It’s quite the juxtaposition: Much of Canada remains under some fairly strict public health measures due to COVID-19. Masking, business closures, a curfew in Quebec and a stay-at-home order in Ontario.
In the United States, the opposite is happening.
Gab.com is an online community where freedom of speech is paramount, and it explains it is not the website’s job to fact check “political opinions, news, history, math problems, memes, or anything else.”
With those goals, it’s not surprising that it’s been banned from app stores and deplatformed by a long list of Silicon Valley interests.
It’s no secret how the Toronto Police Service have been treating protesters demonstrating against Ontario’s lockdown measures recently, despite allowing the protests to occur each and every weekend since April, 2020.
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney in an online Q and A session responded at one point to the topic of the Great Reset policy framework pushed by mostly left-wing corporatist economists and politicians.
Kenney stated upfront that both he and the United Conservative Party (UCP) are “categorically against The Great Reset. I think the whole idea is frankly cockamamie,” going on to also refer to The Great Reset ideas as “crazyville” and that he has “consistently opposed” it.
“The Prime Minister and the Vice President discussed a wide range of issues, from promoting diversity and inclusion to the importance of mental health, as well as the need to address online hate, firearm trafficking, and gender-based violence,” the readout said, in addition to talk about access to vaccines, pandemic response, and Canada-U.S. supply chains.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) revealed during her Instagram live on Monday evening that during the Capitol riot on January 6, someone entered her office and she hid in the bathroom thinking it was a rioter. Instead, it was a Capitol police officer trying to evacuate her, but Ocasio-Cortez said he did not help the situation.
“The largest threat to U.S. national security are U.S. cops. Not ISIS, not Russian hackers, not anyone or anything else,” the post read according to the Washington Free Beacon. “If y’all don’t wake up and rise up to this truth, the genocide against Blacks in America will continue until we are near extinct. That’s not the world I seek to live in or create for myself and those around me.”
Oregon police can no longer arrest a person for possessing small amounts of hard drugs, due to a ballot measure that went into effect on Monday, decriminalizing so-called “personal use” quantities.
The highly-contagious COVID-19 variant that first emerged in the United Kingdom appears to have evolved again to include a “worrying” new mutation, researchers said.
…Experts now fear that E484K has allowed the South Africa and Brazil strains to get past the natural antibodies of those who have already recovered from becoming infected in the first wave.
Ten years ago, I wrote a column reflecting on my reactions to visiting Vietnam. Given the lack of revulsion to, and even flirtation with, communism (or its more mildly named version, socialism) among many young Americans, it is worth revisiting.
After running on a promise to fix the pandemic, Biden admitted, “there’s nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months.”
Except wear two masks.
“To Prevent COVID, wear 2 masks,” The Los Angeles Times declares. “Time to double,” The Washington Post urges. “Health authority recommends Laredoans limit leaving their homes, or wear two masks if they must,” The Laredo Morning Times warns.
Now that we have entered the new world of diversity, inclusion and equity, the acronym DIE aptly applies. While schools have long been involved in these activities, businesses have now voluntarily adopted or been forced to accept this left-wing ideology as well.
Consequently, Coca-Cola has sent out notices to law firms demanding that the company will “require diversity among law firms who bill it for work in the United States and reduce payments if they do not comply.”
Last week I wrote that Canada was No. 18 in vaccinating its population. As of Monday, according to Oxford University’s vaccine tracker, Canada had dropped to No. 28.
On Sunday, the U.S. inoculated 1.5 million people. On a per capita basis, the Brits did even better; they got 600,000 vaccinated.
It’s usually the smaller items that convey the biggest news. A few years ago Le Monde reported a study that found seven out of ten French people to be living in the region of France in which they were born. That finding surprised many people, including the reporter involved. After all, we think we live in a transitory world, yet a huge number of people still spend their entire lives close to home. Around 60% of British people live no more than 30 miles from where they resided as fourteen-year-olds.
Since the Capitol riot she has been whipping up a culture of fear that could have dire consequences for liberty.
Here’s what’s funny about The Squad, the toytown radicals in the Democratic Party who titillate the Twitterati but piss off mostly everyone else. These are the kind of people who would have been Bush-bashers back in the 2000s, shaking their heads at the post-9/11 ‘culture of fear’ and warning against the rash introduction of illiberal anti-terror laws. And yet today these people are agitating for a new war on terror, for an all-out crusade against ‘domestic terrorism’, for an unforgiving, even McCarthyite offensive against an enemy that is apparently so terrifying, so evil, that even America’s constitutional norms must be ripped up in the battle against it.
There’s no need to invent conspiracy theories. The attempt by global elites to subvert local democracy is fully on and in plain view
The World Economic Forum (WEF), which has met at the Swiss ski resort of Davos every year since its creation in 1971 by German academic and entrepreneur Klaus Schwab, was forced to convert its annual schmoozefest into a virtual event this year due to COVID-19. Of note on the main agenda was a “stakeholder capitalism” panel, which included Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Chrystia Freeland. The former-journalist-turned-politician has been a fixture at the WEF for years. Rubbing shoulders at Davos with the world’s rich, famous and powerful was one of the inspirations for her 2012 book, Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else.
The Swedish government has decided that all asylum seekers who come to the country in the future will undergo a mandatory social introduction course shortly after their arrival.
The Swedish Migration Board has been tasked with preparing an introductory course that will inform the new arrivals about the asylum process, Swedish legislation, and the country’s democratic norms and values. This includes information on the rules that apply to so-called “honour-related” violence and oppression as well as protection from discrimination and abuse.
Former chief of defence staff Gen. Jonathan Vance is facing allegations of inappropriate behaviour with two female subordinates, including one regarding an alleged relationship with a woman he significantly outranked.
The combination of monopoly power and deregulation has given rise to monolithic social media empires that have become more powerful than nation-states, corporations and societies. Finally, Australia, the European Union, the United States and France are starting to regulate Silicon Valley. This is essential to protect their media, cultures and national political conversations as well as their citizens’ privacy and safety.
Government intervention? What could go wrong? I suspect this will be a case of Government, it’s media, and Big Tech working hand in glove to smother us all.
