I don't know who did this, but it's hilarious. pic.twitter.com/zH2XnsQRtq
— Tokyo Rosie (@RosieRocks29) April 19, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
Author: Blazingcatfur
Fertility industry scandal exposes mass donors and risk of incest
Imagine, as a mother, suddenly discovering that your two children have 34 half-brothers and sisters, or as a well-meaning sperm donor finding out that you are the unsuspecting father of 70 children?
This was the kind of shock thousands of Dutch families, parents and children faced this week after a new law revealed that fertility clinics have flouted regulations restricting the use of sperm donations.
Canada’s ‘Pause’ on Immigration-Driven Population Growth May Be a Statistical Illusion
Last fall, Ottawa responded to a surge in public support for immigration restriction with a cut to immigration levels that it promised would “pause population growth in the short term” to ease “pressures on housing, infrastructure and social services.” But a curious question about this policy U-turn is beginning to emerge: Is Canada’s population growth really on pause?
A new report by Benjamin Tal, CIBC’s deputy chief economist, argues that the federal government is significantly overstating the effect its immigration cut will have on population growth—a statistical undercounting that could hamper Canada’s ability to plan for our social services, infrastructure, and housing needs.
Italian opposition file complaint over far-right party’s use of ‘racist’ AI images
Opposition parties in Italy have complained to the communications watchdog about a series of AI-generated images published on social media by deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini’s far-right party, calling them “racist, Islamophobic and xenophobic”, the Guardian has learned.
The centre-left Democratic party (PD), with the Greens and Left Alliance, filed a complaint on Thursday with Agcom, the Italian communications regulatory authority, alleging the fake images used by the League contained “almost all categories of hate speech”.
HARDING: The English debate was tilted against Poilievre from the start
Last night’s English debate was not some even-handed affair, designed simply to inform Canadians and leave them to their own conclusions. In subtle ways, viewers were set up to favour Mark Carney over Pierre Poilievre in ways most probably didn’t realize.
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Considering these CBC journalists are either too stupid or captured to get the biggest story of all, the corruption of Parliament by organized crime and FI, I have zero sympathy for them. Yeah democracy is fragile and they have failed to understand the biggest threat. https://t.co/rQi2Uy7Bfc
— Sam Cooper (@scoopercooper) April 18, 2025
UK Electricity Grid Rescued by Gas as Massive Winter Wind Droughts Disrupt Supply
Sunning himself in some Spanish spring sunshine, the British Prime Minister is no doubt relieved that the Supreme Court back home has given him some much needed guidance on the biology of a woman. But we must hope his holiday good humour is being disturbed by news that the breezes that will power his new socialist economic miracle went on strike during significant parts of the first quarter. In a colder-than-usual winter, windmill output fell by 11%, pushing up demand for gas and imports and causing a number of unstable and highly expensive price spikes. What dick is in charge at the Department of Energy, he might be asking himself.
Young people should not consider voting for the party that killed their dreams of home ownership
Which party leader will help young Canadians? Old and young disagree, Nanos poll finds
… Broken down by age, those in the 18 to 34 category were by far the most likely to trust Poilievre and the Conservatives to help young Canadians over Carney and the Liberals, at 38 per cent and 26.4 per cent, respectively.
Respondents who were age 55 or older had the opposite view, with 41.4 per cent naming Carney as the most trustworthy on that issue and 25.8 per cent favouring Poilievre.
Those in the 35 to 54 category were more evenly split between the two leaders and their parties, leaning towards Poilievre and the Conservatives by just 1.8 percentage points.
Mass immigration caused the housing shortage.
It was a thoughtlessly cruel policy decision by the Liberal government that has visited great harm to Canadians.
Michael Taube: Are cracks developing in the Liberal strategy to lionize the progressive vote?
Since Mark Carney became Prime Minister on March 9, the Liberals have been leading in most opinion polls. The reason for this significant shift was fear, anger and revulsion about U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs. This, in turn, was combined with an unfounded belief that Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre was Trump’s Canadian equivalent, in spite of the fact the two leaders have vastly different political and ideological beliefs.
‘This is no longer immigration, this is displacement’ – For the first time, Muslim students outnumber Christians in Vienna’s schools
For the first time, Muslim students are the largest religious group in Vienna’s schools, underlining the incredible demographic transformation taking place in the Austrian city. The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) is now raising the alarm.
Muslim students now account for 41.2 percent of all students, while Christian students fell to 34.5 percent. The trend is only growing, and is accompanied by rising problems, including violence in schools, anti-Semitism, and contempt for women.
h/t DS
At Coachella As In The Real World, Privileged Leftists Pretend To Be Counter-Cultural
In a moment that could have been pulled straight from a sitcom, an 83-year-old Sen. Bernie Sanders stood before a crowd of young festival goers at Coachella last weekend. The aging senator in his traditional suit and tie was greeted by the screams of bedazzled and sweaty Gen Z fans at the California music festival. Hot off the trails of his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, he spoke to the crowd about the importance of justice. Before leaving the stage, he praised the young songwriter Clairo for her activism before introducing her.
The NDP is not going to win the election. But no one is forcing it to lose so badly
The dynamics of this election campaign have been nothing if not unusual. Consider, for example, that the Liberals’ remarkable ascent has had very little to do with the flagging fortunes of their Conservative rivals — and plenty to do with the near-collapse of the NDP and Bloc Québécois.
Support for the independantistes has declined almost exclusively due to threats from U.S. President Donald Trump toward Canada’s economy and sovereignty. What the Bloc offers Quebec — namely, the protection of its cultural and linguistic rights — is simply not much in demand right now. Among Quebecers, a surprising increase in Canadian nationalism and a growing sense of common cause with the rest of the country have made the Bloc all but irrelevant.
Singh’s support of Trudeau sealed his fate.
The TERFs were right all along
Over a hundred years ago, women across England, Scotland and Wales chained themselves to railings, knowing they would be spat on by passers-by, and waited to be cut free and thrown in a cell. The Suffragettes were up against a real, honest-to-God patriarchy, an entire society that valued them only for their ability to satisfy the requirements of men. For choosing to resist, they were ridiculed and beaten, mocked in the press, abandoned by friends, shunned and silenced.
Nasa should spend more on finding alien life
This week’s news reports highlighting the discovery of the “strongest evidence yet” of life on a distant planet, K2-18b, raise a number of pertinent questions. If life is confirmed there, what would be the next step? Should humans try to establish some sort of contact with these extraterrestrials once we know where they are?
The reports stem from a new paper based on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)’s detection of the spectral fingerprint of a single molecule, dimethyl sulfide, in the atmosphere of the exoplanet — that is, a planet which exists outside our solar system. This molecule is not a reliable biomarker according to another paper from earlier this year, which shows that it is found in the interstellar medium without the presence of life. On Earth, this molecule is produced by microorganisms in the oceans.