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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20390986 (101915ZFEB24) Notable: Final Drag Queens and Transgender Bun | Final Emergencies Act Verdict Bun / World’s largest 5K run erases women’s, men’s records for “trans inclusivity”

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World’s largest 5K run erases women’s, men’s records for “trans inclusivity”

https://tnc.news/2024/02/09/worlds-largest-run-erases-records-inclusivity/

The world’s largest community-organized 5,000-metre run has quietly erased records from its website, citing the need to promote gender inclusivity.

Parkrun’s decision has sparked a wave of backlash from runners online, who are accusing the organization of discriminating against women and erasing records to hide the fact that biological males are claiming top spots on womens’ rankings.

“Parkrun decision (is) not going down well. CEO Jefferys says it is a health charity, not a race – so are health charities allowed to discriminate against females? I doubt it. Gender self-ID continues so how many males will be running in the (female category) tmrw?” said marathon runner and two-time Olympian Mara Yamauchi on X.

Parkrun was founded in the U.K. but holds events across the world, including in Canada. There are Parkrun events in Victoria, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and other cities across the country.

In a statement given to the Telegraph, Parkrun spokesperson said that the decision to eliminate records was made to open the organization to as many people as possible. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20391009 (101920ZFEB24) Notable: Law and Disorder Bun Part One / Alberta government faces class action for unlawful public health orders

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Alberta government faces class action for unlawful public health orders

https://tnc.news/2024/02/09/alberta-gov-class-action-unlawful-public-health-orders/

An Alberta law firm is putting the Alberta government on notice with a proposed class action lawsuit representing business owners affected by COVID-19 public health orders.

The proposed suit, filed by Rath & Company, follows the recent Ingram decision, where the Calgary Court of King’s Bench declared several of Alberta’s public health orders to have been unlawfully enacted, setting a precedent for potential financial redress for impacted businesses.

Lead counsel Jeffrey Rath said this proposal marks the first of many procedural and substantive steps.

“This is an important case about government actions and overreach during a time when business owners were unlawfully mandated to close their businesses at a moment’s notice,” he said. “It will give Albertans the opportunity to hold the Alberta government accountable and seek fair compensation on behalf of the many businesses impacted by Deena Hinshaw’s many unlawful decisions.”

Hinshaw was Alberta’s chief medical officer through the pandemic until she was removed by Premier Danielle Smith in 2022.

The proposed class action lawsuit targets the financial losses for businesses in Alberta that were either fully or partially restricted due to the public health orders during the pandemic. Rebecca Ingram and Chris Scott are lead plaintiffs as business owners who suffered considerable financial losses as a result of these restrictions.

Owner of the Whistle Stop Cafe, Scott was previously accused of disobeying public health restrictions for refusing to close his restaurant at the height of the pandemic. He was acquitted following the Ingram decision, as the Crown no longer deemed Scott’s prosecution as sustainable given the precedent.

The proposed class action is still looking for representative plaintiffs to join. Business owners who were operational in Alberta from 2020 to 2022 and were impacted by the health directives are able to apply to join the class action. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20391074 (101932ZFEB24) Notable: Final Covid and Other Pestilence Bun / Alberta’s college of physicians backs out of forcing doctors to refer abortions and assisted suicide

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Alberta’s college of physicians backs out of forcing doctors to refer abortions and assisted suicide

https://tnc.news/2024/02/09/albertas-abortions-and-assisted-suicide/

Alberta’s regulatory body for physicians and surgeons has withdrawn a proposal to have doctors refer patients for abortions or assisted suicide following backlash from a prolife political party.

Last month, Prolife Alberta, a registered provincial political party, asked supporters to submit feedback to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta’s (CPSA) proposal to implement what’s called effective referral.

The proposal would have ended the current system of allowing patients to seek an abortion or assisted suicide without an objecting physian’s involvement, said Prolife Alberta executive director Richard Dur.

“It forces (doctors) basically to participate in the evil of abortion or euthanasia,” Dur told True North. “And for many physicians, that’s contrary, of course, to the Hippocratic Oath that they swore and contrary to their beliefs.” Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20391123 (101939ZFEB24) Notable: Final Covid and Other Pestilence Bun / Health Canada floated ban on smoking in private homes ahead of WHO tobacco summit

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Health Canada floated ban on smoking in private homes ahead of WHO tobacco summit

https://tnc.news/2024/02/09/health-canada-ban-on-smoking/

A ban on smoking in private spaces and a phase-out of tobacco sales are among the measures Health Canada planned to offer up at the World Health Organization’s annual tobacco control conference this week.

A Health Canada tobacco control official said these are within the scope of the global treaty governing tobacco restrictions and should be presented to countries as they decide what policies to entertain.

Laura Smith, the director of tobacco and vaping policy in Health Canada’s Tobacco Control Directorate, delivered a presentation on “forward-looking tobacco control measures” at a November webinar hosted by Europe’s Joint Action on Tobacco Control initiative.

The session was a lookahead to the World Health Organization’s annual conference of the parties to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. The conference, called COP10, is taking place in Panama. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20391216 (101954ZFEB24) Notable: Law and Disorder Bun Part One / Trudeau justice ministers had government cars stolen three times

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Trudeau justice ministers had government cars stolen three times

https://tnc.news/2024/02/10/justice-ministers-cars-stolen/

As auto thefts have become more prevalent in Canada’s biggest cities, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s justice minister has had their government vehicle stolen three times in the past three years.

According to a report from the CBC, documents tabled in the House of Commons show that Trudeau’s justice ministers David Lametti and Arif Virani have had their government-issued vehicles stolen multiple times.

Most recently, Minister Virani had his Toyota Highlander XLE stolen this past November, requiring authorities to recover the SUV.

That same vehicle was stolen by thieves and recovered by authorities just ten months prior in February 2023 when Lametti was serving as minister of justice.

By this point, Lametti was no stranger to having his government-issued vehicle stolen, as in February 2021, a different Toyota Highlander was stolen from the minister.

Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre mocked Minister Virani on X for having his vehicle stolen.

“These car thieves have no gratitude. They keep stealing the car of the guy who keeps letting them out of jail to do it,” said Poilievre. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20391347 (102014ZFEB24) Notable: Final Covid and Other Pestilence Bun / SHEPHERD: No, Bonnie Henry, the pandemic was never a time of “kindness”

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SHEPHERD: No, Bonnie Henry, the pandemic was never a time of “kindness”

https://tnc.news/2024/02/10/shepherd-bonnie-henry-documentary/

A new documentary about BC provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry premiered in Victoria on Thursday evening as part of the Victoria Film Festival.

The film’s title?

“Our Time to be Kind.”

I gagged upon hearing the news.

British Columbians will know that Henry’s signature phrase from 2020-2022 was “Be Kind, Be Calm, Be Safe.” That’s also what she titled her book. In the film, she is seen with a tote bag with the same phrase printed on it.

How can Henry purport that her brand is about “kindness,” when it was under her pandemic public health orders that the unvaccinated were banned from working out at the gym, attending university, visiting a museum, and dining at a restaurant with friends and family?

Actually, in B.C., healthcare workers without the COVID vaccine are still barred from returning to work, despite the understaffed and strained healthcare system.

And I haven’t forgotten about the 12-year old boy with severe autism who was denied entry to an Indigo bookstore in Burnaby because he wasn’t able to put on a mask. A Paralympic swimmer born without hands, thus unable to affix a mask, was also turned away from the bookstore chain’s Vancouver location. How kind!

According to Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth, those who questioned masks were “irresponsible idiots” with “narcissistic, self-indulgent ways.”

I remember attending my first anti-lockdown protest in the spring of 2020 with a massive parade of others who were concerned about the effects of school closures on children, as well as how peoples’ mental health will be affected if they lose their jobs and are denied human connection.

Onlookers spat that we were “f***ing stupid.” It was all so… kind.

Anyhow, I bought a ticket to see the new documentary film, “Our Time to Be Kind,” because I like to see these things for myself.

And seeing as Henry herself would be at the premiere, which included a Q&A, I wanted to ask her what exactly was “kind” about her discriminatory rules. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20391576 (102040ZFEB24) Notable: Final Farmers Bun / Cowichan BC farmers are fighting back against Estuary Project plans to flood out fertile farmland

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Cowichan BC farmers are fighting back against Estuary Project plans to flood out fertile farmland

https://www.rebelnews.com/cowichan_bc_farmers_are_fighting_back_against_estuary_project_plans_to_flood_out_fertile_farmland

Plans to convert nearly 100 acres of productive farmland into marchland and waterways, among other burdens placed on local Cowichan landowners, have rallied concerned farmers and citizens to save food security and push back against government overreach. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20391629 (102048ZFEB24) Notable: Final Climate Change Bun / Trudeau Liberals owe small businesses $2.5 billion in carbon rebates: report

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Trudeau Liberals owe small businesses $2.5 billion in carbon rebates: report

https://www.rebelnews.com/trudeau_liberals_owe_small_businesses_2_5_billion_in_carbon_rebates_report

The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) estimates that small businesses pay nearly half of the federal carbon tax revenue but receive only 0.17% of all carbon rebates between 2019 and 2023. Enterprises in Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba are owed $2.5 billion. continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20391654 (102051ZFEB24) Notable: Final Climate Change Bun / Atlantic Canadians scoff at $1 billion climate program for phasing out oil furnaces

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Atlantic Canadians scoff at $1 billion climate program for phasing out oil furnaces

https://www.rebelnews.com/atlantic_canadians_scoff_at_1_billion_climate_program_for_phasing_out_oil_furnaces

Only 80 Maritime households have applied to phase out their oil furnaces as part of a billion-dollar carbon tax break for Atlantic Canada. Some 286,000 residents still use home heating oil, by official estimate. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20396192 (111724ZFEB24) Notable: Final Farmers Bun / Polish Farmers Blast ‘Weak’ Globalist Tusk Government, Demand EU Commissioner for Agriculture Resign

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EUROPEAN AGRICULTURAL REVOLT: Polish Farmers Blast ‘Weak’ Globalist Tusk Government, Demand EU Commissioner for Agriculture Resign

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/european-agricultural-revolt-polish-farmers-blast-weak-globalist/

The European Agricultural Revolt is raging all across the old continent, and over a dozen countries have experienced – or are still experiencing – large protests by farmers, who are blocking highways and ports and in some cases, like France, dropping hay stacks and spraying manure at public buildings.

We have written at length here at TGP about the motive behind this uprising from the people who produce most of the food that Europe eats: the failing, crippling ‘green’ policies and regulations that make farming not viable and threaten to promote a manufactured famine in the region.

In some places, such as Poland, there is a big disconnect between the revolting farmers and the newly installed Globalist and Eurocentric government by Donald Tusk.

While Tusk’s government is a target for the protesters, other officials are also under fire, such as Polish EU Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski.

Reuters reported: Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20396347 (111752ZFEB24) Notable: Russia and Ukraine Bun Part One / Boris Johnson Has Meltdown After Being Exposed For Sabotaging Ukraine Peace Deal

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Boris Johnson Has Meltdown After Being Exposed For Sabotaging Ukraine Peace Deal

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/boris-johnson-has-meltdown-after-being-exposed-sabotaging-ukraine-peace-deal

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had a mini-meltdown after being exposed during the Tucker Carlson-Vladimir Putin interview for sabotaging the Ukrainian peace deal.

During the interview, Putin confirmed reporting that first emerged last year about Johnson’s role in prolonging the war.

David Arahamiya, the leader of Ukraine’s ruling party, revealed that Johnson had scuppered a peace deal that would have put an end to hostilities just a few months after the Russian invasion.

Putin confirmed this when he stated, “He had fixed his signature to some of the provisions, not to all of it. He put his signature and then he himself said, we were ready to sign it, and the war would have been over long ago. 18 months ago. However, Prime Minister Johnson came, talk to us out of it and we missed that chance. Well, you missed it. You made a mistake.”

Johnson was clearly rattled by the revelation. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20396521 (111830ZFEB24) Notable: Final Hamas and Israel Bun | Final Houthis and Red Sea Bun / Egypt Warns Israel: Rafah Invasion Could Negate '79 Peace Treaty

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Egypt Warns Israel: Rafah Invasion Could Negate '79 Peace Treaty

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/egypt-warns-israel-rafah-invasion-could-negate-79-peace-treaty

With Israel on the verge of invading Gaza's southernmost city, Egypt is warning that such a move could trigger a suspension of the treaty that has maintained peace between the two countries since 1979, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday directed the Israeli Defense Forces to plan the evacuation of the city of Rafah, which lies on Gaza's southern border with Egypt and reportedly holds more than a million refugees already forced from their homes elsewhere in the 25-mile-long strip. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20396801 (111938ZFEB24) Notable: Doug Ford freezes provincial tax increases on alcohol until 2026

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Doug Ford freezes provincial tax increases on alcohol until 2026

https://tnc.news/2024/02/11/doug-ford-freezes-provincial-tax-increases-on-alcohol-until-2026/

Ontario has pledged to freeze taxes on alcohol for the next two years to help support the province’s alcohol and hospitality industries, according to a press release from the Government of Ontario’s website.

The beer basic tax and mark-ups on alcohol at the LCBO are rates scheduled to adjust annually based on a rolling three-year average set by Statistics Canada’s Consumer Price Index for Ontario.

The Ford government had previously frozen the beer basic tax and LCBO mark-up rates in 2018 until March 1, 2024.

However, the government announced Friday the freeze will remain in place until March 1, 2026 on Friday.

“Our government is constantly looking for ways to make life more affordable for Ontario families by putting more money back into their pockets,” said Premier Doug Ford.

“From stopping increases to the beer tax to cutting the gas tax, we are keeping costs down for businesses and families across the province.”

The basic beer tax was estimated to increase 4.6%, with LCBO mark-up rates being indexed to inflation. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20396842 (111945ZFEB24) Notable: Final Farmers Bun / “Ineffective” climate policies jeopardizing farmers’ ability to deliver food security

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“Ineffective” climate policies jeopardizing farmers’ ability to deliver food security

https://tnc.news/2024/02/11/ineffective-climate-policies-farmers/

Farmers in Saskatchewan are angry with the federal government for harming their ability to ensure food security.

The Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities has issued a stark warning about the detrimental impact of what it terms “ineffective” federal climate policies on the ability of Saskatchewan farmers to lead the world in agricultural production.

Representing rural communities for over a century, the group has been a vocal critic of the federal government’s carbon tax and its fertilizer emission reduction target.

Ray Orb, president of the association, emphasized the urgent need for support from both federal and provincial governments to address the challenges faced by farmers.

Orb outlined several key areas where support is crucial, including combating inflation’s adverse effects on loans and purchasing power, and countering proposed regulations on fertilizer emissions.

“(We need) support to deal with ineffective environmental policies that dictate that farmers find solutions to reduce their carbon footprint when the technological advancement required to convert an entire farming operation to renewable energy simply does not yet exist,” said Orb. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20397586 (112205ZFEB24) Notable: Russia and Ukraine Bun Part One / Russia Launches Dozens of Drone Strikes in Five Hour Barrage on Ukraine

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Russia Launches Dozens of Drone Strikes in Five Hour Barrage on Ukraine

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/02/11/russia-launches-dozens-of-drone-strikes-in-five-hour-barrage-on-ukraine/

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian forces launched 45 drones over Ukraine Sunday in a five-and-a-half-hour barrage, officials said, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy continued the reshuffle of his war cabinet as the war enters its third year.

In a statement, the Ukrainian air force said it had shot down 40 of the Iranian-made Shahed drones over nine different regions, including on the outskirts of the country’s capital, Kyiv.

The five-and-a-half-hour attack targeted agricultural facilities and coastal infrastructure, officials for Ukraine’s southern defense forces wrote on Telegram. They said that a strike in the Mykolaiv region had injured one person, sparking a fire and damaging nearby residential buildings.

Another person was injured in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region when a blaze broke out due to falling debris from a destroyed drone, said the head of the region´s military administration, Serhiy Lysak.

