Canada Post is having delivery problems — and for once, it’s not your mail.
New applications for the crown corporation’s MyMoney consumer loan program, launched nationally in late September, have been put “on pause” indefinitely after security monitoring detected an apparent cyber attack.
No matter how much violence — including shooting deaths — occurs in and around Toronto high schools, the Toronto District School Board will never put police officers back inside them because that would mean admitting it blundered when removing them five years ago.
On Nov. 22, 2017, trustees voted 18-3 to end the School Resource Officer (SRO) program, even though the board’s own survey showed it was strongly supported by students, parents and school staff.
Fighting around the key eastern Ukraine town of Bakhmut has descended into a bloody morass with hundreds of dead and injured reported daily, as neither Russian or Ukrainian forces were able to make a significant breakthrough after months of fighting.
As Russia moved fresh formations to the area in recent weeks, including reinforcements previously in the Kherson region, the fighting in the Bakhmut sector has descended into trench warfare reminiscent of the first world war.
Over the weekend, images emerged of Ukrainian soldiers in flooded, muddy trenches and battlefields dotted with the stumps of trees cut down by withering artillery barrages.
#Ukraine: The first footage of a 105mm M101 howitzer, supplied by 🇱🇹 Lithuania to Ukraine earlier this year, in action with the AFU. Although these are older designs, more artillery is always useful-which is why Soviet WW2-era 85mm D-44 guns still make appearances. pic.twitter.com/2tQvMQ5Lkd
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) November 27, 2022
The Charter of Rights and Freedoms contains the famous notwithstanding clause. That clause empowers provinces to override otherwise Charter- guaranteed rights. Very recently for example, Doug Ford of Ontario, summoned the notwithstanding clause to “cancel” collective bargaining rights, though he eventually withdrew it. Quebec, as another example, has made invoking the notwithstanding clause one of its favourite jurisdictional hobbies.
Rapper and entrepreneur Kanye West claimed last week that the U.S. is being run by “300 Zionists,” one of many antisemitic statements that he has continued to make despite criticism and pleas for him to stop.
Slashing Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions to 40 per cent to 45 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 and reaching net zero by 2050 is no small endeavour. Think long electricity transmission lines, carbon pipelines, hydrogen facilities and new critical mineral mines. The green shift will require hundreds of billions of dollars in new investments across the country.
Oil and gas are cheaper & far more reliable than green pipe dreams.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk signaled Monday that he might be preparing to “go to war” with Apple after the company has largely stopped advertising on Twitter and has reportedly threatened to boot the social media platform from its App Store.
Musk specifically called out Apple CEO Tim Cook in a series of tweets where he also raised the issue of censorship.
The key to understanding the Democrats is this: They accuse the Republicans of whatever they are up to. So when the libs call us “Nazis,” it’s time to take a peak under the non-binary, black bloc fashion-wear of their own street thugs and see what they’re really up to.
Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Tiantian Kullander is the second industry leader to die unexpectedly in a matter of weeks.
His death ‘in his sleep’ came after fellow crypto millionaire Nikolai Mushegian, 29, died on October 28 – hours after a paranoid Twitter post expressing fears the CIA and Mossad were going to murder him.
The deaths mean at least four cryptocurrency tycoons have died unexpectedly since 2018, at times triggering wild and unfounded conspiracy theories.
In late October, U.S. prosecutors charged thirteen Chinese agents for conducting illegal operations in the United States. Unfortunately, only two of the suspects are in custody. The other eleven remain free to continue their espionage and intimidation operations against American victims from the same place they usually operate—China.
These cases illustrate how far behind U.S. law enforcement is in its fight to defend America from assaults by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). While indictments against Chinese agents are becoming more common, the perpetrators are rarely brought to justice.
I’m in for the Elon Musk revolution.
After 2016’s twin political shocks of Brexit and Donald Trump, the message went out that social media had to come under the political control of — well, whatever you want to call it: the Blob, the center-left, the Apparatus, the managerial class. A giant moral panic was worked up over “disinformation,” and Silicon Valley used its cash to buy off its critics — often employing them in expanded departments dedicated to “safety” and “disinformation.” The private sector responded by immediately crowning “disinformation experts” and “online safety advocates” on the outside.
I hope he follows through.
When East Germany collapsed, millions of the Stasi’s victims choose to remain in ignorance about their oppressors. Is it sometimes better to forget the past than to investigate it?
In East Germany, during the communist period, people would sometimes join a queue on the basis that if others were waiting, there must be something worth having at the end of it. Siegfried Wittenburg, whose images accompany this article, photographed this waiting-for-I-know-not-what in his home town of Rostock. It was safer to take photos than to criticise the regime in words, but only just.
At the height of the Black Lives Matter race riots by supporters of the racist hate movement, cities frantically threw up BLM murals the way Germany had once put up swastikas and Hitler posters. All Lives Matter, the universal idea of the acknowledgement of the value of all human life, in defiance of the BLM racial supremacist ethos, however was treated as a hate crime. A legal reckoning is slowly arriving for the constitutional twilight in which we spent 2020.
Less than six weeks after Xi Jinping doubled down on his Zero Covid strategy, a swelling sea of discontent is finally breaking on its rocks. Outside the dining halls of two of the country’s most prestigious campuses, Peking University and Tsinghua University, small crowds of students risked their liberty over the weekend by chanting “freedom of expression, democracy and the rule of law”. According to one count, as of midday yesterday, there had been protests at more than 80 other universities, including in Shanghai and Beijing.
🔹️Çin'de protestolar devam ediyor.
🔹️Protests continue in China#China #chinaprotest #Breaking pic.twitter.com/30n13J2JEK
— HolyPolitics (@holypolitic) November 28, 2022
Toronto police said 39-year-old Usman Suhrwardy was charged with 23 separate counts of uttering threats of death or bodily harm.
