The U.S. government is barreling ahead with plans to mitigate future threats from quantum computing with a new White House memo directing federal agencies to jumpstart an all-hands-on-deck approach to migrating to quantum-resistant technologies.
Liberals defend abortion rights against threats that don’t exist
Thank heavens Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is steadfastly defending a woman’s right to get an abortion from … well, that’s the question.
All The Biden Border Policies That Encourage Illegal Immigration
Since Joe Biden’s first day in office, when he signed seven executive orders on immigration that, among other things, suspended deportations and ended the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” program that had eased the crush of those awaiting asylum hearings, the president has in word and deed sent signals that migrants have interpreted as welcoming. The initiatives include reviving the Obama-era policy known as “catch and release,” “paroling” illegal border crossers so they can enter the country, resettling migrants through secret flights around the country, and ending the “no match” policy that had helped the government identify people who were using fraudulent credentials to find work.
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Canadians Should Be Informed If Their Data Is Being Collected By Feds: Committee
The House of Commons ethics committee wants the federal government to inform Canadians if they’re being spied on and to give them the option to opt out of data-collection surveillance programs.
The recommendations come as parliamentarians probe the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) secretly spying on the locations of millions of Canadians.
Last year it was revealed that the federal department obtained data from 33 million devices to conduct “population mobility patterns” research during lockdowns.
YouTube Warns Bill C-11 Lets Feds Censor Everyday Content
YouTube officials have warned that if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s internet regulation bill goes through, it could give the government unprecedented power over everyday content posted online.
According to YouTube Canada’s head of government affairs Janette Patell, Bill C-11’s wording is so broad that it places home videos within the purview of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).
America Fights Back Against Woke Radicalism, Is Canada Next?
Two contentious issues in the United States indicate a transformation in political tides is taking place. First, a leaked draft suggests the U.S. Supreme Court may vote to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision which legalized abortion throughout the country.
Secondly, legislative push-back against transgenderism, as advocated by politicians such as Florida Governor Ron De Santis. After approving legislation to prohibit trans-ideology in Grades 1-3, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) stated this week that he will consider prohibiting sex changes for minors in the Sunshine State.
In Canada, media have been careful not to over-expose these developments. As stimulated by their federal financiers, our “progressive” Liberal government has cast themselves in stone regarding both issues.
Phew. It gets awfully quiet. This man knows how to silence a protest.
pic.twitter.com/LeGQ3DToHO— Abigail Dodds (@abigaildodds) May 5, 2022
DOJ Establishes ‘Office Of Environmental Justice’
Attorney General Merrick Garland made the announcement at a press conference with EPA Administrator Michael Regan Thursday. Garland said that the new office, which will also be known by the initialism OEJ, would “oversee and help guide the Justice Department’s wide-ranging environmental justice efforts.”
Meet The Shady Left-Wing Group Targeting SCOTUS Justices And Their Families
A shadowy left-wing group operating under the moniker “Ruth Sent Us” is asking activists to target Supreme Court justices who may overturn Roe v. Wade with demonstrations at their private homes.
On Thursday, the group published the alleged home locations of the six conservative justices who heard Mississippi’s request to return the abortion debate to the states by overturning the 1973 decision. A February draft opinion leaked to Politico on Monday revealed five out of the six, Justices Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, and Neil Gorsuch, were planning to vote to overturn the Roe decision with Chief Justice John Roberts remaining undecided. Each of their homes is targeted for protests between now and Wednesday.
Disinfo Board Chief ‘Shudders’ At Thought of ‘Free Speech Absolutists Taking Over More Platforms’
The “Mary Poppins of Disinformation,” as Biden’s Disinformation Governance Board chief, Nina Jankowicz, has dubbed herself, has given us a new indication of how negatively she regards the freedom of speech. In a mid-April NPR interview that is getting renewed scrutiny because of her appointment to head the Ministry of Truth, Jankowicz was asked what she thought about the prospect of Elon Musk, who says he is a “free speech absolutist,” taking over Twitter. Jankowicz’s answer was hardly reassuring to those who see the very existence of a Disinformation Governance Board as an all-out assault on the First Amendment.
Biden’s Climate Czar Declares War on Kitchen Appliances
If President Biden’s climate czar has her way, Americans will washing dishes by hand and drying their laundry on a clothes line.
Climate advisor Gina McCarthy is waging a war on your appliances.
The Gentrification of Fare Evasion
As more transit riders who can afford to pay fares jump them instead, will U.S. cities step up efforts to increase collections?
Two cities on opposite coasts may be experiencing the gentrification of fare evasion. Janno Lieber, head of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, recently complained that security cameras had captured among the 12.5 percent of riders who don’t swipe at subway turnstiles “countless images of people in designer clothes, carrying $7 lattes, waltzing through emergency gates at Wall Street or on the Upper East Side.” Fare evasion could cost the MTA as much as $500 million this year, Lieber noted. The complaint echoed that of Peter Rogoff, the chief of Seattle and Tacoma’s Sound Transit, who recently singled out riders who paid for seats and $13 beers at a Mariners game but didn’t pay their fares afterward. Rogoff recently said Sound Transit was facing insolvency and was on a “financially unsustainable” trajectory.
