Pop superstar Ariana Grande has claimed that her character in Wicked has lesbian tendencies, adding that “every day in the Emerald City is a Pride parade.”
Ariana Grande made the claims in an interview this week with The Gay Times.
The phenomenon of individuals with fabricated Indigenous ancestry—colloquially referred to as “pretendians” or “wannabindians”—benefiting from claims to Indigenous identity was is in the news again this week, with Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages Minister Randy Boissonnault stepping down from the Trudeau government’s cabinet for falsely claiming he was Indigenous.
It is time to stop blaming the people chasing incentives and start targeting the broken system that creates the incentives.
BREAKING: Well known Canadian podcaster Lauren Southern testified today that CSIS came to her home and threatened her and her child when she said NO to becoming an Informant/Asset due to a scandal in the US with Tenet Media. A scandal that Ms.Southern had no knowledge of nor… pic.twitter.com/mdHEGIFBKe
— Odessa Orlewicz (@OdessaOrlewicz) November 22, 2024
h/t Patti Jo
The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has found the township of Emo will have to pay damages after refusing to proclaim Pride Month back in 2020.
Borderland Pride requested Emo to declare June as Pride Month and display a rainbow flag for one week but the township refused, resulting in a years-long process in which the tribunal ruled against the township.
The tribunal ruled Borderland Pride will be awarded $15,000, with $10,000 coming from the township itself and the other $5,000 coming from Emo mayor Harold McQuaker.
Fuck that Nazi shit
Hungary’s illiberal prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has said he will invite his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, to visit in defiance of an international criminal court arrest warrant, as world leaders split over the ICC’s momentous decision.
The world’s highest criminal court issued warrants on Thursday for Netanyahu, his former defence minister Yoav Gallant and the Hamas commander Ibrahim al-Masri, commonly known as Mohammed Deif, who is believed to be dead, for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Orbán, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency and who has previously said he would not arrest the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, who is also wanted by the ICC, called the court’s decision “outrageously brazen” and “cynical”.
The #ICC arrest warrant against Prime Minister @netanyahu is brazen, cynical and completely unacceptable. I invited Prime Minister Netanyahu for an official visit to Hungary, where we will guarantee his freedom and safety. pic.twitter.com/uRDoP307uL
— Orbán Viktor (@PM_ViktorOrban) November 22, 2024
At this point, the taxpayer experience is a bit like that of a seagull being thrown fries in the McDonald’s parking lot. The Liberals behind the wheel get to throw delicious chunks of potato out the window, delight at the sound of the masses squawking in thanks and drive off when the urge to be generous has been satisfied. They’re out of money for more combo meals but it doesn’t matter — they can just put it on the credit card, anyway.
What a f***ing idiot. @fancypants_s https://t.co/KUahyztqTE
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) November 22, 2024
A Minnesota jury has found two men guilty of helping smuggle an Indian family from Canada to the US in January 2022, leading to their deaths.
Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel and Steve Anthony Shand were found guilty on all counts of human trafficking, criminal conspiracy and culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
Both had pleaded not guilty to the charges in relation to the death of the Patel family, whose bodies were found frozen in a Manitoba field by Canadian authorities 12m (39ft) from the US border.
@fancypants_s https://t.co/fdXkIozYA8
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) November 23, 2024
My bet is they just wanted to throw stuff at him.
h/t Auntie Polly
Jewish OPSEU members concerned over union’s antisemitism training provider
OTTAWA — OPSEU’s Jewish caucus is reacting with alarm over their union’s choice of organization to deliver antisemitism training.
During their convention earlier this year, Ontario Public Service Employees Union membership adopted a resolution requiring mandatory antisemitism training for union leadership.
Is Peel Region still part of Canada, or has it been annexed by India? https://t.co/wP2koketUX
— Maxime Bernier (@MaximeBernier) November 22, 2024
The hunt for a Bulgarian “cryptoqueen” wanted over one of the world’s biggest cases of fraud has spread to South Africa.
Ruja Ignatova, a Bulgarian citizen who was educated at Oxford, is the only woman on the FBI’s top 10 most-wanted list.
She allegedly swindled £3.6 billion out of millions of investors as part of a scam involving the fake cryptocurrency OneCoin.
The mob is burning effigies in Montreal while screaming 'viva viva Palestina' pic.twitter.com/UB83aHy06h
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) November 23, 2024
Black Bloc anti Nato free Pallie crap.
Korea is called Canada’s “forgotten war,” though it is recalled at every Remembrance Day ceremony that I have been to since I was in elementary school in the 1970s.
Koreans remember it too. South Korea marks Korean War Day every June 25, the date in 1950 when the North Korean communists, after obtaining approval from Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, invaded South Korea across the 38th parallel in an attempt to reunify the country by conquest. Communist China (on a roll, having conquered mainland China less than two years earlier) joined on the side of the north in the spring of 1951. And the Koreans well remember how many countries—the United States, Britain, Canada, Turkey, Australia, and many more—came to their rescue to fight the communists to a standstill in 1953.
The emerging axis of China, Russia and North Korea has created “the most serious and dangerous challenge” for the West since the Second World War, a former top US military chief has told The Times.
General Jack Keane, a retired four-star general and former vice-chief of the US Army, is one of the most influential military figures in Washington. Everyone seeks his advice, including the man who is to be the 47th president.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was just putting on the record what was already abundantly clear.
Canada is with Hamas.
The key thing Trudeau did with his declaration that Canada would not stand in the way of the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is send the message to Hamas supporters that they have full backing to do what they want.
