US, China agree to cooperate on climate crisis with urgency
By HYUNG-JIN KIM SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The United States and China, the world’s two biggest carbon polluters, agreed to cooperate to curb climate change with urgency, just days before President Joe Biden hosts a virtual summit of world leaders to discuss the issue. The agreement was reached by U.S. special envoy for climate […]
The plutocrats of Wall Street and Silicon Valley are scamming America
By Ryan McMakenMises Institute In recent years, it seems that the nation’s CEOs and billionaires are increasingly willing to drop the pretense that they are politically neutral entrepreneurs who simply want to go about their business. Last week, for example, more than a hundred CEOs met to plot ways to punish the people of Georgia […]
The political economy of fear
[S]ince love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved. — Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, 1513 All animals experience fear—human beings, perhaps, most of all. Any animal incapable of fear would have been hard pressed to survive, regardless of its size, speed, or […]
Ontario walks back new pandemic police powers following widespread backlash
TORONTO — Ontario reversed course on sweeping new police powers Saturday, just one day after Premier Doug Ford announced the measures that triggered a swift and furious backlash. Officers will no longer have the right to stop any pedestrian or driver to ask why they’re out or request their home address, Solicitor General Sylvia Jones […]
Misleading the public: 13 months of Ontario using suicides, overdose deaths caused by lockdowns as COVID-19 death counts
“Individuals who have died with COVID-19, but not as a result of COVID-19 are included in the case counts for COVID-19 deaths in Toronto” -Toronto Public Health.
World Trade Center Building 7 did not collapse due to fire, report finds
Group of engineers and architects present new evidence contradicting a 2008 NIST report, which stated that Building 7 collapsed due to fire
Ontario MPP Roman Baber launches lawsuit against Ford government
Baber has maintained strong anti-lockdown views throughout the pandemic. He was even booted out of the PC Caucus earlier this year after calling lockdown measures “deadlier than COVID”
Scientists create tear organoids that cry, can treat eye disorders
These were created out of tear-producing cells
Are Pfizer and Moderna vaccines gene therapy?
A Reuters fact-checking report says one man’s claims against the mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines are false
Asian small business owner accuses Trinity Bellwoods Flea Market organizer of bullying and covert racism
Local artist and entrepreneur says Flea organizer doubled down on spelling mistake, attributing it to the ‘obscurity’ of her Vietnamese name
