OTTAWA — The commander of the Canadian Armed Forces was warned by his senior legal and medical advisers last year that requiring all troops to be vaccinated against COVID-19 was unnecessary — and that doing so “may not constitute a legal order.”
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Climate protesters smear cake on King’s waxwork model at Madame Tussauds
Environmental activists have thrown chocolate cake on the face of the King’s waxwork at Madame Tussauds in central London.
Eilidh McFadden, 20, and Tom Johnson, 29, are being investigated on suspicion of criminal damage after they stepped over the barrier and appeared to smear cake on the model, which is valued at £220,000. It can take artists four months to create a Madame Tussauds figure.
BREAKING: Just Stop Oil activists have thrown custard pies into the face of King Charles's waxwork at London's Madame Tussauds. More follows… pic.twitter.com/xqE7NkZhH6
— TalkTV (@TalkTV) October 24, 2022
Man charged after allegedly driving car towards crowd at protest in Markham: Premier Doug Ford’s government set to challenge his summons to appear at Emergencies Act inquiry
… “It was our hope that Premier Ford and Minister Jones would agree to appear before the Commission voluntarily,” the letter reads.
“However, given that the repeated invitations were all declined, the Commission has issued summons this day to Premier Ford and Minister Jones.”
The commission has the legal authority to call witnesses to testify before the inquiry. A spokesperson for the Ontario attorney general’s office said the government will be challenging the summons, arguing that Jones and the premier are covered by parliamentary privilege.
Ottawa police made enforcement promises during Freedom Convoy it could never keep: acting chief
OTTAWA – From blocking gas supplies to protesters to closing interprovincial bridges, former Ottawa Police Service (OPS) chief Peter Sloly kept making “very damaging” promises of enforcement against the Freedom Convoy that the force was never actually able to deliver.
That’s according to acting OPS chief Steve Bell, who succeeded Sloly as head of the force after Sloly resigned in the days before police massively mobilized and cleared out the protests on Feb. 19.
WTF?
These are the people teaching your kids pic.twitter.com/S18Wy2MZmw
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 24, 2022
The Real Story Behind Drag Queen Story Hour – Aimed at children, the phenomenon is far more subversive than its defenders claim
Drag Queen Story Hour—in which performers in drag read books to kids in libraries, schools, and bookstores—has become a cultural flashpoint. The political Right has denounced these performances as sexual transgressions against children, while the political Left has defended them as an expression of LGBTQ pride. The intellectual debate has even spilled into real-world conflict: right-wing militants affiliated with the Proud Boys and the Three Percenters have staged protests against drag events for children, while their counterparts in the left-wing Antifa movement have responded with offers to serve as a protection force for the drag queens.
The lesson of 2022: energy is our lifeblood – The Ukraine war reminds us we need it in abundance, whether we like it or not
This has, so far, been a year of hard lessons. Spiraling inflation has given households an expensive economic refresher course. A land war in Europe has offered an unwelcome reminder of old geopolitical and military truths. But arguably the most important lesson of 2022 concerns the point at which these economic, military and geopolitical considerations converge: energy.
Tim Burton: ‘My Days With Disney Are Done’ Because Of ‘Homogenized’ Content Like Marvel Multiverse
Tim Burton is not interested in working with Disney again because of a bad experience making “Dumbo,” plus some issues with the Marvel multiverse.
The veteran Hollywood director made the statements this weekend at the Lumière Festival in Lyon, France, per Deadline.
Burton discussed the company’s current focus on the Marvel, Star Wars, and Pixar franchises which he doesn’t care to work on.
Lawsuit reveals vast censorship scheme by Big Tech and the federal government
A little noticed federal lawsuit, Missouri v. Biden, is uncovering astonishing evidence of an entrenched censorship scheme cooked up between the federal government and Big Tech that would make Communist China proud.
So far, 67 officials or agencies — including the FBI — have been accused in the lawsuit of violating the First Amendment by pressuring Facebook, Twitter and Google to censor users for alleged misinformation or disinformation.
Victims of the Biden-Big Tech’s “censorship enterprise” include The Post, whose Hunter Biden laptop exposé was suppressed by Facebook and then Twitter in October 2020 after the FBI went to Facebook warning them with great specificity to watch out for a “dump” of Russian disinformation, pertaining to Joe Biden, with an uncanny resemblance to our stories.
Biden Embraces America’s Fiercest Enemies: Whose Side Is He On?
Saudi Arabia was once considered America’s No. 1 friend and ally in the Arab world. Since President Joe Biden came to power, however, US-Saudi relations have rapidly deteriorated.
The recent OPEC+ decision to cut oil production and the Biden administration’s subsequent verbal attack on Saudi Arabia have seen the crisis between Washington and Riyadh reach new heights, with many Saudis launching unprecedented criticism of the Biden administration and its foreign policies.
The Saudis believe that the Biden administration’s hostility towards Saudi Arabia is the result of the influence of far-left US politicians who have infiltrated the Democratic Party.
Doty Joe ain’t runnin anything that’s the one certainty.
Ukraine war: Nato denounces Russia’s ‘dirty bomb’ claim
Nato’s secretary general has warned Russia over its “false” claim that Kyiv might use a “dirty bomb” – conventional explosives laced with radioactive material.
Jens Stoltenberg tweeted that the Nato allies “reject this allegation” and “Russia must not use it as a pretext for escalation”.
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu made the dirty bomb remarks in a call with his UK counterpart Ben Wallace.
Ukraine also condemned the remarks.
US Has Only 25 Days of Diesel Supply; Shortage Could Cripple Economy
The United States is down to 25 days of diesel supply as a top White House official declared the stockpile levels to be “unacceptably low.”
Data provided by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) show that diesel stockpiles are at their lowest level for October in records that date back to 1993, according to a Bloomberg News analysis. EIA data show that the United States, as of Oct. 14, has 25.4 days of supply—down from 34.2 days of supply four weeks prior.
Ontario’s first healing lodge for Indigenous inmates in peril because of cash crunch
A Toronto-based Indigenous non-profit is close to cancelling plans to build Ontario’s first Indigenous healing lodge owing to funding shortfalls, a potential setback to the Trudeau government’s objective of expanding the country’s network of Indigenous-run correctional facilities.
Thunder Woman Healing Lodge Society says it’s $2-million short of the total needed to construct a seven-storey residential complex that would house federally sentenced women.