Canada is dangerously divided. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s aggressive federalism is to blame.
When Stephen Harper was prime minister, he practised passive federalism. Ottawa raised revenue and sent money to the provinces to help fund health care, education and other services. It did not try to impose programs or standards or taxes on provincial governments without their consent.
South Simcoe Police say two of their officers have died in the line of duty following a shooting in Innisfil, Ont. on Tuesday night.
The force said officers had responded to a report of a disturbance at a home in the area of 25th Sideroad and 9th Line at around 7:55 p.m.
They said the two responding officers were shot inside the home.
The Swanton Sector
Shortly before sunset, in the parking lot of a Montreal hotel, the smuggler asked Yazuri Martinez-Alvarez to pay the remaining $3,000 in cash while she sat in the back of a four-door pickup truck with three other men.
Her final payment was due only when the journey ended. But she didn’t argue. Instead, she handed over the money and watched the smuggler count it.
She remained in the truck until the sky darkened and the smuggler told her to leave her backpack behind. She could only carry her passport and cellphone. Baggage would make too much noise when they moved through the brush and might alert border police, the smuggler told her.
The Republican attorneys general of Louisiana and Missouri are accusing the Biden administration of having ‘worked hand-in-hand’ with social media giants to ‘censor’ news stories that reflect negatively on the White House.
‘Throughout this case, we have uncovered a disturbing amount of collusion between Big Tech and Big Government,’ Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry said in a statement on Monday.
‘This egregious attack on our First Amendment will be met with an equally full-hearted defense of the rights of the American people.’
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe has released a policy paper claiming the federal government’s environmental policies would cost the province $111 billion over 12 years and vowing to affirm and advance Saskatchewan’s “constitutional authority and autonomy within Canada.”
Moe released the paper, titled Drawing the Line: Defending Saskatchewan’s Economic Autonomy, during an event hosted by the Battlefords and District Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday afternoon.
The province released an analysis by the Ministry of Finance that says nine federal climate change policies will cost the Saskatchewan economy a combined $111 billion from 2023 to 2035.
Russian president said to have told tech billionaire nuclear strike was on the table if Ukraine refused to cede annexed territories
Elon Musk spoke directly with Vladimir Putin before tweeting a “peace plan” which would involve Ukraine permanently ceding illegally annexed territory to Russia, according to reports.
During the conversation, the Russian president is said to have told the tech billionaire that a nuclear strike was on the table if Ukraine refused to recognise Moscow’s annexation of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia as Putin demanded.
The alleged conversation was reported in an email sent to Eurasia Group subscribers on Tuesday by Ian Bremmer, the group’s founder. Mr Bremmer wrote that the Tesla CEO told him two weeks ago that Putin would accomplish his goals “no matter what.”
Candidates running for mayor and city council are not talking about Toronto’s crime problem.
But Toronto citizens are forced to live with — and are being victimized — by it.
This week, all eyes are on Ottawa as the Public Order Emergency Commission begins hearings into the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act. The government invoked the Act to put an end to the “Freedom Convoy” protests that paralyzed the city of Ottawa for three weeks and snarled border crossings at several points across the country this past February. Measures deployed included the physical removal of protesters and vehicles, as well as freezing the bank accounts of convoy supporters.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for a preemptive strike against Russia in a Thursday speech. “But what is important, I once again appeal to the international community, as I did before February 24 – we need pre-emptive strikes, so that they’ll know what will happen to them if they use nukes, and not the other way around,” he said. “Don’t wait for Russia’s nuclear strikes, and then say, ‘Oh, since you did this, take that from us!’ Reconsider the way you apply pressure. This is what NATO should do – reconsider the order in which it applies pressure [on Russia].”
In Bakhmut the AFU is actively repulsing PMC Wagner attacks. The enemy struggles to take terrain while sustaining huge losses. Already between 1200-2000 PMC Wagner soldiers died in the last 2-3 weeks during the Zaitseve offensive. pic.twitter.com/aPzswUxC04
— NOËL 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) October 11, 2022
In a recent interview for his Apple TV+ show, Jon Stewart asked the Arkansas attorney general why her state banned so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors, given that major medical associations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association endorse these treatments.
And that, right there, exposes how the Left has tried to control this debate.
The Chinese have a very long memory. And a strong sense of history.
If only Americans possessed both, for we would be able far better to understand the enormous consequences of the lethal drug abuse harming America from the massive quantities of death-dealing fentanyl being smuggled into our country, with its origins often a Chinese lab.
The Chinese know full well that a society’s addiction to drugs can unravel a proud nation, stripping away its very sovereignty. When opium was brought to China in the 1700s, the British quickly used the drug as a means of gaining an economic advantage over its new trading partner. The addiction to the drug was so explosive that the Chinese emperor eventually sought to ban it. When his military destroyed warehouses full of the drug, the British responded with a crushing naval attack that became known as a series of Opium Wars.
Interviews in Kraków offer a collective portrait of their experience.
Three weeks after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I arrived in Poland intending to volunteer, maybe by ladling soup for refugees or by unpacking boxes of humanitarian aid. Instead, I began a series of interviews with refugees in Kraków, Poland’s second-largest city, located just a few hours from the Ukrainian border.
By the time I arrived, Poland felt, if not quite like a country at war, certainly a nation poised to support a war. The trains and train stations overflowed with evacuees, mostly women and children. Volunteers in dayglow vests manned help points in train stations, bus depots, airports, and shopping malls. Blue and yellow flags were everywhere. Even local shopkeepers were stepping up. One convenience store I visited had posted a sign on a shopping cart: “Please take an item from your bag to help feed our Ukrainian visitors.”
Can democracy in the West survive its attenuation in the US and UK?
The countries we call Anglo-Saxon (Great Britain, the Commonwealth and the United States) have been known for centuries for their ability to govern themselves democratically, peacefully and efficiently. In the twenty-first century they have been doing less well.
Britain and America are both in dreadful straits politically, economically and socially. The implosion of Boris Johnson and the search for a satisfactory successor have revealed the leadership of the Tory Party as a hapless and embarrassing collection of mediocrities devoid of coherent ideas. Across the Atlantic, one of the two major parties is a gerontocracy at the top and a gang of urban guerrillas with Molotov cocktails at its base. The other was exhausted as a coherent force by the end of the 1990s and has, for a full generation now, effectively been two parties, neither able to kick free of the other.
A corner seems to have been turned, with Democrats and their media mouthpieces more and more openly realizing that Biden’s dementia is a problem. Perhaps it was his leaking via bigmouth racial demagogue Al Sharpton that he plans to run for re-election in 2024, which would be a disaster. His miserable track record as incumbent is bad enough, while his inability to handle himself in public speaking engagements has worsened. The now-infamous “Where’s Jackie” incident can’t be dismissed as a slip of the tongue.
Why so many Catholics are leaving.
Pope Francis recently called for a “Church open to everyone.” Nothing new here. The Church has always been open to everyone—including sinners. The Church has always acknowledged that it is “a Church of sinners.”
But when Francis says “open to everyone” he seems to have something else in mind. Traditionally, when Catholics spoke of a “Church of sinners” it was understood to mean repentant sinners: people who were sorry for their sins and were trying their best to sin no more.