A Week of Lib Losses in the Culture War
Conservative victories against Netflix, Disney, Subway, and more.
There have been war correspondents since Herodotus chronicled the Persian War of 499–449 B.C. Newspaperman Ernie Pyle famously embedded himself with American foot soldiers during World War II to give folks back home a welcome grunts’ perspective, before he died by enemy fire at the battle of Okinawa. Fox News reporter Benjamin Hall was badly wounded covering the Russo-Ukrainian War when his vehicle got shelled and two colleagues killed. Being a culture war correspondent is much safer than a shooting war one, yet no less historically valuable. As such, I can report that last week brought some major victories against the Left in several battlefronts I’ve covered.
Elon Musk asks: Who is funding organizations pressuring Twitter advertisers to stop?
There is an coordinated organized effort in play by George Soros, Clinton and Obama staffers and European governments to pressure advertisers to stop advertising on Twitter. The reason, of course, is because it will soon be under the control of Elon Musk if the deal is officially completed. Leftists are so nervous about voices other than their own being given free reign on the social media platform that they are trying to suppress the support of advertisers on Twitter.
What the New York Times won’t admit about California
The explanation for out-migration from the state is delusional
Even the New York Times has to admit unpleasant realities, like the departure of people from California and other deep blue states. But one thing the paper, and other similarly-minded reporters based here, will never admit: the connection between the California economy and regulation and the rising out-migrations.
Sweden and the crisis of integration
Bombings, shootings and rioting are on the rise in Sweden. We need to talk about why.
Something is rotten in the state of Sweden. Grenade attacks have soared in recent years. Sweden is now the only country other than Mexico in which police record the number of grenade attacks. Explosions in general are on the rise. ‘Sweden’s 100 explosions this year: What’s going on?’, a bamboozled BBC asked in 2019. In 2020 there were more than 200 explosions and 360 shootings. The murder rate for 2020 was Sweden’s highest in 18 years: 124 people were killed and 39 per cent of the killings involved guns. Sweden is the only country in Europe in which fatal shootings have surged since the year 2000. Even the once Sweden-adoring Guardian has had to admit, with not a little perplexion, that Sweden has gone from having ‘one of the lowest rates of gun violence on the continent to one of the highest in less than a decade’.
How Ukraine Uses Obsolete Soviet Grenades To Destroy Russian Tanks From Above
Ukrainian fighters have found a new use for outdated grenades that is proving spectacularly effective at destroying Russian tanks and other armored vehicles.
This photo released by Aerorozvidka, an organization that develops Ukraine’s use of small drones in warfare, shows a Ukrainian-made octocopter drone with two bomblets mounted beneath it.
Mourning In America: Life After Roe
When our national sin no longer unites us, then there will be a time for choosing.
Like millions of other Americans, for many years I have waited and prayed for the end of Roe v. Wade. Roe’s America has been, for my entire lifetime and then some, what St. Pope John Paul II called, in his 1995 encyclical Evangelium vitae, the “culture of death.” This has been “actively fostered by powerful cultural, economic and political currents which encourage an idea of society excessively concerned with efficiency,” the pontiff wrote, which in turn makes it “possible to speak in a certain sense of a war of the powerful against the weak.” Not just a war. A genocide. This culture of death has sent more than 63 million of my countrymen to a pre-birth grave since Roe (and Doe) gobsmacked America in 1973, just four and a half years before I was born.
NATO’s barking at Russia’s door might have caused Ukraine war: Pope Francis
Pope Francis in an interview published on Tuesday slammed NATO over the Ukraine war.
Questioning the conflict’s causes, the pope spoke of an “anger” in the Kremlin which could have been “facilitated” by “the barking of NATO at Russia’s door”.
The remarks came as the pope reiterated that he requested a meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin over Ukraine, while comparing the scale of the bloodshed in the country to the genocide in Rwanda.
Trudeau government tracked your trips to liquor stores, pharmacies via phones during pandemic
OTTAWA – Canadians’ movements, including trips to the liquor store and pharmacy, were closely tracked via their mobile phones without their knowledge during the COVID-19 pandemic, a report sent to a parliamentary committee shows.
Outbreak intelligence analysts BlueDot prepared reports using anonymized data for the Public Health Agency of Canada to help it understand travel patterns during the pandemic.
… The report reveals the agency was able to view a detailed snapshot of people’s behaviour, including visits to the grocery store, gatherings with family and friends, time spent at home and trips to other towns and provinces.
It’s becoming difficult to think of the worst thing about the Trudeau government, they keep coming up with new reasons to hate them.
Satanic Temple asks Boston to fly flag after court ruling
BOSTON (AP) — The Satanic Temple is requesting to fly a flag over Boston City Hall after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week that the city violated the free speech rights of a conservative activist seeking to fly a Christian flag outside the downtown building.
The Salem-based group tweeted a request filed Tuesday with the city property management department to raise a flag marking “Satanic Appreciation Week” from July 23-29.
Mayor Michelle Wu’s office declined to comment on the group’s request other than to say it’s reviewing the high court’s decision while also evaluating its flag-raising program.