Abandoned puppy comes to life when a cat starts playing with her 💕 pic.twitter.com/xHZrmSGfVE
— The Dodo (@dodo) January 27, 2021
Report into Julie Payette’s conduct at Rideau Hall finds toxic environment, public humiliations
An independent report examining the workplace culture at Rideau Hall found that former governor general Julie Payette and her deputy Assunta Di Lorenzo presided over a toxic work environment.
Released publicly under the Access to Information Act Wednesday night, the report details allegations from staff members of “yelling, screaming, aggressive conduct, demeaning comments and public humiliations.”
The report said that 43 staff members at Rideau Hall described the general work environment as “hostile or negative.”
Twenty-six people interviewed “used the words ‘toxic’ or ‘poisoned’ to describe the general work atmosphere” at Rideau Hall during Payette’s time there.
The Mainstream Media’s Embarrassing Biden Lovefest
Their adulation is beyond parody.
When Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States at 11:48 a.m. on January 20, it was to be expected that the mainstream media would be ecstatic about the pomp and circumstance of their preferred candidate bringing his half-century of Swamp experience into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
‘They don’t want to lose control’: Australia’s competition chief on his country’s efforts to regulate big tech
Australia has become a test case for addressing the market dominance of big tech, one closely watched by Canada and the world
Rod Sims, the serious and sometimes feisty head of Australia’s competition and consumer authority, takes a liking to a comparison offered up to describe the battle playing out in his country between news publishers and big tech platforms controlled by Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc.
News is like toothpaste: Consumers want and need it and would clearly suffer if the dominant distributors squeezed suppliers so much that it could no longer be made.
Psychologist Explains the Unhealthy Incentives Behind ‘Cancel Culture’
We now live in an era where people are constantly looking over their shoulders, or computer screens, worried that whatever opinion they post might make them victims of cancel culture.
There is no opportunity to change one’s mind, nor is there room to defend opinions you genuinely believe. And this is a huge problem for any civil society.
Germany: Meet Angela Merkel’s Second Successor
Armin Laschet, premier of North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state, has been chosen as the new leader of the ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He is now in a position to succeed Angela Merkel as German chancellor after general elections this September.
Laschet, a Merkel loyalist and continuity candidate, narrowly beat conservative Friedrich Merz by 521 to 466 votes in a run-off vote by party delegates on January 16. The CDU had previously chosen Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to succeed Merkel, but she stepped down as party leader in January 2020 after a series of regional electoral defeats cast doubt on her ability to retain the chancellorship.
Cloris Leachman Dead At 94
Leachman passed away of natural causes Tuesday night at her home in Encinitas, California, with her daughter, Dinah, by her side … this according to her son.
I’ve heard this before somewhere…. Tensions rise as AstraZeneca tells EU promised deliveries were stretch goals
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s dispute with AstraZeneca over vaccine supplies intensified Wednesday as the drugmaker defended itself against claims that it had reneged on contractual commitments and the two sides sparred over plans for further talks.
AstraZeneca Chief Executive Pascal Soriot addressed the dispute for the first time, rejecting the EU’s assertion that the company was failing to honor its commitments to deliver coronavirus vaccines. Soriot said delivery figures in AstraZeneca’s contract with the 27-nation bloc were targets, not firm commitments, and they couldn’t be met because of problems in rapidly expanding production capacity.
President Trump Sets Up Office Outside Government
According to information from Jenn Ellis President Trump has established office outside government to advance the interests of ‘America First’ policy. Hopefully this approach will be the leverage forcing the Republican establishment to protect the interests of 74+ million Americans, as more and more democrats simultaneously recognize the toxic intention of the left-wing agenda.
Biden White House Warns It Won’t Allow Questions From Conservative Media
One of the big sea changes in the Trump administration for conservative media came at White House press conferences.
President Trump and his people opened up the press conferences from the narrow confines of the White House Correspondents Association and the mainstream media to a range of conservative media. That infuriated the media and the Biden White House is predictably signaling that will come to an end.
Delingpole: ‘Trussst Us! We‘re Not Evil‘ Claims Davos Great Reset Vid
The World Economic Forum wants you to know that there is nothing sinister about its globalist masterplan — aka The Great Reset — for a New World Order. It says so in a promo video, released to coincide with its annual Davos summit.
For Trudeau, there’s no political reason to fight for Keystone XL
After U.S. President Joe Biden moved recently to revoke permits for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline project, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he was “disappointed.”
That was a fairly tepid reaction to losing an infrastructure project billed as a job-generator and an essential prop for a struggling Canadian energy sector.
But Trudeau doesn’t really have an incentive to take on the Biden administration over Keystone because — economic and environmental arguments for and against the project notwithstanding — there simply isn’t much of a political case for fighting for it any longer.
A couple of skewed self-selected online polls then the CBC produces a Liberal Policy trial balloon and calls it “analysis”. That’s how the MSM rolls in Canada.
Islamophobia! Peterborough mosque’s call to prayer loudspeakers plan rejected
Plans to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer through loudspeakers three times a day to a city neighbourhood have been rejected.
The Masjid Ghousia mosque on Gladstone Street in Peterborough applied to the city council to install the speakers on one of its minarets.
Planning permission has been refused on the grounds it would be “an unwelcome intrusion on the soundscape”.
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was an FBI informant
Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys extremist group, has a past as an informer for federal and local law enforcement, repeatedly working undercover for investigators after he was arrested in 2012, according to a former prosecutor and a transcript of a 2014 federal court proceeding obtained by Reuters.
In the Miami hearing, a federal prosecutor, a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and Tarrio’s own lawyer described his undercover work and said he had helped authorities prosecute more than a dozen people in various cases involving drugs, gambling and human smuggling.
Oh thank God! I thought they meant Denny Terrio!
That would have hurt.