The strikes come as Zelenskyy continues his shakeup of military commanders in a bid to maintain momentum against attacking Russian forces. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20398555 (120043ZFEB24) Notable: Final Charles III Bun | Final China Bun / King Charles Makes First Public Appearance After Cancer Diagnosis, Thanks Public for Support

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King Charles Makes First Public Appearance After Cancer Diagnosis, Thanks Public for Support

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/02/11/king-charles-makes-first-public-appearance-after-cancer-diagnosis-thanks-public-for-support/

LONDON (AP) -King Charles III attended church Sunday for the first time since his cancer diagnosis.

Walking beside Queen Camilla, Charles arrived at St. Mary Magdalene Church, close to Sandringham House in eastern England where he retreated to recuperate following his first treatment for an unspecified form of cancer.

The appearance came a day after he expressed thanks for the messages of support he has received from the public. In a statement issued late Saturday, the monarch said that such thoughts are “the greatest comfort and encouragement.” Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20401734 (121610ZFEB24) Notable: Media and Censorship Bun Part One / Joe Biden Posts Creepy and Evil Looking “Dark Brandon” Photo on X/Twitter Following Chiefs’ Super Bowl Win — Gets Roasted on Social Media

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Joe Biden Posts Creepy and Evil Looking “Dark Brandon” Photo on X/Twitter Following Chiefs’ Super Bowl Win — Gets Roasted on Social Media

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/joe-biden-posts-creepy-evil-looking-dark-brandon/

On Sunday night, Joe Biden posted a creepy photo on X/Twitter that has left social media users puzzled.

The image, featuring a sinister-looking depiction of dictator Joe Biden with glowing red eyes, was accompanied by a cryptic caption, “Just like we drew it up,” and an image description referring to it as “dark Brandon,” a play on the “Let’s Go Brandon” meme.

The caption “Just like we drew it up” typically implies that a plan or idea has been executed exactly as it was conceived or strategized.

The eerie image was posted following the Kansas City Chiefs’ nail-biting win over the San Francisco 49ers, securing their second consecutive NFL championship.

The Chiefs clinched the game with a last-second touchdown, concluding an intense overtime with a score of 25-22.

The evil-looking image of Joe Biden seems to tie into a broader narrative involving a Super Bowl theory that has been gaining traction among certain groups on the internet. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20401786 (121622ZFEB24) Notable: Final Covid and Other Pestilence Bun / The Pentagon and its CIA Germ Warfare Program

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The Pentagon and its CIA Germ Warfare Program

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/pentagon-its-cia-germ-warfare-program/

The American Security State has never stopped creating deadly biological warfare germs in the United States and abroad.

Biological warfare research began in the United States in 1943 by order of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The U.S. Army Chemical Warfare Service then began a large-scale research and development program at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland. That research continues to this day. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20401855 (121637ZFEB24) Notable: Final Charles III Bun | Final China Bun / Guam’s Security Under Threat: Illegal Chinese Migrant Surge and Beijing’s Military Provocations Prompt Urgent Calls for Increased Island Defense

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Guam’s Security Under Threat: Illegal Chinese Migrant Surge and Beijing’s Military Provocations Prompt Urgent Calls for Increased Island Defense

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/guam-battleground-beijings-espionage-military-illegal-migration/

Chinese illegal migrants flood Guam amidst Beijing’s escalating efforts to challenge US military presence, prompting urgent calls from the island’s congressional representative for heightened island protection.

For most Americans, the island of Guam might evoke fleeting thoughts of beaches and military bases. However, this U.S. territory far exceeds its postcard image. With a population of 168,000 American citizens, Guam holds a pivotal role in the Indo-Pacific, serving as a crucial strategic center for the U.S. military.

Recently, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has intensified its pressure on the island, both militarily and through espionage. As an unincorporated U.S. Territory, Guam holds only non-voting representation in Congress. Now, Guam Representative James Moylan sounds the alarm, highlighting the recent surge of illegal Chinese migrants as just one facet of Beijing’s escalating threat against the island. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20402012 (121707ZFEB24) Notable: Russia and Ukraine Bun Part One / Stubb Elected President in NATO Finland, Vows ‘No Relations’ With Russia Until the End of the War

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Stubb Elected President in NATO Finland, Vows ‘No Relations’ With Russia Until the End of the War

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/stubb-elected-president-nato-finland-vows-no-relations/

Centre-right National Coalition Party leader Alexander Stubb has been elected the new President of Finland in a vote that marks a new era in the Nordic country, no longer neutral – now a NATO member with a fiercely anti-Russian political class.

Stubb narrowly won the election today (11), defeating liberal Green Party member Pekka Haavisto, who has conceded defeat.

To say that Stubb is pro-European, a strong supporter of Ukraine, and someone who has taken a tough stance towards Russia is not much, because the same could be said about Haasvisto.

There is no space in contemporary Finnish politics for any nuance when it comes to Russia.

Reuters reported: Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20402156 (121738ZFEB24) Notable: Conservative Hungarian President Novak Resigns on Live TV for Pardoning Man Convicted of Covering Child Sexual Abuse Cases

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SHOCK: Conservative Hungarian President Novak Resigns on Live TV for Pardoning Man Convicted of Covering Child Sexual Abuse Cases

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/shock-conservative-hungarian-president-novak-resigns-live-tv/

Unlike some liberal European governments that live from crisis to crisis, conservative Hungary very rarely is in the headlines for scandals in its administration.

So it was shocking to hear of the damning accusations against President Katalin Novak, and it was surprising to know of her resignation on live TV.

BBC reported: Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20402186 (121745ZFEB24) Notable: Russia and Ukraine Bun Part One / Ukrainian Military Intelligence Says Russian Troops Are Using Starlink Terminals in the Front

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Ukrainian Military Intelligence Says Russian Troops Are Using Starlink Terminals in the Front

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/ukrainian-military-intelligence-says-russian-troops-are-using/

As the ground war in Ukraine becomes increasingly harder for their ammo-starved forces, another worrying development for them may be taking place up in space.

Of all the military capabilities in this conflict, the NATO ISR is one of Kiev’s greatest advantages. ISR is the ‘coordinated and integrated acquisition, processing and provision of timely, accurate, relevant, coherent and assured information and intelligence.’

This is basically an ‘eye in the sky’ awareness of enemy movements that is vital in today’s warfare – so any Russian step towards equaling capabilities could prove disastrous for Ukraine.

Now, reports have surfaced that suggest Russian forces in the conquered areas are using Starlink terminals produced by Elon Musk’s SpaceX for satellite internet.

Ukrainian military intelligence agency further alleges that it is beginning to look like a ‘systemic’ application.

Starlink terminals were sent in to help Ukraine after the war started and have been vital to Kiev’s battlefield communications.

Starlink, for its part, says it does not do business of any kind with Russia’s government or military.

Reuters reported: Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20402295 (121812ZFEB24) Notable: Final Covid and Other Pestilence Bun / Beware Of The Philanthropaths!

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Beware Of The Philanthropaths!

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/beware-philanthropaths

I think this made up word in the meme below perfectly captures the tyrannical billionaire psychopaths who seem to have gained control of the world using their billions, while portraying themselves as the saviors of humanity.

Whenever I see the term Foundation related to one of these psychopaths, I know that Foundation is nothing more than a front to achieve their evil agenda.

And if ever their was a poster boy for philanthropaths across the world, it would be Mister depopulation/vaccine pusher/farmer Bill Gates and his Gates Foundation.

Gates, Soros, Bloomberg and the Clintons represent the evil forces in this world, using their wealth, power, and control of the regime media to push their agenda of chaos, death, destruction, and depopulation. They all use their “Charitable” Foundations as a means to their evil ends, while being portrayed by the media they have bought off, as generous philanthropists improving the lives of the poor and downtrodden.

It is all a ruse, easily revealed to anyone willing to dig just below the surface of these Potemkin foundations. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20402561 (121903ZFEB24) Notable: Final Immigration Bun / Canadian business groups lobby against proposed rules on foreign labour

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Canadian business groups lobby against proposed rules on foreign labour

https://tnc.news/2024/02/12/business-groups-lobby-against-foreign-labour/

Immigration Minister Marc Miller is warning that Canada’s economy has become too dependent on cheap labour from international students and temporary foreign workers, however many businesses don’t agree.

“We have gotten addicted to temporary foreign workers,” Miller told BNN Bloomberg in an interview on Tuesday.

“Any large industry trying to make ends meet will look at the ability to drive down wages. There is an incentive to drive labor costs down. It’s something that’ll require a larger discussion.”

Miller recently announced a two-year cap on international students, reducing the annual amount by 35%. There are also plans to reduce the amount of weekly work hours students are permitted to have.

Miller said the federal government will continue to take the necessary measures to curtail Canada’s dependence on temporary foreign labour. However, some businesses have pushed back on Miller’s sentiments, saying that there aren’t enough domestic workers to fulfill certain job gaps in the economy. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20402677 (121932ZFEB24) Notable: Final Hamas and Israel Bun | Final Houthis and Red Sea Bun / Federal public sector union facing human rights complaints over “anti-Israel agenda”

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Federal public sector union facing human rights complaints over “anti-Israel agenda”

https://tnc.news/2024/02/12/federal-public-sector-union-facing-complaints/

One of Canada’s largest public sector unions has been hit with 14 human rights complaints from Jewish members who allege a “culture of discrimination and harassment” amid their union pushing an “anti-Israel agenda.”

The complaints, which accuse the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) of “advocating unbalanced and biased views towards Israel and creating a culture of fear, discrimination and bias towards Jewish (union) members,” list several problematic events.

Incidents include hosting a “solidarity with Palestine” webinar in which participants allegedly accused Israel of colonialism, apartheid and genocide. “The webinar featured presenters who actively presented one-sided and biased views,” the complaints claim.

The union is also accused of having handed out “antisemitic” flyers promoting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction movement, rejecting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism, and targeting Zionism.

Furthermore, the complainants take issue with the union promoting the Ceasefire Now Coalition, which they say falsely accused Israel of bombing the Al-Shifa hospital, as well as with the promotion of anti-Israel rallies and a donation of $25,000 to the controversial UNRWA agency.

Last month, Canada joined the United States in suspending funding to UNRWA following allegations of staff involvement in Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on Israel.

Many of the complainants say they tried bringing up their concerns to the union’s leadership, but investigative or remedial actions were not taken.

The complainants are represented pro bono by lawyers Daniel Lublin and Marc Kitay. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20402944 (122042ZFEB24) Notable: Media and Censorship Bun Part One / Government Funds AI Tools for Whole-of-Internet Surveillance and Censorship

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Government Funds AI Tools for Whole-of-Internet Surveillance and Censorship

https://www.truth11.com/government-funds-ai-tools-for-whole-of-internet-surveillance-and-censorship/

I feel scared. Very scared.

Internet-wide surveillance and censorship, enabled by the unimaginably vast computational power of artificial intelligence (AI), is here.

This is not a futuristic dystopia. It’s happening now.

Government agencies are working with universities and nonprofits to use AI tools to surveil and censor content on the Internet.

This is not political or partisan. This is not about any particular opinion or idea.

What’s happening is that a tool powerful enough to surveil everything that’s said and done on the Internet (or large portions of it) is becoming available to the government to monitor all of us, all the time. And, based on that monitoring, the government – and any organization or company the government partners with – can then use the same tool to suppress, silence, and shut down whatever speech it doesn’t like.

But that’s not all. Using the same tool, the government and its public-private, “non-governmental” partners (think, for example: the World Health Organization, or Monsanto) can also shut down any activity that is linked to the Internet. Banking, buying, selling, teaching, learning, entertaining, connecting to each other – if the government-controlled AI does not like what you (or your kids!) say in a tweet or an email, it can shut down all of that for you.

Yes, we’ve seen this on a very local and politicized scale with, for example, the Canadian truckers. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20403268 (122147ZFEB24) Notable: Law and Disorder Bun Part One / Arsonist sets fire to historic Catholic church in Saskatchewan (video)

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WATCH: Arsonist sets fire to historic Catholic church in Saskatchewan

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/watch-arsonist-sets-fire-to-historic-catholic-church-in-saskatchewan/

Blessed Sacrament Parish in Regina posted footage of the February 9 arson attack on social media and pleaded for those who know anything to contact the police.

Police are looking for a suspect after surveillance footage caught a man starting a fire at a historic Catholic church in Regina, Saskatchewan.

The church, Blessed Sacrament Parish, posted footage of the February 9 attack on social media and pleaded for those who know anything to contact the Regina Police Service.

In the video, a man wearing a ski mask can be heard swearing while pouring what appears to be gasoline from a jerry can all over one of the entrances into the century-old church, before using a lighter to set the fluid ablaze.

While the video shows flames engulfing the space, local reports indicate that fire crews were quick to respond to the scene and successfully put out the fire before extensive damage occurred.

In an update on its website, Blessed Sacrament Parish explained that due to the arson and “necessary clean-up,” there would be no “scheduled Eucharist” until Ash Wednesday.

As of the time of publication, there have been no updates regarding an arrest or the identity of the suspect. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20404176 (130155ZFEB24) Notable: Final Covid and Other Pestilence Bun / Why Is UNILEVER R&D Involved In Nanotechnology Research?

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Bill Gates Planning for “Pandemic 2,” Complete With New Vaccines Administered From “A Little Patch”

https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/bill-gates-planning-for-pandemic

Gates wants to change "food," too

The vaccine racket is losing steam, so billionaire eugenicist Bill Gates has come up with a new design for vaccines that involves "a little patch" being slapped on a person's skin.

In a recent appearance on CNBC TV18 in India, Gates was asked about the future of vaccine manufacturing through his eyes, based on the current state of technological and healthcare advancements. Here is what he said:

"We make sure, for all these vaccines, that there's enough capacity, that there's competition so the prices keep going down. And we will have new vaccines. We'll have a TB [tuberculosis] vaccine, malaria vaccine, HIV vaccine."

Gates continued by rambling about the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) "vaccines" that were unleashed through Operation Warp Speed, explaining that for the next pandemic, "we need to make them have longer duration, more coverage."

"And we're going to change, instead of using a needle, to use a little patch," Gates added about the newly envisioned technology.

Whether from a needle or from a patch, poison is still poison, it is important to note. Injected poison is arguably worse as it bypasses the body's natural defense mechanisms, but surely Gates has thought of that, too, and will make the patches just as, or perhaps more, toxic than their needle counterparts. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20406641 (131622ZFEB24) Notable: Final Climate Change Bun / New Looming EV Disaster Begins to Emerge

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New Looming EV Disaster Begins to Emerge

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/new-looming-ev-disaster-begins-emerge/

‘Will only increase the probability of failure’

If all of the existing headaches for those pushing expensive electric vehicles on resisting American consumers could vanish, there’s still a big one that may have no ready solution.

Already, it appears the U.S. could end up dependent on unfriendly nations for materials for all those batteries. Then there’s the fact that the nation’s grid simply can’t support all that recharging – California already has been sending out advisories for owners not to charge. And then there’s the limited range, extended recharging times, both worsened by bad weather.

But now a report in the Washington Times explains that those batteries are heavy, and EVs can weight up to 50% more than internal combustion motor vehicles.

And that weight damages roads, bridges and parking garages, with those vehicles easily plowing through safety guardrails while posing a higher danger to other drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists traveling the same routes. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20406723 (131644ZFEB24) Notable: Final Climate Change Bun / Leo Hohmann: Report Calls for Limits on Air Travel

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Leo Hohmann: Report Calls for Limits on Air Travel

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/leo-hohmann-report-calls-limits-air-travel/

Report calls for limits on air travel: This is part of broader globalist plan to ‘ration’ travel of all kinds — no more unlimited planes, trains or automobiles for the serfs.

Just a short post here because it goes so well as a follow-up to my previous article on the mentality of our globalist oppressors.

According to CNN Travel: “Holidaymakers should prepare to change their travel habits now, before this change is forced upon them.”

CNN reports that “The negative impacts of tourism on the environment have become so severe that some are suggesting drastic changes to our travel habits are inevitable.”

The cable news network cites a 2023 report titled A Sustainable Future for Travel, in which the globalists lay out their entire plan to limit our freedom of movement. They always tell us their plans. So few pay attention. Most people would rather live in denial and deception.

