A Toronto cafe owner has boarded up most of his windows after repeated smashing attacks from vandals and rising repair costs for the Church and Wellesley storefront.
h/t Mauser
People city …
Author: Blazingcatfur
TikTok video, explosive-making instructions at centre of Calgarian’s terrorism charges: court docs
A 20-year-old Calgary man facing terrorism charges is accused of posting a video to TikTok that facilitated and contributed to ISIS and al-Qaeda activities, court documents reveal.
Zakarya Hussein is also accused of creating and possessing instructions on how to make explosives.
Hussein was charged Friday with four offences: two counts each of facilitating a terrorist activity and participating in or contributing to a terrorist group activity.
School that allowed child to identify as a cat faces Government investigation
Teacher at Rye College in East Sussex was recorded suggesting a pupil who refused to accept her classmate was a cat that she was despicable
A school at the centre of a row over children identifying as animals is facing a Government investigation, The Telegraph can reveal.
A teacher at Rye College, a state secondary in East Sussex, was recorded telling a pupil who refused to accept her classmate was a cat that she was despicable.
Gillian Keegan, the Education Secretary, is understood to have ordered an investigation into the Church of England school.
“On Tuesday Downing Street told headteachers that they should not be teaching children that they can identify as cats or other animals” -Imagine teachers have to be told that.
Lockdown ‘damaged a generation’, says former chief medical officer
The doctor who was once the country’s most senior medic has told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry that lockdown “damaged a generation” of young people.
In an emotional evidence session, Professor Dame Sally Davies, the former chief medical officer (CMO), also apologised to families who lost loved ones during the pandemic for their “harrowing” experiences.
Dame Sally, who was England’s CMO from 2011 to 2019, said she was upset by the impact of Covid and lockdown policies on children and young people despite being in favour of the first national shut down.
Rashida Tlaib is stirring up the eco-crazies —report
Rep. Rashida Tlaib was one of the loudest denouncers of the January 6 crowd control incident by supporters of President Trump at the Capitol.
But not because she’s all in for democracy or any of the hypocritical claims of her far-left side of the political spectrum.
It’s pretty obvious now that riots and mayhem are all right, so long as her side is doing it.
U.S. Catholic Bishops Supporting Illegal Immigration?
Getting rich off the poor.
As the immense human tragedy at the nation’s southern border unfolds, an organization claiming to fight for the vulnerable remains breathtakingly silent.
That organization, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, vigorously fought President Donald Trump’s efforts to build a wall to curtail the trafficking in human lives — especially children — and drugs that accompany the kind of open borders Pope Francis advocates. But since Joe Biden became America’s virtual president, and especially since Title 42 expired, the bishops’ public opposition to federal policy evaporated.
Why the glaring reversal?
Is this the end of the road for Meghan?
Has there ever been a more brutally effective piece of social satire than the South Park episode that mocked Harry and Meghan?
Since it aired in mid-February, the Duchess of Sussex, previously a seemingly ubiquitous and unstoppable cultural phenomenon, has effectively withdrawn from public life. She’s made just one formal appearance – at an awards show, which ended in the farce of disputed paparazzi car chase claims – and has given precisely no interviews.
The couple’s media empire also seems to be imploding. Spotify has axed their $20 million (£15.6 million) podcast deal, with senior exec Bill Simmons ungallantly labelling the pair ‘fucking grifters’.
How Elliot Page escaped womanhood
Unlike for Britney, public self-destruction wasn’t an option
Ellen Page — a person who no longer exists, and who by strict application of the rules of gender identity never existed — became famous at the height of an exceptionally dark era for young women and fame. In 2007, Britney Spears shaved her head, Paris Hilton went to prison and Lindsay Lohan was arrested for the first time. And that year, the movie Juno introduced 20-year-old Page to the world as the title character, a 16-year-old who gets pregnant and decides to have the baby.
Greta and the green war on the working class
Every act of green activism seems designed to make life harder for working people.
