It’s taken the Liberal government two tries and more than two years to get Bill C-11 through the legislative process. If the Senate doesn’t fight the government on removing a number of amendments senators previously added to the bill, Bill C-11 could receive royal assent shortly after Parliament comes back from break next week.
Most British people are not interested in the King’s Coronation, though many said they would still watch it or take part in related festivities, according to a YouGov poll.
In a survey of more than 3,000 adults conducted this month, 35pc said they “do not care very much” about the historic event, and 29pc said they “do not care at all”.
When the CEO and the entire board of directors of the Trudeau Foundation resigned en masse this week, they issued a statement blaming the “political climate” surrounding a donation that it now appears was connected to the Chinese government. It was all to do with “the politicization of the foundation,” they said.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau added to that narrative the same day. After making clear he’s had nothing to do for the past 10 years with the foundation created to honour his father, the PM declared “it is a shame to see the level of toxicity and political polarization that is going on in our country these days.”
That, as they say, did not age well …
Conservative dad and beer drinker Seth Weathers has launched his own beer brand in the wake of Bud Light’s controversy over transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
Weathers, the founder of conservative lifestyle brand Freedom Speaks Up, previously succeeded in his attempt to sell millions of dollars of ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ wrapping paper to blast Joe Biden.
This time around, MAGA dad Weathers has launched a product called ‘Conservative Dad’s Ultra Right Beer,’ which caters to the beliefs of the faction of consumers that Bud Light has now alienated by using Mulvaney to push its booze.
America's been buying beer from a company that doesn't even know which restroom to use.
There's a new beer in town! pic.twitter.com/JHm4BspZwB
— SETH WEATHERS (@sethweathers) April 12, 2023
h/t xc
There were complaints that Mounties were not doing enough at the Canada-U. S. border-crossing in Coutts, Alta., when protests erupted over COVID-19 pandemic policies.
There were others saying the same police force was doing too much and betraying the country.
Manuel Yambo had never heard of a “ghost” gun until his 16-year-old daughter was killed by one.
He was at home, getting ready for work, when he got a call that every parent dreads. His daughter Angellyh had been hit by a stray bullet near her school. Before he could get to the hospital, another call came in: She was dead. He didn’t believe it until he saw her for himself.
It was just a few months ago that Angellyh was celebrating her sixteenth birthday, dancing with her father wearing a pink gown and a crown.
Katie Telford refuses to answer a question on whether Global News’ reporting on foreign interference is accurate. pic.twitter.com/EXHaaM1sAI
— The Real Andy Lee Show (@RealAndyLeeShow) April 14, 2023
Twitter “Katie Telford”
Canadian MP felt ‘shadow of doubt’ after spy agency warned him about diplomat
A veteran Canadian MP met three times with the ambassador of a country in the crosshairs of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, leading CSIS to warn the parliamentarian away from further interactions, CBC News has learned.
“You just cast a shadow of doubt over everyone,” the MP said, speaking confidentially because he was not authorized to comment publicly on the matter.
“Once you have that doubt placed on you, I don’t know how you recover.”
CBC News is not identifying the country in question in order to protect the MP’s identity.
CBC and the MP seem to suggest CSIS was out of line by doing their job.
Jack Teixeira, 21, wore shackles and a prison uniform as he stood before a federal judge.
He responded “you too, dad” to a shout of “love you, Jack,” from a person in the courtroom.
He has been charged in relation to the leaking of hundreds of classified files on a gaming chat server.
The former Liberal cabinet minister who oversaw the creation of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation claims Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is engaging in “ignorant, irresponsible and highly partisan” attacks.
Poilievre called for an investigation into the foundation earlier this week, posting on Twitter about a need to know who “got rich” as a result of donations to the foundation, as well as “who got paid and who got privilege.”
Allan Rock created the corrupt Trudeau Foundation with $125M of our taxdollars. https://t.co/DcELlBzX62
— Dean Skoreyko (@bcbluecon) April 14, 2023
The Ukraine government, headed by Volodymyr Zelensky, has been using American taxpayers’ funds to pay dearly for the vitally needed diesel fuel that is keeping the Ukrainian army on the move in its war with Russia. It is unknown how much the Zelensky government is paying per gallon for the fuel, but the Pentagon was paying as much as $400 per gallon to transport gasoline from a port in Pakistan, via truck or parachute, into Afghanistan during the decades-long American war there.
What also is unknown is that Zelensky has been buying the fuel from Russia, the country with which it, and Washington, are at war, and the Ukrainian president and many in his entourage have been skimming untold millions from the American dollars earmarked for diesel fuel payments. One estimate by analysts from the Central Intelligence Agency put the embezzled funds at $400 million last year, at least; another expert compared the level of corruption in Kiev as approaching that of the Afghan war, “although there will be no professional audit reports emerging from the Ukraine.”
Note – This is Seymour Hersh again.
The federal government’s efforts to further restrict the purchase and ownership of firearms could push domestic extremists to launch a terror attack, according to an internal government document.
The report was prepared last October by the Integrated Terrorism Assessment Centre (ITAC), the federal agency that assesses terrorism threats based on classified and open-source information.
Parents of students at Fox Chapel Middle School in Hernando County, Florida, are demanding answers from the district after a teacher made concerning comments allegedly made about harming children and themselves. Although the district investigated the comments and found them concerning, the teacher was not fired and is back in the classroom.
h/t XC
… Is dumb. Or how I set up an accident waiting to happen.
Got on the step stool last night to affix a ribbon to the overhead fan as the receiver is toast and no longer responds to the remote.
Xavier’s 6 foot cat tree was located only a couple of feet behind me as I worked.
Of course I risked a haircut by keeping the fan at full tilt while I tied the pull string.
Engrossed in my work I failed to see Xavier climbing his tree.
Next I felt claws in my shoulder and then heard and felt Xavier getting whacked by the fan blades before he fell to the floor at which point he scampered under the bed.
Fortunately he was more scared than hurt. A treat lured him out and he consented to an exam.
He’s OK. I think we’re both stupid.
Last month, the New York Times ran a story exploring the poverty, drug and mental health crisis engulfing the city of Phoenix, Ariz., through the eyes of a sandwich shop owner whose restaurant sat across from one of the largest homeless encampments in America.
It was an eye-opener.
Unexpected resolve in Vancouver.
