This mom is raising funds so her healthy child can get a double mastectomy pic.twitter.com/RGwjiEP4Bt
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 30, 2022
Author: Blazingcatfur
The uncomfortable truth about France’s ‘local youths’ – Blaming Liverpool fans for the Champions League chaos is misleading
“… Local youths” has become a familiar PC byword in France for what the thinking class is actually referring to: minorities. Their presence was confirmed by BBC reporter Nick Parrott, who filmed groups of French Arabs and Sub-Saharan immigrants trying to force their way into the arena. This led to security closing a number of stadium gates and preventing fans with tickets from entering. Other groups of thugs were filmed storming the gates, while security forces were nowhere to be seen.”
Monkeypox, Covid and the trouble with our species
There is already a familiar culture war over the origins of this apparently species-leaping virus
I hate to be one of those columnists who says “I told you so.” But I told you so. Looking back this week through the vast underground vaults at Spectator HQ I see that centuries ago in April 2020 I explained the problem with us humans as a species. As I said back then, someone always shags a monkey. There are almost eight billion of us on this planet today, and the likelihood that we’re all going to make judicious decisions all the time is vanishingly small. The mating decisions of the species alone are notoriously prone to trial and error. And the entire future of our species rides perpetually along this cliff edge.
BAD TAKE: Univision Anchor Compares Defense of 2A to Radical Islam
One of the downsides of a 24/7 news cycle is that it allows far more time for media types to fill airspace with bad takes, as was recently the case during Univision’s coverage of the horrific school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
Police Must Rush to the Sound of the Guns
The aftermath of yet another soul-rending attack on an elementary school, this time in Uvalde, Texas, has left little time for reflection on just why these horrific incidents continue to proliferate in the United States. Grappling with the grief attendant upon learning details of the worst K-12 mass shooting since Newtown—with 19 precious grade-schoolers and two teachers senselessly slaughtered—can be all-consuming.
National handgun ‘freeze’ among new firearm regulations proposed by Ottawa
A national freeze on importing, buying or selling handguns is a central feature of firearm-control legislation tabled today by the federal Liberals.
The government says the bill would also allow for the removal of gun licences from people involved in acts of domestic violence or criminal harassment, such as stalking.
The government plans to fight gun smuggling and trafficking by increasing criminal penalties, providing more tools to investigate firearms crimes and strengthening border measures.
National handgun freeze key feature of new firearm-control bill
OTTAWA – A national freeze on importing, buying or selling handguns is a central feature of firearm-control legislation tabled today by the federal Liberals.
The government says the bill would also allow for the removal of gun licences from people involved in acts of domestic violence or criminal harassment, such as stalking
The government plans to fight gun smuggling and trafficking by increasing criminal penalties, providing more tools to investigate firearms crimes and strengthening border measures.
Government tables bill to freeze sale, imports of handguns
New gun control legislation the federal government tabled today includes a national freeze on the purchase, sale, importation and transfer of handguns in Canada — the government’s most ambitious attempt yet to restrict access to firearms in this country.
While the proposal falls short of a full ban on handguns, it would effectively limit the number of them in Canada.
“In other words, we’re capping the market for handguns,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a press conference Monday.
Until now only criminals were interested in smuggled guns. Now normal citizens will have no choice.
‘Superpigs’ could soon invade Alberta cities, researcher warns
In the northeastern Alberta town of Lamont, residents have been warned to be on guard against a possible invasion of wild boars.
Roaming swine have been spotted inside town limits, prompting the community to send out a safety advisory.
“Be calm and move slowly,” reads the notice. “Do not corner or provoke the animal.”
‘I can win this,’ says Conservative leadership contender Patrick Brown
Nobody saw Patrick Brown coming when he won the leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party in 2015. Can the current mayor of Brampton, Ont., former three-term MP and ex-provincial leader repeat the feat at the federal level? In the most wide-ranging interview he’s given, Brown tells John Ivison that he is “cautiously optimistic” about victory.
