Muslim prayer app ‘sold users’ tracking data’ to contractor linked to US government agencies: report

A Muslim prayer app has sold user location data to a company linked to a US government contractor that has then went on to supply sensitive personal information to federal agencies, a report by Vice’s Motherboard has revealed, raising more questions about the tracking and monitoring of Muslims via mobile technology.

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Ontario nurses under investigation after travelling to Washington D.C. to allegedly take part in anti-lockdown event on day of riot

In videos posted to social media by the group, “Nurses Against Lockdowns” the women are seen addressing the crowd at the “Global Frontline Nurses” summit in Washington DC, an event that was scheduled to take place in front of the U.S. Supreme Court just hours before a group of rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol building, breaking windows and tearing through the offices of elected officials.

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Trudeau shuffles ministers

Winnipeg MP Jim Carr is returning as a full cabinet member after stepping aside for cancer treatments.

The move was announced in a cabinet shuffle this morning that saw four members in total take on new roles.

Carr stepped down as the minister of international trade diversification following a diagnosis of multiple myeloma, after experiencing flu-like symptoms during the 2019 federal election campaign, though Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed him as a special representative for the region.

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Clyburn proposes “Black national anthem” become the “national hymm” as “an act of bringing the country together”

“To make it a national hymn,” Clyburn explained “I think, would be an act of bringing the country together. It would say to people, ‘You aren’t singing a separate national anthem, you are singing the country’s national hymn.”

Think about that for a moment. He obviously hasn’t.

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Shaidle on Speech and the Unhappy Left

As many of you know, my dear friend and fearless comrade in so many battles, Kathy Shaidle, died just before dawn on Saturday. Among the many hats she wore, Kathy was our dazzling movie columnist every week, and over the weekend I rounded up a few favorite moments from her film essays.

But Kathy had plenty more to say on many other subjects, so here are a few excerpts from recent appearances on camera on The Mark Steyn Show. I was particularly struck by an insight prompted partly by being on the receiving end for years of an extraordinary number of repulsive misogynist emails and tweets from pajama boys of the “Kathy Shaidle really needs a good f***” variety: As Kathy saw it, many of the footsoldiers of the activist left are profoundly damaged people. It is perhaps a chicken-and-egg conundrum: Are they attracted to leftism because they are damaged? And does being on the left then damage them further?

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Ultra-Othodox Jewish congregations ready to sue over Quebec’s ban on gatherings

The Jewish Community Council of Montreal, the Jewish Hasidic Council of Quebec and several other ultra-Orthodox Jewish congregations have sent a lawyer’s letter to the Legault government urging it to reconsider its ban on gatherings in synagogues and other places of worship during the latest pandemic lockdown.

The letter, prepared by the law firm of Dunton Rainville and delivered to the provincial government last Friday, warns that failure to rescind the ban will see their clients “regretfully” seek redress before the courts.

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What if the Parler Shutdown was Committed Without Due Cause? Glenn Greenwald has Some Curious Details

We are just beginning to absorb what the deactivation of Parler from the coordinated hit by the tech giants means on the communications front going forward. After becoming delisted by Apple and Google the social platform was entirely taken down from the servers of Amazon AWS, where it resided. As of today, Parler has no services as it looks for alternatives, but now some more details emerge behind the decision.

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Social-Media Oligopolists Are the New Railroad Barons. It’s Time for Washington to Treat Them Accordingly

In 1964, an Ohio Ku Klux Klan leader named Clarence Brandenburg told a Cincinnati-based reporter that his hate group would soon be holding a rally in a rural area of Hamilton County. In the filmed portions of that rally, which later became the focus of legal prosecution, robed men, some with guns, could be seen burning a cross and making speeches, infamously demanding “revengeance” against Blacks (they used another word, of course), Jews, and the white politicians who were supposedly betraying their own “caucasian race.” They also revealed a plan for an imminent march on Washington, D.C.

