One person is dead and four others are injured after a shooting outside of a school in northwest Toronto late Sunday.
Toronto police said emergency crews were called to the area of Kipling Avenue and Mount Olive Drive, just north of Finch Avenue West, at 10:53 p.m. for reports of a shooting.
Five people were found with gunshot wounds and were taken to hospital.
Germany’s climate advisory body has called for new policy measures to slash greenhouse gas emissions, warning that the country looks set to miss its 2030 climate change targets.
In a report published on Monday, the Council of Experts on Climate Change said Germany was unlikely to reach its goal of cutting 65% of emissions by the end of the decade compared to 1990 levels.
The panel, which is appointed by the government and has independent authority to assess the country’s climate performance, said sectors such as transport and construction in particular were struggling to decarbonize.
Shutting down their Nuclear Power Stations was a great idea.
A leading federal scientist in Canada has alleged he was barred from investigating a mystery brain illness in the province of New Brunswick and said he fears more than 200 people affected by the condition are experiencing unexplained neurological decline.
The allegations, made in leaked emails to a colleague seen by the Guardian, have emerged two years after the eastern province closed its investigation into a possible “cluster” of cases.
A 19-year-old Venezuelan migrant shot two cops early Monday when they tried to stop on a motorized scooter, according to police and sources.
The officers had tried to pull over the teen, identified as Bernardo Castro Mata, after spotting him driving the wrong way down a street at 89th St. and 23rd Ave. in Elmhurst at about 1:40 a.m., police said.
Really?? Freeland announces $11.34M for Black-led community hub in Toronto https://t.co/CsuIgED1y1
— 🍎Miss🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎 (@themadsloth) June 2, 2024
Imagine walking into a store, picking out all your groceries for the week and not having to worry about facing an expensive bill at the checkout.
For clients of the Regina Food Bank, that will soon be a reality.
Since the pandemic, there has been a spike in food bank users across the country, up 25 per cent in Regina alone. One in eight families — and one in four children — are now food insecure in the city. Of the 16,000 monthly clients, 44 per cent are kids.
A two-state resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a defeat for Hamas, US Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew told The Jerusalem Post as the Biden administration is advancing a Saudi deal that includes a pathway for Palestinian statehood.
“I don’t think Hamas wants two states,” Lew said. “The only time they indicate they want two states is when they’re trying to put a little bit of a patina of legitimacy around their real strategy, which is the elimination of the State of Israel.”
To celebrate the start of 🌈 Pride month, pro-Israeli agitators came down to @UofT & @occupyuoft today to harass & verbally assault queer people & women. C word after C word. These are some seriously vile & unhinged people.
“She’ll never be hired, we’ll make sure.”
🎥 MG 🦄 pic.twitter.com/0vKjRdNPrQ
— Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا (@SMohyeddin) June 3, 2024
The terrible events of the past few days in Rafah have inflamed the world. On X/Twitter the theme of “all eyes on Rafah” has commentators condemning Israel for the fiery deaths of 45 Palestinian Gazans. The evidence shows the Israeli airstrike was far from that location. None-the-less the human tragedy is horrible.
In 1996, a Canadian inventor named Troy Hurtubise created this metal suit of armour to enable him to take on and fight off a grizzly bear.
He also created several inventions, including ray generators, firepaste (an ablative heatproofing material), the Ursus personal armor suit,… pic.twitter.com/AEYk0t0CG1
— Morbid Knowledge (@Morbidful) June 2, 2024
An Idaho bar has opted to counter LGBTQ Pride Month by celebrating ‘Heterosexual Awesomeness Month’ during the month of June, saying that without them ‘none of us would be here.’
Old State Saloon in Eagle, Idaho, which is just outside of Boise, announced this past Wednesday that each Monday would be ‘Hetero Male Monday.’
Any man dressed ‘like a heterosexual male’ will be entitled to a free draught beer, according to a Facebook post from the bar.
About 180,000 illegal immigrants and asylum seekers in Canada are asking to stay in the country, causing long wait times, according to information from a Senate committee hearing.
“Thousands of claimants are facing long wait times at multiple points in the process,” said Jason Hollmann, director general of asylum policy at the immigration department, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.
Mr. Hollmann made the comments at a Senate social affairs committee on May 23, saying that asylum decisions can take years.
This is deliberate. Junior is talking of a “path to citizenship” for every illegal invader who wants it.
Wouldn’t it be easier to just give up Ukraine to Russia? That way the war could end and peace would ensue, some believe.
Doing so would grant the Kremlin a frightening gift. I don’t mean the political victory in Russia, or even the military triumph of reaching the EU’s borders. I’m talking about everything that Moscow will come to possess if it is allowed to take full control of its neighbour.
There is much lamenting — and much to lament — about the state of journalism in Canada. How can the truth be found, the common good served, if our networks and newspapers are in a parlous state? Who will provide the information we need when digital giants vacuum up the revenue that in the past provided for the essential-but-not-click-generating work of careful and dogged reporting?
Ottawa’s waffling on Gaza makes commitment to human rights look shaky
If there is one word to describe Ottawa’s response to Israel’s war on Gaza, it surely is: waffle.
The Trudeau government’s politics of appeasement, rather than those of principle, have made its reactions to developments in the Middle East inauthentic to all sides of a divided populace. They have also thrown into doubt Canada’s commitment to an international human rights system.
h/t MP
