When I was a kid and I misbehaved, which was often, people would say, “You’re going to end up in Reform School.”
It was an idea that terrified me. I wasn’t a bad kid, I was a normal kid. But yes, I got into trouble occasionally. And usually, it was because I was hanging out with the wrong crowd on Wyandotte St., in Windsor.
A historic piece of artwork has been lost in a fire that destroyed much of church in Toronto’s Little Portugal area on Sunday.
Emergency crews were called to St. Anne’s Anglican Church on Gladstone Avenue, just north of Dundas Street West, just before 8 a.m.
Cause of the blaze is not known, h/t DS
Go ahead, draft women. She dares you to do it! pic.twitter.com/zyAHWZre4s
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) June 9, 2024
A lot of folks head to other countries to get fine work like this done to their faces.
I can’t decide if I like the lips or the eyebrows best. What do you think? pic.twitter.com/h3LY7ld0Td
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) June 7, 2024
A crucial issue currently troubling the country has to do with the suffering of native peoples in the now-abolished religiously oriented Residential Schools, which sought both to convert aboriginal students to Christianity and to integrate them into the wider culture. Thousands of Indian children were purportedly tortured, killed and buried in mass graves by Catholic priests and nuns in the period 1890-1969. The shame and resentment which followed the scandal became a national cause célèbre.
For many people, this is a hard question to answer because the explanation is quite complicated. pic.twitter.com/DR2ibQ9ucn
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) June 7, 2024
Today and everyday we celebrate women like Diana who is a man. pic.twitter.com/W99ICqayHj
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) June 9, 2024
Some of us have vindictively long memories. I am one such person. So let me summon up just two stories from the not-so-distant past that have some bearing on our unhappy present.
In 2009 the Dutch politician Geert Wilders was barred by Jacqui Smith, the then Labour home secretary, from entering the UK. In a letter explaining her decision, Smith (or rather her Home Office lawyers) wrote that Wilders’s ‘statements about Muslims and their beliefs would threaten community harmony and therefore public safety in the UK’. Perhaps Smith was partly influenced by the possibility that if Wilders came to the Houses of Parliament and gave his speech (in which he was expected to show his film Fitna) thousands of angry Islamists might decide to take to the streets in Westminster. Something which has, of course, never happened since.
A dispatch from Tokyo, where citizens follow unwritten rules
There is no litter on the streets of Tokyo—and also no litter baskets. That combination tells us much about how this great city maintains its quality of life. Here, public order is preserved not primarily by the authorities, but by citizens. In contrast with today’s New York, Tokyo relies on norms.
Tokyo’s lack of litter baskets has a back story, one the city shares with New York: a terrorist attack. In March 1995, a death-cult group released deadly sarin gas on three lines of the Tokyo subway system, including one adjacent to Japan’s parliament, the Diet. The rush-hour attack killed 13 and sickened more than 1,000 others. Officials, concerned that litter baskets might be used for bombs and future attacks, removed them.
Thirty-one years ago, the Progressive Conservatives lost all but two seats and spent years puzzling over how to rebuild
A party unspooling in its waning days of power, a prime minister plumbing news depths of unpopularity, the looming threat of an electoral “nightmare scenario” and a newly empowered Reform party hellbent on destroying the national Conservatives.
Canada’s 1993 federal election fundamentally altered the country’s political landscape and shattered its national conservative movement, forcing leaders to spend a decade puzzling over how to rebuild a broken party.
CIA-funded Washington Post, our very own homegrown Pravda, not only lied for years about the veracity of Fauci’s beagle torture regime for The Science™; it also smeared the independent advocacy organization, White Coat Waste Project, that uncovered it.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 8, 2024
Toronto ‘Walk with Israel’ event held amid high security, faceoffs with protesters
TORONTO – Thousands of members of Toronto’s Jewish community marched down a major city artery on Sunday as part of an annual pro-Israel event that unfolded amid heightened security and protests along the route.
The United Jewish Appeal held its annual “Walk with Israel,” which involves a five-kilometre walk and a festival in the city’s north end.
Security was tight. The Islamists really had no room to maneuver.
I remember when a Swastika would elicit a horrified response especially from our media, nowadays meh.
Though I guess it depends on who is waving the Swastika and to what end.
CP24 is running the same CP story, as is Global and CTV. Only Natpo and the Sun have original reporting.
No one has pics of or mentions the Swastikas. Kids today!
The usual pic.twitter.com/lggPvP1Hi0
— Fancypants Maloney (@fancypants_s) June 9, 2024
Charming pic.twitter.com/9Fnx5IOcZB
— Fancypants Maloney (@fancypants_s) June 9, 2024
A world-historical societal transformation is taking place before our very eyes, and yet few have taken notice. Britain, the erstwhile leader of the Western world and the foundation and source of English-speaking civilization, is in its last days as a free society, and will soon become an Islamic state. Yet despite the mountains of evidence that this transformation is taking place, many will still deny that it is happening at all. They may not even admit it when it overtakes them personally.
After years of toiling away little noticed, the awkwardly named National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians certainly caught the nation’s attention this week. The committee, which reviewed 4,000 classified documents totaling 32,000 pages and held closed briefings with officials, found that some federal politicians had been “‘semi-witting or witting’ participants in the efforts of foreign states to interfere in our politics.”
Two founders of a Vancouver drug user advocacy group that distributed what it said were safe doses of heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamines to prevent overdoses have been charged with drug trafficking as a result of police raids last year.
Vancouver police said in a statement Friday that members of the Drug User Liberation Front had spoken publicly about trafficking the substances.
