General behind plan to relax Army security checks says force is ‘too hierarchical’
Lt Gen Nesmith was author of Army Race Action Plan which advocates easing security checks to drive diversity
Meanwhile … The Army officer exodus is about to get much worse
Toronto police have charged an Ontario man who allegedly threatened to harm protesters outside of a downtown hospital earlier this week.
In a news release issued Saturday, police said the accused called them on Feb. 14 to “express frustration” towards people demonstrating in front of a Toronto hospital, which they did not name.
Police allege that the accused, a man from Ontario’s Simcoe County, threatened to attend the hospital to harm the demonstrators.
Well that was easy.
A Harvard professor said that “all hell broke loose” and he was forced to go out in public with armed security after he published a study that found no evidence of racial bias in police shootings.
During a sit-down conversation with Bari Weiss of The Free Press, Harvard Economics Professor Roland Fryer discussed the fallout from a 2016 study he published on racial bias in Houston policing.
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— Catarina Senora Gatita (@WyattCatarina) February 18, 2024
h/t Mauser
The federal government is ruling out any future pauses or exemptions to the carbon price, despite still-high inflation numbers contributing to the cost of living, according to Government House Leader Steven MacKinnon.
On Tuesday, the federal government announced a rebrand of its highly controversial carbon-pricing program(opens in a new tab), changing the name of the quarterly rebate from the Climate Action Incentive Payment to the Canada Carbon Rebate.
Calls to ban Israel from international sport because of the Israel-Hamas war have grown ever louder in recent weeks, with a new petition gathering significant backing, a letter in the European Parliament and a row between Israeli and Irish basketballers posing serious questions for major sporting events and organizations.
The petition, by ‘The Democracy in Europe Movement 2025’, calls on Israel to be suspended from sports and has gained over 70,000 signatures, as of February 16. And, with the Paris Olympics starting in July and Israel’s male footballers facing playoffs in March to qualify for June’s European Championship in Germany, sporting administrators are under pressure to make a decision.
One of the co-organizers of the petition, Katarina Pijetlovic, believes it is time bodies such the International Olympic Committee (IOC), world football’s governing body FIFA and their European equivalent UEFA stepped in.
This week your tax dollars have been supporting 15 or so public servants who have travelled to Panama for a “Big Fear” health conference (not its real name) organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) on the risks of tobacco and nicotine.
Japan has succumbed to international pressure & allowed Muslim migrants into the country. As you can guess they have seen an uptick in crime, including sexual harassment & rape.
They chant: "Japan is for the Japanese" "Muslims get out of our country" "Go home street shi*ters" 🇯🇵 pic.twitter.com/o5G43qvFRw
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) February 18, 2024
The head of the main United Nations agency supporting people in Gaza alleged that Israel is intent on “destroying” the organization along with the idea that Palestinians are refugees and have a right to return home one day.
Philippe Lazzarini accused Israel in an interview with the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger of having a “long-term political goal” of eliminating the U.N. aid agency he leads, which is known by the acronym UNRWA. It was created more than 70 years ago to assist Palestinians who fled or were forced from their homes during the 1948 Mideast war over Israel’s creation.
I just can’t imagine why.
Kingston-area Limestone District School Board (LDSB) says teachers could be disciplined for saying “western law is superior to Sharia law.” pic.twitter.com/luBYL1Z07J
— Jim McMurtry (@JimMcMurtry01) February 18, 2024
Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital is now receiving increased police protection following a pro-Palestinian protest held outside its doors on Feb. 12. It was reported that protesters blocked access—an offence under the Criminal Code—and chanted in support of the terrorist group Hamas.
Organizers of the protest have denied that Mount Sinai was targeted because of its links to Toronto’s Jewish community (it was founded by the city’s Jews when Jewish doctors were facing public discrimination). However, that claim has been met with skepticism.
A straight-A student who tried to assassinate an MP with two kitchen knives could rot in a maximum security prison for the rest of her life after her bid to be moved to an open prison was blocked at the last minute.
Al Qaeda-inspired Roshonara Choudhry, then 21, was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in 2010 for trying to murder Labour MP Stephen Timms in Newham, east London.
She attacked him with a three-inch kitchen knife at a constituency surgery on May 14, 2010, to ‘get revenge for the people of Iraq’ – to the shock of friends and teachers who had seen Choudhry as a star student and aspiring teacher.
Woman wearing hijab gets caught performing a sexual act on a man in a Photo Booth in the middle of a shopping mall in Birmingham, UK.
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) February 17, 2024
H/T Mauser
Nearly half of Canadians believe gender reassignment surgery for minors should be prohibited and support bans on hormone prescriptions for children, according to a new national survey of more than 2,000 Canadians.
Just Nearly Half?
BERLIN, Feb 17 (Reuters) – A former German spy chief who was sacked after being accused of averting his eyes to the threat posed by the far-right founded a new right-wing party on Saturday, holding an inaugural party congress on a boat near Germany’s old capital Bonn.
The party is the third to be founded this year in Germany, further fragmenting the political landscape and making electoral predictions tricky ahead of European parliamentary polls and votes in half the country’s municipalities and three states.