In this report, tour operator Intrepid Travel proposed that “carbon passports” will soon become a reality if the tourism industry hopes to survive.

What is a carbon passport? CNN informs us of that as well, writing: Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20406815 (131705ZFEB24) Notable: Russia and Ukraine Bun Part One / AVDIIVKA MEATGRINDER: Kiev Reportedly Sent Elite Reserve Reinforcements as Russians Split the City in Half - Will ‘Butcher’ Syrsky Again Sacrifice Troops in Vain?

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AVDIIVKA MEATGRINDER: Kiev Reportedly Sent Elite Reserve Reinforcements as Russians Split the City in Half – Will ‘Butcher’ Syrsky Again Sacrifice Troops in Vain?

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/avdiivka-meatgrinder-kiev-reportedly-sent-elite-reserve-reinforcements/

Increasingly in the panorama of pro-Ukrainian analysts, you see disenchanted people predicting that the siege of Avdiivka is rapidly becoming ‘Bakhmut 2.0’.

On a fast and shallow reading of this reference we understand that they fear the city will fall with a lot of losses for Kiev – and that’s exactly the case.

But there’s more to this: in Bakhmut – and also in Mariupol – there was the same dynamic at play where, at a certain point during the siege, the military leadership of Ukraine knew it was futile to persist, and wanted to retreat saving the elite forces there to fight another day, in better fortified positions.

In both these cities’ cases – and now Avdiivka – the civilian leadership around President Volodymyr Zelensky insisted its forces put up a valiant fight ‘to the end,’ which they did.

While it can be validly argued that by retreating non-stop, they’d soon end up without any territory, on the other hand, the useless sacrifice of some of the most battle-worthy Ukrainian troops was sorely missed when it was time for them to launch the summer offensive.

Now, in Avdiivka, Zelensky has fired too-independent General Valery Zaluzhny, and new appointee Oleksandr Syrsky will certainly heed the President’s call for a desperate defense.

It turns out that Ukraine is indeed reinforcing Avdiivka, reportedly with one of the best brigades in the Ukrainian army, the 3rd Assault Brigade.

Forbes reported: Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20407032 (131754ZFEB24) Notable: Final Immigration Bun / Invasion Spreads To Unfenced US Northern Border Amid "Record-Breaking Surge" Of Illegal Entries Detected

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Invasion Spreads To Unfenced US Northern Border Amid "Record-Breaking Surge" Of Illegal Entries Detected

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/invasion-spreads-unfenced-us-northern-border-record-breaking-surge-illegal-entries

As the Biden administration and "shadowy network of secretive nonprofits" facilitate the greatest migration invasion this nation has ever seen on the southern border, new concerns are mounting that illegals are finding alternative routes into the country via the unfenced northern border with Canada.

New US Customs and Border Protection data shows more than 12,000 migrants were apprehended on the northern border last year, more than double the number from the year before of 3,578.

The New York Post first reported that most illegal crossings (about 70%) have occurred along the 295-mile Swanton Sector, including upstate New York, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20407079 (131804ZFEB24) Notable: Updated WEF Bun | Updated Wokeism Bun / Lawyer says Trudeau government’s DEI agenda contributing to judicial vacancies

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Lawyer says Trudeau government’s DEI agenda contributing to judicial vacancies

https://tnc.news/2024/02/12/lawyer-trudeau-dei-agenda-judicial-vacancies/

A prominent Toronto lawyer says the Trudeau government’s ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ agenda is contributing to judicial vacancies that are resulting in serious criminal trials being tossed.

There are currently 21 vacancies in the Ontario Superior Court alone, including six in Toronto.

This has resulted in court delays and backlogs, as well as several files in the Ontario Superior Court collapsing in the last few months, including a human trafficking case, a gun possession case and a sex assault case.

The cases collapsed after the trials went beyond a time limit imposed by the Supreme Court’s landmark R v Jordan ruling, which says cases must be heard within 18 months in provincial courts or 30 months in superior courts to not violate one’s right to a fair trial.

Chief Justice Richard Wagner sounded the alarm last June on the high number of judicial vacancies, saying “these empty positions have a significant impact on the administration of justice, the functioning of our courts, and access to justice for the public.”

Is DEI contributing to judicial vacancies?

Ari Goldkind, a prominent Toronto criminal defence lawyer, says DEI ideology is contributing to the Trudeau government’s failure to fill judicial vacancies. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20407196 (131826ZFEB24) Notable: Law and Disorder Bun Part One / B.C woman convicted of coughing on grocery clerk acquitted after appeal

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B.C woman convicted of coughing on grocery clerk acquitted after appeal

https://tnc.news/2024/02/13/b-c-woman-convicted-of-coughing-on-grocery-clerk-acquitted-after-appeal/

A disabled senior convicted of coughing on a grocery store clerk and complaining about the store’s COVID protocols has been acquitted after an appeal. and “complaining with considerable persistence and vigour” about the store’s COVID protocols in 2020, has been acquitted of all criminal charges.

The British Columbia Supreme Court has overturned a judge’s 2022 ruling that Kimberly Woolman, 60, “assaulted one employee by intentionally coughing in their direction and assaulted another by intentionally pushing her shopping cart into him.”

She was initially charged with causing a disturbance in a public place by shouting and two counts of assault.

Woolman was shopping at Save-on-Foods in Campbell River, B.C., for her mother, who lived in a nursing home, one month after B.C. declared a state of emergency.

She had finished shopping and was at the cashier, ready to pay. She questioned why a barrier was blocking some of the aisles, and the clerk explained it was for social distancing to “keep down congestion.”

“I said, ‘You got to be freaking kidding me,’ and I walked away. She followed me, stopped me halfway down the aisle and demanded that I answer her question of whether I would keep social distancing, as she was in my face, two feet away, and I was telling her to back off,” Woolman said in an interview on Rumble.

According to Woolman, the clerk persisted in following her, saying that she would not be able to get groceries if she didn’t commit to following the public health guidelines.

Eventually, three other clerks were involved. She was accused of intentionally coughing at the first clerk, Jacqueline Poulton, and another clerk accused her of ramming a cart into him.

Woolman’s case was granted an appeal after Justice Douglas Thompson ruled the trial judge was incorrect for refusing to allow Woolman to call on a character witness.

Thompson did not order a new trial, opting instead to overturn the conviction and enter an acquittal.

According to Thompson’s decision, Woolman asserted a myriad of grounds for appeal, but many of these were “manifestly without merit.” He concluded, however, that the character evidence matter provided enough grounds for an appeal.

Woolman also claimed that her lawyer sought a deal with the Crown rather than defending her innocence using available video evidence.

Woolman fired her lawyer and began representing herself. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20407221 (131831ZFEB24) Notable: Final Immigration Bun / Housing starts in Edmonton hit new low as its population balloons

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Housing starts in Edmonton hit new low as its population balloons

https://tnc.news/2024/02/13/housing-starts-edmonton-low-population-balloons/

Edmonton saw “electric, migration-spurred, population growth” in 2023, according to a new study released by the Conference Board of Canada.

Record federal immigration programs and the city’s booming economy are among the reasons behind the discrepancy.

“High federal immigration targets are delivering international newcomers, while the city’s healthy economy and affordable housing is (sic) attracting other Canadians,” highlighted the report.

In October, the Edmonton City Council approved a new zoning bylaw. The previous zoning limited many residential zones to single-family homes. Three-story apartments, townhouses, row houses, and duplexes with up to eight units will now be allowed in any residential area.

Still, housing starts in Edmonton fell approximately 10% between 2022 and 2023.

Alberta’s peak of housing starts was in 1978, at around 17,000. This peak was mirrored in 2015. In 2023, that value had fallen by almost 23%.

The Conference Board of Canada expects a modest uptick of housing starts in 2025, with about a 10% increase by 2028.

The report explained that the city’s good affordability, continuing employment growth, and easing interest rates point to a strengthening resale market later in 2024. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20407237 (131834ZFEB24) Notable: Final Climate Change Bun / “Meat of the future”: UBC scientist recommends bug-based diet

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“Meat of the future”: UBC scientist recommends bug-based diet

https://tnc.news/2024/02/13/meat-of-the-future-ubc-bug-diet/

Creepy crawlies or delicious delicacies that are good for the environment?

A University of British Columbia professor thinks that opening people’s minds to the idea of an insect-based diet could be a key step in fighting climate change.

Prof. Yasmin Akhtar, a sessional lecturer in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia, said in an article published by her university that she incorporates insects into her own diet.

Akhtar even recommended her recipe for a “berry smoothie with cricket protein” to Canadians.

“People should be thinking about alternative protein sources, and insects could be the meat of the future,” Akhtar told UBC’s Beyond.

The key reason people should consider eating bugs is that rearing insects for consumption produces far less emissions than traditional animal husbandry, Akhtar said. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20407333 (131856ZFEB24) Notable: Updated WEF Bun | Updated Wokeism Bun / Diversity, equity and inclusion programs lead to more bigotry, new research shows

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Diversity, equity and inclusion programs lead to more bigotry, new research shows

https://tnc.news/2024/02/13/dei-programs-lead-to-research-shows/

Diversity, equity and inclusion programs in universities lead to even more prejudice and bigotry, a new study has found.

A recent research report published by the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy, authored by social scientist David Millard Haskell from Wilfrid Laurier University, casts doubt on the effectiveness of the practices touted as solutions to systemic racism.

Haskell’s study, titled “Reality Check,” critically examines existing scholarship on DEI initiatives, aiming to ascertain their impact on societal harmony and prejudice reduction.

Drawing from a wide array of research published in leading social scientific journals, including contributions from prestigious institutions like Harvard University and Princeton University, Haskell’s findings challenge the prevailing narrative that DEI instruction leads to lasting positive behavioural changes.

Proponents of DEI training often assert its efficacy without sufficient empirical evidence to support their claims,” Haskell said. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20407378 (131904ZFEB24) Notable: Final Covid and Other Pestilence Bun / Federal data says 120,000 small businesses 'vanished' due to COVID lockdowns

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Federal data says 120,000 small businesses 'vanished' due to COVID lockdowns

https://www.rebelnews.com/federal_data_says_120_000_small_businesses_vanished_due_to_covid_lockdowns

Canada’s draconian lockdowns permanently shuttered 120,344 ma and pa shops during the COVID pandemic, costing those families their livelihood. The ensuing economic recession caused more closures than the 2008 financial panic, according to Statistics Canada. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20407560 (131942ZFEB24) Notable: Final Hamas and Israel Bun | Final Houthis and Red Sea Bun / Report: Columbia, Western Ontario U. Support Antisemitic UN ‘Special Rapporteur’

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Report: Columbia, Western Ontario U. Support Antisemitic UN ‘Special Rapporteur’

https://www.breitbart.com/education/2024/02/13/report-columbia-western-ontario-u-support-antisemitic-un-special-rapporteur/

Several universities, including Columbia University and the University of Western Ontario, have provided support to United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, who has a history of antisemitic statements and justified the October 7 attack. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20407823 (132113ZFEB24) Notable: Law and Disorder Bun Part One / Canadian police investigate shooting at Sikh separatist’s home - media

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Canadian police investigate shooting at Sikh separatist’s home – media

https://www.rt.com/india/592379-shooting-at-house-of-canadian-sikh/

Resident is reportedly linked to Gurpatwant Singh Pannun who has been accused of making threats against India

Police in Ontario, Canada, are investigating a shooting at the house of a Sikh separatist activist who is linked to US-based pro-Khalistan movement leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. Khalistan is a movement seeking to carve a separate state for Sikhs out of lands in India, and has been at the center of a diplomatic row between New Delhi, Ottawa and Washington in recent times.

According to an AFP report, on Monday police said they’d been alerted by construction workers about an apparent “bullet hole” in a window of the house of Inderjit Singh Gosal, who is believed to be “a close associate” of Pannun, who New Delhi has designated a “terrorist” and whose organization “Sikhs for Justice” is banned in the South Asian country.

“We understand who this person is and his affiliations, but it’s just too early for us to speculate that there’s any connection to other violence and threats,” AFP quoted a police official saying about the Gosal bullet-hole investigation. The outlet noted that no injuries were reported in the incident as the targeted building is under construction and currently vacant.

The attack comes days after shots were fired at Simranjeet Singh, another associate of Pannun. Two Canadian teens were later arrested on suspicion of discharging a firearm. The most recent shooting comes in the wake of Gosal’s announcement of a rally this weekend at the Indian consulate in Toronto, The Guardian reported. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20408201 (132217ZFEB24) Notable: Law and Disorder Bun Part One / Canada Refuses to Extradite Nazi Collaborator Hunka to Russia - MFA Source

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Canada Refuses to Extradite Nazi Collaborator Hunka to Russia - MFA Source

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240213/canada-refuses-to-extradite-hunka-to-russia—russian-foreign-ministry-source-1116754706.html

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Canada has refused to extradite Yaroslav Hunka, the Ukrainian Nazi collaborator who received a standing ovation in the Canadian parliament in September, to Russia, a source in the Russian Foreign Ministry told Sputnik on Tuesday.

"Our request for extradition was formally rejected citing the absence of an extradition treaty between our countries," the source said.

In September, 2023, the 98-year-old Nazi collaborator was invited to attend Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's address at the Canadian parliament. Hunka was introduced as a hero who fought against the Russians during World War II and received a standing ovation from the entire Canadian legislature.

The honoring of a Nazi collaborator sparked outcries from Russia, Poland and elsewhere.

In October, Hunka was charged in absentia with the genocide of civilians during World War II by the Russian Investigative Committee. He is accused of participating in large-scale executions of at least 500 civilians in the Lvov region of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1943-1944.

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office told Sputnik in December that it had requested that Hunka be extradited to Russia to face criminal charges of genocide against Soviet citizens.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20412101 (141603ZFEB24) Notable: Final Charles III Bun | Final China Bun / Canadian Senator met with leaders affiliated to PRC espionage arm days before filing challenge to Foreign Interference Commission

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Canadian Senator met with leaders affiliated to PRC espionage arm days before filing challenge to Foreign Interference Commission

https://www.thebureau.news/p/canadian-senator-met-with-leaders

On February 3rd Senator Yuen Pau Woo met with community leaders reportedly subject to Chinese Overseas Affairs Office

Three days before submitting to the Foreign Interference Commission that federal reports on election interference and WeChat disinformation are “problematic” — Canadian Senator Yuen Pau Woo met in Vancouver with community leaders involved with Beijing’s “Overseas Chinese” espionage arm, giving a speech suggesting that a foreign agent registry will lead to anti-Asian exclusion.

The February 3, 2024 meeting at Vancouver’s Chinese Canadian Museum was arranged by Senators Woo and Victor Oh and also attended by Ottawa Liberal MP Chandra Arya, according to event accounts posted to WeChat, a social media platform linked in Canadian government reports to China’s disinformation attacks against Conservative MPs in the 2021 federal election.

The Canadian politicians that attended the early February meeting in Vancouver were also involved last year in a petition against a proposed foreign agent registry, which was initiated by a pro-Beijing media entity that also attended the February 3, 2024 meeting.

And asThe Bureau reported in December, based on leaked audio, in May 2020 Senator Woo privately pledged to a group of Vancouver community leaders with direct ties to Beijing’s united front, that Woo would fight to protect their voices in Canadian democracy.

By meeting this same group of pro-Beijing community and media leaders in Vancouver on February 3, 2024 and discussing similar matters, Woo’s political activities appear to form a pattern.

According to a WeChat report on political speeches at the February 3rd event in Vancouver Senator Woo said Chinese Canadians are “now in a very dangerous period,” and media reports regarding China’s foreign interference are discriminatory.

“They're still trying to tag us,” the senator reportedly said. “We have to fight back and teach our next generation to fight back.”

