A trans-identified male in Michigan is suing his ex-partner for the return of his preserved testicles, which he had kept in their shared fridge following his genital surgery.
Brianna Kingsley, who identifies as a Muslim woman, is demanding $6,500 for the loss of "deez nuts." pic.twitter.com/0JRVQiqRb4
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The central conceit of government is that the people working in it have the intelligence and expertise to solve complex problems. And yet, evidence of these high-level problem-solving skills is difficult to find.
Take the housing crisis, an issue felt most acutely in Ontario, which has the country’s fastest population growth and its greatest housing supply shortage. Fixing the problem is largely up to the government of Premier Doug Ford and the province’s 414 municipalities. Feeling confident?
Police in Switzerland have shot dead a man armed with an axe and a knife who took 15 passengers hostage on a train on Thursday night.
The hostage-taker, reported to be a 32-year-old asylum seeker from Iran, boarded a local train near Yverdon.
He forced the driver to stop the train and to join passengers in the carriage.
Officers stormed the train and “fatally wounded” the man after he attacked them, police reports say. The hostages were all released unharmed.
You can’t get a bottle of shampoo larger than 100 ml past security on a commercial flight, so how is it that 4,000-pound stolen cars, luxury SUVs or pickup trucks can be shipped across the ocean without detection?
Two leading right-wing MPs aligned with the former ruling party, Law and Justice (PiS), were prevented from entering the Polish Parliament (Sejm) by police Wednesday, after the Speaker of the Sejm, acting on a Supreme Court opinion, declared one of them no longer a member of the body.
The federal government recently finalized regulations for its “zero-emissions vehicle” mandate. The mandate requires sellers of light vehicles (passenger cars and light trucks) to sell a rising minimum of zero-emissions vehicles — basically, electric vehicles or EVs — every year, culminating with 100 per cent EVs in 2035, just 11 years from now. Reasonable forecasts of production and sales make clear that Ottawa’s timeline is unrealistic.
There cannot be optimism for an idea doomed to fail from the start.
Reverend Matthew Firth tells how he wanted to hit stop button on the ‘conveyor belt’ of asylum seekers converting to Christianity
In 2018, when the Reverend Matthew Firth took up his new post at St Cuthbert’s, the church which has been at the heart of the north-eastern market town of Darlington since the 12th century, he was eager to bring new souls to the faith he passionately believes in.
It didn’t take long, however, for Matthew to figure out that there was something suspicious about the large number of souls from the Middle East who were queuing up to be converted to Christianity.
With car theft accelerating in Canada, the federal government and law enforcement officials say more needs to be done to restrict the different technologies being used by criminals to steal vehicles.
The country’s auto theft problem was front and centre in the capital, Ottawa, Thursday with cabinet ministers meeting law enforcement agencies, border officials and other industry stakeholders at a national summit to combat increasing vehicle thefts.
OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising to revoke the planned expansion of medical assistance in dying (MAID) for people suffering solely from mental illnesses if he forms government.
“We will not expand MAID to include mental illness. So, where Justin Trudeau has delayed this decision until after the election, we will revoke it entirely,” he told reporters on Thursday in Vancouver, B.C.
I will have more detail later on this morning’s Supreme Court argument in Trump v. Anderson regarding whether the Colorado Supreme Court was right to throw Donald Trump off the ballot on the theory that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment disqualifies him from serving in federal office again after he “engaged in insurrection.” The short summary, for now: It seems very unlikely that the Court is inclined to let a state remove Trump from the ballot before Election Day, the Court is unlikely to reach the merits question of what it means to engage in insurrection, and the decision isn’t likely to be a close one — but it is very possible that we get a fractured decision, with different justices citing different reasons to throw out the Colorado ruling. That’s by no means a certain outcome; with a huge number of legal issues to address, the fact that different justices were thinking about different things doesn’t preclude them from coming together on at least one conclusion that commands a majority. The work of building that consensus may yet lie ahead in chambers and in the exchange of draft opinions.
A conservative legal group identified grave markers for various deceased Michigan residents still listed on the state’s voter rolls, video footage provided to The Federalist shows.
Published by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), the mini-documentary shines a light on the inclusion of long-deceased Michigan residents as active voters on the state’s voter registration lists. As shown in the video, some of these individuals have remained on the lists despite dying decades prior.
What do you get when you massacre over a thousand people? A country.
What do you get when you massacre over a thousand people, rape, behead, torture and kidnap everyone Jewish, Christian or non-Arab in sight? International diplomatic recognition.
Secretary of State Tony Blinken has reportedly begun conducting a review of options for recognizing a ‘Palestinian’ state after the war. The State Department has claimed that there are no policy changes, but that may be yet more diplomatic doubletalk.
A controversial NPR article has triggered a heated debate
New federal regulations are forcing museums across the US to scrap their exhibits on Native American history and culture.
At the end of January, the American Museum of Natural History in New York City announced that it would be closing two of its major Native American displays. Navigating the legal maze required to obtain consent from indigenous tribes had made maintaining the exhibits virtually impossible.
The biggest mistake we make is in believing that we are in a so-called ‘culture war.’ The phrase ‘culture war’ assumes that both sides have rival cultures they are battling to defend and promote. However, the enemies of civilisation, of life, and love, have no culture. If anything, their aim is not only to destroy the great cultural and spiritual achievements of the West, but to lay waste to anything that transcends the diabolical and obscene. Culture presupposes beauty, order, and tranquillity. It assumes those moral and spiritual values upon which harmony and holiness depend. In word, rite, song, and ritual; it idealises what William Blake termed “the human form divine.” In our “brave new world,” however, the human form is considered neither divine nor worthy of reverence or respect. It has been reduced to what Roger Scruton called its “animal essentials”—a purely natural object that can be remade in the image and likeness of anything but God. Put simply, the only ‘culture’ that is on offer is that of death and desecration, of defilement and the demonic.
