Merge & Purge? ‘That was pretty devastating’: Ontario Liberals wonder how to rebuild after another brutal election defeat

“I’m not sugar-coating it. That was pretty devastating last week,” former Liberal cabinet minister John Milloy said Monday.

That has to qualify as the understatement of the year.


But it gets stranger … Ontario Liberals, NDP should mull merger, former finance minister says

As Ontario Liberals look to rebuild after their devastating result in last week’s provincial election, former finance minister Greg Sorbara says it’s time to consider what he admits is a “pie-in-the-sky” idea: merging his party with the province’s NDP.

Many members of the two parties have denounced the concept after a campaign in which they aimed political attacks at each other. In an interview, Mr. Sorbara, who was finance minister from 2003 to 2007, when Dalton McGuinty was Liberal premier, acknowledged such a merger is unlikely.

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Trudeau mum over Biden’s move to exclude commie crapholes that Junior loves from summit

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau isn’t saying whether he supports President Joe Biden’s decision to exclude Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba from this week’s Summit of the Americas.

Trudeau acknowledges that some of the countries in the Western Hemisphere are “less like-minded” than others.

But he says they all share a number of urgent issues, such as migration pressures, climate change and recovering fully from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Jan. 6 committee goals: ‘Imprison Trump, destroy Electoral College’

The special committee set up by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to “investigate” the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol started out badly. Pelosi refused the GOP’s nominees for the committee and to her own party’s picks added a couple of rabidly anti-Trump GOP members, making the entire process partisan.

Then it has demanded testimony from hundreds of witnesses, and even has attacked members of the U.S. House with subpoenas and threats, unprecedented in House disputes.

Observers have noted it has made clear from the outset that the results of the investigation are to be that President Trump is to be punished, no matter the facts.

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Dr. Robert Malone on Monkeypox Fear Porn & The War Game

On May 23, 2022, the Portuguese National Institute of Health announced a multi-country outbreak of Monkeypox, claiming “genetic divergence and the first signs of microevolution.”

Dr. Robert Malone is calling it “fear porn” and wonders if it will ever stop. He said that the superspreader PRIDE event in Belgium could have inadvertently or deliberately been the vehicle for spreading it. People at that event came from all over the world.

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Uvalde Cops Reportedly Tried To Silence the Mom Who Rescued Her Kids and Criticized the Police Response

In an interview with CBS that aired this weekend, Gomez explained how she was able to enter the school and rescue her two children despite the cops’ active efforts to thwart her. The entire interview is a damning indictment of law enforcement’s mishandling of the shooting, but one new detail bears particular emphasis: According to Gomez, the police subsequently contacted her and said that the media attention she was generating for criticizing them could lead to obstruction of justice charges. (Gomez is on probation for unspecified though decades-old charges.)

This woman was inside the school while shots were being fired. The police knew the shooter was still active and let children die instead of entering the school.

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Canada’s Covid rules “stringent and invasive”: EU report

A healthcare law review submitted to the European Parliament in May took aim at the Canadian government for having some of the strictest Covid-19 restrictions in the world.

The report, Right to health, a comparative law perspective: Canada, published by the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) and authored by McGill University law professor Dr Derek Jones, was a survey of the country’s legal system as it pertains to healthcare rights. The EU has published similar reports about other countries.

“Many stringent and invasive public health measures for the Covid pandemic – curfews, capacity-restrictions in restaurants, the closure of bars and nightclubs for months, locking of office buildings, stoppage and restrictions on international travel – have severely curtailed or arrested commercial trade in vital sections of Canada’s economy,” the report said.

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The US military is watching China’s presence grow in Latin America, and it doesn’t like where things are going

As the US increases its focus on global competition with China, officials have singled out Beijing’s inroads into Latin America as a growing threat to countries there and to US interests in the region.

At recent congressional hearings and public events, those officials have cautioned that China is investing in digital and physical infrastructure, natural resources and extractive industries, and in political and military relationships across Latin America and the Caribbean in a multipronged effort to secure access and influence and gain leverage over countries there in order to advance its own commercial and strategic interests.

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First ‘trans’ cheerleader in NFL to make debut with Carolina Panthers

The NFL has signed its first biological male who identifies as transgender to be part of the women’s cheerleading squad for the Carolina Topcats. Justine Lindsay, 29, announced the news that Lindsay would be joining the women’s squad.

Lindsay announced the news in March via Instagram with “Cats Out the Bag you are looking at the newest member of the Carolina Panthers TopCats Cheerleader’s as the first Transgender female.”

