An Afghan national, brought to the United States as part of President Joe Biden’s massive resettlement operation over the last year, has been charged with violently attacking and sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
The ‘freedom convoy’ will keep driving our politics
The so-called “freedom convoy” that blocked Parliament Hill and several Canada-U.S. border crossings may have dispersed earlier this year, but it won’t be leaving our political conversation anytime soon. At least, not if opponents of the federal Conservative Party and their new leader, Pierre Poilievre, have anything to say about it.
The most recent polling Ipsos conducted for Global News shows why.
Canada’s merger laws let companies ‘extinguish competitive threats,’ new report says
Lax merger laws in Canada underestimate the harm to competition caused by mergers and overestimate their benefits, a new report says.
Gaps in Canada’s merger laws have failed to prevent the kind of acquisitions that allow big firms to “extinguish competitive threats and entrench their dominance,” according to the Centre for International Governance Innovation.
Canada is Crony Capitalism.
Regulating vehicle sales will make life even more unaffordable for Canadians
Canadians are facing a cost-of-living crisis due to soaring prices for everything from transportation to housing, clothing, and food. Nearly three in four Canadians report that rising prices are affecting their ability to meet day-to-day expenses.
Now life is about to get even more expensive for Canadians with the federal government’s plan to regulate vehicle sales.
Sales regulations restrict the gas-powered vehicles available to Canadians, no matter how fuel efficient or for what purpose they are needed. Given the price gap between gas-powered vehicles and zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs), that means low- and middle-income, rural, remote and Northern Canadians will bear the brunt of this misguided policy.
It’s the Star so ultimately the author believes EV’s will be our salvation by just throwing more money at them!
No mention of how these deadweights will be charged every evening of course. That’s funny given the Star just published an article about the extension granted the aged Pickering Nuclear station in light of anticipated power shortages.
Ontario minimum wage hike kicks in; most workers now make at least $15.50 per hour
Ontarians who make minimum wage are waking up to a raise.
Starting Saturday, the general minimum wage is up 50 cents to $15.50 per hour — a move announced by the Ford government in April.
This won’t happen again, the corporate and political class have conspired to flood the nation with immigrants in order to drives wages down.
Electric vehicles and the evacuation of Florida
Electric vehicles and hurricanes: the nightmare scenario is a mandated evacuation.
It is fortunate that as of the current moment, electric vehicles constitute only about 100,000, out of nearly 8 million vehicles registered to drive on Florida’s roads. What if they all were electric, the (impractical) dream dream of greenies?
Depending on how heavily loaded they were, even assuming everyone had a full battery charge, cars from southern Florida would start running out of juice after 100 – 250 miles. They would then have to spend hours at recharging stations, which would rapidly be clogged with other cars and trucks ….
Those cars that ran out of juice on the highway would block traffic. Even assuming that emergency service vehicles could get to them (unlikely if the entire fleet were electric cars), towing a portable generator (powered by fossil fuels, of course) …
h/t Tom_Billesley
Overflowing garbage, broken transit, decrepit ferries — Toronto, can’t we do better?
There’s a labyrinth installation in the little Trinity Square Park tucked behind the Eaton Centre — a winding path to “quiet the mind,” in the heart of Toronto’s hustle and bustle. If you visited it in late September, and wandered through its meandering route, you’d have ultimately come to the centre — the heart of your meditative journey, perhaps, the moment of enlightenment — only to be tripped up when you encountered a gaping jagged hole where bricks forming the path were missing, covered in caution tape.
Aha. If you were contemplating the state of Toronto on your journey, you’d have found a piece of the answer: stuff is falling apart.
Toronto has a lot working against it. For starters it’s run by progressives for progressives.
Its schools are so progressive in fact that menstruating girls are segregated for being impure during in-school Islamic prayer rituals. Just like in Progressive Iran where women are murdered for removing their hijabs. Contrary to the the city’s motto diversity is not a strength, it is a recipe for a low trust society.
Progressives know how to waste money on worthless endeavors. John Tory is great at proclaiming Left-Handed Vegan Transvestite Amputee Day but little else.
Toronto has 40,739 employees* most unionized. How they can’t fill potholes is beyond me. Maybe designating all pot holes as LGBTQ2S killers would result in better performance.
