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A Commons heritage committee report has urged Parliament to increase funding for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), which currently receives $1.4 billion annually.
Blacklock’s Reporter says the CBC is requesting an additional $400 to $500 million per year, according to CEO Catherine Tait’s testimony at a November 25 hearing.
‘Immediately stop using’: Health Canada warns balloon-blowing kits could cause ‘hallucinations’
Health Canada released a consumer product advisory this week, warning that balloon blowing-kits that were available on Amazon.ca “pose a chemical hazard.”
Would you mind sharing h a ladies room with Pippi Cuban? pic.twitter.com/2Gsb9rkhp2
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) December 16, 2024
So grateful for the liberals who can lecture me. Thank you, I mean that. And I alway appreciate a good Hitler reference. pic.twitter.com/9ql5hiRZ3P
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) December 15, 2024
A convicted terrorist is suing a pub called The Saracen’s Head Inn for its “deeply offensive” sign.
Khalid Baqa, who was previously jailed for distributing jihadist propaganda, is claiming £1,850 for its depiction of a “brown-skinned bearded Arab”.
But the landlord of the pub in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, has labelled the lawsuit a “complete joke”.
Jamie Foxx is at the centre of a growing row over a controversial comment about white women after previously being hit by a ‘anti-semitism’ scandal.
The star, 57, has landed himself in hot water after making the questionable remark in his new Netflix special What Had Happened Was… – with many believing he was taking a swipe at his ex Katie Holmes.
He said of dating: ‘Sisters, I’m here to tell you, I’ve been cured. I’ve been cured of everything, no more white girls. I’m serious, no more white girls. No more white girls. No more. No more white girls.’
Police in Peel Region are working to identify 11 persons of interest who were allegedly involved in violence that broke out during protests in Brampton and Mississauga last month.
On Saturday, police released photographs of several suspects who are allegedly responsible for various offences including assault and assault with weapons.
In a press release, they allege the suspects are behind offences such as ” assault causing bodily harm, assaulting a police officer and public incitement of hatred.”
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— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) December 16, 2024
H/T Auntie Polly
Police chiefs have called for a complete overhaul of the recording of non-crime hate incidents, warning that it has become an “impediment” to officers doing their job.
The chairman of the College of Policing, Lord Herbert of South Downs, said the government should consider scrapping the practice in its present form, making him the most senior policing figure to criticise how hate incidents are logged.
Sean Fraser to leave federal cabinet as PMO pushes to add Mark Carney
Housing Minister Sean Fraser will announce on Monday that he will not seek re-election in his Nova Scotia riding and will leave the federal cabinet during the next shuffle, CBC News has learned.
Sources say that cabinet shuffle could happen as soon as Wednesday.
The push to change Justin Trudeau’s inner circle before the Christmas holidays comes as the prime minister and his senior advisers mount yet another effort to convince former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney to join the cabinet, according to multiple high-level Liberal sources.
Fraser ran Canada into the ditch while immigration minister then he was given the housing portfolio to ruin. He lies as easily as Trudeau and Freeland.
If you are one of the nearly 19 million working Canadians expecting to receive a $250 cheque from the Liberal government in the new year, don’t spend the money just yet.
Sources have told National Post that Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will reverse the government’s position on the “Working Canadians Rebate” that would have cost an estimated $4.68 billion.
H/T DS
Supposedly you lose 12 minutes of life every time you drink a soda and 24 minutes if you eat a hot dog. And of course the media report it as if it were true with no questions asked.
Google’s quantum computing breakthrough on Monday has left the physicist who heads the project a believer in ‘the idea that we live in a multiverse.’
‘Willow,’ the tech giant’s new quantum chip, succeeded in solving a computational problem so complex it would have taken today’s best super-computers an estimated 10 septillion years to solve it — vastly more than the age of our entire universe.
But Google said its new quantum computer solved the puzzle ‘in under five minutes.’
’Tis the season to be jolly! Most of us are currently feeling joy because Christmas is around the corner. But if your name is Taylor Lorenz, it’s because a man was shot dead in broad daylight.
Former Kentucky swimmer and vocal anti-trans activist Riley Gaines has torn into the Scripps National Spelling Bee for what she sees as a surrender to ‘fabricated issues’ in gender politics.
Gaines expressed outrage after it was revealed that the competition’s study list for third graders included the word ‘womyn’ as an alternative spelling for the word ‘women.’
The word ‘womyn,’ a spelling that originated in feminist movements as an effort to distance the term from its perceived association with the word ‘man.’
