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Canadian government forcing doctors to promote euthanasia to patients: report

Canadian doctors are warning that Health Canada’s push for euthanasia is forcing doctors to suggest assisted suicide to patients.

In a November 6 video by Christian filmmaker Frank Panico, three Canadian doctors, Will Johnston of Vancouver, David D’Souza of Toronto, and Catherine Ferrier of Montreal, revealed that physicians are forced to discuss euthanasia or so-called “medical assistance in dying” (MAID) with vulnerable patients according to Health Canada protocol.

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Toronto’s young, new male drivers could face premiums of $13,000 a year: Report

Car insurance is expensive for new drivers in Ontario, but drivers who are not only new but also male face a pricier challenge.

A 20-year-old male driver in Toronto with no claims and no driver training could pay as much as $13,418 annually to insure a recent model Honda Civic, according to a report from Rates.ca.

I am curious to find out how much the 3rd World has contributed to this state of affairs.

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A Chinese firm bought an insurer for CIA agents – part of Beijing’s trillion dollar spending spree

Since 2018, the United States has been tightening its laws to prevent its rivals from buying into its sensitive sectors – blocking investments in everything from semiconductors to telecommunications.

But the rules weren’t always so strict.

In 2016, Jeff Stein, a veteran journalist covering the US intelligence community, got a tip-off: a small insurance company that specialised in selling liability insurance to FBI and CIA agents had been sold to a Chinese entity.

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‘Peril’ and ‘Chinatown’: New Epstein Records Tie U.S. Power Brokers to Beijing-Linked Elites

WASHINGTON — Newly released documents from the Jeffrey Epstein estate show the convicted sex offender operating far closer to the heart of China’s political and financial power structures than previously understood — advising former U.S. Treasury secretary Lawrence Summers on a sexual pursuit involving an elite Chinese Communist Party family, and privately warning Steve Bannon to stay “safe” in his dealings with exiled Chinese billionaire Miles Guo, who has since been convicted in a U.S. fraud case involving more than $1 billion.

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Some Call It Liberation, but in Reality It Is Degeneracy

No doubt there is a wider range of sexual norms that are compatible with thriving civilizations than those that are prescribed in Judeo-Christian culture.

If we could trust social scientists not to be completely infected with ideology, it would be an interesting area of study. And, to be fair, I am not familiar with the literature, and I am certain that there are some interesting works out there that would be worth looking at and comparing if I were curious enough to explore the topic. But honestly, I am not.

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Are women-only carriages a good idea? France is fiercely split

Thousands signed a petition in favour of segregation after a Brazilian woman was attacked on a Paris commuter train — but opponents say it is gender apartheid

When a 26-year-old Brazilian train passenger recounted the trauma of an attempted rape on a Paris commuter line this autumn, a call for the introduction of women-only carriages won support.

More than 31,000 people have signed a petition in favour of the measure, which has already been adopted on public transport in countries such as Japan, India and Brazil. But the idea has provoked angry debate in a French society that has long viewed the creation of women-only areas, whether in sports clubs or swimming pools, as an affront to its — at least theoretical — ideal of equality.

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Australian prisoner sues for right to eat Vegemite in jail

A convicted murderer is challenging the southern Australian state of Victoria’s ban on prisoners eating the Vegemite yeast-based spread, arguing that the restriction breaches his human right to “enjoy his culture as an Australian.”

Andre McKechnie is suing Victoria’s Department of Justice and Community Safety and the agency that manages the prisons, Corrections Victoria, in a case currently scheduled to be heard in 2026.

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Crumbling Johannesburg gets a rushed makeover as G20 looms

Vhutshilo, an Uber driver, gestures with annoyance at workers busily planting flowers along the verge of a major road into Sandton, a glitzy Johannesburg suburb known as Africa’s richest square mile. “You see this,” he says, “it shows they do have resources.”

His gripe is that the government is only spending money and getting things done to impress foreign visitors before the G20 summit next weekend, while the city’s steady decay has been ignored for years and millions of its residents suffer frequent electricity and water cuts, even in the wealthy suburbs.

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Internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare hit by outage

A number of websites, including social media platform X, appear to have been hit by problems affecting internet infrastructure firm, Cloudflare.

Thousands of users reported issues with X and other services to outage monitoring site Downdetector flagged shortly after 11:30 GMT on Tuesday.

Twitter has been up and down since I logged on at 6am … this may interrupt the morning vids

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