The pieces appear to be coming together. It looks like a lab leak that the US helped create with an illicit process. Then the US covered it up.
Once again, Canadians don’t get credit for their critical role.
Electric car sales quotas are a bad idea
Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault is now saying the country needs a national mandate to force auto dealers to sell a certain number of electric vehicles. He hopes the policy will be put in place by the end of next year.
This is not a good idea. It’s not in the best interests of Canadians.
No Citizenship? No Problem! NYC City Council Approves Voting for Non-Citizens.
Are you a ‘lawful’ permanent resident of NYC? Have you been in the city for at least 30 days? Authorized to work? Great! That is now all it takes to vote for municipal office holders in the Big Apple, thanks to members of the New York City Council.
Yesterday, council members voted 33-14 in favor of allowing non-citizens to vote in municipal elections. Next, it’s over to Mayor de Blasio’s desk who will almost certainly sign it (and even if he exercises his veto power, which he won’t, the council has enough support to override him).
This is a terrible idea —even Democrats on the council are flabbergasted by this move.
Future generations of Canadians face bleak future
We look at our Liberal government, and those of us not blindly in love with our pretty bobblehead of a prime minister will be unhappy for the long and unexplained delay in the line-by-line account of where the money went from the $600 billion first fired down the hole to beat the pandemic.
San Francisco’s vaunted tolerance dims amid brazen crimes
A series of headline-grabbing crime stories — mobs of people smashing windows and grabbing luxury purses in the downtown Union Square shopping district and daytime shootings in the touristy Haight-Ashbury — has only exacerbated a general feeling of vulnerability. Residents wake up to news of attacks on Asian American seniors, burglarized restaurants, and boarded-up storefronts in the city’s once-vibrant downtown.
Canada drops from Top 10 Least Corrupt Countries in Transparency International Annual Corruption Perceptions Index
The annual Corruption Perceptions Index (the CPI) ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, according to experts and business people. Since its inception in 1995, the CPI has become the leading global indicator of public sector corruption. The CPI is an annual snapshot of the relative degree of corruption by ranking countries and territories from all over the globe. The 2019 CPI draws on 13 surveys and expert assessments to measure public sector corruption, giving a score from zero (highly corrupt) to one hundred (very clean).
‘We are not afraid of Omicron’
The Omicron variant has thrown Britain into disarray. Travel bans have returned, with much of southern Africa now on the UK ‘red list’. In England, the government has activated its ‘Plan B’ for winter, imposing new restrictions from mask mandates and vaccine passports to working from home. Yet we still don’t know much about the Omicron variant and the threat it might pose.
Continental Breakfast
Ontario to require QR code vaxpass and delays reopening indefinitely
On December 10, the Ontario government announced that QR codes would now be required as proof of vaccination and that they will be pausing all reopening plans in response to the non-deadly Omicron variant.
Omicron rapidly shifts the need for boosters in Canada
Omicron is ramping up the push for widespread boosters in Canada, shifting the conversation away from providing added protection to the most vulnerable and toward giving everyone eligible an additional shot to stave off potential spread of the highly transmissible variant.
Anti-O’Toole campaign says new poll confirms CPC members tired of flip-flopping
The campaign behind a push to hold an early leadership review of Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) Leader Erin O’Toole told True North that a new poll supports their intentions to let members have a say on the party’s future.
Meanwhile in Florida..no pandemic pic.twitter.com/1bhLwlwvKA
— FFAC 🇨🇦 (@stevelanebitch) December 11, 2021
The Other ‘CRT’- WaPo Accuses Math Curriculums of ‘Racism’
According to a recent Washington Post piece the current math curriculums “enshrines the names of White men” while “blurring” the contributions of others. In the op-ed, the author demands that the formulas with the allegedly “racist” origins be removed from math textbooks while referring to the issue as “the other CRT” which has been all but neglected.
