US Representative Cori Bush exercised her liberties as an American and member of Congress to contend that, as the nation celebrates Independence Day, it continues to occupy stolen land and deny freedom to black people.
“When they say that the 4th of July is about American freedom, remember this: The freedom they’re referring to is for white people,” Bush said Sunday on Twitter. “This land is stolen land, and black people still aren’t free.”
Ont. reports 170 new COVID-19 cases today, 1 death
Ontario is reporting fewer than 200 new COVID-19 cases today for the second time in the past week.
Provincial health officials logged 170 new infections on Monday, down from 213 on Sunday and 210 last Monday.
Vaccine passports ignite debate over privacy vs. public health
As a steadily rising number of fully vaccinated Canadians emerge from hiding to test the gradual return to pre-pandemic normalcy, a conundrum looms: what to do about those who, for whatever reason, haven’t had a shot?
Striking the proper balance between public health and personal freedom, and figuring out whether one must be relinquished to protect the other, will become increasingly key as the country reopens.
Virtually any article by CBC can be considered gov’t propaganda.
More questions are being raised about a secretive, China-funded globalist center at the University of Pennslyvania after Joe Biden nominated the university’s president to be the next U.S. ambassador to Germany.
The Statue of Liberty is a “symbol of hypocrisy or unfulfilled promises” the Washington Post’s Philip Kennicott said in an essay published Saturday.
On July 1, several thousand Indigenous people and settler and immigrant allies answered the call of organizations like Idle No More to protest the celebration of Canada Day and the ongoing genocide of Indigenous peoples. Cancel Canada Day actions took place across the land occupied by the Canadian state, from St. John’s, Newfoundland, in the east, to Victoria, B.C., including a march of thousands to parliament in Ottawa.
GETTR, a Twitter-style platform with posts and trending topics, has advertised itself on the Google and Apple app stores as “a non-bias social network for people all over the world.
It’s tempting to say the danger posed by anti-vaxxers would justify their views being banned. That would be wrong.
National Public Radio (NPR) denounced the Declaration of Independence on the Fourth of July because of terms it deemed offensive.
House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) criticized the Declaration of Independence in a tweet on July 4th, suggesting it is a racist document because it was written almost 250 years ago, when there was slavery in the United States.
Even as restrictions begin to ease for adults, life isn’t getting any easier for children in Canada.
Despite the fact that COVID-19 hits kids less severely than adults, public officials continue to enforce strict lockdown measures in schools, playgrounds and more.
Redeemer University met all the conditions for funding but were rejected anyway after a ‘cursory search of the Internet’ by a Service Canada bureaucrat, ruled a judge.
If you have been vaccinated against the coronavirus, you probably received a celebratory “I got my COVID-19 vaccine” sticker or posted a picture on social media marking the momentous occasion.
As an increasing number of Canadians get ready for a two-dose summer, there are other ways to let people know you’re fully vaccinated – and therefore safer to be around.
Ronny Jackson says Trump took cognitive exam and says Biden should do the same.
“I think one of my greatest achievements is explaining to people that the media in this country is corrupt,” Trump said. “Their credibility is at an all-time low. Did I have anything to do with that? I think so.” Trump stated, in reference to national news networks comparing President Biden to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 34th President of the United States.
“Since no one was killed during apprehension it’s safe to assume that it was a vehicle full of white men loaded with weapons,” yet another wrote. “Just saying. Police can actually defuse situations when they want to, huh.”
There was an editorial last week in The Free Beacon positing that due to anti-Semitism within its ranks, the Democrat party will mimic the electoral defeat of England’s Labor Party, which is similarly plagued by anti-Semitism. The Ilhan Omar–Ocasio-Cortez–Tlaib trio, as well as many members of various Democrat congressional caucuses, are open enemies of Israel’s existence and redolent with anti-Semitic pejoratives. The Beacon’s theory is that just as Jeremy Corbyn’s Labor Party was shunned by Jews and many in the public, thereby losing the last election to the Tories, so will Democrats lose to Republicans in 2022. Nancy Pelosi in the House and Chuck Schumer in the Senate, though themselves not anti-Semitic or anti-Israel, continue to allow this anti-Semitism in their party, and Pelosi goes farther by publicly and proudly embracing the Squad and especially Omar.
Will it come to pass in North America? Not so sure about that.
China’s genocide against its Uyghur ethnic minority in Xinjiang, also known as East Turkestan, presses on. Up to 1.8 million Uyghurs and other minorities have been detained in extrajudicial “re-education camps” where deaths, torture and political indoctrination take place. This genocidal campaign seems now specifically to be targeting Uyghur intellectuals. Hundreds have been taken into internment camps, disappeared or died in custody. Among them are professors, journalists, medical researchers, doctors, actors, poets, publishers, writers and students. They are often subjected to harsher prison sentences, as well as death sentences. Many are missing.
Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism sheds light on today’s socially isolated world.
Can we understand the extensive range of draconian measures designed to contain the Covid-19 pandemic as being, in some way, totalitarian?
By any historical standard, these measures were certainly hugely repressive. Although they varied from region to region, and nation to nation, in many cases they amounted to a system of mass house arrest. People were often forbidden to leave their homes, except under the most stringent conditions. And when they were allowed out, there were often strict limits on how far they could travel, what they could do and when they had to return.
