Alberta’s minister of labour and immigration thanks ‘freedom convoys’ for mobilizing against Ottawa’s ‘tyrannical’ pandemic policies

Alberta’s minister of labour and immigration has taken to social media to criticize Ottawa’s “tyrannical” pandemic travel restrictions and thank “freedom convoys” for their efforts against them.

In a tweet responding to news about the federal government potentially ending COVID-19 border requirements, Kaycee Madu said the measure was “never was about science but about political control and power.”

“Thanks to all those citizens, freedom convoys, who had the courage to mobilize against these tyrannical policies,” read the remark on Madu’s Twitter account on Tuesday.

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Canadian senator sent documents to Afghan family that weren’t authentic, Ottawa says

In the final days of a chaotic and inadequate government effort to rescue people from the Taliban last summer, Senator Marilou McPhedran and one of her staff members sent travel documents to a family attempting to flee Afghanistan. The documents, called facilitation letters, were supposed to help the Afghans bypass checkpoints that had been set up around Kabul’s airport, so they could catch one of the last evacuation flights out of the country.

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Canada not following suit with other nations’ inflation-busting relief measures: CTF

Canada is falling behind its peers when giving their residents a break from rising cost of living, according to a new report by a government watchdog group.

Released Wednesday, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation report accuses Canada of hiking taxes and making life unaffordable, while 51 other countries have taken steps to provide relief for its taxpayers.

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‘I’d rather leave than fight’: Russians react to Putin’s draft

Alexander, 33, found out about Vladimir Putin’s decision to order a partial mobilisation during an emotional call from his wife.

“Sasha, they can take you,” she told him shortly after he’d arrived at his office in downtown Moscow.

While Alexander had served in the army as a conscript nearly 15 years ago, he never saw combat. That puts him comparatively low in the mobilisation draft, Russia’s first since the second world war.

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Terry Glavin: Mahsa Amini’s death epitomizes the depravity of Iran’s theocratic regime

Mahsa Amini. That was her name. Say it out loud wherever you happen to be standing. Shout it from a busy street corner in Toronto. Say it to your fellow passengers on a bus in Vancouver. Say her name to yourself, quietly. Say it now, as you read this. It’s pointless, but do it anyway. Just say her name: Mahsa Amini.

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Revealed: the deep-rooted culture of corruption and bribery at the Olympics

A leading sports official has spoken of an endemic culture of bribery and corruption in the Olympic movement, claiming he was involved in paying bribes to committee members to secure taekwondo’s place at the Games as well as handing out $500,000 in cash to rig an election.

In an interview with The Times, the official has detailed a culture in which payments were made in exchange for gold medals in World Championship and Olympic boxing. He says bribes of as much as $1 million were demanded to guarantee Olympic boxing gold at Athens 2004, and that Azerbaijan paid $10 million in the form of a loan after being offered a gold medal at London 2012. He also has photographic evidence of cash he was offered to fix World Championship bouts.

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Key Dossier Source Confirms He Was Paid by FBI for Years

A key source for the anti-Donald Trump dossier paid for by Democrats has confirmed that he was on the FBI’s payroll for years.

Igor Danchenko, who provided information to dossier author Christopher Steele, “was a vital source of information to the U.S. government during the course of his cooperation and was relied upon to build other cases and open other investigations,” lawyers for Danchenko said in a filing lodged in federal court in Virginia.

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The Queen was left ‘hurt and exhausted’ by Harry and Meghan’s decision to leave The Firm

The Queen was left ‘hurt and exhausted’ by Harry and Meghan’s decision to step down as senior members of the Royal Family and move to the US, a royal book has claimed.

In The New Royals – Queen Elizabeth’s Legacy and the Future of the Crown, author Katie Nicholl says a source close to Her late Majesty claimed she didn’t like to think about the Duke and Duchess’s decision to leave the family.

An extract of the book, which has been published in Vanity Fair, has revealed the Queen was also disappointed when Harry and Meghan didn’t return to the UK in August with Archie and Lilibet, where she was hosting an annual ‘sleepover’ in Sandringham with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

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Top Foreign Funder Of Transnational Terrorism Funds Think Tank That Staffs Democrat Presidential Administrations

American policy makers, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies often rely on U.S.-based think tanks for research and policy recommendations. While many institutions produce academic products with intellectual sovereignty and moral integrity, too many receive undisclosed foreign funding from countries hostile to the United States and our interests.

Funding from these countries is generally associated with a quid pro quo. For this funding, the think tank provides analysis that is less than objective, which may lead to devastating international and national security consequences.

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Putin is the one escalating the war in Ukraine

Blaming the West or NATO for this dreadful conflict is shameful.

Russia has now escalated its war of aggression in Ukraine.

In a scratchy, delayed speech delivered on Wednesday morning, Russian president Vladimir Putin announced a ‘partial mobilisation’, which will initially swell the ranks of Russia’s depleted infantry with 300,000 reservists. And, predictably, he waved his nuclear weapons at those who threaten ‘the territorial integrity of our Motherland’.

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Is Choosing Death Too Easy in Canada?

Since the government expanded the eligibility for assisted death last year to include those with disabilities, critics have been saying there should be more checks and balances.

CALGARY, Alberta — The first time Cheryl Romaire tried to end her life under Canada’s assisted suicide law, her application was rejected. But after a loosening of the law, she received approval to end her life — and she now intends to do just that.

“It felt like a weight had been lifted off my chest,” Ms. Romaire said recently, as one of her cats and a dog competed for her attention at her apartment in Calgary, Alberta.

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Remake of ‘Wizard of Oz’ Will Have LGBTQ ‘Representation’

Somewhere over the Rainbow, there’s a place where bluebirds sing, troubles melt like lemon drops, and I don’t have to write another gol durned story about idiots trying to hijack a cultural icon to make a silly point about LGBTQ people being “just like us.” We’re informed by Variety that Warner Brothers has decided to remake a film that will never be equaled or duplicated and, just to annoy me and others on the right, it will feature some kind of LGBTQ “representation.”

I hope a twister hits the set.

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Researchers Say It’ll Be Impossible to Control a Super-Intelligent AI

The idea of artificial intelligence overthrowing humankind has been talked about for decades, and in 2021, scientists delivered their verdict on whether we’d be able to control a high-level computer super-intelligence. The answer? Almost definitely not.

The catch is that controlling a super-intelligence far beyond human comprehension would require a simulation of that super-intelligence which we can analyze (and control). But if we’re unable to comprehend it, it’s impossible to create such a simulation.

H/T DM

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Duhaime & Poilievre: Quebec’s new conservative dynamic duo

What do Montreal’s Anglophones have in common with Quebec City’s Francophones? More than you might think. Anglo Quebecers are hybrids. Their attitudes are often closer to those of Francophone Quebeckers than those of Anglophones in the ROC. This can also hold true of their political persuasion.

There are growing signs many will vote for the fledgling Conservative Party of Québec. Pollsters predict Quebecers will elect a CAQ majority government on Oct. 3. However, how both groups vote could reverberate until the next federal election.

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Excess deaths keep rising across EU

The latest figures from July show 15% more deaths than normal

EU excess deaths reached new highs in the month of July 2022, the latest EU figures show. Excess mortality hit +15.8% — equivalent to 53,000 excess deaths — compared to the same month in the years 2016-2019. This figure marks a steep rise from June and May 2022, both of which were around 7%.

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