France is in the middle of a major political shift. After a crushing defeat in the EU elections earlier this month, French president Emmanuel Macron dissolved parliament and called a snap parliamentary election. Marine Le Pen’s National Rally is set to win the next election and as it stands, the next prime minister of France will be 28-year-old Conservative social media influencer Jordan Bardella.
France is beset by serious economic issues and mass immigration which has brought terror and carnage to French streets. The rise of anti-French Islamism is becoming untenable and the French people are finally waking up and taking their country back.
On the latest episode of The Faulkner Show, Harrison speaks with French political activist and President of the Patriots Network Enzo Alias to discuss how the French right wing has found themselves so close to taking power.
Durham Region held its fifth annual pride event geared toward children and families this weekend, but it was clear from the onset some Canadians were not welcome at the “inclusive” event.
“We will not tolerate ideologies that exclude,” one of the speakers said in the opening remarks of Durham Youth Pride on Saturday at the Durham Regional Headquarters.
Information and resource booths from pride and community organizations across Durham Region were set up, and two Drag Queens, “Sofonda Cox” and “Wilma Checklear”, performed and led dance parties with kids.
Source: Clayton DeMaine – Whitby June, 22, 2024.
At some of the booths, QR code links were posted that people could follow to learn about changing their gender and join private Discord groups.
The booth operators from PFLAG Durham told True North that kids could join the online “TRANSitions” group if they wanted, though following the link says the group is for ages 16 and older and directs younger people to their teens and tweens group, which holds weekly meetings at a physical location.
It’s an online group for youth to connect with others who have similar questions about changing genders and get guidance from the organization on how to do so.
Source: Clayton DeMaine – Whitby June, 22, 2024.
“One Voice,” a weekly group for “2SLGBTQIA+ aged 13-29” offered by The AIDS Committee of Durham Region, provides a “safe space to discuss a variety of sexual health topics including…safer sex, identity and intersectionality.
ACDR also offers an overnight summer camp, “Camp Rainbow Pheonix,” for “2SLGBTQIA+ youth aged 12-17,” where campers can connect in a “welcoming and affirming environment.”
“This is a community event that supports youth in feeling comfortable with who they are and comfortable expressing themselves,” Liberal MP Ryan Turnbull told True North in an interview.
Of course, not everyone agreed that Pride events should include children. Isolated out of sight of the event participants, five protesters were preaching the Gospel through an amplifier.
Source: Clayton DeMaine – Whitby June, 22, 2024.
In an interview with True North, Pastor Jeffrey Sapocinik from the Grace Missionary Baptist Church in Scarborough said this was his group’s eighth time protesting outside of a drag event for children this month.
“They are targeting the youth. They have an agenda. They say it’s not explicitly sexual. But I saw some drag queens (in attendance) who weren’t (appropriately) dressed.” Sapocinik said.
When Turnbull was asked whether the event was inappropriate, he said such a characterization was unfair.
“I don’t think anything indicates that to me,” Turnbull said. “It looks like a bunch of rainbows, and people are having a good time. So I think that’s a pretty skewed perspective on things, and I think it usually comes from people who might be afraid of that inclusive society.”
A few men blared music and held a tarp up for the duration of the event to dampen the sound of the preacher’s amps.
“Why do they desire an audience of children? Why aren’t they going into a nursing home and expressing themselves there?” Sapocinik said. “As Christians, our voice is not heard anymore. And I fault Christians also for not challenging this.”
He said that although the Bible, which he believes in, says adultery, homosexuality and lying are sins, he and his fellow preachers are also sinners and that he doesn’t believe that his group is more righteous than anyone else.
“We’re actually preaching an inclusive message because we’re saying ‘all have sinned and come short of the glory of God,’” Luke Jennings, a street preacher with the church, said.
Andrea Maenza from Durham Children’s Aid Society told attendees, who otherwise were interested in speaking, not to do interviews with True North due to its largely conservative-leaning audience.
True North asked whether gay conservatives were welcome at pride celebrations; Maenza laughed and said, “If you’re gay, you shouldn’t be conservative.”
Source: Clayton DeMaine – Whitby June, 22, 2024.
When asked to confirm that she thinks conservatives who are gay shouldn’t be welcome at “inclusive” pride events such as this, she refused to answer and walked away.
“They don’t allow people who were trans and transitioned back to have a voice,” Jennings added when asked if the event was inclusive.
