According to an insider, who has known R Kelly for decades, “[R Kelly] and his team are working with the feds to reduce his prison time. He’ll provide evidence against other celebrities who were pedophiles, and they’ll reduce his sentence.”
TCS Interviews Maxime Bernier on the future of the PPC
With the 2021 General Election over and the results finalized, Canada is ostensibly in the same position as before Trudeau called the widely undesired snap election.
However, one thing has changed: the People’s Party of Canada is more popular than ever.
North Carolina County to Discipline, Fire Teachers Who Say America and Founders Are Racist
A North Carolina school board has adopted a policy that would discipline or dismiss teachers if they incorporate critical race theory (CRT) into their teaching of the history of the United States.
Quebec premier says last week’s debates on racism lacked compassion for First Nations
Legault said today on Facebook that last week’s debates on racism did not strike the right tone, because they occurred on the first anniversary of the death of Joyce Echaquan and later, on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
Taiwan warns it is preparing for war with China
Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu is sounding the alarm on a looming war between the island nation and Communist China.
Wu says if China were to actually strike, Taiwan would be ready to defend itself.
Continental Breakfast
English Muffin Breakfast Pizza
As Canada Honors Indigenous Children, Judge Rejects Trudeau Challenge to Compensation
As Canada marked its first-ever National Day of Truth and Reconciliation on Thursday to honor the victims and survivors of brutal anti-Indigenous policies, rights advocates celebrated a major Federal Court ruling in favor of tens of thousands of Indigenous people who were taken from their families in recent decades.
Canadian province issues new COVID rules that let gov’t seize private property
Saskatchewan officials may ‘authorize the entry into any building or on any land, without warrant, by any person in the course of implementing an emergency plan.’
A very big week looms for O’Toole and the future of Canadian conservatism
At noon on Tuesday, O’Toole’s top campaign advisors will give a presentation at a private conservative club in Toronto. The event is billed as a “post-election debrief,” where “campaign insiders… share their insights on the campaign and where the party goes from here.”
Another Toronto “journalist” lets his mask slip. https://t.co/JxkZRIsHWm
— Cupcake (@Cupcake51637802) October 4, 2021
h/t Miss Trixie
Can’t make it up: Transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard named “sportswoman of the year”
Really though, I think you need to understand that this isn’t satire.
A biological man has been named “sportswoman of the year”.
Dems Tuck Multibillion-Dollar Handout to Illegal Immigrants Into Reconciliation
Families, regardless of their legal status, would be eligible to receive checks of $3,600 per year per child. The Democratic bill would amount to a universal basic income for parents residing in the country. Under U.S. law, illegal immigrants are barred from enjoying the benefits of federal entitlements.
Facebook’s Commissioners of Truth
These collaborators, who call themselves fact-checkers or “fact-checkers”, are not much different from the truth commissars of communist, socialist and Nazi tyrannies.
Are the Russia hoax’s ‘big fish’ finally in John Durham’s crosshairs?
Of the many positions Kash Patel held during Trump’s presidency, his most important was as an aide to Devin Nunes when the latter worked doggedly to reveal that the Democrats’ Russiagate charges were a hoax coming from the Democrat party—specifically, from Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Given Patel’s insider’s knowledge of events, it means something when he appears on Maria Bartiromo’s Fox show on Sunday mornings and says that he believes that Special Prosecutor John Durham is on the verge of issuing some serious indictments against big players in the Russia hoax.
The New Secession Movement – States increasingly look to ban travel and business with other American locales.
A new poll from the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics finds that large portions of the American public now favor blue and red states going their own ways to form separate countries. The survey results, writes political scientist Larry Sabato, highlight the “deep, wide and dangerous divides” between Trump and Biden voters, presaging a new secession movement. But the schism was already evident in the increasing number of state and local officials enacting laws and policies that ban travel and restrict commerce with other American places with governments they object to—a trend that the Covid-19 emergency has only deepened. In everything from tax policy to travel to contracting rules, a secession movement within the states has been building for years.
