Author: Blazingcatfur
‘I just want to be safe’: Ukrainian man in Ottawa faces limbo amid consular freeze
But a recent decision to restrict consular services for fighting-aged Ukrainian men has made him feel less certain of his next steps — and worried he could be pulled back to the war.
OTTAWA — The future was just starting to appear bright for Mykyta Zakharchenko.
The 18-year-old’s youth in Ukraine was shadowed by two major conflicts with Russia before he escaped to Canada in 2022.
With harrowing experiences of war behind him, he recently graduated high school, competes internationally as a rower and is determined to study finance in a few years.
Ukraine has a recruitment problem so they’ve restricted consular services to coerce the return of fighting aged men.
What about fighting aged women?
Should continued military aid be conditional on “peace negotiations?.
WTF?
The worst insult ever.
"You're just a white person!" pic.twitter.com/NBMG4ECLGk
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 26, 2024
Conrad Black: Washing away the climate lunatics
I have written here and elsewhere countless times before of the dangers of responding prematurely to alarmist concerns about climate change. Dr. Benny Peiser of the British Global Warming Policy Foundation spoke to the Friends of Science Society in Calgary earlier this month, warning that Europe’s extremist net zero carbon emission policies may get to Canada even though they are now running into extreme problems in Europe. The North American media has not much reported on the widespread and often violent farmer protests in Europe, which has caused every government that has been put to the test to scale back their aggressive climate change policies.
WTF?
WATCH
It’s honestly difficult to differentiate between satire and reality these days.@Eretz_Nehederet called this Columbia Hxmas uprising five months ago. pic.twitter.com/4nrcKyuGOm
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) April 25, 2024
The Death of Gutenberg
Is the rise of digital media causing the fall of literacy?
For a brief period after the near-simultaneous birth of the smartphone and social media, euphoria prevailed. Instant web-enabled communications networks, it was widely believed, were delivering into the hands of the masses the means to fulfill the brightest hopes about globalization that had been raised at the end of the Cold War. Abroad, advocates of democracy would use the new technologies to beat back the forces of tyranny and repression; within the liberal West, the same technologies would rejuvenate democratic culture and civic life. An array of disparate ideological factions—from liberal internationalists to libertarians to anarchists—seized on versions of this narrative. And for a time, it seemed to be borne out, as tech-savvy young people challenged entrenched power and scored some remarkable (if short-lived) victories, notably in the Middle East.
Murder and rape in the dunes of pre-state Israel: The story of a hike turned horror
It was to be a two- or three-day hike from Tel Aviv to Herzliya. But they never finished their trek.
They were friends and perhaps wanted to become lovers. They also loved the Land of Israel and set out to walk through it. Tragically, their walk was horrifyingly interrupted.
h/t MP
Describe Pro-Hamas Protests? AI Misses Key Details.
If there was a reward for vague language, ChatGPT earned it.
Ten days after Columbia University students decided to make national headlines by camping out on the colleges’ quad, they’ve managed to elicit hours’ worth of X debates about free speech rights and an incredibly lukewarm response from the Biden administration.
Iran Mullahs Speeding Up Nuclear Weapons Program: Anyone Interested?
In the midst of the Hamas-Israel conflict — while the world’s attention is fixed on the war Iran and Hamas began — Iran’s ruling mullahs have seized the opportunity to advance their nuclear program.
By backing, arming and training Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, Iran launched a proxy war against Israel, leveraging the conflict in part to divert attention from its nuclear ambitions.
WTF?
Trudeau’s really gotta stop watching Rachel Gilmore TikTok videos. https://t.co/hjcqlTxwhr
— Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 (@ryangerritsen) April 26, 2024
Very stupid people like Liberal voters will eat this up, but everyone else is just having a great big laugh at Junior’s Drama Teacher antics.
Town of Woodstock will no longer fly Pride banners on downtown lampposts
For many years, Pride flags have been among the banners flown on lampposts in downtown Woodstock.
But going forward, a change in the town’s rules means they will no longer be allowed.
“We’re disappointed that that’s the position the town has taken,” said Amanda Lightbody, founder and president of The Rainbow Crosswalk, a non-profit Pride organization supporting the Woodstock region.
Smile …
Anyone who's had a small child will likely have had to do THIS👇🏼 at least once!!
BUT… this isn't a small child, no it's a little libtard who's finding out for the first time that if you do something illegal there just might be consequences!!
And these are the same people… pic.twitter.com/48Iz46ftPL
— SaltyGoat (@SaltyGoat17) April 27, 2024
Anti-war protesters dig in as some schools close encampments after reports of antisemitic activity
NEW YORK (AP) — As students protesting the Israel-Hamas war at universities across U.S. dug in Saturday and vowed to keep their demonstrations going, some universities shut down encampments after reports of antisemitic activity among the protesters.
With the the death toll mounting in the war in Gaza, protesters nationwide are demanding that schools cut financial ties to Israel and divest from companies they say are enabling the conflict. Some Jewish students say the protests have veered into antisemitism and made them afraid to set foot on campus.
Anthony Furey: What to Do About Dangerous Dogs in Our Cities
The most controversial topics to cover in journalism aren’t what you might first think. Foreign affairs? Religion? Trump, Biden, Clinton?
Nope. Not by a long shot. Sure, people are deeply passionate about these topics. But I’ve learned from my years of newspaper writing that the topics that are most likely to result in your inbox being flooded are voicing an opinion on parking and pets.
That’s because these issues affect people directly in their daily lives, sometimes on an hourly basis. There’s no escaping them.
My heart places me in the “No such thing as a bad dog school” but Pitbulls unfortunately have to be excluded.
PBS Tries To Blame Conservatism For Mass Stabbing
Thursday’s Amanpour and Company demonstrated everything wrong with public broadcasting by using hushed and solemn tones to offer up the most incendiary hot takes. This particular hot take came from feminist, gender, and sexuality studies Prof. Kate Manne and NPR’s Michel Martin as they tried to tie conservatism to the recent mass stabbing in Australia.