Toronto suspends contractor with $200M in city projects in the past five years over rules breach

A company that has been awarded almost $200 million worth of contracts from the city of Toronto in the past five years has been temporarily suspended from bidding on further work while the municipality investigates it over an alleged breach of procurement rules.

Capital Infrastructure Group Inc., a Woodbridge-based civil construction firm, as well as five of its affiliated companies, were quietly suspended on Oct. 17, according to the Toronto’s public listing of disqualified suppliers. Another affiliate, Capital Sewers Services, has been suspended since June 30.

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Are you an Indigenous Non-Binary Transvestite Quantum Computing Guru?

Here’s your ticket to career advancement: The Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto invites applications for nomination to a Canada Research Chair, Tier 2, in Quantum Computing. Applicants must be full-time (primary budgetary) tenure-stream Assistant or Associate Professors in the Department of Computer Science (St. George campus).

Just Self Identify!

h/t Mauser

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High School Assistant Principal, Brother Accused of Plotting to Murder ICE Agents

A pair of brothers, one of whom is an assistant principal at a Virginia high school, are accused of plotting to murder Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials reveal.

On November 19, law enforcement officers arrested John Wilson Bennett and Mark Booth Bennett, both American citizens, and charged the brothers with conspiracy to commit malicious wounding.

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Hong Kong fire death toll rises to 55 as towers burn for a second day

The death toll from a massive fire that broke out at a residential apartment complex in Hong Kong has risen to 55, as firefighters continued to battle the blaze, among the deadliest in the city’s modern history.

Hong Kong authorities said Thursday 51 people had been found dead on the scene, bringing the death toll to 55, including four others who had been brought to the hospital.

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Meet Trump’s ‘nemesis’, the 60-year-old who has been to 1,000 protests

At a press conference on Capitol Hill last week, a pink inflatable frog held aloft a banner chastising President Trump for not releasing the Epstein files.

Unbeknown to the casual observer, the protester inside the costume has been photographed at most of the history-making moments of the past decade.

Driven by a personal animus for Trump and his policies, Nadine Otego Seiler has travelled the length and breadth of the United States, holding her homemade signs at what likely tops more than a thousand demonstrations since he first took office in 2017.

TDS – Now with added Dementia!

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Lorne Gunter: Despite MOU, Carney sets up West Coast pipeline push to fail

Cowboy Carney

There is every indication that Carney is as anti-oil as his predecessor, Justin Trudeau, despite all his talk of building an energy superpower

The federal government will do nothing to get a pipeline built. That much is clear from the advanced reports about what is in the MOU (memorandum of understanding) that Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith are expected to sign Thursday in Calgary.

Once Alberta has everything in place (constitutional, Indigenous, environmental, regulatory and financial), then the Carney government will consider giving the pipeline to their Major Projects Office (MPO).

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Even before it’s made public, the Ottawa-Alberta deal is taking heat from all sides

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May is pretty sure that backbench Liberal MPs from British Columbia are really worried.

Why? “They’ll lose their seats,” she told reporters. “And they like their seats.”

The Ottawa-Alberta memorandum of understanding that has not yet been released − to be signed Thursday by Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith − is that bad for the political fortunes of Liberal MPs, Ms. May said on her way into the House of Commons on Tuesday.

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Toronto Zoo Map Labeled Israel As “Palestine”; Zoo Says It Is Investigating

Toronto Zoo – The real animals aren’t here

TORONTO — A visitor to the Toronto Zoo reported that a world map displayed in the Indo-Malaysia pavilion labeled Israel as “Palestine.” The Toronto Zoo acknowledged the report and said it is investigating the matter.

The image shows a printed map panel used as part of an exhibit on tiger distribution. The word “Palestine” is located within the geographic outline of Israel. The visitor noted that political bias has no place in publicly funded educational experiences.

h/t MP

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Jamie Sarkonak: Foreign criminals keep getting their deportations cancelled

When he was about 22, a Jamaican national and Canadian permanent resident impregnated his 13-year-old stepsister. She said he forced himself onto her, he said he didn’t remember; you be the judge. She had a child. This happened in 2007, and in 2008 he was convicted of sexual interference and sentenced to five-and-a-half months.

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An artist made an ‘anti-racist’ version of the UK flag. You’ll never guess what happened next

Few things do more to lift the spirits than the sight of the 21st-century Left eating itself. Which is why I invite you to enjoy the following sumptuous story, from the website Brighton and Hove News.

A local library, it reports, was due to host an “anti-racist” exhibition, featuring a “reimagined” Union flag made by a mixed-race son of immigrants. The flag is covered in images of small boats, and was made using “textiles from the UK’s diverse communities”. The council, however, has now decided to cancel it. Why?

Believe it or not, it’s because it could have “inadvertently upset minority groups”.

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The U.K. Is Poised to Do Away With This Cornerstone of Western Jurisprudence

The right to be judged by a jury of one’s peers has long been a cornerstone of Western jurisprudence. It bars the government — the same government accusing you of a crime — from having total control by putting average citizens between the defendant and the state. It protects against authoritarian overreach and brings common sense and a reflection of community standards to the judicial process.

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