Swedish Gender Equality: Girls Commit Crimes As Often As Boys

A survey by the Swedish Crime Prevention Council (Brå) shows that criminality among the country’s youth is becoming gender-equal, with the same number of girls as boys admitting to committing crimes.

In a survey of ninth-graders (15-year-olds) in 400 primary schools across the country, over half of the students—51.3%— admitted to criminal activity in the past year. The reported criminal activity includes violence, theft, threats, robberies, vandalism, drug crimes, and sexual crimes. The number of criminal boys is only one percentage point above that of girls.

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George Galloway says Yahya Sinwar ‘died a martyr’s death’

George Galloway described the man behind the Oct 7 terror attacks as having “died a martyr’s death”.

The former MP said Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas, “would appear to have been murdered” after he was killed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) last week.

Mr Galloway also described the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike last month as a “martyrdom”

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Canadian parents pull kids from class after mandatory ‘non-binary’ drag presentation

JEDDORE OYSTER PONDS, Nova Scotia (LifeSiteNews) — Parents in the eastern Canadian province of Nova Scotia have pulled their children from class after a “non-binary” male drag performer gave a compulsory presentation on “gender identity” to kids as young as 12.

On October 18, a number of parents at Oyster Pond Academy kept their children home from school after learning that a “non-binary” drag performer called Teo Ferguson had given their children a “gender identity” presentation that students were not allowed to opt out of.

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Family and partner violence against Canadian men is rising, data says. Why?

My answer is potato the least offensive option

Family and intimate partner violence in Canada is rising and while women and girls remain the primary victims, the number of cases where men and boys are the victims appears to also be growing, new data shows.

Police-reported family violence rose by 17 per cent and intimate partner violence by 13 per cent from 2018 to 2023, according to a Statistics Canada report published Thursday.

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Backlash over photos of Somali men at UN women’s conference

Outrage has erupted on social media after Somalia’s Family Minister Gen Bashir Mohamed Jama shared photos on X of himself and another male delegate representing Somalia at a UN meeting about women’s issues.

“It is tone-deaf for the Somali government to have men on the frontline, representing women at the conference,” Fathiya Absie, a well-known Somali author and human rights activist, told the BBC.

I bet Hussen attended.

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Children’s handwriting is dying. Here is the proof

Children’s handwriting is now so bad that teenagers need lessons in secondary school, experts have warned.

Handwriting is taught in primary schools, with children expected to write in cursive “legibly, fluently and with increasing speed” by the time they leave at the age of 11.

But the increasing use of screens in and outside of the classroom has been blamed for a decline in how often and how well children can write compared to previous generations.

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Postmedia reporter says KGB allegations are ‘ridiculous’ and ‘entirely false’

OTTAWA — Postmedia journalist David Pugliese says allegations by a former Conservative cabinet minister that he was recruited by the Soviet Union’s intelligence agency in the 1980s as part of a global subversion campaign are “ridiculous” and “entirely false.”

Chris Alexander, a former politician and diplomat, made the accusations during a House of Commons standing committee on public safety and national security on Thursday evening, saying they were based on documents that “originate in the pre-1991 archives of the Ukrainian KGB.”

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Pennsylvania County Investigating Huge Trove of Fraudulent Voter Registration Forms

Officials in Lancaster County, Pa., are investigating about 2,500 voter registration forms dropped off in two batches at the last minute before registration closed on Oct. 21 to determine whether they were fraudulent.

Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams said in a statement that “numerous applications appeared to have the same handwriting and other details, like addresses, appeared incorrect on some applications.”

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