The US has vetoed a resolution at the UN demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza after proposing its own draft urging a temporary ceasefire.
Washington said the Algerian-proposed resolution would “jeopardise” talks to end the war.
In its own resolution the US warned Israel not to invade the city of Rafah.
The US has previously avoided the word “ceasefire” during UN votes on the war, but President Joe Biden has recently made similar comments.
As diversity, equity, and inclusion offices proliferate in academic and professional spaces, Jews, always the miner’s canary, now have to worry about whether human rights codes will be weaponized against them.
In a recent example, an Ontario-based Jewish social worker was publicly labeled “racist” and “anti-Arab” for challenging her colleague’s assertion that Zionism is a “genocidal ideology.” This incident is reminiscent of another: several years ago, a Toronto social work student was denied an internship at a mainstream Jewish organization that her fieldwork coordinator deemed “anti-Palestinian.” It would seem the bar is rather low when it comes to being labeled “anti-Arab” or ”anti-Palestinian.” Being Jewish may be the only prerequisite!
Detectives searching for Abdul Ezedi, the man wanted for the corrosive substance attack on a mother and her children in Clapham, have recovered a body from the River Thames.
The body was spotted by a passing boat close to Tower Pier at around 4pm on Monday, Scotland Yard said.
If, as the cliché goes, political electability is about who voters want to sit down to have a beer with, then it is also about who they don’t want to sit down to have a beer with. And if we believe recent polling, it appears that voters really, really don’t want to sit down for a cold one with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Nor, it seems, do they want to share a $10 bottle of Kombucha with him. According to data from late last year, millennials are nearly twice as likely to vote for the federal Conservatives led by Pierre Poilievre than they are the Trudeau Liberals. What’s weirder is that Gen Z — a demographic that lists climate change as a primary reason for not bearing children — appears more likely to vote Conservative in the next federal election. Overall, the vast majority of Canadians want Trudeau to step down as Liberal leader.
It’s not just Trudeau people are fed up with all the LPC’s corrupt idiots for ruining Canada.
h/t Mauser
Harvard has been caught in yet another antisemitism scandal after a faculty group posted an old cartoon filled with “offensive tropes” depicting a Jewish person hanging a black and an Arab man.
The Harvard Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine reposted the cartoon Monday after it was shared by two student groups, the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee and the Africa and African American Resistance Organization, according to the student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson.
Affirmative action anti-semites.
Canadian military police have decided not to charge a sex worker who they alleged had unlawfully used army uniforms.
Police had threatened in December to charge Kingston-area sex worker Christina Lea Gilchrist, who offers discounts to Canadian soldiers for her services. They alleged Gilchrist broke the law with the “unlawful use of military uniforms,” citing photographs on her website in which she was shown wearing what appeared to be Canadian camouflage uniforms known as CADPAT.
In a time of budget constraint that discount is patriotic.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned his employees at the Department of State not to engage in “misgendering,” as violent conflicts in Europe and the Middle East continue to rage on.
Blinken sent out the guidance on language in the days following the United States’ missile strike of Iran-backed militants in Iraq and Syria in retaliation for the killing of three American soldiers, turning his attention away from the conflict to tell officials which terms they should — and shouldn’t — use when talking about gender.
He must have graduated from the Trudeau-Joly College Of Statesmanship Knowledge.
Toronto has the lowest median employment income among the 15 largest metropolitan areas in Canada and the United States, a recent study by think tank Fraser Institute shows.
The conservative Swiss People’s Party has announced that a petition to ensure the country’s population does not exceed 10 million before 2050 has crossed the 100,000-signature threshold needed to initiate a nationwide referendum.
Party representative and member of the Swiss National Assembly Thomas Matter was quick to trumpet his party’s success gathering 110,000 signatures in record time—almost a year ahead of the final deadline to do so.
Only three days after BCE Inc. announced its deepest job cuts in 30 years, including the elimination of hundreds of posts at Bell Media, Sunday’s Super Bowl provided the company with a good news story to tell – for a change.
The National Football League championship game, which went into overtime and attracted hordes of Swifties eager to catch a glimpse of their pop-music idol and her Kansas City Chiefs (maybe) boyfriend, produced bonanza ratings for Bell Media, which holds the Canadian rights to the Super Bowl under a multiyear contract with the NFL.
A new study challenges the common assertion that gender-dysphoric youth are at elevated risk of suicide if not treated with “gender affirming” medical interventions. If it’s true, it ought to have a seismic impact on the accepted medical approach to gender-confused youth.
The story of euthanasia in Canada continues to be written. A developing angle of this story is whether faith-based health-care facilities — and by extension any health-care facility — can decline to offer euthanasia, on the view that this practice is a type of killing and therefore unconnected to health care.
This issue flared up last summer, when St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver declined to provide euthanasia to a terminal patient, who was ultimately transferred to a facility that would perform euthanasia.
Mayor of London announces multicultural shortlist of sculptures for landmark’s fourth plinth
Sadiq Khan has been accused of promoting “anti-British propaganda” with a multicultural shortlist of sculptures for Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth.
The Mayor of London has resisted calls for a statue of Queen Elizabeth II to be erected in the space and instead launched a competition that will be decided by a public vote.
Offerings include a Bollywood-themed ice cream van, a golden bust of a woman’s head representing “a collective community portrait” and a black woman in a revealing blue dress.
One-third of doctors and over half of nurses were reluctant to take the COVID-19 vaccine because they feared potential side effects, according to in-house research by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC).
“Fifty-nine percent of health-care workers reported some degree of hesitancy in their decision to get vaccinated,” said the report, which added that 31 percent of doctors and 54 percent of nurses surveyed admitted “some level of hesitancy.”
VANCOUVER – Renters across the country faced record low vacancy rates and record high rent increases in 2023, but Statistics Canada says Toronto and Vancouver residents who don’t own their homes face the greatest financial and mental pressures.
The agency says survey results over the last few years show renters are more prone to reporting lower quality of life than homeowners, especially in Vancouver and Toronto.
