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Provincial agriculture ministers are expressing frustration with the Trudeau government over plans to effectively reduce fertilizer use by Canada’s farmers in the name of fighting climate change. A meeting of federal and provincial ministers wrapped up in Saskatoon on Friday with several provinces saying they are disappointed. The federal government is looking to impose a requirement to reduce nitrous oxide emissions from fertilizers saying it is a greenhouse gas contributing to climate change. While the Trudeau government says they want a 30% reduction in emissions, not fertilizer, farm producer groups say that at this point, reducing nitrous oxide emissions can’t...

Your retirement planning likely includes getting income from the Social Security Administration, but when you start collecting Social Security benefits can have a big impact on your planning. The earliest you can collect is age 62, but you'll get more money if you delay your benefits past your initial Social Security eligibility. If you wait until after your full retirement age (somewhere between 65 and 67) to start collecting Social Security you can earn delayed retirement credits, which will increase your benefits even more. You might think that waiting for bigger benefits is better, but that's not always the case....

Russian missiles hit Ukraine’s port of Odessa Saturday, in what Kyiv called a “spit in the face” of a day-old deal between the warring sides to resume cereal exports blocked by the conflict. The Ukrainian military said its air defences had shot down two cruise missiles but two more hit the port, threatening the landmark agreement hammered out over months of negotiations aimed at relieving a global food crisis.

The man who drunkenly attacked the Republican candidate for governor in New York was photographed being taken into custody by FBI, state and county police Saturday on federal assault charges, after being immediately released following the attack under the state's bail reform laws. David Jakubonis, 43, an Army veteran, was arrested after allegedly attacking Zeldin with a $10 cat keyring weapon at the congressman's Thursday campaign rally for state governor, outside of Rochester, New York. He was released hours later. But on Saturday, DailyMail.com cameras saw Jakubonis taken into custody by FBI, New York State police and deputies from the...

The bill would have required health care workers to treat infants born alive after an abortion the same as any other infant at the same gestational age. In January 2018, when now-governor Tim Walz was still a congressman in the U.S. House, he apologized for “accidentally” voting in favor of a bill protecting infants who survived an abortion. The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (HR 4712), which passed the U.S. House by a 241-183 vote, said it would require health workers to treat infants born alive after an abortion (or attempted abortion) the same as any other infant at the...

Finally—my 6th book, Educational Elephant’s Guide, Study School : Easy Brain Tools for Every Subject just launched, and you can download the digital version for free—this weekend only (through Sunday)! Regular price is $3.99. Study School focuses on life-time learning. For this purpose, the Educational Elephant organized content by subjects rather than grade levels. As we build study skills, however, our grades in school can also improve. Each Study School level reveals fun ideas to overcome challenges, study smart, build on your strengths, and pursue interest-led studies. Students can gain higher test scores in reading, writing, math, science, social studies,...

Blame it on lingering effects of the pandemic, resentment over the lockout or economic fears. Major League Baseball is struggling to fill the stands at pre-COVID levels as the sport heads into the last 2½ months of its first season since 2019 without capacity restrictions. MLB reached the All-Star break with an average attendance of 26,409. That represents a drop of 5.4% from the All-Star break of 2019 — which was 10 days earlier than this year. League officials remain encouraged and point to the recovery. […] … Victor Matheson, a Holy Cross economics professor who specializes in sports economics...

[T]he most important asteroid discoveries are now being made in twilight, when astronomers are able to look close to the horizon — and close to the sun — for little-known asteroids that orbit inside the orbits of Earth, Venus and even Mercury. That includes the first asteroid with an orbit interior to Venus and one with the shortest-known orbital period around the sun, both of which have been unearthed in the last two years. It also includes "city-killers," asteroids large enough that if they were to impact Earth, the damage would be severe. DECam and another telescope are making it...

Looks like the First Lady's visit to an Ice Cream shop called Arethusa Farm Dairy in New Haven, CT today was not kept secret enough as plenty were there to yell at her. Where is Joe?

A newly sworn-in Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) commissioner is a former staffer for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. SEC commissioner Jaime Lizárraga was sworn in on Monday to his position in the financial regulatory body. Lizárraga was Pelosi’s senior advisor and director of member services for over a decade. According to Legistorm, Lizárraga joined Pelosi’s staff as a senior adviser while she was the House minority leader and after she became speaker again. Prior to Pelosi’s staff, Lizárraga worked as deputy director of legislative affairs for the SEC and also worked on the House Financial Services Committee. Lizárraga’s swearing-in...

Jordan Peterson is an enigmatic person. Ever since he suddenly appeared on the world stage as a teacher of responsibility, self-discipline, and political incorrectness, he has been controversial. His tough-love rules for life won him the admiration of many young men who felt empowered by his message. The Left was enraged by his refusal to use assumed pronouns during his university classes. His caustic way of dealing with liberals and “wokism” made him an instant success among conservatives and gained him a large YouTube following all over the United States and Canada.

Canadian pastor Artur Pawlowski won his appeals case against the Alberta Health Services (AHS) for being fined, arrested, and jailed during Canada’s Covid-19 lockdown. The Alberta Court of Appeal granted Artur Pawlowski and his brother, Dawid Pawlowski, appeals, striking down the contempt and sanction orders against the brothers and requiring the AHS to refund the fines paid by the brothers, Rebel News reported Friday. “The chambers judge awarded costs to AHS payable by the Pawlowskis jointly in the amount of $15,733.50,” the Canadian Court’s decision stated. “That costs award is set aside and the Pawlowskis are awarded their costs payable...

[Catholic Caucus] Cdl. Gregory restricts Latin Mass, bans traditional sacraments in ‘vindictive, heartless’ decreeCardinal Gregory issued a six-page decree banning all traditional sacraments apart from the Mass, which is now to be only weekly and in three specific churches in the archdiocese.WASHINGTON D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Cardinal Wilton Gregory has placed severe restrictions on the Traditional Mass in his Archdiocese of Washington, limiting the sacred liturgy to three churches, to be celebrated only on Sundays, and completely banning the traditional sacraments. In a decree issued July 22, Cardinal Wilton Gregory outlined his implementation of Pope Francis’ 2021 restrictions on the Latin...

(edited to make points fit) The EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review) is supposed to operate as an independent judicial decision-maker, but insiders say it has been captured by the Biden administration. In the 18 months that the Biden administration has been in office, it has reassigned two of EOIR’s top leaders and pressured two others into resigning. That’s in addition to the half-dozen judges ousted. “Although the attorney general claimed he would not politicize DOJ, it has become a politicized, toxic and hostile environment due to these actions. Without congressional or [inspector general] oversight, employees are scared, especially at...

A recent New York Times/Siena College poll showing 64 percent of Democrats preferring a new standard-bearer in 2024 rocked the White House and the political landscape, but it should not have come as a big surprise. After all, President Joe Biden continues to fall short of the promises that drew many Democrats, including myself, to his candidacy in 2020: his pledge for a new strategy combatting Covid-19. Consider the Food and Drug Administration’s recent decision allowing pharmacists to play doctor and prescribe Pfizer’s anti-viral treatment Paxlovid, which Biden himself, having contracted Covid-19, is now taking. The agency claims this is...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — Police are searching for a suspect involved in a catalytic converter theft on March 19 in East Bakersfield. The incident happened around 6 p.m. in the 2500 block of Mt. Vernon Avenue. The suspect is described as a woman in her 30s, 5' 3" tall, 120 to 140 pounds, with long brown hair. She has a tattoo on her left wrist and something similar to a paw print tattoo on her chest. She was last seen wearing a red/grey athletic top, grey shorts and red/white Jordan shoes. Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to...

“China has been a very active buyer of grain and it is stockpiling grain… at a time when hundreds of millions of people are entering the catastrophic phase of food insecurity,” said James O’Brien, head of the US State Department’s Office of Sanctions Coordination. O’Brien said 40% of the first grain shipments out of Ukraine in April went to China. “It would have been much better to see that grain going to Egypt, in the Horn of Africa and other places.”

Last month, Stanford’s Sewer Coronavirus Alert Network, or SCAN, added monkeypox to the suite of viruses it checks wastewater for daily. Since then, monkeypox has been detected in 10 of the 11 sewer systems that SCAN tests, including those in Sacramento, Palo Alto, and several other cities in California’s Bay Area.

If you’re a taxpayer — in New York or anywhere in the US – you’re getting scammed by groups like United Way, Catholic Charities and the Central American Refugee Center (CARECEN). You may think these are charities. Truth is, these groups are hauling in millions in taxpayer dollars — your money — under government contracts to facilitate illegal immigration.

After a fresh humiliation by booing crowds at the Queen’s jubilee, here comes another blow to the Duke and Duchess of Woke. “Revenge,” the much-anticipated book by British investigative reporter Tom Bower, may not offer much new information, but it shines as a deep dive into their psyches. The folie á deux on display here is worthy of a Highsmith novel: Two very broken people stoking each other’s rage, grievances and delusions of grandeur, believing in their unstoppable rise even as they fall ever downward. What other modern-day couple would wear their expulsion from the British royal family so dementedly,...