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Trudeau Reducing Sentencing Requirements For Serious Gun Crimes

The prime minister is defending a bill his government has before Parliament to reduce sentencing requirements for gun crimes, saying it’s about racial equity.

“What our communities need is a justice system that punishes criminals. What we do not need is a system that targets racialized people because of systemic discrimination,” Trudeau said in the Commons last week.

Almost A Quarter Of Canadians Report Eating Less Than They Should Due To Rising Prices

A new survey suggests a growing number of Canadians are struggling with the rising cost of food as prices for basics like pasta, bread and meat all soar.

The poll from Food Banks Canada indicates hunger and food insecurity are increasing across the country, with lower-income Canadians hit hardest by inflation.

Justin Trudeau’s Heartless Hypocrisy

Gold deposits, along with other precious minerals, in the northern Tigray region appear to be a significant reason behind why Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has not spoken out more forcibly against Ethiopia’s now 18-month-long conflict and all its crimes. The quiet is very much at odds with his pledge that Canada stands for “democracy, peace and security at home and around the world”.

Joe Biden To Take Executive Action On Renewable Energy During War On Fossil Fuels

As gas prices reached an eighth consecutive day record high, Biden has focused on more costly and inaccessible green energy. According to Reuters, Biden will “help bridge a solar panel supply gap and kickstart stalled U.S. projects after an investigation froze imports from key foreign suppliers.”

A source with knowledge of the president’s action told CNN that Biden’s energy strategy is to boost renewable energy by using the Defense Production Act.

Largest Migrant Caravan In Tapachula, Mexico Departs Toward United States Border

A migrant caravan of up to 12,000 people has left Tapachula, Mexico on June 6 to make their way to the United States southern border. According to Oscar El Blue, reporter from Border Network News, the caravan leader Irineo Mujica claims that 3,000 children are included in this caravan.

Tapachula is a city in southern Mexico where migrants stay as they prepare to make their journey up north through Mexico to arrive to the United States. The most recent caravan is the biggest one that has left the city so far in an attempt to reach the United States.

Muslim Call To Prayer Arrives To Minneapolis Soundscape

The chant in Arabic blasted from rooftop loudspeakers, drowning out both the growl of traffic from nearby interstates and the chatter and clinking glasses on the patio of the dive bar that shares a wall with Minneapolis’ oldest Somali mosque. Dozens of men in fashionably ripped jeans or impeccably ironed kameez tunics rushed toward the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque. Teens clutched smartphones, and some of the older devout shuffled in with the aid of walkers from the high-rise complex across the street where thousands of Somalis live. This spring Minneapolis became the first large city in the United States to allow the Islamic call to prayer, or adhan, to be broadcast publicly by its two dozen mosques.

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The Most Terrifying Reality about School Shootings

The initial reaction to the mass murder of children in Uvalde, Texas was horror and bewilderment. Not again. How could this happen? Perhaps you, like me, imagined that the killer shot his way into the school and wrought havoc fast, before police could respond. We were wrong. Law enforcement knew he was on his way, armed and dangerous. The door was unlocked. A good-sized contingent of police failed to act for an hour. Finally, members of an elite Border Patrol unit engaged the murderer, taking fire, and prevailed.

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Russiagate is a D.C. Crime, Trying It There Won’t Work

What the Sussmann trial really showed.

With 3 Clinton donors on the jury and a judge who is the poster boy for conflicts of interest, the outcome of the Michael Sussmann trial was never in doubt. But these are also the same conflicts that made Russiagate possible and trying a Russiagate case in D.C. entirely hopeless.

D.C.’s professional class build their careers around a web of personal connections. And no one was better at pulling on all those connections than the Clintons who had spent a generation assembling their own political machine of careerists and loyalists by offering them positions in the government and their non-profit organizations. The Clintons had built an army and a state within a state. Russiagate, at the most basic level, was an attempt by corrupt careerists before the election to protect their future jobs and after the election to exact an embittered revenge.

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For the love of God, stop fantasizing about a war between US citizens and their military

In 2018, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) casually asserted the United States military could easily crush those who refuse to surrender their rifles to the state.

Not long after, President Joe Biden said nearly the same thing when he scoffed at the idea of an armed citizenry serving as a check on the might of the federal government.

This sentiment that the U.S. military could easily overwhelm a non-compliant public, particularly gun owners, lives on as a point of serious discussion in certain political circles.

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