Over the past couple decades, Ontario school boards have chosen experimental teaching methods over the safe and proven, embraced mandated diversity over merit and have sometimes failed to secure the safety of students and staff. It’s no wonder that students are learning less. But, because it’s easier to scapegoat than to fix oneself, these school boards are taking to the courts to pin their failings on social media, specifically Facebook/Instagram, SnapChat and TikTok.
It seems the hills are not alive with music in Chechnya, Russia’s mountainous Muslim republic.
Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman ruler, has banned all songs that are slower than 80 beats per minute (bpm) and faster than 116 bpm.
Canada’s housing affordability crisis will hit even more alarming levels in the coming years without a bold set of policy reforms to boost supply, the economics department at Royal Bank of Canada said Monday in a report.
The country needs to complete roughly 320,000 housing units annually from now until 2030, simply to meet the new demand that will arise over that period, according to RBC estimates. This would amount to an increase of nearly 50 per cent from recent completion levels – and it would require a record pace of construction.
If anything, Canada is moving in the wrong direction. There were around 240,000 housing unit starts in 2023, down from roughly 271,000 in 2021, according to figures from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. This doesn’t bode well for completions over the rest of the decade.
In the past few weeks the Liberals have been on blast about their many housing initiatives as if that was going to solve the crisis they created.
All of their grandiose declarations amount to a drop in the bucket.
It’s all bullshit all the time from the Liberals.
Surprise, surprise.
Two days ago, Trudeau was in Alberta, promoting modular construction as a way to solve the housing crisis he created.
He chose NRB Modular Solutions as a backdrop for his press conference. NRB is part of Dexterra Group, a leading support services and… https://t.co/I0bjZycFCE
— Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker (@Martyupnorth_2) April 7, 2024
h/t DS
Former President Donald Trump on Monday said abortion should be left to the states in the post-Roe era, declining to endorse any national limit on the procedure.
His announcement, shared on Truth Social, is likely to disappoint anti-abortion groups who hoped he would use his bully pulpit to endorse national restrictions on abortion, especially after his campaign floated a 15-week ban earlier this year. Trump instead said that it was “up to the states to do the right thing” on abortion, painting Democrats as “radical” on the issue.
Democrats radical on abortion? Demonically possessed is more accurate.
A far-right movement claims the eclipse is a sign of the end of days. Why these seemingly fringe beliefs are more ominous than you think
One sign — and if you find the right corner of the internet, there are many, many signs — is that Monday’s total eclipse passes over a city with a portentous name: Rapture, Indiana.
It’s also “shocking,” according to a TikTokker with 2.4 million followers, that the eclipse crosses eight towns named “Nineveh,” the city of sin and vice in the Bible that the prophet Jonah was sent to warn of God’s wrath.
I bet she blames the weather on white male hegemony.
The Vatican on Monday declared gender-affirming surgery and surrogacy as grave violations of human dignity, putting them on par with abortion and euthanasia as practices that reject God’s plan for human life.
Titled ‘Infinite Dignity,’ the 20-page declaration – that has been in the works for five years – focuses on what it describes as threats to human dignity, including poverty, the death penalty, war, sexual abuse and the abuse of women.
After substantial revision in recent months, the text was approved March 25 by Pope Francis, who ordered its publication.
‘We’re just stuck.’ This new father grew up in public housing — he wants to leave but can’t because of what’s wrong with Toronto’s housing market
In the wee hours of the night, Shahzeb Ahia and his wife often pace the floors of their living room, walking back and forth with their newborn daughter and hoping the movement or the city lights outside will quiet her wails.
It isn’t only their sleep that three-month-old Sahira’s cries can interrupt. The sound can travel throughout the 955-square-foot apartment in Regent Park that’s currently home to a household of six, including Ahia’s parents and his adult brother. It’s too many people for this space — but Ahia can’t see any way out.
The Family has lived in Regent Park Social Housing for 20 years virtually since their arrival in Canada.
Hell of a life plan for a “Social Worker.”
Mass immigration is working its magic!
At an International Al-Quds Day rally held last Friday in Dearborn, Michigan, which was streamed live on Facebook, local assembled protesters chanted: “Death to America!” and “Death to Israel!” MEMRI reported last Friday.
According to the last US census finding, Dearborn, Michigan is 54% Arab.
The GTA is now host to the largest Muslim diaspora in North America surpassing Dearborn Michigan.
Here is an activist leading Muslims in a chant pledging “Death to America.” I am not making it up, as it’s right here on video. I thought it was in Iran, but I was wrong.
It’s in Dearborn, Michigan, in the United States of America. pic.twitter.com/3k81lp8Mfa
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) April 8, 2024
Who decided inviting a death cult to live here was a good idea?
Come the revolution…
Another foreign visit, another plea for Canadian liquified natural gas unanswered. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who was in Canada March 24 and 25, got the same cool reception that his peers from Japan and Germany in their calls for Canadian liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports.
Why the indifference? Enter the dreaded rhetoric of the Canadian “business case,” the habit in domestic policy discourse to dismiss LNG exports to Europe as unviable — despite repeated asks from Europeans themselves.
There was a huge anti-government protest in Brazil a few weeks ago. This hardly got any coverage, but it went viral on .
This is why is Lula's Public Enemy #1. pic.twitter.com/5f8hLH0nZ9
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 7, 2024
h/t DS
Scottish football fans face hate crime complaints from members of the public who hear chants on TV at home, a senior lawyer has warned.
Police Scotland, which has already received 8,000 reports since the new laws came into force last week, is facing warnings that as many as 2,000 further complaints will be made on Sunday due to the Rangers vs Celtic clash at Ibrox.
Sectarian songs are often heard at Old Firm matches, raising fears that partisan supporters watching the game live on TV could swamp the force with new hate crime reports.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says that he will support the Trudeau government’s budget under three conditions. Poilievre wants Trudeau to commit to axing the carbon tax for farmers, to build homes and not bureaucracy, and to agree to a cap on government spending.
338Canada federal update | April 7, 2024
Details here → https://t.co/IQaKoGJItT
Analysis → https://t.co/p9EDbSSMpG pic.twitter.com/LFuXszLB5L
— Philippe J. Fournier (@338Canada) April 8, 2024
The best item at Trump International gift shop.
Joe Biden toilet flushers.pic.twitter.com/1eVPRVbPDS
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) April 7, 2024
h/t Mauser
Israeli troops are being withdrawn from the battle-scarred city of Khan Younis to prepare for a new offensive into Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, the country’s defense minister announced Sunday.
Addressing military commanders, Yoav Gallant said forces were being temporarily pulled from Khan Younis, about 10 kilometers from the Egyptian border, and are preparing “for their future missions in the Rafah area.”
Gallant reiterated Israel’s position that hostilities will continue until “we will reach a situation where Hamas does not control the Gaza Strip and where it does not function as a military framework that poses a risk to the citizens of the State of Israel.”
A non-financial consideration in Canada’s transition to renewable energy is the large amount of land needed compared to other energy sources, like natural gas, a new Fraser Institute report says.
The report notes that while the cost of renewable sources has decreased, the challenge of land consumption—or how much space is needed for wind and solar power generation—remains an obstacle.
