Personal information of TDSB students going back 4 decades may have been breached in cybersecurity incident

Toronto’s public school board says personal information of its students dating back to 1985 may have been breached during a recent cybersecurity incident that affected many districts across North America.

On Monday, the Toronto District School Board provided an update into last month’s data breach involving PowerSchool, an application used by many boards to store a range of student information.

That can’t be good.

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Sexual boundaries blurred in controversial academic paper on human, animal sex

An academic paper titled The Permissible and the Perverse: Indian Geographies of Interspecies Sex is sparking debate by suggesting that sexual interactions between humans and animals can be viewed as normal, depending on social and cultural circumstances.

The paper was written by Dave Naisargi from the University of Toronto, and Gupta Alok Hisarwala from the National Law School of India University.

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Canada bought Chinese drones that are on the US blacklist and unusable at the border

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) thought it was doing the right thing by purchasing drones to monitor the border with the United States, but it chose a Chinese brand that the Americans no longer want to see flying, Radio-Canada has learned.

The organization purchased DJI drones, despite knowing they cannot be used at the border , a Canadian agent from theGRC, who is not authorized to speak publicly.

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Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly to endorse Mark Carney for Liberal leader: sources

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly will endorse Mark Carney in the race for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada, Radio-Canada has learned.

Joly will make the announcement in a written statement on Sunday, according to a source with knowledge of the decision who spoke to Radio-Canada.

This development comes on the same day that former finance minister Chrystia Freeland will deliver the first speech of her campaign to become Liberal leader. Her official campaign launch is scheduled for mid-day at an event in her Toronto riding.

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Michelle Obama ‘checked out’ of DC as Trump inauguration looms

Former first lady Michelle Obama has reportedly ‘checked out’ of DC life after she decided to snub Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Sources close to the 61-year-old told Page Six that after she and husband Barack left the White House in 2017 she ‘checked out’ of DC politics.

Insiders say it has led to ‘nonstop chatter that Michelle is fed up with the political circus and pretending everything is OK with Barack all the time.’ The comments come amid swirling rumors that the former first couple’s relationship is on the rocks.

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Rick Levine Leaves Office Claiming He’s an Admiral, a Woman and Fires are Caused by Global Warming

The very real state of contemporary identity politics.

Dr. Rick Levine, who likes to go by ‘Rachel’ and ‘Admiral’, and was made Assistant Health Secretary and an admiral by the Biden administration (which still couldn’t make him a woman) was deemed worthy of a high-profile exit interview at Politico since he will now leave office to pursue whatever it is men in admiral and female drag do.

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Black Coal, White Guilt: Mining the Dark Depths of ‘Anti-Racist’ Geology

Racist rock – I dunno, it could be Linus from the Great Pumpkin.

Back in the days when I was at school, we used to study a subject called ‘Human Geography’ which taught us all about mankind’s impact on the environment, in terms of the effects of creating and maintaining cities, industry and farmlands. Recently, the amused British media discovered there was an entirely new geographical subdiscipline now available to students instead, called ‘Inhuman Geography’, whose first known professor, Kathryn Yusoff, is currently employed at the (formerly) prestigious Queen Mary University of London.

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‘Discovered’ diaries of British socialite Unity Mitford reveal Hitler relationship

The diaries of an antisemitic British socialite who was obsessed with Adolf Hitler and struck up a personal relationship with the Nazi leader have been discovered, according to the Daily Mail.

The leather-bound journals, which had been lost to historians and unseen for eight decades, appear to reveal the extent of Unity Mitford’s relationship with the dictator.

Despite the infamous “Hitler diaries” incident, in which Sunday Times journalists were duped into publishing forged accounts, several historians believe this discovery is genuine.

The Mitford sisters would be ardent Trudeau supporters I suspect.

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Johnson: Here’s When I Knew Biden Wasn’t Running Anything

Good to know, but it prompts a big question. And Mike Johnson has no good answer for it.

As the House Speaker tells Bari Weiss in a live interview for The Free Press, Johnson considers Joe Biden the worst president in US history. It’s not just the policies or the actions that drive that assessment, Johnson explains, but the fact that Biden clearly had no idea what was going on in his own administration — or even what Biden’s own executive orders said and did.

And Justin said there was no business case for shipping LNG to Europe. Who was pulling their strings?

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