Welcome to the Canadian constitutional cafeteria. Please remember to stack your trays by the door when you leave.
It was Pierre Trudeau, father of the current prime minister, who famously said many decades ago that Ottawa should be more than a “head waiter to the provinces” when it came to constitutional matters and national government.
Now, roughly 40 years later, his son is contending with an array of provinces who would like to see the federal government even further demoted — to a busboy, perhaps.
… The survey asked people which federal political party they would most likely vote for if an election were held today, and 33 per cent of decided voters chose the Conservatives.
That’s compared to 31 per cent who picked the Liberals and 21 per cent who opted for the New Democrats.
The Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was informed that the photographer who took pictures of horseback Border Patrol agents said that he and his colleagues didn’t see any migrants being whipped, according to emails obtained by Heritage Foundation.
A top financial regulator and liberal ally of Sen. Elizabeth Warren said he was considering investigating PayPal for a policy, now retracted, allowing the company to fine users $2,500 for spreading “misinformation.”
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra commented on a recent update to PayPal’s acceptable use policy that drew accusations that the payments company was positioning itself to regulate the speech of customers.
“I’ve never actually never heard of a payment system thinking that it could fine someone for legal expression that their users are making,” Chopra said during a Wednesday appearance on CNBC.
The same Germany that took in over a million Muslim migrants in 2015, and ten thousand non-vetted Afghans in 2021—all people who, by definition, could not be experiencing religious persecution back home as they themselves were Muslim—has refused asylum to a Muslim convert to Christianity, even though one of his relatives was tortured and murdered for the same “crime” of apostasy in his native Iran.
… The intimate connection between industrial war and proletarian revolution was understood well enough that, as historians Gabriel Kolko and Azar Gat have demonstrated, most of the distinctive military strategies that emerged across the last century were expressly devised in order to avoid imposing the kinds of costs — especially in blood — that necessitated making promises to the masses. This was true of strategies such as the blockade by the Royal Navy, RAF terror bombing, Nazi Blitzkrieg and US containment, among others. It was also believed that de-massifying politics would help defuse the nationalist passions that fuelled conflict, facilitating diplomacy once elites were freed from explicit commitments to their national populations.
We are told to change lifestyles to reduce carbon emissions. Yet, this will only contribute 10 per cent to meeting climate change targets
Will our lifestyles need to change radically to meet our net zero target? Must we abandon cars; give up flying; become vegetarians; turn our thermostats down; shun fast fashion and disposable goods? And could we persuade or compel people to adopt more frugal lifestyles? These are the crucial questions a Lords select committee set out to address in a report released today. The answer the committee discovered was surprising. So surprising that it decided to omit it from its report. Yes, you read that correctly.
The report deliberately omits the real answer to the question: “How much must lifestyle changes contribute to Net Zero?” – even though that was what our call for evidence asked for. What was the answer? And why did the Lords committee vote to omit it?
Jason Sherman searched for the tree he planted -long distance for his bar mitzva and found a way to blast Israel – long distance.
Horrors! A Jewish filmmaker from Toronto thinks he has “discovered” evidence of Israeli misbehavior in 1948. Well, I’ve done a little research, and I’ve discovered some uncomfortable information about the filmmaker’s own home town.
At the center of this manufactured controversy is Jason Sherman, whose interest in Israel seems to have been minimal for most of his life until he was 50 years old, in 2012. According to his film, what triggered Sherman’s belated interest was his desire to locate the exact tree which the Jewish National Fund planted with the bar mitzvah money he contributed.
The investigation by Adam Andrzejewski of Open the Books into Kelisa Wing who made headlines for her racist tweets about white people shines a light into how yet another arm of the Defense Department is being twisted by the Biden administration into radical indoctrination.
The investigation uncovers the expected diversity grift in which DEI officials also “build their own brand”. They’re all ‘coaches’ and ‘speakers’ and ‘authors’ with their books and ways to book them for sessions and seminars no matter where they’re working. And they also often have some sort of side-hustle as musicians, actors or dancers they’re also promoting. Not to mention efforts at rolling in an academic gig. So it’s good to be in the DEI business.
Surveying the sea of men surrounding the female speakers at a Let Women Speak event in Brighton last month, with their black hoodies, black balaclavas, black sunglasses, black bandanas and – for that stylish, finishing touch – black weighted gloves (serving the same function as knuckle-dusters), I reflected that it’s no coincidence that they resembled criminals seeking to conceal themselves from CCTV. It also struck me how much these young men have in common with their alleged enemies on the right – the ‘incels’. The ‘Black Pampers’, as an unidentified feminist wit dubbed them, want more than anything to stop women from standing up for their rights. Like the incels, these trust-fund Antifas want to return to a time when being male automatically meant being on top of the heap, even when sadly lacking in other ways.
