National Post- RCMP’s iconic Musical Ride threatened by low morale, staffing issues
Cycling To The Races
Who knew that an inequitable distribution of bicycle infrastructure was indicative of racism? It’s anyone’s guess as to what an equitable distribution might be or how one could even determine that. If you have an opportunity to build bridges, why not just burn them instead by making prospective allies feel like chumps?
But until white allies in the biking community recognize diversity in cycling and see it as more than just a sport but a way of life, Williams says, those disparities will persist.
But the biggest and most important thing an ally can do is shut up, listen, and amplify the voices of Black and brown folks, who are often silenced, Williams says.
By 1 p.m., the predominantly Black and brown mechanics she’d hired had already tuned up more than 50 [bikes].
One supposes that any white mechanics were instructed to fix the damned bikes in silence.
A Deal With The Devil
Western Canadian Farmers and Duck Hunter
Are the real villain’s here.
True North News- Toronto police to target tow truck turf wars as shootings spike by 74%
Since Jan. 1, there have been 26 tow truck-related shootings and discharges, representing 12% of the city’s total shootings and discharges.
“Towing conflicts in the GTA have historically been about territorial disputes and rivalries. However, it’s important to reiterate that this issue involves a very, very small segment of the towing industry,” said Matthews
“It seems gun violence in certain parts of Canada is so common that some in the towing industry believe that public shootings are a feasible response to competitive pressures,” said Giltaca.
Johnson revealed that 85% to 90% of handguns and assault rifles being seized from the crimes are coming from the South of the border, primarily from Ohio, Texas, Florida, and Michigan.
SCOTUS Affirms Presidential Immunity
Jonathan Turley: In reading through this opinion, I can’t see how this doesn’t induce cardiac arrest in the special counsel…The court is imposing a very significant burden on Jack Smith when this goes back to the judge.
The Untold Story
Perhaps Africa needs to pay reparations to Britain. How Britain forced Africa to give up slavery.
An Era Of Lies
Victor Davis Hanson on the lies we have lived through.
Dominion Day On Turtle Island
Blackie’s Canada: Only the best for Justin. Today Trudeau burns jet fuel to Newfoundland for a photo op at a war memorial. The Maple Leaf Forever.
Dementia Joe’s America: TSC puts pride out to pasture. Vandalizing LGBTQ materials.
Today In Islam: Interfaith dialogue in Germany. The Hamas billionaire.
Your morning meme. Another meme. A cartoon.
Between The Thighs
Hush now. I bring news from academia.
The moose and the bear did what?
What on earth is the moose doing to the polar bear? And the cobra chicken?
This is the Canada Day Google Doodle.
Happy Canada Day, I guess?
July 1, 2024: Reader Tips
Happy Canada Day / Dominion Day, everyone! Though our country is going through an existential crisis right now due to a multitude of incompetent and corrupt political “leaders”, here’s hoping that you can forget about them for awhile and enjoy a wonderful time with your loved ones.
On this day, we present the Political History of Canada
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Biggest steam tractor in the world attempts to set a world record.
If It Weren’t For Fake Hate
There’d be no hate at all: There were 12 campus hate hoaxes this school year
Les Deplorables!
You go, girl. (sorry, link fixed)
Marine Le Pen’s National Rally was on track to dominate the first round of France’s legislative election, dealing a major blow to President Emmanuel Macron and setting the stage for a far-right party to control the country’s government for the first time in its modern history.
The National Rally was projected to get between 33% and 34.2% of the vote, according to initial projections from four polling companies on Sunday. The left-wing New Popular Front coalition was set to get between 28.5% and 29.6% and Macron’s centrist alliance between 21.5% and 22.4%.
Even though Macron’s presidency isn’t formally at stake – and he’s said he has no plans to resign – Sunday’s result indicates he’ll likely have to share governing responsibilities with Le Pen’s group, which opposes most of his priorities, from migration and pension reform to strengthening the European Union.
Le Pen said her party “practically wiped out the Macron bloc” when speaking to supporters in her constituencey in Northern France Sunday evening. “The French have shown in a vote without ambiguity their will to turn the page on seven years of corrosive power.”
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
SF PRIDE- A man lies in an inflatable pool of urine in The Fetish Zone where attendees are encouraged to pee on him.
Other booths featured participants getting spanked, whipped and imitating sex acts on each other, all in public.
Click at your own risk.
The Real Virus
Bolshevik History Lessons
Leave it to these barely coherent, shopworn Marxists to claim that the source of Iran’s problems lie not with a brutal Islamist dictatorship with zero respect for individual rights, but rather with an insufficiently generous welfare state and too much freedom for entrepreneurs. Apparently, if the West didn’t impose sanctions on Iran they would be able to embrace rigid central planning and usher in utopia. Who knew?
Sanctions have separated Iran, a neoliberal state with Iranian characteristics, from the neoliberal world order it looked set to join in the 1990s. Since then, the government has eroded Iran’s once generous welfare state and cut subsidies on bread, fuel, and other staple commodities. Responding to its sanctioned public realm, Iran’s leaders have expanded a gray, pseudoprivate economy unregulated by the democratic state to reach international markets through front companies. The middlemen doing these deals, “black knights,” satisfy Iranian military-industrial and consumer demand and provide the country with off-the-books cash to support the “axis of resistance,” Iran’s regional allies from Yemen to Syria which look likely to enter a regional war against Israel.
We’re From The Government And We’re Here To Help
Does anyone at all understand the case that overturned Chevron? Because the facts there are pretty damning and show why federal bureaucrats can’t be trusted to interpret and enforce their own rules.
Basically, the really short version of what happened was this — a family fishing business sued because they were paying $700 a day to have federal regulators oversee their business. The statute governing the National Marine Fisheries Service says nothing about making their business pay for the cost of their own regulation, and it was just decided along the way that businesses would have to foot the bill for the NMFS’ own enforcement.
Because of Chevron, which grants overly broad powers to bureaucrats to interpret the law, the idea that federal agencies could essentially make their own regs and make people pay if they didn’t have the budget to enforce them was tolerated.
That’s insane. Imagine if your local cops decided they needed a bigger budget — gotta keep the town safe! — and started stopping your car at checkpoints all over town to make you pay up. And the mayor and no one else in town could stop them from doing this because only the cops were allowed to determine what was legal.
That’s essentially what the feds were doing here under Chevron. It was outrageous, and the fisheries service’s abuse of power was hardly an isolated instance of federal overreach defended by Chevron.
It was corrupt and needed to end.
You’re Not Going Anywhere
Financial Post- WestJet cancels more flights because of strike, disrupting almost 50,000 travellers
The Calgary-based airline has already cancelled a total of 407 flights over the weekend in an effort to “maintain stability.”
Most of the flights were cancelled on Saturday, with 282 trips on WestJet planes being called off.
The problem with wind energy
Weekend Watch: The problem with wind energy. There’s a lot in here, from gears to hydrogen. Check it out.