Trans-identified male awarded $35,000 by Ontario court after women’s salon refused to wax ‘her’ balls

A Canadian court awarded a trans-indetified male, who claims to be a woman, $35,000 after an Ontario women’s salon refused to wax “her” male genitalia. The salon employee working that day was a devout Muslim woman who refrained from physical contact with men, and the salon owner told the trans woman that they could not find a way to accommodate her request.

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British Children Getting Shorter, Fatter, and Sicker: Report

The authors of a damning report into children’s health have called on the next government to do more to tackle the soaring level of obesity in youngsters, which they say is a “ticking timebomb” for a lifetime of illness and comes at a huge cost to both the state and the individual.

The report by The Food Foundation charity, released on Wednesday, concludes that “aggressive” marketing of cheap, ultra-processed food together with diets lacking nutrition—often fuelled by poverty as well as the food industry—are behind a “significant decline” in children’s health.

They need a good fry up. h/t DS

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Protest outside controversial Reclaiming Canada conference in Victoria

A noisy protest greeted Reclaiming Canada conference-goers in Victoria on Saturday after a failed attempt to get the event booted from a city-owned facility.

About 80 protesters with 1 Million Voices for Inclusion, an LGBTQ+ advocacy group, showed up with flags and signs in support of queer rights and a loudspeaker blaring gay pop anthems in front of the Victoria Conference Centre on Douglas Street.

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Cocaine delivery by ambulance: when the mafia took over a hospital

Hitmen were given medical ‘murder kits’, while A&E staff had to write fake reports of accidents for insurance scams

When the mafia quietly took over the running of San Giovanni Bosco hospital in Naples, the plan was less about saving lives and more about making money and killing people.

Creating what one magistrate called an “anti-state”, the mob dealt drugs and held summits in wards, gave fast-track treatment to patients for cash, ran accident insurance scams in the emergency wing and used ambulances to deliver cocaine.

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