One early December morning in 2016, Joe Biden got up, inquired into President Barack Obama’s health, and set off for a snowy Ottawa.
The lame duck vice-president was feted at a ritzy state dinner in the capital, where he called on Justin Trudeau to be a defender of the international “rules of the road” during the period of deep uncertainty he predicted would follow Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 45th president of the United States.
The left’s war on language, civil rights, and reality continues apace – this time in New York.
Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday, in honor of “Transgender Awareness Week,” signed a bill forcing utility providers to use their customers’ preferred names and pronouns.
“As we witness attacks on LGBTQ+ rights and protections around the country, New York is once again declaring that we are a state for all – one where we don’t needlessly criminalize victims and where our trans, gender non-binary, and gender non-conforming communities are affirmed,” Hochul said in a statement about the bill.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could have balanced the federal budget in 2025/26, including all of the government’s COVID-19 spending, if he had spent taxpayers’ money responsibly upon coming into office in 2015, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.
‘I AM a woman. This is bullying’: Iranian women’s goalkeeper denies claim she is a man and says she will sue the Jordanian FA after they demanded a ‘gender verification check’
There may be less drama in this relationship since Mr Biden took office but it hasn’t been smooth sailing and there are rough seas on the horizon.
One observer has said what was once a strategic partnership has become a “largely transactional” relationship.
A big bone of contention is Mr Biden’s embrace of “Buy American” which has become central to his trade agenda.
Critics argue such protectionist policies would increase the costs of goods to consumers and potentially shut out Canadian companies from lucrative US contracts. Alarm bells are ringing “a little louder right now for me”, Flavio Volpe, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association, told the BBC.
I don’t think Biden is driving the electric bus on trade issues, likely not on any issue for that matter. His handlers are and they need to please Big Labour.
Ont. reports more than 700 new COVID-19 cases, highest single-day total since late Sept.
Ontario is reporting more than 700 new COVID-19 infections today, the highest daily case count recorded in the province in nearly two months.
Provincial health officials logged 711 new COVID-19 cases today, up from 512 on Wednesday and 642 one week ago.
Canada to drop negative PCR test requirement for shorter cross-border trips
The federal government is expected to announce later this week it is dropping the negative PCR test requirement for Canadians returning from the U.S. for any trip less than 72 hours.
The policy change will cover both citizens and permanent residents. It is expected the new rules will come into effect at the end of November or early December.
COVID-19: Germany considers re+strictions for unvaccinated people amid warning of ‘really terrible Christmas’ as cases surge
“The current pandemic situation in Germany is dramatic, I can’t say it any other way,” Mrs Merkel said on Wednesday.
“The fourth wave is hitting our country with full force.”
Authorities are considering bringing in added curbs to halt the virus, particularly as Germany is lagging behind on jab rates, with nearly 68% of the population fully vaccinated – lower than the average in Western Europe.
Of all the willful lies and omissions in the media’s coverage of the Steele dossier, Brian Sicknick, the Covington kids, Jussie Smollett, the Wuhan lab, Hunter Biden’s laptop and so on, nothing beats the evil propaganda peddled about Kyle Rittenhouse.
They try to make the Rittenhouse case about race, but it’s about class, punching down at the white working-class son of a single mother because they don’t see him as fully human, and it makes them feel good.
They lie about him because they can.
No verdict yet.
Marc and Craig Kielburger’s WE Charity routinely misled school-aged children and wealthy philanthropists across North America for years as it solicited millions for schoolhouses in Kenya and other projects in its Adopt-A-Village program, an investigation by CBC’s The Fifth Estate has found.
Slick marketing videos, congratulatory social media posts and crowdfunding websites across the internet tell the story of two brothers on a mission to change the world, but under closer scrutiny those digital crumbs lead down a trail of contradictions and deception.
“I don’t know how they thought they could get away with it for so long,” said a former WE employee. CBC agreed to conceal their identity because they were concerned about legal reprisals from the charity for speaking out.
The future for transgender and intersex athletes to compete in the Olympic Games is being rewritten by the International Olympic Committee, which issued a stunning new set of guidelines Tuesday which did not, as expected, lower the criteria for intersex and trans women’s testosterone levels, and instead handed eligibility rules over to individual sports agencies.
According to state institutions, Canada’s inflation rate is 4.7%. Many doubt that number, as the rise in prices appears to be much higher, and it is well-known that statist politicians have a clear interest in downplaying inflation and keeping the reported number as low as possible.
Whatever the true rate is, it is clear that prices are rising quite rapidly.
However, even that is a bit of a misnomer.
It’s not really that ‘prices’ are going up, rather the value of our money is going down.
Imagine what it must have been like for Kamala Harris this past Sunday evening to be scrolling through the newsfeed on her smartphone only to come across what is typically a Democrat’s “reliable source” at CNN and finding the headline: Exasperation and dysfunction: Inside Kamala Harris’ frustrating start as vice president, on that team left rag’s landing page. The lengthy piece was very critical of her and her VP team’s role in the current Biden administration. She must have wondered what she had done to find herself suddenly under attack.
According to the Justice Centre For Constitutional Freedoms, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has passed Bill 10, titled the Alberta Public Health(Emergency Powers) Amendment Act.
Incredibly, the bill provides unprecedented powers to any government minister at the stroke of a pen. The passing of the bill means that under the Alberta Public Health Act, MLA’s can create, implement and enforce news laws–without the law being approved by the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
The mother of the teenage girl who was raped by a boy in a skirt in a Virginia school bathroom says she and her husband were pressured to remain silent about the incident, and had no idea their daughter’s attacker had been allowed back in school until last month.
‘We were silenced for many months,’ Jessica Smith told DailyMail.com, in her first interview since her daughter was sexually assaulted by a 15-year-old classmate at Stone Bridge High School in Loudoun County in May.
‘We were told not to say a word that could jeopardize our daughter’s case.’
For one of the only times since the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railroad in 1885, every single Canadian land route to the Pacific has been cut. Extreme rains brought a series of devastating floods and landslides that have severed the Trans Canada Highway, the Coquihalla Highway and both major rail lines over the Rocky Mountains. Unstable conditions have also forced the closure of the Trans Mountain pipeline and critical gas pipelines serving the City of Vancouver.
