The Phantom Soapbox
Friday, March 15, 2024
Metro Toronto Police: huddle and cower, peasants.
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Apple cancels the Apple Car.
The decision to ultimately wind down the project is a bombshell for the company, ending a multibillion-dollar effort that would have vaulted Apple into a whole new industry. The tech giant started working on a car around 2014, setting its sights on a fully autonomous electric vehicle with a limousine-like interior and voice-guided navigation. But the project struggled nearly from the start, with Apple changing the team's leadership and strategy several times. Lynch and Williams took over the undertaking a few years ago -- following the departure of Doug Field, now a senior executive at Ford Motor.
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
No more roads for Canada.
Environment Canada approved. |
"Our government has made the decision to stop investing in new road infrastructure," said Guilbeault, who represents the Quebec riding of Laurier-Sainte-Marie. "Of course, we will continue to be there for cities, provinces and territories to maintain the existing network, but there will be no more envelopes from the federal government to enlarge the road network.
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"The analysis we have done is that the network is perfectly adequate to respond to the needs we have. And thanks to a mix of investment in active and public transit and in territorial planning and densification, we can very well achieve our goals of economic, social and human development without more enlargement of the road network."
Guilbeault also said money spent on asphalt and concrete for road expansions would be better invested in projects that will help fight climate change and adapt to its impacts, the Gazette reported.
Thursday, January 25, 2024
Hugo schadenfreude, piping hot.
Recently released documents showed that several works or authors – some with links to China – had been excluded from the ballot despite receiving enough nominations to be included on their respective shortlists. The excluded nominees include Kuang and Zhao, authors who were born in China but are now based in the west.
Concerns have been raised that the authors were targeted for political reasons, connected to the fact that the ruling Chinese Communist party exerts a tight control on all cultural events that take place inside its borders.
Dave McCarty, the head of the 2023 Hugo awards jury, wrote on Facebook: "Nobody has ordered me to do anything … There was no communication between the Hugo administration team and the Chinese government in any official manner."
You know what she's saying. |
Sunday, December 31, 2023
Warren Kinsella: Credit where credit is due.
Something I never expected to see, and really something that is quite a shocking departure from history, Warren Kinsella the back-room Liberal fixer has just stood tall for the truth.
I must say, I am really quite amazed. Here's what he said.
A few weeks ago, this writer was invited to the Israeli consulate in Toronto to see 42 minutes of raw video footage. It was mostly taken from video recorders dead (and uniformed) Hamas terrorists brought with them on the morning of Oct. 7, 2023.The uniformed Hamas killers wanted to keep a record of what they did in Israel that morning. They were proud of what they did: on the videos, they said so, over and over.
[snippage of the witnessed atrocities]With the permission of the victim's families, some journalists and legislators have been allowed to see the video. To bear witness, the Israelis told us.
We bore witness to something else, however. Something that hasn't been written about nearly as much, but it is important.
It was easy to spot the Hamas men. As noted, they wore uniforms and looked like soldiers, even though they acted like animals – worse than animals, actually.
But here's something else we witnessed: people who weren't in uniforms, at all, flooding into Israel to participate in the barbarity of that dark Saturday.
Wednesday, December 20, 2023
I'm so proud.
"In addition to the other calls worldwide demanding immediate ceasefire in Gaza strip — the last of which was a statement by Canada, Australia, and New Zealand backing sustainable ceasefire in Gaza — we welcome these developments and consider them in the right direction toward isolating the fascist Israeli government globally and ending the longest ever occupation in our modern time." - Dr. Ghazi Hamad, a senior leader of the Palestinian terror group HamAss.
Thursday, November 23, 2023
New Rules, Lefties. Because you insisted.
https://twitter.com/UAlberta/status/1725988052454326510
Statement on the University of Alberta Sexual Assault Centre
The recent improper and unauthorized use of the name of the University of Alberta’s Sexual Assault Centre in endorsing an open letter has raised understandable concerns from members of our community and the public. Effective immediately, the director of the centre is no longer employed by the university. The university has appointed a new interim director of the Sexual Assault Centre.
The open letter:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12763853/sarah-jama-susan-kim-university-alberta-hamas-rape.html
The director of a sexual assault center at a Canadian university is coming under criticism for signing an open letter denying women were raped during Hamas' October 7 attack on Israel.
Samantha Pearson, director of the University of Alberta's Sexual Assault Center, was among those to sign in support of the letter written by two local politicians.
Sarah Jama, a member of Ontario's provincial parliament, and Susan Kim, a city councillor in Victoria, British Columbia, authored the letter to all members of Canada's parliament.
We, the undersigned, residing in so-called Canada, urge Canadian political leaders to end their complicity in the ongoing massacres and genocide in Gaza, Occupied Palestine,' they wrote.
The letter - entitled 'Stand with Palestine: Call on Political Leaders to End Their Complicity in Genocide!' - called on the MPs to resign after the prime minister, Justin Trudeau, refused to demand a ceasefire.
And the signatories criticized opposition leader Jagmeet Singh for having 'repeated the unverified accusation that Palestinians were guilty of sexual violence.'