KINGSTON — A statue of Sir John A. Macdonald has been removed from its pedestal in a downtown Kingston, Ont. park.
Dozens of people gathered in City Park to watch crews take down the statue of Canada’s first prime minister in his hometown. The statue came down around 9 a.m. Friday.
Kingston city council voted this week to remove the statue from the park and place it into storage, then put it up in Cataraqui Cemetery, where Macdonald is buried.
“You can’t even have fun nowadays without these jackasses trying to get you canceled and things like that,” Barkley said. “I’m trying to hang on for another couple years until I’m 60 and then they can kiss my ass.”
A planned movie focusing on the 2019 Christchurch massacre titled They Are Us has drawn criticism across New Zealand, with tens of thousands of people signing a petition demanding an immediate end to the project.
NPR, man. It used to be good, though liberal, until it was taken over by woke fanatics. Now NPR’s TV critic, Eric Deggans, is attacking Tom Hanks for not being woke enough. Deggans, who is black, praised Hanks for his recent op-ed about the Tulsa race massacre, and calling on Hollywood to tell more stories like it. But now Deggans wants Hanks to do penance for having made movies about white people. I kid you not.
“I think Canadians need to step up in a way that’s real,” said Mohammed Hashim, executive director of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, in an interview with The West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson.
The whole tenor of public discourse in this country has become so absurd that Canadians should consider if we are, as a nationality, taking complete leave of our senses. Canada’s entire COVID lockdown policy, combined with our negligent failure to obtain adequate supplies of vaccine, has been a disaster, yet the Trudeau government is still preening itself about it, and the opposition isn’t scoring.
The parent company of the French weekly conservative magazine Valeurs Actuelles has announced it will be taking the far-left activist group Sleeping Giants to court.
Valmonde et Cie, who owns the magazine, has filed a complaint in the Judicial Court of Paris against the activist group, which has put pressure on advertisers to stop advertising on right-wing and conservative websites for the last several years.
At a certain point even Hollywood people recognize that the progressivism and wokeness their industry worships will end each of their careers.
The latest comedian to come out against Cancel culture is SNL alumni Jon Lovitz, who told Page Six in an interview that the far left-motivated phenomena is “no different than McCarthyism,” that political tactic by which people who disagree on politics are tarred and feathered as bad people and blacklisted from polite society.
The unidentified woman was filmed using purple spray paint on Tuesday to deface the bust of York at Mount Tabor Park in Portland, Willamette Week reports.
York was a slave who became the first black man to cross America as part of the Corps of Discovery with explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in the early 1800s. He was enslaved by Clark at the time.
As of Monday, Canadians trying to access Macdonald’s biography on Library and Archives Canada were met with an “error 404” page instead of an article about the former prime minister.
In light of the recent discovery of what is believed to be the remains of 215 Indigenous children at the site of a former residential school in B.C., some are renewing calls for Canada Day to be cancelled this year.
On social media, the hashtag #CancelCanadaDay has gained traction in recent days and several rallies organized by the Indigenous protest movement Idle No More have been planned for July 1 in Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, and in parts of Ontario.
“I felt like it was straight out of a Kafka story.” Those were Yale law professor Amy Chua’s words when she spoke to UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers recently. Chua had been accused by the Yale newspaper of hosting drunken dinner parties with students, and possibly federal judges during the pandemic.
The Guardian has been mocked for branding apple pie racist after one of its writers said the treat was linked to ‘a vast and ongoing genocide of indigenous people.
Writing in the famously liberal publication, food writer Raj Patel claimed the all-American dessert was born of colonialism and slavery, after highlighting how apples had first arrived in the west from central Asia 4,000 years ago.
Would the same leniency be shown for right-wing Canadians tearing down what they disagree with? Of course not.
“Recently, the remains of 215 Indigenous children were found in a grave near a Residential School in Kamloops BC. Pierre Elliott Trudeau was the Prime Minister of Canada while this school was open, and refused to take action.”
