An Ontario town is considering bringing a statue of Prime Minister John A. Macdonald back out of storage after it was defaced in 2020 amid a heated debate over the legacy of Canada’s first prime minister.
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Facebook was ‘hand in glove’ with China, BBC told
A former senior Facebook executive has told the BBC how the social media giant worked “hand in glove” with the Chinese government on potential ways of allowing Beijing to censor and control content in China.
Sarah Wynn-Williams – a former global public policy director – says in return for gaining access to the Chinese market of hundreds of millions of users, Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, considered agreeing to hiding posts that were going viral, until they could be checked by the Chinese authorities.
Doug Ford’s bid to remove Toronto bike lanes faces its first legal hurdle
Premier Doug Ford government’s plan to rip up Toronto’s bike lanes faces its first legal challenge on Tuesday morning, with a hearing scheduled for a temporary injunction that could pause their removal for three weeks.
Cycle Toronto sought the injunction after Justice Markus Koehnen “strongly” urged the provincial government on Jan. 8 to pause its removal of bike lanes on Bloor, Yonge and University Streets until the cycling advocacy group’s Charter challenge hearing scheduled for April 16.
Ontario suspending U.S. electricity charge, Ford says while securing Lutnick meeting
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says his government is suspending its 25 per cent surcharge on electricity exports to three U.S. states after securing a meeting in Washington with the commerce secretary.
In a day filled with escalation between Ford and U.S. President Donald Trump, the premier announced the meeting with Howard Lutnick in the afternoon — hours after Trump said he would impose a 50 per cent tariff on Canadian aluminum and steel imports.
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GOLDSTEIN: Ford’s high tax, big spending policies worse than Wynne’s, report says
While Ontario Premier Doug Ford is fighting U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian imports, he’s also imposing a higher provincial tax burden on Ontario families than the previous Liberal government of Kathleen Wynne, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.
U.S. to lift pause on Ukraine aid as Kyiv agrees to ceasefire proposal
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — The Trump administration will immediately lift its pause on military and intelligence support for Ukraine after Kyiv’s endorsement of a U.S. ceasefire proposal, according to a joint statement by Ukraine and the United States.
“Ukraine expressed readiness to accept the U.S. proposal to enact an immediate, interim 30-day ceasefire, which can be extended by mutual agreement of the parties, and which is subject to acceptance and concurrent implementation by the Russian Federation,” the statement says. “The United States will communicate to Russia that Russian reciprocity is the key to achieving peace.”
Mark Carney is no ally of the oilpatch, says Alberta Premier Danielle Smith as she calls for election
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith wants the new leader of the federal Liberal Party to change its approach toward the oil and gas industry and its environmental policies.
Mark Carney won the Liberal leadership on Sunday evening with an overwhelming majority of the vote of party members.
On Monday, Smith re-iterated her calls for an election to be called so a prime minister is in place with a mandate from voters across the country.
How Carney hides billions of dollars in his companies so he can’t be taxed while taxing you into oblivion
Disney’s Latest ‘Snow White‘ Trailer Hit With Negative Reviews as Ticket Pre-Sale Begins
The horrid rollout for Disney’s Snow White continues to bomb as the $250 million-plus film’s latest trailer is bombarded with negative reviews, promises to boycott, and rebukes for its much-maligned star, Rachel Zegler.
Rude and stupid is no way to go through life Rachel.
Fewer than 40 per cent of 400,000 registered Liberals voted in leadership race
After the Liberal Party boasted in January of signing up nearly 400,000 registered Liberals, only about 38 per cent of them made it through the verification process and turned out to vote in the race that elected Mark Carney as the party’s new leader and Canada’s next prime minister.
The party said 163,836 people successfully went through the authentication process. Of those, 151,899 voted in the race, or 93 per cent, which is the percentage the party is using for turnout.
Aliens are real and there’s a cover-up, new documentary aims to prove
Thirty-four senior officials detail government secret-keeping around UFOs in the explosive documentary “The Age of Disclosure,” which had its world premiere at SXSW.
AUSTIN — What if the big question surrounding the existence of aliens wasn’t if they exist, but why the U.S. government has been hiding this information from the American public for so long?
And what if, in hiding that information, our own leaders were putting us in danger of annihilation?
The congressional hearings of 2022 and 2023 into greater government disclosure about UFO encounters were just the beginning, according to Dan Farah, director of the explosive new documentary “The Age of Disclosure,” which debuted at SXSW on Sunday.
The Egg Guy soured me on the topic. I still want to believe but with only the Navy Vids to go one it’s getting more difficult to trust any source.
A somewhat skeptical take below.
‘The Age of Disclosure’ Review: A Documentary Claims to Offer Proof that Alien Spaceships Are Visiting Us. But Does It Really?
LILLEY: Call an election now so Canada has a government with a mandate
Canada is about to get a new prime minister sometime this week, but what we really need is an election. That could come within days, but perhaps not as soon as this Sunday as had previously been discussed.
X cyberattack: Elon Musk claims disruption originated in Ukraine
Elon Musk pointed the finger at Ukraine after claiming that a “massive cyberattack” had caused severe disruption on his social media site X.
Users began reporting problems at about 5.30am ET (9.30am GMT) on Monday, according to the website DownDetector, which tracks internet outages. The problems appeared to abate before another wave of complaints at 10am ET (2pm GMT), with some 40,000 users reporting that the platform would not load. The problems returned at 12.30pm ET (4.30pm GMT), prompting Musk to issue a statement.
Mark Carney appoints Marco Mendicino as chief of staff — angering Muslim supporters
OTTAWA — A day into his new role, Prime Minister-designate Mark Carney has already managed to anger some Muslim voters and Liberal supporters by appointing former public safety minister Marco Mendicino as his chief of staff.
I hope it’sCalling Hamas terrorists is ‘dehumanising’, academic claims at university book launch
Calling Hamas terrorists is “dehumanising”, an academic claimed as a controversial book launch went ahead at the London School of Economics (LSE).
Prof Jeroen Gunning, of King’s College London (KCL), told the event that “labelling” the Palestinian terror group as “terrorists” leads to their “dehumanisation”.
The academic was speaking at a launch event for his book entitled Understanding Hamas: And Why It Matters, which was co-authored by Helena Cobban, at LSE on Monday.
Meanwhile in the Caliphate of Toronto
I note this chatter about criminalizing the naming of Hamas supporters as Hamas supporters seems coordinated, the TPS vid, the recent “Islamophobia Report” by the Liberal party’s Islamophobia Tsar and now this addition to the junk pile by the ever toxic LSE.