Joly says $9 million NYC condo helps Canada ‘invest in our presence in the U.S.’ … and it’s close to good shoppings!

OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly accused the Conservatives of not supporting Canada’s diplomatic presence in the United States, as they grilled her over the purchase of a $9-million condo for one of its posts.

Joly was called to testify at a parliamentary committee on Tuesday about the government’s decision to buy a new residence for Canada’s consul general in New York on a posh slice of Manhattan real estate known as Billionaires’ Row.

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Scotland’s gender list has 14 definitions that nobody there belongs to

A list of 24 official genders produced by the SNP Government includes 14 categories that nobody in Scotland says they belong to, census data reveals.

Kaukab Stewart, the SNP equalities minister, is facing claims she misled the Scottish Parliament by claiming that the list of two-dozen genders, which has been the subject of global ridicule, had been based on “common responses” in the census.

New findings published by respected policy analysis group, MurrayBlackburnMackenzie, which interrogated census data, found that in the majority of cases, nobody living in Scotland had said they identified with the genders on the formal list.

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Vatican hires artist who worked on designs for sex toys to create pilgrim mascot

The Vatican hired an artist who had previously worked on designs for sex toys to create its new mascot, it has emerged.

Simone Legno has designed a mascot called Luce – the Italian for light – for the 2025 Holy Year Jubilee.

The Italian artist’s mascot is a young girl dressed in a yellow rain jacket and Wellington boots with a crucifix around her neck and a pilgrim’s staff in her hand.

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Rail Workers Across Italy Strike After Migrants Stab Conductor

Train staff all around Italy walked off the job on Tuesday, November 5th, in a protest over occupational safety following the stabbing of a train conductor by migrants.

According to Italian media reports, 44-year-old Rosario Ventura was attacked by a 21-year-old Egyptian man and a 16-year-old North African girl after they refused to pay for their fare on Monday afternoon.

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Green slush fund execs still eyeing bonuses despite grinding parliament to a halt for weeks

Bonuses and severance pay have not been ruled out for managers of a disgraced federal agency disbanded for being riddled with conflicts of interest.

Cabinet abruptly disbanded Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) last June 4 after auditors acting on whistleblower complaints confirmed the board was rife with conflicts while awarding $856 million in subsidies to corporations. Auditors counted a whopping 186 conflicts of interest, per Blacklock’s Reporter.

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Why a convicted synagogue bomber is teaching at Carleton University

On the same weekend that Montreal hosted a conference featuring the head of Samidoun, Canada’s newest listed terror organization, Ottawa’s Carleton University faced renewed outrage for employing a lecturer wanted as a convicted terrorist.

Last year, 70-year-old Hassan Diab was convicted in absentia by a French court in connection with the 1980 bombing of the Rue Copernic synagogue in Paris.

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CBC – He just wound up in Syria! … Jihadi Jack Letts “I volunteered for a suicide bombing”

Supreme Court ‘signed my son’s death warrant,’ mother says of refusal to hear plea

… Letts became a devoted Muslim, went on holiday to Jordan at 18, then studied in Kuwait before winding up in Syria. His family says he was captured by Kurdish forces while fleeing the country with a group of refugees in 2017.

I volunteered for a suicide bombing, Jihadi Jack admits

Jack Letts has told how he wanted to be a suicide bomber for Islamic State as he admitted fighting with the terrorists.
“I know I was definitely an enemy of Britain,” he told the BBC in an interview recorded in October and released yesterday. “I did what I did. I made a big mistake and that’s what happened. I thought I was leaving something behind and going to something better.”

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Why are the Scouts brainwashing our children with woke nonsense like Billy the Non-Binary Butterfly?

How familiar are you with Billy the Non-Binary Butterfly? What about Sam the Cisgender Dog? Sam uses “he/him” pronouns, whereas Leslie the Gender-Solid Ladybird goes with “she/her”. All of which you would know if you were an eight-year-old being indoctrinated – sorry, taught how to think, speak and behave – by your local Scout group.

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Bacon-Gate: Kamala Harris Just Royally Screwed Up an Interview With a Muslim Influencer

One of the scariest things for Kamala Harris heading into election night is her problems with Muslim voters. Since Israel responded to the October 7th attacks by going to war with Hamas, the Democratic Party has been desperately trying to find a way to appease radicals in places like Dearborn, MI, while not completely alienating Jewish voters.

h/t Mauser

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Nearly Half of Canadians Avoiding Hospitals Because of Wait Times

Around 47 percent of Canadians choose to stay home rather than seek medical treatment with a doctor or hospital because of long wait times, says a new survey.

“For decades, the Canadian government and provincial governments have taken the general approach that the system isn’t working, so let’s throw more and more money at it,” Dominic Lucyk, communications director with think tank SecondStreet.org which published the study, told The Epoch Times.

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