Why do some Canadians bristle at the suggestion that recent reporting on foreign interference in our democracy encourages racism?
Setting aside partisan point-scoring, let’s assume that the reason is an inability to see how genuine concern about foreign interference could be construed as racist.
The New York Times and USA Today complied with radical gender ideology by apologizing for correctly identifying the Nashville Christian School shooting suspect as a woman.
More … Here Are Leftists’ Disgusting Reactions To The Horrific Nashville Christian School Shooting
While Ford did not mention anyone by name, it appeared to be a veiled shot at councillors Josh Matlow and Brad Bradford — and a tacit endorsement of former Toronto police chief Mark Saunders.
“There’s a couple of candidates that are running, they’re sitting councillors that voted to defund the police,” the premier told reporters Tuesday at Pearson International Airport.
“The people that voted for defund the police, don’t vote for them. Simple as that,” he said.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Migrants fearing deportation set mattresses ablaze at an immigration detention center in northern Mexico, starting a fire that killed at least 40 people, the president said Tuesday, in one of the deadliest events ever at a Mexican immigration lockup.
Hours after the fire broke out late Monday, rows of bodies were laid out under shimmery silver sheets outside the facility in Ciudad Juarez, which is across from El Paso, Texas, and a major crossing point for migrants. Ambulances, firefighters and vans from the morgue swarmed the scene.
The CBC’s coverage of the China interference scandal has often been questionable and partisan. Though its unsurprising that the organization has chosen to act, yet again, as the Liberals’ state-funded PR wing, its recent decision to platform an apologist for Beijing’s genocide against the Uyghurs is a new low.
When Lotte Mies went topless at an indoor swimming pool in the Berlin district of Kaulsdorf last December, she was asked to either cover her chest or leave the pool. The 33-year-old activist had already called ahead to check with staff that she could go topless and was told it would not be a problem. But when she refused to cover up, the police were called and Mies was forced to leave.
“It was more than humiliating for me that day and it really wasn’t nice to be treated like a second-class citizen on the basis of my gender and not to be able to decide for myself how to [present] my own body,” Mies told DW.
What could possibly go wrong?
For more than 25 years of writing columns and making media appearances, I’ve often discussed the importance of controlling the political narrative. It’s a key component for successful governments, and an art form unto itself.
The narrative is the messaging, or series of events, pertaining to a particular issue, policy, event, or controversy. There are times when it’s been shaped by parties and leaders. There are moments where it naturally develops on its own. No matter how it evolves, it’s always incumbent on the government to ensure the narrative points in their general direction for as long and as often as possible.
The first British Challenger 2 battle tanks have arrived in Ukraine, in a major boost for its armoured forces ahead of a planned spring offensive.
“Today, I had the honour to try out the newest addition to our armed units, particularly Challengers from the UK,” Oleksii Reznikov, the Ukraine defence minister, said.
A Challenger 2 was pictured alongside several other recently donated armoured vehicles including an American Stryker infantry carrier and a German Marder.
#Ukraine: New Western equipment was transferred to the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces – including 🇬🇧 Challenger 2 tanks, 🇺🇸 Stryker armored personnel carriers, 🇩🇪 Marder infantry fighting vehicles, 🇺🇸 Cougar MRAP vehicles and 🇨🇦 Roshel Senator armored cars. pic.twitter.com/qgu96nQAuV
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) March 27, 2023
German Leopard 2 tanks now in Ukraine, Berlin confirms
Germany’s much-awaited shipment of 18 Leopard 2 battle tanks has arrived in Ukraine, the German defence ministry has confirmed.
After months of prevaricating, the German government announced in late January it would provide Kyiv with the state-of-the-art fighting vehicles as part of a deal under which several EU states would contribute to a shipment of two Leopard 2 battalions and 31 American-made M1A2 Abrams tanks from the US.
The phrase “evidence-based decision-making” was used a lot during the pandemic by government officials. “Following the science” was another common one.
