Terrorists who threw a lit Molotov cocktail into a police car during Black Lives Matter protests in New York last summer have been quietly offered a plea deal, according to court documents released yesterday.
Neither CRTC Nor CBC Following The Law By Allowing Dismantling Radio Canada International
If neither the government nor the CRTC is willing to enforce the laws that govern the CBC, it will continue to self-define as a publicly funded commercial broadcaster with increasing disinterest in adherence to its public-service mandate.
Leaked video reveals Salesforce has banned messages “questioning the validity or integrity of the election”
Salesforce, a cloud-based customer relationship management service (CRM), has banned messages “questioning the validity or integrity of the election” with its President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) Bret Taylor claiming in a leaked video that such messages “may incite violence.”
Continental Breakfast
Only 28% of radio listeners see value in CBC Radio
The vast majority of Canadians, 68%, prefer commercial radio stations to CBC Radio, with a further 37% of Canadians saying they have never listened to CBC Radio.
Alberta church rebellion succeeding, no tickets issued at Calgary church service
The Fairview Baptist Church in Calgary participated in a show of Christian civil disobedience last Sunday in protest of Premier Jason Kenney’s refusal to lift restrictions on Alberta churches.
Buttergate: Why are Canadians complaining about hard butter?
Something is amiss with Canadian butter, according to local foodies, who have been arguing for weeks that their blocks are harder to spread than usual.
Democrats Sound The Alarm Over Biden Capacity To Having Sole Access to Nuke Codes
House Democrats are quickly raising concerns over President Joe Biden’s ability to lead considering a new report alleges that Democrats are urging the president to give the nuclear codes to other officials.
California Bill Requires ‘Gender Neutral’ Stores, Fines Retailers $1000 For Having Separate ‘Boy’ And ‘Girl’ Toy Departments
California’s Assembly is slated to consider a new bill requiring department store childrens’ sections to be largely “gender-neutral” in order to combat “prejudice” and “judgment” against gender non-conforming children.
Life of the American Child Under the Equality Act
House Democrats are poised to pass the Equality Act once again, claiming it will merely amend federal civil rights law to ensure sexual orientation and gender identity are included among the protected classes, even though the Constitution already provides protection for the rights of all American citizens, regardless of their “identity group.”
The mainstream media’s quandary…and panic
Although it was written back in October, the cry is still echoing throughout the mainstream media.
It comes from Hamilton Nolan, formerly at Gawker Media and now the public editor for the Washington Post. He penned a piece in the Columbia Journalism Review titled “The Powerful have realized they don’t need the Post.”
What triggered Nolan was that Elon Musk had eliminated Tesla’s media relations department.
#MeToo and #BLM Were Pretexts for Massive Cultural Power Grabs
The hashtag identity politics activism that generated #MeToo and then #BLM has little to show for it except increased misery. MeToo got rid of a handful of real monsters like Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby, whose abuses were hardly a secret, a group of second-tier creeps like Charlie Rose whose abuses were more obnoxious than dangerous, and ended up giving a pass to other public figures whose political standing was more secure, like Neil deGrasse Tyson, who has his career fully restored to him. It also scapegoated countless people over minor, perceived, or invented offenses while creating a state of victimhood.
Why it’s time to abolish schools – The lockdown has revealed an embarrassing truth: education is mainly childcare
For centuries, the English were renowned for their brutal treatment of children. This inglorious national love affair with floggings and canings applied to punishing the young as well as criminal offenders. It bewildered French observers, who called it le vice anglais. Physical punishments for children had far more staying power in England than in many of the states we enjoy comparing ourselves to. In the early 20th century, other European countries set up gulags, while the English continued to birch crying schoolboys.
It’s an interesting argument.
Ricky Gervais is right: fear of offence is killing TV
Comedy legend Ricky Gervais has warned that TV is being ‘watered down’ because producers are afraid to offend people.
Appearing on ITV’s Lorraine this morning to discuss his latest series of Afterlife, Gervais said audiences are more resilient than people think…
Why The Texas Blackout Has The Greens So Scared
Deflecting blame to a more exciting apocalypse.