One attendee identified himself as gay and said he agrees that kids shouldn’t be brought to pride parades if naked adult men are present, such as some events in Toronto. But he said Durham Youth Pride wasn’t one of those events. Instead, it was a family-friendly event, a sentiment shared by all attendees who were asked.
Source: Clayton DeMaine – Whitby June, 22, 2024.
Holly O’Brien, a mother who was there with her family, agreed.
“I like that we can come here, and all these kids are themselves, wearing what they want to wear, doing what they want to do. It’s nice to see that they have somewhere to go where they’re accepted no matter what.”
It’s a true testament to the power of voter anger that the day of reckoning finally came for the Liberals in my riding of Toronto—St. Paul’s.
After 30 long years of Liberal dominance in this midtown riding—even when the Liberals did poorly nationally—Conservative Don Stewart squeaked through with a 600-vote win.
Longtime St. Paul’s MP Carolyn Bennett held the riding federally for 26 years during which she showed that she cared little about the lowly constituents she was supposed to oversee—appearing at safe photo ops in between jetting off to conferences and meetings and sending out glossy newsletters as if to prove she was working for us.
I have been fond of saying that one could run one of my dachsies in St. Paul’s and they would win — as long as they were Liberal.
But Monday’s results sent a clear message that voters are fed up with the Justin Trudeau government (propped up by NDP leader Jagmeet Singh).
It wasn’t just the Conservative win but the number of people who came out to vote—43% of eligible voters, tremendous for a byelection.
Anger certainly got people off of their couches to vote.
Not even the steady procession of Liberal cabinet ministers, jetted into the riding as if they were superstars, could save Leslie Church, the Liberal candidate parachuted into the riding.
I especially loved the constant appearance of Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, Church’s former boss, tone deafly painting Conservatives as she did on election day as “cruel, cold and small.”
But we had a strong message for the tired Liberal government.
We told them we’re absolutely fed up with their arrogance, elitism and disconnect from the needs of the grassroots voter.
The days of lazy voters who vote by rote based on empty promises and name recognition are over.
Although byelections are the perfect time to tell government what one thinks, the St. Paul’s voters were clearly not ready for any sort of change in 2009 when I ran for the provincial Conservatives— shortly after I married my wife—as the party’s first openly gay candidate.
It was clear at the doors back then that under former Liberal leader Dalton McGuinty (followed by Kathleen Wynne) they had not yet seen what was to come in the way of fiscal madness, woke school board policies and scandals aplenty.
But it happened. And for years after, St. Paul’s voters continued to exhibit the best definition of insanity—namely doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
Not this time.
We told them we are sick of what they’re doing to the country, and in this case, Canada’s largest city, with their unchecked immigration, lax security policies and their hug-a-thug approach to rising crime.
We told them we are done with their simple-minded approach to propping up drug addicts by coddling their habit and leaving them to lie in a drug-infused stupor in our public parks and on our city sidewalks.
We see that being woke is the best recipe for going broke.
We told them their unchecked spending and demonization of those who work hard for their money and invest wisely—most recently with their capital gains tax hikes—will only drive more investors from Canada.
In fact, a few days ago I met an Israeli-born investor who told me he visited Toronto two weeks ago and could not believe its decline. He advised the company for which he works not to invest in the city because of it.
And for the riding’s largely Jewish population, the past nine months have been a huge wake-up call.
We’ve watched Trudeau and most of his Cabinet ministers turn a blind eye to the violence and ever-increasing Jew hatred on the streets of our major cities.
We’ve seen Trudeau take his sweet time calling out major antisemitic incidents, if at all.
We’ve seen some members of the Liberal caucus—such as Salma Zahid and Iqra Khalid—openly declare their Israel hatred on social media. Few members of Trudeau’s caucus have declared their support for Canada’s Jewish communities.
Even Jewish MP Ya’ara Saks, from a largely Jewish Toronto riding, has hewed to the Liberal party line, leading us to realize the party has no moral compass whatsoever.
For those of us who’ve been in the media for years, we’re fed up (and in my case downright disgusted) with the Liberal MSM which has consistently propped up the Trudeau government as quid pro quo for its bailouts.
Even Monday, when it was clear the election was neck and neck, they only showed clips of Church and Trudeau as if no other candidates existed.
They all deserve to be called out too.
