Premier Jason Kenney says he admires Quebec’s attempt to declare itself a “nation” in Canada’s Constitution.
In fact, he feels Quebec is leading the way for Alberta to assert its own powers and identity.
h/t Marvin
Canada is gearing up to reopen. Can it last?
Much of Canada is on the verge of reopening again, with hard-hit provinces lifting lockdowns and mapping out a path to something vaguely resembling normal, while trying desperately to avoid making the mistakes of the past.
The latest advantage we have on our side is COVID-19 vaccines — the Get Out of Jail Free card that will help parts of the country that have been reluctant to impose strict public health measures mitigate another reopening disaster.
“Vaccines are going to blunt the damage of the rush to reopen, but I’d tend to go cautiously and stepwise,” said Dr. David Fisman, an epidemiologist at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health. “The single most important thing we can do right now is get people vaccinated.”
Islamic cleric who showed support for Israel is forced to flee his home after masked militants smashed way into home
A prominent Islamic cleric who voiced support for Israel has been forced out of his home after a terrifying late-night attack by masked militants.
Nahiem Ajmal, a leading moderate with a huge following on YouTube, was asleep at home in Birmingham with his wife and two young daughters when thugs smashed windows and his front door before storming inside.
They were angered by comments made by the 41-year-old cleric – known to his followers as Mufti Abu Layth – last August in an hour-long lecture where he argued for Palestine to be handed over to Israel to settle the bitter conflict.
Meanwhile in England the Pallies are still messing up the streets.
First time to feel there could be any benefit from the millennium bridge. #FreePalestine #london4palestine #londonprotest pic.twitter.com/5NUkZT8UPh
— Mahmoud Saber (@Aouds) May 22, 2021
Cruel and Unusual Prosecutions – Federal charges against three of the officers in the George Floyd case are unwarranted and ill-advised.
The Biden Justice Department has announced that it will seek federal civil rights charges against the three police officers who, along with Derek Chauvin, participated in the fatal arrest of George Floyd. This decision can’t be reconciled with the Justice Department’s own policy guidelines on second prosecutions. What’s more, prosecuting these officers will have serious negative consequences for police work in this country.
Is the worst yet to come in the Middle East?
Almost the entire Israeli military and political establishment see an Iranian bomb as a flying holocaust
We can’t say yet if the latest fighting between Israel and Hamas is the start of ‘the big one’, a new Palestinian intifada, or uprising. That possibility was raised by the grandest of Middle East commentators, Thomas Friedman, in the New York Times. Friedman is sometimes mocked for his prognostications. A ‘Friedman’ is defined as six months because of his repeated statements that the ‘next six months’ would be critical for the US in Iraq, the light at the end of the tunnel visible only then. He also praised the ‘new ideas’ of Saudi Arabia’s ruler, Mohammed bin Salman, before it turned out that one of those new ideas was to dismember his critics with a bonesaw. Perhaps there will be another intifada, though as I write events are not moving that way. We should worry more about what the conflict between Israel and Hamas tells us about the real ‘big one’: war between Israel and Iran.
China has Greta’s number…
“Although she claims to be vegetarian, judging from the results of her growth, her carbon emissions are actually not low”, Ge wrote, labelling Thunberg an “environmental princess”.
My degree is at risk… because I said women have vaginas
Mature student Lisa Keogh went back to full-time education — to get a law degree — partly because she wanted to set a good example to her children.
She has two sons, aged nine and seven, who are learning about the birds and the bees at school. Previously, she would never have considered this to be a controversial subject — ‘It’s biology, isn’t it?’ — but not now.
Lisa, 29, is facing disciplinary action by Abertay University in Dundee after saying during a discussion on transgender issues in an online seminar that women were born with female genitals and the difference in physical strength between men and women ‘was a fact’.
Animal rights group blockades McDonald’s Depots
Animal rights protesters say they are blockading four McDonald’s distribution centres in the UK to stop deliveries to the fast-food chain’s 1,300 UK outlets.
Animal Rebellion said about 50 activists were using trucks and bamboo structures to stop lorries leaving depots in Hemel Hempstead, Basingstoke, Coventry and Heywood, Greater Manchester.
