During his first public speech in three months, former President Donald Trump spoke about the 2020 election, COVID-19 and the current administration. But Americans focused on his attire, specifically, the way Trump appeared to wear his pants.
Kim’s Convenience stars decry ‘racist’ storylines and lack of diversity
Actors from the hit Canadian sitcom Kim’s Convenience have spoken out about what they say is the show’s poor approach to depicting Korean Canadians.
Co-stars Simu Liu and Jean Yoon voiced their frustrations on social media with an “overwhelmingly white” production team and “overtly racist” storylines.
MSNBC contributor ‘disturbed’ to see ‘dozens of American flags’ on Long Island
“I was on Long Island this weekend visiting a really dear friend, and I was really disturbed. I saw, you know, dozens and dozens of pickup trucks with [expletives] against Joe Biden on the back of them, Trump flags, and, in some cases, just dozens of American flags, which is also just disturbing … Essentially, the message was clear … This is my country. This is not your country. I own this,” Mara Gay said Tuesday on MSNBC.
Canada’s border agency urgently developing biometric plans in response to COVID-19
Canada’s border agency has an “urgent need” to hire a global technology firm to help develop a biometric strategy in response to rapidly evolving issues including COVID-19.
The Canada Border Services Agency issued a notice of procurement Monday inviting 15 firms to submit proposals for immediately setting up an Office of Biometrics and Identity Management.
Gender and race quotas could result from attorney generals’ stance on school discipline
Does anyone seriously doubt that boys misbehave more than girls in school? Until recently, no one would have disputed that, since surveys of students show that boys get into fights at twice the rate girls do. In those same surveys, conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics, blacks say they get into fights at more than twice the rate whites do on school grounds.
Continental Breakfast
Demoralize & Divide: Former Trudeau Senate Representative Tries Twisting Canada’s History To Push Chinese Communist Party-Style Messaging
When the Conservatives raised concerns about China and Canada’s National Microbiology Lab, Justin Trudeau accused Conservatives of racism.
Of course, that is similar to what the Chinese Communist Party itself claims, as they seek to silence criticism.
China knows how to manipulate the West, and they know that accusations of racism will coerce many people into pathetic submission.
They have also repeatedly claimed that Canada shouldn’t say anything about genocide in Xinjiang Province, due to Canada’s history of Residential Schools.
The Broadcasting Act Betrayal: The Long Term Consequences of the Guilbeault Gag Order
Several weeks after Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault introduced Bill C-10, I started a 20 part blog post series called the Broadcasting Act Blunder (podcast edition here). The series examined many of concerns with the bill, including issues such as over-broad regulation and discoverability requirements that would only garner public attention many months later. I thought about that series yesterday as I watched Guilbeault try in the House of Commons to defend the indefensible: a gag order on committee review of the bill, the first such order in two decades. While the bill is in dire need of fixing, what occurred yesterday was far worse than a blunder. It was a betrayal. A betrayal of the government’s commitment to “strengthen Parliamentary committees so that they can better scrutinize legislation.” A betrayal of the promise to do things differently from previous governments. A betrayal of Canada’s values as a Parliamentary democracy.
Patrice Dutil: If Ryerson falls, then everything must go
The names we give to public institutions remind us of our history. Most honour people who espoused great ambition and selfless courage — values that teachers, students and citizens should honour.
FNC’s Carlson: Biden Admin Immigration Policy ‘the Most Radical Possible Attack on the Core Premise of Democracy’
Monday, FNC host Tucker Carlson opened his program by mocking the Biden administration approach under Vice President Kamala Harris to immigration.
Carlson called the lax immigration standards, which have allowed mass demographic shifts in parts of the country, an attack on democracy.
Obama plays dumb on critical race theory, pretends it does not auger radical change to society
Former Pres. Barack Obama sat for an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper in which he remarked on the prominent role critical race theory has come to occupy in our public conversation and in schools, where lesson plans are being shaped around it.
Twitter Whines that Access is a ‘Human Right,’ Still Claims Banning Conservatives is Proper
Trying to defeat a ban of its platform in Nigeria, Twitter claimed that free and open access to the Internet is a “human right,” even as it continues to defend the deplatforming of all conservatives.
What if Proof of 2020 Presidential Election Fraud Develops?
If the last month has taught us anything, today’s conspiracy theory could easily be tomorrow’s commonsense truth. The speed at which the Wuhan Lab theory as the source of the Covid virus went from “thoroughly debunked” to “Viable” and “Probable” in the media was extraordinary. Indeed, the media scorned the possible source of the most economically destructive virus in history – one that is credited with killing 3 million people – because they didn’t like the then-President of the United States!
