Mamma Mia!
Historic Big Apple pizza joints could be forced to dish out mounds of dough under a proposed city edict targeting pollutant-spewing coal-and-wood-fired ovens, The Post has learned.
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection has drafted new rules that would order eateries using the decades-old baking method to slice carbon emissions by up to 75%.
Toronto chooses a new mayor today and the final opinion polls are in. They suggest that Olivia Chow ends the race with a lead that is significant but smaller than at any time since the early campaign days. Mayor John Tory’s endorsement last week of former councillor Ana Bailão has propelled Bailão firmly into second place with the best shot, it appears, of an upset victory over Chow, a former NDP MP.
And finally, our last Toronto mayoral poll
Chow – 36%
Bailao – 30%
Saunders – 9%
Furey – 8%
Matlow – 8%
Hunter – 5%
Brown – 1%
Bradford – 1%Others – 3%
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— Mainstreet Research (@MainStResearch) June 26, 2023
May as well elect Chow, Toronto deserves the pain.
Disney’s Star Wars has cast its first transgender actor in a major role, hiring British male-to-female YouTube personality Abigail Thorn for the role in the upcoming Disney+ series The Acolyte, according to multiple reports.
Apparently the franchise is already in the dumpster so I guess this makes sense in a fiddle while it burns kinda way.
Canada has for years forked over billions of dollars in subsidies to oil and gas companies — an approach that critics say flies in the face of the country’s climate goals, and impinges on efforts to turn toward renewable energy sources.
Now, the federal government is preparing to release a new policy that will put an end to “inefficient fossil fuel subsidies,” a commitment Canada made more than a decade ago.
A spokesperson for Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said the new policy will be released in July.
Because wind and sun are so reliable and need no subsidy.
This is Ontario. Man self-identifies into women’s rugby. 3 players injured as a result of being dump tackled by him. Read this 🧵👇. https://t.co/iFnCmysPP5
— Catherine Kronas (@CatherineKronas) June 26, 2023
Every taxpayer who dutifully hands over their hard-earned cash every year to the government should be enraged by IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley’s testimony about how senior leaders at the Department of Justice, the FBI and the IRS sabotaged the five-year investigation into Hunter Biden and allowed him to walk away with a laughably lenient plea deal and unpaid taxes.
I don’t know how many times I have heard Canadians say that CSIS stands for the “Canadian Secret Intelligence Service.” It does not. The first “s” stand for “security,” and a security intelligence service is different than a foreign intelligence one, although in some countries the mandates overlap (think CIA). Similarly, many are convinced that CSE is short for “Canadian Security Establishment.” Again, wrong. The “c” stands for communications and is a hint into what this agency does – it collects signals intelligence, a.k.a. SIGINT, and helps to keep our communications secure.
For the first time in Germany, the AfD has won a district council election, administrators announced on Sunday.
Voters in the central German town of Sonneberg elected AfD candidate Robert Sesselmann at the expense of incumbent district administrator Jürgen Köpper of the CDU.
In the runoff election in the Thuringian district of Sonneberg, Sesselmann won 52.8% of the vote, earning him the necessary absolute majority, according to election officials.
I believe that democracy is not an event, it’s a process. One that works best when as many people as possible stay engaged and involved.
But elections are events. And this one is here.
On Monday, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Toronto voters have the chance to decide who will lead their city government. The choice could hardly come at a more important time.
Disgraced cycling legend Lance Armstrong is linking up with Caitlyn Jenner in a new docuseries to discuss the contentious issue of transgender athletes in sports.
Armstrong posted to Twitter late last night revealing a clip of The Forward traveling to Jenner’s Malibu home for a discussion on the issue which continues to rage throughout the sports world.
‘I think, you know, with sensitive conversations and topics like this… it really comes to [people are] afraid to be fired, shamed or canceled,’ Armstrong said en route to Jenner’s residence in the clip.
Lance Armstrong?
Members of the Sikh community in Surrey believe that Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the president of a local temple, was killed because of his political views.
On Sunday, after riddling a car with bullets in a parking lot, two masked, heavyset men made a run for it and jumped into a getaway vehicle near a Sikh temple in Surrey, British Columbia, the police said.
The victim, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, 45, was a prominent Sikh community leader and president of the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara, a temple where he was shot. He advocated the creation of Khalistan, an independent Sikh nation carved out of areas including the Indian state of Punjab.
A large demonstration protesting against gender ideology in public schools took place outside Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office on Wellington Street in Ottawa on June 24.
A significant number of participants were Muslims, with many carrying signs and chanting, “Leave our kids alone.” Videos of the event were posted on Twitter. The crowd of hundreds of protesters included women of all ages in hijabs along with men and children. At times the diverse crowd yelled, “No more silence.”
"The flag needs to go!"
Muslim families are protesting on Wellington Street in front of the Prime Minister's office.#LeaveOurKidsAlone pic.twitter.com/if8NFGcI3F
— Dacey Media (@chrisdacey) June 24, 2023
No wonder Junior got outta town.
Russian intelligence services threatened to harm the families of Wagner leaders before Yevgeny Prigozhin called off his advance on Moscow, according to UK security sources.
It has also been assessed that the mercenary force had only 8,000 fighters rather than the 25,000 claimed and faced likely defeat in any attempt to take the Russian capital.
Vladimir Putin will now try to assimilate Wagner Group soldiers into the Russian military and take out its former leaders, according to insights shared with The Telegraph.
A long-suppressed expert report settles the argument
After years of lawfare, a smoking gun report on US election machinery has come to light – and it shreds the supposed security of electronic voting machines in the 2020 election. The report says the system’s flaws would allow vote switching and the alteration of election results ‘without detection’.
The report’s author says wryly it’s not even hard to do: ‘No grand conspiracies would be necessary to commit large-scale fraud, but rather only moderate technical skills….’ And while the report focuses on Georgia, it notes that the same unsafe equipment was used in 15 other states in the 2020 election, including swing states such as Arizona, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
Getting some jobs requires a more elite level of talent than others. For example, it appears that a post as an op-ed contributor to USA Today these days demands a talent for awfulness that would far exceed the grasp of most Americans. Witness left-wing columnist Mike Freeman, whose job description is “Race and Inequality Editor-Sports.” His column entitled “Ron DeSantis pushes racist tropes in latest comments about basketball and baseball players” must be read to be believed. For a symptom of how much partisan dreck this column is, Freeman asserts that “DeSantis is one of the most prominent anti-Black politicians alive,” citing with a straight face the ridiculous NAACP “travel advisory” against Florida and linking to an article quoting notorious bigot Al Sharpton.
