Conservative member attacking O’Toole’s leadership could be dropped from party council, president warns

The president of the Conservative Party says party national council member Bert Chen’s sponsorship of a petition “attacking” leader Erin O’Toole puts him at risk of being dropped from the council.

“When you hold an office in the party, there’s an expectation that your conduct is such that it doesn’t detract or harm the interests or the reputation of … the national council on which you serve … the party and … the leader,” Rob Batherson, president of the Conservative Party of Canada, told CBC News.

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Pro-migrant Italian mayor sentenced to 13 years for abetting illegal migration, fraud

The former mayor of an Italian town who revitalised his community by welcoming and integrating migrants has been sentenced to more than 13 years in jail for abetting illegal migration and for “irregularities” in managing the asylum seekers.

Domenico Lucano, 63, known locally as Mimmo, the former mayor of Riace, a tiny hilltop town in the southern Calabria region, was put under house arrest in 2018 for allegedly abetting illegal immigration, embezzlement, and fraud.

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Danish museum wants artist to pay back money after producing blank canvasses

A Danish museum wants an artist to return around 534,000 kroner ($83,000) he had been given in cash to recreate old artworks using banknotes, after he produced blank canvasses with the title “Take the Money and Run”.

Jens Haaning, a Danish artist, was commissioned by the Kunsten Museum.

He was asked to reproduce two of his works representing the annual salary in Denmark and Austria.

But the artist pocketed the cash and produced the blank canvasses.

I’ll do a couple of stick men for a few hundred.

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Rex Murphy: More reasons some Canadians distrust the powers-that-be

I ended my last column on COVID contradictions from our political and medical authorities with a reference to last summer’s Black Lives Matter protests, one of which was ornamented by an appearance (mask on, knee bent) by our own prime minister. These protests were declared medically welcome, if not necessary, in a time of COVID. That opinion was trumpeted in a major media statement by 1,200 “medical authorities.”  This was during the same period when eight or nine people clustered at a park picnic table to munch on chicken wings was understood as likely to spark the advent of Black Death 2.0.

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B.C. server who was fired after asking to be addressed by correct pronouns awarded $30K

A former server at a Gibsons, B.C. restaurant has been awarded $30,000 after a B.C. Human Rights Tribunal decision found they were unfairly terminated for asking managers and co-workers to call them by their proper pronouns.

The decision, by the tribunal’s Devyn Cousineau, found that Jessie Nelson, a non‐binary, gender fluid, transgender person who uses they/them pronouns, was terminated because of “how they responded to discrimination” from their employer and a colleague.

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Liberals expected to tackle online hate, conversion therapy in next government’s first 100 days

Aside from COVID-19, the digital world will be a major focus of Parliament once it resumes this fall, with several significant pieces of legislation expected to be introduced — or reintroduced — by the government.

The Liberals have promised to table several major bills within the government’s first 100 days, with the clock beginning to tick following the new cabinet’s swearing-in, expected to be in October.

Among the bills is legislation to establish a regulatory system for social media platforms to combat harmful online content, and making digital giants pay news outlets for their work.

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Indigenous children set to receive billions after judge rejects Trudeau challenges

A federal court in Canada has paved they way for billions in compensation to First Nations children who suffered discrimination in the welfare system, after a judge dismissed a pair of legal challenges by the government.

Two years ago, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruled that the federal government had “wilfully and recklessly” discriminated against Indigenous children living on reserves by failing to properly fund child and family services.

The tribunal ruled the federal government was required to pay compensation worth C$40,000 to each child removed from his or her home – the maximum allowable under the country’s human rights act.

I feel so reconciled.

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Families of ISIS detainees in Syria take Canada to court over inaction on repatriation

TORONTO — Families of Canadians detained in Syria over links to ISIS have filed a case in federal court against the Canadian government over perceived inaction on getting them home.

The proceeding was filed on Monday in Ottawa on behalf of 11 families – referred to as “Bring Our Loved Ones Home,” or BOLOH, to protect their identities. The case outlines their beliefs the government has neglected to uphold parts of the Federal Court Act, the Citizenship Act, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, in relation to repatriating their family members.

I bet Trudeau is mulling a National Day Of Reconciliation with ISIS Day.

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Democrats’ Socialist Spending Spree Sneaks in a $700,000 Fine for Biden’s Vaccine Mandate

Currently, Democrats in Washington are pushing a $3.5 trillion socialist spending spree through the halls of Congress with a completely partisan reconciliation process. Despite razor-thin majorities in both chambers of Congress and no clear mandate from the American people, Democrats intend to ram through every left-wing priority possible into their disastrous tax and spend package.

Their “human infrastructure” package includes everything from free college tuition to the Green New Deal. To make matters worse, the bill gives lavish tax breaks to the political allies of the Democratic Party while saddling future American generations with unfathomable amounts of debt.

As if there weren’t already enough in the Democrats’ reconciliation package for the American people to be up in arms about, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats snuck in a last-minute addition that would increase fines for Joe Biden’s invasive vaccine mandate by 1,000 percent.

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Journalism association asks RCMP to investigate Maxime Bernier over tweets

The People’s Party of Canada is doubling down after the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) issued a call for the RCMP to investigate party leader Maxime Bernier over a tweet.

“The CAJ is mindful that several sections of the Criminal Code prohibit the willful promotion of hatred. For this reason, we urge the RCMP, and other law enforcement bodies, to launch investigations immediately,” the CAJ said in a press release.

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