Chinese authorities have punished 27 people over the publication of a maths textbook that went viral over its “tragically ugly” illustrations.
A months-long investigation by a ministry of education working group found the books were “not beautiful”, and some illustrations were “quite ugly” and did not “properly reflect the sunny image of China’s children”.
A society that cannot distinguish Hummus from Hamas
“… And he cries. Trudeau always cries. He cries in the mosque, cries for gays, cries for natives, always cries.
How is it possible then that the country that symbolizes “inclusion”, where laws are passed banning the cutting of cat claws in the name of animal rights, is euthanizing physically and psychiatrically disabled people, as well as those who feel lonely and a little depressed?
A moralistic country is a country in moral amnesia.“
As Moscow’s war on Ukraine reaches the six-month mark, a top leader of the Russian Orthodox Church in Canada has echoed the Kremlin’s talking points on the conflict, insisting in a recent interview the unprovoked invasion was justified and decrying as “ridiculous” Canada’s sanctions on the church’s war-boosting patriarch.
… Even though we’re the world’s fifth largest producer and sixth largest exporter of natural gas, Canada lacks the pipeline and Liquid Natural Gas infrastructure to ship LNG from Canada’s east coast to Europe on ocean-going tankers.
The most we could do is up our natural gas output slightly to the U.S. — where almost all of it goes — given that the Americans have the ability to do what we can’t.
The fact we’re a captive market to the U.S. means our natural gas has to be sold at a discount, costing our economy an estimated $9 billion annually.
The head of the RCMP has repeated her stance that she didn’t deal with political pressure to make firearms details about the Nova Scotia mass shooting public, saying government officials were simply “asking” and not directing — which is a “big distinction.”
Commissioner Brenda Lucki faced questions from the Mass Casualty Commission leading the public inquiry into the April 2020 mass shooting on Tuesday in Halifax, as well as from a lawyer for most of the victims’ families.
She’s a liar like Trudeau.
Toronto Police have a particular Twitter account that shows the guns they’ve taken off the streets.
@TPSGunsSeized is the official account, and a post there earlier this week has seen the boys in blue roasted for their efforts.
Recently, a government report revealed that COVID-19 relief efforts led to possibly the largest fraud in the history of America.
The Washington Post reported that unemployment benefits of an estimated $163 billion were paid to undeserving individuals due to either error or fraud.
It is a name plucked from obscurity and plastered on front pages around the world: Natalia Vovk, the woman Russia says blew up the daughter of ‘Putin’s Rasputin’.
The FSB claims she is a veteran of Mariupol’s Azov battalion turned spy, who spent weeks tracking Darya Dugina before planting 800g of explosives under the driver’s seat of her car on August 20 and rigging it to blow as she left a festival near Moscow.
But Kyiv has denied any link to the slaying, the Azov Battalion says it has no record of Vovk having served with them, and evidence that has emerged from social media accounts paints a picture that is at odds with Moscow’s account.
The FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s private residence at Mar-a-Lago, Florida, had “no legal basis,” according to a Wall Street Journal op-ed by former White House and Department of Justice lawyers David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey.
The council’s scandalous failure to tackle grooming gangs is in danger of being forgotten.
In 2025, a town in the UK will become the first ever ‘Children’s Capital of Culture’. Many people will be more than a little shocked to learn that, of all the towns in Britain, the government has chosen Rotherham for the role – the south Yorkshire town at the centre of Britain’s decades-long grooming-gangs scandal. Between 1997 and 2013, an estimated 1,400 girls in Rotherham were sexually abused by gangs of predominantly Pakistani men. All while the local authorities turned a blind eye.
Saskatchewan is demanding answers from federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault after receiving multiple reports from farmers that federal employees are “trespassing” on their lands to test water sources.
Premier Scott Moe took to Twitter on Aug. 21 demanding Guilbeault provide an explanation as to “why his department is trespassing on private land without the owners’ permission to take water samples from dugouts.”
Ocean Grove, N.J., is one of those idyllic seaside towns on the Jersey Shore. Buildings from the turn of the 20th century dot the landscape, and it’s such an evocative place that it has earned the nickname “God’s Square Mile.”
A new Department of Defense inspector general report released last week estimated that the Afghan government possessed $7.12 billion worth of equipment paid for by U.S. taxpayer dollars when it fell roughly a year ago, “much of which has since been seized by the Taliban.”
“This included military aircraft, ground vehicles, weapons, and other military equipment,” the release noted. “The condition of these items was unknown, and the long-term operability of the vehicles was likely to deteriorate without U.S. contractor maintenance.”
Two-thirds of Europe is under some sort of drought warning, in what is likely the worst such event in 500 years.
The latest report from the Global Drought Observatory says 47% of the continent is in “warning” conditions, meaning soil has dried up.
Another 17% is on alert – meaning vegetation “shows signs of stress”.
The report warns that the dry spell will hit crop yields, spark wildfires, and may last several months more in some of Europe’s southern regions.
