Danielle Smith vows to appeal Alberta court decision overruling separatist petition

Danielle Smith vows to appeal Alberta court decision overruling separatist petition

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said her government would appeal a court ruling on Wednesday that struck down the approval of an independence petition that could have forced a separation vote in the province.

In two decisions posted on Wednesday, Justice Sheila Leonard ruled that Alberta’s chief electoral officer Gordon McClure wrongfully approved the petition given an earlier ruling that found the separation question would violate First Nations’ treaty rights. She also found that the Crown had failed in its duty to consult with applicants Piikani Nation, Siksika Nation, Blood Tribe and Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation.

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My Encounters With the SPLC

My Encounters With the SPLC

I was still learning how to be a father when the Southern Poverty Law Center came after me.

On a winter night during my corporate paternity leave in 2023, my Twitter started blowing up. A couple inconsequential kids were gloating. I had a sense of what it was. Someone from the SPLC had been snooping around my LinkedIn that week. Eventually, I surveyed the damage: The SPLC had published a hit piece targeting me and two better-known conservative figures for our professional relationships with the Danube Institute, a geopolitical think tank in Budapest. The piece suggested we had violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). With the subtlety of a baboon, a D.C. lawyer clearly friendly to the SPLC asserted our contracts “seem to raise significant FARA concerns” and that my contract was the “most likely to require FARA registration.” His law firm even boasted about the analysis on its website.


The Liberals use the same tactics in Canada.

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WTF?

WTF?

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Fentanyl ingredients entering Canada via Vancouver en route to cartel-run drug labs, U.S. DEA boss says

Fentanyl ingredients entering Canada via Vancouver en route to cartel-run drug labs, U.S. DEA boss says

Chemicals used to make fentanyl are streaming into the Port of Vancouver on their way to drug labs run by Mexican cartels on Canadian soil, the head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration told senators in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.

DEA administrator Terrance Cole said U.S. law enforcement officials are “very conscious” of fentanyl being manufactured in Canada for export across the border and there have been “significant seizures” of the drug in Canada over the past two months.

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California’s War on Autonomous Trucking

California’s War on Autonomous Trucking

As notorious as California freeways are, the state’s leading gubernatorial candidates are vying to make things even worse. Former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and billionaire fossil-fuel investor Tom Steyer have each vowed to reverse the California DMV policy authorizing autonomous truck testing. Though framed publicly as a safety issue, the candidates occasionally reveal that the real conflict is between labor and technology.

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Ontario education minister says he can’t interfere in Catholic board’s Pride flag ban

Ontario education minister says he can’t interfere in Catholic board’s Pride flag ban

TORONTO — Education Minister Paul Calandra has denied a request to overturn a Catholic school board’s decision not to fly the Pride flag because he cannot interfere in denominational issues, even in boards under supervision.

Trustees at the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board voted two years ago against allowing flags marking Pride and other events.

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Nicholas Kristof’s Blood Libel: Dog Rape of Palestinians, Israel Worse Than Hamas

Nicholas Kristof’s Blood Libel: Dog Rape of Palestinians, Israel Worse Than Hamas

Gullible New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, always willing to see the best side of Saddam Hussein and fanatical Islamic radicalism and the worst side of democratic Israel, penned a long investigative column, “The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians,” alleging without corroboration that Israel soldiers, settlers, and especially prison guards have long committed sexual violence against Palestinian prisoners. The most fantastical charge: Israel prisons train dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners.

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Real-estate firm bulk buys $30 million of downtown Toronto condos: ‘They’re sitting empty’

Real-estate firm bulk buys $30 million of downtown Toronto condos: ‘They’re sitting empty’

A Montreal-based real-estate company has snapped up $30 million of unsold condo units in downtown Toronto, with a plan to buy $500 million worth over the next year.

Jesta Group, a family-owned global real-estate firm, recently bought a portfolio of condos in bulk at a recently completed building near Toronto Metropolitan University, said Anthony O’Brien, the firm’s senior managing director.

O’Brien said he’s not able to speak about the details or reveal the name of the building due to a confidentiality agreement. But the plan is to hold the units as rentals until the market turns around, which they predict will happen in three to five years.

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Alex Murdaugh’s murder convictions of wife and son shockingly overturned, new trial ordered in wild twist

Alex Murdaugh’s murder convictions of wife and son shockingly overturned, new trial ordered in wild twist

Alex Murdaugh — the disgraced South Carolina legal scion who was found guilty of killing his wife and son — had his murder convictions sensationally overturned Wednesday by the state Supreme Court after it found that the local county clerk had “placed her fingers on the scales of justice.”

Murdaugh, 57, was serving two consecutive life sentences without parole for the grisly 2021 murders of his wife, Maggie, and their 22-year-old son, Paul, following a dramatic, six-week trial that gripped the nation in 2023.

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Tasha Kheiriddin: Will Carney really risk his majority over Alberta?

Tasha Kheiriddin: Will Carney really risk his majority over Alberta?

Prime Minister Mark Carney is avidly wooing the west — but will his own caucus trip him up? Last Friday, Carney met with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to reassure her that Ottawa’s got her back on a second bitumen pipeline from Alberta to Canada’s West Coast. After the tête-à-tête Smith said, “This morning I said ‘if’ a deal gets signed, and afterwards I said ‘when’ a deal gets signed,” describing it as “an indication of my improved level of confidence.”

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The Curious Story of California’s Chinese Spy Mayor

The Curious Story of California’s Chinese Spy Mayor

It feels like California is the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) espionage playground. There’s been more than one rogue Chinese bio lab filled with germs, bugs, and diseases busted by law enforcement. Chinese spy balloons lazily hoovered up intelligence over sensitive U.S. installations across America. Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s spymaster chauffeur and body man probably heard all manner of secrets from her days chairing the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the Judiciary Committee, and the defense subcommittee, but no biggie. Nobody was arrested. Eric Swalwell was a dim city councilor until he met PRC honeypot Fang Fang, who propelled him to a congressional post where he dished bad intel to the American public and who knows what to Double Fang. And now we have the continuation of the curious case of the after-school tutor-turned-Arcadia mayor and her personal Double Fang handler. Oh, excuse me: fiancé.

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