Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is on the cancel culture chopping block yet again – this time for agreeing that the word “cisgender” is just “ideological language.”
The situation first arose when Elon Musk, Tesla owner and CEO of Twitter, said that “cis” and “cisgender” – terms leftists use to describe people who identify with their biological sex – were considered slurs on Twitter.
The ongoing reputational and financial collapse of the Walt Disney Co. is more entertaining than anything this cabal of groomers has produced in over a decade.
On Thursday, Disney’s stock closed way down at $88. For context, in March 2021, Disney stock was worth nearly $200.
Barely 48 hours on from the carnage, the hummus restaurant next to the Israeli settlement of Eli in the occupied West Bank was back in business.
“It’s our duty as those settling the land of Israel,” said Aviad Gizbar, the owner, as customers lined up for takeaway meals. “The restaurant was awash with blood, but we’ve cleaned it all up.
Bullet holes were still visible in the walls and windows.”
On Tuesday two Palestinians carrying M-16 rifles opened fire in the roadside restaurant and petrol station, killing four Israelis and wounding four others.
With an investigation continuing in the wake of Canada Bread’s admission of guilt for its role in one of the country’s largest price-fixing scandals, a document in the long-running case’s court file suggests federal authorities believed that Maple Leaf Foods executive chair Michael McCain had personal knowledge of the alleged scheme.
The packaged meat company, which used to control Canada Bread, expressed dismay at the new owner’s guilty plea this week, saying Maple Leaf Foods stands by its denial of any wrongdoing. The actions of Maple Leaf Foods and multiple grocery retailers remain under investigation by the Competition Bureau following the plea deal and resulting $50-million fine.
Volunteers are fanning out across Atlanta looking to get tens of thousands of voters to sign a petition that would put the fate of the controversial police and fire department training center known as “Cop City” on a November ballot, even as organisers have accused the city of unfairly delaying the start of the effort.
Cop City came to global attention after police shot dead Manuel Paez Terán, an environmental protester, in a January raid on the forest – the first incident of its kind in US history. The state says Paez Terán shot first. A special prosecutor is evaluating the case.
One of the most interesting developments of this mayoral election campaign didn’t happen during a debate, or on the campaign trail at all. It happened at a city council meeting earlier this month.
There, Coun. Lily Cheng of Willowdale put forward a series of motions regarding a modular supportive housing project in her ward that was approved two years ago but has been delayed by community complaints. Cheng’s motions, justified she said by “a serious lapse in the democratic process,” might have delayed the project further, or derailed it. We’ve seen this movie before: neighbours kill affordable housing because of concerns about safety, or neighbourhood character, or green space, or height, or whatever else they can think of, and the housing never gets built.
The U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) has unanimously approved legislation containing language that appears intended to dig out any UAP-associated technology that is or ever was controlled by the federal government.
The new UAP/UFO provisions are being publicly reported in detail in this article for the first time anywhere.
The new UAP provisions are part of the Fiscal Year 2024 Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA, S. 2103), which was approved unanimously by the Senate Intelligence committee in a closed-door session on June 14. On June 21 I reported on the committee’s action, but the text of the UAP amendment was not yet publicly available at that time. The committee formally filed the bill and it was assigned its number on June 22; it was posted on the Internet early on June 24.
OTTAWA — The federal government spent at least $3.7 million on outside lawyers for work related to its controversial use of the Emergencies Act to quash last year’s so-called “Freedom Convoy” protests, the justice department says.
In response to a formal written question that Conservative MP Dane Lloyd submitted in Parliament, the government revealed this month it had spent $3,756,458.66 as of May 4 to hire private lawyers for this work, which does not include money spent on the high-profile judicial inquiry into the unprecedented use of the Emergencies Act.
The office of Belarussian leader Alexander Lukashenko said the Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has agreed to deescalate his force’s mutiny.
Lukashenko’s office said the president spoke to Prigozhin with the permission of Russian President Vladimir Putin to broker a deal to halt the movement of Wagner’s mercenaries across Russia.
Belarus said an agreement that guarantees the safety of Wagner fighters is on the table.
The announcement was carried on the official Telegram channel of the Belarusian president.
Wagner convoy destroyed Kremlin's dump trucks filled with sand on their way to Moscow. pic.twitter.com/iY6XEsVAmu
— Igor Sushko (@igorsushko) June 24, 2023
Two Saudi Arabian sisters who were found dead in a flat in Australia killed themselves in a suicide pact after being cut off by their family, Australian police have said.