(The comments could not be independently verified but are consistent with Woo’s previous statements.) Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20412394 (141701ZFEB24) Notable: Law and Disorder Bun Part One / Rep. Stefanik Files Complaint to Disbar NY Attorney General Letitia James Citing ‘Professional Misconduct’ on Her Witch Hunt Investigation Against Trump

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Rep. Stefanik Files Complaint to Disbar NY Attorney General Letitia James Citing ‘Professional Misconduct’ on Her Witch Hunt Investigation Against Trump

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/rep-stefanik-files-complaint-disbar-ny-attorney-general/

U.S. Representative Elise Stefanik (R-NY) has filed an official complaint with the New York State Committee on Professional Standards against Attorney General Letitia James, citing “violations of the rules of professional conduct” related to James’ conduct on her ongoing witch hunt investigation of President Donald Trump.

Stefanik has accused Attorney General James of engaging in a “relentless lawfare campaign” against Trump. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20412410 (141704ZFEB24) Notable: Russia and Ukraine Bun Part One / General Syrsky Takes Charge And Ukraine Continues To Falter

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General Syrsky Takes Charge And Ukraine Continues To Falter

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/general-syrsky-takes-charge-ukraine-continues-falter/

The leadership shakeup in Kiev, with President Zelensky giving he boot to General Zaluzhny and promoting General Syrsky to the top military slot, has not changed the dire situation the Ukrainian Army faces on the Donbass front. If anything, it has made matters worse. General Syrsky, who is known derisively among Ukrainian troops as “The Butcher,” seems intent on living up to his reputation as a leader who is careless with the lives of this troops.

One of his first moves was to move four Ukrainian brigades from the Kharkiv region to Avdeevka. Initial reports today indicate that did not go well: Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20412496 (141719ZFEB24) Notable: Media and Censorship Bun Part One / CBS News Reporter Catherine Herridge, Who is Critical of Biden Regime, Among 800 Laid Off in Paramount Global’s Cost-Cutting Sweep

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CBS News Reporter Catherine Herridge, Who is Critical of Biden Regime, Among 800 Laid Off in Paramount Global’s Cost-Cutting Sweep

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/cbs-news-reporter-catherine-herridge-who-is-critical/

Paramount Global has announced the layoffs of 800 employees, including notable figures such as Catherine Herridge, the Emmy-winning and Emmy-nominated senior investigative correspondent known for her coverage of national security and intelligence matters.

In a memo to employees obtained by CNN, Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish confirmed the layoffs but did not disclose specific numbers. However, sources with knowledge of the situation reported to far-left news outlet that the cuts represent a 3% reduction in the company’s global workforce.

These layoffs are part of Paramount’s strategy to streamline operations and bolster earnings growth. This came as a shock to the industry, especially following the network’s recent high-profile success with Super Bowl advertising.

“These adjustments will help enable us to build on our momentum and execute our strategic vision for the year ahead — and I firmly believe we have much to be excited about,” Bakish wrote.

Among those affected by the layoffs were high-profile journalists at CBS News, including Catherine Herridge and chief national affairs and justice correspondent Jeff Pegues. The exact date of their departure from the network remains unclear.

Former National Security Advisor of the United States, Mike Flynn, weighed in on this news, stating, “Catherine Herridge remains one of the finest investigative journalists of modern times. To fire her is a sign they are about to burn down themselves. Good riddance CBS.” Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20412535 (141725ZFEB24) Notable: Final Immigration Bun / DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Impeached by US House in 214-213 Vote

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BREAKING UPDATE: DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Impeached by US House in 214-213 Vote!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/watch-live-house-vote-mayorkas-impeachment-630-pm/

UPDATE: Alejandro Mayorkas has officially been impeached in the House of Representatives by a vote of 214 to 213! Mayorkas is the first cabinet secretary to be impeached in nearly 150 years and the first sitting cabinet secretary in history to be impeached!

New York Times reports,

The United States House of Representatives voted narrowly on Tuesday to impeach Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, in a precedent-shattering vote that charged him with willfully refusing to enforce border laws and breaching the public trust.

In a 214 to 213 vote, Republicans barreled past the solid opposition of Democrats and reservations in their own ranks to make Mr. Mayorkas the first sitting cabinet secretary in U.S. history to be impeached. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20412949 (141831ZFEB24) Notable: Biden-Soros Regime Illegally Funds Hungarian Opposition Media with $320,000 to Bring Down President and Former Justice Minister

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Biden-Soros Regime Illegally Funds Hungarian Opposition Media with $320,000 to Bring Down President and Former Justice Minister

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/biden-soros-regime-illegally-funds-hungarian-opposition-media/

The Biden regime is once again trying to overthrow the conservative Christian government of Hungary with US taypaxer money, paying over $320,000 via Soros-funded NGOs to 15 opposition media outlets ahead of the European Parliament elections June 6 to 9. A campaign by Soros-tied media forced the resignation of Hungarian President Katalin Novák and former Justice Minister Judit Varga.

A campaign by Biden-Soros financed 444.hu media has forced the resignantion of popular Hungarian President Katalin Novák and charismatic Justice Minister Judit Varga of Victor Orbán’s Fidesz party. They were accused of pardoning a man convicted of covering sexual abuse of orphans.

In 2019, the director of the orphanage in Bicske, János V., was sentenced to eight years in prison for the sexual abuse of underage male wards in ten cases between 2004 and 2016.

His deputy, Endre Kónya, was sentenced to three years and four months in prison for allegedly assisting the orphanage director to coerce one of the victims into retracting their statement. Endre Kónya began serving his prison sentence in November 2021 and transitioned to a halfyway house beginning of 2023. Ahead of the visit by Pope Francis in April 2023, Endre Kónya’s wife appealed to Novak to pardon her husband, who only had a few months left to serve. Novák pardoned the man 27 April 2023 with the signature of then-Justice Minister Judit Varga. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20413011 (141845ZFEB24) Notable: Russia and Ukraine Bun Part One / Moscow’s Top Spy Sergey Naryshkin Says That Some Members of Ukrainian Elite Are Starting to Switch Allegiances to Russia

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Moscow’s Top Spy Sergey Naryshkin Says That Some Members of Ukrainian Elite Are Starting to Switch Allegiances to Russia

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/moscows-top-spy-sergey-naryshkin-says-that-some/

Heads of Intelligence Service becoming heads of state is nothing new, as CIA’s George Bush and KGB’s Vladimir Putin immediately pop to mind.

But more and more, today’s Intelligence Chiefs from the world’s superpowers – while still in command of the intelligence apparatus – have stepped out of the shadows and are doing diplomatic work or simply openly appearing in the media with a renewed force.

CIA Director, Ambassador William J. Burns, for example, develops parallel diplomatic efforts alongside State Department.

Besides the Agency, the Israeli Mossad chief is also involved in negotiations to free the remaining hostages held by Hamas.

It stands to reason that it wouldn’t be much different with Russian Foreign Intelligence Service SRV’s head Sergey Naryshkin.

Sergey Naryshkin has just come public to say that Russian intelligence has reported cases of Ukrainian elites switching over to Russian side.

Naryshkin specified that such concerns came up during US and UK discussions to appoint the West’s new ‘special emissary’ to Ukraine

Fears about members of the Kiev elite adhering to the Russian side are justified, as such cases are already taking place.

TASS reported: Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20413077 (141854ZFEB24) Notable: Final Immigration Bun / Elon Musk Is Right And The NY Times Is Wrong About Illegal Voting By Non-Citizens

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Elon Musk Is Right And The NY Times Is Wrong About Illegal Voting By Non-Citizens

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/elon-musk-right-and-ny-times-wrong-about-illegal-voting-non-citizens

In a recent trio of posts to X, Elon Musk wrote that (1) illegal immigrants “are not prevented from voting in federal elections,” (2) “you don’t need government issued ID to vote,” and (3) Democrats “are importing voters.”

To rebut those statements, The New York Times (NYT) published an article by Jim Rutenberg and Kate Conger claiming that Mr. Musk is “spreading election misinformation” about “illegal voting by noncitizens” and echoing a “conspiracy theory” spread by former President Donald Trump.

Although Mr. Musk’s words are imprecise, the gist of what he wrote is correct, and The NYT is categorically wrong.

Illegal Voter Registration

In response to Mr. Musk’s first two points, The NYT argues that “federal law requires identification verification from voters when they register.” The hyperlink in that sentence leads to a document by the liberal Brennan Center for Justice claiming that “new identification requirements” in a 2002 federal voting law “may severely threaten voters’ rights.”

What The NYT fails to reveal is that the Brennan Center document describes the identification requirements in the law, which don’t require government-issued ID or proof of citizenship—just as Mr. Musk wrote. The document notes that even a “utility bill” or “bank statement” is enough to comply with the law. The text of the 2002 legislation and the current U.S. election code law confirm this.

Furthermore, a 2013 Supreme Court ruling supports Mr. Musk and contradicts The NYT by explaining that the National Voter Registration Form “does not require documentary evidence of citizenship; rather, it requires only that an applicant aver, under penalty of perjury, that he is a citizen.” Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20413183 (141909ZFEB24) Notable: Updated WEF Bun | Updated Wokeism Bun / The CBDC Indoctrination Has Begun

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The CBDC Indoctrination Has Begun

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cbdc-indoctrination-has-begun

I imagine life can often feel pretty difficult for today’s high school students.

On top of dealing with classic teenage drama like homework, hormones, pimples, parents, driving, dating, university selection, and more, students these days have to contend with a host of new challenges.

They suffered long periods of brutal Covid lockdowns. Active shooter drills are a normal part of student life. And, of course, there’s the nonstop anxiety and peer pressure of social media.

Plus, on top of everything else, students today have also been force-fed some pretty bizarre ideas.

Classical literature, advanced mathematics, and hard sciences have taken a back seat to social justice, climate justice, economic justice, etc. (as defined by the woke, fanatical left).

But there are early signs that this indoctrination is starting to break new ground.

Yesterday a close friend of mine who lives in Spain told me that his son, a high school senior, has been getting lessons in school about Central Bank Digital Currencies, or CBDCs.

If you’re not familiar with the concept, a CBDC is essentially a cryptocurrency that is controlled by the government and central bank. And so far, at least half a dozen CBDCs have been rolled out around the world, including in Russia, China, and India.

Now, governments already have the means to track you and monitor your finances.

They can force financial institutions and credit card issuers to turn over your entire financial history. They can order banks and brokerage firms to freeze your assets.

And if you remember what happened in Canada during the ‘Freedom Convoy’ protests, Justin Trudeau Castro used his ‘emergency powers’ cut the protestors off from the financial system.

They had no access to their bank accounts, ATMs, or even crowdfunding platforms.

Governments already have the power to do all of these things.

But CBDCs take this power to a much higher level… because there’s no more middleman. Government authorities wouldn’t have to bother going to banks, brokerages, and credit card companies; they could simply deactivate your funds with a mouse click.

Have fun trying to buy groceries. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20413713 (142055ZFEB24) Notable: Final Charles III Bun | Final China Bun / Bank of Canada report lists China central bank researcher as author

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Bank of Canada report lists China central bank researcher as author

https://tnc.news/2024/02/13/boc-report-china-central-bank-researcher/

A Bank of Canada staff working paper on monetary policy lists a professor affiliated with China’s central bank and a university allegedly implicated in a Chinese cyberespionage operation as an author.

People’s Bank of China School of Finance associate professor Ji Zhang was one of several cited in a staff working paper published by Bank of Canada researchers on Feb. 6.

The research paper was titled “The Role of International Financial Integration in Monetary Policy Transmission.”

It lists Jing Cynthia Wu from the University of Notre Dame and National Bureau of Economic Research, Yinxi Xie from the Canadian Economic Analysis Department and Economic and Financial Research Department of the Bank of Canada, and Ji Zhang from the People’s Bank of China School of Finance at Tsinghua University as authors.

However, against the backdrop of this collaboration, recent reports have shed light on growing concerns surrounding research affiliations with individuals connected to the Chinese government.

The Bank of Canada claimed it has “no connection” with the author or the People’s Bank of China. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20413806 (142108ZFEB24) Notable: Final Covid and Other Pestilence Bun / Richmond residents swarm city hall over proposal for safe injection site

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Richmond residents swarm city hall over proposal for safe injection site

https://tnc.news/2024/02/14/richmond-city-hall-safe-injection-site/

A heated debate over a proposed supervised drug consumption site in Richmond erupted on Monday, as hundreds of protesters gathered outside City Hall to voice their opposition to the plan.

The protesters, many of whom held signs saying “no drugs, no drugs,” chanted loudly before the council meeting where more than 100 speakers were slated to share their views on the controversial proposal.

Council had voted 8-1 last week to explore the possibility of establishing a supervised consumption site on the hospital grounds, where people who use drugs could test and consume them under medical supervision.

The site would also provide recovery and treatment services, according to a statement from the city on Sunday.

City officials said the sites are meant to prevent overdose deaths and connect people with health and social services.

However, some residents and community groups remained unconvinced, fearing that a supervised consumption site would increase crime, violence and drug trafficking in the area. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20413850 (142117ZFEB24) Notable: Law and Disorder Bun Part One / >>2042349 RCMP mocked for employment offer to youth who “identify as women”

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RCMP mocked for employment offer to youth who “identify as women”

https://tnc.news/2024/02/14/rcmp-mocked-for-employment-offer/

The RCMP wants Grade 11 students who “identify as women” to apply for an internship in a new initiative that has sparked a wave of backlash against the federal police.

The RCMP unveiled on X a recruitment drive specifically targeting high school students in grade 11 who identify as women.

“We’re looking for high school students in grade 11 who identify as women. If that’s you and you’re curious about a career in public safety, we have a full week’s worth of paid work for you! Registration closes in 2 weeks,” wrote the RCMP.

According to the application page, the “student employment opportunity” is 150 full-time positions paying $16.84 per hour for one week. Girls from Edmonton, Kingston, Moncton, Montreal Island, Ottawa and Surrey can apply. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20413896 (142125ZFEB24) Notable: Law and Disorder Bun Part One / Second shooting targeting Sikh activist’s home in one week

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Second shooting targeting Sikh activist’s home in one week

https://tnc.news/2024/02/14/second-shooting-targeting-sikh-activists/

For the second time in the past week, a Sikh activist had his home hit by gunfire. This time it was in in Brampton, Ontario.

Sikh independence activists have been the target of several violent attacks in both Canada and the U.S. since last June when Khalistani activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar was assassinated outside a Sikh temple in Surrey, B.C.

Last week, a home with a child inside was shot up in a residential neighbourhood in Surrey, British Columbia. Fortunately, no one was injured.

The home belonged to a Sikh activist, according to Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, the spokesman for the advocacy group Sikhs For Justice. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20413954 (142135ZFEB24) Notable: Law and Disorder Bun Part One / RCMP officer arrested after leaking secrets to “foreign actor”

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RCMP officer arrested after leaking secrets to “foreign actor”

https://tnc.news/2024/02/14/rcmp-officer-arrested-leaking-secrets/

A national security investigation has led to an Alberta RCMP officer being charged with sharing “non-top secret RCMP records systems ” with a “foreign actor.”

“The RCMP is committed to combatting foreign actor interference at all levels and is actively leveraging all tools at its disposal,” said national police service in a press release Tuesday.

The Integrated National Security Investigation Team, a centrally controlled agency which investigates criminal and terrorist activities, arrested front-line RCMP officer Const. Eli Ndatuje on Tuesday.

Ndatuje has been charged with breach of trust, unauthorized use of a computer and breach of trust with respect to safeguarded information.

“Foreign interference takes on many forms and it is critical that all organizations are aware of the potential harm at any levels,” read the release. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20414093 (142202ZFEB24) Notable: Danielle Smith promises ban on electronic vote tabulators in Alberta elections

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Danielle Smith promises ban on electronic vote tabulators in Alberta elections

https://tnc.news/2024/02/14/smith-promises-ban-electronic-vote-tabulators/

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has promised to stop using tabulators in Alberta elections.

Smith’s base has long called for more election transparency and decried the use of electronics in the ballot-counting process, believing tabulators increase the potential for tampering with results.

The premier promised to rid provincial elections of tabulators while speaking at a United Conservative Party fundraiser in Bonnyville on January 26.

“Are you going to end the use of voting tabulators across the province?” Smith is asked on stage, to which she simply responds, “yes.”

