Ontario launches review of TDSB handling of allegations from principal who later died by suicide

Ontario’s Education Minister says his office will review the circumstances that led to the recent death of a principal who had filed a lawsuit against the Toronto District School Board for failing to protect him after a confrontation during a diversity training session.

Stephen Lecce said in a statement on Monday evening that he asked his staff to review what happened “and bring me options to reform professional training and strengthen accountability on school boards so this never happens again.”

Nothing will come of this as Canada’s public service union culture is saturated with racists who support the KOJO bitch.

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Germany struggles to house refugees

The calls for help keep coming from municipalities that are running out of room to take in asylum seekers and war refugees from Ukraine. The latest example: the Fulda district in the central German state of Hesse. Towns and municipalities are “at the absolute limit of their capacity” to accommodate people “at least halfway humanely,” reads a letter from the county council to the state and federal governments, which a large majority of local lawmakers endorsed in mid-July.

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Military considered delaying WW2 vets to fly Trudeau home after his plane was damaged

OTTAWA — When engine damage to his plane was set to strand Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in London, the military, with few planes to spare, was forced to consider pulling aircraft from military exercises and even the “unpalatable” option of delaying a group of Second World War veterans to bring him home.

They should have made him walk.

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Just Stop Oil policing bill would fund 200 Met officers’ salaries

Just Stop Oil protests have cost the Metropolitan Police more than £7.7 million in the past 13 weeks, the equivalent of the annual salary of around 200 officers.

Figures released by the force reveal the cost of policing 515 protests carried out by Just Stop Oil (JSO) since April, including slow marches in major roads in London and the disruption of high-profile sporting events.

More than 270 people have been arrested over the period with Matt Twist, the assistant commissioner, warning the disruption was “not protest, but crime”.

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‘Very concerning’: Canada’s standard of living is lagging behind its peers, report finds. What can be done?

… Hejazi, who recently wrote a book about Canada’s slouching prosperity, agreed and added that government protectionism of the country’s biggest industries is another leading factor: “Companies are only as productive as they need to be,” he said — by shutting down competition, Canada is “killing innovation” as companies grow complacent.

“If you look at the three major industries in Canada: Telecom, air transportation and finance — I can go further and say dairy and even grocery — all of these industries are extensively protected from competition,” Hejazi said. As a result, these companies “don’t need to move the needle” in order to pull in profits.

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German army says Ukraine is wasting western training

The counteroffensive against Russia is being hampered by the entrenched ways of Ukraine’s senior military, a leaked report says

Germany’s armed forces have criticised the tactics adopted by the Ukrainian army in its counteroffensive against Russian positions and said that battle-hardened troops and officers were ignoring methods taught in western training, according to a leaked Bundeswehr paper.

The Bild newspaper reported that it had obtained a confidential German army assessment of the Ukrainian assault that Kyiv has admitted is making slower progress than hoped.

The Ukrainian forces were splitting their western-trained brigades into small units of just ten to 30 soldiers in some cases to attack an enemy position, which meant they weren’t putting their western training, superior weapons or large troop numbers to use, the report said.

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What if the Knowledge Keepers are Wrong about Residential School Bodies and Graves?

Canada has accused itself of genocide for the most part. Only a handful of dissident ‘deniers’ like me continue to point out that the claims of children being forcibly torn from their mother’s arms is not supported by the thousands of Indian Residential School enrollment forms, signed by parents. On the forms is a spot for designating the child’s family’s religion — which is typically filled in with Roman Catholic (R.C.) or Anglican. Rarely blank. Meaning, the families had chosen Christianity some time ago and they wanted their children to continue learning in that religious tradition. So, no forcible indoctrination either.

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Biden administration sues Texas governor over Rio Grande buoy barrier that’s meant to stop migrants

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department on Monday sued Texas Gov. Greg Abbott over a newly installed floating barrier on the Rio Grande that is the Republican’s latest aggressive tactic to try to stop migrants from crossing into the U.S. from Mexico.

