OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was caught off guard when asked to find nice things to say about his main opponent, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, during a town hall with trade workers in Winnipeg on Wednesday.
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Gunmen kill 7, including child, at resort swimming pool in Mexico
At least seven people were killed, including a 7-year-old child, when a group of gunmen stormed a resort teeming with vacationers in central Mexico on Saturday.
An eighth person was seriously injured in the mid-afternoon shooting — which took the lives of three women, three men and a child — near the pool at the La Palma resort in Cortazar, a small town south of the city of Guanajuato.
Alarming video footage taken soon after the assault showed stunned adults and children walking dead bodies piled up near the pool.
7 killed (including a minor) in shooting at a resort in La Palma area of Cortazar, Mexico#lapama #cortazar #mexico #shooting #news #breakingnews #breaking #mexiconews
— Crime With Bobby (@crimewithbobby) April 16, 2023
WTF?
🚨#BREAKING: Chaotic Scene Unfolds in Downtown Chicago as Teenagers Vandalize Cars and Gunfire Erupts
📌#Chicago | #Illinois ⁰
There is currently a significant police response taking place in downtown Chicago due to a large group of teenagers causing chaos. They have been… pic.twitter.com/n7xhBpsTKs— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) April 16, 2023
H/T CM
Like Father Like Son …
How views of Pierre Trudeau led RCMP to provide first close security for an ex-PM
OTTAWA – With threats against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spiking in recent years, newly released historical records reveal the security concerns the RCMP had when his father was getting ready to leave office.
Pierre Trudeau retired in 1984 after serving as prime minister for two stints adding up to 15 years. He had been first elected in 1968.
As Trudeau prepared to retire, records show that security officials did not see any current threats against him — but that they believed his track record could invite future ones.
Deservedly the most hated PM ever …
40 man protection detail the largest in #Canadian history for the worst Prime Minister in Canadian history #JustinTrudeau
Speaks volumes ! pic.twitter.com/m9pp7SGoWL— truthseeker (@chaosismygoal) April 16, 2023
Germans split as last three nuclear power stations go off grid
On the other side of the Gate, there were protests, as demonstrators marched against the closure of Germany’s three remaining nuclear power stations.
By midnight on Saturday, Isar 2, Emsland and Neckarwestheim 2 had all gone offline.
At the Brandenburg Gate, where the Wall once divided Cold War Berlin, nuclear energy is an ideological fault-line that splits the country. It is an issue that is emotionally charged like few others. And particularly now as war in Europe again looms large.
GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau’s emission targets — they’re here, they’re there, they’re everywhere!
Assurances by the Trudeau government that Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions would decrease annually every year after 2019 lasted for exactly one year — 2020 — before they began increasing again, according to new federal data released Friday.
It reported Canada’s emissions rose to 670 million tonnes in 2021 — an increase of 12 million tonnes or 1.8% — compared to Canada’s emissions in 2020.
Grand National puts up defiant, united front in the face of animal rights protestors
Animal rights protesters have been arrested at Aintree Racecourse, amid plans to prevent the Grand National from taking place this afternoon.
Despite a large police presence at the racecourse activists have warned that they will scale fences and enter the track, in order to prevent the main event from starting at 5.15pm.
British Columbia breaks new overdose records one month after decriminalizing all drugs
Seven years after the province of British Columbia declared the drug epidemic a public health emergency, and just one month after the decriminalization of all drugs, overdoses continue to skyrocket.
According to the Canadian Press, B.C. tragically set three new overdose records this March, just the second month after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s federal government allowed the province to decriminalize all drugs starting February 1, 2023, in an effort to combat the crisis.
h/t XC
Florida retiree says lesbian squatters with ’15’ pit bulls trashed rental property she owns to tune of $38,000
A Florida retiree said lesbian squatters, who own up to 15 pit bulls, caused $38,000 worth of damages at her rental property after lying to police saying they paid a deposit and had been scammed by the landlord.
Patti Peeples and her co-owner Dawn Tiura discovered they had two people illegally living in their Jacksonville rental home more than 40 days ago and believe the unidentified squatters had been there since March.
They discovered the female couple – who haven’t been named, and who were evicted on Tuesday – living in their home after Peeples sent a handyman to carry out routine repairs after their previous tenants left.
‘Canadians are buckling up for the worst’: Jobs, economy concerns catching up to health care in Nanos tracking
Concern over jobs and the economy is closing in on health care as the top issue on Canadians’ minds, according to weekly national tracking by Nanos Research.
Health care began trending steadily up as the number one issue for Canadians beginning in the fall of 2022, before rising dramatically as winter arrived and hospital rooms were buckling under the strain of flu, RSV and COVID-19 cases. In late November, it hit a two-year high on Nanos’ weekly issues tracking.
How compulsory arrest and recovery could help homeless addicts
In big cities across America, homelessness has been so bad for so long that many have given up on ever ending it entirely.
Last year, federal agencies counted a staggering 582,462 homeless people nationwide – up nearly 20% since 2015.
It’s not the same everywhere.
GUNTER: Truth will vanish with Canada’s internet censorship law
Anyone who cares about freedom of expression in Canada was given a glaring example this week of how unfree speech could become when the Trudeau government’s internet censorship bill becomes law in the coming days or weeks.
Conrad Black: Totalitarian China has no serious chance at world dominance
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, at the end of his visit to China this past week volunteered that the West is in a state of decline and that China is on the rise. My own belief is that the West is at a plateau from which it will resume its advance when the United States surmounts its current state of nervosity. Nor am I convinced of the inexorable rise of China: it is a totalitarian state prone to frequent errors in almost all aspects of its foreign and domestic policy and brutalizes its own population. Apart from the armed forces, and those with some reservation, no Chinese institution is much admired and no utterance or statistic published by the government of the People’s Republic is worthy of being believed.
George Soros’ army of lieutenants get easy access to Biden White House
Far-left billionaire George Soros has a legion of loyal lieutenants who’ve racked up over two dozen meetings with top officials at the White House since President Biden took office, The Post has learned.
The progressive kingmaker’s unrivaled access into the Biden administration extends well beyond his 37-year-old son Alexander, who chairs the powerful, liberal grant-making network Open Society Foundations founded by his dad, and as The Post reported on Page 1 last week, has taken on the role of a de-facto White House “ambassador” by making at least 14 visits there.
Sensitivity Readers Are Distorting the Pages of the Past
Why is anyone shocked that authors reflect their times?
The republic of letters has been providing the world with some characteristic examples of courage in recent years. In 2020, we had the sight of junior staffers staging a walkout over the plan of their employer, Hachette, to publish a memoir by Woody Allen. The book was duly canceled, because what major publisher would ever want to go against the whims of a few twentysomething graduates in their first job?