A video of the exchange has been viewed by True North. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20414629 (142335ZFEB24) Notable: Final Protests Bun / CSIS report says 'Freedom' movement has shifted to fighting 'perceived tyranny'

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CSIS report says 'Freedom' movement has shifted to fighting 'perceived tyranny'

https://www.rebelnews.com/csis_report_says_freedom_movement_has_shifted_to_fighting_perceived_tyranny

Potentially violent protesters have 'broaden(ed) the scope of their grievances' to resisting drag queen story times, globalist organizations and Communism following the Freedom Convoy, Canada's spy agency says.

The movement of Canadians opposing COVID-19 era public health restrictions has shifted into challenging "perceived government overreach," according to a new report.

An analytical brief from the Canadian Intelligence Security Service details how the "Freedom" movement evolved in the wake of the 2022 Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa.

That peaceful protest, which was started by cross-border truckers opposing a vaccine mandate before spiralling into an all-encompassing demonstration against COVID-19 lockdowns and vaccine mandates, was brought to a forceful end after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government invoked the Emergencies Act two years ago on February 14, 2022.

The Emergencies Act, a form of martial law, granted the government exceptional powers to limit protests, bar support for demonstrations and gave authorities the controversial ability to freeze bank accounts.

Through an access to information request, The Canadian Press obtained an April 2023 briefing document, titled "Defining the 'Freedom' Movement," and other files related to what the government labels as ideologically motivated violent extremism. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20414690 (142342ZFEB24) Notable: Media and Censorship Bun Part One / Only 13% of Anglophone or Allophone Canadians have trust in the media

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Only 13% of Anglophone or Allophone Canadians have trust in the media

https://www.rebelnews.com/only_13_of_anglophone_or_allophone_canadians_have_trust_in_the_media

According to data from StatsCan, 'For trust in media, the next highest provincial rates were the Atlantic provinces (15%), Ontario and British Columbia (13% each) and the Prairie provinces (12%).' Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20414784 (142356ZFEB24) Notable: Final Farmers Bun / Farmers save tens of millions of dollars less under amended carbon tax exemption bill

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Farmers save tens of millions of dollars less under amended carbon tax exemption bill

https://www.rebelnews.com/farmers_save_tens_of_millions_of_dollars_less_under_amended_carbon_tax_exemption_bill

On December 12, Parliament passed Bill C-234, An Act to amend the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, after removing fuel exemptions for agriculture buildings and lowering the sunset period from 2030 to 2026. The amendments will cost farmers nearly $90 million in savings in 2026.Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20415134 (150046ZFEB24) Notable: Law and Disorder Bun Part One / Trudeau’s Canada ranks third on list of Western countries persecuting Christians

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Trudeau’s Canada ranks third on list of Western countries persecuting Christians

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trudeau-canada-persecuting-christians/

‘Justin Trudeau has turned the Liberal Party into a veritable hate group against Christians,’ Campaign Life Coalition’s Jack Fonseca told LifeSiteNews.

Canada is third on the list of Christian-persecuting Western nations under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s leadership.

According to a report published on January 31 by Family Research Council’s (FRC) Center for Religious Liberty, Canada ranks third among Western countries that persecute Christians for their faith.

“These stories are alarming and show the diverse ways Western governments—which ought to be the standard bearers for upholding freedom of religion and expression—are undermining the fundamental human right to religious freedom,” Arielle Del Turco, author of the report and director of FRC’s Center for Religious Liberty, said in a press release.

“This report serves as a warning about how basic freedoms can erode even in Western democracies,” she continued. “Religious freedom must be protected at home so that we may also defend religious freedom across the globe and stand up for the persecuted.”

The report, titled, “Free to Believe? The Intensifying Intolerance Toward Christians in the West,” documented 168 incidents of persecution or unfair discrimination against Christians across 16 countries between 2019 and 2023.

According to the report, the United States ranked first with 58 incidents of Christian persecution, followed by the U.K. with 43 and Canada with 36 cases. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20415243 (150059ZFEB24) Notable: Law and Disorder Bun Part One / Canada’s justice system struggling to fight crime amid highest murder rate in 30 years: report

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Canada’s justice system struggling to fight crime amid highest murder rate in 30 years: report

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/canadas-justice-system-struggling-to-fight-crime-amid-highest-murder-rate-in-30-years-report/

Canada’s murder rate has increased every year from 2018 to 2022, including by 8% from 2021 to 2022, and the police-reported rate for sexual assault is at its highest level since 1995, research indicates.

Ae well-known Ottawa think tank warned in a recent report on crime that Canada’s justice system is unable to keep up with out-of-control crime that has risen sharply in the last few decades to the point where the national murder rate at its highest in 30 years.

According to the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s “Report on the Criminal Justice System” released last month, Canada’s violent crime severity is at its highest level since 2007.

“Canada’s criminal justice system is clearly performing worse than it was six years ago,” the report concluded. “There remains a need for ongoing independent monitoring and performance measurement of the criminal justice system in Canada.”

In 2021, the violent crime rate increased by 6%. In 2022, the rate went up another 5%.

According to researchers, Canada’s murder rate has increased “every year” from 2018 to 2022, “including by 8% from 2021 to 2022.”

“The current homicide rate is the highest it has been in 30 years, and the police-reported rate for sexual assault is at its highest level since 1995,” researchers described.

The Institute’s report card on crime in Canada goes through each province and territory, noting that every level of government “bears a portion of the costs of criminality and each level of government therefore has an interest in its suppression.” Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20415666 (150156ZFEB24) Notable: Final Drag Queens and Transgender Bun | Final Emergencies Act Verdict Bun / Jordan Peterson slams Doug Ford for siding with ‘child mutilators’ by rejecting ‘sex change’ ban

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Jordan Peterson slams Doug Ford for siding with ‘child mutilators’ by rejecting ‘sex change’ ban

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/jordan-peterson-doug-ford-child-mutilators/

‘You have literally taken the side of the child mutilators in the name of a false compassion that detests everything you and the conservatives hypothetically stand for,’ Jordan Peterson told Ford.

Well-known Canadian psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson accused Ontario Premier Doug Ford of siding with “child mutilators” for refusing to put forth a law like Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s forthcoming legislation that will ban doctors from surgically or chemically “transitioning” children.

“You should be ashamed of yourself @fordnation,” wrote Peterson on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday, in a post that included a link to a Toronto Star report explaining why Ford chose not to follow Smith’s lead.

“I say this knowing full well that you are preferable to your political alternatives, But this is an inexcusable act of cowardice.”

Peterson then continued, saying to Ford, “You have literally taken the side of the child mutilators in the name of a false compassion that detests everything you and the conservatives hypothetically stand for.” Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20416433 (150433ZFEB24) Notable: Final Covid and Other Pestilence Bun / Report: Canada’s Expensive, Mismanaged Coronavirus Travel App Wrongly Told 10,000 People to Quarantine in 2022

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Report: Canada’s Expensive, Mismanaged Coronavirus Travel App Wrongly Told 10,000 People to Quarantine in 2022

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2024/02/13/report-canada-expensive-mismanaged-coronavirus-travel-app-wrongly-told-10000-quarantine/

Canadian Auditor General Karen Hogan presented Canada’s Parliament on Monday with a blistering report on ArriveCAN, the application created in April 2020 to assist travelers and determine their health status during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.

Hogan’s report portrayed ArriveCAN as a disaster at every level, from software coding to financial records. Hogan said the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) did such a poor job of documenting the project that it was impossible for her office to “determine the precise cost of the ArriveCAN application.”

“This is probably the first example that I’ve seen such a glaring disregard for some of the most basic and fundamental policies and rules,” she said in testimony to the House Public Accounts Committee on Monday. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20418470 (151611ZFEB24) Notable: Law and Disorder Bun Part One / Epstein Victims File Lawsuit Against the US Government, Claim FBI Enabled His Sex Trafficking

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Epstein Victims File Lawsuit Against the US Government, Claim FBI Enabled His Sex Trafficking

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/epstein-victims-file-lawsuit-against-us-government-claim/

A dozen victims of dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein have filed a lawsuit against the US government, alleging that the FBI enabled his sex trafficking operation to continue for over two decades.

The victims, whose names are not public, allege the FBI had received tips about Epstein’s behavior as far back as 1996 but did nothing with the information.

The Hill reports, “A probe finally began in 2006, the suit says, but ended once Epstein pleaded guilty to a soliciting prostitution charge in Florida and was sentenced to 18 months in prison. The suit claims the FBI continued to ignore tips until Epstein was arrested on sex trafficking charges in 2019. He killed himself in prison months later.”

“As a direct and proximate cause of the FBI’s negligence, plaintiffs would not have been continued to be sex trafficked, abused, raped, tortured and threatened,” the complaint states, according to the report. “Jane Does 1-12 bring this lawsuit to get to the bottom — once and for all — of the FBI’s role in Epstein’s criminal sex trafficking ring.”

The lawsuit additionally claims the FBI had evidence of his continued crimes but refused to investigate further. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20418559 (151636ZFEB24) Notable: Russia and Ukraine Bun Part One / Looks Like We Made It And Mike Turner’s Russian Threat Scam

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Looks Like We Made It And Mike Turner’s Russian Threat Scam

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/looks-like-we-made-it-mike-turners-russian/

Sorry. Couldn’t resist the Barry Manilow reference, but this kind of campy celebration is called for when the Government of Ukraine deems me important enough to be put on THE LIST of Russian disinformation agents. I am sandwiched at the 7 o’clock position between distinguished professor Richard Sakwa and Doug MacGregor. How do you like them donuts. First, give Barry a listen. It is Valentine’s Day afterall.

I am proud to say I know most of the people on that list and consider them friends. Fighting the mainstream tends to create bonds of friendship and camaraderie. I am shocked by who they left off. What about the boys of the Duran — i.e. Alexander Mercouris and Alex Christoforou? They do one of the best jobs of blowing the whistle on a daily basis on Urkainian and Western bullshit. Leaving them off the list is an insult.

Moving on to today’s spectacle of Mike Turner, the Republican in charge of the House Intelligence Committee, doing his desperate bit to coerce the Speaker of the House into bringing the funding for Ukraine to the floor. I call this, “Try to Scare the Hell Out of Congress and the Voters in order to get Money for Zelensky.” The Guardian reports: Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20418591 (151644ZFEB24) Notable: Media and Censorship Bun Part One / Left Wing Billionaire George Soros Buying Hundreds of American Radio Stations Ahead of 2024 Election

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Left Wing Billionaire George Soros Buying Hundreds of American Radio Stations Ahead of 2024 Election

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/left-wing-billionaire-george-soros-buying-hundreds-american/

George Soros, the left’s favorite billionaire, is buying up American radio stations by the hundreds, ahead of the 2024 election.

This is obviously part of a strategy, because that’s what Soros does. He hatches backdoor plans to exert influence over American politics. A few years back, he pumped a ton of cash into district attorney races across the country and we all know how that worked out.

This is his new plan. Could there be more to this than gaining media influence?

The Washington Times reports: Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20418655 (151657ZFEB24) Notable: Final Immigration Bun / REPORT: Illegal Border Crossings Are Now Surging at the Northern Border Too

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REPORT: Illegal Border Crossings Are Now Surging at the Northern Border Too

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/report-illegal-border-crossing-are-now-surging-northern/

While most people are focused on the invasion currently taking place on the southern border, America’s northern border is also under assault.

According to recent reporting, illegal border crossers are attracted to the northern border because they know there are far fewer security staffers and border patrol agents.

This story doesn’t get nearly as much media attention as the southern border, but it’s just as important.

Townhall reports:

Illegal Immigrants Are Entering the US Through the Northern Border in Droves

Illegal border crossings at the U.S.-Canada border in New York, New Hampshire and Vermont have escalated, as migrants take advantage of “understaffing” and other conditions, according to a report from the New York Post.

Reportedly, more than 12,200 migrants were apprehended crossing the border illegally from Canada last year. The year prior, 3,578 were arrested…

More from the New York Post: Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20418679 (151703ZFEB24) Notable: Russia and Ukraine Bun Part One / Putin Further Destroys the Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax — Says He Prefers Joe Biden to Win Than Trump Because He’s More “Predictable”

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Putin Further Destroys the Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax — Says He Prefers Joe Biden to Win Than Trump Because He’s More “Predictable”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/putin-further-destroys-trump-russia-collusion-hoax-says/

Russian President Vladimir Putin has further destroyed the Trump-Russia collusion narrative, stating a preference for Joe Biden over Donald Trump due to the current U.S. president’s predictability and experience.

During a state television interview reported by the Financial Times on Wednesday, Putin broke his silence on the U.S. political landscape. He described Biden as “more experienced, predictable, an old-school politician.”

“Biden, he’s more experienced, more predictable, he’s a politician of the old formation,” Putin said.

“But we will work with any U.S. leader whom the American people trust,” he added.

Putin’s comments come a day after Biden criticized Trump for yielding to Russia, calling for bipartisan backing for additional aid to Ukraine.

Putin’s remarks also follow a day after reporters Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi said the Trump-Russian Collusion story was not the result of foreign intelligence tips but rather a deliberate setup by the CIA under the Obama-Biden administration.

The allegations of Trump’s Kremlin sympathies have been a constant theme since his tenure in the White House, with U.S. intelligence agencies claiming Russian interference in the 2016 election to bolster Trump’s campaign against Hillary Clinton.

FT reported: Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20418753 (151722ZFEB24) Notable: Huma Abedin Reveals She is Dating George Soros’ Playboy Son Alex Soros

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Huma Abedin Reveals She is Dating George Soros’ Playboy Son Alex Soros

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/huma-abedin-reveals-she-is-dating-george-soros/

A match made in Democrat hell.

Hillary Clinton’s gal pal Huma Abedin, 47, revealed she is dating far-left billionaire George Soros’ playboy son Alex Soros, 38.

Alex is the son of George Soros and the Chair of the Open Society, the largest donor to Democrat politics.

Huma Abedin was previously married to disgraced Democrat politician Anthony Weiner. Weiner served 21 months in prison for “transferring obscene material to a minor.”

Alex Soros posted an Instagram story of the pair in Paris, France on Valentine’s Day.

The pair were seated at a café in Paris. Huma held a red rose as she posed next to Alex Soros.

Alex Soros recently made headlines after he tweeted out a photo of a bullet hole and 47 dollars – a direct threat to Trump.

Last year George Soros, 93, passed the torch to his younger son, Alex Soros, who will now control his father’s $25 billion financial empire.

The Gateway Pundit reported Alex has quietly become a de-facto White House “ambassador,” making at least 17 visits there on behalf of the far-left kingmaker since Joe Biden took office.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20418940 (151832ZFEB24) Notable: Final Climate Change Bun / OP-ED: Farmers deserve a break from Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax

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OP-ED: Farmers deserve a break from Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax

https://tnc.news/2024/02/15/op-ed-farmers-break-carbon-tax1/

Those huge four-legged Imperial walkers stomping into the rebel base in Empire Strikes Back looked unstoppable.

Until they toppled over.

That’s what fighting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax feels like sometimes, but we have a moment right now to recreate that iconic Star Wars scene and trip up the carbon tax.

Getting politicians in the House of Commons to reject the Senate’s watered-down amendments and pass Bill C-234 is a real way to strike back against the carbon tax and get farmers relief.

This bill will provide a break to farmers who need it and tie up another leg of the carbon tax machine. Every time that happens, the tax gets wobblier and wobblier, until it hopefully crashes down completely. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20418957 (151838ZFEB24) Notable: Media and Censorship Bun Part One / The Democracy Fund says Elections Canada’s “disinformation” policy is flawed

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The Democracy Fund says Elections Canada’s “disinformation” policy is flawed

https://tnc.news/2024/02/15/elections-canadas-policy-flawed/

A constitutional rights group has sent a letter to Elections Canada and Minister of Public Safety, Democratic Institutions, and Intergovernmental Affairs Dominic Leblanc, emphasizing that Canadians remain the arbiters of truth.

The letter came after Elections Canada recently developed a policy to monitor and counter what it calls “misinformation” and “disinformation.”

