Mounds of mouldy garbage, cigarette butts, discarded needles, used tampons, vomit and rat feces litter what was once a clean, empty one-bedroom apartment in Ottawa’s ByWard Market.
The unit above looks similar, with broken windows and walls covered in bright red spray paint.
In the building next door, kitchen tiles peel up following a flood, and the smell upon entering is overwhelming.
Homelessness will not be solved by social justice bureaucrats.
May 8 (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors are examining whether Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab committed securities or wire fraud by misleading investors and consumers about its electric vehicles’ self-driving capabilities, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems assist with steering, braking and lane changes – but are not fully autonomous. While Tesla has warned drivers to stay ready to take over driving, the Justice Department is examining other statements by Tesla and Chief Executive Elon Musk suggesting its cars can drive themselves.
h/t Mauser
Depending on your perspective, Toronto and Vancouver hosting 13 FIFA Men’s World Cup games in 2026 is a gigantic waste of taxpayers’ money, or the best thing that could ever happen to these cities.
Maybe it’s both.
As we recently learned, the updated estimate for the cost of Vancouver to host seven games is now between $483-million and $581-million. In Toronto: $380-million to host six games.
What a scam. Tax payers paying for games they can’t afford to attend.
Two California teens who were forced to withdraw from an elite Catholic high school over accusations of blackface have been awarded $1 million and tuition reimbursement.
A Santa Clara County jury sided with the teens, identified by the initials A.H. and H.H., on two claims concerning breach of oral contract and lack of due process.
The boys sued Saint Francis High School in August 2020 after photos circulated of them sporting acne treatment masks.
h/t Mauser
Take this under consideration if you are planning on traveling to Europe. pic.twitter.com/7hcGirKZdT
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) May 9, 2024
As the government of Justin Trudeau appeals January’s Federal Court decision that found his invocation of the Emergencies Act in 2022 to be unlawful, history is repeating itself in uncanny ways. Newly obtained records from 1970 show that former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, like his son, also didn’t meet the legal threshold to invoke emergency legislation used to quell a national crisis.
In the gardens of Buckingham Palace the King, recovering from cancer treatment, was surrounded by his family and 8,000 guests. Two miles down the road at St Paul’s Cathedral his younger son, Prince Harry, cut a lonelier figure.
The Duke of Sussex made a rare UK public appearance to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Invictus Games, his Paralympics-style competition for military personnel and veterans. However, no senior members of the royal family joined him at the service and it was revealed that the King was too busy to see Harry during his brief transatlantic visit.
BREAKING:
100+ Swedish policemen are transporting the Israeli singer Eden Golan to Malmo Arena in a very long convoy of police cars
A police helicopter is flying above the convoy
Eden is competing in the Eurovision Song Contest tonight in a city infamous for its antisemitism pic.twitter.com/oHXTq7ZPP3
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) May 9, 2024
h/t Mauser
For some immigrants, their dreams of permanently settling in Canada have taken an unexpected twist.
Canada is grappling not only with a surge of immigrants arriving in the country, but also those who are leaving.
The number of newcomers(opens in a new tab) leaving Canada has been steadily increasing since the 1980s, according to a 2023 study.
An Israeli beauty queen who served as a frontline soldier had a knife pulled on her while being berated as a “little Zionist” in New York City as she urged students to have “peaceful conversations” about Gaza, according to footage of the failed “social experiment.”
Miss Israel Noa Cochva teared up on Instagram after she was repeatedly blasted with anti-Israel vitriol while carrying a sign reading, “I am an [Israel Defense Forces] soldier. Ask me anything” in the protester-packed Washington Square Park near New York University’s campus Monday.
Miss Israel, Noa Cochva, trying to have a peaceful conversation with …whoever is willing to listen.
It ended with ….tears… #factsforpeace pic.twitter.com/fY2lECfgKO— miha schwartzenberg (@mihaschw) May 7, 2024
Popular Port Coquitlam Mayor Brad West, whose life was shaped by the labour movement, is worried by what’s happening to the party that once stood staunchly for blue-collar workers.
Not long ago West was a political staffer and campaign worker for Mike Farnworth, the longtime NDP MLA for Port Coquitlam and now minister of public safety. And Farnworth recently suggested in the legislature that West should be his successor.
The NDP abandoned those icky working class people long ago.
A progressive nonprofit that has been shelling out cash to anti-Israel protest groups is being sued by Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation for fraud and withholding more than $33 million in donations, a bombshell lawsuit claims.
Tides Foundation, which has managed hundreds of millions in donations for progressive groups since it was founded in 1976, has “refused to honor its promises and continues to commandeer BLMGNF’s donations,” according to the 285-page lawsuit filed in California Superior Court, Los Angeles County, on Monday.
Instead, Tides doled out an undisclosed amount of donations to a radical BLM breakaway group run by anti-police activist Melina Abdullah — who lost a “frivolous” lawsuit against BLMGNF — according to court papers and an attorney for BLMGNF.
The push is on to get Canada back to common sense when it comes to the worsening drug culture in our cities.
On May 7, the federal Liberal government approved the B.C. NDP government’s request to recriminalize the possession of hard drugs.
And in recent weeks, federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and Ontario Premier Doug Ford have both denounced how the City of Toronto wants to one-up B.C. and decriminalize hard drugs not just for adults but minors as well.
UNRWA has been caught stealing and then selling humanitarian aid that came into Gaza that was intended to be given to Palestinian civilians, UN Watch reported on Wednesday, citing reports published by Palestinians in “an UNRWA-related chatroom.”
The Watch report also claims that those who report UNRWA’s actions with the humanitarian aid “face reprisals.”
h/t XC
According to a new study published by the Fraser Institute, if Canada wants to remain competitive with emerging economies around the world, we must increase our math, science and reading scores — and not simply pursue high levels of “equity and inclusion” as the primary goal for our schools.
Must be easier than actually teaching.