Last month, President Biden signed a series of executive orders undermining fossil fuels, on the grounds the “climate crisis” forced his hand. “We can’t wait any longer. We see with our own eyes. We know it in our bones. It is time to act.”
Within days, most of the country was seeing “with our own eyes” and feeling “in our bones” a cold wave so severe that five million people lost electricity and, in a special irony, nearly half of the ballyhooed wind turbines in Texas, which had risen to supply 23% of her energy, were left frozen (and inoperable).
The Dark, Destructive, Murderous Psychological Forces of Cancel Culture
The cancel culture we are living in should itself be canceled. That must be obvious to most people, given the way in which it stifles the free expression of ideas, but I think there’s more happening than that. Cancel culture is the culmination of the cyberbullying, spiritually (and, sometimes, literally) homicidal social media experiment we’ve been running on the entire human race since the advent of venues like Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat.
Sheryl Sandberg and Top Facebook Execs Silenced an Enemy of Turkey to Prevent a Hit to the Company’s Business
As Turkey launched a military offensive against Kurdish minorities in neighboring Syria in early 2018, Facebook’s top executives faced a political dilemma.
Turkey was demanding the social media giant block Facebook posts from the People’s Protection Units, a mostly Kurdish militia group the Turkish government had targeted. Should Facebook ignore the request, as it has done elsewhere, and risk losing access to tens of millions of users in Turkey? Or should it silence the group, known as the YPG, even if doing so added to the perception that the company too often bends to the wishes of authoritarian governments?
‘I’m Not to Judge’: Anti-Keystone XL Activist Dismissed Pedophilia Allegation Against Colleague
A leading Minnesota environmental activist dismissed accusations that one of her top organizers sexually assaulted a minor, even as she admitted in private messages and legal proceedings that the organizer “probably did have sex” with a 15-year-old boy.
In a slew of newly revealed court filings, Honor the Earth cofounder Winona LaDuke—a political ally of top Minnesota Democrats such as Rep. Ilhan Omar and Attorney General Keith Ellison—acknowledged that the group’s community organizer “probably” had sex with a Native American minor as a camp counselor. But LaDuke dismissed the incident, arguing that the organizer, Michael Dahl, engaged in a “consensual” relationship that she was “not to judge.”
McGill students find ‘racist’ phrase in novel from 1863, drop out of class, get reimbursed and receive credit for the course
(Note – Google Translate) … But first, a reminder of the facts: in class, a student complains of having read a shocking expression in Forestiers et Voyageurs, a novel written in 1863. The lecturer searches without really understanding, then comes across the expression “Work like niggers”, page 99. The teacher apologizes. The word slips from her lips. A discomfort ensues …
…The two students who lodged a complaint were able to report on Maria Chapdelaine rather than Forestiers et Voyageurs. Soon after, they dropped out of the course. We were still at the start of the session.
McGill University therefore reimbursed them for the course.
But not only.
“We had completed a project with the teacher, she had corrected it and me and my colleague had taken it. So, we asked how the grade for this first draft would be the grade for the rest of our session. ”
“After a lot of time and pressure,” she says, the university complied…
Bill Bewick: Robbing the West to pay for the rest — exposing the unfairness of equalization
The provinces are more equal than ever before, but the equalization disparity keeps increasing in Alberta, B.C. and Ontario
Equalization is a controversial topic whenever it bubbles to the surface, and with the Alberta government promising a referendum in October on launching a constitutional challenge to equalization, the topic is already simmering.
Fairness Alberta was created in 2019 (before the Fair Deal Panel was struck), in part to ensure informed attention was given to this flawed program, but also to make Canadians aware that the wealth that’s transferred out of more productive provinces like Alberta and Ontario goes far beyond the equalization program.
Obama: ‘Politics Of White Resistance’ Prevented Administration From Pursuing Reparations
Former President Barack Obama told his podcast co-host, Bruce Springsteen, that he would have liked to pursue reparations for slavery as part of his presidential agenda, but that the “politics of white resistance” made the issue a “non-starter.”
h/t Marvin