Addressed to Stéphane Perrault, Acting CEO of the Chief Electoral Office, The Democracy Fund’s letter outlines several concerns with the Elections Integrity and ElectoFacts website.

On the Election Integrity website, several types of objectionable conduct are outlined.

The conduct highlighted in the letter includes influence campaigns that undermine the electoral process, political parties or candidates using social media to disseminate false information about opponents, and external online efforts targeting diaspora communities to sway their voting decisions.

Elections Canada also purports to monitor media and the internet to identify potential election disruptions, misinformation, and impersonations that may hinder voter participation or cause confusion.

The Democracy Fund noted that Elections Canada has previously contacted social media companies to establish protocols for reporting cases of false information on the voting process and those seeking to impersonate the department.

The civil society organization noted several problems with Election Canada’s approach to monitoring online information.

One of the critiques is that it is not clear that Elections Canada has the legislative authority to report citizens or their online comments or attempt to influence platforms to remove “false information,” said The Democracy Fund in its letter.

“Even if it did, doing so without judicial review and oversight is arguably improper,” wrote senior litigator Mark A. Joseph, who signed the letter. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20419135 (151920ZFEB24) Notable: Final Hamas and Israel Bun | Final Houthis and Red Sea Bun / Canada, Australia and New Zealand issue joint statement warning Israel against Rafah offensive

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Canada, Australia and New Zealand issue joint statement warning Israel against Rafah offensive

https://www.rebelnews.com/canada_australia_and_new_zealand_issue_joint_statement_warning_israel_against_rafah_offensive

Justin Trudeau, Anthony Albanese and Christopher Luxon send a stern plea to Israel, urging them to refrain from launching a ground operation in Rafah.

The leaders of Canada, Australia and New Zealand, have jointly implored Israel to abstain from initiating a ground offensive of Rafah, expressing 'grave concerns' over the potential consequences.

The collective statement described the humanitarian situation as 'dire', with reports of 1.5 million Palestinians sheltering in Rafah and having nowhere else to flee.

Trudeau, Albanaese and Luxon stressed the paramount importance of protecting civilians, citing international humanitarian law.

This statement marks a significant escalation from their previous stance in December, highlighting the 'urgent need for a ceasefire' and Israel's obligation to safeguard civilians.

The leaders referenced a recent ruling by The Hague, reinforcing the binding nature of international legal decisions.

US President Joe Biden has also weighed into the situation, emphasising the need to protect the vulnerable population in Rafah.

The statement in full: Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20420042 (152200ZFEB24) Notable: Final Hamas and Israel Bun | Final Houthis and Red Sea Bun / Liberal MP blasts Trudeau's stance on Israel-Hamas war, accuses Israel of genocide

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Liberal MP blasts Trudeau's stance on Israel-Hamas war, accuses Israel of genocide

https://www.rebelnews.com/liberal_mp_blasts_trudeaus_stance_on_israel_hamas_war_accuses_israel_of_genocide

Rob Oliphant says the Trudeau government's decision to suspend funding for UNRWA is a politically-motivated mistake, and that Israel is 'probably' committing a genocide in Gaza. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20420099 (152209ZFEB24) Notable: Law and Disorder Bun Part One / Children's Rights Bill proposes ban on spanking

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Children's Rights Bill proposes ban on spanking

https://www.rebelnews.com/children_s_rights_bill_proposes_ban_on_spanking

'Every school teacher, parent, or person standing in the place of a parent is justified in using force by way of correction towards a pupil or child as the case may be who is under his care if the force does not exceed what is reasonable under the circumstances,' states Section 43 of the Criminal Code of Canada.

On February 14, members of Parliament voted 208 to 115 in favour of advancing a children's rights bill during its Second Reading. The proposed legislation seeks to outlaw spanking within households. Critics, including opponents from the New Democrat party, argue that the bill constitutes unwanted federal interference in family affairs.

Conservative MP Damien Kurek (Battle River-Crowfoot, Alberta) expressed concerns, stating, "We have seen attempts time and time again to diminish the role played not only by parents but also by the family as a fundamental building block of society. Any attempt to see that diminished would be wrong. We can see the implications of this."

Bill C-273, titled "An Act To Amend The Criminal Code," aims to repeal Section 43 of the Criminal Code. This section currently states: 'Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20420142 (152216ZFEB24) Notable: Final Immigration Bun / Parliament revolts against the Trudeau Liberals, passing a motion demanding less immigration

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Parliament revolts against the Trudeau Liberals, passing a motion demanding less immigration

https://www.rebelnews.com/parliament_revolts_against_trudeau_liberals_pass_motion_to_demand_less_immigration

The Opposition House parties and the NDP passed a motion to reduce immigration levels by a vote of 173 to 150. Bloc leader Yves-François Blanchet stated, 'Canadians disagree with the immigration policies of this government.' Additionally, three-quarters of Canadians oppose more immigration. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20420436 (152332ZFEB24) Notable: Final Climate Change Bun / Trudeau gov’t ‘green’ heat pump scheme a dismal failure, records show

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Trudeau gov’t ‘green’ heat pump scheme a dismal failure, records show

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trudeau-govt-green-heat-pump-scheme-a-dismal-failure-records-show/

A recent Inquiry Of Ministry tabled in the House of Commons showed that only 80 homeowners have thus far installed a heat pump through the Trudeau government's anti-oil 'green' program.

An ideologically charged Canadian federal government “green” program offering homeowners government money to switch their reliable heating oil furnaces for less reliable electric heat pumps has been a dismal failure, according to recently released records.

A recent Inquiry Of Ministry, as per Blacklock’s Reporter, tabled in the House of Commons showed that only 80 homeowners have thus far opted into Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government heat pump program.

Conservative Party of Canada MP Shannon Stubbs had requested from the federal government, in her Inquiry Of Ministry, an answer to the question, “How many applications for funding through the Oil To Heat Pump Affordability Program have been received?”

The original scheme was to allow $10,000 to eligible homeowners to convert from their oil-fired furnaces to an electric heat pump. Trudeau’s cabinet last October expanded the grants to $15,000 along with a $250 “one-time bonus payment.”  

Cabinet wrote in the Inquiry Of Ministry that the purchase and “installation of a new electric cold climate heat pump, save thousands of dollars annually on heating bills and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”

In total, some 286,000 Atlantic Canadians currently use furnaces fired by heating oil, and since the original program was introduced in February of last year, of 1,241 homeowners who asked for a subsidy, some 361 were denied, a rejection rate of 29 percent.

The Inquiry confirmed that only 80 oil-fired furnaces have been replaced by heat pumps nationwide.

Last month, LifeSiteNews reported that the “green” heat pump program is set to cost nearly four times as much as originally thought, from $750 million to $2.7 billion. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20420517 (152350ZFEB24) Notable: Final Hamas and Israel Bun | Final Houthis and Red Sea Bun / Israel raids Gaza’s largest functioning hospital

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Israel raids Gaza’s largest functioning hospital

https://www.rt.com/news/592510-israel-south-gaza-hospital-raid/

An “undetermined number” of people were killed and injured in Thursday’s operation, Medecins Sans Frontieres has said

Israeli troops on Thursday stormed Al Nasser hospital in southern Gaza, the largest still-functioning health facility in the besieged enclave, according to both the Israeli military and officials from the Hamas-run Palestinian health ministry.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement issued through its spokesperson Daniel Hagari that it had received “credible intelligence” to support claims that Hamas “held hostages at the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis.”

The IDF also indicated that it believed Hamas militants to be hiding inside the facility, though it did not immediately release evidence to back up the claim. A spokesperson for Hamas dismissed the IDF statement as “lies.”

Aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres said in a statement that it had been informed by hospital staff of a “chaotic situation” within the hospital, “with an undetermined number of people killed and injured.” Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20423449 (161521ZFEB24) Notable: Russia and Ukraine Bun Part One / “What Are They, the 51st State?”: Congressman Questions Why Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Has Ukraine Flag Alongside US Flag in His Office

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“What Are They, the 51st State?”: Congressman Questions Why Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Has Ukraine Flag Alongside US Flag in His Office

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/what-are-they-51st-state-congressman-questions-why/

In a post on X Twitter on Thursday, Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) questioned why Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin had a Ukraine flag alongside the United States flag in his office, as seen on video of a teleconference from Wednesday, “Why does Sec. Def have a Ukrainian flag in his office? What are they, the 51st State?” Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20423663 (161608ZFEB24) Notable: Bizarre: Iran Declares Ownership of Antarctica, Plans to Build Military Base in South Pole

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Bizarre: Iran Declares Ownership of Antarctica, Plans to Build Military Base in South Pole

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/bizarre-iran-declares-ownership-antarctica-plans-build-military/

Iran’s top Navy Commander announced that Iran owns Antarctica, and the regime plans to build a military base in the South Pole.

In a broadcast last fall, Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Shahram Irani stated, “We have property rights in the South Pole. We have a plan to raise our flag there and carry out military and scientific work.”

Iran’s declaration of ownership of Antarctica came around the same time the Biden admin decided to unfreeze $6 billion in Iranian funds that were being held in Qatar.

It’s unclear if Iran’s statement was just a blanket threat, considering their action of claiming ownership of Antarctica violates the Antarctic Treaty, which came into force in 1961.

The Antarctic Treaty states, “There can be no military bases or structures of any kind, no military maneuvers and no weapons testing. Military personnel can be used or stationed in Antarctica for science or other peaceful reasons only.” Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20423712 (161619ZFEB24) Notable: Russia and Ukraine Bun Part One / Cut in Half by Russians, Avdiivka is Reinforced by Ukrainian Nazi Azov Battalion - Massive Missile Strike on Reinforcements Causes Some Defenders to Withdraw

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Cut in Half by Russians, Avdiivka is Reinforced by Ukrainian Nazi Azov Battalion – Massive Missile Strike on Reinforcements Causes Some Defenders to Withdraw

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/cut-half-russians-avdiivka-is-reinforced-ukrainian-nazi/

The heavily fortified frontline town of Avdiivka, split in two by Russian forces, witnesses some of the Ukrainian defenders begin to retreat of some areas to ‘more favorable positions’.

The supply lines of the AFU in the southern sector are now under extreme pressure.

Besides the multi-pronged ground attack that is overextending the defenses, a reason for the rapid advance of the Russian forces in Avdiivka is the aerial support: a FAB guided munition drops almost immediately on any place where a concentration of Ukrainian military is spotted.

Telegram channel Ukraine Watch reported that in the first third of February alone, the Russian Aerospace Forces dropped about 460 aerial bombs on the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This includes FAB-250/500/1500 and ODAB. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20423723 (161625ZFEB24) Notable: Media and Censorship Bun Part One / NYC Files Lawsuit Against Social Media Companies for ‘Fueling the Nationwide Youth Mental Health Crisis’

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NYC Files Lawsuit Against Social Media Companies for ‘Fueling the Nationwide Youth Mental Health Crisis’

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/nyc-files-lawsuit-against-social-media-companies-fueling/

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has announced that the city is suing five top social media companies for “fueling the nationwide youth mental health crisis.”

The lawsuit, filed in California on Wednesday, names Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, Snap’s Snapchat, ByteDance’s TikTok, and Google’s YouTube.

“New York City, like other parts of this nation, is battling an unprecedented mental health crisis among its youth and serious disruption to the public health, fueled by Defendants’ creation and promotion of addictive and dangerous social media platforms,” the 305-page lawsuit’s introduction begins. “Youth are now addicted to Defendants’ platforms in droves, resulting in substantial interference with school district operations and imposing a large burden on cities, school districts and public hospital systems that provide mental health services to youth.”

The lawsuit alleges that the companies drive youth usage through “behavioral and neurobiological techniques used in slot machines and exploited by the cigarette industry.” Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20423804 (161641ZFEB24) Notable: Law and Disorder Bun Part One / Miss Pittsburgh Creates Survivor PAC To Stop Soros Funded Pro-Crime Politicians

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Miss Pittsburgh Creates Survivor PAC To Stop Soros Funded Pro-Crime Politicians

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/miss-pittsburgh-creates-survivor-pac-stop-soros-funded/

In a stunning revelation, Survivor PAC, spearheaded by political commentator and healthcare founder Madison Campbell, exposes pro-crime politicians who side with criminals over survivors.

The evidence uncovered by Survivor PAC shatters the illusion, revealing that Republicans stand firmly with victims, advocating to end crime rather than perpetuate it.

Survivor PAC, the first of its kind, challenges the left’s narrative by emphasizing genuine victim support and innovative solutions. Madison Campbell’s grassroots organization brings a fresh perspective to the political landscape, standing against the false claims that criminals are the true victims.

Unlike the Left, Survivor PAC is dedicated to empowering victims and ending the cycle of crime as George Soros and extremist politicians continue their catch and release programs, dangerous immigration policies, and profess their love for terrorist organizations like Hamas abroad and ANTIFA domestically. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20423878 (161657ZFEB24) Notable: Russia and Ukraine Bun Part One / Western Leaders Accuse 'Dictator' Putin Of 'Brutal Murder' Of Navalny

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Western Leaders Accuse 'Dictator' Putin Of 'Brutal Murder' Of Navalny

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-opposition-leader-alexey-navalny-dies-jail

Update(1058ET): The international reaction to Navalny's death in a Russian prison in the far north has been coming in throughout the morning, and as expected it includes the accusation that Putin and the Kremlin "brutally murdered" the Russian dissident, as Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics said. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20423926 (161710ZFEB24) Notable: Law and Disorder Bun Part One / Special Counsel Casts Pre-Election Doubt On Biden 'Burisma Bribe' With Dramatic Airport Arrest

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Special Counsel Casts Pre-Election Doubt On Biden 'Burisma Bribe' With Dramatic Airport Arrest

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/special-counsel-casts-pre-election-doubt-biden-burisma-bribe-dramatic-airport-arrest

Last June, the leaked contents of a stonewalled FBI document, form FD-1023, alleging that President Joe Biden was paid $5 million by an executive of Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings, where his son Hunter sat on the board, and also received an alleged $5 million.

The form, dated June 30, 2020, was from a "highly credible" confidential human source (CHS) who had detailed multiple meetings and conversations they had with a top Burisma executive over the course of several years, beginning in 2015. The CHS had been working with the FBI as a regular, reliable source of information since 2010, and has been paid approximately $200,000 by the bureau.

Now, as the 2024 election heats up, that source - Alexander Smirnov, 43, has been arrested and charged with lying about the bribes by special counsel David Weiss, who is investigating Hunter Biden.

According to the NY Times, "The story Mr. Smirnov told investigators was part of a series of explosive and unsubstantiated claims by Republicans that the Bidens engaged in potentially criminal activity — allegations central to the party’s efforts to impeach the president."

Smirnov faces a two-count indictment for making false statements and obstructing the government's long-running investigation into Hunter Biden. He faces a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison.

Smirnov was arrested in Las Vegas on Wednesday after disembarking from an international flight, and was expected to appear on Thursday before a federal judge. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20423967 (161719ZFEB24) Notable: Final Farmers Bun / EU Demands Hungary, Poland, & Slovakia Open Their Borders To Cheap, Poor-Quality Ukrainian Grain

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EU Demands Hungary, Poland, & Slovakia Open Their Borders To Cheap, Poor-Quality Ukrainian Grain

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/eu-demands-hungary-poland-slovakia-open-their-borders-cheap-poor-quality-ukrainian

The European Commission insists on extending the duty-free and quota-free access of Ukrainian agricultural products and foodstuffs to EU markets for another year. EU trade commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis recently called on Hungary, Poland and Slovakia to immediately lift the ban on imports of Ukrainian products, which was introduced under national jurisdiction last September.

He noted that trade policy is an EU competence, so unilateral action by member states could lead to infringement proceedings against the three member states, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) could also take action.