The White House’s Desperation on the Economy Devolves Into Complete Absurdity
Objectively, the news on the economy over the last few weeks has not been encouraging. November’s jobs report showed a miss of over 50%. Then yesterday’s inflation numbers dropped like a thermonuclear weapon on the White House’s narrative. After a week of colluding with the media and waging a PR war to try to convince people the economy is actually great, inflation was revealed to be 6.8%, the highest in 39 years.
Durable Goods Inflation Breaks All-Time 1970s High as Prices Jump 14.9%
Over the past 12-months, prices of durable goods are up 14.9 percent, higher than the record annual gain of 14.4 percent hit in May 1975.
The Great Reset Crowd’s Overreach Will Come Back to Bite Them
So-called “democracies” around the world have proven during these last two years of COVID-1984 just how authoritarian their leaders really are. They censor, compel, threaten, intimidate, and dole out physical and emotional punishments in as arbitrary and terrifying a manner as any mad king. Then the thuggish little tyrants playing Mussolini while raging against fascism run to the video cameras and boast of the joys of “democracy” and the threats of authoritarianism emanating from Russia and China.
Two Seattle artists charged with faking Native American heritage
Two Washington state artists have been being charged with pretending to be Native American carvers to sell works at downtown Seattle galleries.
Lewis Anthony Rath, 52, and Jerry Chris Van Dyke, 67, were charged separately by the feds with violating the Indian Arts and Crafts Act, which prohibits misrepresentation in the selling of American Indian or Alaska Native arts and crafts, authorities said Friday.
Seattle? Bet they were extra woke too.
Watchdog; Federal anti-terror unit investigated journalists
WASHINGTON (AP) — A special Customs and Border Protection unit used sensitive government databases intended to track terrorists to investigate as many as 20 U.S.-based journalists, including a Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press reporter, according to a federal watchdog.
Yahoo News, which published an extensive report on the investigation, also found that the unit, the Counter Network Division, queried records of congressional staffers and perhaps members of Congress.
Jeffrey Rambo, an agent who acknowledged running checks on journalists in 2017, told federal investigators the practice is routine. “When a name comes across your desk you run it through every system you have access too, that’s just status quo, that’s what everyone does,” Rambo was quoted by Yahoo News as saying.
Most Diversity Officers at Universities Aren’t All That ‘Inclusive’ When It Comes to Jews and Israel
A study by the Heritage Foundation released this week shows that the vast majority of diversity and inclusion officers at universities hold anti-Israel and pro-China views.
Heritage researchers reviewed the Twitter feeds of 741 diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) officials at 65 different U.S. universities to determine their attitudes toward Israel and China.
Israel preparing military option against Iran – media
Israel’s military is preparing a possible strike against Iran, the country’s media has reported citing defense and diplomatic sources. Tel Aviv has already notified the US of its plans, facing “no veto” on such preparations.
Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz told US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin about preparations for a potential military strike against the country’s arch-nemesis Iran during his visits to the US, multiple Israeli outlets reported Saturday. Gantz met top US officials, including Lloyd and the Secretary of State Antony Blinken, on Thursday.
Brian Williams in MSNBC Farewell Message: ‘I’m Not a Liberal or a Conservative’
In his final sign-off as an MSNBC anchor, Brian Williams said that his loyalty does not lay with either of the major political ideologies, noting that he is “not a liberal or a conservative.”
This is Tolkien’s world
The Lord of the Rings is more than nostalgic medievalism
It’s exactly 20 years since I stood in line to see a film I had dreamed about since I was a little boy. Ever since I had first turned the pages of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, I had wondered what it would be like to see it on the big screen: the hobbits, the battles, the sweeping landscapes, the blood and thunder. When I read that the director Peter Jackson was filming a trilogy of Tolkien’s masterpiece in New Zealand, I felt almost sick with anxiety. Would it be terrible? Would they sound like the All Blacks? What were they going to do about Tom Bombadil?
Full disclosure – huge fan.