Dozens of girls who turned up for school in France on Monday wearing abayas in defiance of a ban on the Muslim garment were sent home when they refused to remove them, a government minister told French broadcaster BFM on Tuesday.
The abaya, an over-garment covering the body from shoulders to feet that some Muslim women wear, was banned in schools by the French government last month.
The government says the abaya constitutes a display of religious affiliation, banned at schools under a 2004 law.
Undercounting of an estimated million non-permanent residents could affect per-capita GDP, say economists
Economists are warning that Ottawa’s reported undercounting of non-permanent residents by around one million in the official figures could have an impact on Canada’s per capita GDP – a global measure used to gauge a country’s prosperity.
They say that understating the number of non-permanent residents could skew assessments of how Canada’s economy is growing along with its population, and that actual per capita gross domestic product might be lower than reported.
The US government is notoriously secretive when it comes to sharing what it knows about extraterrestrial life.
But in a possible bid for transparency, the Department of Defense has released a new document disclosing the ‘world’s UFO hotspots’.
It includes a map disclosing where the most sightings of unidentified objects have been recorded, based on reports between 1996 and 2023.
High prices, corporate rivalries and a shortage of spare parts hobbled efforts this spring to set up a new repair facility in Poland for Ukraine’s Leopard tanks — and in some cases have limited the usefulness of the donated Western vehicles, CBC News has learned.
Poland, Germany and Canada began discussions back in the spring to set up a maintenance hub for dozens of armoured vehicles donated to the embattled Eastern European country.
The sophisticated main battle tanks were touted in western capitals as a war-winning strategy — one that would help Ukrainians turn the tide and drive Russian troops out of the country.
#Ukraine: A Ukrainian Challenger 2 tank was destroyed near Robotyne, #Zaporizhzhia Oblast. A damaged T-64BV and two destroyed IMVs can be seen too.
This is the first confirmed loss of this tank in Ukraine and is also the first one ever destroyed by enemy action. pic.twitter.com/hFWkYQ8XSV
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) September 5, 2023
Hollywood’s first double strike in over 60 years has dealt a $5 billion blow to California’s economy.
The entertainment industry has been largely on pause since the Writers Guild of America and the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA joined the picket line together.
Now, the consequences are reverberating across Los Angeles, as the slowdown creates a knock-on effect for enterprises across the board.
Former Canadian fighter pilots face RCMP probe over training work in China
The RCMP are investigating three former Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilots who are training military and civilian pilots in China, even though their employer, a South African flying academy, insists no sensitive information is being passed on to Chinese authorities.
The work the three pilots are doing in China has also come under scrutiny from Canadian security officials, who reached out to the former top guns in late August. The Department of National Defence says it referred the matter to the RCMP.
Snizhana Bora was forced from her home in Kharkiv by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
She left her father, a brother and husband behind to bring her mother and four-year-old daughter to safety in Canada — only to spend the last three months in a desperate search for somewhere to live.
“It was terrible. I really cried every day,” she told CBC News.
“This big hulking individual with a deep male voice came to stand beside me. I was just in shock,” Ms. Bayntun told The Epoch Times. She said she thought at the time, “The person who beat me is either on steroids, or they’re not a woman.”
Comedian and HBO late-night host Bill Maher said woke leftists share similarities with the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) due to their complete insistence on always judging people by race instead of character.
“That used to be the position of the Ku Klux Klan”
Joe Rogan and Bill Maher discuss how the Woke have hijacked the term liberal and their obsession with seeing race everywhere. pic.twitter.com/mogc5PuUqh
— Mythinformed (@MythinformedMKE) September 2, 2023
In the summer of 2019, a baby was born in Nova Scotia with “serious medical complications and significant developmental delays.” Concerns by a medical geneticist led to police becoming involved. When the mother, 23, was discovered sexting her father during a visit to the neonatal intensive care unit, it all made sense.
University of Wisconsin students disappear into a lake after the spindly pier they were on collapsed
Approximately 80 University of Wisconsin students plunge into a lake as the pier they were standing on collapses beneath them. No one was seriously injured. pic.twitter.com/Onx9oDMsiF
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) September 5, 2023
The ADL is a garbage leftist organization. It was never good for anything but under its current head, Jonathan Greenblatt, it’s become a generic woke group dedicated to intersectionality. I have spent over a decade exposing the ADL for what it is including, last week, for its decision to spend the anniversary of the Crown Heights Pogrom together with Al Sharpton in Washington D.C.
Last year, Musk met with a coalition of leftist groups, Color of Change (formerly founded by Van Jones) , the NAACP and the ADL and a number of others that were organizing boycotts of Twitter over ‘hate speech’.
Daniel Greenfield of Frontpage shines a light on Elon Musk v. The ADL.
The ADL is guilty of a lot of despicable behavior but according to Greenfield is not the prime mover in the Twitter-X Ad boycott.
I do hope that Elon follows through on his threatened ADL document dump. I wish he would force the Canadian operation to come clean as well.
The Journal Nature published a study revealing that of the folks who were early adopters of EVs in California (between 2012 and 2018), 20% of PHEV drivers have returned to fully gas-powered vehicles and 18% of full EV drivers returned to gas-powered–with their subsequent vehicle purchase.
The Prices of Used Electric Cars are Freefalling
Used vehicle prices have been sky-high for years. But in recent months, there’s finally a bit of relief. And what’s more, the values of certain used EVs–such as used Teslas–are in freefall. Does this mean the electric vehicle’s honeymoon is over? Are early EV adopters selling for a reason? Or are we seeing supply and demand finally even out?
h/t DS and Mauser
When the highly anticipated trial of Tamara Lich and Chris Barber finally gets underway this week, there likely won’t be much arguing about what happened or what roles the two infamous figures played during the 2022 “Freedom Convoy” protests in Ottawa.
That winter, the two led thousands of trucks and other vehicles to the capital. They rallied the protesters, and told them to “hold the line” when police tried to break up the honking crowds. They also raised millions of dollars for the movement.
The Sun has live updates but this is just preliminary stuff – LIVE UPDATES: Trial of convoy protest organizers Tamara Lich, Chris Barber begins today
Burning Man has descended into chaos as fed-up revelers snapped and fought during the mass exodus from the washout festival.
Tempers frayed during the hours-long line of RVs and campers on the way out of the Nevada desert, with cops warning many had turned hostile towards each other.
Pershing County Sheriff Jerry Allen said exhausted partygoers ‘lashed out’ at one another after finally breaking following a weekend of misery in the rain and mud.
Not quite Fyre festival but close.
