Welcome to Toronto 2023 where drug injection sites get to stay but a go-kart track, batting cages and beach volleyball courts have to go!
All of those activities are white supremacist adjacent!
Author: Blazingcatfur
Amazon Is Filled with Bogus AI-Generated Mushroom Foraging Books that Could Cause Poisoning Deaths
A surge in AI-generated mushroom foraging books on Amazon has raised alarms among experts, who warn that such guides, filled with misinformation about poisonous mushrooms, could pose life-threatening risks to consumers.
Freedom Convoy organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber’s trial begins on Tuesday
As Tamara Lich was led away from supporters in handcuffs on the snowy streets of Ottawa in 2022, she threw a single phrase over her shoulder.
“Hold the line,” said the petite figurehead of the “Freedom Convoy” movement as the officers at each of her elbows walked her to the waiting cruiser.
Chinese Gate-Crashers at U.S. Bases Spark Espionage Concerns
WASHINGTON—Chinese nationals, sometimes posing as tourists, have accessed military bases and other sensitive sites in the U.S. as many as 100 times in recent years, according to U.S. officials, who describe the incidents as a potential espionage threat.
The Defense Department, FBI and other agencies held a review last year to try to limit these incidents, which involve people who officials have dubbed gate-crashers because of their attempts—either by accident or intentionally—to get onto U.S. military bases and other installations without proper authorization. They range from Chinese nationals found crossing into a U.S. missile range in New Mexico to what appeared to be scuba divers swimming in murky waters near a U.S. government rocket-launch site in Florida.
WTF??
GRAPHIC: Migrant climbs ladder into Swedish home armed with knife and violently assaults family
The EU doesn’t want this video showing the cruel reality of mass migration getting around pic.twitter.com/gI9lqkZ5NU
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) September 4, 2023
H/T Mauser
He’s Wanted in a 1970 Bombing. The F.B.I. Aged His Photo to Seek Tips.
The suspect, Leo F. Burt, has evaded capture since the anti-Vietnam War bombing at the University of Wisconsin, which was considered the largest act of domestic terrorism at the time.
In the more than 50 years since a bomb ripped through a mathematics center at the University of Wisconsin, killing a graduate student and injuring several others in what was considered an attack protesting the Vietnam War, the F.B.I. has received hundreds of tips about the whereabouts of one of the suspects, Leo F. Burt.
Just weeks after the attack on Aug. 24, 1970, a waitress in Cleveland was convinced that she had seen him. Years later, another tipster thought he had spotted Mr. Burt at a homeless shelter in Denver. One man said he had seen the fugitive working at a resort in Costa Rica. But Mr. Burt was never found.
CHARLEBOIS: The bitter truth of a sugar tax
In today’s world, there is an undeniable push for the imposition of sugar taxes.
A study published in June by the Journal of the American Medical Association has shed light on this issue, revealing the existence of 118 sugar taxes worldwide, including 105 national taxes and 13 subnational taxes, impacting 51% of the global population. It’s worth noting that this approach receives substantial support from the World Health Organization (WHO).
Taxes in Canada have long passed the “for the public good” threshold.
Pope acknowledges his Russia comments were faulty
Sept 4 (Reuters) – Pope Francis acknowledged on Monday that his recent comments on Russia, seen by Ukraine as praise for imperialism, were badly phrased and said his intention was to remind young Russians of a great cultural heritage and not a political one.
Speaking to reporters aboard the plane returning from Mongolia, Francis also said he wanted to assure China, with which the Vatican has difficult relations, that the Catholic Church has no ulterior motives and should not be seen as a foreign power.
Anti-Racist Racism Has Taken Hold at Canada’s Universities
Canada’s progressive movement has embraced an extreme and regressive form of racial “justice”—an unhealthy fixation on race that has prompted controversial, race-based hiring on university campuses. While “anti-racist” activists have been gaining ideological ground in Canada for some time now, the summer 2020 killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was a turning point, reflecting a tremendous surge in their influence.
In the wake of American protests that crossed the northern border, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dropped a stink bomb into Canadian political discourse, declaring Canada to be a systemically racist country.
2 dead, 6 injured in shooting at Ottawa wedding reception
Ottawa police are investigating a Saturday night shooting at a wedding reception that left two Toronto men dead and injured six others.
Acting Duty Insp. Amy Bond said police responded to reports of gunfire at about 10:21 p.m. Saturday in the city’s south end.
The victims were attending a reception at the Infinity Convention Centre on the 2900 block of Gibford Drive, off Hunt Club Road near the Ottawa International Airport.
h/t Dave and Dave
Is Justin Trudeau the Worst Prime Minister in History?
Having recently posted an article in which I ask the rhetorical question “Is Joe Biden the Worst President in History,” I felt an andiron piece with regard to my own country might be appropriate. Is Justin Trudeau the worst prime minister in history? The answer is, “Well, probably.” He’s a work in accelerated progress, though it must be said that he had immense help along the way: a compliant Parliament, an appointed Senate, a complicit Judiciary, and a bought-and-paid-for media have been loyally riding shotgun. Trudeau is perhaps the most disappointing, unctuous, and injurious prime minister ever to occupy the seat of power in Canada.
Burning Man: Revellers begin to leave as boggy conditions improve
Weather conditions at the Burning Man festival in the US have eased enough to allow revellers to start leaving.
Heavy rain had turned the event, held in a desert in Nevada, into a mud bath.
The ground is now dry enough for vehicles to drive on it without getting stuck, and pictures show campervans driving out of the event.
Some 72,000 people had been stranded at the festival, but organisers say they are ready for a mass exodus from Monday morning, local time.
Millbrae resident Chris D. Gives an update on the Porta Potty situation at Burning Man #BurningMan2023 #burningman pic.twitter.com/XR5oepmpCF
— CBKNEWS (@CBKNEWS121) September 4, 2023
Heavy rains have trapped tech titans, artists and other free spirits who had flocked to this Nevada desert playa for the annual #BurningMan festival. WATCH: pic.twitter.com/VNWCrCKaWw
— The Australian (@australian) September 4, 2023
Zelensky Replaces Defense Minister, Citing Need for ‘New Approaches’
President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that he was replacing his minister of defense, the biggest shake-up in the leadership of Ukraine’s war effort since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February last year, citing the need for “new approaches” as the war stretches toward a second year.
The fate of the defense minister, Oleksii Reznikov, had been the subject of increasing speculation in Ukraine as financial improprieties in the ministry came to light and the government started several investigations into official corruption.
#Ukraine: We obtained further footage of a Ukrainian Bayraktar TB-2 UCAV in action in the South; this time a Russian Ural transport truck was destroyed. pic.twitter.com/DWPTWDzf2T
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) September 3, 2023
Fauci roasted as ‘fraud’ and ‘liar’ after being confronted with damning study on masks
Social media erupted after Dr. Anthony Fauci was confronted by a CNN host with a study showing face masks made little to no difference in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Conservative critics pounced on the former White House chief medical adviser after he acknowledged the masking study during the Saturday segment — while continuing to insist that, at an individual level, other research shows face coverings are effective at curtailing the spread of the virus.
Higher cost of servicing debt putting Canadian government in a bind
In the fall of 2020, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland gave a speech outlining Ottawa’s approach to debt management during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Yes, the federal government was borrowing unprecedented sums of money to fund pandemic support programs. But the risk to the country’s fiscal health remained limited, Ms. Freeland argued in her first major address as minister.
Someone is running out of other prople’s money.