The bodies of Asra, 24, and Amaal Abdullah Alsehli, 23, were discovered in Sydney on June 7 last year.
Five years earlier, they had fled Saudi Arabia with $5,000 (£3,900) in savings.
The public service is not keeping pace with Canadians’ needs in a digital world, says the woman who used to lead it.
“The public service is still working in what I would describe as kind of analog ways and the world has moved on,” former clerk of the Privy Council Janice Charette, told Rosemary Barton Live in an interview airing Sunday.
“You can make a dinner reservation, you can book a cruise, you can move money in and out of your bank account, transfer between the two of us — it’s remarkable the things you can do in a digital world and the public service, and our service delivery infrastructure has not kept up with that.”
Bud Light has a stage at Toronto Pride.
This is one of the acts.
They deserve to go completely broke. pic.twitter.com/z0WM3pVE9F
— Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis (@DrLoupis) June 24, 2023
Wagner troops may reach Moscow by evening as Kremlin hurries to intercept
Wagner mercenary troops loyal to Yevgeny Prigozhin are heading north in a convoy that could reach the Russian capital of Moscow by Saturday evening.
The convoy of lorries, tanks and infantry fighting vehicles is hoping to take advantage of the element of surprise and reach Moscow before it is intercepted by a larger detachment of Russian regular troops, according to analysts and Russian military bloggers.
Video from the convoy showed it had broken through barricades in the Lipetsk region, which borders Moscow from the south. The Russian government has been hurriedly preparing defences, including anti-tank ditches dug into major highways, in order to prevent the convoy from reaching Moscow.
Moscow mayor tells people stay to home; Wagner nears , declares Monday non-working day
Moscow’s Mayor Sergey Sobyanin has issued a statement telling residents in the capital to avoid unnecessary travel and also declared that Monday would not be a working day for most people — except for core services, security services, the military and so forth.
“In order to minimize risks, I, within the framework of the operational headquarters, decided to declare Monday a non-working day,” Sobyanin said on the Telegram website.
He urged residents to refrain from unnecessary travel around the city and told them to report emergency situations to the emergency services hotline (112 in Russia) as quickly as possible.
Has Putin fled Moscow already? Reports claim plane linked to Russia’s leader flew north ‘then switched off its transponder’
A presidential plane linked to Vladimir Putin flew north from Moscow towards Tver and switched off its transponder, according to multiple reports.
Other business jets were seen making an exodus from the capital towards St Petersburg.
Earlier there were reports from Ukrainian intelligence indicating Putin had left from Moscow by helicopter for his palace at Valdai, between Moscow and St Petersburg.
Wagner inches closer to Moscow as Putin vows to stop ‘rebellion’
Forces led by Wagner mercenary boss Yevgeniy Prigozhin advanced in the direction of Moscow on Saturday, moving north from the Voronezh region to the Lipetsk region, which is roughly 250 miles from the Russian capital. President Vladimir Putin, citing a threat to his nation, said he had ordered the military to quash the “rebellion” led by Prigozhin, who on Friday called for Russians to join a campaign against Russia’s military leadership.
BREAKING:
The first Wagner units have reached the Moscow region pic.twitter.com/A1ZwvDgYMF
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) June 24, 2023
BREAKING:
Large column of Kadyrov’s Chechen soldiers is entering the Rostov region.
The battles against the Wagner Group are about to start pic.twitter.com/61Fuht2svu
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) June 24, 2023
Another bridge barricaded by pro-government Russian forces to slow Wagner's advance. pic.twitter.com/1v7Tuzj4Ig
— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) June 24, 2023
Ontario’s Solicitor General is trying to figure out how a man awaiting trail on a first-degree murder charge was able to record part of a music video inside his jail cell.
In a clip posted to Instagram this week, Toronto rapper Top5, appears in an orange jumpsuit in a cinderblock room.
“I was 18 when I bought a gun, 22 when I shot your son,” he says looking into the camera.
The founder of OceanGate dismissed warnings that he was risking passengers’ lives on his dives as “baseless cries”, newly unearthed emails show.
Leading submersible operators had warned Stockton Rush about the risks involved, with one telling him he was placing people on board in a “dangerous dynamic” through his refusal to adhere to industry standards.
But Rush said the fears were alarmist. “We’ve heard the baseless cries of ‘you’re going to kill someone’ way too often. I take this as a serious personal insult,” he emailed Rob McCallum, founder of EYOS Expeditions.