Picture the daughter of an opera singer preventing working-class men from doing their jobs. A young woman so well-connected that she probably has presidents on speed-dial physically blocking truck drivers from doing what they do. A child of privilege gathering with her similarly comfortable pals to stop working people from working.
‘No perp walk, no cuffs, no press conference’: Tucker Carlson excoriates Biden’s DOJ over Hunter Biden’s ‘sweetheart’ plea deal
Tucker Carlson has slammed the Department of Justice over Hunter Biden’s plea deal and described it as a ‘lifetime of sins washed away in an instant’.
The son of President Joe Biden has reached a deal with prosecutors that would see him plead guilty to tax crimes and dispense with a gun charge – and means he would likely avoid jail time.
Ep. 5 As in most of the developing world, it's safer to be the president's son than his opponent. pic.twitter.com/AtRRaxYSjs
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) June 20, 2023
Ukraine Could Be Forced to Compromise
All wars have political dimensions, the war in Ukraine more than most. As leader of the international coalition supporting Kyiv, President Biden must retain domestic support for our massive financial contribution to Ukraine while maintaining the unity of the coalition.
The evidence suggests that he is doing better with the latter task than the former. Yes, there have been recurrent disagreements with allies about the kinds of weapons Ukraine should receive and the pace of delivery. Mr. Biden has made it clear that he wants to do everything possible to assist Ukraine without triggering a wider war. Because the line between maximum effort and dangerous overreach is unclear, he has proceeded at times more deliberately than other countries, especially those in Eastern Europe, would have preferred. But he has moved forward enough to mute coalition discontent while assisting Ukraine with robust offensive capacities and surprisingly effective air defense.
#Ukraine: A Russian tank was destroyed by the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade using a Stugna-P anti-tank guided missile in Zherebyanky, #Zaporizhzhia Oblast. pic.twitter.com/KhZg0GoWNK
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) June 20, 2023
Conservative wins in two by-elections shows Poilievre’s efforts to win back PPC voters may be working
Sometime late Monday evening, Pierre Poilievre must have sighed with relief.
Unhappy Mennonites had threatened to undermine confidence in the federal Conservative Leader in not one but two ridings where by-elections were held that night.
In the end, the Conservatives easily held both seats, dealing a serious blow to People’s Party Leader Maxime Bernier.
Don Martin: I’ve never seen anything quite like the control-everything regime of Trudeau’s government
On the bright side, there was no sign of Chinese interference.
Voters in four byelections delivered status quo results on Monday that show, if you squint hard enough, that the severely tainted Liberal brand has staying power while the Conservatives aren’t resurging enough to threaten as a majority-government-in-waiting.
So now, with the summer solstice dawning Wednesday, it is time for party leaders to adjourn into the real world to listen more and talk less, the better to figure out why voters may desire prime ministerial change but not enough to embrace the opposition alternative.
‘Continued genocide’: First Nations leaders disturbed by effort to dig up unmarked graves in B.C.
First Nations leaders in British Columbia are “very disappointed” by a recent report that residential school deniers tried to dig up suspected unmarked grave sites at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.
News of the undated incident was made public Friday in an interim report from Canada’s independent special interlocutor for missing children and unmarked burial sites associated with residential schools — a harrowing system of assimilation sponsored by the federal government and multiple Christian churches for more than a century.
Continued genocide???
Ottawa allowed in half of foreign nationals red-flagged as security risks, audit finds
Of the 7,141 cases where security screeners sent IRCC a ‘non-favourable’ recommendation during the years covered by the audit, 3,314 were allowed into Canada
OTTAWA – Nearly half of foreign nationals flagged by security agencies to the Immigration Department for ties to serious offences including war crimes, espionage and terrorism were allowed to take up residency in Canada between 2014 and 2019.
An internal audit of the Immigration National Security Screening Program found that immigration officials ultimately approved temporary or permanent residency, or refugee applications for 46 per cent of the more than 7,000 cases where the Canadian Border Security Agency (CBSA) recommended against applicants being allowed into the country.