Tuesday marked the first White House press briefing of 2023 and, in her ninth month as press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre continued to stammer and stonewall her way through even the most benign questions. Meanwhile, Fox’s Peter Doocy kept up the heat by wondering whether anyone in the White House could say with a straight face whether “the southern border is secure” and if President Biden lied about not being involved in his family’s corruption.
A studio for rent in China has gone viral after photographs advertising the six-square-metre property showed a man cooking while sitting on a toilet.
The listing, shared by property agents on Douyin, China’s TikTok shows off the micro-rental which is located under stairs and is being listed for 380 yuan (£45) per month.
The post put a renewed focus on the living standards of migrant and low-paid workers.
As we reported in this space in September, Canada’s reputation as an international woke embarrassment was buttressed by the enormous fake bust of an allegedly “transgender” shop teacher at a high school in Ontario’s Halton School District this fall. Photos went viral of a blond bewigged man strolling about with enormous Z-size prosthetic breasts strapped to his chest, replete with large protruding nipples. The school board announced that it would be standing behind the teacher (presumably this is the only safe place to stand around him), and the disbelief of pundits and the barely concealed incredulity of newscasters worldwide was chalked up to transphobia.
A granddaughter of Nelson Mandela has accused the Duke and Duchess of Sussex of using his legacy to promote their newest Netflix series, describing it as “deeply upsetting and tedious”.
Ndileka Mandela said she admired Meghan and Prince Harry for leaving their royal duties but criticised their involvement in Live to Lead, a documentary series profiling public figures. The Mandelas have made no money from it, she told The Australian.
EDMONTON—When Ron Zazulak joined the RCMP, it was seen as the “big leagues” of policing, he says.
He doesn’t think that’s the case anymore. And there are indications he’s not alone in his opinion.
Zazulak spent a career with the Mounties after joining the force in the 1960s. When he retired in 2000, he bought a farm with his wife and spent years living in rural Alberta near St. Lina, where they bordered three different RCMP detachment areas — the closest one being in St. Paul, 40 minutes away.
Just when the #MeToo movement looked to be getting marginalised in just the way activists had feared, a new frontier has opened up – history.
Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, who as teens starred in Franco Zeffirelli’s movie version of Romeo and Juliet in 1968, are suing Paramount for more than $500m for child abuse in the semi-nude scene they say they were made to do, having originally been assured by the director that this would not be necessary. This was act three, scene five – in which the star crossed, loved-up hero and heroine awake after their (secret) wedding night.
More than half of Canadians think the Liberals should ditch Justin Trudeau as leader before the next federal election, while 45 per cent think the Conservatives should find an alternative to their new leader, Pierre Poilievre, a Nanos poll for The Globe and Mail shows.
The Canada-wide survey of 1,021 people found that 51 per cent of people want the federal Liberals to replace Mr. Trudeau, while a quarter want him to stay on.
As part of the latest Twitter Files dump on Tuesday, independent journalist Matt Taibbi released screenshots showing that in November 2020, Rep. Adam Schiff’s office requested that journalist Paul Sperry, an investigative reporter for Real Clear Investigations, be permanently banned from the platform, claiming that Sperry had “repeatedly promoted false QAnon conspiracies” and harassed one of the California congressman’s staffers.
… Immigrants not only add to the demand for housing, they also increase congestion for a wide range of public services: doctors, hospitals, schools, universities, parks, retirement homes, and roads and bridges, as well as the utilities that supply water, electricity and sewers. In theory, the supply of all these things could be expanded reasonably rapidly. In practice, expansion is slow. But the main reasons for that are, not a shortage of labour, but inadequate planning, insufficient financial resources and, as a result, construction that lags demand.
The case for keeping annual immigration at traditional or even somewhat lower levels rests on more than the effect on house prices and public services, however. Immigration also depresses the wages of low-income workers, which results in greater income-equalizing transfers and the higher taxes required to pay for them. It also reduces employers’ incentives to adopt labour-saving technology, an important source of growth in labour productivity and wages, and it allows employers to avoid the cost of operating apprenticeship programs to train skilled workers.