Ontario election 2022: preliminary data released for early voter turnout
Elections Ontario has released preliminary figures on how many Ontarians cast their ballot during advance polls for the 2022 Ontario election.
It indicated that in the 10-day period for advance polls, there were 1,066,545 votes representing about 9.92 per cent of eligible voters.
For comparison, in the 2018 provincial election, when there were five days of advance polling, 698,609 cast a ballot representing 6.8 per cent of the eligible population.
That’s an interesting increase in early voter turnout.
Pro-American ‘Top Gun’ Sequel Riles Chinese Communists
Top Gun: Maverick is giving star Tom Cruise his biggest opening weekend of all time as the unofficial start to summer and the blockbuster movie season begins. The film has already grossed $150 million domestically and promises to do boffo business in the coming weeks.
Jagmeet does it again …
BREAKING: @MelissaLantsman's motion to immediately revert to pre-pandemic rules & service levels for travel defeated 202-177 with @theJagmeetSingh voting against ending mandates. pic.twitter.com/Q7Oek3z8uG
— Rowan (@canmericanized) May 30, 2022
World Economic Forum Says Go Vegan: Eat Seaweed, Algae, and Cacti to Save the Planet
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has finished its annual conference in Davos, Switzerland, with a grim warning about the future of the planet and the threats posed by a reliance on meat protein in everyday diets.
The answer? Consumers urgently need to turn away from the grill, change their eating habits and embrace vegan alternatives to meat.
U.S. Air Force base in Europe has canceled a ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ it planned to host for children of military families
A U.S. Air Force base in Europe has canceled a ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ it planned to host for children of military families after a Republican senator critised the event.
Ramstein Air Base, the headquarters of U.S. Air Forces in Europe and the largest American air base in Germany, was due to hold the 30-minute story time at an on-base library on June 2.
A Facebook event, which has since been deleted, revealed that the session would include a special guest reader, local drag queen Stacey Teed, and celebrate Pride Month.
Canada’s military a ‘broken system’ that’s a ‘liability’ to the country, report finds
The top ranks of the Canadian Armed Forces are “incapable” of recognizing the “deficient” parts of a culture that keep sexual misconduct and abuse of power entrenched, according to a blistering new report.
That highly anticipated report into the culture of the Canadian Forces from former Supreme Court of Canada Justice Louise Arbour was released on Monday, exactly one year after the review formally began in May 2021.
It’s time CAF cedes more control to civilian authorities on sexual offences: Arbour
The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) has been “unwilling” and “unable” to embrace action on military sexual harassment and assault and it’s time the body cedes more control to civilian authorities, former Supreme Court Justice Louise Arbour says.
In her highly-anticipated review of the cultural crisis within the military and recommendations for a path forward, Arbour says tackling this issue requires a major rejig of existing structures, and minimizing the monopoly the CAF has over its members by tapping into the services of external institutions as it relates to prosecuting members for sexual offences.
Military should give up control of sexual assault cases permanently: former Supreme Court justice
The time has come for the Canadian Armed Forces to permanently give up control of investigations of sexual offences by its members, says a major new report by a former Supreme Court justice.
Concluding more than a year of work, Louise Arbour today released her much-anticipated report on the military’s sexual misconduct crisis. It recommends, among other things, that civilian police and courts handle all sexual assault cases involving allegations against military members.
“As challenging as it is, this organization must demonstrate enough humility to accept external help and open itself to the outside world,” wrote Arbour in the roughly 400-page report.
Uvalde and the Lessons We Refuse to Learn
Some of them: Schools can no longer be soft targets, institutionalization will need to come into play, and police will need to relearn what their job is.
Another school shooting, another horror that on Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas, took the lives of nineteen children and two adults.
The reason these monstrous crimes continue to happen is that America refuses to learn the lessons that reality forces upon us, again and again.
We, as American citizens, are failing to perform the duty of protecting our children. In order to perform that duty, we need to take action, not just mouth “thoughts and prayers.”