It has indeed been a rude awakening for those, who unlike me, saw the writing on the wall more than a decade ago.
But at least the tide is turning.
This major upset shows, at least I pray it is so, that there is hope for Canada yet.
The head at a public library in British Columbia boasted that applications from white people were wholly disregarded when hiring for every executive position except her own.
Beth Davis, the chief librarian at Burnaby Public Library, stated in a mid-term report that when filling six job openings, the library rejected any résumés from white candidates.
Only non-white applicants were interviewed.
Though the Human Rights Code of B.C. bans discrimination against individuals based on “race, colour, or ancestry,” Burnaby Public Library received a five-year exemption to violate what otherwise would have been considered a human right – in the name of “equity.”
The B.C. Office of the Human Rights Commissioner website mentions a recognition that the “special program.” exemption curtails equality rights but is justified in the pursuit of “substantive equality,” which is commonly referred to as equity or equality of outcome.
“Equality means that each person is treated fairly and with dignity. It means that ‘no one is denied opportunities for reasons that have nothing to do with inherent ability,’” it said. “However, treating everyone the same can sometimes lead to discrimination against disadvantaged individuals or groups. Sometimes, to advance human rights objectives, we need to look at treating people differently.”
In Davis’ public report, she outlines the library’s hiring process and how it came to exclude some Canadians based on the colour of their skin.
“From a process perspective, hiring managers look first at résumés from racialized candidates and only look at résumés from white candidates if there isn’t a sufficient pool of qualified racialized candidates,” the report said. “In all competitions to the mid-year evaluation point, there has been a sufficient pool of qualified racialized candidates.”
It said that every candidate hired through this human rights exemption program still holds their job except for one position, for which the vacancy only existed due to the incumbent being on “parental leave.”
Activist and former school trustee candidate Chanel Pfahl shared the report on X, which she views as evidence of unfair hiring processes.
“How is this allowed? The library filed an application for a special permit to discriminate based on race when hiring,” she said.
Pfahl pointed out that the only position where racial discrimination couldn’t be applied was Davis’s position as chief librarian.
“Isn’t that something- all positions but her own! Beth Davies, the whitey won’t quit for equity, but is fine with other white people losing out on opportunities due to their skin colour,” Pfahl said.
This is part of a report sent out this week by Beth Davies (@beththelib), the “chief librarian” at the Burnaby Public Library (@burnabypl).
She explains that hiring managers “only look at résumés from white candidates if there isn't a sufficient pool of qualified racialized… pic.twitter.com/6tLoWFcQH3
“She needs to be fired. If she had any integrity, she’d step down from her position in favour of a ‘racialized’ person. But we know she’d never do that,” one user on X said.
Another noted that anti-white discrimination is happening “all over the public sector and much of the private sector.”
“Disgusting…Pity the poor sap that was born a straight, white male.”
Some remarked that this exemption is only possible because of a particular section in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
“We need to eliminate section 15(2) of the Charter that allows this crap,” the user said.
That section of the Charter states that it “does not preclude any law, program or activity that has as its object the amelioration of conditions of disadvantaged individuals or groups including those that are disadvantaged because of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.”
In other words, though discrimination based on those grounds is seemingly prohibited under the Charter, those same safeguards against discrimination can be considered irrelevant if the stated goal of the discriminatory policy is to improve the lives of people who are deemed to be “disadvantaged.”
Vaccine mandates, border measures and travel restrictions are on the table as part of an updated human-animal influenza pandemic agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico.
A report detailing the trilateral North American Preparedness for Animal and Human Pandemics Initiative (NAPAHPI) was quietly released this month detailing the scope and governance of the trilateral agreement.
NAPAHPI is to be governed by the relevant ministries of each country. In Canada, that is the Public Health Agency of Canada, Public Safety Canada, Global Affairs Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
As an updated version of the North American Plan for Animal and Pandemic Influenza, it aims to learn from the COVID-19 pandemic on how to best implement sweeping measures to deal with viral outbreaks, including imposing vaccine mandates and strict border controls.
The new agreement claims to be a “flexible, scalable, and cross-sectoral platform to strengthen regional prevention, preparedness for, and response to a broader range of health security threats that include pandemics of any origin and beyond.”
Under the guise of lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, NAPAHPI promises to bolster regional health security by coordinating “the formulation of proposed laws and other legal administrative provisions.”
