Inflation could put more Canadians at risk of going hungry, experts say

TORONTO – Experts and advocates anticipate that more Canadians could be at risk of going hungry as inflation continues to outpace many consumers’ grocery budgets.

Valerie Tarasuk, a professor of nutritional sciences at University of Toronto, says steepening inflation rates are likely to increase the prevalence and severity of food insecurity in Canada.

Statistics Canada says consumers paid 9.7 per cent more for food at stores in April compared with a year ago, the largest increase since September 1981.

I’m waiting for Justin’s swim in the Rideau.

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Poilievre faces faux backlash from usual suspects for comments on Jordan Peterson podcast says “media”

Some are calling attention to a comment Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre made while appearing as a guest on controversial psychologist Jordan Peterson’s podcast in an episode posted on Tuesday.

“I’m a believer in using simple Anglo-Saxon words that strike right at the the meaning that I’m trying to convey,” Poilievre said in the interview. “And so I say things that people say, ‘Yeah, that actually makes sense.’”

Some have pointed out that the term has been used by those on the far-right to differentiate white people from immigrants and people of colour.

OMG! He said Anglo-Saxon! The best thing he can do is laugh in response and never apologize.

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Gas stations in Washington reprogram pumps to prepare for $10-a-gallon fuel as Bidenflation sends average price soaring to $4.57 – almost twice the $2.41 during Trump’s final month

A spokesperson for ’76’ gas stations confirmed that the national chain has begun reconfiguring its pumps to ‘make room’ for the possibility of double-digit prices, The Post Millennial reported.

The spokesperson for ’76’ did not comment on whether the company is expecting prices to reach $10.00-a-gallon, The Post Millennial said.

Meanwhile, other gas stations in the state have begun running out of gas as supplies become crunched, with reports saying at least 10 stations have run dry.

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Google warns Online News Act would give feds “unprecedented control”

US tech giant Google has blasted the Trudeau government over a federal plan to regulate online news, calling it a sweeping attempt to impose government control over the web.

Vice President and Managing Director of Google Canada Sabrina Geremia warned in a lengthy post on Monday that Bill C-18 – also known as the Online News Act – would give the federal government “sweeping new powers” to regulate news content.

“The bill gives the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) unprecedented, sweeping new powers to regulate every aspect of the Canadian news industry,” wrote Geremia.

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DHS preparing for violence following abortion ruling

The U.S. government is bracing for a potential surge in political violence once the Supreme Court hands down the ruling that’s expected to overturn Roe v. Wade, according to a Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by Axios.

The big picture: Law enforcement agencies are investigating social-media threats to burn down or storm the Supreme Court building and murder justices and their clerks, as well as attacks targeting places of worship and abortion clinics.

Details: The unclassified May 13 memo by DHS’ intelligence arm says threats that followed the leak of a draft opinion — targeting Supreme Court Justices, lawmakers and other public officials, as well as clergy and health care providers — “are likely to persist and may increase leading up to and following the issuing of the Court’s official ruling.”

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Time for Canada to commit to nuclear power

It’s been a rollercoaster ride for the energy industry lately. Volatile fossil fuel prices and supply chain disruptions have forced governments to take a hard look at domestic energy security – something that has been taken for granted for many years with ever-increasing globalization. These difficulties come as countries are taking steps to tackle the climate crisis. This opens the debate on how to balance concerns over emissions, fuel costs and geopolitics.

Canada is not immune to these worldwide problems. Although we are lucky to have an electricity system that is more than 80 per cent low-carbon and generated from domestic resources, including uranium mined in Canada, our energy system overall is still heavily reliant on fossil fuels. Transportation, buildings and industry are still mostly powered and heated by oil and natural gas, a significant portion of which is imported.

Countries have been forced to publicly reconsider their positions on nuclear power, which in many cases has been based on politics rather than economic and climate policy. Governments that once suggested they were finished with nuclear power are now admitting that such statements were premature.

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How to cope with the coming recession in Canada

Life in Canada is more expensive than ever – inflation is at a 31-year high, gas prices are out of control and the cost of goods and services continues to increase. As it looks more likely Canada is heading into a recession, it doesn’t seem like our politicians care as they continue to spend on frivolous and expensive programs and refuse to reduce spending or taxes.

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Vast swath of U.S. at risk of summer blackouts, regulator warns

A vast swath of North America from the Great Lakes to the West Coast is at risk of blackouts this summer as heat, drought, shuttered power plants and supply-chain woes strain the electric grid.

Power supplies in much of the US and part of Canada will be stretched, with demand growing again after two years of pandemic disruptions, according to an annual report. It’s among the most dire assessments yet from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, a regulatory body that oversees grid stability.

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Jason Kenney steps down after 51.4 per cent approval in leadership review

Jason Kenney quit as leader of his party, and premier of Alberta, Wednesday night after receiving a slight majority of support in his United Conservative Party leadership review.

“While 51 per cent of the vote passes the constitutional threshold of a majority, it clearly is not adequate support to continue on as leader,” Kenney told a crowd gathered at Spruce Meadows in Calgary.

