Poll: 60 Percent Of Voters Blame Trump-Hating Media For Latest Assassination Attempt

Poll: 60 Percent Of Voters Blame Trump-Hating Media For Latest Assassination Attempt

The conscienceless monster that is left-wing political violence has a voracious appetite. And the Trump-hating media are feeding it.

A new Rasmussen Reports poll finds a majority of likely U.S. voters — 60 percent — believes that the constant barrage of negative coverage of President Donald Trump likely contributed to the latest assassination attempt. The national telephone and online survey of 1,076 Americans, conducted April 27-29, shows 41 percent of those surveyed think it “very likely” the media’s one-sided treatment had some influence. A mere 13 percent of respondents said it’s “not at all likely” that the media has some culpability.

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Canada’s Spy Agency Names Iranian Hacking Group But Omits the DOJ Case That Exposed Its Cartel Bounty on a Canadian Politician

Canada’s Spy Agency Names Iranian Hacking Group But Omits the DOJ Case That Exposed Its Cartel Bounty on a Canadian Politician

OTTAWA/WASHINGTON — Canada’s intelligence service has, for the first time, named the Iranian-linked cyber operator at the center of a U.S. federal criminal case that exposed Iran’s issuing a $250,000 bounty death threat directing Mexico’s Jalisco New Generation Cartel to behead a high-profile former Ontario politician at her Ottawa home.

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Tracking Dr. Fauci’s Fallout

Tracking Dr. Fauci’s Fallout

Last month the Justice Department filed criminal charges against Dr. David Morens of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for using his private email to conceal official activities from the public.

According to federal prosecutors, Dr. Morens tried to keep taxpayer dollars flowing to the EcoHealth Alliance, headed by Peter Daszak. He was the middleman in NIAID’s dealings with China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which also, prosecutors charge, handed out gifts to Dr. Morens.

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Today in Corporate Scumbags …

Today in Corporate Scumbags …

Full story … Telus using AI to alter the accents of customer service agents

“Other companies that provide a similar feature say it helps speed up calls and help customers find solutions, while protecting service agents from harassment or discrimination.”

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Germans deserve answers after the Leipzig car attack

Germans deserve answers after the Leipzig car attack

Monday afternoon’s car attack in a pedestrian zone in Leipzig – a city celebrated for its Bach choir and its proud history of pro-democracy demonstrations before the fall of the Berlin Wall – has left two people dead and dozens injured. A 63-year-old woman and a 77-year-old man were killed, while three others are in a serious condition.

The suspect, a 33-year-old man born and raised in Leipzig, was arrested at the scene. Authorities were swift to announce he had no terrorist affiliations – a declaration greeted by some commentators almost as a relief. But the relief is premature. The hard questions are only just beginning.

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How Carney is trying to appeal to the men who were ‘alienated’ under Trudeau

How Carney is trying to appeal to the men who were ‘alienated’ under Trudeau

OTTAWA — When it comes to the federal government’s plan to recruit upwards of 100,000 more people into the trades, there stands one demographic likely to benefit the most.

Men, and more specifically, young men.

Those inside Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government say the pledge, announced last week as part of the spring economic update, reflects commitments he has made around building more homes and getting major infrastructure projects off the ground. It’s also coupled with the need to fill persistent labour gaps in key trades at the same time as the government cuts back on immigration and battles high youth unemployment.

White males? Bullshit.

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AI Romance and Existential Despair

AI Romance and Existential Despair

David Brooks recently described the skeptical attitude toward romantic relationships, particularly among younger Americans, as “the Great Detachment.” Brooks views our collective renunciation of binding romantic ties as the logical development of a culture that worships the self, prizing individual autonomy above all else. For Brooks, the modern self chiefly exerts its autonomy through the pursuit of professional success. But while the self may be freer and lighter than ever before in terms of obligations to others, Brooks sees it as rootless, friendless, and partnerless.

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Foreign actors targeting Alberta separatism to stoke discord, researchers say

Foreign actors targeting Alberta separatism to stoke discord, researchers say

Early this year, Canadian researchers who track online influence campaigns and foreign propaganda happened upon something peculiar. Using artificial intelligence to catalogue the activity of Russian websites and social-media accounts known to be spreading disinformation about the invasion of Ukraine, the researchers noticed a new topic suddenly garnering more attention than it ever had from those groups: Alberta.

My first suspect would be CBC.

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Christian YouTubers Prosecuted for Criticizing Islamic Antisemitism in Germany

Christian YouTubers Prosecuted for Criticizing Islamic Antisemitism in Germany

A criminal investigation in Germany has drawn international attention and reignited debate over freedom of speech and religious criticism. At the center of the case are two Christian YouTubers who spoke out against Islamic antisemitism and are now under scrutiny by prosecutors for it.

The case involves ‘Niko’ and ‘Tino,’ creators of the YouTube channel Eternal Life, where they publish content about Christianity, faith, and social issues. In 2024, they uploaded a video titled “Islam is not peace,” in which they criticized what they described as Islamic antisemitism in Germany.

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Carney government tight-lipped on MAID expansion for mental illness

Carney government tight-lipped on MAID expansion for mental illness

OTTAWA—Under pressure to stop the expansion of medical assistance in dying for mental illness alone, the Carney government says it won’t make a decision before a parliamentary review is complete.

“I think it would be premature for us to declare a position on the next steps when the group that we’ve actively tasked to consider this issue in depth is doing their work, I’d like to give them space to complete the study, and then we’ll be in a position to consider all the perspectives as we finalize our position,” Justice Minister Sean Fraser said.

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US and Iran ‘close’ to deal to end war

US and Iran ‘close’ to deal to end war

The US and Iran were on Wednesday close to agreeing a deal that would end the war between the two countries and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

The White House was awaiting the regime’s response to a one-page proposal that would also require Tehran to suspend its nuclear enrichment, while the US would agree to release billions in frozen Iranian assets.

On Wednesday, administration sources said the two sides were the “closest” they had been to an agreement since the war started on Feb 28.

(more…)

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Tasha Kheiriddin: Mark Carney, the European prime minister

Tasha Kheiriddin: Mark Carney, the European prime minister

If it’s Tuesday, this must be Belgium. If you’re old enough to remember this 1969 film, where a busload of hapless tourists barrel across Europe on an 18-day tour of nine cities, you probably voted Liberal in the past election, like most of Canada’s baby boomers. And you’re probably happy with the way things are going so far. But you may not have expected Prime Minister Mark Carney to rack up quite so much time across the pond.

 

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My night under fire at the White House correspondents’ dinner

My night under fire at the White House correspondents’ dinner

Last Saturday evening, the American media class descended for its annual jamboree of back-slapping at the Washington Hilton. Protestors outside waved signs reading ‘Death to tyrants’ and ‘Death to all of them’.

The atmosphere inside was more jovial. Donald Trump was attending the dinner for the first time since becoming President, along with most of his cabinet and senior officials. We were expecting him to give the assembled media a good roasting – and some of us were looking forward to it.

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