St Andrews reverts to 16th Century Calvinism
Instead of original sin, students now have to acknowledge ‘personal guilt’
You would be forgiven for thinking that universities are secular institutions. But it turns out that the University of St Andrews is reverting to something akin to 16th Century Calvinism: except that this time it is preaching the doctrine of ‘personal guilt’ rather than ‘original sin.’
The university has introduced new induction modules for students (or should I say converts?) for students on sustainability, diversity and consent, and will not allow students to matriculate if they do not pass. How do students pass? By agreeing with certain statements, such as “acknowledging your personal guilt is a useful start point in overcoming unconscious bias.”
Oh, so now the woke left cares about misogyny?
Sorry, but you can’t spend years calling feminists ‘bigots’ and then suddenly claim to care about women’s safety.
If there was a prize for brass neck, the Guardian would win it hands down. After it was revealed that Wayne Couzens’ vile misogynistic behaviour included acts of indecent exposure, the Guardian started wringing its hands over the scourge of flashing and the terrible impact it can have on the women subjected to it. ‘Women face “epidemic” of indecent exposure’, it said in a frontpage splash on Saturday. This is the same Guardian, the very same one, which just a few weeks ago devoted a huge amount of journalistic resources to trying to rubbish an alleged act of indecent exposure. The same Guardian which decided to cast doubt, and aspersions, on a woman of colour who had raised the alarm about a bloke allegedly exposing himself to women and children.
Slowly, Then All at Once
… Is it a coincidence, by the way, that four officers of the Federal Reserve have been outed for trading stocks and bonds in a pattern that looks an awful lot like front-running the Fed’s own “guidance?” Robert S. Kaplan, head of the Dallas Fed, and Eric Rosengren, head of the Boston Fed announced their “early retirements” last week over stock-trading ethics issues. Fed Vice-chair Richard Clarida’s financial disclosure statement indicated that he dumped millions of dollars in a Pimco bond fund and jammed them into a Pimco stock fund the day before Fed Chair Jerome Powell announced emergency interventions to battle the Covid-19 epidemic in early 2020. Mr. Clarida was involved in deliberations leading to the change in fed policy. And Richmond Fed president Thomas Barkin is under scrutiny for voting to bail out the corporate bond market while sitting on a portfolio of corporate bonds. In his past role as CFO of McKinsey & Co, a global consulting firm, Barkin advised Purdue Pharma L.P. on maximizing sales of its painkiller OxyContin, the infamous scourge of the US opioid epidemic.
h/t Mauser
Kamala Harris panders to antisemitism
When it comes to the Democrats, the fish now rots from the head
Kamala Harris’s pandering to antisemitism in a photo-op at George Mason University on Wednesday confirms that when it comes to the Democrats, the fish now rots from the head.
What should a vice president of the United States say when a foreign student ambushes her with boilerplate lies – in this case, lies which fit her State Department’s own definition of how the more fantastical forms of anti-Zionism are in fact antisemitism?
Our Woke National Icons
Milley, Fauci, and Biden are soulless men who reveal the bankruptcy of our ruling class.
As we watch events unfold in 2021, obvious questions about the fitness of our national leaders present themselves. Who are these new woke national icons and how did they come to lord it over the rest of us? Here are some observations by way of preliminary explanation.
Diane Francis: Why Britain wants to help shore up Canada’s Arctic defences
Canada’s ‘true north strong and free’ is neither strong nor free
Canada has failed to protect its national interests in the Arctic, in the face of increasingly aggressive Russian (and Chinese) expansionism, which has prompted the United States to pick up some of the slack. Now the British want to join forces, too.
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Canada formally requests negotiations with U.S. over Line 5 pipeline dispute
The federal government has invoked a 1977 pipeline treaty in an effort to settle the Line 5 pipeline dispute.
The Enbridge Inc. pipeline, which runs through Michigan from the Wisconsin city of Superior to Sarnia, Ont., crosses the Great Lakes beneath the environmentally sensitive Straits of Mackinac, which links Lake Michigan to Lake Huron.