Rarely, if ever, has so huge and dark a cloud so swiftly landed on a prime minister, mere days after an election victory. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s unscheduled vacation in Tofino, B.C., on the first Sept. 30 since his government proclaimed it to be a National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, has deeply cut into his credibility. More than any other of his multiple wanderings off the ethical highway, or his unfortunate costumes and blackface habits, it has shaken people’s perception of him.
A sightseeing pamphlet funded by Transport for London has claimed that the capital’s gardens and green spaces are filled with colourful colonial legacies and that many terms in botany, like “exotic”, are insulting and offensive.
The ‘Art on the Underground’ pamphlet guides visitors around the UK’s capital city through green spaces in Brixton and South London, focusing on the “colonial connotations” of British gardens and horticulture.
Tensions continue to rise in the South China Sea, as China, or, rightly, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), ramps up its military activities in the region. Within only the first four days of October, China conducted a record-breaking 150 incursions into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) — after China’s People Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) had already, in September, set another monthly record with 117 incursions, some with nuclear-capable bombers, fighter jets and reconnaissance planes. The incursions were reportedly the highest monthly number on record since Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense began reporting Chinese aerial incursions 13 months ago. In addition, in August, the first-ever incursion of Chinese military helicopters into Taiwan’s ADIZ took place, with experts suggesting that the PLA was probing Taiwanese defense capabilities by using different aircraft.
Prince Andrew has been granted access to a sealed document his lawyers believe could help end the sexual abuse case being brought by Virginia Giuffre.
A US judge gave permission for the agreement between Ms Giuffre and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to be shared with the prince’s lawyers.
Ms Giuffre’s lawyers had made the offer to release the document but believe it will be “irrelevant” to the civil case.
The Duke of York, 61, has consistently denied Ms Giuffre’s allegations.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdohallahian criticized its neighbor Azerbaijan on Wednesday during a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Moscow.
Amirabdollahian criticized Azerbaijan’s dealings with Israel and recent military maneuvers close to Iran’s northern border.
“We certainly will not tolerate geopolitical change and map change in the Caucasus, and we have serious concerns about the presence of terrorists and Zionists in this region,” he said.
Justin Trudeau has been mocked online for using the latest sexual identities acronym, which includes a number, nine letters and the plus sign.
The Canadian Prime Minister, 49, tweeted this week in honor of the lives of ‘Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people’ who have gone missing or been murdered.
But the use of the acronym sparked controversy on Twitter with people joking that it looked like a typo as one wrote: ‘Headbutting a keyboard is now a sexuality’.
Americans’ trust in the media to report the news fully, accurately and fairly has edged down four percentage points since last year to 36%, making this year’s reading the second lowest in Gallup’s trend.
It didn’t take long for U.S. President Joe Biden’s Democratic allies to endanger Canada’s energy security. Less than a year since Biden was elected, in fact.
A British mother and former Pizza Hut worker who left to join Islamic State has urged the UK to let her return from Syria with her daughters aged seven, nine and 12.
Nicole Jack, of Shepherd’s Bush, West London, and her children are being detained at Camp Roj where relatives of people suspected of belonging to Isis are held.
Ms Jack, 34, is being held at the same camp as Isis bride Shamima Begum – a fellow Londoner who had her UK citizenship cancelled by Sajid Javid on security grounds in 2019 and will not be allowed back – but insisted she is not a security threat to Britain.
More… Germany and Denmark repatriate 37 children and 11 ‘IS women’ from Syria
Germany says it has repatriated eight women, who had joined the so-called Islamic State (IS), and 23 children from a camp in northern Syria.
They were brought back in a joint operation with Denmark, which repatriated three women and 14 children, German officials said.
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said the women were in custody and faced a criminal investigation.
Government policy on testing is worryingly misleading
There’s been a bit of a Covid outbreak in our neighbourhood, including our eldest child (he’s fine). All the cases were first detected with rapid, at-home “lateral flow” tests, or LFTs.
It is currently government policy that if you get a positive LFT, but then you do the traditional, more accurate PCR and it’s negative, you don’t have to self-isolate any more: you can go back to school or work or whatever. If our child’s LFT had been followed up by a negative PCR, he would be back in school.
To Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, what happens between consenting adults is a completely private matter.
In fact, she is challenging the limits of libertarian ideology.
For example, when five gangsters were arrested for holding a public gunfight in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood last week, shooting more than 70 rounds at each other in all, she decided to let them go without charges.
After all, as her office explained to police, it was a quarrel between “mutual combatants !”
Even Chicago’s leftist mayor, Lori Lightfoot, is a bit uncomfortable with this decision.
Torontonians can expect to pay a premium on their energy bills this winter as prices for North American fuel, natural gas and coal reach heights not seen in years.
Dan McTeague, president of Canadians for Affordable Energy, projects that gasoline prices at Greater Toronto Area pumps will hit $1.50 per litre in the coming weeks, up 44 per cent from a year ago.
That would be the highest price point for auto fuel anywhere in Ontario since the summer of 2014, when a litre sold for $1.43.
I’m just so grateful to be keeping the Saudi’s afloat.
No one in the federal government is saying who made the final decision to relieve the Catholic Church of its financial responsibilities to residential school survivors.
But a source with direct knowledge of the controversial 2015 case told CBC News that then-minister of justice Jody Wilson-Raybould wasn’t consulted, even though a lawyer in her department signed the final release.
“This is stunning. It’s just unbelievable that the first Indigenous minister of justice was frozen out of a decision like this,” said Tom McMahon, a former general legal counsel for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission who also spent 17 years as a lawyer in the Department of Justice.
According to new data put out by the CDC on Wednesday, 2020 saw the largest spike in homicide rates in over one hundred years. Between 2019 and 2020, homicide rates jumped by about 30%, which experts say is one of the largest recorded increases in American history.
In 2020, the homicide rate was about 7.8 homicides per 100,000 people, an increase from roughly 6.0 homicides per 100,000 in 2019.
How many times has Justin Trudeau begged forgiveness for transgressions that would probably have seen him fired in the private sector?
Justin Trudeau’s recognition that he was “in error” when he chose to travel to a beach holiday on the first National Truth and Reconciliation Day rekindles doubts about the prime minister’s judgment that have dogged him his entire political career.
Face it. Justin’s string-pullers remain satisfied. That means they will keep the pinhead in power.