The lawsuit asks a federal judge in Austin to force Texas to remove a roughly 1,000-foot (305-meter) line of bright orange, wrecking ball-sized buoys that the Biden administration says raises humanitarian and environmental concerns. The suit claims that Texas unlawfully installed the barrier without permission between the border cities of Eagle Pass and Piedras Negras, Mexico.

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Health Canada: Underreporting of Adverse Events from Covid Vaccines a ‘Common Problem’

The senior Health Canada official who had final authority for the approval of the COVID-19 vaccines says the surveillance system to monitor its adverse events falls far short on providing an accurate picture of the situation.

“We do expect there to be a lot of underreporting,” said Dr. Celia Lourenco, acting associate assistant deputy minister with Health Canada, during a Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board hearing on July 13.

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AND THEY’RE OFF! Bennet, Jaczek, Alghabra & Murray first rats out

Federal ministers Jaczek, Alghabra not running in next election, opening up spots in cabinet

About a half-dozen ministers will no longer sit at the cabinet table after Wednesday, when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to announce a substantial shakeup of his front bench, sources tell CBC News.

Senior government sources say a cohort of rookies will be sworn in as new cabinet ministers during a ceremony at Rideau Hall.

Three Toronto-area Liberal ministers have already either announced, or are expected to announce, that they are not running in the next federal election, opening up spots at the table.


Is their departure a sign of guilt for the damage they’ve done to ordinary Canadians?

Doubtful. They’ve clocked enough time to cash out with Golden Parachutes we poor schmucks can only dream of.

It’s a situation made worse knowing that our money will feed and house them in a style an increasing number of Canadians will never know thanks to the ruinous policies they supported.

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In the city, my EV is perfect. When I hit the open road, as I did crossing Canada, life gets complicated

It was before dawn on April Fool’s Day when I set out from Wawa, Ont., for Thunder Bay in my 2020 all-electric Nissan Leaf. It was the third day of my planned 14,000-kilometre journey from Ottawa to Victoria, returning through the United States.

The temperature was minus nine and there was a howling wind off Lake Superior to the south, blowing sheets of powdery snow across the highway. When I was planning this trip, I knew that this was the day when there would be the fewest opportunities to charge.


EV’s are great city runabouts, for now, for the relatively few early adopters.

But what if everyone wanted one or was left with no choice but to buy an EV by government edict if they needed or just wanted a private vehicle?

You wouldn’t do much running about in your EV thanks to an inadequate energy system unable to handle the massive charging demand.

We know what the end game is. They don’t want you to own a private vehicle ICE or Electric.

You know what country restricts vehicle access and ownership to the ruling family and his cronies? North Korea.

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Mexican drug cartels are behind the surge in retail thefts

Looted train LA

Mexican cartels are quietly expanding their global criminal empires to include mass theft operations targeting big-box stores, luxury retail brands, and small businesses, then selling the stolen goods online and laundering the profits through Chinese brokers.

The same transnational criminal organizations, known as cartels, that have facilitated the greatest-ever human smuggling operation across the U.S.-Mexico border over the past two years and simultaneously caused the fentanyl epidemic in America now have a hand in organized retail crime.

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Barbara Kay: The Bullying of Late Toronto Principal a Feature of DEI Training, Not a Bug

The untimely death by suicide of school principal Richard Bilkszto, 60 years of age, came as a shock even to observers closely engaged with his workplace difficulties and their multi-faceted fallout over the last two years.

Once retired in 2019, Bilkszto did freelance work for the Toronto District School Board. In April 2021, TDSB administrators contracted with the KOJO Institute to educate about 200 high-echelon employees on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) principles. KOJO CEO Kike Ojo-Thompson led several training sessions. In her first presentation, she assserted that our nation is infected by systemic racism, describing Canada as a “bastion of white supremacy and colonialism.” She went on in this denunciatory vein, even claiming Canada was more racist than the United States.

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BBC apologises to Nigel Farage over Coutts debanking story

The BBC has apologised to Nigel Farage for suggesting that Coutts cut ties with him only because he lacked the funds needed to hold an account.

Simon Jack, the business editor, wrote that the former Ukip leader had lost his account with the bank because he had failed to borrow or invest at least £1 million or hold £3 million in savings. His report played down Farage’s vindicated claim that the closure was driven by his political views.

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