Month: September 2021

US Pending Home Sales Race to Seven-Month High in August

WASHINGTON—Contracts to buy U.S. previously owned homes rebounded to a seven-month high in August, but higher prices amid tight supply are slowing the housing market momentum. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) said on Wednesday its Pending Home Sales Index, based on signed contracts, jumped 8.1 percent last month to 119.5. That was the highest…


The Toronto District School Board Should Focus on Learning, Not Activism

Commentary It looks like the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) still hasn’t learned a very important life lesson. Earlier this year, one of TDSB’s “social equity program advisors” was caught distributing blatantly anti-Israel propaganda to its teachers. This educator’s material falsely accused Israel of apartheid and promoted the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel….


Wikipedia Co-Founder Criticizes Site, Says It Has Slid Into ‘Leftist Propaganda’

Wikipedia has in recent years drifted away from neutrality and slid into “leftist propaganda,” according to its co-founder Larry Sanger. Sanger, who parted ways with Wikipedia almost two decades ago over the project’s direction, told EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” that the online encyclopedia, which turned 20 years old earlier this year, has gradually shifted to…


Biden Agrees With Obama on Open Borders Being ‘Unsustainable,’ Psaki Says

President Joe Biden agrees with former President Barack Obama on America needing to enforce its borders, the White House said Tuesday. Obama told ABC’s “Good Morning America” this week, in response to the flood of illegal immigrants into Del Rio, Texas, that immigration is a tough issue. “It always has been because, on the one…


WHO Reports Decline in COVID-19 Cases, Deaths Across the World

The World Health Organization (WHO) reported a 10 percent global decline in new CCP virus cases and deaths. An estimated 3.3 million new COVID-19 infections and roughly 55,000 deaths were reported in the past week, WHO said Tuesday in a brief statement. The largest drop-off in cases and deaths was in the Americas, Middle East,…


Run on Horse Ivermectin to Treat COVID-19 Leaves Arizona Feed Stores in Short Supply

Amy Jonson pointed at an empty store shelf where the tubes of horse ivermectin paste used to be for sale and amply stocked. “We’re sold out [again],” said Jonson, vice president of The Western Ranchman Store in Phoenix, Arizona. In fact, Jonson said the feed store has been sold out for weeks. There’s no way…


Ecuador Prison Riot Kills at Least 24 People, Injures Dozens More

Dozens of inmates were killed on Tuesday after gang members started a riot at a prison located in a coastal city in southwest Ecuador, officials said. The violence erupted at a prison in the Guayaquil region and it took police and military officials five hours to regain control. The fighting involved gunfire, knives, and explosions…


Beijing Abandoned Its Commitment by Blocking Boeing Airplane Purchases: US Commerce Chief

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said on Sept. 28 that China was holding back domestic airlines from purchasing “tens of billions of dollars” of U.S.-manufactured Boeing Co. airplanes. “There’s tens of billions of dollars of planes that Chinese airlines want to buy but the Chinese government is standing in the way,” she said in a…


Euro Zone Sentiment Edges up in September, Defies Expectations of Drop

BRUSSELS—Euro zone economic sentiment edged higher in September after a fall in August, boosted by optimism among consumers and in the industry and construction sectors, while inflation expectations continued to rise among manufacturers and consumers alike. The European Commission’s economic sentiment indicator rose to 117.8 in September, from 117.6 in August, after hitting an all-time…


LA Nonprofit Launches Micro-Forest Initiative in City Parks

The Los Angeles Parks Foundation has launched an initiative to plant ten “micro-forests” per year in the city’s parks, imitating a similar project in Paris as groups across the world promote forest growth with the aim of improving the natural environment and limiting climate change. “In the spring or summer of 2020, I read about Paris’s micro-forests…