There is no doubt about it whatsoever, and every decent person must say it loudly and without hesitation: It is very, very unkind of the people to call members of the Makkah Mosque rude names. It would be so nice if people didn’t do that.
CBC viewership hits record lows as subsidies hit record highs
The CBC has turned the record sum of cash they received from the Liberal government into its worst ratings in history, new figures reveal.
Despite getting $1.5-billion of taxpayers’ money, data from the CRTC show the CBC has dropped to less than 3.9 per cent of viewership across Canada in 2018-2019 – a whopping drop of 25 per cent in just one year.
San Francisco to rename Abraham Lincoln High School
A San Francisco district is planning to rename a school named after Abraham Lincoln because the former president did not demonstrate that ‘black lives mattered to him’.
The president, who is often held up as an American hero for abolishing slavery, is just one of 44 historical figures soon to have their names scratched off schools within the San Francisco Unified School District.
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Will Joe Biden fix Canada’s broken relations with China? It’s about more than Meng Wanzhou
As the Biden administration takes the reins in Washington, the stakes have never been higher for the US relationship with China and the rest of Asia. In the fifth part of a post-US-election series, Ian Young explores how Beijing may face a more united front from Washington and Ottawa, and how detained Huawei Technologies CFO Meng Wanzhou figures into the equation.
Trudeau’s “inclusive” tree planting plan to cost $3 billion
The Government of Canada has launched their $3.16 billion plan to plant two billion trees over a ten year period, in order to fight climate change.
Tree planting will start this spring “in urban areas across Canada,” and will be performed with inclusivity in mind.
5 years after report, Truth and Reconciliation commissioners say progress is ‘moving too slow’
Members of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) say that five years on from the release of the commission’s final report, it is more urgent than ever that Canada implement its 94 Calls to Action.
Epoch Times Urges Trump: Use Insurrection Act, Seize Dominion Voting Machines, Restore Law And Order
“The Insurrection Act enables Trump to use the military to seize the key electoral evidence in contested states and deliver a transparent, accurate accounting of the vote.”
Mitt Romney Laments Trump’s Continued ‘Substantial Influence’ On GOP: ‘I Don’t Think Trumpism Is Going Away’
While Trump has yet to formally concede even as the Electoral College officially voted for President-elect Joe Biden on Monday, the soon-to-be-former president is widely expected to play a dominant role in GOP politics for years to come either as kingmaker or 2024 presidential candidate himself.
Tucker: Joe Biden’s silence on Hunter’s foreign dealings tells us everything about where America is heading
The Fox News host called out the Democrat for avoiding discussions about Hunter Biden and his questionable foreign business dealings, warning about Biden’s “new kind of democracy” on Monday’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” program.
Ruling Class Gotta Have a War
All of a sudden Elon Musk has become the second richest man in the world. How did he do it? With Tesla, the electric car company, whose stock has risen 650% this year.
How come I always miss out on these deals? It’s not as if Tesla is a secret.
Sensibly, Musk is heading out of California for Texas. After all, why would he want to pay California state income tax on his stock options?
Hunter Biden investigations could touch on sprawling range of foreign dealings
Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, is under criminal investigation as federal authorities scrutinize his foreign business dealings, and while the full scope of the federal inquiries have not been made public, the younger Biden’s financial dealings with China are likely at the forefront.
Concerns about Hunter Biden gained broader attention last week after multiple outlets reported that he is being investigated in connection to his taxes and overseas business with China and other countries in a federal inquiry that was opened as far back as 2018. President-elect Joe Biden’s campaign, along with many in the media, had dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop story and other allegations as being part of a Russian disinformation operation, even though Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said that “there is no intelligence that supports that … Hunter Biden’s laptop is part of some Russian disinformation campaign.”
