Freedom Convoy organizer Pat King out on bail again after alleged breach last week

OTTAWA — Freedom Convoy organizer Pat King was released on bail Friday after spending more than a week in jail on Crown allegations that he breached his bail conditions.

The Crown alleged King broke his previous release conditions, which only allowed him to use social media to fundraise for his legal defence. The Crown says his online activity extended beyond what was allowed between July 10 and 29.

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Jordan Peterson: I will see this contemptible ‘re-education’ process through to its absurd end

On Thursday, my attempt to defend myself against the ideologues and petty tyrants that now occupy so many positions of authority in Canada came to an end — or I finally got what I deserve, due to my incautious verbal utterances, depending on your stance. I am (still) a licensed psychologist in Ontario, and was once a full professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. Back in 2016, both of those occupations basically came to an end, when I had the temerity to object to the idiot legislation passed by our jackanapes prime minister, Justin Trudeau, the worst leader Canada has ever had, and a contender for the worst in the western world. His moralizing compatriots decided at the time that it was a good idea to rejig the very definition of sex — what could go wrong with that? — and to simultaneously compel everyone to accept that redesignation, on pain of law.

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Jordan Peterson’s free speech crusade in the courts ends after Supreme Court dismisses application for leave to appeal

Author Jordan Peterson’s legal battle with the College of Psychologists of Ontario (CPO) has come to an end.

On Thursday, the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed his application for leave to appeal from the judgment of the Court of Appeal of Ontario with costs. No reasons were given.

Peterson had asked Canada’s highest court to consider hearing an appeal of a decision upholding a lower court ruling that he take social media training as ordered by the College. Peterson has been a registered clinical psychologist since 1999, but has not had a clinical practice since 2017.

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The far right has moved online, where its voice is more dangerous than ever

The resurgence of far-right violence in the UK is in part due to Elon Musk’s decision to allow figures such as Tommy Robinson back on to the social media platform X, researchers say.

Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, and those of his ilk are not leaders in the traditional sense and the far right has no central organisation capable of directing the disorder and violence that has been seen, experts say.

Jacob Davey, director of policy and research at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), said: “People have been naming the EDL [English Defence League] as key figures when the EDL actually has ceased to function as a movement.”

Brace yourselves it’s the Guardian/Observer

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I Wrote an Article for Forbes Defending J.D. Vance From Accusations of ‘Climate Denialism’. Forty Eight Hours Later, Forbes Un-Published the Article and Sacked Me as a Contributor

An article I wrote for Forbes about J.D. Vance published on July 18th began as follows:

Within a day of ex-President Trump’s announcement of “climate denier” Mr. J. D. Vance as the Republican Vice Presidential nominee, the climate industrial complex and supportive mainstream media had the knives out.

Little did I know that within a day of publishing that article, the knives would come out for me. 

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Sir John A. Macdonald’s Legacy Desecrated With Fake Graves Lie

A national historic site reopens with a new look at John A. Macdonald’s legacy

“The hard truths are hard to avoid now at Bellevue House.

… In the aftermath of the confirmation, in 2021, of hundreds of unmarked graves discovered on the grounds of Canada’s residential schools, the city of Kingston was forced to reckon with how to present its once favourite son. “We needed to address the elephant in the room,” Hugh Ostrun, Superintendent of National Historic Sites in Eastern and Central Ontario, says. Concerned Parks Canada staff realized it was time to do more than just fix the roof and wiring. The pandemic gave them time to take stock.”

Our heritage is reduced to Marxist libels.

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A Man Is Ugly. A Woman Is Fat.

Are we still allowed to state these facts?

Anouk Aimee, the exquisite star of the classic 1966 French film A Man and a Woman, passed away on June 18, 2024. She was 92. Willie Mays, the “Say Hey Kid,” who hit 52 home runs in the 1965 season, also passed away on June 18, 2024. He was 93.

I joked to a friend, “Death comes in threes. Now another long-lived celebrity from the 60s must die.”

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MILKE: Cancel culture targets those who built Canada

It’s popular these days to cancel historical figures when their views do not exactly mimic our own.

For those who practice such deliberate historic amnesia, streets, bridges, and entire neighbourhoods are renamed, or statues removed, to satisfy an Orwellian need to block out what is assumed to be a blot on the human species — men and women who came before us and built Canada.

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Cancelling Joan of Arc?

Every year, the city of Orléans celebrates with pomp and circumstance the liberation of the city from the English yoke during the Hundred Years’ War, thanks to the victorious intervention of Saint Joan of Arc at the head of the French armies. For the occasion, a young girl from the town lends her features to the valiant fighter and is flanked by two young boys as her pages. This year, the town rejected one of the two selected candidates on the grounds that he had frequented the Action Française movement and espoused values “contrary to the Republic”. A kind of paradox: after all, didn’t Jeanne herself fight for her God and her king?

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Don’t sack Cambridge academic for race views, say colleagues

Eminent philosophers and colleagues of a professor who has become embroiled in a race row have criticised attempts to remove him from the University of Cambridge.

Nathan Cofnas, a researcher in philosophy, is about to be expelled from Emmanuel College and is being investigated by the philosophy faculty and the Leverhulme Trust, which funded him.

He wrote a blog linking race to academic ability and suggested that in a true meritocracy black people would excel only in sports and entertainment.

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Jerry Seinfeld is right: ‘PC cr*p’ is killing comedy

TV comedy just isn’t funny anymore. That’s the verdict of Jerry Seinfeld, stand-up comedy legend and star of Seinfeld, one of the biggest sitcoms of all time.

In an interview with the New Yorker at the weekend, he said:

‘It used to be, you would go home at the end of the day, most people would go, “Oh, Cheers is on. Oh, M*A*S*H is on. Oh, Mary Tyler Moore is on. All in the Family is on.” You just expected, there’ll be some funny stuff we can watch on TV tonight. Well, guess what – where is it?’

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