A major Canadian university has stripped former B.C. representative for children and youth Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond of an honorary degree.
In a Monday statement, the University of Regina said it had rescinded an honorary doctor of laws degree it bestowed on Turpel-Lafond in 2003.
The school said the decision came following a request from the Indigenous Women’s Collective to revoke such degrees.
On the one-year anniversary of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act, anticipation is building for the release of the national inquiry’s report into the historic series of events surrounding the powers used to end “Freedom Convoy” Ottawa occupation and Canada-U.S. border blockades.
So far, the occasion is being marked in a muted way on Parliament Hill, where Wellington Street remains closed to vehicle traffic and is devoid of “Freedom Convoy” protesters, a marked change from this time last year when the street was jammed with transport trucks, inflatables, and numerous anti-Trudeau and anti-vaccine signs.
An increase in the pace at which sea levels are rising threatens “a mass exodus of entire populations on a biblical scale”, the UN secretary general has warned.
The climate crisis is causing sea levels to rise faster than for 3,000 years, bringing a “torrent of trouble” to almost a billion people, from London to Los Angeles and Bangkok to Buenos Aires, António Guterres said on Tuesday. Some nations could cease to exist, drowned under the waves, he said.
Wow what an hysteric.
The Stanislaus County, Calif., Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) is running a hilarious advertisement that encourages jilted lovers to get revenge by turning in their wanted ex. The exciting romantic offer is presented by Lts. Dave Mullins and Tom Letras, who go by Dave and Tom in the ad.
It’s been more than 16 years since a left-of-centre candidate won a mayoral election in Toronto, but political organizers on that side of the spectrum believe the circumstances are ripe for a progressive to get into the mayor’s chair.
Mayor John Tory intends to stay in his post at least through Wednesday’s budget meeting at city council, but has said he will resign over what he called a lapse in judgment, a relationship with one of his staff members.
This opens up the prospect of an election for mayor at a yet-to-be-determined date in the coming months.
The fiery derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals along the Ohio-Pennsylvania line last week spewed more harmful pollutants into the air, surface soils and water table than originally reported, fresh data made available Monday suggests.
FUCK JOE BIDEN!!! pic.twitter.com/th2GZMHDK9
— il Donaldo Trumpo (@PapiTrumpo) February 14, 2023
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s tagline “everything feels broken” elicits indignant eyerolls and denials from Liberals, but scathing new testimony from Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Yves Giroux adds credibility to the claim.
On Tuesday, Giroux spoke to the Senate Finance Committee, delivering a series of what Politico called “sick burns” to paint a picture of a Liberal government and public service mired in dysfunction and old-fashioned laziness.
Ontario Court of Appeal denies lesser sentences for Indigenous men in meth dealing case
The Ontario Court of Appeal has rejected a father-son meth dealing team’s request for a sentencing reduction based on their Indigenous background, ruling that deterrence comes before consideration of historical oppression for those convicted of serious drug crimes.
The ruling – upholding seven-year jail sentences for both the father and son – is the latest to consider how the particular circumstances of Indigenous offenders should affect everything from sentences to bail to what a jury is permitted to hear about the accused during a trial.
Elon Musk, the libertarian billionaire who drives progressives all over the world crazy, has just written that we live in a disturbing middle ground between Orwell’s 1984, Huxley’s Brave Brave New World and Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.
Without mentioning the Nazis and the Soviets, Islamic regimes have problems with books. Erdogan’s Turkey has replaced Shakespeare and Brecht in state theaters with Turkish authors. He also threatened books by William S. Burroughs and “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck with censorship. A cache of half a million books was discovered in a hangar in Tehran, including Orwell’s “Animal Farm”, George Bernard Shaw and Albert Camus, Homer’s “Iliad”. They were not liked by the Islamic Revolution, which had seized them.
OTTAWA – Russia’s ambassador in Ottawa claims Canada is unsafe for his compatriots to visit.
“Canada today is a very dangerous country for Russian citizens,” Oleg Stepanov said in a Russian-language interview last Friday.
“I would not recommend it for tourism, education or business.”
Now if he said Canada was a stupid country citing Trudeau as proof I would have no choice but to agree with him.
John Tory’s professed resignation as mayor of Toronto after news of an extramarital affair with a younger member of his staff is on a slow roll, which is far from the impetus it first seemed to have.
His office now says Tory is staying on to nurse his budget through city council, while some publicly urge him to reconsider stepping down.
Could it be that the seemingly strait-laced, straight-faced politician who bounced into office in the wake of the scandalous and embarrassing charade of former mayor Rob Ford’s tenure is staying put?
I hate to say it as I am no fan but maybe it is better Tory stays on.
It’s a case of the Devil you know.
Under Tory’s tenure Toronto has begun to sink into sh&thole status.
The city annually raises taxes then wastes money coddling the “communities” that spawn most of our crime and funds all sorts of racist identity politics scams with bonus points for explicitly making white folks the target.
Transit is a homeless camp, if you drive you’re the enemy, all services in general continue to deteriorate, drug lords live in public housing and the police always have better things to do than worry about your stolen car. And if you complain you’re a racist.
So yes Toronto is well underway to becoming San Francisco north.
But under Tory we will become San Francisco at a slower pace than is to be expected under his rivals.
That’s it, that’s the only bright spot. Toronto like all Liberal-Left cities pathologically shits where it eats.
Tory may help preserve the real estate market long enough for you to sell and get out of Dodge.
He should rehire his floozie too. Why not?
Things to come in TO…
An ambulance on an emergency call is blocked by a bollard in a Low Traffic Neigbourhood. pic.twitter.com/NKMZB2pbPY
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) February 14, 2023
For recipients, it’s a lifeline. For liberal supporters, it shows how expanding government can make a difference. For conservatives, it’s a return to wasteful welfare handouts.
The Canadian Heritage Ministry will change its contractor vetting process, it said at an inquiry Monday, after it had to cancel a contract with an organization accused of antisemitism. The contract was under the purview of the ministry’s anti-racism initiatives.
The inquiry found that other government departments had awarded multiple contracts to the same organization and that the heritage ministry has had to call in a third-party collection agency to try to get back funds already paid out for the contract.
Murderers, bomb plotters and would-be suicide bombers are among 53 foreign terrorists whose deportation is being blocked by European human rights laws, a Mail on Sunday investigation today reveals.
In one extraordinary case, an Islamic State member from Bangladesh who was jailed for attempting to recruit new members in Birmingham has successfully blocked his deportation because he would lose access to free NHS healthcare.
Another terrorist, an Iranian who had ingredients for a bomb in his garage in Surrey, has managed to stay in Britain by claiming he suffers from depression.
