Ham's new musical production looks promising!
Tsiporela Ensemble pic.twitter.com/N7g2MOtwXD
— The Mossad: Satirical, Yet Awesome (@TheMossadIL) February 24, 2024
Author: Blazingcatfur
Russia-Ukraine war: 10 years and still no end in sight
Maryna Lyushyna was planning to give a chocolate-themed cooking class on February 24, 2022. The actress and mother of two had prepared everything the night before, and was looking forward to greeting the children who were supposed to be coming to her youth theater in Konotop in northern Ukraine for the event.
But that night, she had trouble sleeping. When she heard some noise, she thought it must be the tram. “At 7 in the morning, a friend called me and said: ‘Turn on the TV, the war has begun!”
Konotop is around 80 kilometers (about 50 miles) from the border with Russia. Two years ago, the town was surrounded by Russian troops within hours of the invasion. There was some resistance, but the forces were unequal and the Ukrainian army soon withdrew.
Empty desks, international students and the quest for Canadian work permits
On a desolate industrial park off a highway north of Toronto stands the Vaughan campus of Flair College of Management and Technology. The boxy façade of the business college is adorned with images of students cooking, at a computer screen, or wearing virtual-reality goggles. Yet the only sign of real life is a woman smoking a cigarette on the steps next door. It is a school day in late January, but the college doors are locked.
Flair’s other campus is in a Brampton strip mall that advertises an optometrist, a dental hygienist and a vascular institute. This at least looks open.
Japan naked festival: Women join Hadaka Matsuri for first time
The sea of chanting, nearly-naked men tussle, push and shove towards the shrine. “Washoi! Washoi!” they yell – let’s go, let’s go.
It is scene that has barely changed in the 1,250 years the Hadaka Matsuri, or the Naked Festival, has been taking place at the Konomiya Shrine, in central Japan.
But this year there is a change – a big one.
Away from the men’s huddle, a group are about to become the first women to ever take part.
Looks like fun.
The Star’s Resident Hamas Apologist …
This has to be among the most foul pro-Hamas propaganda I’ve seen in Canadian media.
It is unfathomable that an editor would allow these words to grace the page of major Canadian newspaper.
Totally and utterly disgusting. https://t.co/6bANgbiscc pic.twitter.com/02i7XLKpOb
— Joe Roberts (@Joe_Roberts01) February 24, 2024
A Stephen Harper tweet was the latest reminder of the depth of Western bias on Israel-Palestine
On Wednesday, former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper was in Jerusalem, shaking hands with the butcher of Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. According to his tweet, Harper witnessed “an Israel scarred by the unprovoked horrors of Oct. 7, but also united in its determination to end the threat of Hamas once and for all.”
“Unprovoked.” “Ending the threat of Hamas.” Phrases being repeatedly used to justify the unjustifiable.
Harper’s ahistorical and disingenuous framing of what’s unfolding in Gaza reflects the extent to which what we’re witnessing from the powerful is an attempt to promote a simplistic viewpoint of “good” and “bad.”
I try to ignore Shree Paradkar as one of her racist screeds is pretty much like another but they keep pulling me back in …
GOLDSTEIN: Public education was supposed to unite us, now it divides us
The broken promise of taxpayer-funded, public education was that it would help unify our diverse society by bringing students from all backgrounds together to learn, and to learn from and about one another.
Last week’s controversy involving the Toronto District School Board – the largest public school board in Canada – was the latest example of how public education today divides students, teachers, the education system and society itself into a world of victims and oppressors.
Ammo Maker Delivers Mic-Drop Moment to Detroit Rapper Partnering With Brady for Gun ‘Buyback’
The gun control group Brady isn’t just interested in passing new laws restricting the right to keep and bear arms. It’s trying to change the culture as well. The outfit has spent a lot of time, money, and energy on enlisting the entertainment industry into their anti-gun activism, but their latest partnership with Detroit rapper Skillababy is already going off the rails.
Health Canada Official Deleted Scientist’s Note Saying mRNA Shots Have ‘High Level of Impurity’: Internal Emails
A senior Health Canada official removed mention of a “high level of impurity” in mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in an assessment done by a colleague for the department’s chief medical adviser, internal records show.
The assessment was meant as a brief on recent findings about the creation of unintended proteins by mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.
Two senior Health Canada (HC) officials, including the one with final authority on vaccine authorization, expressed concerns about the conclusions written by the HC scientist tasked with producing the assessment.
I’m 18 — and facing jail because I won’t fight for Israel
Thousands of youngsters have joined the army since October 7 — and it is illegal to refuse. Sofia Orr is likely to become the first woman since then to be jailed for refusing military service, but believes it is ‘wrong to take children and make them into soldiers’
One from the “other side”.
Thanks to Trudeau I am now all for a “gender-transformative” ending of funding for Ukraine
Among the $3B programs announced by Trudeau in Kyiv today is one whose goal is to establish “a gender and diversity working group to promote gender-transformative mine action in Ukraine.”
No joke!
YOU’RE ALL PAYING TO PROMOTE GENDER-INCLUSIVE DEMINING IN UKRAINE! pic.twitter.com/ZyxPP5t4wx
— Maxime Bernier (@MaximeBernier) February 25, 2024
Trudeau signs $3-billion security deal for Ukraine on 2nd anniversary of Russian invasion
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signed a deal in Kyiv on Saturday committing Canada to a $3.02-billion security assistance package for Ukraine, a milestone event to mark the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
He was joined by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen and Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo.
UK: Bodyguards for MPs as extremism threat rises from “generational radicalising moment” of Hamas-Israel conflict
Private security is being deployed to protect MPs amid warnings that the Israel-Hamas conflict is a “generational radicalising moment”, The Telegraph can reveal.
Security personnel working for private firms are guarding constituency surgeries and providing close protection for a growing number of politicians who are assessed to be at risk by the authorities.
One MP who has accepted Parliament-funded protection at constituency meetings warned that “people are underestimating” the threat to politicians from extremists.
Canadian Mortgage Fraud Rampant At HSBC, Lawmaker Demands Investigation
Greater Toronto’s soaring prices got a lift from mortgage fraud at a major bank. Earlier this month investigative journalist Sam Cooper and The Bureau, revealed whistleblower allegations of a massive mortgage fraud scheme at HSBC Canada’s Greater Toronto operations. RBC acquired the bank shortly after the alleged incidents occurred, with the government approving the sale just a few weeks ago. Now a Canadian lawmaker wants an investigation into the issue and for the country’s largest bank to set aside $100 million for any resulting fines.
Trudeau’s Alberta trip full of imaginary enemies
Trudeau’s trip to Alberta this week to announce $175 million in federal grants for housing starts probably did for federal credibility here (already at a low) what his 2018 Mr. Dressup Goes to Bollywood tour did for Canada-India relations.
The Smirnov Indictment Does Not Vindicate the Bidens
There is already extensive evidence, having nothing to do with Smirnov, of corrupt Biden-family influence-peddling.
Biden Justice Department prosecutor and “special counsel” David Weiss’s job is to protect President Biden. That is the thing we must always bear in mind, including in the peculiar case of Alexander Smirnov, whom Weiss has just indicted and imprisoned in a transparent attempt to knock down an allegation House Republicans foolishly ran with when it was both uncorroborated and not essential to their illustration of the Bidens’ sleazy relationship with Burisma, the corrupt Ukrainian energy company.