The Cass Review is a devastating blow to trans ideology

In 2020, the NHS commissioned Dr Hilary Cass, a leading paediatrician, to review its gender services for children and young people. Today, four years on, her eagerly anticipated findings have been published.

At its core, the Cass Review severely criticises the NHS’s approach to ‘gender confused’ children, and reaffirms the principle of evidence-based practice in medicine. It warns that the medical pathway is unsuitable for most young people with gender issues. And it states that clinicians should take extreme care before allowing anyone under the age of 25 to take pharmaceutical steps to ‘transition’ to look like the opposite sex.

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How much influence does the US really have over Israel?

The pullout of the vast majority of the IDF’s troops from Gaza in recent days has raised questions about whether Israel’s military campaign is ending with a whimper.

Amid pressure from its most important ally and weapon supplier, the US, the operation in Rafah — where Hamas’s remaining battalions are located — has not yet begun. But based on the remarks made by Israel’s top generals and politicians, it appears as though it will go ahead. After IDF troops left Khan Younis on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared: “We are but a step away from victory.”

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Democrat congresswoman suggests black people be exempt from paying taxes as form of reparations

A Democratic congresswoman is calling for black Americans to be exempt from paying taxes as a form of reparations — though she admitted that the plan may not work because many poorer black people “aren’t really paying taxes in the first place.”

Jasmine Crockett, a freshman representative from Texas, said she heard a celebrity — though she could not remember which one — propose making black people tax-exempt, and thought, “I don’t know that that’s … necessarily a bad idea,” she recounted in an interview with “The Black Lawyers Podcast” last week.

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Islamic Dearborn, Michigan will decide America’s next president

Biden needs Michigan, desperately, and so he will do anything to satisfy Tlaib and her flock. For this man with no honor, no decency, all that counts is winning, whatever the cost.

Maybe all you need to know is that Dearborn was the birthplace of Henry Ford. This was where he maintained his home and business.

He was the most flagrant antisemite in American history. Throughout the 1930s. Nazi Towns sprung up across the. United States. You didn’t know? It is a fact.

Dearborn was one of those towns that marched for Hitler and hoisted the swastika.

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Pressure mounts on Justin Trudeau’s Liberals as NDP joins Conservatives in calling for national meeting on carbon levy

OTTAWA — Opposition parties banded together Wednesday to call on the Liberal government to stage a televised, federal-provincial summit on the carbon price within five weeks, the latest shift in the long-running political battle over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s signature climate policy.

The demand came through a motion in the House of Commons that was sponsored by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, and received support from the Bloc Québécois and New Democratic Party. It passed 172 to 150, with Liberal MPs opposing.

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Why are 15 times more Canadians than Californians choosing assisted death?

As a Calgary father’s legal battle to block his autistic daughter’s assisted death ignites debate over whether Canada’s euthanasia regime is expanding beyond what Canadians may be comfortable with, a new study suggests MAID deaths in Canada could continue to expand for another decade, until one in 10 deaths involve a doctor-administered lethal injection.

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For Jews in Canada, every day feels like Al-Quds Day

Once upon a time, Jews in Toronto could expect only one public antisemitic hate-fest every year when enemies of Israel would gather downtown to mark the annual Al-Quds Day. How almost strangely quaint that now seems in view of today’s reality.

For Jews in 2024, amid a staggering rise in antisemitism, almost every day is starting to feel like Al-Quds Day, given the increasingly frequent and toxic anti-Israel and anti-Jewish incitement playing out on the streets and university campuses of Canada’s major cities.

It will not get better.

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On Chinese interference, Trudeau sounds like someone with something to hide

The plausible explanation is that the prime minister does not want a light shone on his party’s mutually beneficial association with China

The crux of the foreign interference inquiry is to discover whether Justin Trudeau danced with the devil in the pale moonlight.

In other words, did the prime minister put partisan interest ahead of the national interest by turning a blind eye — or worse, encouraging — China’s meddling in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections to benefit the Liberal party’s electoral fortunes.

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‘Tall order to ask the average Canadian’: EVs are twice as hard to sell today

As automakers continue to delay their electric-vehicle plans and report lower-than-expected sales, Canada’s goal of ensuring that at least 20 per cent of new vehicles sold by 2026 are electric seems to be in jeopardy.

Ford Motor Co. last week said it was going to delay EV production at its assembly plant in Oakville, Ont., by two years to 2027 from 2025. The additional time will allow the company to take advantage of an emerging battery technology and let the number of consumers grow.

Let’s see …

1) EV’s are expensive.
2) EV’s suck in the winter as battery performance is severely degraded.
3) EV’s need an expensive home charger which I can’t afford but that’s OK because the grid can’t handle the required load anyway.
4) EV’s can see a relatively minor fender bender result in a total vehicle write off if the battery is compromised.
5) EV’s are damn hard to put out if they burst into flames.
6) EV’s have high insurance and repair costs.
7) EV’s need expensive replacement batteries that destroy resale value.
8) EV’s wear out tires and roadways faster due to their excessive weight.
9) EV’s are not “green”.
10) EV’s don’t currently have nearly the required number of public chargers needed.

Sure sign me up!

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Hamas has all but won

It would be hard to imagine that almost exactly six months after October 7, I would find myself saying this, but Israel is either on a path to defeat or has lost the war already.

The way in which the Jewish state – the regional military superpower, enjoying huge military support from the global superpower – is being forced to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory is a cautionary tale for the West. It is often correctly said that Israel is on the frontline of the struggle against jihadism. Well, pay attention: the collapse of Israel’s campaign in Gaza, which after the October atrocities was the most justified imaginable, is a harbinger of what may lie ahead.

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Anthony Furey: Tens of thousands of Torontonians caught in bureaucratic nightmare due to vacant homes tax

The rollout of the City of Toronto’s vacant home tax has been nothing short of disastrous. There’s no point trying to fix it, as it’s a flawed tax that was always going to be a mess. It needs to be axed.

The vacant home tax, now in its second year, requires an annual declaration from homeowners that they are either living in their property or renting it out for at least six months of the year. This declaration needs to be made yearly for each property a person owns.

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