In light of increasing hysteria from climate activists, including a recent idiotic demonstration at the Trevi Fountain, it seems to be a good time to go back to hard data. A study last year found that atmospheric carbon caused by fossil fuels has been too low to cause global warming, as climate dogmatists claim. The earth is not about to become a burning ball of fire because you drive an SUV.
Parent groups called on Education Minister Stephen Lecce to conduct a provincial review of the Toronto District School Board after a researcher allegedly plagiarized parts of a report on its specialty programs and schools.
A review of TDSB research supporting a lottery for programs focused on arts, math, science and technology was conducted by University of Toronto economics professor Marcin Peski, who alleged that parts of the report were misleading and plagiarized and contained false citations and quotes from non-existent sources.
Not the first time the incompetents at the TDSB have been caught.
Henry VIII had Thomas Cromwell to order his affairs and Samuel Johnson had James Boswell trailing in his wake. The same is apparently true of superyachts, which now arrive with an assistant carrying the bags.
Canadian Forces reservist died fighting with ISIS
The Canadian Armed Forces has confirmed that one of its former reservists was killed after making his way to Iraq to join the so-called Islamic State.
Private Bilal Khan enlisted in the terrorist group shortly after he was released from the Canadian military in October 2014, a spokesperson said.
“We are aware that he travelled to Iraq in early 2015 and was killed in November 2015,” said Daniel Le Bouthillier, the Canadian Forces head of media relations.
Elizabeth Holmes will find herself behind the walls of a Texas prison on Tuesday, in a remarkable fall for a startup founder who had become an icon known far outside Silicon Valley.
Holmes, 39, had once promised to revolutionize the medical world, but was convicted in January 2022 on four counts of defrauding investors in her blood-testing company, Theranos.
It was a stunning turn for an entrepreneur who had once riveted the tech world. Holmes dropped out of Stanford University in 2003 at the age of 19, set on developing a company that would turn upside down the field of medical diagnostics.
Special Rapporteur David Johnston has refused to take questions from MPs on the House of Commons public accounts committee regarding his previous work at the Trudeau Foundation, leading members of the committee to threaten to issue him a summons.
“We have a meeting scheduled for a week today with individuals who have been involved with the Trudeau Foundation,” said Conservative MP and Committee Chair John Williamson at a meeting of the committee on May 29, according to Blacklock’s Reporter. “I regret to inform you all, I have three who have declined, including the Right Honourable David Johnston.”
A cyclist and self-described north London liberal berated Just Stop Oil protesters on Monday, saying “I hate you” and accusing the activists of “hurting the green cause”.
Putting the group’s public relations problem in stark terms, the commuter told the slow marchers who were blocking traffic: “Everyone hates you.”
… “The most successful governance system for people in the world is the nation-state,” Peckford said, receiving applause from the audience of over 200.
“This business to try to put us into some kind of international organization is full of you-know-what. It cannot be allowed to happen. Canada has got to stop joining or signing anything which in any way dilutes their sovereignty and our sovereignty,” he said.
Young mothers and fathers ask me how any doctor can prescribe life altering hormones and remove the normal breasts in a young girl with gender dysphoria and confusion around the time of puberty? The published data demonstrate “gender affirming” care does not cure gender dysphoria and it is sterilizing in approximately 80 percent of cases.
… The average G7 leader, to say nothing of the average G7 citizen, may be under the impression that this confab, with Canada sat in the seventh seat, is the club of the world’s most powerful countries and a kind of alternative global government. It isn’t. The G7 speaks for only a fraction of the Earth’s population. It also accounts for well under half the world’s economic output, a share that is steadily falling.
And when it comes to greenhouse gases, the G7′s contribution is surprisingly small. Small, and shrinking.
Pregnant people should be especially vigilant when wildfires pollute the air: doctor https://t.co/cSIir9hX09 pic.twitter.com/yppa2GWf9a
— CTV News (@CTVNews) May 30, 2023
h/t Mauser
Malaysia has detained a Chinese-registered vessel suspected of looting two British World War Two shipwrecks.
The bulk carrier was seized on Sunday for anchoring illegally at the site in the South China Sea.
Ammunition believed to be from the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, which were sunk by Japanese forces more than 80 years ago, was then found on board.
The UK Ministry of Defence had earlier condemned the alleged raid as a “desecration” of maritime war graves.
A crowd of students recently protesting the LGBT agenda in a Quebec school tore down and trampled a rainbow “pride” flag.
Last week, a group of teenagers from the Chêne-Bleu Secondary School in Pincourt, Quebec cheered as one of their fellow students tore down a flag representing the LGBT agenda, supporting the act of defiance by trampling the flag once it was no longer flying.
And…
Note – Google Translate … This event is far from isolated and tends to grow. According to TVA Nouvelles , students from two high schools in Estrie protested against the day against homophobia and transphobia. At the Phare International School, a petition was launched to remove LGBTQ+ symbols and young people tore down posters and flags. The CSSRS has confirmed that measures have been taken with regard to the offending students. At La Frontalière secondary school in Coaticook, students dressed in black instead of the colors of the rainbow. Sanctions have been imposed and the CSSHC has assured that awareness-raising actions will be carried out.
Nothing in English language media beyond Lifesite?
More … York Catholic school board votes against flying Pride flag at education centre
How bad have things gotten in California? If you are somehow doing well enough to be able to afford to buy a new home there, you may not be able to get homeowner’s insurance. Or at least not from State Farm…
Higher interest rates are pushing the GTA’s new construction condo market to a tipping point, says a new joint report by market research firm Urbanation and CIBC Capital Markets.
For the first time, more than half of the investors who bought pre-construction units as rental properties were losing money last year.
It’s creating a scenario that could jeopardize demand for new units and potentially exacerbate the region’s housing crisis, warns the report published Monday.
There are at least 9 new condo’s proposed for construction in my neighborhood all within a 2 -3 KM radius, 3 are across the street, not to mention the geared to income rentals the city is proposing. Will any be built? No idea, especially in light of a commie regime at city hall. K and I moved into the 1st completed building nearly 20 years ago, time flies.
