From the outset the process for renaming Dundas Street was flawed and so too is the final outcome.
In June 2020, Toronto City Council received a petition from about 14,000 persons calling for Dundas Street to be renamed as its namesake Henry Dundas, an ally of Gov. Simcoe, delayed the abolition of the slave trade. In my view, Henry Dundas’ role in the slave trade was overstated, his pragmatism was ignored.
Ray Bestwick bought an electric car last May in the hope of hassle-free motoring.
But with eight trips to the garage in little more than a year, the 62-year-old engineer cannot wait to put an end to his “soul-destroying” experience.
Lt.-Gen. Jennie Carignan will be named Canada’s new Chief of the Defence Staff, CTV News has learned, making her the first woman to lead the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF).
… Carignan was promoted to her current rank in 2021 and appointed as the military’s new chief of professional conduct and culture. She has four children, two of whom serve in the Canadian Armed Forces.
That role placed her in charge of cultural reform(opens in a new tab) in the CAF amid ongoing sexual misconduct investigations. At the time of her appointment, she said her team was committed to achieving concrete results within five years.
So it looks like they put the DEI dictator in charge. That should go over well.
h/t Editor
Some 60% of American voters believe that US President Joe Biden should be replaced as the Democratic presidential candidate following his debate against Republican candidate Donald Trump last week, according to a Morning Consult Pro poll published Friday.
Democrats hoped the debate would serve as an opportunity to quell rising public concern over Biden’s age and mental capabilities. However, many criticized the president’s performance, noting several moments where he struggled to speak clearly, American media reported.
Canada is experiencing a crisis of unaffordable housing. One recent survey concluded that housing in Greater Vancouver was “impossibly unaffordable.” Another survey found that only 23% of British Columbian renters pay less than 30% of their income on rent, almost half spend 31%-49%, and 25% spend more than half of their income on rent.
That raises the question of what is affordable housing.
The explosion in crime, insecurity, and immigration explain the trend, pollsters say.
With less than three days to go until the first round of the French parliamentary elections, two polling institutes are simultaneously predicting a possible absolute majority for the Rassemblement National (RN) in the National Assembly.
Since Emmanuel Macron announced the dissolution of the Assembly on June 9th, the Rassemblement National has been given the lead with more than 30% of the vote, but there is still uncertainty over the actual number of seats that Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella’s party could win. However, two independent estimates consider it entirely possible that the national Right party and its allies could pass the 289 MP mark required to obtain an absolute majority.
Multiple vehicles burst into flames after 400-500 people took over the streets of Los Angeles, California pic.twitter.com/eliSSEjHB0
— BAY AREA STATE OF MIND (@YayAreaNews) June 29, 2024
ST-BRUNO — About thirty pro-Palestinian activists blocked a railway line on Saturday morning in St-Bruno-de-Montarville, in Montérégie, said the Longueuil agglomeration police service (SPAL).
Protesters obstructed the railway at the intersection of Seigneurial and Sir-Wilfrid-Laurier Blvds. from 10 a.m.
This crap has gone on so long no one seems much to care any longer.
A 22-year-old North Korean was publicly executed for watching and sharing South Korean films and music, a new report claims, highlighting Pyongyang’s desperate attempts to stem the flow of outside information and culture.
The case, detailed in the 2024 Report on North Korean Human Rights released by South Korea’s unification ministry on Thursday, compiles testimonies from 649 North Korean defectors.
An immigrant fell off while trying to tie an Indian flag in London. pic.twitter.com/X7HVbQGLrn
— Daily Reports (@dailyreportsx) June 30, 2024
Canada’s clownish anti-Muslim activists are still ginning up hate to earn a buck. This is the one good reason why can’t ignore their antics
Before killing four members of the same Muslim family in London, Ont. three years ago, the man behind the attack — a convicted Islamophobic terrorist — wrote a manifesto calling for mass violence against non-white people.
He chose Muslims dressed in traditional clothing as his first targets.
After killing six Muslim worshippers inside a Quebec City mosque in 2017, the mass shooter behind that attack told police he wanted to protect his family from “Islamic terrorists.”
The Star article is written by a chump who works for the NCCM.
h/t Ontario John
SEATTLE (AP) — A decision by the U.S. Supreme Court allowing cities to enforce bans on sleeping outside in public spaces will allow San Francisco to begin clearing homeless encampments that have plagued the city, the mayor said Friday as she applauded the ruling.
The case is the most significant on the issue to come before the high court in decades and comes as cities across the country have wrestled with the politically complicated issue of how to deal with a rising number of people without a permanent place to live and public frustration over related health and safety issues.
A man in St. John’s rents office space, but he doesn’t have an office job.
He’s an electrician, driving from gig to gig all day. The office is where he sleeps at night, secretly, because he couldn’t afford to rent an apartment anywhere in the city. For two months during the frigid Newfoundland and Labrador winter, he lived in his truck. Then, in February, he found an office listed for $450 per month.
“I’m 100 per cent doing this clandestinely,” the 37-year-old told CBC News. “I basically have given up on finding anything else.”
Last week saw a flurry of activity from the Canadian government on national security. First, it announced on June 19 that the IRGC — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — had been formally “listed” as a terrorist entity. Then the Senate approved Bill C-70 calling for the establishment of a foreign agent registry.
It’s not about Joe Biden, it’s about why Joe Biden?
For example, as the clamor about Robert Hur fades away, now never to be heard again, does anyone still wonder why Attorney General Merrick Garland was so desperate to prevent Americans from witnessing the recording of the president’s logorrheic, hours-long interview by the special counsel? The one that caused Hur to conclude that the president — notwithstanding his decades of willful Espionage Act violations — was too mentally deteriorated to indict? A conclusion that can only mean that he was too incapacitated to assist in his defense against criminal charges, or that the prosecutor feared a jury would think it an act of Eighth Amendment-level cruelty to subject so dissipated a man to the rigors of a felony indictment and trial?
