And can the UK afford it?
Telegraph- Sunak unveils biggest military spending increase in a generation
Rishi Sunak has pledged to increase Britain’s defence budget to 2.5 per cent of national wealth by 2030.
The Prime Minister unveiled the biggest uplift to military spending in a generation, which will add £23 billion to the military budget over the next six years.
It’s the thought that counts.
Telegraph- Is the Church paying reparations on a false premise?
Between 1720 and 1723, it is true, the Bounty did invest £14,000 (about £2.4 million today) in the unsplit company and so, for a time, could have profited from slavery. As it happened, however, it did not. When Parliament divided the South Sea Company in 1723, it split the Bounty’s shares equally, too. The Bounty sold off its trading company shares quite quickly but retained and greatly expanded its annuities.
Discreditably, the Bounty’s managers in 1720 appear to have felt no moral qualms about the slave trade. Subsequently, however, they did not further invest in it or make money out of it.
Ottawa Citizen- ‘Secret’ drone installation to be built at Uplands, federal records reveal
Uplands will be the site for a new $65-million military facility to control the Royal Canadian Air Force’s drone fleet.
The Ottawa installation, to be ready by 2028, will be around 6,000 square metres in size. It will be home to almost 200 military personnel whose job will be to operate and control a new fleet of drones flying from military bases in British Columbia and Nova Scotia.
Globe and Mail- Changes to capital-gains tax may prompt doctors to quit, CMA warns
This is important for physicians because most operate their practices as small businesses through medical professional corporations, which leaves them more sensitive to changes in capital-gains rules than a salaried worker might be.
The CMA estimated in 2017 that 66 per cent of physicians practised through corporations.
They didn’t seize his bank account?
National Post- Trudeau government intervenes at last minute to save serial blockader from deportation
A Pakistani national who first came to Canada in 2019 on a study permit, he’s been arrested at least 10 times, convicted of mischief charges, and has been pretty open about his role in leading a foreign-funded “rebellion” against the Canadian government.
And now, after a years-long effort by the Canada Border Services Agency to secure Haq’s deportation, the 23-year-old’s removal was stayed at the 11th hour, potentially due to the intervention of the Trudeau government.
Francisco- It’s not hypocrisy, its hierarchy.
Sun- Cap on plastic production remains contentious as Ottawa set to host treaty talks
Negotiators from 176 countries will gather in downtown Ottawa this week for the fourth round of talks to create a global treaty to eliminate plastic waste in less than 20 years.
True North- CRA alleges it was defrauded out of $37 million through telecom “carousel scheme”
Certain companies involved with Gold Line’s supply chain were already the subject of fraud accusations last year, where the CRA admitted to paying out over $63 million in what the agency now calls “illegitimate” tax refunds.
The CRA now claims to have wrongly distributed $100 million in fraudulent payment since last year to carousel schemes, also known as “missing trader fraud.”
Globe and Mail- Sophie Grégoire Trudeau embraces uncertainty in new memoir, Closer Together
“My truth is that I’m reaching out to you, in my late 40s, as a mother of three, a woman, a friend, a partner, a sister, and a trustworthy, vulnerable and courageous ally,” she writes in the introduction. “I want us to take steps and risks together, on our parallel path, so we can find our light-filled purpose.”
Jordan Peterson- The Liberals will be turfed out temporarily…
Sun- Trudeau’s budget is a debt bomb
The Trudeau government’s 2024 budget is a tax-and-spend debt bomb financed by borrowed money and high taxation that is going to get worse year after year until the Liberals are booted from office.
Caught off guard by high interest rates, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland delivered a budget on Tuesday awash in a sea of red ink, keeping the Liberals’ dubious record intact of failing to deliver a single balanced budget since they came to power in 2015, with no plan to balance the budget, ever.
It’s like regular cancer… but faster.
Peer reviewed paper mentioned in the video.
Statistically significant increases in age-adjusted mortality rates of all cancer and some specific types of cancer, namely, ovarian cancer, leukemia, prostate, lip/oral/pharyngeal, pancreatic, and breast cancers, were observed in 2022 after two-thirds of the Japanese population had received the third or later dose of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA-LNP vaccine. These particularly marked increases in mortality rates of these ERα-sensitive cancers may be attributable to several mechanisms of the mRNA-LNP vaccination rather than COVID-19 infection itself or reduced cancer care due to the lockdown.
Grab a beverage.
The Forgotten Side of Medicine- How Much Damage Have Vaccines Done to Society?
In many cases, the severe “mysterious” injuries we see now are remarkably similar to those that were observed over a century ago. Unfortunately, a widespread embargo exists on ever allowing this data to come to light (as that would instantly destroy the vaccine program).
A variety of independent studies (summarized below) have shown that vaccines cause a wide range of chronic illnesses.