The European Commission is pushing for “solidarity” despite the fact that not only Eastern European farmers but also Western European farmers are now facing serious competitive disadvantages due to the influx of poor-quality food from Ukraine. As a result, Ukraine has become a major factor driving farmer protests across the bloc, from France to Poland. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20424010 (161729ZFEB24) Notable: Final Hamas and Israel Bun | Final Houthis and Red Sea Bun / Egypt Erects 8-Square-Mile Walled Enclosure In Sinai Desert For Rafah Refugee Spillover

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Egypt Erects 8-Square-Mile Walled Enclosure In Sinai Desert For Rafah Refugee Spillover

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/egypt-erects-8-square-mile-walled-enclosure-sinai-desert-rafah-refugee-spillover

In a press briefing earlier this week IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi said, "We know that it is more difficult for us to fight in an environment where there are over a million people and another 10,000 Hamas operatives" - as we highlighted previously.

There are now some 1.5 million people crammed into the far southern city, which is more than six times its pre-war population, according to UN estimates. Egypt is now fearing the crisis will spill over its border, and is racing to erect a large walled compound to physically keep refugees from Gaza out, amid fears a bigger Israeli ground assault is imminent. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20424041 (161737ZFEB24) Notable: Final Hamas and Israel Bun | Final Houthis and Red Sea Bun / Iran, Saudi Arabia Inch Closer to Military Cooperation as US Loses Grip in Mideast - Analyst

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Iran, Saudi Arabia Inch Closer to Military Cooperation as US Loses Grip in Mideast - Analyst

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240216/iran-saudi-arabia-inch-closer-to-military-cooperation-as-us-loses-grip-in-mideast—analyst-1116815201.html

Diplomatic relations between Tehran and Riyadh resumed under a Chinese-brokered agreement last March, with the sides mulling even closer rapprochement after the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict last October amid attempts to prevent a regional spillover of the hostilities. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20424394 (161841ZFEB24) Notable: Media and Censorship Bun Part One / CSIS admits to monitoring parental rights activists, compares them to neo-Nazis

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CSIS admits to monitoring parental rights activists, compares them to neo-Nazis

https://tnc.news/2024/02/15/csis-monitoring-parental-rights-activists/

Canada’s top intelligence agency admitted it is closely monitoring the activities of activists and groups associated with the parent’s rights movement, particularly those opposing radical gender ideology.

Recent reports from CBC shed light on a document from the Integrated Terrorism Assessment Centre, responsible for preventing terrorist activities in Canada.

The report lumped together the “Freedom Movement” with extremist groups like neo-Nazis and QAnon.

“Anti-2SLGBTQl+ narratives remain a common theme in violent rhetoric espoused by white nationalists, neo-Nazis, the Freedom Movement, and networks such as Diagolon and QAnon,” the report reads.

Despite the focus on monitoring such rhetoric, there was no mention in the report by CSIS regarding the violence often faced by those protesting against gender ideology.

Instances of physical attacks and intimidation against parent’s rights protesters have been documented, including an incident involving teenage activist Josh Alexander in Calgary. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20424466 (161856ZFEB24) Notable: Final Climate Change Bun / Alberta slams Ottawa’s “act of desperation” to rebrand carbon tax

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Alberta slams Ottawa’s “act of desperation” to rebrand carbon tax

https://tnc.news/2024/02/15/alberta-slams-ottawas-rebrand-carbon-tax/

Alberta government calls on Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault “to end his relentless pursuit of a more expensive Canada.”

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz issued a joint statement rejecting the rebranded federal carbon tax.

“The federal government, in its flawed environmental activism, imposed a punitive carbon tax that did not reduce emissions, but instead, raised the cost of everything,” said the province.

Previously known as the Climate Action Incentive Program, the Liberals have renamed the carbon tax the Canada Carbon Rebate. The announcement of the rebate program’s new name initially came from a Finance Canada press release, which highlighted the reimbursement amounts for Canadians this year.

Several ministers subsequently confirmed the announcement in Ottawa on Wednesday.

The rebranding of the carbon tax changes only the name, not how the federal fuel charge system or corresponding refund works.

“The name was updated to the Canada Carbon Rebate to clarify its function, and make its meaning and relationship to the carbon pricing system more intuitive for Canadians,” reads the federal government’s press release.

Smith said that a rebrand would not save the federal government from its dwindling poll numbers when she posted her full statement to X. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20424488 (161901ZFEB24) Notable: Final Climate Change Bun / Gov data shows zero net reduction in emissions from fertilizer target by 2030

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Gov data shows zero net reduction in emissions from fertilizer target by 2030

https://tnc.news/2024/02/15/fertilizer-zero-reduction-emissions/

The Liberal government’s fertilizer emission reduction target will lead to zero net change in emissions by the year 2030.

Environment Canada’s recently published “Greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions projections – 2023“ report has raised eyebrows regarding the effectiveness of certain federal government climate policies, particularly in the agricultural sector.

Despite the implementation of the federal government’s goal to reduce fertilizer emissions, Ottawa’s projections suggest that there will be no net reduction in emissions by the goal year.

The key focus lies on the “Additional Measures Scenario,” which encompasses the Liberal government’s ambitious target to slash fertilizer emissions by 30% below 2020 levels by the end of this decade.

A deeper dive into the data reveals an inconvenient reality for the federal Liberals: the projected emissions for 2030 under this scenario remain stagnant at 48 million metric tons of CO2, the same level historically recorded in 2020.

This prompted inquiries from True North to Environment Canada seeking clarification on the apparent lack of progress despite the government touting the so-called effectiveness of agriculture emission reduction targets. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20424637 (161926ZFEB24) Notable: Law and Disorder Bun Part One / $11M seized in biggest contraband tobacco bust in B.C. history

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$11M seized in biggest contraband tobacco bust in B.C. history

https://tnc.news/2024/02/16/biggest-contraband-tobacco-bust/

A months-long investigation has led to the arrest of four people in what is now the largest contraband tobacco bust in British Columbia’s history.

The estimated retail value of the cigarettes seized is about $11 million.

The investigation began on suspicion of an alleged drug and contraband network in August 2023 and spanned across multiple jurisdictions.

The Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit, responsible for tackling gang-related crimes in the province, searched seven properties between Jan. 24 and 25 in Abbotsford, Langley, Surrey and Victoria, according to a press release from the unit on Tuesday.

The investigation led to the seizure of “32 firearms, a large quantity of ammunition, body armor, 10 pallets of contraband liquor, 35 pallets of contraband tobacco, 8 vehicles, 1 speedboat, half a kilogram of cocaine, and other items consistent with suspected drug trafficking,” reads the release.

Four suspects have been arrested and all have been released pending the judicial process. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20424670 (161934ZFEB24) Notable: Surging rents in Canada set new record as Alberta leads increase: report

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Surging rents in Canada set new record as Alberta leads increase: report

https://tnc.news/2024/02/16/surging-rents-new-record-alberta/

The average rent in Canada increased 9% in 2023 to a record high of $2,178 in December 2023.

Across the country, average rents for apartments increased 12.8%, condominiums 6.9%, and houses/townhouses 5.9%, totalling an 8.6% increase across all home types, according to data released Wednesday by Rentals.ca and market research firm Urbanation.

The 8.6% increase in rents in 2023 followed a 12.1% increase in 2022 and a 4.6% increase in 2021. The five-year average annual growth in rent is 4.9%, including a 5.4% decrease in 2020 due to Covid.

Over the past two years, asking rents in Canada have increased by 22%, an average of $390 per month.

Among Canada’s largest municipalities, Calgary posted one of the fastest increases in annual rent growth, rising 14% from last year to an average of $2,071. This increase follows Quebec City at 18.9%. Calgary’s rent also increased by 22.6% in 2022.

Edmonton had average rent prices much lower than Calgary, at $1,467, but rose by 13.5%.

In Canada’s two most expensive cities to rent, Vancouver and Toronto, rental price changes were reasonable. Average asking rents for apartments in Vancouver decreased by 0.7% and increased in Toronto by 2.1% since last year. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20424728 (161945ZFEB24) Notable: Final Covid and Other Pestilence Bun / COVID school closures were unnecessary, McMaster review finds

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COVID school closures were unnecessary, McMaster review finds

https://tnc.news/2024/02/16/covid-school-closures-unnecessary-mcmaster/

Researchers at McMaster University discovered that schools and daycares were not found to be significant places of high transmission rates for COVID-19, a finding standing in stark contrast with decisions by governments to close schools.

“Although the data consistently show that children can both contract and transmit COVID-19, based on published reports to date, following reopening, the risk of widespread transmission from child to child and child to adult is low, particularly when IPAC (Infection Prevention and Control) measures are in place and adhered to,” read the review.

“This trend appears to be consistent in the data collected with early variants of concern. Even when absolute case numbers were high, most infections originated from outside of school.”

The review compared international transmission rates in childcare settings and schools, citing numerous databases and studies, with over 34,000 references.

The findings were published in the Lancet Child and Adolescent Health on Thursday. The results question the validity of repeatedly sending students home to learn remotely during the pandemic.

Children were removed from schools several times over three consecutive school years, in Ontario for a minimum of 135 missed days. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20424766 (161953ZFEB24) Notable: Updated WEF Bun | Updated Wokeism Bun / Kingston union warns teachers they can be disciplined for “right-wing” views, saying “boys and girls”

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Kingston union warns teachers they can be disciplined for “right-wing” views, saying “boys and girls”

https://tnc.news/2024/02/16/kingston-union-warns-teachers-right-wing-views/

An eastern Ontario teachers’ union is warning its members they could face discipline under the human rights code regulating student misbehaviour and expressing a series of opinions, ranging from socially conservative, to apolitical and seemingly innocuous statements.

The Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation local for the Kingston-area Limestone District School Board (LDSB) sent its union members a “member update” warning of potential discipline for violating human rights if teachers use terms such as “blind spot” or tell a student to put their phone away.

The email, obtained by True North and published in full below, was sent by the chief negotiator for Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation district 27, John Vince. It was sent to union members this past December.

In the email, Vince tells the union membership that some views commonly held in the United States and United Kingdom are not allowed in Ontario and that expressing forbidden views could result in discipline.

“Supporting a so-called ‘right wing’ political view (example: Parental rights)” is listed as not allowed, as well as expressing “The notion that there are only two genders.” Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20425005 (162029ZFEB24) Notable: Law and Disorder Bun Part One / Community gutted after B.C.'s landmark Chilcotin Log Church destroyed in suspicious fire

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Community gutted after B.C.'s landmark Chilcotin Log Church destroyed in suspicious fire

https://www.rebelnews.com/community_gutted_after_bcs_landmark_chilcotin_log_church_destroyed_in_suspicious_fire

A repeat offender who was out on bail has been arrested after the landmark church, which was embraced by the local First Nation community, was destroyed by a 'suspicious fire.'

Pastor Art Joyce tells Rebel News that a big chunk of his life went down in flames when the Chilcotin Log Church, which also served as a non-profit “free store” charity, was consumed by fire. The church, located in the British Columbia Interior near Hansville and which shared a common boundary with the East side of the Tl'etinqox Reserve (formerly Anaham reserve), was engulfed by fire in the early morning hours of February 10.

Joyce, who has lived alone since his wife’s passing, and resides approximately 50 yards away from where the church stood, says neighbours came over to his place to comfort him as they watched the church burn through his window.

Prior to that sombre moment, Joyce missed a call around 4 a.m., and he later received a voice message from another neighbour, who warned him to lock his doors because “a crazy guy” was allegedly in his home threatening him and talking about fire.

“He obviously had gas or diesel or something, because by the time I got myself out and joined another neighbour who came to check on me, the whole one side of the church was in flames,” Joyce recalled.

Joyce says the police “were right on top of it.”

RCMP officials confirmed in a statement they apprehended a man named Cassidy Baron Billy after receiving reports of a stolen vehicle, a man entering a resident and making death threats to a resident, fires to a structure on the West side of Anaham Reserve, and to the Chilcotin Log Church. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20425057 (162039ZFEB24) Notable: Russia and Ukraine Bun Part One / Canada pledges $60 million in military aid to Ukraine before meeting of NATO allies

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Canada pledges $60 million in military aid to Ukraine before meeting of NATO allies

https://www.rebelnews.com/canada_pledges_60_million_in_military_aid_to_ukraine_before_meeting_of_nato_allies

Defence Minister Bill Blair pledged another $60 million to support Ukraine's military campaign with Russia. During a January 1 phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau renewed Canada's unwavering support for the war-torn nation.

It's official: Canada is sending more foreign aid to Ukraine.

According to Defence Minister Bill Blair, Canadian taxpayers will provide Ukraine's F-16 fighter jets with spare parts and ammunition, worth an estimated $60 million.

Ahead of NATO meetings in Brussels, Belgium, Blair clarified the funds are part of a comprehensive $500 million military aid package announced last year. The totality of Ukrainian foreign aid is in excess of $9 billion.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland pledged ongoing financial support to the war-torn country last April. "We will be there until Ukraine wins the war," she earlier told reporters. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20425164 (162105ZFEB24) Notable: Final Covid and Other Pestilence Bun / Premier who jailed pastors, shut churches during COVID set to speak at religious persecution event

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Premier who jailed pastors, shut churches during COVID set to speak at religious persecution event

https://www.rebelnews.com/premier_who_jailed_pastors_shut_churches_during_covid_set_to_speak_at_religious_persecution_event

Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney will be a featured guest at an event discussing religious persecution in March.

The premier who oversaw the shuttering of churches and the jailing of Christian pastors in his province is set to feature at an event discussing global religious persecution.

Jason Kenney, the ousted premier of Alberta, will join Conservative MP Garnett Genuis and host Greg Musselman for a conversation about the persecutions Christians are facing around the world.

While Musselman details issues of attacks on Christians in places like China, Iran and Nigeria on his podcast, Closer to the Fire with Greg Musselman, the host will only need to look to the speaker next to him to see one of the faces of religious persecution in Canada.

Before stepping down as premier and head of the United Conservative Party after narrowly surviving a leadership review, three Christian pastors were jailed in the province under the guise of COVID-19 public health restrictions.

Pastors James Coates, Tim Stephens and Artur Pawlowski saw their churches shut and faced prosecution for following their faith instead of the province's arbitrary and unscientific lockdowns.

Prior to his time as premier, Kenney served in former prime minister Stephen Harper's government where he helped fulfill a 2011 Conservative campaign promise by opening the Office of Religious Freedom, an agency under Foreign Affairs Canada. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20425282 (162124ZFEB24) Notable: Law and Disorder Bun Part One / Two in five Canadians approve the mentally ill accessing assisted suicide

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Two in five Canadians approve the mentally ill accessing assisted suicide

https://www.rebelnews.com/two_in_five_canadians_approve_the_mentally_ill_accessing_assisted_suicide

According to an earlier Angus Reid poll, 61% of Canadians support current assisted dying (MAID) legislation. Ottawa permitted anyone with 'a serious and incurable illness, disease or disability' to access the procedure. 42% want the program to include mental illness — up from 31% last year.

The Trudeau Liberals have yet to sell Canadians on granting assisted suicide to those suffering from mental illness — but support is on the rise.

After Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) became legal in 2016, a Québec court expanded access after it ruled the "reasonably foreseeable" death clause unconstitutional.

In 2021, Ottawa permitted anyone with "a serious and incurable illness, disease or disability" who is in "an advanced state of irreversible decline" to access MAID — not including the mentally ill.

According to an earlier Angus Reid poll conducted with Cardus, 61% of Canadians support current MAID legislation. Another three in five (56%) endorsed the first MAID law.

But a recent Leger survey says most Canadians (77%) support the regulations as they are. Only 42% want the program to include people suffering only from mental illness — up from 31%, according to Angus Reid. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20425633 (162215ZFEB24) Notable: Final Protests Bun / Canadian pro-lifers unite for 40 Days for Life prayer vigils to end abortion

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Canadian pro-lifers unite for 40 Days for Life prayer vigils to end abortion

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/canadian-pro-lifers-unite-for-40-days-for-life-prayer-vigils-to-end-abortion/

Since 2007, 40 Days for Life has saved over 24,242 lives, closed 148 abortion centers, and prompted 256 abortion workers to quit.

This winter, there will be hundreds of communities in North America, including several Canadian cities, simultaneously hosting a 40 Days for Life campaign from Wednesday, February 14 to Sunday, March 24, 2024.

