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Caroleene Dobson condemns ‘liberal lunacy’ at her former university, pledges to fight it in Washington – Yellowhammer News

Caroleene Dobson is an alumna of Harvard University. She is also a Republican candidate running for Alabamas Second Congressional District.

This week, Dobson publicly called for the immediate firing of the colleges president after she approved calls for Jewish genocide during testimony in a congressional committee on the grounds of free speech.

The moment that Claudine Gay sat before Congress, endorsed antisemitism, and approved calls for the genocide of the Jewish people, Harvard University should have fired her for cause and pointed her toward the unemployment line, Dobson said in a statement. Instead, they turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to her offensive testimony and offer a free pass to a darling of woke liberals.

The extremists who control Harvard are entirely intolerant of Judeo-Christian faith and cheer violence against Jews by Palestinian Hamas terrorists, Dobson continued. I accepted the opportunity to attend Harvard when offered, but as a lifelong conservative Republican, I witnessed firsthand that free speech on that campus applies only to those with the most extreme leftist beliefs, and incidents like this illustrate why.

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Harvard University officials announced on Tuesday that they will ignore the pleas of Jewish Americans and will allow Gay to remain as president. Gay made national headlines with her refusal to say, Yes, when New York Republican CongresswomanElise Stefanikasked if calls by students for Jewish genocide violated the colleges policies.

There is a reason that last weeks hearing the university presidents of Harvard, Penn, and MIT made history as the most watched congressional testimony in history with over one billion views, Rep. Stefanik said afterwards. And thats because their testimony was the most morally bankrupt testimony in the history of the United States Congress.

When asked the very specific question, Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate your code of conduct on bullying and harassment? the world watched, and the world heard their answers in horror, Stefanik continued. As the President of Harvard, the President, now former, of Penn, and the President of MIT equivocated, dehumanized, and failed to answer Yes. Anyone with a sliver of decency, humanity, and morality knows that the answer to that question is Yes.

Since the October 7 attacks on the people of Israel by Hamas terrorists, the Harvard campus has proven to be a boiling hotbed of anti-Jewish sentiment and pro-Hamas support coming from Muslim students and their Progressive allies on campus, but neither Gay nor other officials have taken steps to quell the unrest.

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We have a saying in the South about not letting the door hit you in the behind on the way out, and thats what Harvard should have told Claudine Gay, Dobson said. The woke elements in our society demand strict deference to every group they consider disenfranchised, but if you believe in the Bible, pray to God, and embrace conservative values, those same leftists attack you with hate, violence, and vitriol, often with the full support of the liberal mainstream media.

If elected to Congress Dobson pledged to battle liberal policies and leftist indoctrination.

As congresswoman, I will go toe-to-toe against the liberal lunacy and woke virtue signaling espoused by Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and other extremists like them, Dobson said. In order to win the culture war, Republicans must elect those who are willing to fight.

Dobson is a real estate attorney, wife, mother, and serves on both the Alabama Forestry Commission and the Southeastern Livestock Exposition Board. She grew up on a cattle farm near Beatrice. In high school she excelled both academically and in rodeo. In addition to her Harvard undergraduate degree, she has a law degree from Baylor University Law School.

Dobson faces several other Republican opponents in the March 5 Republican primary for Congressional District 2.

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Tying Poilievre to Trump could pay dividends for Liberals but only if comparison sticks: strategists – iPolitics.ca

The federal Liberals are increasingly attempting to link Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to polarizing former U.S. president Donald Trump and his scorched-earth, conspiratorial political agenda, suggesting they may be rolling out a more aggressive campaign to knock down the ascendant Tories, say strategists.

However, some politicos warn that there are significant risks in banking heavily on this comparison, with some saying Poilievre doesnt fit the bill as a Trump-like demagogue, and others cautioning that the populist Republican may not even be a factor by the time Canadians head to the polls.

The change in tone from the Liberal camp in recent weeks has become increasingly obvious. In light of the Conservatives voting against a revised free trade deal with Ukraine and the partys nearly two-day-long filibuster, the Liberals have ramped up their comparisons with Trump, accusing the Tories of trying to importing MAGA or Republican politics north of the border.