It won’t get better. Progressive cities only ever spiral into the dirt. Just check in with the residents of Portland or San Francisco. Taxes go up, services slide, crime rises, businesses leave and white flight follows.
* From the City of Toronto web site – The information above does not capture employees working in the City’s Agencies, Boards or Commissions (TTC, Police, Library, Association of Community Centres, etc.), Accountability Offices, or elected officials.
Mendicino says Alberta’s resistance to federal gun buyback plan is ‘reckless’ and ‘a political stunt’
Federal Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino is calling Alberta Justice Minister and Solicitor General Tyler Shandro’s plan to direct RCMP in the province not to enforce confiscations of prohibited firearms “reckless,” and is amounting it to “a political stunt” that won’t hold up.
On Sept. 26, Shandro made headlines when he announced he had advised the head of the RCMP in Alberta not to take officers off the streets for this purpose, citing a dispute clause in the Provincial Police Service Agreement— saying the “confiscation program” was not a priority.
Canada supports Ukraine’s bid to join NATO, Mélanie Joly says
OTTAWA—Russia’s war on Ukraine escalated sharply Friday after President Vladimir Putin illegally annexed four eastern Ukraine territories, prompting Kyiv to apply for fast-track membership in NATO and the U.S. and Canada to promise more support.
In Moscow, Putin renewed threats to use tactical nuclear weapons and blamed the West for sabotaging Russia-built undersea gas pipelines to Germany — an accusation the White House flatly rejected.
In Washington, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly condemned Putin’s latest moves, including “sham” votes this week that were “political theatre” to justify Friday’s “illegitimate” annexations.
Catholic Joe Biden Thinks He’s a Really Good Jew
On Friday, the White House hosted a Rosh Hashanah reception, marking the first time the Jewish new year was celebrated there. During his remarks, the Catholic Joe Biden made the bizarre quip that he went to Jewish services more than most of the Jews in the audience did.
Trans Army officer accused of conspiring with wife to provide medical info on senior military officers to Russia is released on home detention with NO BOND: Wife also free on $500,000 unsecured bond
The US Army’s first trans officer has been freed on home detention with no bond after being charged with conspiring with her wife to pass military secrets to Russia.
Major Jamie Lee Henry, 39, and Johns Hopkins doctor Anna Gabrielian, 36, were indicted of using their secret security clearance at North Carolina’s Fort Bragg to steal the records from the base’s hospital, according to the Department of Justice.
The pair are now both back home, with Gabrielian freed on a $500,000 unsecured bond.
Two more provinces join in opposition to buyback program that ‘unnecessarily targets lawful gun owners’
OTTAWA — Two more provinces are telling Ottawa they don’t want provincial police resources to be used for a proposed gun buyback program set to collect assault style firearms this fall.
US navy sailor acquitted of setting fire that destroyed $1.2bn warship
A military court judge on Friday acquitted a US navy sailor charged with intentionally setting a fire that destroyed a billion-dollar warship and injured dozens onboard.
During a nine-day trial at California’s Naval Base San Diego, military prosecutors argued that 21-year-old Ryan Mays ignited the USS Bonhomme Richard on purpose in the summer of 2020 because he was upset that he had dropped out of Navy Seal training.
Payroll taxes are taxes — and Trudeau shouldn’t be raising them
Political pundits are twisting themselves into pretzels arguing mandatory Canada Pension Plan and Employment Insurance payments are not a tax. They’re missing the point: the government is taking too much money from Canadians.
Russian military showing increased frailty in Ukraine war -British military chief
WASHINGTON, Sept 30 (Reuters) – Russia’s mobilization has exposed the mounting pressure the Kremlin is under as its armed forces show signs of “increased weakness and frailty” in the war in Ukraine, Britain’s Chief of Defense Staff Admiral Sir Tony Radakin said on Friday.
“There are pressure points. There is some brittleness to the Russian armed forces,” Radakin told a small group of reporters in Washington.
But Radakin cautioned that the conflict was slow-moving, with Ukraine poised to take further, incremental advantage of Russian “pressure points.” He did not predict any sudden Russian battlefield collapse.
#Ukraine: A Russian T-72B3 tank was taken out by an ATGM fired by the Ukrainian 95th Brigade in the vicinity of Olhivka, #Kharkiv Oblast. pic.twitter.com/tHmbWtkXsP
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) September 30, 2022