The group is targeting McDonald’s “for its role in the climate emergency”.
Self described “quality Muslim community media platform” calls for Jihad against Israel
Birmingham cleric calls for Islamic holy war on Israel
Radical Birmingham cleric Shaykh Asrar Rashid, who once labelled the Queen a “disgusting woman”, has called on Muslim states to wage holy war and launch air strikes to drive “cowardly” Jews out of Israel.
In a chilling video on Islamic news site 5Pillars, the Birmingham cleric said the “only solution” to the Israel conflict was “jihad” by Muslim-majority countries.
He called for air strikes on Tel Aviv, which, he boasted, would have Israelis with European passports “running back to Europe” as he mocked “the Jews … as a cowardly nation”.
German Police Downplaying Antisemitism From Muslim Community, Say Experts, Following Latest Outburst of Jew Hatred
Antisemitic acts committed by Muslims or left-wing activists are under-represented in the records of the German police, Germany’s top antisemitism official has admitted, amid continuing antisemitic demonstrations in German cities sparked by the latest conflict between Israel and Hamas.
“Israel-related antisemitism has penetrated into the middle of society,” Felix Klein — the German federal government’s commissioner tasked with combating antisemitism — said in an interview with German radio on Friday.
“About 40 percent of society agrees with sentences like: ‘With what Israel is doing, I can understand if someone has something against Jews,’” Klein observed. “So an environment has been created that might not have existed in this form seven years ago [during the Israel-Gaza war of 2014].”
But what about all those great restaurants! If you import the adherents of a Bedouin Death Cult then you shouldn’t be at all surprised.
Jewish family took barrage of anti-Semitic insults — until a gun owner stepped in
A Jewish family was leaving a synagogue when a group of men drove by and insulted the family until an armed bystander got between them, a local CBS affiliate reported Thursday.
Eric Orgen said he was walking with his wife and daughter when the men yelled and threw garbage at the family, according to CBS12 News.
“They just started screaming some derogatory things towards Jewish people out the window,” Orgen told CBS12 News. The men said, “free Palestine, die Jew, F you Jew, I’m gonna rape your wife,” according to Orgen.
Downtown Minneapolis shooting leaves 2 dead, 8 injured
Ten people were shot, two of them fatally, when gunfire broke out outside a downtown Minneapolis nightclub overnight Saturday, capping an exceptionally violent night across the city.
The incident, one of the most casualty-laden shootings in the city’s history, occurred just before 2 a.m. outside Monarch, 322 N. 1st Av., police spokesman John Elder said.
The two deaths, coming just hours after a shooting homicide in north Minneapolis, brought the number of 2021 homicides in the city to 31. They also came as a loosening of pandemic restrictions and warmer weather are drawing crowds back to restaurants, bars and entertainment venues.
Coincidence: Murders in Minneapolis have doubled this year, police point out their ranks are still depleted
CDC urges Americans not to kiss chickens amid outbreak
The CDC and public health officials are investigating salmonella outbreaks after 163 people were reported ill in 43 states.
The infections have been linked to contact with backyard poultry.
“Don’t kiss or snuggle the birds, as this can spread germs to your mouth and make you sick,” the health agency said.
It warned that poultry, like chicken and ducks, can carry salmonella germs even if they look healthy and clean, and these germs can easily spread in areas where they live and roam.
Victim families, others urge Liberal government to act on ruling that Iran intentionally shot down airliner
Victims’ families, an opposition critic and an academic expert all implored the federal government Friday to seize on Ontario court ruling that concluded Iran intentionally shot down an airliner full of Canadians in an act of terrorism.
The decision in a lawsuit filed against the Islamic Republic on behalf of some relatives has no direct bearing on government affairs.
Biden’s Worst Move Yet: Giving U.S. Vaccine Tech to China
President Joe Biden is moving to surrender to China U.S. patent and trade secret protections on America’s COVID-19 vaccines. Two of those vaccines, made by American-based Pfizer and Moderna, employ revolutionary mRNA technology.
Specifically, the Biden administration has agreed to support a request by India and South Africa for waivers that would permit members of the World Trade Organization to not enforce laws protecting patents and trade secrets covered under the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement.