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Gene-edited food can reach your plate without a Health Canada safety check, but you’d never know it

Safe Food Matters Inc. and its co-founder, Mary Lou McDonald, have asked the Federal Court to strike down Health Canada guidance that lets many gene-edited plant foods reach the market without the department’s pre-market safety assessment.

The application, filed October 20, names the Attorney General of Canada. It asks the court to declare the May 18, 2022, Guidance on the Novelty Interpretation of Products of Plant Breeding unlawful and contrary to section 7 of the Charter, and to quash its key section.

The court has not ruled yet, but under the Food and Drug Regulations, a food is “novel” if it comes from a plant “genetically modified” to gain or lose a characteristic. Novel foods need Health Canada’s written clearance before sale. The 2022 guidance carves out an exception: if a gene-edited plant contains no foreign DNA and meets four other criteria, it’s not novel.

That means there’s no mandatory notification, no departmental assessment and no public decision.

McDonald says in the filing that she refuses genetically modified foods as a matter of health and conscience and “cannot reliably determine whether the foods offered to her are gene-edited.” She put it plainly: “the only filter I had to protect my health from GE food was transparency from Health Canada. That protection is gone.”

The applicants argue that a guidance document can’t rewrite a regulation. Health Canada says it still assesses all novel foods and has no authority to require notice of products it doesn’t consider novel.

Basically, disclosure is voluntary. Health Canada’s list of non-novel products names 25 products, 15 of them gene-edited, including tomatoes, potatoes, strawberries, corn and soybeans. The newest is dated July 31, 2026, and Canada doesn’t require labels identifying genetic modification or gene editing at all, unless there’s a health reason (like an allergen).

The same light touch now covers seed. Since May 2023, CFIA guidance generally exempts gene-edited plants without foreign DNA from pre-release authorization. In most cases, developers decide for themselves whether their plant is novel.

Who wanted it this way? Radio-Canada reported in September 2023 that access-to-information records showed a government-industry “Tiger Team,” including CropLife Canada, helped shape the approach.

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U.N. Bows Down to Iran: Appoints It to Key Committee Overseeing Women’s Rights and Counterterrorism

The U.N. General Assembly ignored the Islamic Republic of Iran’s appalling record on human rights to appoint it to a key committee Wednesday tasked with determining the globalist body’s priorities on everything from women’s rights to counter terrorism.

Iran received 144 votes in favor in a secret-ballot election, according to the voting results, the Jerusalem Post reports.

Critics, including U.N. Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer, were quick to point out the sheer hypocrisy of appointing the Muslim-majority dictatorship to such a committee.

“They are planning to elect the Islamic regime in Iran to a UN committee that shapes priorities on women’s rights and terrorism prevention,” Neuer said.

“This is a travesty of justice. … They massacred tens of thousands of people in January, [so] the notion that they would be named to this committee is an absurdity.”

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‘The View’s’ Sunny Hostin Marks Veterans Day by Insulting the Memory of Hundreds of Thousands of Americans

Leave it to “The View” to try to spoil Veterans Day.

ABC’s morning gabfest on Wednesday continued its practice of insulting American intelligence with co-host Sunny Hostin’s revisionist take on American history, dismissively discounting the contributions of hundreds of thousands of white Union soldiers who died defeating the Confederacy in the Civil War and ending slavery in the United States.

Because, by Hostin’s reckoning, the slaves “emancipated themselves.”

Oh, really?

According to the National Park Service, approximately 180,000 black men served in the Union Army during the war — about 10 percent of the force — with another 19,000 serving in the Union Navy.

Those are notable numbers, and not to be ignored, of course. But in what field of human endeavor are the contributions of 90 percent of the participants relegated to an afterthought in favor of 10 percent who also happened to be involved?

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From eBay To Vinted, UK’s “Age Verification” Rules Spreading Already

The UK’s so-called “social media ban” hasn’t even come into force yet, and already its remit is set to spread beyond social media.

We previously reported that OfCom – the UK’s official censorship office – have announced that facial scans aren’t accurate enough to enforce the ban, and adults hoping to prove they are over 16 may need to use their photo ID.

Well now Lisa Nandy, the UK’s “Culture Secretary” – named in the ironic tradition of Orwell’s “Ministry of Truth” – has told the media that the government is going to include non-social media sites in the ban.

The BBC reports:

Government ‘looking seriously’ at banning under-16s from Vinted and eBay

The concern is that – allegedly – the direct messaging available between sellers and customers on second-hand selling services is enabling “grooming”.

So the ban for under 16s is going to be extended to those platforms as well.

Of course, just as with the “social media ban”, the more correct description would be “requiring ID verification from everyone”.

This was always going to happen.

Once the “social media ban” is in place to “protect children”, you have a wedge in the door that can widen in two directions – either new “dangers” to children can be discovered, or you can broaden the definition of “social media”.

The UK government has already gone both ways.

Let us not forget what “Culture Secretary” Lisa Nandy said in her speech at the Labour Party conference last month:

“[We] must be a very active interventionist state, policing and regulating the online space so that people are safe.”

We’re well on our way there.

The social media ban already exists alongside other new regulations limiting online chats in multiplayer games (unless you verify your ID), “digital curfews” for 16 or 17 year-olds, age gating pornography, or suggested measures like device-level “nudity detection” – which would be, in reality, mandatory software scanning every image you look at and every photo you take, or even TRY to take, in real time.

The number of digital services, shops or websites for which all British citizens will be required to supply their ID is growing.

We’re now adding eBay, Vinted, DePop and Facebook Marketplace to that list.

From there it will be Amazon, or Etsy, or Temu. Then Deliveroo, JustEat, UberEats or any online shopping at all.

Then any online activity.

Then internet access in general.

…unless you sign up to the government’s new app to verify your age.

The digital ID beast is slouching toward Bethlehem, to be born.

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Le Pen Schools Woke CBS, France ‘Can No Longer Import Unemployed’ Migrants Who ‘Hate’ the Country

In an interview with the American broadcaster CBS, French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen rejected the attempted multicultural framing of the issue of immigration in France and defended the need for mass deportations.

Speaking with Blairite bureaucrat turned journalist Trevor Phillips for the once prestigious 60 Minutes news programme, National Rally leader Marine Le Pen said that migrants who fail to adopt French culture or contribute economically should not be permitted to stay and drain the nation of its resources and create divisions.

“When you take in too many immigrants, you create the conditions for destabilising your society. And that is what has happened in France,” she told the UK Guyanese-heritage interviewer. “There is another problem: a problem of numbers. The unemployment rate among foreigners in France is twice the unemployment rate among French citizens. We can no longer import unemployed people.”

Pressed by Phillips whether this was a result of “discrimination” against immigrant communities, Le Pen forcefully rejected the woke framing: “No, that doesn’t exist. You’re not going to import those ideas here.”

“There is no discrimination in France, sir. It’s not true. And I’ll go even further: it’s the least racist,” she declared.

The National Rally leader stressed the importance of migrants assimilating into French culture, rather than allowing multiculturalism to divide society.

“We believe someone who comes to immigrate to our country must blend into the national community. You have something more like a layered cake: each community can live alongside the others while keeping its own customs. That is not how we see things,” Le Pen explained.

Asked whether she would therefore enact a policy of remigration, she said: ” If someone comes and says, ‘I hate you, I despise your culture, I don’t want to respect your laws,’ well, we say to him, ‘Listen, sir, the door is wide open. And we might even, for that matter, force you to leave.”

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Reuters Ravaged After Labeling Poland’s Independence Celebration A “Far-Right March”

Poland’s annual independence march drew an estimated 250,000 people on November 11, according to local officials, commemorating the country’s independence in 1918 after 123 years of partition by Russia, Prussia and Austria.

Organizers told AFP News that the independence day march had a substantially larger turnout.

“There are surely over half a million Poles,” said Rafal Buca, a spokesperson for the event’s organizers.

Conservative-nationalist President Karol Nawrocki attended the celebration amid a political crisis sparked by globalist-controlled Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s efforts to reshape the judiciary, which has been described by right-wing politicians have described as an attempted judicial coup.

Reuters was quick to label the independence march as a “far-right march,” which drew instant criticism on X, raising a very alarming question that outlets like that are not about reporting the news but propaganda operations to shape narratives of the globalist elite class.

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New Yorkers Outraged Over Mamdani Plan to Build Men’s Homeless Shelter Right Near a Middle School

Residents of New York City are expressing outrage over plans by Mayor Zohran Mamdani to build a homeless shelter for men very close to a middle school.

What did they think this mayor would be like? If this is the worst thing he does to them, they should consider themselves lucky.

We are not going to defend Mamdani on this, but in case these protesters haven’t noticed, real estate is kind of scarce in New York City. Things like homeless shelters for men have to go somewhere.

It’s not like Mamdani was going to put this facility in a neighborhood where his rich donors live.

FOX News reports:

Parents across Brooklyn’s Canarsie neighborhood are demanding answers from New York City officials and Mayor Zohran Mamdani over plans to build a 200-bed men’s homeless shelter just one block from a local middle school.

Parents, teachers and other residents protested Monday night against plans for a 200-bed men’s homeless shelter on East 108th Street that is expected to open in 2028, one block from the Science and Medicine Middle School 366 on East 107th Street.

Among the protesters was New York City Council member Mercedes Narcisse, who represents the 46th District and criticized the city’s Department of Social Services (DSS) in comments reported by News 12 Brooklyn.

“You want to put it next to a school — a middle school for God’s sake! These are our children! Shame!” Narcisse said.

Narcisse said DSS informed her about the proposed shelter last week but had not sought her input, even though she represents the neighborhood.

According to News 12 Brooklyn, the upcoming shelter is part of a broader citywide plan to open 12 new shelters, including three in Brooklyn.

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Noted Anthropologist Tells Rogan Indonesian Villagers Described ‘Hobbits’ Before Scientists Found Their Bones

Canadian anthropologist Gregory Forth told Joe Rogan this week that villagers on the Indonesian island of Flores were describing small, ape-like “hobbit” creatures to him more than a year before scientists announced the bones of Homo floresiensis, the extinct human relative nicknamed the hobbit, and that he thinks the creatures could still be alive in the island’s mountains. Forth, who wrote the 2022 book Between Ape and Human, appeared on episode #2577 of The Joe Rogan Experience, released Thursday.

Forth said he began fieldwork on Flores in 1984 and first heard stories of small, human-like creatures that year, among the Nage people in the middle of the island, who described them as extinct for two or three hundred years. Further east, among the Lio people, the stories were of creatures “still around, rare, but still present.” He told Rogan he recorded “over 30 reports of encounters, some of them not terribly credible, others, you know, a dozen or so much more interesting”, and that the less credible ones tended to come from the coast, where people could have mistaken monkeys for the creatures.

The sequence is what Forth leans on. Rogan asked how the first account he heard compared with the bones. Forth answered that it came “certainly prior, not very long before, a couple of months, but certainly, yeah, well over a year before the Floresiensis discovery was announced in the media.” The fossils were announced in October 2004. He also said the Lio name for the creature appears in a Lio-German dictionary researched in the 1920s and published in 1933, which he took as a sign the notion “hadn’t come from the fossil discovery.” In all, he said he spoke to “well over 120, 130 people.”

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The Rise and Fall of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth

In November 2024, then-President-elect Trump named Hegseth as his nominee for his secretary of defense. In a Senate Committee on Armed Services hearing right before Trump’s second inauguration, Hegseth faced allegations of sexual misconduct, financial mismanagement, and excessive drinking. Yet, he was confirmed by the Senate that month, but only with the vice president, JD Vance, casting a tie-breaking vote.

Recently, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) introduced articles of impeachment alleging that the defense secretary “abused” his powers and “knowingly executed and implemented unlawful orders.”

On November 10, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 211 to 204 to block an impeachment push against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, effectively killing the resolution for now.

11 absent Democrats undermined Hegseth’s impeachment

Is this the end of the story?

No, the current Republican-controlled House sidelined the measure, but Democrats are set to take control of both chambers of Congress in January. Incoming Democratic leadership has signaled that Pentagon operations and Hegseth’s actions will face intense congressional investigations. So, impeachment or oversight efforts could be revisited next year.

Then again, if this not the end of the story, it should be the beginning of internal reflection in the Democratic Party.

What do you mean?

Rep. Thomas Massie was the sole Republican to vote against the referral, while several members—including 11 Democrats – missed the vote. Why did they miss it?

Every single one of the 203 Democrats who made it to the floor voted against the Republican motion to block the impeachment. Yet, several of the absent lawmakers blamed severe traffic (Reps. Melanie Stansbury, Jonathan Jackson, and Brittany Pettersen).

Since the final vote was tight (211-204), these absences effectively cost the party a push to advance the impeachment. They had a chance to protest an unconstitutional war, which has cost too many innocent lives, including those of fellow-Americans. So, bad traffic sounds like a lame excuse.

Interestingly, the absent Democrats included Nancy Pelosi, who was flying back to San Francisco to attend an annual Veterans Day event and accept an award. Presumably, it was more important to her than protesting the unconstitutional war and its victims. With the exception of progressive-leaning Jonathan Jackson, the list of the absent 11 largely comprised of mainstream, establishment Democrats, reliant on corporate and establishment PACs.

Perhaps bad traffic wasn’t the only motivation.

“Unwarranted, unconstitutional and illegal Iran war”

What do you think about Hegseth’s management style?

DS: Defense Secretary Hegseth’s term is likely to be seen as one of the most disastrous ones in the Pentagon’s history. The lack of personal integrity and even basic executive experience compounds an aggressive, ideologically overdriven campaign that has triggered a chilling effect, tanked military approval ratings and alienated America’s allies, partners and adversaries alike.

What kind of role did Hegseth play in Trump’s launching his war on Iran alongside Israelis?
DS: Hegseth made an unwarranted, unconstitutional and illegal war against Iran even worse, driving regular televised briefings to aggressively market the conflict to the public as a campaign of “maximum lethality” to disable Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. With his apocalyptic Christian-Zionist beliefs, he should have had absolutely no role in the Pentagon.

How successful has Hegseth been in his conduct against Iranians?

DS: While Hegseth claims “historic devastation” against Iranian capabilities, independent analysts view the grinding, nine-month conflict as a strategic disaster that has failed to control the Strait of Hormuz, depleted American munitions, and wreaked global economic havoc.

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Ottawa’s year-end books show a $39.3 billion deficit, but the release never says so

The Liberal government’s audited books for the year that ended March 31 show a $39.3 billion deficit, yet the Treasury Board release announcing the Public Accounts of Canada never uses the word. Revenues came to $526.4 billion and spending to $565.7 billion.

The detailed tables behind the release show what else it left out: $12.7 billion in debts written off or forgiven, a refugee health bill past $1 billion, and a $105.1 million pandemic-era loss at the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) that is still on the books.

Treasury Board President Shafqat Ali tabled the Public Accounts in the House of Commons on November 6, one day after Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne’s budget. The release lists revenue sources and spending categories in detail, with growth rates for each, and leaves readers to do the math. Annex 1 of Champagne’s budget shows the same deficit, listed as a budgetary balance of minus $39.3 billion for 2025-26.

The final number is far smaller than Finance Canada’s preliminary count. The March Fiscal Monitor, published before the books were closed, reported “a budgetary deficit of $55.3 billion for the April 2025 to March 2026 period” on revenues of $500.0 billion.

Audited revenue is $26.4 billion higher than that tally, and the release does not explain the gap beyond noting higher customs import duties and personal income tax of $247.7 billion, or 47.1 per cent of all revenue, up from 45.9 per cent the year before.

Interest on the debt cost $53.5 billion, or 9.5 per cent of all spending. That is more than the $51.8 billion Ottawa collected in GST (goods and services tax) in the same year.

Canadian Taxpayers Federation president Franco Terrazzano called debt interest the budget’s biggest waste in an interview with Ezra Levant, saying it costs Canadians more than $1 billion every week.

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