Let’s say you are the vice president of Equity, Diversity and Inclusive (Excellence?), VP EDI, at a Canadian university and you organize an event to have a “courageous conversation” about anti-Palestinian racism, Islamophobia, and anti-Semitism that ends up being a uniform rant against Israel and Zionism with no equity, no diversity, or inclusion for Jews.
Since 2018, a federal appeals court has prevented West Coast cities from arresting homeless people for camping on public land in the absence of available shelter beds — ruling that doing so is a violation of the Eighth Amendment’s cruel and unusual punishment clause.
My theory: The “homeless crisis” is a form of blockbusting but done on a city-wide scale, or in Canada’s case on a nation wide scale.
Portlandia …
He then started screaming but after giving him a smoke he calmed down. I asked how often pedestrians walked past him. Hardly ever he said. Considering this is the only way to safely cross the street this is a lawsuit waiting to happen if a pedestrian instead pic.twitter.com/2KcBZQkAjl
— Kevin Dahlgren 🥾 🥾 (@kevinvdahlgren) April 17, 2024
Black Creek Pioneer Village to drop ‘pioneer’ from its name as part of inclusivity plan
Black Creek Pioneer Village is getting a new name later this year along with longer-term plans to give a permanent home to an Indigenous exhibit.
As part of its ongoing work to tell more accurate stories about settlement in 19th-century Ontario, the Village has been collaborating with five southern Ontario First Nations to recraft the stories at the museum — and its next phase includes dropping “pioneer” from its name.
“I look at our society as a piece of fabric: it’s got different threads woven through it,” said Wendy Rowney, general manager at the Village. “What museums should do is make sure all those threads are visible again.”
Let’s teach made up history!
h/t Ontario John and Mauser
Troubled “conspiracy theorist” Max Azzarello died Friday night hours after he set himself on fire in a Manhattan park across the street from former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial, police said.
The 37-year-old Florida man succumbed to the severe burns he suffered following the sickening self-immolation inside Collect Pond Park.
It turns out for pedophiles in Hollywood, "It's A Small World After All." pic.twitter.com/4qUtOhXZYL
— Bill Maher (@billmaher) April 20, 2024
Talk about an inconvenient truth. After months of trying to explain away the gathering clouds over the electric-vehicle sector as the usual growing pains of an emerging market, the EV faithful swallowed a bitter pill this week when Tesla finally blinked.
The market and spiritual leader of EVs said it will lay off more than 10 per cent of its work force, more than 14,000 people, because of slowing global demand. The company’s deliveries have dropped for the first time in four years, and unsold inventory has swelled to almost 50,000 vehicles.
More … Tesla recalls Cybertrucks as faulty accelerator pedals blamed on soap
The Metropolitan Police has apologised and retracted a statement saying sorry for the actions of an officer who threatened to arrest a man he described as being ‘openly Jewish’ after the communication was slammed as ‘appalling victim blaming’.
London’s police service issued a statement on Friday afternoon apologising after Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) boss Gideon Falter was stopped from walking through a pro-Palestine march last Saturday by a Met officer.
The Met’s initial statement accused counter-protesters at the regular rallies of being ‘provocative’ by filming themselves as they turned up on the routes to express their views. Mr Falter maintains he was ‘going for a walk’ after attending synagogue.
Toronto police have arrested counter protesters during the current round of Hamas support marches.
In my own time the TPS either maintained strict zones for each side to occupy if the protest was static, or straight up told you they could not protect you if attacked.
Gideon Falter the “victim” called the cops to have Tommy Robinson removed from his pro-Israel march. Tommy is facing possible jail time for being Tommy Robinson.
Look at the amazement on @GideonFalter face, that if he remains there, he'll be arrested.
Shocked by the same authoritarian policing that he encouraged and celebrated against me.
He had me arrested, subsequently banned from London, when there was no breach of the peace, no… pic.twitter.com/SuhXHNliwS
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) April 19, 2024
A new report from the Fraser Institute has cast doubt on claims that extreme weather events are becoming more common, arguing such assertions by governments and media outlets are not “iron-clad.”
“Many types of extreme weather show no signs of increasing and in some cases are decreasing … Claims about extreme weather should not be used as the basis for committing to long-term regulatory regimes that will hurt current Canadian standards of living, and leave future generations worse off,” reads the April 18 report, “Extreme Weather and Climate Change.”
The report warns that based on assertions that have not been proven to be true, governments have been enacting “ever more restrictive regulations” on Canadian consumers of energy products, which have imposed costs on Canada’s economy and its citizens’ standards of living.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has some bad news for the American Left: progressives will not be able to organise under a second Donald Trump term, because he’ll be throwing them all in jail.
Remote Northern Menstruators are an aboriginal peoples whose ancestors crossed over the bridge of tampons between Asia and Turtle Island. A matriarchal culture they are noted for inbreeding and banjo playing.
— Fancypants Maloney (@fancypants_s) April 20, 2024
h/t Patti Jo
One of the accused in the Norval Morrisseau art fraud ring case has reached a resolution with his community.
Benjamin Morrisseau, Norval’s nephew, appeared in court in Thunder Bay, Ont., on Thursday on forgery charges. After meeting with elders, an agreement was reached that will see him undertake reparation measures, which can be part of the restorative justice process.
“Restorative justice principles can include a focus on relationships, repairing harm, taking responsibility, and taking personal and family history into account,” according to the Ontario Crown Prosecution Manual.
I enjoy the work, pity the fraud became a cottage industry.
US aerospace firm Boeing is still hoping to weaponise the new MQ-25 Stingray drone it’s building for the US Navy’s aircraft carriers. Sure, there’s a profit motive. But Boeing isn’t wrong. Adding missiles to the far-flying MQ-25 – the Navy’s first in service carrier-capable drone – is a really good idea.
Put simply, the MQ-25 is the only aircraft currently in development for the Navy’s carrier air wings that possesses the range to strike at Chinese forces without forcing the carrier itself to sail dangerously close to those same forces.
As claustrophobic congestion on Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway worsens with years-long lane closures to accommodate road repairs, Ontario’s minister of transportation is suggesting around-the-clock construction could dramatically shorten the time frame.
Parts of the Gardiner, between Dufferin Street and Strachan Avenue, have been reduced by one lane in each direction for “critical rehabilitation work” for three years.
Apparently the overflow has perma-clogged all alternate routes. Guess I won’t be going downtown for 3 years at least.
MARKHAM, Ont.—The Toronto-area private school whose name came up prominently during the foreign interference inquiry for busing international students to the Liberal nomination vote of MP Han Dong in 2019 was invited to celebrate the Chinese New Year with the prime minister two years later.
The invitation was issued even as the prime minister and Liberal party organizers had been made aware of “irregularities” at the nomination vote by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) in 2019. The cited issues included international students being told to support Mr. Dong under “veiled threats” by the Chinese consulate.
Two theories for what we’re seeing with recent mass shootings.
Four mass-casualty shooters in recent years — the Aberdeen/Perryman, Md., shooter, one of the two STEM School shooters in Denver, the Club Q shooter in Colorado Springs, Colo., and the Covenant School shooter in Nashville, Tenn. — were transgender or “non-binary,” and the Perry High School shooter in Iowa apparently aligned with the cause of trans advocacy. Just this week, police in Montgomery County, Md., arrested a transgender high-school student in connection with alleged threats to shoot up an elementary school. Remarkably, most of these individuals have been females, which is unusual considering that such shooters tend to be non-trans men.
