Doug Ford stands behind controversial remarks: ‘I stick with what I said’

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Friday he is standing behind controversial remarks he made the day prior despite facing calls to apologize.

On Thursday, Ford accused people of bringing “problems from everywhere else in the world” to the province after a recent shooting at a Toronto Jewish girls school.

Toronto police told Global News on Thursday the investigation remains ongoing, and no arrests have been made.

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KNIFE FIGHT!

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Supreme Court won’t hear appeal in Montreal MK-ULTRA brainwashing case

The Supreme Court of Canada will not review a Quebec ruling that bars people in Canada from suing the United States government over its role in notorious brainwashing experiments at a Montreal psychiatric hospital.

The top court’s decision is a setback for a proposed class-action lawsuit over the medical procedures funded decades ago by the Canadian government and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency at the Allan Memorial Institute.

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Toronto police say trespassing law doesn’t give power to clear U of T encampment

Toronto police say they will only take action to clear a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Toronto in case of emergency or to carry out a court order.

In an update to the Toronto Police Service Board this morning, deputy chief Rob Johnson said “given the manner in which events have unfolded to date,” the law on trespassing doesn’t give the force legal authority to clear the encampment.

Scaredy cats.

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Hollywood’s “Hays Code” is back…and no wonder Israel is in the doghouse

By the DEI book, white people are often sinful, all black people are always virtuous. George Floyd, for example.

Some books hit you where you live. So it is with A. E. Hotchner’s “Papa Hemingway,” where Hotchner lovingly tells of his 13 year friendship with Hemingway.

These would be the last years of Hemingway’s life. Hotchner left us the year 2020 at the age of 102.

I wrote the column “Hemingway and a Lost Generation,” back in July 2, 2013, and there it sits as article 102 as part of my collection of essays for the book, “Writings.”

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Europe Stumbles Toward Escalation With Russia Over Ukraine — Without a Strategy for Victory

Why has Europe dithered until the ostensible eleventh hour to mobilize, and, with calls to allow NATO weapons to strike inside Russia, in such a potentially risky way?

European defense policy is in disarray, as the continent edges toward likely escalation with a nuclear-armed Russia. Calls for Ukraine to use North Atlantic Treaty-supplied weapons to strike inside Russia juxtapose with proposals from President Macron and Germany’s Olaf Scholz that climate policies are the solution to Europe’s problems. Meanwhile, European trade with Russia continues via Kazakhstan. Urgently needed is clarity.

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McGill ‘baffled’ by police inaction on ‘threatening’ encampment tactics

McGill University’s president has denounced what he describes as intensifying intimidation tactics by supporters of a pro-Palestinian encampment on the school’s downtown campus.

Deep Saini has also disclosed the university’s offer to the protesters, saying it was rejected even though it’s similar to proposals that have led to resolutions at other universities.

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China Weaponizing 90%-Fatal Ebola

China’s regime is trying to weaponize Ebola. The disease can have a 90% mortality rate.

Code Enforcement Officer Jesalyn Harper in December 2022 noticed a garden hose connected to a supposedly abandoned building in Reedley, California, near Fresno in the Central Valley. She entered the structure and found what appears to have been a secret biological weapons laboratory.

The facility was run by Jiabei Zhu, a Chinese citizen who was a fugitive from Canadian justice. He was also a top official at one of China’s state-controlled companies that had links to the Chinese military.

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Biden: Israel offer is a ‘historic opportunity, Hamas should take it’

Israel has proposed a new three-phase ceasefire deal and plan for the day after the war, President Joe Biden said on Friday afternoon during a special address from the White House.

Biden laid out the terms for the agreement which would begin with six weeks of ceased hostilities in which women, children, elderly and injured hostages would be released.

In the first phase, Israeli forces would withdraw from densely populated areas in Gaza.

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