OTTAWA—Glasses or no glasses?
Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has hit the road for his first full summer as party boss, having shaken off the shackles of the House of Commons after a sitting that insiders say saw him finally settling into the job.
But top of mind for Conservatives is how Poilievre is faring as he prepares for the job he wants — being prime minister.
An independent military administrative tribunal has determined that a Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) veteran had not shown a “conduct deficiency” in refusing COVID-19 vaccination and was therefore wrongfully expelled from the organization.
“I find that refusing vaccination should not have been considered a conduct deficiency since it was an exercise of a right protected by the Charter and recognized by existing laws and regulations,” wrote Nina Frid of the Military Grievances External Review Committee (MGERC) in a June 20 decision.
To all the trans rights supporters, are you aroused? Care to support and yasslight him? pic.twitter.com/1zzBjTbMON
— TroonyToons (@troonytoons) June 29, 2023
Sweden is a monument to European naivete that believes open immigration of Muslims can lead to integration with post-Christians.
“Free Derry” is a famous area that declared itself “autonomous” in Northern Ireland’s second city between 1969 and 1972. The term originates from the writing painted on the wall of a building:
“You are now entering Free Derry”. The name derives from its status as a “closed” area (no-go area) to British forces (British and Protestants called it Londonderry).
Who would have thought, fifty years later, that there would be other “no-go areas” in Europe?
President Erdogan of Turkey has vowed to teach “arrogant westerners” a lesson as he condemned Sweden for allowing the public burning of a copy of the Quran outside the central mosque in Stockholm.
The stunt by an Iraqi national has prompted condemnation from across the Islamic world. Protesters massed outside the Swedish embassy in Baghdad, while Morocco and Jordan followed Russia in recalling their ambassadors from Sweden.
The Dutch farmers’ party has called for a cap on asylum seekers in the Netherlands as polls predicted it would challenge the prime minister’s party to become the country’s strongest political force in a general election.
The Farmers-Citizen Movement (BBB) came from nowhere to become the largest party in all 12 Dutch provinces in regional elections in March after a campaign dominated by large-scale tractor protests against compulsory farm buy-outs to hit EU climate change targets.
The Catholic church in Germany has revealed it is losing followers like never before, with more than half a million people deciding to renounce their membership last year.
According to the Bonn-based German Bishops’ Conference, 522,821 people left the church in 2022, a number far surpassing predictions made by the institution itself and higher than most observers had expected. The previous record year for departures was in 2021, when just under 360,000 people left.
There is now a Chinese invasion of the U.S. homeland.
“The jungle is filled with Chinese marching to America,” said war correspondent Michael Yon to Gatestone.
Chinese migrants are entering the United States on foot at the southern border. Almost all are desperate, seeking a better life for themselves and their children. Some, however, are coming to commit acts of sabotage.
h/t kiki9
Netherlands programs have euthanized otherwise healthy individuals with autism and intellectual handicaps in recent years, researchers have found.
Five individuals under the age of 30, who cited autism as a factor in their decision to seek legal euthanasia, are among the cases reviewed by specialists at the U.K.’s Kingston University.
I’m sure Canada’s Suicide Saviors will top that shortly.
Police say a 24-year-old international University of Waterloo student has been charged in what they’re calling a hate-motivated triple stabbing during a gender studies class.
Waterloo Regional Police say Geovanny Villalba-Aleman faces three counts of aggravated assault, four counts of assault with a weapon and two counts of possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose.
Today’s edition of “get woke, go broke” covers Disney’s firing of all the remaining staffers at the child-grooming National Geographic.
Oh, what a shame. A magazine that promotes grooming and child mutilation is falling apart. Can I get a boo? Can I get hoo? Okay, how about a tee hee?
What a sad end.
OTTAWA—Google has followed fellow tech giant Meta in announcing it will block Canadian news content from its search engine in Canada after days of negotiations with the Liberal government hit an impasse over its recently passed online news bill.
“We have been saying for over a year that this is the wrong approach to supporting journalism in Canada and may result in significant changes to our products,” a blog post from Kent Walker, the company’s president of global affairs, read Thursday.
Chaos erupted at a Massachusetts courtroom during the first court appearance of a daycare worker accused of sending photos of naked children to a trans former politician.
Lindsay Groves, 38, appeared in court on Wednesday to face accusations that she took nude images of children aged three to five at the Creative Minds Early Learning Center in Tyngsboro, about 35 miles northwest of Boston.
Prosecutors say the New Hampshire resident took the photos in a private bathroom during breaks before nap time and texted them to someone ‘with whom she was previously in an intimate relationship’ and shared 2,500 texts with.
The Canadian government has quietly designated Ukraine and Latvia’s networks as “systems of importance,” extending the services of its cyber intelligence agency to cover the two eastern European countries.
According to the Communications Security Establishment’s annual report, Defence Minister Anita Anand signed two ministerial orders last year to bring the electronic information and network systems of Ukraine and Latvia under Canada’s defence umbrella.
The orders were signed on March 17, 2022, less than a month after Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
A nonbinary honor student who was accepted into a sorority at their private upstate New York college was later kicked out by its national headquarters reportedly over their identity in what the student alleged was an act of discrimination.
St. Lawrence University student Fabián “Fa” Guzmán, 22, said they were completely heartbroken when the Chi Omega national office informed them that it was revoking their membership at the beginning of Pride Month with no option to appeal the decision.
