Men will represent women at a 3,000-delegate all-male gathering on Afghanistan’s future, a senior Taliban figure has said.
The meeting in Kabul on Thursday is the first major gathering of Islamic clerics and tribal elders since the Taliban seized power last August.
Critics and civil society groups said it will not have legitimacy if Afghan women, who number around 20 million, do not attend.
Politicians say their jobs are loathsome. But they’re part of the reason why
It’s probably a good thing Canada is avoiding a federal election for the next few years. It might take that long to find people willing to run for office.
All of the political news of late seems like a repeated warning label against the toxicity of a career in public life.
On Monday, it was B.C. Premier John Horgan who hopped on the exit ramp, announcing he no longer had the energy required to stay long-term in office. Though Horgan has emerged cancer-free from punishing radiation therapy earlier this year, the premier took a long hard look at his life and decided it needed to be politics-free as well.
Currently the goal of our put upon elected representatives seems our impoverishment. Few but they are better off since the Liberals were elected. Our mainstream political parties are an indistinguishable blob of entitlement hurt at the very suggestion they are not the objects of our unwavering admiration.
We need term limits. The bureaucracy has to be gutted and it’s predatory unions crushed, automation can easily handle the work most do anyway. That would be a great start.
SAANICH, B.C. — Multiple explosive devices were found in a vehicle related to the two suspects who were gunned down outside a bank in Saanich, B.C.
Saanich Chief Const. Dean Duthie said Wednesday an RCMP explosive disposal unit was able to transfer the devices from the vehicle to a local landfill and destroy them.
I say again…This level of commitment is not typical of everyday garden variety bank robbers. I suggest they may be linked to the Coastal Gas terror attack.
There’s something crucial missing: an explanation from RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki. It can’t wait much longer.
The allegation that the Liberal government pressured the RCMP to release information about the investigation into the Nova Scotia shootings of April 18 to 19, 2020, in order to advance their gun-control agenda is now boiling down to two increasingly irreconcilable versions of events – with Commissioner Lucki in between.
We need the commissioner to come forward, quickly.
I doubt that is gonna happen. The Liberals and their cronies know they can get away with bald faced lies and face no consequences whatsoever.
Face it our political class is as corrupt as any Banana republic and there isn’t an institution the Liberals have not compromised.
The RCMP are the TonTon Macoute of Canada, anyone arrested by them should consider themselves political prisoners and seek aid from human rights agencies and sympathetic organizations such as the GOP beyond Canada’s borders.
As NATO summit ends, Canada promises more military aid to Ukraine
Canada is set to provide the Ukrainian armed forces with more than three dozen new armoured personnel and some new drone cameras, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said as the NATO leaders’ summit in Madrid ended Thursday.
Additionally, Canada will host two new NATO research centres, one which will focus on new security challenges brought on by climate change and another which will focus purely on solving defence and security problems and inventing new defence technology.
OTTAWA – New federal regulations to force down the greenhouse gas emissions from gasoline and diesel will cost Canadians up to 13 cents more per litre at the pump by 2030.
An impact analysis of the Clean Fuel Regulations published Wednesday estimates they will cut about 18 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions in 2030, or five to six per cent of what Canada needs to eliminate to meet its current targets for that year.
It will cost between $22.6 billion and $46.6 billion for refineries and other fuel suppliers to comply, or an average of about $151 per tonne of emissions reduced.
The federal government has to do more to counter the threat of ideologically motivated violent extremism in Canada, including strengthening terrorist financing laws to counter it, the House of Commons public safety committee has recommended.
In a report tabled before the House of Commons rose for the summer, the committee also recommended the federal government work with provinces to prevent what it described as a rising threat in Canada and to take steps to hold online companies more accountable for extremist or hateful content circulating on their platforms.
However, the committee also acknowledged that there are issues surrounding any move to limit free speech.
Seems most of the “ideologically motivated violent extremism” in Canada flows straight from the Liberal Party.
Aga Khan, SNC, Gropergate, Purchasing the media, Justin’s Blackface follies, Exclusion of religious organizations from public funding for pro-life beliefs, Identity politics & race-baiting as public policy, Cheapening the value of Canadian citizenship, Mass-immigration for corporate & LPC political gain, Covid tyranny, Fake unmarked graves, Church burnings, Emergencies act, Totalitarian censorship proposals, RCMP scandal, using the Ukraine crisis to foist the LPC’s economy killing green-scam agenda on the public, the list goes on and on.
This past week has not been kind to the exoteric progressive Left’s agenda. In quick succession, lefties have seen the highest court in the land hand them losses on religious school funding, gun control, voter ID, the repeal of Roe v. Wade, and then school prayer (and they could potentially take another L later this week in the case of West Virginia v. EPA). The thing about this is that these losses are not merely symbolic – as important as that would be in and of itself for undermining the Left’s carefully cultivated image of inevitability. Instead, many of these cases revolved around issues of substantive law and legal doctrine that the Left thought it had gotten settled decades ago, but which is now very much unsettled. As a result, the carefully constructed legal superstructure that progressivism had used the courts to build is being undermined.
Responding to Covid-related draconian directives, a group of Canadian lawyers have united to produce a petition called the Free North Declaration. With 90,000 signatures from citizens, as well as 640 signatures from lawyers, its tenets speak to a poorly understood transition in Canadian society.
Under its directive, citizens are urged to sign to support maintenance of Canada’s most cherished values– freedom of expression, freedom of association– rights that Canadians remained privy to for decades.
Then came Covid-19. Despite media presentation, ramifications of the pandemic extend far beyond virus vaccinations.
With Covid as justification, our Liberal government has instilled an erosion of individual rights in society. Neither media, nor academia, have reflected this reality. The common perception is one of maintenance of personal rights manifest in our Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Trudeau government has been cagey enough to stop short of mandatory vaccines. It does not suggest that their game plan stops short of social coercion.
The moral arc of the universe may be long, but in the end it bends towards the humiliation of fatuous bureaucratic losers.
Several high profile British Columbia politicians attended an event celebrating China’s takeover of Hong Kong alongside Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials last week.
According to Richmond News, the Hong Kong Economic Trade office held an event on Jun. 23 on the anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
I have written extensively on inverted totalitarianism, that being the once nascent, now entrenched form of government that truly controls the levers of federal power in the United States. This behemoth has turned the USA into a “managed democracy”; a bureaucracy which cannot be held accountable by the elected representatives of the people. Sometimes called the 4th estate, this monster is also referred to as the “deep state” the civil service, or the administrative state.
Many countries have abandoned vaccine passports and travel testing for COVID-19. Yet Canada remains one of the world’s slowest to grudgingly relax restrictions.
Generally speaking, governments make policy based on, among other things, credible sources of scientific information. Does the Trudeau government really ‘follow the science’? As medical doctors, we’d like to critically examine some recent statements.
Earlier this week, New Yorkers gathered in downtown Manhattan in front of the city’s Health Department to protest against the CDC’s recommendation of COVID-19 vaccines for toddlers and babies as well as the possible mandating of the jab for New York’s schoolchildren.
New Yorkers shared their concerns about the government chipping away at parental rights and described the need to protect children from the pharmaceutical industry’s capture of public health agencies.
It’s what a malevolent ruler will do. A national leader with hatred toward his own country is bound to infect the nation with the poison they hold inside. Such is the case when it comes to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the fall of Canada Day celebrations.