It’s strange, then, that a government claiming to believe so deeply in rational thought has placed unverifiable spiritual belief at the core of how it judges the environmental impact of energy and other natural resources and infrastructure projects — and has shielded those beliefs from Canada’s transparency laws.
An increased number of potentially violent individuals from abroad are expected to infiltrate the ranks of those protesting against President Macron’s pension reforms during the latest round of strikes and marches, Paris’s police chief has warned.
“What poses a problem for us is the pre-cortege, these individuals who come in front of the trade union procession,” Laurent Nunez, the president of Paris’s prefecture de police, told Radio France.
🔴 La place de la #République et le bd #Voltaire, à #Paris
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— TV YÉ ! (@tvyefr) March 28, 2023
JUST IN – Police release footage of officers neutralizing the transgender shooter who killed multiple children and teachers at a Christian school in Nashville yesterday.pic.twitter.com/TqH0bd4Imc
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) March 28, 2023
The US has accused former FTX chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried of paying a $40mn bribe to one or more Chinese government officials in a revised indictment filed in federal court in Manhattan on Tuesday.
Prosecutors allege Bankman-Fried sent the bribe in cryptocurrency to Chinese officials in order to regain access to trading accounts that had been frozen by law enforcement in the country. The accounts were linked to Alameda Research, FTX’s sister company.
The new bribery charge was added to twelve counts already faced by the former FTX chief, whose exchange collapsed in November last year after it was unable to meet a wave of withdrawal demands from customers.
Maybe wonderboy will do serious time. Maybe.
Two women have been stabbed to death at a Muslim religious centre in the Portuguese capital Lisbon, police say.
The attack took place at the Ismaili Centre on Avenida Lusíada. The suspect, who was in possession of a large knife, was shot in the leg by police.
He was then detained and has been taken to hospital. The motive for the attack is not yet clear.
Police said they received a call at about 11:00 local time after the suspect entered the centre.
Officers asked the suspect to stop the attack, but he disobeyed and was shot.
Speaking to SIC Notícias, the leader of the Ismaili community Nazim Ahmad said the attacker was Afghan and the two victims were Portuguese women.
NB: It may be an honor killing – Attack on Ismaili Center: It was not a terrorist attack, but an “honor crime”
Authorities are still investigating the motives that led a man aged around 40 to enter the Ismaili Center in Lisbon and attack the people there. At least two people died , two Ismaili women, one in their 20s and the other in their 40s. SIC commentator, Daniel Pinéu, believes that it was not a sectarian attack, nor a terrorist attack.
Daniel Pinéu argues that the contours of this attack lead to the theory that it could be a crime with personal motivations, especially taking into account the identity of the fatal victims, two Ishmaelite women.
Elsewhere…
Eight Mohammedans arrested in Belgium over alleged terrorist plot
Eight people were arrested in Brussels and Antwerp as part of an anti-terrorist operation on Monday evening, the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office has confirmed. Those close to the investigation told RTBF that the detainees “seemed determined to carry out a terrorist attack.”
… Among those detained, some of the individuals have been known to police for being radical Islamic extremists, two of whom were already under the police’s radar as a potential risk. Initially, the arrests had been conducted separately until investigators found a link between the violent men, as well as the other six radicals.
China’s furtive efforts to affect policy and raise its stature worldwide achieved some of its greatest successes in Utah — a deeply religious and conservative state seemingly a world away from the machinations of Beijing’s Communist government, the Associated Press reported Monday.
For years, China and its affiliates in the US have worked behind-the-scenes to cultivate relationships with state and local officials and lawmakers, connections that have allowed Beijing to delay legislation it didn’t like and ditch resolutions that expressed dissatisfaction with its actions.
The important role pets play in families who are separating is being addressed in proposed amendments to British Columbia’s Family Law Act.
Attorney-General Niki Sharma says amendments she introduced in B.C.’s legislature will clarify the law around pets, property and pensions for couples and families going through a separation or divorce.