When 2-Year-Olds Are Thrown Off Airplanes, You Know America Has Changed
You may have seen the video of the family thrown off a United Airlines airplane because the 2-year-old daughter would not wear a mask. Though the family wore masks and the father promised to cover his daughter’s face with a mask that he placed on her face, it made no difference. Though the child was completely asymptomatic, and though it is exceedingly rare for a child to transmit COVID-19 to an adult — that is why Sweden kept its schools open all spring and summer, with its students not wearing masks — the airline had its orders, and the flight attendant duly obeyed them.
Meet Aella: the intellectual porn star
OnlyFans, the self-publishing pornography app, has taken off during the course of 2020 with an average of 200,000 new users signing up each day. The platform allows creators to release photos and videos to paying subscribers; while the content published is entirely the choice of the creator, the most common genre is pornography.
Freddie Sayers spoke to Aella, one of OnlyFans most successful and best-known creators, to discuss the morality of pornography and the reality of modern sex work.
When Black Lives Matter Means Profiting from African Child Slavery
Children were “beaten with whips,” “forced to sleep on the floor,” and “drink urine.”
It was a cold December day in Washington D.C. and Neal Katyal, Obama’s Solicitor General, was arguing with Justice Clarence Thomas, the great-grandson of a freed slave, about slavery.
Katyal was representing Nestle, the American subsidiary of a Swiss multinational, being sued by freed African child slaves for profiting from slavery, and Justice Thomas wasn’t having it. The two men, the consummate Democrat legal operative, who had been there for Bush v. Gore and defended ObamaCare before the Supreme Court, and the court’s only black justice descended from slaves, debated corporate liability for child slavery for a social justice company.
Cold war: Russia’s bid to control the Arctic
It may be time for Santa Claus to look for a new home, before the Russians kick him out. ‘This is our Arctic,’ declared the Russian explorer Artur Chilingarov when he went to the North Pole in 2003. Four years later, another Russian expedition, again led by Chilingarov, planted a titanium flag on the seabed 2.5 miles below the Pole. It was a symbolic gesture of a geopolitical ambition. The jingoistic Chilingarov proclaimed: ‘Our task is to remind the world that Russia is a great Arctic and scientific power.’
‘Soft Targets’: Chinese Spies Have Been Exploiting US Politicians for Decades, Says Expert
A report that a suspected Chinese spy spent years cozying up to local and national-level politicians reveals that Beijing is investing significantly in long-term espionage operations to infiltrate U.S. politics, an expert said.
From 2011 to 2015, Christina Fang, a Chinese student at California State University–East Bay, cultivated extensive ties with local politicians in the Bay Area by volunteering in fundraising campaigns and attending political events. U.S. intelligence officials believe she was working under the direction of China’s top spy agency, the Ministry of State Security (MSS), according to a recent investigation by Axios.
Will We Ever Get a Trump Memorial? He deserves one.
A magnificent day here in Southern California. There is not a cloud in the sky. The air is dry and clean. The temperature is about 70. I was awakened by a maddening text from my bank. An immense overdraft caused by a check to Los Angeles County for property tax — half of one year — for this house in Beverly Hills that I am sitting in right now. It rocked me on my heels.
Obviously, I have to pay it. So, there it is.
International Criminal Court Won’t Investigate China’s Detention of Muslims
The International Criminal Court has decided not to pursue an investigation into China’s mass detention of Muslims, a setback for activists eager to hold Beijing accountable for persecution of ethnic and religious minorities.
Prosecutors in The Hague said on Monday that they would not, for the moment, investigate allegations that China had committed genocide and crimes against humanity regarding the Uighurs, a predominantly Muslim ethnic group, because the alleged crimes took place in China, which is not a party to the court.
John Ivison: Rising carbon tax is part of ‘death by a thousand cuts’ for Canada’s farmers
Justin Trudeau waited until the House of Commons adjourned for Christmas before announcing a plan to increase the federal carbon tax by 240 per cent and spend $15 billion on greenhouse gas reduction measures.
The evasive manoeuvre may have undermined the opposition parties but it has not pacified pockets of simmering resentment across the country.