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Poilievre says vaccine mandates are based on ‘political science’ not medical science in conversation with Jordan Peterson

Conservative Party of Canada leadership frontrunner1 Pierre Poilievre joined Dr. Jordan Peterson2 on the Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, released Monday, to discuss his candidacy and a number of issues animating the campaign, including housing and inflation, defunding the CBC, and the Freedom Convoy protests that paralyzed Ottawa for several weeks this past winter.

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Warning Shot: DeSantis Plans to Use Funds to Bus Illegal Immigrants Dumped in Florida to Biden’s Delaware

No one has “done more to help the cartels” than President Biden with his embrace of radical open-border policies, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said on Wednesday, noting that Americans are “bracing” for the administration’s repeal of Title 42 and warning that his administration plans to bus illegal immigrants dumped in Florida to Biden’s Delaware.

Dump ’em right in front of his house, on the weekend when he’s home.

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Continental Breakfast

Bunless Bacon, Egg & Cheese

Trudeau Prepares To Destroy Health Care Sovereignty With Global Pandemic Treaty

It will provide the World Health Organization with the authority to take control of member states’ healthcare systems when they feel it is necessary. PM Trudeau’s endorsement should surprise no one. One cannot find a more dedicated globalist practitioner on the world stage than the prime minister of Canada.

Governments choosing to endorse the globalization of healthcare take on a revelatory complexion. Apart from fringe nations such as Senegal and Tunisia, fundamentalist Islamic nations are nowhere to be found. Not Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Syria or Afghanistan–an interesting observation unto itself.

Rather, it is western democracies which dominate the WHO agenda– as it was for nations that signed on to the United Nation’s International Refugee Pact some 70 years ago. Today, we witness the repercussions: Canada being responsible for the refugee problems of Middle Eastern nations.

Ceding health sovereignty to the World Health Organization, the Global Pandemic Treaty will take on a similar structure as the unhealthy of the world flock to Canadian shores.

Inflation Hits Three-Decade High

If we had listened to those running institutions like the Bank of Canada and the federal government, we would have expected inflation to have normalized by now.

After all, they spent months and months downplaying inflation, claiming it would be ‘transitory,’ and expressing confidence that high inflation wouldn’t last long at all.

Well, turns out they were completely wrong.

Don Cherry’s Cruel Exclusion From The Order Of Canada

I wish to speak of the venerable, Mr. Don Cherry, he who reigned so long as the Emperor of Coaches Corner, now for some time in what I will term a kind of forced retirement. I do not think it can be challenged that for as long as he so briskly issued his wisdom on the national game from that singular podium there was no other individual Canadian broadcaster who commanded so large and loyal an audience. From the smallest, most remote village to the most crowded cities, old and young, everyone knew Don Cherry.

Testosterone Treatment Turns Democrat Voters More Conservative

The study – Testosterone Administration Induces A Red Shift in Democrats – was published on November 14th, 2021 by Professor Paul Zak, the Director of the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies at Claremont Graduate University.

“His research has made a substantial impact in explaining the variation in human social behaviors and has been cited by other scholars over 18,000 times placing in the top 0.3% of all scholars,” explains his professional biography.

Zak’s latest findings reveal a link between testosterone levels and political preference through analyzing 136 voting-age males throughout the 2012 election season.

Officials Investigate Threats to ‘Murder Justices,’ DHS Warns of Increasing Violence from Pro-Abortion Extremists

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warned of increased political violence from pro-abortion extremists before and after the Supreme Court releases an official ruling that could potentially overturn Roe v. Wade, according to an unclassified memo obtained by Axios.

“Law enforcement agencies are investigating social-media threats to burn down or storm the Supreme Court building and murder justices and their clerks, as well as attacks targeting places of worship and abortion clinics,” the outlet reported.

‘Creepy Technology’: Zoom Reportedly May Develop AI Tool That Detects User Emotions On Video Calls. Human Rights Groups Call It Invasion Of Privacy.

Video-conferencing outfit Zoom reportedly may develop an artificial intelligence tool that detects users’ emotions by scanning facial expressions and examining vocal tones — but human rights groups are saying such technology would be invasion of privacy, the Thomson Reuters Foundation reported.

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Putin’s plan to starve the world

Farmers are being killed and their barns looted

Lviv, Ukraine

“In the old days, we had horses and cows and pigs and chickens. Now we are dying of hunger. In the old days, we fed the world. Now they have taken all we had away from us and we have nothing. In the old days, I should have bade you welcome, and given you as my guest chickens and eggs and milk and fine, white bread. Now we have no bread in the house. They are killing us.”

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The Replacements

I’m so old I can remember Bill Clinton blaming the 1995 Oklahoma bombing on Rush Limbaugh. Heck, I’m so old I can recall MSNBC and the rest of the leftist hive mind blaming the 2011 shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords on Sarah Palin, when 30 seconds of observation showed clearly the shooter was severely mentally ill. Oh, wait—you don’t need to be old for that: the New York Times repeated that outrageous slur in an editorial just four years ago—now the subject of a much-deserved libel suit from Palin.

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