A school district in California is under fire for posting a woke video condemning negative attitudes toward junk food and suggesting people should be less judgmental about food.
Majority of Canadians want referendum on monarchy ties after queen’s death: poll
Nearly 60 per cent of Canadians want a referendum held to determine whether the country stays tied to the British monarchy, a new poll suggests — despite nearly equal support both for and against preserving those ties.
The Ipsos poll, conducted exclusively for Global News just days after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, found support for a referendum on the future of the monarchy has gone up since last year, from 53 per cent in 2021 to 58 per cent today.
Former bigwig in outlawed Palestinian terrorist group wins yet another chance to stay in Canada
It once seemed inevitable that Issam Al Yamani would be sent packing. He was ordered deported from Canada 17 years ago for being an important member an outlawed Palestinian terrorist group; Ottawa said the country could neither be a retirement home for former terrorists or allow sleeper cells to fester.
Why Canadian liberals cling on to monarchy
Republicanism has become a conservative cause
Will there be a Commonwealth left for King Charles III to rule over? In the week since his mother’s death, officials in Jamaica and Antigua and Barbuda have publicly questioned whether their countries should join the ranks of Barbados, which became a republic last year. In the former settler colonies of Australia and New Zealand, Prime Ministers Anthony Albanese and Jacinda Ardern (both professed republicans) have paid their respects to Elizabeth II — yet it appears that emboldened republican movements could gain momentum in their time in office.
Ottawa responds to UN pressure about well-being of Canadian detained in Syria
The federal government has told United Nations officials that international human rights law does not obligate Canada to actively facilitate the return of its citizens detained in northern Syria.
Ottawa says that instead, the duty of respecting international conventions largely falls on the foreign state that is holding people captive.
Canada spells out its view in an Aug. 24 response to UN officials who pressed Ottawa about the case of Jack Letts.
Fury as The Lancet sensationally claims Covid may have leaked from an AMERICAN lab – echoing anti-western claims peddled by Beijing
The Lancet, one of the world’s most prestigious medical journals, has sensationally claimed Covid may have leaked out of a US lab.
Unveiling the results of a two-year investigation into the origins of the pandemic, the magazine’s team tasked with uncovering the truth stated it was ‘plausible’ the virus could have emerged in America.
It echoes the rhetoric of Beijing’s disinformation crusade, which attempted to divert attention away from the infamous Wuhan site by pointing the finger at a military base in Maryland.
Sabrina Maddeaux: Green Party misgendering kerfuffle may be its death knell
For a quick minute, it looked as though the Green Party of Canada might claw its way out of the rabbit hole it dug when Annamie Paul, one of its top assets — and the first Black Canadian and first Jewish woman to lead a federal political party in Canada — was essentially chased out of its ranks.
Continental Breakfast (Open Thread)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCiwnRTdrRk
I’m making chili, both con carne and fake-non-carne. (But never soy-based, I consider it poison.) My Hindu friend is a vegetarian, although she does not impose that on her kids, let alone her husband.
Marco Pierre White has a sort of Hannibal Lector quality. Or he gives off the vibe of having been to a parallel universe and seen things you people wouldn’t believe. They say he once reduced Ramsay to tears. The comments after his YouTube videos are usually worth reading. Apparently, though, he’s the nicest guy in real life. Unlike many celebrities he allegedly treats his fans like human beings. (And Knorr is great, so don’t be all la-di-da.)
Anyway chili con carne is always something people have opinions about. So have at it. (I do like Marco’s chocolate tip.)
Any tips or links or rants or observations or musings etc. welcome in the comments.
McDonald‘s CEO Urges Chicago to Fight Crime: ‘Our City Is in Crisis‘
McDonald’s plans to move its innovation center into central Chicago, but CEO Chris Kempczinski voiced concern Wednesday about plaguing crime.
“We are betting on Chicago in the long term because we think it makes good business sense,” Kempczinski stated during an event hosted by the Economic Club of Chicago, Bloomberg reported.
How the Catholic Church Became a Defender of Islam
And misled Christians in the process.
In the late 1930s Catholic historian Hillaire Belloc wrote:
It [Islam] is, as a fact, the most formidable and persistent enemy which our civilization has had and may at any moment become as large a menace in the future as it has been in the past…
It seemed an unlikely prediction. At the time, the Islamic world was practically moribund. A comeback did not seem to be in the cards. Yet, Belloc was proved right. Within four decades, Islam was once again a power to be reckoned with.
The rise and fall of the hate-crime hoax
Why so many people lie about being victims of racial hatred.
It’s been a bad week for the racial grift in the US. The myth of white supremacy has taken some serious blows. First, a student’s claim that she and other black volleyball players were ‘racially heckled’ by opposing fans has been exposed as bunkum. Rachel Richardson, who plays volleyball for Duke University, claimed that fans of Brigham Young University’s volleyball team subjected her and her black teammates to racial slur after racial slur during a clash on 26 August. The media lapped it up. ‘The racism on display at Brigham Young… fits a historical pattern’, said a headline at MSNBC. A CNN host said it is terrible that black student athletes must ‘[endure] racial slurs’. The basketball team at the University of South Carolina said it would stop playing sports altogether with racist BYU.
Google Deepmind Researcher Co-Authors Paper Saying AI Will Eliminate Humanity
After years of development, AI is now driving cars on public roads, making life-changing assessments for people in correctional settings, and generating award-winning art. A longstanding question in the field is whether a superintelligent AI could break bad and take out humanity, and researchers from the University of Oxford and affiliated with Google DeepMind have now concluded that it’s “likely” in new research.
h/t DM
The rape of America’s century-old hardwood forests… stripped bare to provide wood pellets for European energy plants – in a deluded bid to meet climate goals
Environmentalists warn that hundreds of thousands of acres of forest are being torn down each year in the U.S. southeast to make wood pellets to fuel European power plants in a deluded bid to fight climate change.
The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) and other groups say logging in woodlands stretching from Texas to Virginia is ravaging a biodiversity hotspot, including century-old hardwood trees that will take decades to replace.
More than two dozen pellet mills operate across the so-called North American Coastal Plain, which has already lost some 70 percent of its historic vegetation thanks in part to a $11 billion global industry that is set to grow to $20.5 billion by 2030.
The Search for Intelligent Life Is About to Get a Lot More Interesting
There are an estimated 100 billion galaxies in the universe, home to an unimaginable abundance of planets. And now there are new ways to spot signs of life on them.
When the space shuttle Atlantis lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center on Oct. 18, 1989, it carried the Galileo in its cargo bay. Arrayed with scientific instruments, Galileo’s ultimate destination was Jupiter, where it would spend years in orbit collecting data and taking pictures. After it left the shuttle, though, Galileo headed in the other direction, turning toward the sun and circling around Venus, in order to slingshot around the planet and pick up speed for its journey to the outer solar system. Along the way, it flew around Earth too — twice, in fact, at altitudes of 597 and 188 miles. This gave its engineering team an opportunity to test the craft’s sensors. The astronomer Carl Sagan, a member of Galileo’s science team, called the maneuver the first flyby in our planet’s history. It also allowed him to contemplate what a spacecraft might find when looking at a far-off planet for signs of intelligent life.
Russia calls Queen’s funeral snub ‘profoundly immoral’ and ‘blasphemous’
Russia has described the decision not to invite its representatives to the Queen’s funeral as “profoundly immoral” and “blasphemous”.
Leaders and dignitaries from around the world have been invited to the late monarch’s state funeral, but Russia’s Vladimir Putin and others were snubbed.