Despite the fact that the lab in Wuhan was one of the only places on earth where scientists were studying such viruses, that 3 Wuan employees went to the hospital in November 2019 with what turned out to be Covid symptoms, that the NIH had actually been funding “gain of function” research in Wuhan focusing specifically on the transmission of such viruses to humans… we were told the Wuhan “China virus” theory was a racist conspiracy theory!
How Democrats Created a Carjacking Outbreak
BLM race riots and pandemic lockdowns made carjacking into big business.
Carjacking is booming like no form of crime in Biden’s America. Homicides are up, especially in those cities that defunded their police, pharmacies are going out of business in San Francisco and other cities where shoplifting was legalized, but stealing cars is where it’s really at now.
Carjackings more than doubled in Chicago, and increased 537% in Minneapolis, the capital of police defunding, and around 500% in Washington D.C.
Trump Will Never Be Silenced
On Saturday, former President Trump spoke at the North Carolina GOP Convention dinner, and boy did he ever remind his nearly 75 million voters why they miss him. For 90 minutes the former president was just as energetic, comedic, and entertaining as ever. It was quite a stark contrast from the current occupant of the White House, who has yet to step foot inside the James S. Brady Briefing Room since becoming president and has held exactly one “press conference,” in which he read slowly off notecards and was carried through the embarrassing affair by sycophantic reporters, who spoke to him as if they were interviewing a child.
Beijing’s useful idiots – Science journals have encouraged and enforced a false Covid narrative
Just over a year ago, I stumbled across an intriguing scientific paper. It suggested the pandemic that was ripping around the world was “uniquely adapted to infect humans”; it was “not typical of a normal zoonotic infection” since it first appeared with “exceptional” ability to enter human cells. The author of the paper, Nikolai Petrovsky, was frank about the disease when we spoke back then, saying its adaptability was either “a remarkable coincidence or a sign of human intervention”. He even broke the scientific omertà by daring to admit that “no one can say a laboratory leak is not a possibility”.
Swedish Professor Ridiculed for Suggesting to Change ‘Outdated and Offensive’ National Anthem
According to Professor Frank Lindblad, the current anthem contains references to the time of the Swedish empire and thus celebrates invasion and pillaging.
Professor Frank Lindblad has ruffled many feathers by suggesting that the Swedish national anthem is offensive and outdated, and on National Day at that.
In particular, it is the second verse that prompted ire from Lindblad, a child psychiatrist and professor emeritus, who brought forth his own suggestions for re-writing.
The narcissistic fall of France – Is the country really on the brink of civil war?
“I look on every side and all I see is darkness.”
I use that quote from Pascal (Pensées, 229) because I am not setting out to assert positive truths nor to defend opinions. I see a situation which — as Pascal writes in his next sentence — “offers nothing but cause for doubt and anxiety”.
In asking me to give an opinion on the now celebrated “Letter of the Generals,” UnHerd‘s Will Lloyd rightly notes: “What seems most extraordinary about the furore that followed is that so few people questioned the premise of the letter — that France is on the point of collapse.”
Major internet outage ‘shows infrastructure needs urgent fixing’
One of the world’s biggest web outages should act as a “wakeup call” that internet infrastructure has become dangerously over-centralised and lacks resilience, security experts have warned.
An unexplained configuration error at a single infrastructure provider, Fastly, which handles 10% of the world’s internet traffic, was enough to render major websites and services inoperable for almost an hour on Tuesday morning.
Online businesses including Reddit, Amazon, Twitch, Spotify and Hulu were knocked offline, as was the Guardian’s website, the BBC, the New York Times, and CNN. National governments were also caught up: gov.uk was unavailable, making a host of government services inaccessible include the Covid vaccines booking site, as was the website for the White House.
The Screamers
Some of us have been screaming for several years now about the urgency of awakening a slumbering Jewish world as to the dangers of dismissing, excusing, and normalizing anti-Zionism.
“You think it’s over? It’s not o-ver,” my Great-Aunt Lee used to warn me, in a singsong voice, her forced smile wrapped up with some sort of awful knowing. “Antisemitism isn’t over. It’s never o-ver.”
My dear Aunt Lee was clearly crazy, I’d think. Superstitiously spitting-after-compliments crazy. What antisemitism?
Who Loses When the China Bat Cave Implodes?
The story about Wuhan’s “wet market” is taking on water. We’ve moved well past the “trust but verify” stage. We’re now in the “don’t trust a damn thing they say” stage. In this case, “they” refers mostly to the Chinese Communist Party. But the public’s mistrust has spread to our own government’s public health experts, and to much of the Western media, as well.
We still don’t know where the COVID-19 pandemic originated, but the more we learn, the less China’s official story sounds right.