A year after a family of four from India froze to death while trying to walk to the United States from Manitoba, the agency tasked with patrolling the border says others have not been deterred from attempting the same treacherous journey.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has seen a drastic uptick in recent months of people trying to enter North Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin illegally from Canada.
The only things that have ever significantly reduced Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions are recessions.
It’s happened twice in the modern era — during the 2008-09 global recession that started with the subprime mortgage derivative scandal in the U.S., and during the 2020 global recession caused by the pandemic.
“Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven,” reads Christ’s eighth beatitude in the Gospel of Matthew. It is perhaps the beatitude most often viewed as a remnant of the ancient world among modern Americans, as persecution of the faithful has been remarkably absent in this country. Every now and then, though, a news story reminds us Christ’s proclamation is just as important as ever.
The over $32 billion that leftist billionaire George Soros poured into his organizations to spread his radical “open society” agenda on abortion, Marxist economics, anti-Americanism, defunding the police, environmental extremism and LGBT fanaticism around the globe has paid dividends.
In fact, his funding has helped him establish ties with some of the biggest name media personalities in the United States and abroad which help indoctrinate millions with his views on a day-to-day basis. MRC Business found at least 54 prominent media figures (e.g. reporters, anchors, columnists, editors, news executives and journalists) who are tied to Soros through their connections to organizations that he funds. These include personalities like NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt and The Washington Post executive editor Sally Buzbee.
It is a wholly predictable consequence of the one-child policy.
Communist China’s guiding ideology, epitomized first by “Mao Zedong Thought,” and now by “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era,” has always been predicated on the notion of unceasing struggle. “Marxism,” Chairman Mao maintained, “can develop only through struggle, and this is not only true of the past and the present, it is necessarily true of the future as well.” Class struggle, factional struggle, the struggle against foreign invaders, the struggle against obsolescent traditions, and the struggle for production, all these struggles were meant to pave the way for a new social system upon which the very salvation of the world was said to depend…
Letting 16-year-olds legally change sex is a dangerously naive idea.
This week, the UK government made the ground-breaking decision to block Nicola Sturgeon’s Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, which had been passed in the Scottish parliament last year.
One of the most dangerous and controversial aspects of the Scottish legislation was that it would enable children as young as 16 to obtain a gender-recognition certificate and thus legally change sex. So it was more than a little alarming to hear the UK education secretary, whose government had just blocked the bill, endorsing precisely this aspect of it.
Lucky old Americans. They only had to put up with one fruitcake as president, in Donald Trump. It could have been worse. But for a few hanging chads in Florida in the 2000 Presidential election, they could have ended up with Al Gore.
It isn’t just the hanging chads, though, that have become unhinged, but Gore himself. In an extraordinary speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, an increasingly crimson Gore angrily berated the rest of the world – Greta Thunberg and other youthful activists excepted – for failing to realise just how close we are to climate apocalypse. ‘People are familiar with the thin blue line which astronauts bring back in their pictures from space,’ he began. ‘That’s the part of the atmosphere which has the oxygen and it’s only 5 to 7 km thick. That’s what we are using as an open sewer.’
The writer is a serving police officer.
IT IS a widely held belief that public bodies have, these days, been completely captured by woke ideology amid the ongoing culture wars. HR departments are having their collective heads turned by intersectional dogma and managers care more for what’s said about them on Twitter than they do in performing efficiently.
Particular concern has been focused on the police, which, as if to illustrate the point, now prefers to be called a service rather than a force. Some otherwise sensible folk are of the opinion that, surely, an institution which deals with catching often violent offenders and bringing them to justice simply cannot have been taken over by this quasi-religious ‘be kind’ zealotry? Unfortunately, dear reader, I’m here to tell you that it has.
Shamima Begum is the daughter of Bangladeshi immigrants to the U.K. In 2015, when news of the Islamic State (ISIS) first reached Great Britain, Begum — then aged 15 – knew where she most wanted to be. Inspired by tales of Islamic State fighters decapitating Infidels, she immediately set out with two classmates from school to join the paradise on earth being created by her Muslim soul mates in the Islamic State. She later told a British journalist that she had no qualms or doubts about that practice of decapitating enemies; it was a matter, she said, “of Islam.”
