Nurse tells B.C. hearing she’s not transphobic, but calls gender identity ‘metaphysical nonsense’

A B.C. nurse accused of making numerous “derogatory and discriminatory” public statements about transgender people took the stand in her discipline hearing on Friday, telling the panel considering her case that she is not transphobic.

During a hearing at the B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives, Amy Hamm of New Westminster testified that her advocacy on social and other platforms is meant to protect women and children from what she described as dangerous infringements into sex-segregated spaces.

“I’m not transphobic. I don’t have any issue with trans people — it’s the infringement on women and children’s rights,” Hamm told the college disciplinary panel.

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GOLDSTEIN: Israel warns citizens to hide Jewish identity when travelling

In the face of a massive global outbreak of anti-Semitism following Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7, the Israeli government is advising its citizens to hide the fact they are Jews when travelling anywhere in the world.

By cautioning Israeli Jews against displaying any outward signs of their religion – for example, head coverings called kippahs worn by many Jewish men – Israel’s warning is, in effect, to Jews everywhere, including Canada.

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Michael Taube: Leave it to Trudeau to destroy his party’s reputation on immigration

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s immigration plan is broken. His Liberal government may not have admitted it in so many words, but their recent actions speak quite clearly.

After steadily increasing the number of newcomers over the years, Ottawa has announced it will cap the number of permanent residents it accepts at 500,000 in both 2025 and 2026. It’s finally dawned on the Trudeau Liberals that there needs to be an economic reset. Canada’s housing market is too expensive and our health care system is overloaded — and the impact of costly temporary resident programs is too often overlooked .

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Jewish Viewers Find a Refuge in Fox News

The network’s unflinching support for Israel in its fight against Hamas has put the conservative network in the good graces of many Jews who see other coverage of Israel as biased.

Ross Abramson, a software engineer and recent New York University graduate, had a fairly conventional news diet until recently. He regularly checked his phone for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. And as a Jew with an interest in Israel, he would browse a handful of outlets like The Times of Israel.

Then the brutal Hamas-led attack on Israel happened on Oct. 7, and Mr. Abramson found himself turning to an outlet he said he didn’t rely on much before: Fox News.

“Did I watch it religiously before? No,” he said, adding that he found Fox’s reporting and commentary on Israel’s military campaign in Gaza “less antagonistic for sure” than that of other news organizations. “You don’t feel as attacked,” Mr. Abramson said.

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Everyone got duped by Sam Bankman-Fried’s big gamble

Sam Bankman-Fried has been convicted of stealing billions of dollars from customers of his cryptocurrency exchange FTX. It’s a spectacular downfall for Silicon Valley’s dishevelled wunderkind, who rubbed elbows with celebrities like Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady.

On 7 November 2022, as his empire began its dizzying, irrevocable collapse, Bankman-Fried did what he always did: he weighed the odds.

Earlier that day, a rival executive had expressed concerns on social media about the finances of Bankman-Fried’s crypto exchange, spooking customers into a multi-billion dollar bank run.

In an online chat, Bankman-Fried consulted two of his top deputies. “To be clear you think the tweet is net bad?” he asked them.

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Joe Biden and the Coming Domestic Martyrdom Operations

Even before the border was flung open, federal law enforcement failed time and again to prevent mass casualty attacks by terrorists.

Do you remember the D.C. sniper attacks? In October 2002, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo went on a protracted shooting spree in the Washington metropolitan area, during which they murdered 10 people, wounded three others, and disrupted the lives and daily routines of hundreds of thousands who feared being the next randomly selected victim.

It took three weeks to track down and capture Muhammad and Malvo. But, before they were caught, the killers tied up massive federal, state, and local law enforcement resources and terrorized Washington and its suburbs in Maryland and Northern Virginia.

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One word explains the ugly of hypocrisy of Hamas apologists: antisemitism

There is something surreal, even sick about the current Gazan war.

Throughout European and American cities and campuses, tens of thousands of Middle East immigrants and students, and radical leftists chant nonstop “Free Palestine from the River to the Sea.”

More recently, they are also yelling, “Israel, you can’t hide, we caught you in genocide.”

Consider the hypocrisy of that dual messaging.

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Iran’s Genocidal War Against the Jews

The Biden administration has apparently decided to totally ignore the involvement of Iran in Hamas’s October 7 invasion of Israel. The Iranian regime, meanwhile, has been assisting Russia militarily in its war against Ukraine and is reportedly behind the latest Hamas terrorist massacre in Israel. The Biden administration, by ignoring sanctions against Iran’s oil and gas exports, thereby enabling Iran to accumulate close to $60 billion with which to fund the Hamas war, as well as to advance its own nuclear weapons program.

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‘Historic Transition’ to EVs Hits a Roadblock: Buyers Don’t Seem to Want Them

As the Biden administration hails America’s “historic transition to electric vehicles” over the next decade, and carmakers pledge that they are revamping their production lines for an electric future, one group has been left out of the conversation thus far—consumers.

Now consumers are having their say.

With battery electric vehicles (EVs) sitting unsold on dealer lots, carmakers are slashing prices in a desperate attempt to move them, and suffering billions in losses along the way.

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Moxies

Here’s a shot from today’s Hamas support rally at the US consulate in TO. Note the hyperbole. “Tens of Thousands” Nope. That space cannot possible handle that many Hamasphrodites.

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Is it a crime to support Hamas? What pro-Palestinian supporters need to know about Gaza rulers

If you support this you deserve to be fired from the human race.

The deadly Israel-Hamas war raging in the Middle East is bringing increasing volume, urgency, and bitterness to the Israeli-Palestinian debate within Canada and internationally.

One flashpoint for public anger is the nature of Hamas, the organization that launched surprise attacks on Israeli communities on Oct. 7, which brought a fierce response from Israel.

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Euthanasia Increasingly Used For Mental Disabilities

A recent independent study by British researchers of Dutch euthanasia data has found that people with autism and intellectual disabilities have been legally euthanized in the Netherlands, even though they had no physical disease or ailment.

Euthanasia has been legal in the Netherlands since 2002 and the use of the practice has steadily expanded in the last two decades.

According to the Dutch government’s euthanasia review committee, 60,000 people were killed by their doctors between 2012 and 2021. The committee publicly released documents related to more than 900 of those cases to demonstrate how the law was working.

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Ottawa’s latest immigration plans fail to move the needle, on housing and in Quebec

Marc Miller – Got the job because he’ll say anything he’s told.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government this week took a baby step toward recognizing its immigration policy needs some fixing by halting future increases in the number of permanent newcomers the country intends to accept.

Still, Immigration Minister Marc Miller seemed to suggest that ”stabilizing” the number of new permanent residents at 500,000 constitutes a concession on his government’s part. Yet, under Mr. Miller’s plan, Canada is still on track to accept more new permanent residents next year (485,000) than it will absorb this year (465,000), or than it did last year (more than 437,000) before the number tops out at 500,000 in both 2025 and 2026.

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