Bye insufferable bitch pic.twitter.com/0ueo493cBA
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) January 22, 2022
Douglas Todd: As Canada dithers about a flood of house investors, Singapore pushes back
In Singapore, they don’t fool around on housing.
While Canadian housing prices are shooting into the stratosphere largely due to an unprecedented surge by investors, Ottawa has done little to ease the destructive trend.
Justin has no will to piss off the China Class and their ChiCom masters.
WTF?
WATCH: At a recent school board meeting, it was revealed that a Michigan school placed a LITTER BOXES in the bathroom for students that identify as cats. Unbelievable pic.twitter.com/F4ut5qCtXt
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) January 22, 2022
Golden State tarnished: Ex-pats reveal ‘why we left California for good’
It’s official: California dreamin’ has become a nightmare.
According to the California Policy Lab, which is affiliated with the University of California, the number of people leaving the state is up 12 percent since before COVID-19.
In fact, there are more people heading out than coming in.
A Culture of Corruption
In Baltimore, crime-tolerant state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby seems willing to break the law herself.
When sworn in as Baltimore’s state’s attorney seven years ago, Marilyn Mosby was the first of a new wave of progressive prosecutors. She might now be the first to take an early retirement—perhaps to a federal penitentiary.
Last week, the Justice Department indicted Mosby on perjury charges. She allegedly made false statements on key documents while chasing a quick buck in real estate in 2020, avoiding penalties and taxes on withdrawals from her retirement accounts by claiming Covid-related economic hardship but without actually suffering any layoffs or reductions in her $248,000 salary. Then she neglected to mention a federal tax lien while mortgaging two Florida properties, one of which has already sold for a tidy gross profit of $151,000.
Afghan women taken from their homes after speaking out
The Taliban can threaten with a whisper. After 20 years of violent struggle, and the loss of tens of thousands of civilian lives, they took power here using brutal force.
Even so, Afghan women refuse to be intimidated.
Tamana Zaryabi Paryani is one of those women. It takes raw courage to stand up to armed men who want to take away almost everything you have achieved in life.
Charity sector worth $300B per year, but CRA audits have dropped four-fold since 2010
If you are auditing 1 in 400 charities per year … it is going to leave a lot of charities out that are doing some very bad things and CRA is not auditing them’
OTTAWA – The Canada Revenue Agency’s charitable audits have dropped four-fold in the last decade, with just over 200 done in 2019, leaving experts concerned that fraud and mismanaged funds are going undetected.
I’m shocked.
Do Ukrainians and Russians believe a full-scale war is possible?
“You can’t interview me I’m kind of famous in Ukraine ha ha!”
OK, I confess I didn’t know who the woman was, but her thoughts didn’t exactly seem preoccupied by a possible invasion on her country.
Her mood is matched by many at the snowy Kyiv food market we cross paths in, which wouldn’t look out of place on a Christmas card.
“Russia can do anything thanks to Putin, who is unpredictable,” says Volodymyr, who’s less concerned about his celebrity status.
“As long as Putin is there, risk will always remain.”
ChiCom Slave State hires western TikTokers to polish its image during 2022 Winter Olympics
An army of western social media influencers, each with hundreds of thousands of followers on TikTok, Instagram or Twitch, is set to spread positive stories about China throughout next month’s Winter Olympics.
Concerned about the international backlash against the Beijing Games amid a wave of diplomatic boycotts, the government has hired western PR professionals to spread an alternative narrative through social media.
Almost 60 Percent of Canadians Negatively Affected by Rising Food Costs Amid High Inflation, Poll Shows
A new survey shows that growing numbers of Canadians are finding it harder to put food on the table as the country’s annual inflation rate reaches a 30-year high.
The Angus Reid Institute poll, conducted online between Jan. 7 and Jan. 12, shows that three in five Canadians (57 percent) say it is “difficult” to feed their households, a 20 percent increase since the institute asked the same question in 2019.
Virginia woman charged for threats to ‘bring every gun’ over school mask rule
A Virginia mother was charged with making a threat on school property after she told local board members she would bring “every single gun loaded” if the district instituted a mask mandate.
Renewed mask fights were touched off this month after the new Republican governor of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, issued an executive order making masks optional for students, subject to the preference of parents.
Conrad Black: Conservatives need to swiftly settle their leadership question
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole has maintained his well-established habit of arbitrary 180-degree policy turns. He came in third when seeking the leadership of his party in 2017, behind Andrew Scheer and Maxime Bernier, standing as something of a red Tory against Scheer’s Harper-style conservatism and Bernier’s quasi-libertarianism. And in 2019, he ran as a traditional Tory against Peter MacKay, a red Tory and former Progressive Conservative leader. But on almost every major policy issue, most recently China, O’Toole has executed course corrections like a wind-sock.
Why shoplifting is soaring across the US — and will only get worse
Retail crime has been rising throughout the US for the past five years, with organized criminal rings targeting stores everywhere from Woonsocket (Rhode Island) to Greensboro (North Carolina) to Grafton (Wisconsin). The National Retail Federation reported that store losses mounted from $453,940 per $1 billion in sales in 2015 to $719,458 in 2020.
The biggest increase over that period happened not during the pandemic but in 2019, when total losses from shoplifting surged to $61 billion, up from $50 billion the previous year. The COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020 and early 2021 moderated losses, largely because stores were closed or had curtailed operating hours. Now that retailing has resumed, crime has spiked again.
Thanks to Biden Administration’s Weak Leadership, Iran-China Threat Growing
The ruling mullahs of Iran are strengthening their ties with the Chinese Communist Party as well as conveniently violating US sanctions without facing any repercussions from the Biden administration.