A clear majority of Conservative supporters strongly support taking public funds away from the CBC — but fewer support attacks on journalists, a Mainstreet poll suggests.
Several prominent Conservatives, including leader Pierre Poilievre and former leader Erin O’Toole, have called for deeply cutting or completely defunding the CBC.
In 2021, government grants made up about 60 per cent of the CBC’s revenue.
h/t FH
The fall session of Parliament kicked off this week, as Members of Parliament flooded into the Ottawa airport from all corners of the country in anticipation of taking their seats in the House of Commons.
While the faceoff between newly minted Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and Justin Trudeau was supposed to be the main attraction, Thursday’s Question Period failed to garner anywhere near as much attention as a video of the Prime Minister belting out Bohemian Rhapsody, on the eve of the Queen’s funeral in England.
To say outrage ensued over the 14 second video, frankly, would be an understatement.
The film festival gave Meg Smaker’s “Jihad Rehab” a coveted spot in its 2022 lineup, but apologized after an outcry over her race and her approach.
Meg Smaker felt exhilarated last November. After 16 months filming inside a Saudi rehabilitation center for accused terrorists, she learned that her documentary “Jihad Rehab” was invited to the 2022 Sundance Festival, one of the most prestigious showcases in the world.
Film critics warned that conservatives might bridle at these human portraits, but reviews after the festival’s screening were strong.
“The absence of absolutes is what’s most enriching,” The Guardian stated, adding, “This is a movie for intelligent people looking to have their preconceived notions challenged.” Variety wrote:
The film “feels like a miracle and an interrogative act of defiance.”
But attacks would come from the left, not the right. Arab and Muslim filmmakers and their white supporters accused Ms. Smaker of Islamophobia and American propaganda. Some suggested her race was disqualifying, a white woman who presumed to tell the story of Arab men.
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A little more than a year ago, a Chinese property developer largely unknown to the outside world said its cashflow was under “tremendous pressure” and it might not be able to pay back some of its eye-watering debts of $300bn (£275bn).
Today, that company, China Evergrande Group, is all too well known as the poster child of the country’s economic woes. House prices in China have fallen in each of the 12 months since Evergrande’s now prophetic warning, with Xi Jinping’s government now preparing to throw billions of dollars at a property market that experts say increasingly resembles a giant Ponzi scheme.
In the 2002 Steven Spielberg movie, Catch Me If You Can, Leonardo DiCaprio plays a con man who flits around the world defrauding unsuspecting people of their money while impersonating an airline pilot.
It is the perhaps the most unusual – and exclusive – museum in the world, filled with artefacts that have shaped history. But its doors are firmly shut to the public.
It is the only place a visitor can see the gun found with Osama bin Laden when he was killed next to Saddam Hussein’s leather jacket.
Welcome to the CIA’s secret in-house museum.
But what is it for? This is the question that the media in Russia, China, Iran and half a dozen countries were posing all last week in the wake of a summit in Samarkand that brought their leaders together as members or aspiring members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).
The Russian media, echoing President Vladimir Putin’s speech at the summit, say the SCO is designed to end “the unipolar world “by creating a “multipolar system”.
The Chinese media offer a different version. The SCO is meant to offer a new political system for the whole world as an alternative to the Western democratic model.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was not so warmly received when she made a surprise guest appearance at the Global Citizen’s music festival in Central Park Saturday night.
Pelosi, wearing a white pantsuit and matching scarf, appeared to be booed as she took the stage to speak briefly, social media video shows.
More than half of Democrats responding to a new survey have revealed they would prefer a candidate other than President Joe Biden as their candidate in 2024.
The ABC News/Washington Post poll found that 56% of Democrats wanted a different candidate, with just 35% preferring Biden in the next presidential election.
Videos circulating on social media show female protesters in Russia’s Dagestan region demonstrating against the military’s effort to mobilize Russian citizens for the war in Ukraine.
The protesting comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “partial mobilization” effort last week amid the country’s invasion of its Eastern European neighbor that began in late February, ordering an additional 300,000 reservists with military training to fight in the conflict.
A cop is running away from women, who are protesting against the war and mobilization in Makhachkala, Dagestan.
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) September 25, 2022
In #Makhachkala, #Dagestan the detention of a protester was prevented. pic.twitter.com/DybiOoZPmr
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) September 25, 2022
Multimillionaire Chuck Todd has never lived in the real world and he made it painfully obvious that he’s oblivious to how the economy works during Sunday’s edition of Meet the Press on NBC. During his “data download” segment, Todd promised to explain “why immigrants crossing the border could actually be a solution to our inflation problem.”
Tiff Macklem and Justin Trudeau agree – make the poor bear the weight!
OTTAWA — The federal Green Party’s two members of Parliament and its interim leader arrived at a news conference in Ottawa this week to talk about climate change.
But when time came for questions from the media, the politicians were forced onto terrain that has exhausted and troubled their party for more than two years: its own recurring and seemingly intractable dysfunction.
Political dynasties are inherently problematic and ambiguous. When politics becomes a family business, enabling bloodline clans and generational households to occupy the seat of power, we have what will often amount to the very antithesis of responsible political function. Indeed, countries like Indonesia have passed laws prohibiting relatives from immediately succeeding each other in public office.
Military sounding alarm over recruiting problems as Canadians steer clear
OTTAWA — The Canadian Armed Forces is sounding the alarm over a severe shortage of recruits to fill thousands of vacant positions, with the shortfall so bad that senior officers are now calling it a crisis.
… Brodie was unable to say whether the push for diversity is hurting more than helping, at least in terms of sheer numbers, by turning off the military’s traditional recruiting pool: young, white men.
“We can’t measure the impact of that right now. It’s too early,” she said. “But to be very, very clear ⦠we want suitable candidates, and suitable candidates are those that first and foremost reflect the values of the Canadian Armed Forces.”
A shortage of white males volunteering to serve? Why could that be?
Maybe the government and schools should stop denigrating their heritage and calling them genocidal racists for starters. After all their forebears have done most of the building, fighting and dying for this country since 1867.
Does anyone recall the reluctance of Quebecers to fight in “English” wars?
Well now Canada has many little Quebec’s.
I believe the government’s reckless mass immigration policy has succeeded in turning Canada into a balkanized hodgepodge of disconnected tribes with greater loyalty to their “homelands” than Canada. Khalistan anyone? China anyone? Tamil Tigers anyone? Palestine anyone? I can’t see much incentive for a white male to risk his life for that.
We are not as Trudeau claimed the world’s first “Post – National State”, we are the world’s first “Fifth Columnist State.”
If they’re looking for recruits that reflect the values of the Canadian Armed Forces I hear a teacher in Oakville may be looking for a new career. Does CAF do custom uniform fittings?
