The Israel-Hamas War took center stage at last night’s 66th Annual Grammy Awards on CBS, hosted by Trevor Noah.While Noah himself stayed relatively apolitical as host, conflict about the war interrupted the ceremony even before it began.
Author: Blazingcatfur
We apologize but our firewall provider came under attack and everything go BOOM!Calgary receives recall petition for Mayor Jyoti Gondek
Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek has been targeted in a campaign that, if successful, could end her term in office.
The City of Calgary says it received a recall petition on Jan. 30 that met the terms laid out in the Municipal Government Act(opens in a new tab).
“The recall legislation allows eligible electors (defined by the Local Authorities Election Act) to file petitions to recall elected officials during the term they are currently serving in that role,” the city said in a news release.
Facebook rules allow altered video casting Biden as paedophile, says board
Meta’s oversight board has found that a Facebook video wrongfully suggesting that the US president, Joe Biden, is a paedophile does not violate the company’s current rules while deeming those rules “incoherent” and too narrowly focused on AI-generated content.
The board, which is funded by Meta – Facebook’s parent company – but run independently, took on the Biden video case in October in response to a user complaint about an altered seven-second video of the president.
Danielle Smith and child sex organ mutilaton fetishist Liberals trade shots over transgender policies during her trip to Ottawa
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith faced an icy reception in Ottawa Monday as a Liberal cabinet minister from her province called her proposed transgender policies “reckless” and “irresponsible” and left the door open to a court challenge.
Speaking to reporters shortly before Smith opened her province’s new office in Ottawa, Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault said he’s prepared to fight what he called “the most draconian and harmful policies for young people in the country.”
Referring to proposed policies that would demand that some Alberta trans kids get parental consent to use their preferred names and pronouns in school, Boissonnault said Smith is intent on “forcing kids out of the closet before many of them are ready.”
Chinese migrants now the fastest-growing group trying to cross into the U.S.
After China’s prolonged and strict COVID lockdown destroyed her business, a woman decided to leave her two young children with family to travel to Mexico and cross into the U.S. through a hole at the border.
She’s far from alone: Chinese migrants are the fastest growing group trying to cross into the U.S. from Mexico. Last year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported 37,000 Chinese citizens were apprehended as they illegally crossed the border; that’s 50 times more than two years earlier.
Many of the migrants say they made the journey to escape China’s increasingly repressive political climate and sluggish economy. The mom, through a translator, told “60 Minutes” that what motivated her was more than economic reasons and could be summed up in one word.
Ukrainian general wants Canada’s 83,000 decommissioned rockets
A Ukrainian military leader is asking Canada to hand over tens of thousands of rockets that are awaiting demolition at a Saskatchewan military base.
In an exclusive interview with Global News, Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov urged the government to let Ukraine have the decommissioned CRV7 rockets.
Doing so would help Ukraine fend off Russian forces and save taxpayers the cost of destroying them, said Lt. Gen. Budanov, chief of the Ukrainian defence ministry’s intelligence directorate.
US porno actor accused of posting propaganda for Iran
An American pornography actor has faced accusations of promoting propaganda for Iran’s government after boasting on social media about a trip to the Islamic republic.
Iranian authorities have denied being behind the visit by Whitney Wright, saying she was issued a visa like any other foreign citizen and they had not been aware of her “obscene” profession.
The posts by Wright, who is known for her vehement criticism of Israel, have angered Iranian exiles as she showed herself observing the strict Islamic dress code for women.
Pierre Poilievre to promise heftier punishment for car thieves if Conservatives win next election
OTTAWA — Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is promising that if his party forms government, car thieves will face more time in prison and be punished more severely if the thefts are linked to organized crime.
Poilievre will make those pledges at a campaign-style event in Brampton on Monday, the Star has learned, his latest effort to flesh out what he’d do if he becomes prime minister, and they’ll be followed by more this week.
King Charles III diagnosed with cancer, Buckingham Palace says
King Charles has been diagnosed with a form of cancer, says Buckingham Palace.
It is not prostate cancer, but was discovered during his recent treatment for an enlarged prostate.
The type of cancer has not been revealed, but according to a palace statement the King began “regular treatments” on Monday.
Buckingham Palace says the King “remains wholly positive about his treatment and looks forward to returning to full public duty as soon as possible”.
B.C. minister to get anti-Islamophobia training after making Hamas supporters sad
British Columbia’s post-secondary education minister says she will undergo anti-Islamophobia training as calls for her resignation grow.
Selina Robinson says in a statement today that she is committed to making amends for her remarks during an online panel last week, when she said Israel was founded on a “crappy piece of land,” angering pro-Palestinian groups.
October 7, 2023.
Gaza "uninvolved" residents were ecstatic when terrorists returned from Israel with the hostages and bodies of murdered Israelis. pic.twitter.com/XdMFzzpU39
— The Mossad: Satirical, Yet Awesome (@TheMossadIL) February 5, 2024
BBC staffer who called Jewish people ‘Nazis’ and ‘parasites,’ funded ‘holohaux’ gets fired
A senior BBC employee who penned a series of antisemitic Facebook posts that included calling Jewish people “Nazi apartheid parasites” who funded a “holohoax” no longer works for the news corporation.
Dawn Queva, a senior scheduling coordinator and playout planner at BBC Three, peddled troubling antisemitic conspiracy theories on social media for several months until she departed from the company on Sunday.
h/t DS
Anthony Furey: The Unreasonable Reaction to Danielle Smith’s Reasonable Proposal
The extreme vilification of anyone who has concerns with gender transition as it relates to children is a very bizarre phenomenon. The people engaging in the vilification are totally disconnected from reality.
The latest round of this panic began when Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced restrictions on gender reassignment surgeries and related procedures for minors. These include a ban on such surgeries for those under 18 years of age and also prohibits the use of puberty blockers and hormone therapy for youth 15 and under.
Biden team denies US president insulted Netanyahu in private
The Biden administration has denied a report that the U.S. president has a strongly negative view of Benjamin Netanyahu and has used crude language to describe Israel’s prime minister.
A Politico story on Sunday said that the president is “deeply suspicious” of Israel’s leader and had said privately that Netanyahu was a “bad f–ing guy.”
Ontario will not provide provincial resources to assist LIB/NDP Federal gun confiscation efforts
BREAKING NEWS: ONTARIO OPTS OUT
Only hours ago, during a lobby meeting with the Solicitor General of Ontario, the honourable M. Kerzner assured our lobbyist that the provincial gov would be unwilling to divert provincial resources to the LIB/NDP Federal confiscation efforts. pic.twitter.com/XqNcpajCwJ— Canada's National Firearms Association (@CanadasNFA) February 4, 2024
h/t Surele Surele