This week in my Toronto neighbourhood, a scene of utter mayhem unfolded.
It happened just after 11:00 on Monday night. Undercover cops were staking out a recording studio on Queen Street West near Dufferin Street. Suddenly, a stolen white Honda pulled up. Three guys armed with handguns jumped out. They started shooting toward the back of the studio building at 1196 Queen, where dozens of people had gathered for a birthday party. Several of the partygoers rushed out and returned fire.
This New York Times “gotcha” is about as sharp as a soggy bowl of breakfast cereal.
The Times was relentlessly mocked over the weekend for appearing to unintentionally make Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s case in a recent article that tried to poke holes in his anti-processed-food crusade.
Kennedy, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, has long pushed for purging artificial ingredients from the food supply, routinely calling such additives “poison.”
Khamenei says goodbye to his loved ones – exclusive! pic.twitter.com/tz0eFxUhNo
— Joshua of Jerusalem (@IL_US_Patriot) November 17, 2024
R-E-S-P-E-C-T: What does it mean to Mayor Olivia Chow?
Toronto council on Thursday evening debated not just the removal of bike lanes, but also the nature of democracy in Ontario’s capital, at the behest of the mayor.
The Toronto bike lane that went too far and sparked a backlash from Doug Ford’s government
Between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m., on an unseasonably warm, sunny weekday in October, 18 cyclists travel in the eastbound bike lane on Bloor Street West in Etobicoke, in front of a church, where elderly men and women struggle to climb the stairs to their morning sermon.
Local resident and former Toronto city councillor John Campbell watches ruefully. He voted for the extension of the Bloor West bike lanes from Shaw Street to Runnymede Road when he represented what was then Ward 4 (Etobicoke Centre) from 2014 to 2018.
When I went to police about my abuse, I remember being asked if I had “consented”.
I was five years old.
Girls as young as 10 or 11 were branded white slags, p*ki shaggers and child prositutes by those in power.
The message was clear: this is your faultpic.twitter.com/3WXJT5XwYm
— Samantha Smith (@SamanthaTaghoy) November 17, 2024
US-made ATACMS missiles, with a range of nearly 200 miles, are likely to be used against Russian and North Korean troops in the Kursk region
President Biden has signalled a major shift in US policy, authorising the first use of American-supplied long-range missiles by Ukraine for strikes deep inside Russia.
The weapons, with a range of nearly 200 miles, are likely to be initially employed against Russian and North Korean troops who are fighting Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region of western Russia, US media reported.
Let the senile Prez do the heavy lifting. Great idea.
VIP junkies are allowed to steal the heat lamp from your restaurant and take it to their tax payer funded drug den FREE housing SRO in #ndp #liberal paradise #vancouver pic.twitter.com/MghlpQhoNc
— VancityNews1 (@VancityNews1) November 17, 2024
Amid Canada’s ongoing housing crisis, the Department of Immigration is advising new arrivals to consider temporary accommodations like Airbnbs or, if necessary, shelters, until they secure a more permanent place to live.
Blacklock’s Reporter says this guidance appears in a recent Welcome to Canada guide, published in multiple languages, including Arabic, Dari, Haitian Creole, and Spanish, to assist newcomers navigating Canada’s housing landscape.
“Trump’s pro-Israel cabinet picks upset Muslims who voted for him,” reads a Reuters headline from this week. In the piece, a range of Muslim Americans who voted for the President-elect lament that he has chosen several cabinet officials who favour a strong security relationship with Israel and who have downplayed the rights of the Palestinians.
Carl Gomes was immediately fearful when his landlord put his property up for sale.
”(The landlord) put the property on the market in July and said everyone needed to leave by August,” Gomes said of the Little Portugal rooming house that is home to 14 people in six rooms.
Gomes quickly sought legal help. As soon as he told his landlord he was consulting a lawyer to make sure due process was followed, he said his landlord called and said, “he would come to my room and throw my wife’s and my belongings out on the street.”
Trudeau needs to be jailed.
‘This is about protecting the soul of a Canada that we’re still building:’ Why Canada’s first Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia isn’t backing down
After a terrorist killed four members of a Muslim family in London, Ontario in 2021, the Government of Canada organized a National Summit on Islamophobia. Among the over 100 recommendations to emerge was the creation of a Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia, similar to Canada’s 2020 appointment of a Special Envoy on Anti-Semitism. In January 2023, just days before the sixth anniversary of the Quebec City mosque shooting, Amira Elghawaby, a journalist and human rights advocate, was appointed to the role.
You’re not Canadian, never will be.
Woke academics funneling scientific funding toward political activism are terrified President-elect Donald Trump is about to Make Science Great Again.
As his disastrous presidency comes to a close, Joe Biden promoted several Air Force officials who have touted neo-Marxist ideology throughout the service.
According to a Pentagon press release, the Democrat president nominated Col. Patric D. Coggin and Brig. Gen. Barbra S. Buls to the ranks of brigadier general and major general, respectively. Coggin currently serves as a commander in the Arkansas Air National Guard, while Buls serves as a commander in the Air National Guard Readiness Center and is stationed at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.
Biden should be in a home.
We are witnessing a sea change of political currents both in America and in Europe. Donald Trump’s sweeping election victory has sent shock waves through the liberal establishment on both sides of the Atlantic. But it is a salutary shock.
It forces the European political class , and the German in particular, to abandon some of their illusions and forces us to become more grown up and self-reliant in matters of economic and security policy. Trump’s brutal way of formulating American national interests is refreshing. It tears away the veil of fake moralising and ideological kitsch that have obscured our perception of realities and actual global power issues.
