A federal judge in Manhattan tossed an indictment against a Bronx shooting suspect because of a lack of racial diversity in the White Plains grand jury pool — the first such ruling since city cases were moved to the suburban county amid the pandemic.
Judge Analisa Torres sided with defendant William Scott, who had argued that black and Hispanic people were underrepresented in the grand jury pool that returned an indictment against him in June of last year.
OTTAWA — The parliamentary budget officer says it could cost the government $756 million to buy back guns now prohibited in the country, depending on how many there are in Canada and how the Liberals structure the program.
The high-end buyback figure is the budget officer’s estimate for how much it would cost for the government to buy back every gun that the industry estimates is owned across Canada.
Court documents unsealed last week reveal that the RCMP intends to charge a Canadian ISIS foreign fighter with a string of terrorism offences.
Since his capture by U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in January 2019, Mohammed Khalifa, a self-confessed ISIS fighter from Toronto, has been held at a prison in northeastern Syria.
An affidavit classified as “top secret” but unsealed by an Ontario Superior Court judge last Tuesday reveals that the RCMP intends to charge Khalifa with four separate indictable offences, including participation in a known terrorist group — namely ISIS — and counselling others to commit a terrorism offence.
Okey Dokey – Ontario provides $300G to fight Islamophobia in schools
Note that one recipient, the Muslim Association of Canada is a Muslim Brotherhood affiliate. Our political class is evil.
This was “Reader”‘s idea and contribution, and we’ll be running a post each evening through Canada Day. Please join us in thanking him and enjoy the music! Some videos may be blocked in other countries.
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The narrative we’ve been force-fed for decades is being abandoned by its strictest adherents.
It may be the most astonishing story of the year that no one is paying much attention to. As the Wall Street Journal recently reported on their front page, “Chinese officials are drawing up plans to further loosen birth restrictions and transition toward policies that explicitly encourage childbirth,” (emphasis added). According to Chinese insiders, China, the most populous nation on the planet, is replacing its brutish childbirth restrictions with a program allowing, and even rewarding, couples for having kids. Beijing has announced that its demographic problem today is too few young people, not too many.
Meet the CRT burghers
“… When someone like Simon Campbell summons the US Constitution and the First Amendment to his side of the table, he has a point. CRT and its progeny are a doctrine aimed at delegitimizing America. These doctrines aim to unseat the US Constitution as a racist document. They see the First Amendment as protecting white supremacy by giving white people exclusive control over public speech. And they treat the whole dynamic of the county as a contest over ‘power’. In that contest, censorship by the proponents of CRT is fully warranted, since they are battling the unfair advantages of the white racist regime.”
Even with low rates, interest payments on Canada’s $1-trillion-plus national debt will increase by almost 60% this year, predicts a new study by the Fraser Institute.
“Interest costs rise from a budgeted $22.1 billion in 2021-22 to $35.2 billion, an increase of 59.4%” says the report, Interest Cost Risks to Government Budgets, by Jason Clemens, Milagros Palacios and Jake Fuss, released Tuesday.
Something is Sinking, and It’s Not Just the Dead Sea
The recently-aired episode of ABC Australia’s “Foreign Correspondent” program, titled “The Sinking Sea,” presents visually stunning images that convey a sense of loss of a major geographic feature of the Middle Eastern landscape. The video documentary by Eric Tlozek, ABC’s outgoing Middle East correspondent, focuses on the demise of the Dead Sea caused by the diminished supply of its tributary waters.
Tlozek’s tenure as ABC’s Middle East correspondent followed a long line of ABC journalists, including Sophie McNeill, who have faithfully pushed ABC’s anti-Israel agenda; in fact, McNeill will be the keynote speaker at the Australian Palestinian Advocacy Network’s annual dinner this month. Apparently, Tlozek and McNeill share more than an entry on their respective CVs.
Army officials had threatened Calvert with a reprimand after they became aware of comments he made that reflected his religious beliefs and thoughts on President Joe Biden’s decision to drop former President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military.
“How is rejecting reality (biology) not evidence that a person is mentally unfit (ill), and thus making that person unqualified to serve,” Calvert wrote in a Facebook comment in January. “There is little difference in this than over those who believe and argue for a ‘flat earth,’ despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.”
The commission of the official leaders’ debates for Canada’s elections says one of the criteria for participating in the next set is parties must have at least four per cent of national support.
Leaders’ Debates commissioner and former governor general David Johnston announced the eligibility rules for the next debates in French and English, while Ottawa swirls in possible election speculation.
The Anti-Maxccine!
An adviser to the Pentagon’s Counter-Extremism Working Group (CEWG) is warning the Biden administration’s efforts to purge the military of “extremists” could violate individual First Amendment rights.
A radical feminist law professor who was cancelled amid allegations of transphobia has revealed that she received a ‘passive aggressive’ email from a University of Reading student who called her views on gender politics ‘problematic’ and warned her to ‘choose her words carefully’.
Human rights lawyer Rosa Freedman, who does not believe men can become women by surgery, shared images of a letter from Alex Wareham in which he says he is working with professors to ‘identify problematic areas within the university which is (sic) holding it back from equality’.
Mr Wareham says he intends to discuss the University of Reading lecturer and her ”gender critical’ talks’ but would ‘prefer to talk to you personally about this issue and your opinion on trans rights’ rather than ‘sum up your feelings from a few talks, twitter threads, emails, and press coverage’.
An Ontario Superior Court has shot down a constitutional challenge by a Toronto eatery that publicly defied pandemic lockdown rules.
Scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday, the challenge filed by Adamson Barbecue owner Adam Skelly got off to a rocky start after the virtual courtroom immediately hit its 500-attendee maximum, initially preventing participating lawyers and even the judge from accessing the proceeding from their computers.
I suspect I am not alone in this, but the last few months, and in particular these last few weeks have brought my nostalgia for the days of Stephen Harper’s governance to an incandescent pitch.
Antifa Is Real. Real Ugly.
For leftist politicians who don’t believe antifa is real, this may come as a shock. Ryan Howe has been identified by the feds as having ties to antifa, and the pink-haired pinko has pled guilty to federal charges.
