Month: April 2022

Conservatives Call on RCMP to Take Another Look Into Trudeau’s 2016 Aga Khan Trip

Opposition Conservatives are asking the RCMP to pursue a criminal investigation into Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s trip to the Aga Khan’s private island six years ago, saying there’s new evidence. The Bahamian vacation Trudeau and his family embarked on in 2016 has re-emerged as an issue after the Conservative party received internal documents through an…


Crocus Problem and Salad Bowl Gardens

Q: Last fall we bought some crocus, daffodil, and tulip bulbs. The daffodils are blooming, but the crocus and tulips are not. The crocus leaves started to come up but then stopped. The tulip leaves are there, but there are no flowers. What do you think happened and what can we do to prevent it…


Amazon Plans to Invest $1 Billion Into Its Industrial Innovation Fund

Amazon.com, on April 21, announced the launch of its “Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund,” a $1 billion venture investment program focused on developing supply chain management, customer fulfillment, logistics, and warehouse tech. The new venture investment program will back companies working on technology to increase e-commerce delivery speeds and improve the experience of workers in warehousing…


UK Government Urged to Clarify Position on Buying Hikvision Surveillance Cameras

The UK’s central and local government ministers have been challenged to clarify their positions on buying surveillance cameras from a company partly owned by the Chinese regime, according to correspondence published on Monday. The Home Office’s independent Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner Professor Fraser Sampson wrote to ministers last week about his concerns over Hikvision cameras following a…


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Wisconsin County Takes the Lead in Banning Private Funding of Elections

Wisconsin’s Walworth County has become the first local government in the state to ban the acceptance of private monies or grants for use in the administration of elections. Approval of the measure came after 16 states have enacted legislation to ban or regulate the acceptance and use of private funds by public election officials. Good-government…


Hunter Biden’s Failure to Register as Foreign Agent Could Be Case for Indictment: Investigative Journalist

Hunter Biden not registering as a foreign agent during his business dealings involving a Chinese energy giant with ties to the Chinese Communist Party could support an indictment, said Natalie Winters, an investigative reporter at National Pulse. When the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop—abandoned by him at a computer repair shop—had been confirmed, media coverage…


Freedom Convoy Leader Tamara Lich Wins Award for Upholding Freedom

Tamara Lich’s fight for Charter freedoms, which landed her in prison earlier this year, has now landed her an award.  Lich, a key Freedom Convoy protest organizer, is set to receive the George Jonas Freedom Award at a ceremony in Toronto on June 16, according to the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF).  “Ms. Lich inspired…


Putin Warns of ‘Lightning’ Response If US Intervenes in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday warned Moscow would mount a quick response if Western powers intervene in its two-month-long invasion of Ukraine. Speaking to lawmakers in a public setting, Putin said that “if anyone sets out to intervene in the current events from the outside and creates unacceptable threats for us that are strategic…


Newsom’s Court-Ordered Care for Homeless Advances

SACRAMENTO—California’s plan to push some homeless suffering from mental illness into court-ordered care moved forward April 26 following a unanimous vote in a Senate committee hearing. “We have been investing billions and billions and billions of dollars into our mental health system [and] into our homelessness system,” bill co-author Sen. Susan Eggman (D-Stockton) said during…