Why isn’t Poilievre speaking out about the immigration scam? Why not Jagmeet, he of the working people’s party?
Because they seek to please their corporate masters as Justin does. They don’t give a damn about you or your children. They don’t give a damn where the bodies come from or the damage they inflict on Canada. They just want a place at the public trough and providing wage slaves ensures the corporate class will back them.
Canada’s immigration policy is Corporate welfare no ifs ands or buts.
When it comes to diversity, Hollywood is having trouble practicing what it preaches.
The entertainment industry is failing spectacularly in its efforts to diversify its behind-the-camera talent, with a new study showing that the number of female and minority movie directors employed by the studios actually dropped in 2022.
I’ll keep offering my advice until Hollywood wises up.
Whether you’re doing a historic period piece such as Ivanhoe or adapting a classic piece of theatre for the screen such as “Hedda Gabler” make sure to add LGBTQ racialized dwarves and elves into the mix, not just as main characters but also as directors. You can thank me later Hollywood.
OTTAWA — British etymologist Susie Dent offered the archaic best wishes of “respair” (fresh hope) and “respiscence” (a return to a better frame of mind) on social media as we entered the new year.
But for Canadian political watchers, the mood was likely closer to another of Dent’s obsolete nouns — “humdudgeon,” an imaginary illness caused by a sense of it all being over, pending a return to a gloomy reality.
A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of a former teacher in Vancouver, Washington, concluding that his wearing a hat supporting Donald Trump to school was protected speech under the first amendment.
Documents from the ninth circuit court of appeals show that Eric Dodge, a science teacher, brought the Make America Great Again baseball cap to an Evergreen Public Schools building twice before the 2019-2020 school year.
According to the Columbian newspaper, the first occasion was a staff-only cultural sensitivity and racial bias training.
” … The media environment in Canada, and the social media environment in Canada is increasingly resembling the media and social media environment in the United States,” Bremmer said Tuesday.
“It is dysfunctional. It is rife with disinformation. It is deeply polarized. [The online discourse] is a bunch of people that do not reflect the average Canadian, do not reflect the average American in both countries.”
Policy issues, especially energy and climate change, are being weaponized in Canada for political gain at the expense of national unity, he added.
“The realities of the business models of media and social media in both countries move people and empower people that engage with the radical right and left,” Bremmer said.
I bet Katie Telford has this guy in her Rolodex.
A whiff of the WEF about this fellow. The Eurasia Group’s founder Ian Bremmer has a show on PBS.
Typically he blames everyone but Trudeau for weaponizing climate change despite Junior being responsible for pushing a radical economy wrecking extremist climate policy. As pointed out by commenters Butts and Solomon work for this outfit, in other words the CBC and LPC have colluded to present Liberal Party propaganda as “news.” The Ceeb needs to be sold off yesterday.
“Polarization” means you refuse to kowtow to the extremist left.
Republican leader Kevin McCarthy has failed to be elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives – but if not him, who else could fill the role?
After three consecutive rounds of voting on Tuesday, the first day of a new Congress, Mr McCarthy fell short of the 218 votes he needed to clinch the job.
Until the House has its presiding officer in place, the body is not swearing in its new members or moving on with its legislative business.
The voting will continue on Wednesday and the California congressman insists he can eventually win over his detractors.
High-profile professor and former judge Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond is no longer employed at the University of British Columbia (UBC), according to an official with the institution.
The university says that as of Dec.16, Turpel-Lafond is no longer a professor in the Peter A. Allard School of Law.
When asked why, a spokesperson said, “I’m afraid I cannot provide those details due to privacy law.”
Even better… Wisconsin art leader accused of faking Native American heritage: report
The co-owner of a queer Indigenous artists’ collective in Wisconsin is facing accusations of being white after claiming to hold Native American heritage, according to a report.
Kay LeClaire, who identifies as non-binary, allegedly faked their indigenous heritage and used the front to make money, according to a local outlet.
LeClaire was accused in an online forum of actually being white after claiming since 2017 they were of Metis, Oneida, Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, Cuban and Jewish heritage, Madison 365 reported on Tuesday.
What’s with these crazy white women?
