Older and Wiser

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[Older and Wiser @jfeilders]

Upon reading some of the unhinged remarks concerning the by-election win of Pierre Poilievre, this came to mind.

The 5 basic laws of human stupidity.

https://t.co/FOApTLkqC6

[TrendingPolitics.ca @TrendPolCa]

On the debt side, the PBO projects:

•⁠ ⁠Federal debt climbing from $1.34T to $1.66T by 2030-31

•⁠ ⁠Annual debt interest charges rising from $53.7B to $80.2B

•⁠ ⁠The debt service ratio reaching 13.1% of revenues, up from 10.5% today

•⁠ ⁠Per capita interest costs hitting $1,885/year per Canadian by 2030-31 (5/6)

[Macdonald-Laurier Institute @MLInstitute]

We’re in a moment of heightened focus on Canadian national identity. But it’s playing out amid the historic and cultural amnesia that’s plagued Canada for decades.

Ever since Donald Trump threatened to annex Canada, many Canadians have responded that our identity is unique from the United States.

But this national mood comes only a few years after a campaign of tearing down statues of Canada’s seminal historic figures, and then-prime minister Justin Trudeau calling Canada a “post-national state.” Most recently, a so-called prank show with funding from the CBC targeted Canadians who have defended the legacy of Canada’s founding prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald.

So, is the wave of Canadian patriotism that’s emerged over the past year grounded in a firm understanding of the history—both good and bad—that has shaped the country? Or is it detached from an appreciation of Canada’s democratic roots, and the stories of how Macdonald worked tirelessly to forge a second North American nation?

One voice who has consistently stood up for the idea that Canadians should have a robust and balanced view of their past is Trent University history professor Christopher Dummitt.

Dummitt joins Inside Policy Talks to discuss his efforts to reach beyond the classroom with his new Canadian history YouTube channel, and share his views on the current state of Canadians’ relationship with their history.

On the podcast, he tells Ian Campbell @Campbellian_, digital editor at MLI, that one source of Canada’s amnesia about its cultural and democratic roots is the deliberate erasure of Canadian national symbols that took place in the 1960s. This was most famously exemplified by the new Canadian flag created by the Pearson government, devoid of any reference to Canada’s British heritage—the very roots that gave Canada’s its parliamentary democracy.

Dummitt says the toppling of historic statues that has taken place in the 2020s is “in a sense just a continuation of what happened in the 1960s and 1970s.”

Part of the solution, says Dummitt, is to restore content-rich provincial history curricula that teach a cohesive Canadian national story.

Watch the full episode: https://t.co/C0KbBdA06O

[Love My 7 Wood @LoveMy7Wood]

B'nai Brith is distinguishing itself from the other Jewish agencies by not being afraid to ruffle feathers and call a spade a spade on the Carney government's gaslighting of Canadian Jews.

[B'nai Brith Canada @bnaibrithcanada]

Prime Minister Mark Carney directed the National Advisory Council on Rights, Equality and Inclusion, which was launched in February, to "address antisemitism". The Prime Minister tasked the Council with examining the drivers of antisemitism in Canada. Yet the histories of two announced members of the Council raise questions about their capacity to respond to the Prime Minister’s directive.

Former MP Omar Alghabra led the Canadian Arab Federation when it opposed listing Hamas, Hezbollah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad as terrorist entities. He also criticized Canadian media for calling the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades a terrorist group after Canada had already designated it. The Council has been asked to examine the forces driving rising antisemitism in Canada, including extremist rhetoric and the glorification of terrorism. A member of the Council tasked with confronting antisemitism and protecting human rights more broadly, who has undermined Canada’s efforts to confront terrorism, cannot credibly be seen as capable of supporting efforts to combat antisemitism and protect human rights. As a result, we have called on the government to remove Alghabra from the Council or, at minimum, formally recuse him from all Council matters related to antisemitism.

Avnish Nanda, an Alberta-based lawyer, represented members of the anti-Israel encampment erected on the University of Alberta’s campus in May 2024. The encampment was part of a nationwide wave of anti-Israel campus occupations that left many Jewish students feeling intimidated, excluded, and unsafe. It included an art installation that a report prepared for the Board of Governors of the University of Alberta recognized as a symbol of hatred toward the Jewish community. We appreciate that Mr. Nanda has the right to choose which clients he represents. However, appointing a lawyer who represented members of the encampments to the Council now asked to lead Canada’s efforts to combat antisemitism, including the hostile campus environments being faced by Jewish students, erodes the Jewish community’s trust in the Council and compromises its credibility. We have called on the Federal Government to recuse Mr. Nanda from all Council matters related to antisemitism.

