How an identity-politics-obsessed mob destroyed a young filmmaker’s documentary
At the beginning of director Meg Smaker’s documentary Jihad Rehab, we hear a former Guantanamo detainee saying, “Meg, can I tell you something?” Sure, a woman’s voice says. “In every story there is good and bad,” the man goes on in a gentle Saudi accent. “But . . . it’s a thin line. The American government did bad, bad, bad things against us. But at least I am honest with what I did.”
Who do you dislike least? That sums up our current political environment.
Canada was once heralded as an outlier in a world gripped by controversial politicians such as former U.S. president Donald Trump, Brexiteer Nigel Farage and France’s Marine Le Pen. Back in 2015, the election of Justin Trudeau and his “sunny ways” government set the country apart on the international stage.
HBO ‘Real Time’ host Bill Maher on Friday said the GOP backs candidates like Herschel Walker to push back against woke Democrats who continue to push their woke agenda.
‘Part of the appeal of a Herschel Walker or a Donald Trump or any number of egregious a**holes Republicans have backed is, in their mind, the worst a candidate is, the more it says to Democrats, “we don’t like what you’re selling,”‘ he said.
Earlier this month, it was revealed that Georgia Senate hopeful Herschel Walker, 60, paid for a woman’s abortion in 2009 despite running on an anti-abortion political platform, and she claims he also urged her to terminate a second pregnancy.
A strike in Ukraine would threaten chaos at home — but one expert says it may not be as bad as we fear
Western countries are making contingency plans to deal with chaos at home in case of nuclear war in Ukraine, officials said yesterday, as the threat of a battlefield strike by President Putin grew.
The measures could include issuing leaflets on how to survive a nuclear attack or ways to ease panic buying amid fears the fallout could reach western Europe and beyond. President Putin’s threats to use nuclear weapons in recent weeks have sent alarm bells ringing across Nato, with the alliance engaging in discussions behind closed doors as to how it will respond to such an eventuality.
Oh that’s nice, we’re only gonna be irradiated just a tetch.
Amazon’s woke (and boring) reimagining of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Rings universe is bleeding viewers when it should be snowballing.
According to the far-left Hollywood Reporter, “The Rings of Power had 988 million minutes of viewing time in the United States from Sept. 12 to 18, per Nielsen (the show’s fourth episode debuted Sept. 16). That’s a decline of about 18 percent from the previous week’s 1.2 billion minutes.”
The series has no connection to Tolkien’s world. No one asked for a ham-fisted reimagining with Gay elves, Bad MAGA people and identity politics. No wonder people fall asleep watching, it’s just another boring batch of unpalatable leftist twaddle. A pity too as a great deal of money was invested in this. What a waste.
Jacob Hoggard is facing years in prison for sexually assaulting an Ottawa woman in her early 20s, regardless of how much of a public danger a judge finds the former lead singer of Hedley poses to the public.
The Crown is seeking a sentence of six to seven years in prison, arguing that Superior Court Justice Gillian Roberts should find that Hoggard, 38, repeatedly raped the young woman in downtown Toronto hotel room over hours in November 2016.
Voters across Canada will head to the polls this month to elect school board trustees — and Ben and Jerry’s, the ice cream company, is trying to tell Canadians who we should vote for.
It’s the latest example of a corporation going woke, and revealing how out of touch it is in the process.
Overpriced.
Most Canadians who pay for natural gas or electricity can expect their bills to rise by between 50 and 100 per cent on average this winter, according to one energy analyst.
Some consumers could see their bills rise by as much as 300 per cent while others could see minimal increases, but the overall trend is clear, says EnergyRates.ca founder Joel MacDonald.
Most of what will drive up the cost of home energy this winter is the rising price of natural gas, which generates 8.5 per cent of Canada’s electricity.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland grossly inflated estimates of the Freedom Convoy impact on the Canadian economy, internal documents show. Freeland cited figures described in one Department of Transport memo as an “extreme case” that did not reflect actual data.
“The blockade of the Ambassador Bridge has affected about $390 million in trade each day,” Freeland told reporters last February 14. “This bridge supports 30% of all trade by road between Canada and the United States.”
Windsor? $3 billion?
The economic nightmare that wasn’t? Border blockades had little effect on trade, data reveals: https://t.co/oPlIljx3k1 https://t.co/6lIn4zTFjk— Lorrie Goldstein (@sunlorrie) October 15, 2022
“Everyone,” says the Charter of Rights, has the fundamental freedom “of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication.” Everyone, that is, except Tamara Lich, one of the organizers of the truckers’ Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa in January and February.
Most egregiously, under her bail conditions Lich must remain publicly silent pending the result of her court hearing in September 2023—including no social media use whatsoever—all for exercising her right to protest in a free country.
A French energy giant has been accused of “complicity in war crimes” over allegations it helped fuel Russian fighter jets that bombed Ukraine.
TotalEnergies faces an anti-terror investigation after two associations filed a legal complaint against it.
The complaint comes at a delicate time for the company, which is locked in a battle with hardline unionists who continued to block its petrol refineries in France on Friday in a row over pay, leaving thousands of motorists scrambling for fuel.
The long anticipated public inquiry into the federal government’s first ever invocation of the Emergencies Act in response to the Freedom Convoy protests are finally underway in Ottawa. The Public Order Emergency Commission, also known as the Rouleau Commission, commenced hearings Thursday in Ottawa with opening statements from parties and the introduction of overview reports from commission counsel.
Three SWAT officers and one civilian were shot this past Wednesday at approximately 6 a.m. on North 10th Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The policemen were shot by a 19-year-old murder suspect while serving a homicide warrant.
The officers were listed in stable condition at Jefferson University Hospital. The civilian had a gunshot wound to the head and subsequently died.
OTTAWA — Advocates for Ottawa businesses said former police chief Peter Sloly told them he was “scared” by the Freedom Convoy protests in the days following the first weekend of blockades, the Public Order Emergency Commission heard Friday.
The Yukon Legislative Assembly has adopted a motion to say that local RCMP resources shouldn’t be used for the federal government’s gun buyback program. The governments of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba have taken similar positions in recent weeks.
The motion was brought forward by Yukon Party Justice Critic Brad Cathers and passed with the support of the Yukon Party and the Yukon NDP MLAs. All Yukon Liberal MLAs, who formed a minority government in the territory after the 2021 election, voted against the motion.