The agreement details powers “to request the participation of sectors such as defence, commerce, transportation, emergency management, wildlife, environment, etc., as appropriate.”
NAPAHPI’s senior coordinating body can “can and should call on private sector stakeholders particularly those associated with supply chains, medical countermeasures, research and development, critical infrastructure, and transportation, among others” to implement pandemic measures, the agreement says.
“When an emergency call is triggered NAPAHPI will collaborate in discussion on Border measures/travel restrictions, Non-pharmaceutical, public health measures and assessment of their potential economic, social, and emergency management impact, among other responsibilities.”
One of the key objectives of the updated agreement is to assess the implementation of border measures and closures during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“NAPAHPI partners intend to explore the feasibility of conducting an analysis and evidence review of the effectiveness of international border measures/closures during COVID-19 to inform future responses,” the plan reads.
“The implementation of border health measures at airports, seaports, and land borders such as screening of passengers, vaccination requirements, quarantine, and entry restrictions, etc., should be evidence-based and aimed to slow the introduction or spread of a pathogen in the region.”
Other responsibilities include “joint exercises and training” between the partner nations.
“There is a need for Canada, Mexico, and the United States to enhance the interface among their respective emergency management/response structures through joint training and exercises conducted through scenario-based, facilitated discussions, workshops, table-top exercises, and/or full-scale drills as needed.”
Most Liberals went to bed thinking they had won the Toronto–St. Paul’s byelection, but when all the ballots were counted, the Conservatives had managed to narrowly take hold of the Liberal stronghold, electing Don Stewart as the newest MP. These results are catastrophic for Justin Trudeau, True North’s Andrew Lawton argues. He discusses with longtime political journalist and author Paul Wells, and then brings in National Post columnist Rahim Mohamed. Do you think Trudeau will resign over this?
In a remarkable upset for a traditionally Liberal stronghold, Conservative candidate Don Stewart has won the federal byelection for Toronto–St. Paul’s.
Plus, 70% of young Canadians believe immigrants should share Canadian values.
And a Liberal MP apologized for forgetting P.E.I. and Yukon in his Canada Day colouring map, which was mailed to his constituents.
Tune into The Daily Brief with Cosmin Dzsurdzsa and Noah Jarvis!
English Defence League founder Tommy Robinson was arrested in Calgary moments after delivering a speech on censorship and government overreach.
Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was arrested in Calgary under an outstanding immigration warrant right after a talk organized by Rebel News. It was supposed to be the first stop of a three-city tour across Canada.
According to Robinson, his release from jail, was conditional on him forfeiting his passport to Canadian authorities and remaining in southern Alberta – between Red Deer and the United States border – pending the outcome of an immigration hearing.
Ok I’m FREE , we’ll sort of, None of this makes sense , I’m now detained in Calgary , prevented from leaving the city , these conditions stop me from continuing my tour of Canada & meeting with guests for podcasts . I’m not even allowed to leave to travel home https://t.co/tNr2ovHOP2
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) June 25, 2024
In a video surreptitiously recorded by Robinson in the backseat of the law enforcement vehicle he was placed in after his arrest, an officer told Robinson that he was charged under an outstanding immigration warrant.
The officer tells him that the Canada Border Services Agency ordered his arrest after finding a discrepancy between Robinsons’ criminal record and what he had when applying for his travel authorization to enter Canada.
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) June 25, 2024
“Isn’t it mad how tough you get with immigration on the wrong people? It’s mental, isn’t it?” Robinson told the officers in the video. “You act like absolute spineless cowards as a country letting…whoever into your country, you don’t know nothing about them, their criminal histories, or anything, their ideologies, and then you turn up…for me giving a talk at a seminar.”
The officer said he thought it was ironic that Robinson was talking about letting people into Canada who have criminal records and then accuses him of lying about his criminal record at the border.
Robinson denied the claim, saying his “boss” had done the application.
After his release, Robinson said that he had been questioned and spent three hours at immigration on his entry into Canada last week.
Robinson has become a popular figure in the anti-immigration movement in the U.K. and other European countries.
He was previously found to be in contempt of court in May 2018, when he filmed and live-streamed immigrant men outside of Leeds Crown Court in England who were accused of the sexual exploitation of young girls.
The judge in that case noted that he also had 11 previous convictions, including offences involving violence, fraud, and disobeying court orders.