Public confidence is essential to any credible response to antisemitism. Jewish Canadians must be able to trust that the Council’s work will be independent, objective, and guided by an understanding of how contemporary antisemitism, including hateful manifestations of anti-Zionism, materializes. The Council’s present composition jeopardizes its credibility, the integrity of its recommendations, and creates a reasonable perception of bias, specifically around issues relating to antisemitism.

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

We need to hold individual police officers responsible for their actions.

“I was only following orders” has not been a valid defence for anyone in a state uniform since the Nuremberg trials.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Open Letter to the President of the Russian Federation: https://t.co/mEvYqYiqus

[Rita Hedge @Rita0Hedge]

@FNCGlobalNews Carney came with a delegation showing palestinian colors instead of Canadians

[Fox News World @FNCGlobalNews]

SHARP REACTION: Critics are slamming Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's selection of two council members reportedly hostile to Israel, questioning how a body designed to fight hate includes individuals hostile to the Jewish community.

"Canadian Jews are struggling to understand how our prime minister believed this would be a constructive appointment," a Montreal rabbi told Fox News Digital.

[Alan Fryer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @alanfryermedia]

Oops, they noticed.

[Algemeiner @Algemeiner]

Qatar Has Poured Over $400 Billion Into the US, New Study Finds, Raising Alarm in DC @FDD
https://t.co/0QEDW4YHfB

[Alan Fryer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @alanfryermedia]

When and how does a slaughter get downgraded to a crackdown, @AnitaAnandMP?

[Terry Newman @terrynewman]

"Three teenagers pleaded not guilty Thursday to various charges, including second-degree murder, in connection with Tuesday's murder at a Walmart in Montreal North. The fourth suspect arrested Wednesday evening was released without charges at this time."
https://t.co/3hho1tAlxT

[Mia Hughes @_CryMiaRiver]

Watch here⬇️
https://t.co/SOVfEVIvm2

[Mia Hughes @_CryMiaRiver]

The 2021 unmarked grave mass hysteria in Canada bears many striking resemblances to the modern trans rights era.

Asking for evidence of the graves is considered denialism. Asking for evidence for gender medicine is considered transphobic.

In both, to be a good person, you must believe, or pretend to believe, in something for which there is no evidence — trans kids/unmarked graves.

Politicians used both events for virtue-signalling photo-ops, kneeling at graves or marching in Pride parades.

Both are fuelled by gullible, incompetent journalism that failed in its most basic duty to interrogate and question astonishing claims. And also sustained by journalists now afraid to admit the grave error they made.

We talked about this and much much more in our fascinating conversation with journalist @jonkay in today’s episode of Beyond Gender.

Premiering now. Link below.

[Steven Bonk @StevenBonkMP]

House of Commons was full of talk about forced labour yesterday.

I’d like to remind people... Mark Carney, while he was at Brookfield, was fined for slave labour conditions on a soybean farm in Brazil.

This is the craziest story I've seen.

[Algemeiner @Algemeiner]

Israeli Journalist Amit Segal Predicts Collapse of Iranian Regime in the Next Year https://t.co/KZ96lKp1NW

@AmitSegal by @CoreyWriting

[Algemeiner @Algemeiner]

Iran, Russia Sign $25 Billion Nuclear Cooperation Deal as Tehran Presses Ahead Amid US Talks https://t.co/XDsL7XmLP3

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

there's no genocide in gaza

and there's no such thing as "residential school denialism" because those 215 "unmarked graves" in kamloops don't exist

you need to keep up with the news, professor fruit loops

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

For decades, Cuba has been the world capital for radical left-wing terrorism. The regime in Havana has recruited, trained and backed violent Marxist and third-worldist movements across our hemisphere and beyond. Today, we are targeting the network that enables and funds Cuba's subversive and radical operations.

Pursuant to sanctions authorities created by President Trump’s groundbreaking Cuba Executive Order, I am designating the following entities:

1. Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba (MINFAR)
2. Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP)
3. Amistur Cuba S.A.
4. Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR)
5. Minera La Victoria S.A.

Anyone providing services to these sanctioned actors is at risk of sanctions themselves. Foreign banks and other companies that provide services to these entities should freeze those activities.

The Trump Administration will no longer tolerate radical Marxist regimes in our hemisphere seeking to threaten U.S. national security and engage in influence operations to export their poisonous and evil “revolution” to our country and around the world.

[Ron Butler @ronmortgageguy]

Canada Is Now In A Technical Recession 2 Quarters Of Declining GDP: But Many Canadian Have Experienced A Recession For The Last 3 Years

Canada Per Capita GDP has been in the toilet for 3 years

We don't live in a Statistical Construct we live in what feels like a CRAP Economy