An Egyptian-born surgeon who harassed two of his female colleagues for dates tried to blame his behaviour on Britain’s “open culture” of socialising.
Dr Hosam Halim, 48, who worked at the Royal Free Hospital London and then at Ipswich Hospital in Suffolk, was investigated by the General Medical Council after the incidents.
At a tribunal hearing, Halim claimed he had felt isolated and lonely after seeing his colleagues drinking in wine bars.
It’s not the full takeover that the Toronto District School Board needs, but the Ford government is hiring a babysitter.
Education Minister Jill Dunlop has appointed Patrick Case, a former bureaucrat in the Ministry of Education, to review field trip policies at the TDSB.
A pointless endeavor, the rot is so deep only mass firings will help.
From October 3 to 9, 2024, Abacus Data conducted a national survey of 1,915 Canadian adults (18+) to gauge their perspectives on immigration and its perceived impacts.
The results reveal a significant shift in sentiment, with a majority now viewing immigration negatively, largely influenced by political affiliations and age.
Concerns extend beyond newcomers, as many Canadians also express concern about domestic migration exacerbating housing shortages and straining public resources and services.
One hundred days of Britain under Keir Starmer’s stewardship, and the Labour Party’s dedication to scandal is nothing if not impressive. Thus far, the front benches are replete with allegations of cronyism, bribery, and a taste for rather obvious double standards. Political nicknames usually take some time to forge, but not for ‘two-tier Keir’—whose evident dislike of the plebs was so vehemently expressed during his mishandling of the Southport riots, and via the concomitant heavy-handed sentencing.
However, no matter how hard he tries to push his ‘son of a toolmaker’, ‘working-class’ credentials, as a white man Keir Starmer is not getting much bang for his identity politics buck. The PM may well insist ‘two-tier policing worries are a non-issue’, but he is neither convincing nor correct. London Mayor Sadiq Khan on the other hand, is another matter entirely.
At 9.45pm on Saturday night, like a giant ear cocking to the heavens, the massive telescope at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia tilted towards the first of a series of stars about 20 light years away, with an orbiting planet that might support another civilisation.
“The stars rise and set,” said Steve Croft, an astronomer overseeing its progress. “It’ll slew to that target, take some data on it and then, once it’s got that one in the can, it picks the next one out of the list.”
Head of SETI reveals to Ross Coulthart how they search for life in space
The Weaponized vid offers up a little more info on “Immaculate Constellation”
… Today, Jo Nova at her eponymous blog reported on the news that executives at three of the biggest names in the tech world, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, have been buying up nuclear reactors to supply the tremendous amount of energy required to run AI programs and data collection/storage facilities…
August 26 marked ten years since the publication of the Jay Report, an independent inquiry into child sexual exploitation in the British town of Rotherham. The 2014 report found that at least 1,400 underage girls were abused predominantly by Muslim men of Pakistani heritage between 1997 and 2013 in this South Yorkshire town.
“It is hard to describe the appalling nature of the abuse that child victims suffered,” the report noted.
If you have ever doubted the existence of two-tier policing in the UK, just look at the appalling treatment of Christian street preachers. Earlier this year, a Christian pastor called Dia Moodley was arrested and held in a police cell for 13 hours. His alleged ‘crime’ was to have criticised Islam. Most of the details only emerged last week.
A vile predator who killed an NHS worker by repeatedly orally raping her as she lay unconscious on a park bench was today convicted of manslaughter.
Jurors at the Old Bailey wept as they were shown horrifying footage of the vile attack carried out by 35-year-old Mohamed Noor Lidow.
Lidow had been prowling Southall Park in west London looking for women to assault when he found mother-of-three Natalie Shotter, 37, lying on a bench.
An immigrant restaurant owner who fled Iraq 20 years ago has left Sweden and returned to his home country because of the violent crime he faced in his Stockholm suburb.
I moved to Sweden because it was a safe country. Now I’m moving from Sweden because it’s not safe anymore.
The man, speaking under the alias ‘Amin,’ said in an interview with Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter that he was the object of threats and violent attacks by criminal gangs and was forced to pay them to avoid harassment.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has missed this year’s deficit target by 17%, according to a report by the Budget Office, with debt servicing costs becoming the fastest-growing expense in the federal budget.
Blacklock’s Reporter says the report, Economic and Fiscal Outlook October 2024, revealed that last year’s deficit, initially estimated by Freeland at $40 billion, is actually closer to $46.8 billion.
How a resolution at the B.C. Law Society became a debate about residential school denialism
… The wording used in the training said: “On May 27, 2021, the Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc Nation reported the discovery of an unmarked burial site containing the bodies of 215 children on the former Kamloops Indian Residential School grounds. Although the discovery was shocking to many Canadians, many Indigenous residential school survivors had previously reported the existence of unmarked burial sites, and the unexplained disappearances of children; the discovery confirms what survivors have been saying all along.”
Heller and Berry asked to have the first sentence changed to “…Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc Nation reported the discovery of a potentially unmarked burial site…” and to remove the reference to the bodies of 215 children.
They also asked law society members to delete the passage saying the discovery confirms survivors’ testimonies.
Look, I keep saying that Kamala Harris could win this election with good reason: her floor is very high. Enough people can’t stand Donald Trump that she remains a somewhat viable candidate despite being really, really, REALLY bad at this politics thing.
NEW: Kamala Harris releases her pre-recorded video for the Al Smith dinner in New York that she didn't show up for.
Comedian Jim Gaffigan made fun of the Vice President after the crowd gave a dismal applause once it ended.
Cringe. pic.twitter.com/9dvsYQub9h
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 18, 2024
Donald Trump held nothing back at the Al Smith dinner in New York, even joking about Kamala Harris' husband's "nanny issue."
Here are his top jokes of the night:
5. Trump said he didn't realize men could get periods until he saw Tim Walz.
4. Trump says he has to wrap up his… pic.twitter.com/tQq9Hu5143
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 18, 2024
OTTAWA — One of Jean Chrétien’s closest advisors is making the case for Justin Trudeau to leave politics to embrace a bigger cause — the unity of his country.
Eddie Goldenberg, who was Chrétien’s right-hand man for decades and served as chief of staff and senior policy advisor during his years in power, penned a piece called “Justin Trudeau’s Obligation to Canada” on Friday in which he argues that an undefeated Trudeau could be more useful in leading the fight against separatists in Quebec.
Wow. Someone at Kamala’s rally said "Jesus is Lord" and she snapped back, "Oh you guys are at the wrong rally. I think you meant to go to the smaller one down the street."
This insult to Christians comes right after she became the first Presidential candidate to skip the… pic.twitter.com/ev80OwaWow
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) October 18, 2024
