Brussels Gets Serious—About Pets, Not Borders

The European Parliament has decided that all dogs and cats must be registered with a microchip to make them easier to track. Because of course, in a continent where it’s impossible to know how many people enter through its external borders each day—let alone where they come from—it seems only logical that the real issue of security and welfare lies in finding out whether your pet was purchased five or ten years ago, or which other animal it has mated with.

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Statscan denies political motive behind misinformation study … just a right wing conspiracy theory

Statistics Canada is rejecting claims that a recent study on internet misinformation was politically motivated or intended to support the government’s push to regulate online content.

“The report was not requested by any public authority,” said agency spokesperson Annick Irakoze, who explained the findings were based on public questionnaires.

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Amy Hamm: The rabbit rescue that refused to be cancelled for alleged transphobia

It’s June: the western world’s Holy Month of Pride, and, as such, we must all be on our best behaviour so as not to offend the delicate sensibilities of gender activists — you know, the ones that occupy the latter half of the expanding LGBTQ2S+ acronym.

Unfortunately, the United Kingdom’s Carrot Cottage Rabbit Rescue somehow missed this memo. The registered charity drew the ire of Irish comedian and transgender rights activist Aidan Comerford this week, following an online attack by anonymous activists whose work caught Comerford’s attention. Comerford, whose X bio notes that he “generally tweets about what transphobia looks like,” astutely observed that the charity was committing the cardinal sin of following unapproved social media accounts on X.

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Scott Jennings Took an Ex-DNC Spokesperson to the Cleaners Over the Legality of Trump’s Iran Strikes

It happened: Operation Midnight Hammer was executed and took out Iranian nuclear facilities in Natanz, Isfahan, and Fordow last night. B-2 bombers took off from the continental United States to make the 18-hour journey to deliver their packages. It was glorious. The funny part at home is that Democrats likely know this was the right decision. It’s why the outcry, while loud with some folks, hasn’t been in unison, especially with top Democrats. As of now, I don’t believe Chuck Schumer has said anything.

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Alberta Exploring Its Own Firearm Licence, ‘As Obstructionist as Possible’ on Liberal Gun Confiscations

TheGunBlog.ca — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said she is exploring with Saskatchewan how to create their own provincial firearm licences, their newest effort to undermine and exit the Liberal Party of Canada’s anti-gun regime.

h/t Mauser

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What’s missing in Canada’s defence budget math

What does 2% of GDP for defence mean for Canada?

Compared to most NATO partners, Canada does not calculate its defence spending accurately, since it fails to include some defence-related components.

For instance, the RCMP budget along with the Canadian Coast Guard should be considered defence expenses and be included in the 2% calculations. Most NATO nations include police and coast guard expenses in their calculations of defence spending.


This is interesting Canada is not taking advantage of common NATO member budget expenditures in calculating the 2% spend requirement.

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AI Won’t Terminate Us. It Will Just Render Us Irrelevant.

The future of AI won’t resemble The Terminator. Don’t expect devastating explosions or murderous drones. There won’t be metal skeletons stomping on skulls or glowing red eyes scanning resistance fighters. The real takeover will be quieter, colder, more efficient, and less bloody — but in many ways, far more brutal.

It will come with a soft chime, a helpful tone, a perfectly phrased suggestion: “Would you like me to do that for you?”

And most of us will say yes.

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Stephen Fry could do with a lesson in ‘radicalisation’

Stephen Fry has accused J.K. Rowling of being ‘inflammatory and contemptuous’, ‘mocking’ and adding to ‘a terribly distressing time for trans people’. Fry, who narrated the Harry Potter audiobooks, has damned their author for saying ‘cruel’ and ‘wrong’ things and for failing to ‘disavow some of the more revolting and truly horrible, destructive – violently destructive – things that people say’. He suspects that she’s been ‘radicalised by Terfs’, charged her with kicking up ‘a hornet’s nest of transphobia which has been entirely destructive’, and dismissed her as ‘a lost cause’.

Might I interrupt this lengthy damnatio memoriae to point out that Fry is supposed to be Rowling’s friend and to venture that, if she deserves to be rebuked for anything, it’s her godawful taste in friends. Fry, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson. The woman is like flypaper for airheads, dilettantes, and abject ingrates.

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More Canadians want to join the military, but enlisted members keep leaving

CAF Transgender Tank

Interest has spiked in the Canadian military, with recruitment levels hitting their highest point in a decade. But as more people walk in the door, thousands of enlisted members are deciding to walk out.

Numbers obtained by Global News show the retention crisis worsened year over year, as Prime Minister Mark Carney who is attending the NATO summit in Brussels, vows to rebuild the Armed Forces and reduce Canada’s dependence on the U.S.


My guess is that the CAF are simply not Transgender friendly enough. They should just outright ban heterosexuals.

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A day in London

This could also be Toronto

h/t Patti Jo

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Former Nickelodeon Star JoJo Siwa Felt Pressured by LGBTQ Mob to Come Out as a Lesbian at 17

Jojo Siwa, the former Dance Moms star and pop sensation, says she came out as lesbian at 17-years-old after initially identifying sexually as a pansexual due, in part, from “pressure” from the LGBTQIAA+ community.

“When I came out at 17, I said, ‘I’m pansexual, because I don’t care [about gender].’ But then I kind of boxed myself in and I said, ‘I’m a lesbian.’ And I think I did that because of the pressure,” Siwa said in a recent interview with the Daily Mail.

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Canada is facing a housing crisis. Could it take a page from Europe?

Slavica Salihbegovic’s family was growing. So she did what anyone living in Vienna would do: She asked the city for a bigger apartment.

“At that time, I was pregnant with my first kid,” she said. “I lived in a two-room apartment … it was an OK building, but it was small for us.”

Salihbegovic went to an online portal, entered her income and requirements, and was ranked alongside thousands of other residents. Soon, she was assigned a new apartment: a three-bedroom unit in a brand-new building, adjacent to Vienna’s Central Station.


We have subsidized housing. My guess is that Austria’s social housing has not been made stronger by diversity.

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