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The Horror! Toronto Star Sounds Alarm! Women Sneaking Into Canada To Have Anchor Babies Denied Due To Covid Restrictions!
COVID-19 scrutiny has stopped some women headed to Canada to give birth, documents allege
Greater scrutiny of travellers, prompted by COVID-19, has yielded new instances of women from other countries coming to Canada with what officials say is an unspoken plan to deliver their baby here, documents obtained by the Star show.
Some observers have repeatedly cautioned that the practice controversially dubbed “birth tourism” — which is legal — is being overblown and that focus on it has been driven as much by racism as real concern.
The federal government, meanwhile, has said it is studying the issue in an effort to understand the scope of what is happening.
Canada is so fecked up.
‘Kickback scheme’ saw $30M stolen before alleged $11.6M COVID-19 fraud, Ontario government claims
The Ontario bureaucrat fired after an alleged fraud involving $11.6 million in COVID-19 funds was the kingpin in an elaborate “kickback” scheme that stole at least $30 million more from the government, court documents say.
Sanjay Madan was terminated in November from his $176,608-a-year job as a Ministry of Education computer specialist after the alleged theft of $11.6 million in Support for Families funds. That money has since been recovered.
But in an amended statement of claim filed earlier this month, the government is also seeking an additional amount “estimated to be at least $30 million” that was allegedly pilfered since 2011.
How lockdown boredom broke the stock market
Reddit users have confounded Wall Street by sending GameStop stocks into orbit.
Companies that sell physical copies of computer games in shopping malls do not usually expect their share price to increase by several thousand per cent in the digital and e-commerce era. They are doubly not supposed to when a pandemic is either forcing shopping malls to close or is keeping fearful consumers at home.
But that’s exactly what has happened to US videogame retailer GameStop.
San Francisco School Board ditches ‘Lincoln High’ name, 43 others to send ‘moral message’
Abraham Lincoln, the man who issued the Emancipation Proclamation and freed the slaves, isn’t good enough for the San Francisco School Board.
A 6-1 vote Tuesday evening sealed the deal on the renaming of 44 San Francisco school sites due to connections with slavery and oppression.
Report into Julie Payette’s conduct at Rideau Hall finds toxic environment, public humiliations
An independent report examining the workplace culture at Rideau Hall found that former governor general Julie Payette and her deputy Assunta Di Lorenzo presided over a toxic work environment.
Released publicly under the Access to Information Act Wednesday night, the report details allegations from staff members of “yelling, screaming, aggressive conduct, demeaning comments and public humiliations.”
The report said that 43 staff members at Rideau Hall described the general work environment as “hostile or negative.”
Twenty-six people interviewed “used the words ‘toxic’ or ‘poisoned’ to describe the general work atmosphere” at Rideau Hall during Payette’s time there.
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was an FBI informant
Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys extremist group, has a past as an informer for federal and local law enforcement, repeatedly working undercover for investigators after he was arrested in 2012, according to a former prosecutor and a transcript of a 2014 federal court proceeding obtained by Reuters.
In the Miami hearing, a federal prosecutor, a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and Tarrio’s own lawyer described his undercover work and said he had helped authorities prosecute more than a dozen people in various cases involving drugs, gambling and human smuggling.
Oh thank God! I thought they meant Denny Terrio!
That would have hurt.
“E-Tribunal” – That’s What They’re Calling Star Chambers Nowadays
Report calls for powerful new federal body to regulate social media
A federally funded panel is recommending the creation of a powerful new government regulator to oversee social media companies such as Facebook and Google and to require them to have strong content-moderation practices and to comply with a new legal duty to act responsibly.
The report by the Public Policy Forum (PPF)’s Canadian Commission on Democratic Expression, to be released on Wednesday, also calls for the creation of a federal “e-tribunal” to hear complaints about specific social media posts.
The federal Liberal government plans to introduce legislation early this year to regulate social media companies, with a focus on online hate and harassment. The report’s recommendations are aimed at influencing that legislation.
Fuck you Nazi.
Science table member paid by teacher union for arguing against school reopenings
A prominent member of Ontario’s science table, which advises the government on pandemic restrictions including school closures, was paid by a teachers’ union for offering an argument against the government’s school reopening plans at a provincial labour board hearing, the Toronto Sun has learned.
Oregon Dems blast ‘relentless Republican attacks on values’ after Antifa trash party’s Portland HQ
Oregon’s Democratic Party has responded to Antifa’s Inauguration Day attack on its Portland headquarters by insinuating that Republicans are to blame and making no mention of the black-clad vandals who smashed up its property.
“Years of relentless Republican attacks on our Democratic values and the very foundations of our democracy have not stopped our work, and neither will this senseless vandalism,” the party stated on Monday in a Facebook post. “We are undeterred.”
Good Lord.
This is the greatest case against public teachers unions I have ever seen https://t.co/JxERuj5W92
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) January 27, 2021
Six of our rank-and-file dance teachers come together to use their art form as a voice to express their desire to feel safe amidst CPS' teacher return policy. They stand in solidarity with all educators at risk, because no one should have to choose between life and livelihood. pic.twitter.com/gajXH9PReE
— ChicagoTeachersUnion (@CTULocal1) January 23, 2021
France: “Canadian” Imam Mohamed Khattabi Has Trial Postponed On Charges Of Sexual Assault Of Minor Niece During Removal Of Evil Spirits Ritual
Born in Morocco, of Canadian nationality, the imam of the Aïcha mosque, in Montpellier, is the subject of a complaint filed in 2019 by one of his nieces, denouncing sexual assault, when she was a minor, then of age, which would have been repeated from 2005 to 2017. “She denounces the touching during the Rouqia, a practice which aims to remove evil spirits”,
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