If you wish to join 40 Days for Life in your community, please contact your local campaign coordinator (below) and find out how you can join a prayer vigil. If you wish to bring 40 Days for Life to your community go to www.40daysforlife.com for more information.

Please consider becoming a prayer volunteer by donating at least one hour of prayer and fasting in front of the local abortion facility. If you are part of a church community, perhaps your pastor would like to “Adopt a day”? Do you belong to a lay movement or ministry? Why not book a full day of prayer for your group?

Winter 2024 locations – 13 vigils across Canada Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20425683 (162225ZFEB24) Notable: Final Protests Bun / Christian organization sues Quebec for canceling event over pro-life beliefs

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Christian organization sues Quebec for canceling event over pro-life beliefs

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/christian-quebec-canceling-pro-life/

‘We are confident that we will win,’ Pastor Art Lucien said, adding that ‘it’s important to stand against tyranny in these days and against governmental overreach.’

A Christian organization is suing the Quebec government after being refused access to a congress center last summer because they are pro-life.

In an exclusive interview with LifeSiteNews, Pastor Art Lucier of Harvest Ministries revealed that he has refused a $100,000 settlement and will take the Quebec provincial government to court after it banned Harvest Ministries from holding an event at a public convention center because of their pro-life moral ethic.

“We did a settlement conference last week in Quebec after I had rejected a $100,000 settlement from the Quebec government for us to just go away,” Lucier told LifeSiteNews.

“And they were going to take no responsibility for them for their actions,” he added.

Harvest Ministries International, which is based out of British Columbia, had planned to hold a religious, cultural, and artistic event called the “Battle for Canada,” at the province of Quebec’s Centre des congrès de Quebec from June 23 to July 2.

However, after the event was announced, Quebec’s minister of tourism, Caroline Proulx – with the full blessing of Quebec Premier François Legault of the Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ) – told the convention center’s CEO to pull the plug on Harvest’s gathering due to its supposed “anti-abortion” theme, despite the fact that Harvest Ministries had signed a contract with the convention center. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20425728 (162232ZFEB24) Notable: Final Climate Change Bun / Jordan Peterson slams Pope Francis’ fixation on ‘climate change’: ‘He should be saving souls’

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Jordan Peterson slams Pope Francis’ fixation on ‘climate change’: ‘He should be saving souls’

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/jordan-peterson-slams-pope-francis/

Saving souls is ‘how you save the planet, not by worshipping Gaia,’ Jordan Peterson said, criticizing ‘contemptible’ efforts to make the Church ‘more relevant’ since the ‘60s and Vatican II.

Prominent Canadian anti-woke psychologist Jordan Peterson blasted Pope Francis for neglecting the salvation of souls and focusing on “climate change” and criticized attempts to make the Catholic Church “relevant” since the 1960s and the Second Vatican Council.

On February 11, Peterson joined Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) reporter Colm Flynn to discuss a sundry of topics, including his wife Tammy’s miraculous recovery from cancer, the widespread loss of faith in the Catholic Church since the 1960s, and Pope Francis’ fixation on “climate change.”

“That’s not working. It’s shallow,” he said, slamming the “guitar and hippies” that proliferated in the Church following the ’60s and Vatican II. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20425746 (162236ZFEB24) Notable: Law and Disorder Bun Part One / Judge Arthur Engoron Fines Trump $354M, Bars Him from Running Businesses in NY for 3 Years, Elon slams court

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Judge Arthur Engoron Fines Trump $354M, Bars Him from Running Businesses in NY for 3 Years

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/16/judge-arthur-engoron-fines-trump-354m-bars-him-from-running-businesses-in-ny-for-3-years/

Judge Arthur Engoron fined former Donald Trump and the Trump Organization on Friday in civil a fraud case for more than $350 million and barred him from serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation for three years.

New York Attorney General Letitia James sought to essentially bankrupt Trump by calling for a $370 million fine and a lifetime of from the real estate industry in New York State. James claimed Trump committed financial fraud.

Trump plans to appeal the ruling. “This is a case that should have never been brought, and I think we should be entitled to damages,” Trump said during closing arguments.

Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley called the ruling “confiscatory, extreme, and abusive.”

The judgment is the second this year in which Trump was found guilty and required to millions. In writer E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against him, the judge orderedTrump to pay $83.3 million.

NBC News reported specifics of the case: Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20426054 (162334ZFEB24) Notable: Law and Disorder Bun Part One / Judge Arthur Engoron Fines Trump $354M, Bars Him from Running Businesses in NY for 3 Years, Elon slams court

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Elon Musk slams NY court ordering President Trump to pay $354 million: ‘No victims with losses, who is supposed to receive the money?’

https://thepostmillennial.com/elon-musk-slams-ny-court-ordering-president-trump-to-pay-354-million-no-victims-with-losses-who-is-supposed-to-receive-the-money

"Given that there were no victims with losses, who is supposed to receive the money?"

Following the ruling by New York Judge Arthur Engoron that 2024 GOP frontrunner has to pay out $354 billion in the state’s civil fraud trial, X owner Elon Musk questioned whom Trump would be paying this sum out to.

"Given that there were no victims with losses, who is supposed to receive the money," Musk wrote in response to a tweet by Charlie Kirk summing up the payments ordered by Engoron. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20426593 (170121ZFEB24) Notable: Final Charles III Bun | Final China Bun / Bankers verified Fake Chinese Income mortgages for banned money laundering suspects in Toronto: HSBC Leaks

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Bankers verified Fake Chinese Income mortgages for banned money laundering suspects in Toronto: HSBC Leaks

https://www.thebureau.news/p/bankers-verified-fake-chinese-income

International Bank "Offshore Verification Team" allegedly confirmed forged Chinese docs

In September 2020, as Ontario’s real estate rocketed higher, a Toronto realtor with ties to Beijing claimed a fake Chinese income of $763,689 in order to secure HSBC mortgages for two properties, bringing her personal portfolio in Greater Toronto up to five homes.

What makes this realtor’s case politically explosive is not just that her network allegedly laundered money from China into Toronto real estate, nor the forged Chinese employment records they used to obtain massive mortgages from Canadian banks, or that they became Ontario landlords by leveraging criminal underground banks servicing Chinese diasporas in Vancouver and Toronto.

Jolting revelations from this case that take The Bureau’s investigation into Canada’s housing affordability crisis to a new level include: Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20429050 (171417ZFEB24) Notable: Russia and Ukraine Bun Part One / Avdeevka Falls, Ukraine Retreats Under The Eye Of Sauron

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Avdeevka Falls, Ukraine Retreats Under The Eye Of Sauron

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/avdeevka-falls-ukraine-retreats-under-eye-sauron/

Could not resist the Lord of the Rings reference because the Russian war correspondent, Marat Khairullin, makes a passing reference in his report below. The big news, breaking tonight, is that General “Butcher” Syrsky ordered Ukrainian forces to withdraw from Avdeevka — at least those not surrounded or too badly wounded to retreat. Those Ukrainian soldiers trying to flee are running a gauntlet of rockets, missiles, mortars and artillery. The casualties are catastrophic.

Here is a heart wrenching video of a Ukrainian wife talking to her husband who is trapped in Avdeevka. He is wounded and cannot retreat. The good news? The Russians will give him good medical care: Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20429089 (171437ZFEB24) Notable: Final Climate Change Bun / Global Boiling Update: Biden’s Transgender Assistant HHS Secretary Rachel Levine Claims Climate Change Disproportionately Affects Black Communities’ Health

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Global Boiling Update: Biden’s Transgender Assistant HHS Secretary Rachel Levine Claims Climate Change Disproportionately Affects Black Communities’ Health (VIDEO)

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/racist-global-boiling-bidens-transgender-assistant-hhs-secretary/

During Black History Month, Admiral Richard “Rachel” Levine, the Transgender Assistant Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) appointed by Joe Biden, made a ridiculous claim linking climate change to racial disparities in health.

In a video statement, Levine highlighted the impact of climate change on the physical and mental well-being of black communities, emphasizing the disproportionate effect on black Americans compared to white Americans.

Levine claimed that black Americans are more likely to reside in areas with housing conditions that increase their vulnerability to health issues related to climate change. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20429181 (171504ZFEB24) Notable: Russia and Ukraine Bun Part One / As Kiev’s War Situation Deteriorates, Ukraine’s Zelensky Signs Bilateral Security Agreements With Germany and France

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As Kiev’s War Situation Deteriorates, Ukraine’s Zelensky Signs Bilateral Security Agreements With Germany and France

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/as-kievs-war-situation-deteriorates-ukraines-zelensky-signs/

As the Ukraine military and financial help from the US has dried and it’s unlikely to resume any time soon, the European leading countries have turned to bilateral agreements to guarantee immediate assistance, and also signal to Europe and the world their long-term commitment to helping the Kiev regime.

After the UK signed an agreement with Ukraine in January, today both Germany and France have also entered into separate agreements with the war-torn country, as the situation in the frontlines becomes increasingly bad for it.

Both German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron face difficult times at home, with dismal poll numbers and vibrant opposition parties ready to replace them.

Scholz and Macron use the Ukraine war as a distraction and a PR space where they can generate ‘positive agenda’ moments for themselves. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20429209 (171513ZFEB24) Notable: Law and Disorder Bun Part One / Brussels Shaken by Series of Drug-Related Shootings Just Blocks Away From EU Headquarters

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Brussels Shaken by Series of Drug-Related Shootings Just Blocks Away From EU Headquarters

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/brussels-shaken-series-drug-related-shootings-just-blocks/

At once capital of Belgium and of the European Union, Brussels has been rocked by a series of shootings linked to drug gangs that are happening mere blocks away from the political center of Europe, leading some to call it ‘cocaine city’.

The Saint-Gilles district is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, bordering the City of Brussels itself. There, cocaine and crack keep flowing in unprecedented quantities. Shootings among rival gangs rage, police seize drugs and arrest traffickers almost daily.

But dealers reportedly keep coming back, and the population is fed up, as drug-related violent crimes are becoming increasingly visible.

Associated Press reported: Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20429426 (171608ZFEB24) Notable: Final Immigration Bun / EU Committee Passes Migration Pact Dubbed the “Soros Plan” - Will Result in Massive Wave of Migrants Storming the EU Borders

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EU Committee Passes Migration Pact Dubbed the “Soros Plan” – Will Result in Massive Wave of Migrants Storming the EU Borders

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/eu-committee-passes-migration-pact-dubbed-soros-plan/

The European Parliament’s LIBE Committee passed a new migration pact earlier this week. The plan for mass migration into the continent is being called “the Soros plan” and “the suicide of Europe.”

Evidently, US politicians are not alone in their quest for national suicide. It’s the entire Western civilized world.

This video “With open gates: the forced collective suicide of European nations,” was released 8 years ago during the Obama migrant invasion of Europe. The video was taken down by YouTube and Liveleak.

The video took the internet by storm. It was labeled racist by the left to show actual footage of the invasion of Europe.

You can decide for yourself if this video is racist or offensive. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20429507 (171629ZFEB24) Notable: Final Covid and Other Pestilence Bun / Why the WHO Pandemic Treaty Threatens Freedom of Expression

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Why the WHO Pandemic Treaty Threatens Freedom of Expression

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/why-who-pandemic-treaty-threatens-freedom-expression/

Despite the immense influence wielded by the United Nations, attention to its rumblings is typically rare outside the international crisis du jour. Breaking from this trend, the ongoing negotiation of a pandemic treaty at the World Health Organization has captured the global spotlight long before reaching its anticipated conclusion. Yet, despite this heightened attention, the public debate on how to head off future pandemic threats has largely overlooked the potential impact of the WHO Pandemic Agreement on fundamental freedoms, notably freedom of expression.

Underway since March 2023, the pandemic accord negotiations seek to establish legally binding rules to enhance international cooperation and to strengthen the role of the WHO in preventing, preparing for, and responding to future pandemics. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20429695 (171714ZFEB24) Notable: Russia and Ukraine Bun Part One / Canadian politicians condemn Putin in wake of Navalny’s death

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Canadian politicians condemn Putin in wake of Navalny’s death

https://tnc.news/2024/02/17/politicians-condemn-putin/

The death of Alexei Navalny, a prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin has drawn stark condemnation from Canadian politicians of all stripes. Navalny died at the age of 47, while serving a prison sentence in the Arctic Circle.

“The death of Alexei Navalny has us all reeling,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told CBC News during an interview in Winnipeg on Friday. “It’s something that has the entire world being reminded of exactly what a monster Putin is.”

The prime minister went on to say that Navalny’s death only strengthens Canada’s resolve to take a stand against Putin’s abuse of international laws and human rights. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20430116 (171847ZFEB24) Notable: Media and Censorship Bun Part One / Meet the Canadian lawyer blacklisted by mainstream media

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Meet the Canadian lawyer blacklisted by mainstream media

https://tnc.news/2024/02/17/eva-chipiuk-blacklisted-media/

She cross-examined Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the Public Order Emergency Commission.

She represented former premier Brian Peckford in a lawsuit challenging the government’s restrictions on mobility rights for over 5 million unvaccinated Canadians.

She filed a lawsuit on behalf of Lethbridge mom-of-three Carrie Sakamoto, who was severely injured by the COVID vaccine.

And just last week, she launched a proposed class action lawsuit against the Alberta government over pandemic business restrictions.

Despite her high-profile legal work, lawyer Eva Chipiuk has never been interviewed about these cases by the legacy media.

“We hear these ministers talking about Canadian content. That’s why it’s so important for them to be providing subsidies to the CBC and mainstream media, because they have to uphold Canadian content. And here I am, like, it’s all Canadian content, everything I’m doing,” Chipiuk, 44, tells True North.

“This is information that Canadians should understand – what actions are before the courts in Canada… these are nationally significant issues, and not a word.” Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20430449 (172000ZFEB24) Notable: Media and Censorship Bun Part One / ‘You Are Dead to Me:’ Elon Musk Rages at ‘Twitter Files’ Journo Matt Taibbi in Leaked Messages

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‘You Are Dead to Me:’ Elon Musk Rages at ‘Twitter Files’ Journo Matt Taibbi in Leaked Messages

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/02/17/you-are-dead-to-me-elon-musk-rages-at-twitter-files-journo-matt-taibbi-in-leaked-messages/

Elon Musk’s turbulent relationship with journalist Matt Taibbi reached a breaking point this week, as leaked direct messages revealed the billionaire’s volatile temper and threats to his former “Twitter Files” ally.

Mediaite reports that journalist Matt Taibbi has published a series of unhinged direct messages from billionaire Tesla CEO and X/Twitter owner Elon Musk. The posts shed light on Musk’s mounting frustration over his former ally’s coverage on Substack. Taibbi, who collaborated with Musk on the “Twitter Files,” publicly posted screenshots of private conversations on Thursday with messages dating back to January 2023, revealing the deteriorating relationship between the two over the past year. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20430597 (172026ZFEB24) Notable: Final Immigration Bun / Immigration Drives Male Population ‘Boom’ in Canada

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Immigration Drives Male Population ‘Boom’ in Canada

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/16/immigration-drives-male-population-boom-canada/

The latest demographic data from Canada showed the male population increasing by 3.4 percent, while females grew by only 2.9 percent, the widest disparity between the sexes in almost half a century.

Analysts pointed to heavy immigration from military-age males as a driving force in the demographic shift.

Bloomberg BNN noted on Thursday that almost all of Canada’s net population growth is due to immigration, “especially among foreign students and temporary workers.”

“From the late 1970s to around the early 2010s, Canada’s population increasingly skewed female, but the trend has been reversing over the past decade as the male cohort grew faster. In 2022, the gap between men and women was at its narrowest in more than 30 years,” BNN said.

The male-female imbalance in Canada is even more pronounced among young people, where the male population grew 4.8 percent but females grew only 3.9 percent. Demographic analysts pointed out that older, homogenous populations in advanced economies usually skew female because women live longer, but heavy immigration tends to bring in large numbers of young men. Continue...

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20430895 (172115ZFEB24) Notable: Hungary pledges to ‘occupy’ Brussels

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