Canada’s Trudeau administration said it will punish the truckers who participated in the anti-vaccine mandate Freedom Convoy by freezing their bank accounts. Although the United States government isn’t yet sanctioning this practice here, bank deplatforming against those who oppose leftists is becoming more and more frequent, nonetheless.
Politicians from all parties are being targeted in an “attack on democracy,” Premier Doug Ford says.
And why do you think that is, you backstabbing son of a bitch?
Fierce fighting broke out in Kyiv as Russian forces tried to push their way towards the city centre from multiple directions in the early hours of Saturday, and as the Ukrainian president, Volodomyr Zelenskiy, bluntly rejected a US offer to evacuate him from the country’s capital.
“The fight is here,” Zelinskiy said. By 8am, however, residents were reporting a lull in the attack as it appeared Kyiv’s defenders had held out against another night of Russian advances from multiple directions, including both north and south of the main western route from Zhitomyr to Kyiv, and in the area of the motorway towards the country’s south.
Kyiv 26.02.2022 pic.twitter.com/RJKN3gIVxB
— Iryna (@Iryna13822327) February 26, 2022
Ukraine invasion: Russians close in on Kyiv but meet strong resistance
Russian assaults on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv have been met with fierce resistance, as the Ukrainian military says it fought off several attacks.
The military said in a Facebook post early on Saturday that an army unit managed to repel Russian forces near its base on a major city street.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said: “The occupiers wanted to block the centre of our state… We broke their plan.”
Meanwhile, fighting continues near several other Ukrainian cities.
‘In these moments of an existential crisis, all prime ministers are obligated to bring the parties together, not to throw fuel on the fire, not to call protesters names, not to call them…extremists or racists.’
Congressional investigators looking into the business dealings of Hunter Biden are reportedly facing obstacles from the Secret Service. This as three years of records requested from the organization are simply missing, according to their director.
There’s no gentle way to say it, but the truth is that a lot of us hate our elites far more than we hate some foreign dictator.
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) has launched a petition calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to scrap the more than $1 billion in funding per year for the CBC and to stop giving $600 million of taxpayers’ money to other media outlets.
“Visible minority” is a term unique to Canada. But unlike other oddities of Canadian English, such as two-four, chesterfield, housecoat or serviette, it does more than just highlight our linguistic distinctiveness. It’s also standing in the way of a fairer and more equitable country. Mustering the latest research and expert opinion, Peter Shawn Taylor reveals the myriad problems with using race to bifurcate Canada into two solitudes of white and non-white, otherwise known as visible minority. There’s a better way forward that could not only build a more cohesive society but also address the disadvantages faced by Canadians of all races.
The NDP is fundamentally, or should fundamentally be a left-leaning workers’ party. In theory, its base should be a combination of idealistic left-wing university-educated urbanites, as well as public and private sector union workers. Under the leadership of Jagmeet Singh, the NDP has deepened its support in the first category but lost out on the second one. Failing to stand up for the rights of the truckers probably permanently damaged that blue-collar support.
Alden et al, Lund University, Sweden, confirms one of our worst fears. The exogenous genetic material coding for the dangerous Spike protein is reverse-transcribed into the human genome; possible long-term constitutive expression/synthesis of disease promoting/lethal Spike. pic.twitter.com/JEzSwSruWM
— Peter McCullough, MD MPH (@P_McCulloughMD) February 25, 2022
A tweet by Hilary Clinton on Wednesday February 16th accuses Fox News and Donald Trump of “desperately spinning up a fake scandal” by reacting to the Durham report. Special Counsel John Durham’s filings allege that tech executive John Rupert and lawyer on the Hilary Clinton campaign Michael Sussman, jointly infiltrated internet traffic from both the Trump Tower and the Executive Office of the President of the United States.
The Canadian pharmaceutical company SaNOtize Research & Development Corp., (SaNOtize), and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Limited (Glenmark), announced earlier this month the successful outcomes of a nasal spray in its Phase 3 clinical trials and now approved by India’s drug regulator as a treatment for adult patients with COVID-19 who have a risk of progression of the disease.
In the months preceding the invasion, Biden resolved to appeal to Putin’s reason, urging him to “return to diplomacy” for the sake of Russia’s “credibility worldwide.” The strategy failed. Under threat of certain sanctions, but never military resistance, Putin went ahead with the unprovoked assault.
But Biden’s mismanagement of the situation may have been worse than previously understood. According to an eye-opening new report from the New York Times published Friday, the Biden administration since late last year endeavored to enlist Chinese assistance, only to have its plan turned on its head.
“This site can’t be reached.”
That was the message greeting visitors to dozens of Ukrainian websites on Wednesday afternoon.
From 16:00 local time webpages for banks and government ministries started going down.
Naturally, fingers quickly pointed towards Moscow – Russia’s cyber army once again accused of hacking to spread fear and confusion online as troops massed on Ukraine’s borders.
Ever since he first seized the Russian presidency 20 years ago, a question has lingered around Vladimir Putin. Is he crazy, or not?
The jury always seemed to be out. On the one hand, there were the signs of relatively harmless crazy. The tiger-wrestling, semi-naked horseback riding and more. There were also more than enough signs of harmful crazy. Such as sending his henchmen to poison enemies in foreign capitals using nerve agents which, if leaked, would have killed tens of thousands of people in those cities.
Joy Behar told her co-hosts Thursday on ABC’s “The View” that she cannot go to Italy because of the COVID pandemic and now Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Co-host Whoopi Goldberg said, “Now this thing, I have to say this thing in the Ukraine, it’s so disheartening.”
Chaos creates countless opportunities for mistakes.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is not a nuclear crisis. Yet. Concern about the role of nuclear weapons is perfectly understandable, however, now that a paranoid dictator has led Russia into a major war in the middle of Europe, attacking a country that shares a border with four of America’s NATO allies. A nuclear crisis is unlikely, but not impossible.
Looks like we’ve achieved nearly a full consensus on Mitt Romney’s vindication — even before Russia invaded Ukraine. A Gallup poll conduced between February 1-17 shows anger rising rapidly toward Russia, across all political denominations. It had already gotten bad shortly after Barack Obama’s 2012 bon mot to Romney that “the 80s called and they want their foreign policy back,” but Vladimir Putin’s aggression has turned it into a consensus even before the first shot was fired.
The reverberations of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine will be felt for months, and likely years, to come. To understand our responsibility to the people of Ukraine and the actions needed on a global scale, we need a holistic understanding of how we have come to this point and why Putin felt confident and empowered enough to take the gamble he did. One theme stands out as particularly relevant to Canada: oil and gas.
