Dementia Joe’s America: A Columbia grad. Trump’s New York trial is a joke. And Obama’s longer game.
Blackie’s Canada: Parks Canada has a racism tour. Some student demands. At least they didn’t ask for a pony.
Today In Islam: Diversity is our strength in Germany. Hamas’s UNRWA compound.
Global Warming Scam News: Europe will freeze and starve in the dark.
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Tonight, we have something special for you: From 1962, we present The Beverly Hillbillies – Season 1, Episode 1.
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It would have been interesting to see how this judge would have ruled had he been asked for an injunction against the Ottawa trucker protest two years ago. My guess is that he would have meted out a harsh punishment for such counter-revolutionary activity.
A Quebec Superior Court judge has rejected a provisional injunction request by McGill University to remove pro-Palestinian encampment activists from its front lawn in downtown Montreal.
St-Pierre opened his ruling by saying that the injunction request comes amid a wave of pro-Palestinian encampments on university campuses across North America connected to the events in the Gaza Strip, where “dozens of thousands of Palestinians are dead, injured or displaced by the Israeli army.”
Jordan Peterson- The Truth About Auschwitz Prison Guards
Jordan Peterson- Lies Ruin Your Life
National Post- How a Trudeau-appointed Senate could blockade a future Poilievre government
By the anticipated date of the 2025 federal election, only 10 to 15 members of the 105-seat Senate will be either Conservative or Conservative appointees. The rest will be Liberal appointees. As of this writing, 70 senators have been personally appointed by Trudeau, and he’ll likely have the opportunity to appoint another 12 before his term ends.
What this means is that no matter how strong the mandate of any future Conservative government, the Tory caucus will face a Liberal supermajority in the Senate with the power to gut or block any legislation sent their way.
Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic:
Today, based on evidence uncovered in @COVIDSelect’s recent report, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services commenced formal debarment proceedings against EcoHealth Alliance.
EcoHealth will now face an immediate, government-wide suspension of taxpayer funds — including a hold on all active grants.
EcoHealth & Dr. Daszak facilitated gain-of-function research in China without proper oversight & willingly violated multiple requirements of @NIH grants.
They should never again receive a single penny from the U.S. taxpayer.
Read Chairman @RepBradWenstrup’s full statement
Blacklocks- Won Bid At Twice The Price
Jeglic in April 29 testimony at the Commons government operations committee said insiders were “using the system” to reward favoured contractors. “I think there needs to be significant rethinking as to how federal procurement is done,” he said.
“We are seeing consistent problems across the federal procurement landscape,” said Jeglic. “People are using the system in ways it shouldn’t be used.”
Calgary city council votes against the wishes of 75% of Calgarians…
The vote comes after more than three weeks of public presentations in council chambers, 736 in total, either in person or on the phone. Additionally, the city received 6,101 written submissions, with roughly 75% of all submissions against the implementation of blanket zoning. The city also says 50,000 people watched the proceedings on its webcasts.
However, the city knew it was unpopular based on written submissions received ahead of the April 22 public hearings.
A total of 4,347 submissions were received, with 3,812 saying ‘no’, 399 saying yes and 136 saying they were neutral. According to the city, duplicate submissions made by a single person were counted as one submission
The blanket zoning bylaw will eliminate areas with zoning for only single-family homes, allowing multi-family homes, including four-plexes, each with two additional suites, in those areas.
Of course, 75% of Calgarians sit on their hands through municipal elections, so there’s that.
No matter how much you hate the media, it’s not enough: Biden aides worry about psychological torment as Hunter heads for trial
There is no way that you can say to a man who identifies as a woman, insists he is a woman, that, fine, he can do what he likes, but he can’t actually come into women-only spaces – and that you reserve the right to say that the reason is because he’s a man – that doesn’t offend him…
What has happened is that a lot of women have seen their willingness to be polite absolutely taken advantage of… What it’s come down to is that people who don’t identify as their sex have taken other people’s politeness as license to override other people’s desires, needs, rights, and boundaries…
Helen Joyce on transgender overreach, exploited politeness, and belated pushback.
Dementia Joe’s America: The rumours about child actors. Democrat antisemitism.
Blackie’s Canada: Comrade Chow supports Hamas. Today Dear Leader burns jet fuel to Quebec City. Liberal Party supporters appointed to CBC panel.
Woke Britain: Apparently God is a witch. Today In Islam: Urinals are un-Islamic. 45,000 Jihad attacks since 9/11.
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Snopes updates assessment of Ashley Biden’s diary from ‘unproven’ to ‘true’
The horrible people who felt it perfectly fine to strip the rights of citizens around the world, are now rewriting history. Tucker Carlson interviews Aaron Rodgers.
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Who’d have thunk it? An Indigenous Identity Fraud Summit opens with everyone accusing each other of being frauds. But that’s inevitable with organizations focused on accidents of birth instead of ideas.
Chartrand and the MMF broke from MNC in 2021 over the 2017 recognition of six new historic Métis communities in Ontario, stretching the Métis homeland all the way to the Quebec border.
One of Louis Riel’s greatest fears, said Chartrand, was that the Métis would be swamped not just by settlers from the east, but from within.
Ontario chiefs also reject the communities and accuse MNO of usurping First Nations’ heritage by co-opting their ancestors as Métis.
They’ve mounted a massive pressure campaign against federal Bill C-53, which would recognize the MNO, Métis Nation-Saskatchewan and Otipemisiwak Métis Government (OMG) — formerly the Métis Nation of Alberta — as Indigenous governments.
Like most sectors of the economy, farm finances are being squeezed between substantially higher interest costs and slumping commodity prices. But I’m sure that higher carbon and capital gains taxes and more EV subsidies will fix that. If not, maybe a currency collapse could right the ship.
Falling crop prices are leaving agriculture equipment sellers with an excess of unsold tractors and combines. To cope with the surplus, dealers are discounting machines, suspending new orders, and even auctioning off equipment at reduced prices.
Josh Gruett, dealer principal at Waupun Equipment in Waupun, Wisconsin, which sells farm, construction and other equipment, said his inventory has risen 30% to 35% since the end of 2023.
Friends helping friends…
Blacklocks- B.C. Wins $104M Fed Subsidy
The federal cabinet yesterday approved $103.7 million in subsidies for homeowners who switch from natural gas furnaces to electric heat pumps, but only in British Columbia. The province’s NDP government faces a general election October 19.
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Peter Menzies- Hey, feds, how are those broadcasting reforms going?
In summary, one year after the act was passed, the CRTC has incurred one related court appeal, dropped two proceedings, added five more and still hasn’t published any decisions from the three-week marathon hearing held last November and December.
No one outside the CRTC knows for sure why the brakes have been so firmly applied to what appeared to be a hell-bent-for-leather process. But it is probably the fact that they now must grapple with the consequences of their decision to treat the internet like traditional broadcasting. Those are many, but among them is that any actions taken by the CRTC are likely to increase costs and reduce choices for consumers.
The Best Damn Roofer joins his old high school buddy and SDA regular Gord Magill on The Voice of GO(r)D.
Wait until they find out the humans can topple transmission poles:
A range of AI systems have learned techniques to systematically induce “false beliefs in others to accomplish some outcome other than the truth,” according to a new research paper.
The paper focused on two types of AI systems: special-use systems like Meta’s CICERO, which are designed to complete a specific task, and general-purpose systems like OpenAI’s GPT-4, which are trained to perform a diverse range of tasks.
While these systems are trained to be honest, they often learn deceptive tricks through their training because they can be more effective than taking the high road.