The Calgary Police Service told True North it was only involved in the arrest “to keep the peace” and assist CBSA, who made the arrest.
Jordan Peterson was scheduled to meet Robinson and has posted on X that he is willing to meet him in Red Deer, Alta. instead. Peterson said the arrest would have a “Streisand effect,” making more people listen to Robinson than ever.
“The police are now being used directly as political agents of the state. I don’t know who ordered this, but it’s not acceptable. You idiot lefties might be pleased about this in this situation but don’t be thinking that once established, this won’t be used against you,” Peterson said on X about the arrest.
CBSA did not respond to True North’s requests by deadline.
Lawyer David McKenzie won the Conservative nomination race in Calgary Signal Hill, following a race so tight that the results following a recount.
“I am deeply honoured to be selected as the Conservative Party of Canada candidate in Calgary Signal Hill. I have had the opportunity to meet so many of you in the past year and a half, and I am inspired by the level of tenacity and passion in our community. Thank you for the trust you have placed in me,” wrote McKenzie in a statement.
It was initially announced that former MLA Jeremy Nixon won the race by a single vote, however, a recount by the Calgary Signal Hill Conservative Electoral District Association gave McKenzie a win by seven votes.
“I am thrilled to have been chosen as your Conservative Party Candidate,” said Nixon before the recount. “Thank you to all my supporters, my hardworking volunteers, and my beautiful family.”
It was a very tight race, something that McKenzie noted as he thanked the other candidates, commending them on their hard work and saying that they “all fought honourable campaigns.”
McKenzie went on to say that he looked forward to continuing to work with them to “support grassroots conservative politics in Calgary Signal Hill.”
“While I will have more to say to my fellow party members in the days ahead, for now I want to simply thank you for your time and your engagement in this process,” continued the statement.
“Calgary Signal Hill is a flagship riding in Canada for our party, and you have my commitment to offer our riding the leadership it expects and deserves.”
Conservative MP Ron Liepert, who held the seat for the past nine years, announced that he would not be seeking re-election to the House of Commons last year.
“I want to thank my constituents for the trust they have placed in me as their Member of Parliament since 2015,” said Liepert in a statement from February 2023. “It has been a sincere honour to serve.”
Liepert congratulated McKenzie following his nomination win.
I want to take a moment to congratulate David McKenzie on his victory in the incredibly competitive nomination race in Calgary Signal Hill over the weekend. I know David will be an excellent candidate in the next election. #cdnpoli
Anti-Israel activists in Montreal have set up a new encampment in Montreal’s famed Victoria Square, and have vandalized a statue of the square’s namesake.
Organizers are calling their protest the “Al-Soumoud popular camp” and want Quebec pension fund to divest from the Jewish state.
In a statement to the media, the Divest for Palestine Collective said they are demanding “that CDPQ immediately withdraw from its $14.2 billion worth of investments in the 87 companies identified as complicit in the Israeli occupation.”
They also want to see the Quebec government close its Tel Aviv office.
The encampment differs from others seen in Canada as it does not take place on a university campus.
“It’s not just the universities that are complicit in the Israeli occupation, it’s also public institutions, the Quebec government and the Caisse de dépôt et placement,” said organizer Benoit Allard in an interview with La Presse.
Allard also said in an interview with City News that the encampment will “stay here until our demands are met.”
“We are expanding this camp, we are expecting people to join us, people are currently joining us, we are getting more and more people involved,” he added.
The encampment has dozens of tents and tarps, and messages some would consider to be hateful.
There are several messages praising armed Palestinian uprisings, one noting “The Intifada is growing” and another reading “Intifada in our lifetime.”
The phrase “Peace is the white man’s word, resistance is ours,” as well as Hamas triangles, were also seen.
A new Anti-Israel encampment has been set up in downtown Montreal. Here is one of the messages seen. Apparently peace is only something white people want… They are calling for "resistance." Other signs on the encampment are calling for Intifada. pic.twitter.com/Jgq1IeDja7
“Today, we refuse to celebrate the Western nationalism responsible for all the horrors of colonialism here and elsewhere,” said the organizers on social media. “As a result, we will not let these symbols stand erected in peace in our public spaces, like the statue of Queen Victoria.”
True North reached out to the Montreal police service to inquire if they intend to remove the encampment. They did not respond.
