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Toronto magic mushroom shop Shroomyz targeted again in suspicious fire

A magic mushroom shop in the city’s downtown area has been targeted again after Toronto fire says crews were called there for reports of a fire early Monday.

The illegal magic mushroom dispensary called Shroomyz, located on Bloor Street near Brunswick Avenue, caught fire at around 5 a.m. after initial reports indicated someone had thrown “something fiery” into the store, a Toronto fire spokesperson said

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FIFA demanding hands-off approach to protesters: Document

FIFA is requiring Toronto’s government, as a World Cup host city, to adopt a “non-interference” policy toward human rights advocates – a group that apparently includes protesters – the Toronto Sun has learned.

A 27-page list of “sustainability and human rights tournament requirements,” released to the Sun after a freedom-of-information request, is dated June 2023. The document says “protection of human rights defenders,” as well as freedom of the press, “is essential to a successful and rights-respecting delivery of the competition.”

Ridiculous.

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Mourners banned from leaving flowers on graves over health and safety

A cemetery banned mourning families from leaving mementoes on graves after a “health and safety” assessment.

Plot owners at St Michael’s Church in Knights Enham, Hampshire, were “disgusted” to find notices warning that any items left on graves would be removed after a month.

A letter was left on every headstone in the graveyard on behalf of the Andover parish council, which claimed the policy was introduced to protect “the safety of the graveyard”.

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$122M in cannabis seized at illegal grow-up on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory

More than $122 million worth of marijuana has been seized from illegal grow-op on a First Nations reserve in Eastern Ontario that was allegedly being operated by an organized criminal network.

The OPP says three firearms were also seized during a six-month investigation – and 10 people have been charged, six of whom are not members of the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory community.

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Jamie Sarkonak: The criminals who get past Canadian visa screening with ease

Canada’s immigration laws are so self-sabotaging that it takes years to deport actual registered child sex offenders who should have never been let into the country in the first place. If we’re struggling to put even these guys on a plane home, we’re in serious trouble.

We know this because a Pakistani national Gullfam Hussain, who omitted his 2017 criminal conviction and three-year jail stint in the U.K. for “Adult sexual activity with a female child family member 13 to 17 — offender over 18 — penetration,” has been fighting his deportation for two years now. Most recently, he tried to have the Federal Court cancel his deportation to Pakistan for safety reasons, which failed.

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NHS doctor who made throat slit gestures to Jews escapes suspension

A junior doctor who made a “slit your throat” gesture to Jewish protesters escaped suspension after a tribunal found that she had a “right to freedom of expression”.

Dr Rahmeh Aladwan, who is training to be a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon, has been allowed to continue working for the NHS after a panel of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service said that its duty to protect members of the public “must be balanced with the doctor’s right to freedom of expression” under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

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Another Archbishop of Woke

Prior to Friday, the Church of England was without a leader for nearly a year. In the not-so-distant past, this would have been as unimaginable as the UK being without a prime minister. And yet, in a sign of the church’s growing moral and cultural irrelevance, the long absence of an Archbishop of Canterbury elicited little public commentary or concern.

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Ben Bankas’ Calgary show cancelled at Grey Eagle over video joking about residential schools

Canadian comedian Ben Bankas has had his appearance cancelled at the Grey Eagle Casino in Calgary.

The Toronto-born comic’s original Oct. 24 show was canceled after the venue — located on the Tsuut’ina Nation — received complaints about a social media video Bankas posted that made a joke about residential schools.

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