… Politico argues that the war in Ukraine has been great for the environment because it “forced Europe to finally break its fossil fuel addiction” and helped speed up the continent’s “green revolution.” By launching his brutal invasion and manipulating energy markets to keep oil prices high, Putin has “achieved something generations of green campaigners could not.”
LAURA INGRAHAM: Our next guest was once a climate alarmist but now says the entire movement is quote a scam: Tom Harris is executive director of the International Climate Science Coalition; he joins me now. Tom, good to see you tonight. Now you actually say the only way to get rid of this is to go after the science of climate change — explain.
TOM HARRIS: Yeah exactly, a lot of people will say well you know, Canada for example puts out so little greenhouse gas emissions that we shouldn’t uh we shouldn’t actually try to reduce it because China has doubled the United States. Well the trouble is people argue that well yes we have to set an example to the world, and we have to be good citizens and all that sort of thing. So they’re using these arguments quite often that China’s doubled the emissions of the U.S. etc, but but the real underlying thing is that there is no climate crisis. you know I was originally an aerospace engineer and I would give speeches and I wrote articles I wrote one in the Ottawa Citizen about comparative planetology how studying the planets helps us understand the Earth better, and I use the example of the runaway greenhouse effect on Venus. I said this could happen on the earth if we don’t reduce carbon dioxide. Well a local professor at Carlton University, professor of geology, he liked my article so much he used it in his course on climate change, but he said to the students but that part about Venus is wrong — what happened on Venus cannot physically happen on the earth and he explained why. Now I thought who is this climate change denier. Well he invited me into his lab and he showed me the geologic history that he and others are finding, and they found no consistent correlation between carbon dioxide and Earth’s temperature. At times CO2 was 1300 percent of today and we were stuck in very cold conditions. So it was all over the board, so I started wondering well maybe he’s right. He exposed me to a lot of people who actually showed me that there are thousands of scientists and here’s a book actually that illustrates that it’s called Climate Change Reconsidered and this is on http://climatechangereconsidered.org/.
There are thousands of references here which talk about the fact that there is no foundation to the climate scare — it’s all based on models that don’t work.
LAURA INGRAHAM: But Tom when you hear you know politicos especially but not just the politicos celebrities, it’s it’s settled, science is settled. Is science ever settled really? I mean except over a time where you really you know what what is H2O, we know what H2O is right, we understand that because this science settled — really quickly…
TOM HARRIS: No in fact it’s a very immature science. In fact we don’t even know whether it’s going to warm or cool in the future. Various people who study the Sun for example Dr Patterson, they show that we’re headed into a grand solar minimum around 2060 and that we’ll see gradual cooling over the next few decades. So the bottom line is we have no clue what’s going to really happen. So the only sensible approach is to get ready for it to make our infrastructure hardened, to use solid dependable sources of energy like coal — this is a piece of coal from eastern Kentucky. And not to turn off our solid reliable energy sources for flimsy wind and solar power. You know you’d laugh, it’s appropriate that I’m based here in Ottawa because right now here in Ottawa, Canada, they’re running a municipal election and it is the most corrupt election I have ever seen they are trying their best to bring in a climate alarmist as mayor. So guess who they put in charge of the four debates they’ve had — climate activists. They have climate activists running the mayor’s debate.
LAURA INGRAHAM: Professor it doesn’t yeah it doesn’t surprise me that this is happening in Canada it’s happening in the United States, and we need real facts to discern what the real truth is here. Professor thank you for this invaluable work that you’re doing.
OTTAWA — On the eve of the public inquiry into the federal government’s first-ever use of the Emergencies Act, civil liberties groups are questioning whether the controversial move was necessary — as the government insists — to deal with self-styled “Freedom Convoy” protests last winter.
At a press conference on Parliament Hill on Wednesday, lawyers from the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) argued the government failed to meet the high legal threshold to invoke the act, and created special temporary powers in the process that breached fundamental rights.
OTTAWA — Gen. Wayne Eyre must feel like Cassandra, the King of Troy’s daughter, who was granted the gift of prophecy but struck by the curse that no one would believe her predictions.
The chief of the defence staff appeared at the public safety and national security committee on Parliament Hill last Thursday and warned in the starkest terms possible that dark forces are gathering in a “chaotic and dangerous world” and that Canada’s geographic isolation is no longer a viable defence against them. Russia and China already “consider themselves to be at war with the West,” he said. They are interested, not just in “regime survival, but in regime expansion.”
Both have a visceral loathing for women’s rights.
