Author: Blazingcatfur
Ontario cities to demand province address ‘thousands of people living in the streets’
When local councillors and mayors descend on Ottawa next week for an annual municipal lobbying event, homelessness and growing social problems in Ontario’s towns and cities will be top of mind.
The Association of Municipalities of Ontario conference in Ottawa — set to run from Aug. 18-21 — is an annual opportunity for local leaders to bend the ear of Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s most senior ministers.
Pressure in recent weeks has grown from Ontario municipalities telling Queen’s Park the current system isn’t working, demanding a so-called new deal for property taxpayers and a top-to-bottom review of social and economic prosperity.
Vet
Xavier had a stressful day.
Front paws trimmed by me followed by a trip to the vet for an annual check up & shot of the aids prevention drug.
Xavier was a very good patient today, nervous but stoic a vast improvement of the last trip.
Vet supplied me with a stool sample bottle, did not think I could be bothered given his health is stellar.
Then I found out it was pre-payed on the bill. Lesson learned.
Mind you she is a good vet.
CBSA to Use Facial Recognition App for People Facing Deportation … Which would be great if they could actually locate any of them
OTTAWA—The Canada Border Services Agency plans to implement an app that uses facial recognition technology to keep track of people who have been ordered to be deported from the country.
The mobile reporting app would use biometrics to confirm a person’s identity and record their location data when they use the app to check in. Documents obtained through access-to-information indicate that the CBSA has proposed such an app as far back as 2021.
Not a fab track record … CBSA did not know whereabouts of 34,000 foreign nationals slated for removal: AG report
It will end up being used to assist in the criminalization of citizens by the government.
DNC Preview: Pro-Palestinian Protesters to Crash Harris-Walz Coronation
The Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago is shaping up to be a clash of epic proportions as potentially tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators are set to descend on the city to protest the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of the Israel-Hamas War.
Renovating NYC consul general’s residence would cost $2.6M, so Global Affairs bought $9M condo instead: documents
OTTAWA – Renovating the current residence of Canada’s consul general in New York would have cost $2.6 million and left “fundamental issues,” so the government bought a new $8.8-million condo on “Billionaire’s Row” instead, according to Global Affairs Canada.
Kamala Officially Chickens Out of First Debate With Trump
Last week, Donald Trump announced that he agreed to have three debates with Kamala Harris, with the first on Fox News on September 4, the second on ABC on September 10, and the final one on NBC on September 25.
Appeal Court upholds Jacob Hoggard conviction
Ontario’s top court has upheld the sexual assault conviction of Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard, the former frontman for the band Hedley.
Hoggard was found guilty in June 2022 of sexual assault causing bodily harm against an Ottawa woman and later sentenced to five years behind bars.
He was released on bail hours later, pending his appeal.
Muslim charged in Toronto terror attack plot lived in Egypt, studied at U.S. college
A 26-year-old Toronto man accused of plotting a deadly ISIS-inspired rampage previously lived in Egypt and once studied at a U.S. university, CBC News has learned.
Mostafa Eldidi and his father, Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi, were arrested last month and charged with terrorism offences over what police described as a plan to carry out “a serious, violent attack in Toronto.”
On Thursday, Mostafa Eldidi’s lawyer, Nate Jackson, appeared in court on his behalf for the first time. He told the court he would be meeting with his new client in person in jail on Friday.
‘Race-realist’ Cambridge fellow sues college over dismissal
An academic at the University of Cambridge is suing his college after being sacked for arguing that under a meritocracy, the number of black professors at Harvard would drop to almost zero.
Nathan Cofnas, a philosophy researcher at Emmanuel College, has brought a legal challenge against the college’s decision to cut ties with him after his views were deemed to be “a rejection of diversity, equality, and inclusion” (DEI) that was incompatible with the college’s “core values and mission”.
MANDEL: Has Bathtub Girl killer been cleared to practise law?
Now that certainly sounds like one of the notorious Bathtub Girls wants to practise as a lawyer — and let those murderous matricide bygones be bygones.
Should her slate be wiped clean even though she and her older sister drugged and drowned their alcoholic mother all those years ago to get their hands on the insurance money?
Terrorist motivation being investigated in Waterford chaplain stabbing
An Garda Síochána continue to investigate all the circumstances into the stabbing of well-known Waterford army chaplain, Fr Paul Murphy at Renmore Army Barracks, Galway last evening.
The Special Detective Unit of An Garda Síochána are heading the investigation with one line of enquiry to establish if this attack had a terrorism motivation.
The suspect, believed to be in his late teens/early twenties, remains in detention and is being questioned in a Garda station in the North Western region. Their period of detection has recently been extended.
No Perp description yet, nothing learned from Southport it appears.
LILLEY: Even Liberal MPs are hiring temporary foreign workers
Hiring people under the temporary foreign workers program is so popular that even Liberal MPs are doing it. While online outrage focuses on companies like Tim Hortons filling their stores with out-of-country, low-wage workers, Sukh Dhaliwal has taken advantage of the program.
Congressman blasts FBI for releasing Thomas Crooks’ body for cremation days after Trump shooting: ‘Unheard of’
Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins has blasted the FBI for releasing attempted Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks’ body to his family for cremation days after the shooting — calling it “disturbing” that the agency would impede further investigation.
The Republican congressman said he discovered that Crooks’ body was handed over to his family when he requested to examine it during his visit to the Butler, Pennsylvania rally site to investigate the shooting.
WTF?
HOLY SHLIT. Taylor Lorenz claimed the picture of her calling Biden a “war criminal” was edited. Turns out it’s NOT edited and NPR obtained the actual post and got confirmation from 4 different people that it’s real.
You can’t make this up pic.twitter.com/bAFPZzPtAi
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 16, 2024