canadian Armed Forces and the Department of National Defence have led nowhere.
America’s plan to replace gas guzzlers with electric cars was doomed from the start
Electric vehicles were supposed to be inevitable. Two years ago President Joe Biden climbed behind the wheel of a beefy white electric Hummer to tout his plan to make half of all new cars sold electric by 2030. The following year Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which created a bevy of incentives for drivers to buy electric and for automakers to invest in EVs. That set off a flurry of new projects: EV plants, battery-manufacturing facilities, and mining operations began popping up. By the end of 2022 the situation looked promising: More and more Americans were going electric, and soon everyone would be driving an EV, reducing emissions in the process.
The transition to an all-EV future seemed like a slam dunk. It would not only give the government a highly visible way to show it’s fighting the climate crisis but boost the economy through new jobs and investment. But the electric-vehicle takeover has hit some serious roadblocks.
Heads of 17 Canadian environmental charities collecting major compensation packages
MONTREAL — A small group of leaders of Canadian charities in the environment, conservation, and animal protection sectors are taking home compensation packages equivalent to, and in some cases higher than, the salaries of provincial premiers.
An analysis by The Canadian Press identified 17 charities whose top executive drew annual compensation that was in the $200,000 to $250,000 range or higher, according to filings with the federal government made in 2022 and 2023.
The review focused on organizations recognized by the Canada Revenue Agency as registered charities in the categories of “environment” and “animal protection,” which include several conservation organizations. The group of 17 with the highest salaries represents just over one per cent of all charities in those two categories.
h/t Mauser
The ‘final nail in the coffin’ for Prince Andrew: Bombshell Epstein file ‘underage orgy’ revelations
The release of US court documents accusing Prince Andrew of taking part in an ‘underage orgy’ on Jeffrey Epstein’s Caribbean island and groping the ‘boobs’ of an alleged sex slave ends any hope he has of returning to royal duties, experts told MailOnline today.
The Duke of York has been again dragged into the sex scandal surrounding his paedophile friend, just over a year after he settled the multi-million dollar case brought by Virginia Giuffre in 2022.
As well as being accused of ‘acts of sexual abuse’, documents released in New York overnight claim that Andrew would call Epstein weekly and jetted to his private Caribbean retreat, nicknamed the ‘Island of Sin’.
Was this all a Honey-Trap operation? Someone knows.
GOLDSTEIN: Guilbeault’s plastics ban produces more garbage
Fresh from a recent federal court ruling that his ban on single-use plastics was “unreasonable and unconstitutional,” Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault wants to create a national plastics registry to track the lifecycle of the 4.4 million tonnes of plastic Canadians use every year.
Active shooter investigation underway at Perry High School in Iowa
Multiple people are feared to be victims after an active shooting occurred at Perry High School in Iowa on Thursday morning.
There are hundreds of emergency services at the scene, which is 25 miles northwest of Des Moines. Ambulances, multiple police units, air ambulance helicopters, and firefighters were seen outside the high school.
Twitter – Perry High School
BREAKING: New video shows authorities responding to the scene of a shooting at a high school in Perry, Iowa. The scene is now "secured," according to officials. At least one person is dead and others injured, according to law enforcement officials. https://t.co/OwQfElq7cS pic.twitter.com/zEmPmRHlPn
— ABC News (@ABC) January 4, 2024
BREAKING: Shooting with multiple victims reported at Perry High School in Perry, Iowa pic.twitter.com/XuvFzpId50
— Intel Point Alert (@IntelPointAlert) January 4, 2024
Not much info though the area is reported secured.
Johnson condemns Met Police investigation into Israel ‘war crimes’
Boris Johnson has condemned a Metropolitan Police investigation into Israel over alleged war crimes in Gaza.
Scotland Yard counter-terrorism police have launched an appeal for witnesses travelling through British airports to report allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Mr Johnson told The Telegraph on Wednesday he was concerned about “the worrying politicisation of the Met Police”.
Immigration and housing — the elephants in Canada’s crisis room
Among the tectonic forces enfeebling Canada at the moment in ways we haven’t seen in generations, there are a couple of things we’d all do well to start talking about openly and honestly in 2024, while we still can. Or rather, if we still can. Unfortunately, Canada’s political class seems disinclined to engage in a grown-up conversation about either of them: immigration and housing.