The supposedly progressive city is alienating its black residents
San Francisco, long a bastion of extremist progressivism, is currently outdoing itself. The city’s reparations committee has just adopted a proposal to give $5 million — and grant debt forgiveness — to all long-time black residents who can prove descent from slaves. It is a gesture, and one that is unlikely to be adopted at a time when the state is under severe fiscal stress. The city isn’t in much better shape either; San Francisco now stands as among the least recovered of America’s core cities after the pandemic.
Promotional film inadvertently shows new apartments replacing bomb-damaged properties have leaks and dropped ceilings
Russian propagandists sent to promote newly-built apartment blocks in the occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol have inadvertently revealed that the buildings are marred by problems.
Eight months after the once thriving port city in south-eastern Ukraine fell under Moscow’s control last May, its remaining residents have complained of flooded apartments and shoddy workmanship.
Part 3: How Did an Accused Child Rapist Adopt Two Children?
There were more than just warning signs that went unnoticed during gay activists William Dale Zulock Jr. and Zachary “Zack” Jacoby Zulock’s expedited adoption process. A little over four years later, the adoptive fathers of two are now facing a laundry list of charges for unspeakable sex crimes they allegedly committed against their young adopted sons, including rape, producing child pornography of the children’s “routine” sexual abuse, and prostituting their 11-year-old boy to pedophiles in the area.
Only about 8 percent of EU firms have divested from Russia, with the majority of Western firms still active in the country being German.
A vast number of firms headquartered in the European Union and G7 countries continue to operate and invest in Russia, according to a new study on equity investments made by Western companies.
Less than 9 percent of about 1,400 EU and G7 companies that had subsidiaries in Russia before Moscow invaded Ukraine had divested at least one subsidiary in the country by November 2022, according to data obtained by professor Simon Evenett, from the University of St. Gallen, and and professor Niccolò Pisani, from the International Institute for Management Development. This is despite the harshest ever Western sanctions against Moscow and the media reports of multiple companies’ exits from the country since the start of the Ukraine war.
What kind of war is this? What kind of allies are these?
Tanks, no tanks: Scholz holds key to Leopards for Ukraine, but waits for Biden
BERLIN/DAVOS — International efforts to ship Ukraine modern tanks may hinge on Germany — but it’s waiting for the U.S. to move first, which isn’t happening.
Ahead of a meeting of Western defense ministers this Friday at the U.S. Ramstein air base in Germany, Chancellor Olaf Scholz is being goaded to help Ukraine get Germany’s best-in-class Leopard 2 tanks in anticipation of a possible spring offensive. The reason: In addition to overseeing his own fleet of Leopard tanks — and Europe’s largest economy — Scholz must approve other countries’ donations of the German-made tanks.
But But But …. Western Allies Back Sending Modern Tanks To Ukraine As Pressure Mounts On Germany (No sign of Canada agreeing)
… U.S. Representative Gregory Meeks (Democrat-New York), the top-ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told AFP on January 19 that Scholz told U.S. congressmen in Davos that Germany will supply heavy tanks to Ukraine if the United States also sends tanks. German government sources have told Reuters that Berlin wants the Americans to specifically send Abrams tanks to Ukraine.
“It’s basically that it’s got to be the United States and Germany. There’s no question about that,” Meeks told AFP.
But U.S. officials say the Abrams is not the right tank for Ukraine since it runs on turbine engines that use too much fuel for Kyiv’s strained logistics system to keep them supplied at the front.
ODESA, Ukraine — A growing coalition of western states is poised to send tanks to Ukraine. Canada should join them; it would cost peanuts, support Canadian interests and be the moral thing to do.
However, there’s a problem: a significant portion of Canada’s tanks may have been neglected to the point of becoming inoperable — a revelation that until now has escaped much scrutiny from the press, apart from the Post’s John Ivison .
Western allies have been expanding their military aid to Ukraine since December in anticipation of a Russian springtime offensive .
Yea but our army knows proper pronoun deployment in battlefield conditions.
Energy is now about security
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, energy security has replaced climate change as most countries’ number one concern, especially the countries we count as friends and allies. No matter how much Justin Trudeau may long for it, the world is not going back to the kumbaya days of the Kyoto and Paris climate accords.
Trudeau is not fit to be in charge of anything beyond costume selection. Canada is becoming an economic basket case thanks to Junior’s Greta envy.