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Facebook Is Purging Phrase ‘Stop The Steal’ From Platform, Company Says

Facebook issued a statement saying that it was removing all content with the phrase, used by supporters of President Trump to question the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, because it violates the company’s policy against “coordinating harm.” Facebook said that it made the decision in light of the pro-Trump riot in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

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Toronto mayor says province should impose full lockdown to protect health-care system

The mayor of Ontario’s largest city called for a return to a full lockdown Monday, saying the move is necessary to prevent the health-care system from being completely overwhelmed by a surge of COVID-19 cases.

John Tory stressed the “urgency of acting quickly” in enacting new restrictions, a day before the provincial government is expected to announce a series of additional pandemic measures.

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Cumulus Media, one of America’s largest talk-radio companies, tells its hosts – including conservatives Mark Levin and Dan Bongino – they will be fired if they don’t stop claiming election fraud

Cumulus Media is clamping down on claims about election fraud across their network of radio stations which feature right-wing talkers such as Mark Levin and Dan Bongino.

In a memo sent internally, executive vice president Brian Philips made clear that radio hosts will be fired if they start or continue to make baseless claims about election fraud.

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It’s absurd to conflate support for Tories with white nationalism – but Liberals will try

The Trudeau government is investigating whether the extreme right-wing group the Proud Boys should be declared a terrorist organization. That is a legal decision. But there’s politics in it as well. The Liberals are trying to discomfit Erin O’Toole’s Conservatives by linking the party to extremists.

On the Proud Boys, “officials will be analyzing useful intelligence and evidence as that comes forward,” Mary-Liz Power, press secretary to Public Safety Minister Bill Blair, said in a statement on Sunday.

“When this work is completed, it will form the basis of the decision whether or not the Proud Boys or any other ideologically motivated violent extremist organization reaches the legal threshold for listing.”

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CRA sends out paperwork telling Canadians how much they’ve received in pandemic benefits

The Canada Revenue Agency began sending out T4a slips today to Canadians who have received COVID-19 benefits, reminding them that the money is taxable income and must be recorded on their tax returns.

Two per cent of Canadians with COVID have logged it in contact-tracing app

Only two per cent of people who have tested positive for COVID-19 in Canada have activated the federal government’s contact-tracing app, Health Canada figures show.

COVID Alert, the app created by the Canadian government, is designed to notify the potential contacts of people who test positive for the disease after users enter key codes provided by health officials.

Canadian Proud Boys in ‘panic’ as platforms go offline and government talks of terror listing

The bulk of the online platforms used by the Canadian branches of the Proud Boys were gone on Monday, as the group faced mounting pressure in the wake of last week’s violence in the U.S. capital.

The Proud Boys Canada page, as well as those of the Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and three other regional chapters, were all on the social media platform Parler, which went offline.

And So it Begins: Democrats Begin Turning on Biden

Democrats have already begun turning on Joe Biden. As many on the right expected, Democrats were only going to stand by him when he was running to defeat the man they desperately wanted gone: President Donald Trump.

Now that Trump is presumably going to be gone, the unity within the Democrat party is gone too.

FBI: Armed Protests Planned for 50 State Capitols, U.S. Capitol, Ahead of Inauguration Day

“Armed protests are being planned at all 50 state capitols from 16 January through at least 20 January, and at the US Capitol from 17 January through 20 January,” the bulletin read, according to ABC’s Aaron Katersky, who added that a group is “calling for ‘storming’ state, local, and federal government courthouses and administrative buildings in the event President Trump is removed prior to Inauguration Day.”

We Are Witnessing The Second American Civil War Turn Hot – Democrats Are Oblivious To The Dangerous Waters They Are Treading

Make no mistake, democrats, no longer do I have to say “radical” because they are all extremists now, want conservatives / Republicans dead, purged from the Internet and society, and they are making no bones about it, they are stating it clearly, and consistently.

Conservatives have finally awoken to that reality, and have started hitting back, as the protest at the capitol showed, where more than a million people attended to make their voices heard after being ignored for so long.


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