Twitter users have voted in favour of Elon Musk stepping down as the platform’s chief executive after the billionaire ran a poll on his future.
A total of 57.5% voted “yes” after Mr Musk asked his 122 million followers whether he should stand down.
Mr Musk, who bought Twitter for $44bn (£36bn), said before the poll closed that he would abide by the result.
“The student voice was all that mattered, and basically they silenced the teachers’ voice,” said one former teacher.
An alarming email went out to staff at Pinecrest Public School last June with the subject line: “Students reporting they don’t feel safe!”
The sender was Michael Sternberg, a grade 5 and 6 teacher at Pinecrest. He explained how multiple students that very day told him they felt unsafe at the school. “I am not making this up!” he wrote. “Please help! Someone!”
Homeschool.
A bakery boss has been forced to defend himself following backlash for selling ‘non-binary gingerbread people’.
Social media erupted this week after people noticed that a Lancashire bakery was selling gender neutral ginger biscuits – traditionally known as gingerbread men.
Foreign fugitives have high chances of dodging deportation from Canada each year, as records show that of thousands of foreigners ordered to leave the country over the past six years, just 48 percent were actually deported.
An Inquiry of Ministry, presented to the House of Commons by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), said of the 13,287 foreigners ordered out of the country since 2016, a total of 6,322 were deported, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
Body language, mumbling, stuttering & incoherence – speak for themselves.
We see you, Bill. pic.twitter.com/z2vxNw26ko— Efrat Fenigson (@efenigson) December 19, 2022
h/t Mauser
Federal prosecutors investigating the collapse of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried have reached out to Democratic and Republican campaigns and organizations for information on political donations the company founder and two former executives made, according to a report.
Canadian climate minister’s 1st full year in office was one of cred and compromise
It’s not every day the prime minister asks a rebel to join his cabinet, but for Justin Trudeau, it’s been a well-received gamble.
As his first full year in office wraps, activist-turned-politician Steven Guilbeault is in the midst of hosting the world for the UN’s COP15 conference in Montreal, as Canada’s minister of environment and climate change. It’s the most significant biodiversity conference in over a decade.
COP15 comes on the heels of last month’s heavily attended COP27 — the UN conference for climate negotiations hosted by Egypt.
CNN boss Chris Licht slammed liberals for criticizing his move to make CNN less partisan, saying it only makes him more confident about his decisions.
“The uninformed vitriol, especially from the left, has been stunning,” Licht, who took over the cable network in May, told The New York Times. “Which proves my point: So much of what passes for news is name-calling, half-truths and desperation.”
Conservative MPs accused her of shedding crocodile tears and offering a forced apology.
They reminded Mary Ng, the minister of international trade, export promotion, small business and economic development, that she’d broken the law and demanded she resign for giving “sweetheart contracts” to a close friend. Manitoba MP James Bezan called her “corrupt” and asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to fire her.
Five people have been shot and killed in a residential unit in the Greater Toronto Area before the gunman was killed by police, authorities have said.
Police were called to a residential building in Vaughan, north of Toronto, at about 7.20pm on Sunday to reports of an active male shooter who had shot several victims at a condo in in the Ontario city.
Mass shootings are rare in Canada and Toronto has long prided itself as being one of the safest big cities in the world.
More … 6 dead, including suspect, after shooting at Vaughan condo building: York police chief
The Sun has a likely motive… also being discussed on Reddit = “Old Italian Guy Mad At Condo Board” – Sources told the Toronto Sun police are investigating multiple shooting scenes at a condo building and are working on a theory that an individual went from unit to unit, attacking six members of the condo board. One of the victims was hospitalized and is expected to survive.
Parents in southern Manitoba are advocating for the funding to public libraries in seven municipalities to be cut if they will not remove books written for children and youth that contain explicit sexual content from the shelves in South Central regional libraries.
Parent David Wall gave a presentation at the City of Winkler Council Meeting on Dec. 13, reading excerpts “taken from juvenile books available at local libraries.”
The elites’ blacklisting of lockdown dissenters was shameful and self-destructive.
There were two viruses that the authorities wanted to control in 2020 and 2021. The first was the virus of Covid-19. The second was the virus of dissent. Throughout the pandemic, experts referred to lockdown scepticism and Covid misinformation as their own kind of disease, as a contagious malady that might sicken the masses’ minds as surely as Covid sickened their bodies. British politicians referred to a ‘pandemic of misinformation’. We must protect people both from ‘physical disease and the “disease of misinformation”’, scientists insisted. ‘False information has plagued the Covid response’, said one academic. Plagued – what a striking choice of verb. And if contrary ideas are an infection in the body politic, then it’s clear what the cure must be: censorship.
The Twitter account for a Colorado-based Antifa group has been suspended – less than a month after the platform’s new owner Elon Musk promised to purge all accounts that incite violence.
Screenshots taken Saturday evening show that @COSAntiFascists, the Colorado Springs cell of the domestic terror group, has, in fact, been nixed – with reporter Andy Ngo the first to break the news.
Frank Pavone, who leads the advocacy group Priests for Life and was once a spiritual advisor to Donald Trump when he was president, has been removed from the priesthood by the Vatican.
No specifics of why Pavone was defrocked have been given by the Vatican, but Pavone has frequently clashed with his superiors over some of the language he has used in his social media postings.
Part Six of the Twitter Files was released by journalist Matt Taibbi on Twitter Dec. 16, revealing just how closely the platform worked with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to censor Americans prior to Elon Musk’s purchase of the platform. “Twitter’s contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary,” Taibbi tweeted.
