Jian Ghomeshi’s lawyer says she was just doing her job in representing the former CBC radio star in a high-profile sexual assault case, and that she was thrilled with the result.
Marie Henein spoke with Peter Mansbridge on CBC’s The National on Tuesday night in her first interview since Ghomeshi was acquitted of sexual assault charges in Toronto last Thursday.
Henein said it was the right result, and rejected accusations that she betrayed women by defending Ghomeshi.
Brussels (AFP) – The organisers of a “March Against Fear” planned for Sunday to mark the Brussels terror attacks said they had cancelled the event after the authorities asked them to do so because of security fears.
Japan has killed 333 minke whales—including more than 200 pregnant females—as part of this year’s Antarctic whale hunt, according to the country’s Institute for Cetacean Research.
On Wednesday, four ships returned from their 115-day expedition to conduct “scientific” whaling activities. The hunt was in blatant disregard of the International Court of Justice’s 2014 ruling that challenged the scientific legitimacy of the program.
Trojan Horse – A person or thing intended to undermine or destroy from within.
As Mark Steyn puts it:
For strange psychological reasons that archaeologists who sift through the rubble of our civilization will long ponder, the biggest story of our time cannot be reported honestly. Lies beget lies. The Obama Administration insists that the Islamic State is not Islamic, Islamic terrorism is nothing to do with Islam, there’s no Islam to see here, no way, no how. You can’t hold the line at one lie, and tell the truth on everything else. The lie on Islam infects everything else. If they’re just “violent extremists” in general, they have to be violent and extremist in general – or “randomly”, as the President would say.
We’re just two days removed from the worst terror attack in the history of Belgium, and already the international left is guaranteeing that more Westerners will die. That’s particularly true of American leftists, who seem hell-bent on enshrining political correctness at the cost of American lives. The left’s allegiance to political correctness is their top priority, and it will result in body parts strewn across Western capitals.
If you doubt that Cultural Marxism exists, please take a good hard look at our collective response to yet another large scale terror attack on a European capital.
If the Islamic terror attacks in Belgium have served one purpose, it is to highlight once again what a pathetic specimen Western civilization has become after decades of cultural Marxism & political correctness have ground us down to a pith of emasculated self-loathing and insecurity.
The sum total of our permissible response to yet another attack from an enemy within, and whom we continue to welcome onto our shores in increasing numbers, is to wash our social media profile picture with the relevant flag and speak of our surprise & non-specific sadness at another act of predictable violence at the hands of an enemy whose name cannot be uttered.
For anyone outside of this paradigm, this borders upon a collective mental illness of cult proportions. Our collective inability to even identify the threat means that we have little chance of addressing it, and absolutely no chance of defeating it. Which in turn inevitably leads to a state of resignation, as we have to admit that after decades of dismantling our societies from within, cultural Marxism & political correctness have left our societies unable to respond, let alone defend a civilization that has been crafted with blood and reason over a thousand years to provide a societal model that others have sought to adopt and emulate.
Teddy bears, tears, candles, cartoons, murals, mosaics, flowers, flags, projections, hashtags, balloons, wreaths, lights, vigils, scarves, and more. These are the best solutions the Western world seems to come up with every few months when we are slammed by another Islamist terrorist attack. We are our own sickness.
This is the defining feature of the Isis era: the West has the military might to fight Isis, but not the moral conviction. It has the machinery, the men, but it lacks the thing every warrior needs: a deep belief in what he’s fighting for, in this case the idea that our enlightenment values, our free, open societies, are superior to their backward way of life. We in the West agree that we hate Isis, but we don’t agree that the Western way of life is something worth defending, or even something we should be especially favourable about anymore.
Evil doesn’t give a crap about your feelings. It doesn’t care that you’re bending over backwards to not offend its sensibilities. In appeasing the Muslim terrorists on such a massive scale, you lay down your weapons before a fight, dropped to the floor and exposed your cheese and wine filled underbelly. You communicated to ISIS that not only would you not fight them, not only would you refuse to identify them for what they are – Islamic terrorist, but you’d go ten steps farther: you’d attempt to make them like you.
Islam killed those people in Brussels. The teachings of the prophet Mohammed and Saudi Arabian sponsored ideology killed those people. Without being able to say that, we are finished.
The boys from Allah Akbar have released another PR statement for the religion of peace, this time in Brussels.
Meanwhile as the lies continue and the bodies stack up, French Prime Minister, Manual Valls broke ranks in the wake of the attack to declare “We are at war.”
No doubt he received a phone call from the President of the E.U. Commission, Jean-Claude Junker soon after telling him that there was no war, and that if they were at war with anything, it was ‘Islamophobia’ and a loss of appetite for yet more Islamic immigration.
Contrary to the current popular narrative, the biggest threat to Western freedom is not Donald Trump, but the progressive agenda that continues to peddle Islamic immigration despite overwhelming evidence that the experiment has failed and the continued pursuit is an exercise in clinical insanity.
Hillary Clinton declared that the response to the Brussels attacks must be “consistent with our values.” But seeing as Hillary has no values, it left many wondering what that might look like. Read More
And Canada’s progressive flagship, CBC refused to call the attacks ‘Islamic’ terrorism, preferring the broader generic ‘terrorism’ term in all news items.
All of this has been sandwiched between the usual poorly informed and constructed kumbaya apologies, and those who know actually know Islam and therefore what they are talking about. Read More
But finally, Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch got right to the point, when he stated that leaders who fail to protect the people who elected them and continue with policies in opposition of that duty, should fall.
Ivan Penaluna
Leonardo DiCaprio praised China’s work to combat climate change on a trip to Beijing on Sunday, and said he believes the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases could be “the hero of the environmental movement.”
The actor and environmentalist, who called for action to combat climate change during his Oscar acceptance speech last month, praised China’s shift toward renewable forms of energy to lower carbon emissions.
DiCaprio, who has made several trips to China in the past, is one of China’s most popular Hollywood actors, mainly because of his performance in “Titanic,” one of his few films that have been shown in mainland Chinese cinemas. He is affectionately called Xiao Li, or Little Lee, by Chinese.
Repeated gossiping in public could soon become illegal in Saskatoon.
Rumour-mongering, name-calling, taunting, mocking and ostracizing would also be outlawed under a proposed anti-bullying bylaw.
Saskatoon city council asked staff in February 2014 to draft a bylaw to address concerns about bullying. The final product will be considered by council on March 21.
The law as written would apply to such obvious public places as parks and streets, but also to such private establishments as bars and restaurants.
Here’s the concept: a small section of a society have an issue with a candidate currently campaigning for nomination of a party that they disagree with intensely.
The support generated within that party has given him a clear lead over all others in the race to become the presidential nominee.
Unlike other candidates also campaigning for office, this candidate has not committed any crimes. He is instead being judged on future crimes that he might commit.
Therefore it has been decided that this candidate must be stopped at all costs. And the name they have given to the campaign to stop him? Democracy Spring.
The Soros & Saunders backed MoveOn.org organising the protests have already demonstrated that mob action and coercion are plentiful, but that irony is still a rare and rapidly dwindling commodity.
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