U.S. wants Canada to take part in a global economic decoupling from China

If Joe Biden is right, one of the most consequential things for Canada’s economic future is happening right now.

The U.S. President just invited Canada to take part in a global economic decoupling, in a multination effort to repatriate critical supply chains away from authoritarian countries such as China. And Canada said yes.

Details are to come in Tuesday’s federal budget. What we know already is that Canada will follow the U.S. in establishing a major package of industrial subsidies. Those incentives are supposed to create the industrial base for a low-carbon future and bring jobs to North America. But it’s also supposed to separate supply chains from authoritarian countries.


Europe is up in arms about Joe’s plan. It will not work in our favour. Even the CBC reported Joe essentially relegating us to the role of hewers of wood and drawers of water noting he stated value added manufacturing will take place in the US.

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Israel judicial reform: Why is there a crisis?

Since the start of the year, huge weekly protests have been held by people opposed to the government’s reform plans. The scale of the protests has escalated, with hundreds of thousands of people packing the streets in Tel Aviv – Israel’s commercial capital – and other towns and cities across the country.

Protesters have called for the reforms to be scrapped and for the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to resign. His political rivals have spearheaded the protests, though the fierce opposition to the reforms has cut across political lines.

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GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau ignored foreign interference warnings from his own MPs

If Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was going to take seriously foreign interference in Canada’s democratic institutions, it would have happened after he received the Aug. 30, 2019 annual report of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians. (NSICOP)

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Kia Soul is launched 10 feet into the air after a loose wheel plows into it on LA freeway

A Kia Soul was launched 10 feet into the air while driving down a Los Angeles highway after a loose wheel from a widening pickup truck plowed into it.

The dramatic moment captured on dashcam video shows a Chevrolet Silverado driving down the road – just seconds before its front left wheel breaks free.

The loose wheel then rolled into the left lane, directly in front of the Kia, catapulting the car into the air and causing it to roll once before coming to a stop.

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Court misconstrued Charter when directing feds to bring Murderous Mohammedans who joined ISIS back to Canada says government

The Canadian government says a federal judge misinterpreted the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in directing officials to secure the release of four men from detention in northeastern Syria.

Government lawyers are set to stress that point in the Federal Court of Appeal Monday as they seek to overturn a January ruling by Federal Court Justice Henry Brown.

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At least 4 killed, including gunman, in Nashville school shooting: reports

Update – Woman shoots dead 3 children, 3 adults in Nashville school attack

 

At least three people were killed and the gunman was reported dead after a shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville on Monday.

“An active shooter event has taken place at Covenant School, Covenant Presbyterian Church, on Burton Hills Dr,” Nashville Police said in a tweet.

Twitter – Covenant School is a private, Christian school grades K-6

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2 + 2 = White Supremacy: How Woke Ideologues Corrupted Canada’s Math Curriculum

Two plus two no longer equals four, according to members of the Ontario Mathematics Coordinators Association (OMCA), who consider the equation to be a white-supremacist dog whistle instead of a basic mathematical truth.

According to a webinar created by OMCA president Jason To, proponents of math’s political neutrality who use the phrasing “2 + 2 = 4” are engaged in an act of “Covert White Supremacy.”

Has the Ford government done anything to counter this lunacy?

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Conservatives have softened China stance since riding losses in 2021 election, critics say

Pierre Poilievre’s venture into the Greater Toronto Area’s Chinese community in January was in some ways a standard bit of politicking.

He broke bread with community leaders, answered questions from Chinese-language news media and even said a few words in Chinese, an unremarkable outreach to an important block of ethnic voters.

More notable were some of the others at the meetings.


Don’t expect Poilievre to renounce these tainted relationships. We really are a Banana Republic.

Han Dong to sue!

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Swimmer Riley Gaines slams ESPN for honoring ‘arrogant cheat’ trans athlete Lia Thomas in Women’s History Month special

ESPN has been condemned by a former champion college swimmer for including transgender swimmer Lia Thomas in their segment devoted to Women’s History Month, describing the company as ‘spineless’ and tweeting the hashtag ‘Boycott ESPN’.

Riley Gaines swam for the University of Kentucky, ending her college career in 2022 as ‘one of the most decorated swimmers in program history,’ according to the UK website. She became a 12-time NCAA All-American swimmer and a five-time SEC champion.

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More Canadians Filing for Insolvency, More Businesses Declaring Bankruptcy

The number of insolvent Canadians skyrocketed by 33 percent on a year-over-year basis in January 2023, according to a new report, which blames rising inflation and high interest rates for the jump.

The Canadian Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Professionals (CAIRP) released a report on March 1 indicating that 8,735 consumer insolvencies were filed in January.

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Olivia Chowcescu confirms she’s considering mayoral run

Olivia Chow is confirming a Star report that she is pondering a run for mayor, saying Toronto can be “so much better.”

The former NDP MP and city councillor responded in a brief statement, on Sunday, to Star inquiries about her potential mayoral candidacy.

“I want to let you know I am considering running. I love this city and I know it can be so much better — for everyone,” wrote Chow, would become one of the highest profile candidates in the forming, crowded race to replace John Tory.


At least I have a headstart on campaign material from her last and thankfully unsuccessful run. 

If Chowcescu gets in Toronto’s death spiral into fiscal and criminal depravity will only accelerate.

The good news as successive defeats have shown is that she no longer rides on Jack’s coattails.

The woman is a perma-class parasite, all career politicians are.

I wonder if she travels in the same circles Justin and his pals do.

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CRTC-mandated rate cut won’t lower consumers’ internet bills, independent ISPs say

Independent internet service providers say customers should not expect to see their bills go down despite a recent move by Canada’s telecom regulator to reduce network rates.

In early March, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission launched a review of the rates that independent ISPs must pay to the big telecom companies for access to the networks they own. The review is part of a wider effort to increase competition in the sector and slow the spate of incumbents’ acquisitions of independent ISPs over the last two years.

We are so ripped off.

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