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Major cancer breakthrough as NHS launches 5-minute 'super-jab' that can fight 15 types of disease
One jab fits all eh? Let's look who the shareholders are……..oh!!
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— Truth-Seeker84 (@TruthSeeker84x3) April 30, 2025
h/t Mauser
Three people stabbed at downtown Hamilton mosque; two suspects wanted
Police say a verbal altercation preceded the stabbing, which is not believed to be hate-related.
Three people are hurt and two others wanted after a stabbing at the Hamilton Downtown Mosque.
Hamilton police responded to the mosque at 221 York Blvd. for reports of a disturbance around 2:15 p.m. on Friday — just as afternoon prayers finished.
“From all the information I have, this is not a random altercation or incident, and I can confidently say it’s not related to a hate-motivated crime,” Callender said outside the mosque.
EDINBURGH — Imagine the scene that would have greeted any poor Scot who wandered off the street in Edinburgh to find himself in the middle of the annual British Association of Canadian Studies conference. Yes, there really is such a thing as the British Association of Canadian Studies (BACS) and 2025 is its 50th anniversary.
BACS is the well-worn but admirable remnants of the kind of soft power Canadian governments used to try to exercise — by getting people in other countries talking about Canada and encouraging academic links across the ocean.
WASHINGTON — A former top U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration official has come forward with explosive allegations that Canadian authorities obstructed a high-level DEA investigation into a 42-kilogram carfentanil seizure tied to a 2018 mass shooting in Toronto and, according to senior U.S. investigators, potentially linked to Pakistani threat networks and Chinese chemical precursor suppliers.
The DEA learned, after 29-year-old Faisal Hussain’s shooting rampage on Danforth Avenue—which left two people dead and thirteen more wounded—that his brother and a network with Pakistani links were connected to a historic seizure of carfentanil, a synthetic opioid 100 times more potent than fentanyl, in September 2017. The drugs were discovered in a suburban Pickering home, alongside specialized equipment consistent with a transnational trafficking operation.
A transgender footballer was accused of leaving a female player with a season-ending injury, illustrating the consequences of the FA’s now-abandoned policy of inclusion.
Trans woman Francesca Needham was said to have accidentally broken the knee of an opponent who blocked her shot during a match in October 2023.
But rival players are said to have feared for their safety in matches against her, and at least four teams in the Sheffield women’s league boycotted games in response.
A recent court ruling in Quebec has granted multi-parental families in the province the same legal rights as any other unit.
A Quebec Superior Court judge ruled on Friday that limiting the legal affiliation of children to one or two parents is unconstitutional.
Lawyer Marc-André Landry, who represented one of the families involved in the case, explains the ruling does not apply to step-parents or other “modern” families that are formed after a child is born.
Nothing new under the sun really.
h/t Patti Jo, Mauser & DS
Modern music is a soothing balm to the soul and often addresses common issues, making us feel less alone. pic.twitter.com/mEXSJqEO3e
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) May 2, 2025
The Duke of Sussex has lost his appeal against the Government over his security.
Prince Harry argued that he was singled out for “unjustified and inferior treatment” when he was denied the right to automatic police protection in the UK.
He flew to London last month to attend a two-day hearing at the Court of Appeal, during which his barrister argued that the Home Office committee responsible for VIP security arrangements had failed to adhere to its own policies.
London more dangerous than LA?
The union representing auto workers at the General Motors plant in Oshawa, Ont. says the company is planning to reduce shifts, citing U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
Unifor, which represents about 3,000 employees at the Oshawa facility, said the shift reduction is “reckless” and that the move will “ripple through” the auto parts supplier network. It is not immediately clear how many jobs will be impacted.
GM said it will return to a two-shift operation “in light of forecast demand and the evolving trade environment.”
Today we released two videos in Mandarin aimed at recruiting Chinese officials. @CIADirector John Ratcliffe: "One of the primary roles of the CIA is to collect intelligence…by recruiting assets that can help us steal secrets."
View the videos here:https://t.co/mhQbzet5X2 https://t.co/CzEsvnAp0n
— CIA (@CIA) May 1, 2025
Comments are scary
h/t Mauser
Jasmine Crockett: "It is not a criminal violation to enter the country illegally."pic.twitter.com/7TvsgsgbIn
— Community Notes & Violations (@CNviolations) May 1, 2025
h/t XC
On the surface, Canada’s election on April 28th seemed to preserve the political status quo. As in the last election, in 2021, the ruling Liberal Party will form a minority government. The Conservatives, the main opposition party, slightly narrowed their deficit in Parliament—the Liberals now hold 25 more ridings (as constituencies are called in Canada) than the Conservatives do, down from a 41-seat gap. The Conservatives fared a bit worse in the popular vote, losing it by two percentage points after winning by one in 2021.
Underneath this apparent stasis, however, lies a striking political upheaval. On average, the margin between the two big parties in individual ridings changed by nine percentage points from 2021 to 2025, twice as much as the shift in the average American county between the presidential elections of 2020 and 2024. Some ridings swung by more than 30 points. These yawning gaps added up to modest differences in nationwide results only because for each riding that moved right, another one slid leftwards by a similar amount.
It’s now almost impossible to tell the Economist from the Guardian.
I thought it was bad luck for the groom to see the bride before the wedding? pic.twitter.com/JO29MZMOBQ
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 30, 2025
Is the era of political satire over? The Kingston Riverside TownSq venue seems to think so. It transpires that the Surrey events space has cancelled an exhibition of political cartoonists’ work called Licence to Offend in case, er, anyone was offended. You couldn’t make it up…