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Justin Trudeau should box again: How the Liberals Retake Their Lead as Digital Campaigners – iPolitics.ca

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We go On Background with Dave Sommer, Associate Creative Director at Creative Currency and VP at Enterprise Canada, former Deputy Director of Communications, Digital, for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and former Head of Politics and Government at Instagram. Dave played a major role in Liberals 2015 majority winning campaign, where the partys digital strategy was well ahead of their opponents. He and Fred discuss why Trudeau should return to the authenticity of his earlier campaigns to counter Poilievres populist appeal.

Fred DeLorey is a political strategist with over two decades of experience in campaign war rooms, advising prime ministers, premiers, and mayors.He recently served as National Campaign Manager for the Conservative Party during the 2021 Federal Election.Notable roles also include serving as Director of Field Operations for Ontario Premier Doug Ford, and Director of Political Operations and National Spokesperson for former Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Fred can be found making weekly guest appearances on national news shows as a commentator, and as a columnist on iPolitics.ca.

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Liberals to revive war-time housing blueprints in bid to speed up builds – Global News

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Nearly 80 years after it was first brought in, Global News has learned the federal government is reviving a Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) program to provide standardized housing blueprints to builders, according to a senior government source.

Housing Minister Sean Fraser announced Tuesday the Liberal government will hold consultations on how the relaunched program will function. The senior government source tells Global News blueprints of various building types and sizes will be made available by the end of 2024.

Pre-approved housing plans are anticipated to cut down on the building timeline by having projects move through the municipal zoning and permitting process more quickly.

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Mike Moffatt, senior director of policy and innovation at the Smart Prosperity Institute, proposed this idea directly to the federal cabinet during meetings in Charlottetown this summer, and believes it could cut as much as 12 months off construction times.

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I think builders and developers would be quite interested in this, particularly if it helps track through the approvals process, Moffatt told Global News.

Moffatt notes that for the program to be effective, it will require a wide catalogue of blueprints.

They certainly need to have, you know, a fairly extensive catalogue of designs so people arent sort of forced to choose between, you know, one or two designs or nothing, Moffatt said.

The program is a throwback to the CMHCs work from the 1940s to late 1970s, where hundreds of thousands of homes were built from thousands of plans approved by the federal housing agency.

Many of these homes, dubbed strawberry box houses or victory homes, were built for returning Second World War veterans, and are still standing in many Canadian neighbourhoods.

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Builders using standardized designs should lead to more favourable terms from lenders and insurance companies, Moffatt believes.

Imagine if you wanted car insurance and you were trying to go to your insurer on a type of car that they had never seen before, that youd put together yourself, he said. They would have a lot of trouble pricing that insurance.

The potential for quicker build times and reduced expenses has companies like Calgary-based 720 Modular excited for the program.

Currently how we build, every building is a snowflake, 720 Modular project manager Craig Mitchell told Global News.

If we can move to a standardized framework, all of a sudden now we have a fighting chance to accelerate housing pace because were not having to redesign every time we go and build a building.

Standardized plans particularly benefit companies like Mitchells, who build their homes inside a warehouse, and then deliver them in shipping container-sized portions to the location of the home.

That process is known as modular or prefabricated building, which Mitchell describes as faster, cheaper and greener compared to traditional building techniques.

If the internal guts of the building itself structurally and the layouts are all similar, now we can really move forward and start industrializing construction, by moving some of that work offsite for example, he said.

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The Andrew Lawton Show | Liberals think bill banning vaccine mandates is "waste of time" – True North

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre spoke in support of a private members bill banning federal vaccine mandates. Liberal MPs including Mark Gerretsen and Seamus ORegan said it was a waste of time and accused Poilievre of not being focused on real issues. True Norths Andrew Lawton says the Liberals just dont want to be forced to defend their atrocious Covid record.

Also, True North journalist Noah Jarvis joins the show to discuss his series on waste, mismanagement and conflicts of interest at the federal clean technology crown corporation Sustainable Development Technology Canada.

Plus, lawyers Christine Van Geyn and Joanna Baron of the Canadian Constitution Foundation have a new book out about the governments assaults on freedom over the last three years. They join the show to talk about Pandemic Panic: How Canadian Government Responses to Covid 19 Changed Civil Liberties Forever.

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