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Diane Francis: Joining Eurovision nothing more than a Carney vanity project

Mark Carney’s first federal budget as Prime Minister should be called the Eurovision Budget. It piles on debt and contains a $150-million allocation to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) — disguised as cultural investment — which includes, unbelievably, a plan for Canada to “explore participation” in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Eurovision is watched by 160 million Europeans annually and is a music contest. Carney wants Canada, which is not in Europe and not even a member of the European Broadcasting Union, to join the show. This is not parody. It’s in the 2025-26 federal budget.

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When the ‘Pastor’ Marries Four Men: Germany’s Truce with Polygamy

It is a snapshot of cultural collapse: A young German woman with pink hair in clergyman’s robes, facing four men, bestowing her approval on their bizarre sexual arrangement, the details of which we are blessedly unaware. The pro-LGBT pastor is now under fire for blessing the ‘marriage’ of four men who showed up at a pop-up wedding fair at Berlin’s St. Paul the Apostle Church recently. Lena Müller, the 33-year-old clergyperson in question, posted a photo of the ceremony to Instagram.

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Indigenous man caught with ‘killing machine’ of a rifle gets time served due to intergenerational trauma

More than 500 days in harsh pre-trial custody was enough punishment for a Mohawk man caught driving around Peterborough with a crack pipe in his lap and a “killing machine” of a rifle in the back seat, along with a flame thrower in the trunk, according to a recent sentence of time served from Ontario’s Court of Justice.

Jesse Garlow, a convicted drug trafficker who was under a firearms prohibition, had been in custody since June 7, 2024 when he was sentenced. Police initially pulled him over because the car he was driving was weaving.

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Lunatic stabs female straphanger, 27, at Chicago train station

A 27-year-old woman was stabbed by a lunatic at a Chicago train station Saturday night — nearly three months after Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska was murdered by a pocketknife-wielding madman on Charlotte’s light rail system.

The victim was sitting on a bench at the UIC-Halsted Blue Line platform near the University of Illinois Chicago around 11:14 p.m. when the alleged attacker plunged a knife into her chest, according to the Chicago Police Department.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime, WTF?

Apple caves to China demands to remove gay dating apps

Apple has agreed to block two popular gay dating apps in China as part of a fresh wave of censorship by Beijing.

The iPhone maker confirmed it had complied with demands to remove two apps, Blued and Finka, from the Chinese version of its App Store. The services are used by tens of millions of people.

Blued is a gay social network launched in China in 2012, while Beijing-based Finka is a dating app.

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LCBO profits are dropping due to bad management

LCBO – anyone else remember filling out the little order form and approaching the desk clerk to receive your liquor? So East Bloc, but here in Canada.

The LCBO made some remarkable news last week: 2025 will be the first year in a decade that Ontario’s government liquor stores will turn over less than $2 billion to provincial coffers.

Most of the analysis so far is that this is due to expanding the sale of beer, wine and ready-to-drink beverages to convenience, grocery and big-box stores.

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England flags ‘creating no-go zones for NHS staff’

England flags are creating “no-go zones” for NHS staff around the country, health leaders have said.

Nurses and doctors report feeling intimidated by the proliferation of St George’s flags in communities, including when they are visiting patients at home.

Several NHS trust chief executives said there were examples of staff being abused and threatened, including when they have tried to take down flags outside their homes.

Good.

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CAS workers failed to record important info, missed red flags before boy’s death, Ontario murder trial told

Halton Children’s Aid Society (CAS) workers failed to document important information and didn’t investigate red flags related to the condition of two boys in a Burlington, Ont., couple’s care, a defence lawyer told the women’s murder trial.

Nabeel Sheiban cross-examined retired child protection worker Lisa Potts on Friday, asking about various notes recorded by adoption workers and their correspondence with Becky Hamber, his client, and Brandy Cooney.

In one message read by Sheiban, Hamber said the older boy was “unhealthy” and had an eating disorder.

Question the two Moms? How dare they!

First openly trans US lawmaker directed partner on how to abuse tots — before asking if pair could still go to heaven

The country’s first openly trans lawmaker directed his partner on how to abuse children as young as 3 at a Massachusetts daycare, before asking her if the evil pair would still go to heaven.

Twisted New Hampshire ex-pol Stacie-Marie Laughton, born Barry Laughton, 41, pleaded guilty in the heinous case last week and faces up to 30 years in prison on federal child pornography convictions after exchanging despicable images with his partner, 40-year-old Lindsay Groves.

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Protests as rightwing Charlie Kirk activist group makes final campus tour stop

Turning Point USA, the influential rightwing college group founded by Charlie Kirk, has brought Kirk’s message to a campus with a long history of leftwing activism two months after his death.

An event at the University of California, Berkeley, on Monday evening marked the chaotic last stop of the American Comeback tour, which Kirk had just begun at the time of his death at Utah Valley University. In the aftermath of Kirk’s fatal shooting, the events have come to serve as memorials, with prominent conservative speakers, including JD Vance, highlighting the staggering impact the controversial rightwing influencer’s death has had on American politics.

The Guardian never misses a chance to wallow in excrement.

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