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Video shows man smoking crack on TTC streetcar
Video shows another person smoking what appears to be crack on the TTC’s Line 1 – 📹 Submitted to blogTO pic.twitter.com/cXEoFQOHOz
— blogTO (@blogTO) February 5, 2024
A Christian preacher had his dream social worker job withdrawn because it was feared his beliefs would lead to the suicides of LGBT patients, an employment tribunal has heard.
Rev Felix Ngole, 46, had been offered employment with Stonewall-backed NHS provider Touchstone, which provides mental health and wellbeing services to over 10,000 individuals each year across Yorkshire, in 2022.
After the charity learned that he believed homosexuality was a sin, he was called in for a second interview and turned down.
Mary Walker said she got a “bit of shock” when she opened up a piece of mail from the City of Toronto last month, informing her that she owed more than $2,500 in taxes for the “vacant” Scarborough condo where she currently resides.
She said she was hit with the unexpected tax bill after she failed to make her Vacant Home Tax declaration for 2023 and the city deemed her condo unoccupied.
“Obviously it is a bit of shock to get this kind of bill in the mail,” Walker told CP24.com on Thursday.
They tax you for being away from home.
From 2021 to 2022, the number of international students in Canada grew 116 per cent. In 2023, it rose another 60 per cent, to roughly 900,000. In 2000, Canada had just 122,665 international students. We now have seven times that number.
Part of the problem is a rush in applications after pandemic restrictions were lifted. But Ottawa predicts the growth in applications will continue — reaching 1.4 million in 2027. If so, foreign students will continue to be a significant element in Canada’s record population growth — and in the attendant pressure on housing, infrastructure and health care.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pushed back Thursday on comments made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about an Israeli military airstrike that killed seven aid workers in Gaza, including one Canadian.
In a video statement released earlier this week, Netanyahu expressed regret over the incident and called it a “tragic case of our forces unintentionally hitting innocent people in the Gaza Strip.” He also said “this happens in wartime” and that Israel was looking into the situation.
“No, it doesn’t just happen,” Trudeau said Thursday during an event in Winnipeg. “And it shouldn’t just happen when you have aid workers for an extraordinary organization like World Central Kitchen risking their lives every day in an incredibly dangerous place to deliver food to people who are experiencing a horrific humanitarian catastrophe.”
Netanyahu won’t be losing sleep.
Radical LGBTQ ideologues sell the dangerous lie, including to kids, that they can change their gender.
No matter what you do to your body or what kind of clothes you wear, a man can never become a woman. pic.twitter.com/dRTfWQgJgP
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 4, 2024
Here are some valid signs you might be gender fluid. Sometimes it’s hard to tell. pic.twitter.com/lXAdoh0nM7
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 4, 2024
Montreal-based electric snowmobile manufacturer Taiga Motors Corp. says it is pausing production and temporarily laying off around 70 workers.
The company, which also makes electric watercraft, says its decision is in response to a challenging economy and an exceptionally mild winter.
Taiga released quarterly and annual results Tuesday but did not hold a conference call with investors, and a spokesperson said managers would not be available for interviews.
Who is going to rely on an EV Ski Doo in freezing temps?
Him.
Electric snowmobiles will get us to net-zero. 🇨🇦https://t.co/3TgzfnhmdG
— Seamus O’Regan Jr (@SeamusORegan) February 18, 2021
h/t Mauser
OTTAWA, ON, April 3, 2024 /CNW/ – The Government of Canada is leading an overseas commemorative program for 2SLGBTQI+ Veterans to commemorate the First World War, as we approach the 107th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. Starting April 6 in Belgium, a delegation composed of representatives from Rainbow Veterans of Canada and the LGBT Purge – the first Veteran delegation of this kind – will follow in the footsteps of Frederick Hardy, who was sentenced to hard labour in 1916 for charges relating to his sexuality and later died in battle, across the battlefields of Europe. This important historical moment for Veterans from the 2SLGBTQI+ community will culminate on April 9 where they will see Frederick Hardy’s name on the Canadian National Vimy Memorial and participate in the annual ceremony.
h/t Mauser
Inarguably bigger and more seasoned than it was when it was born from the ashes of the Second World War, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization — the West’s great military alliance — celebrated a milestone Thursday: three-quarters of a century of keeping the peace in Europe.
NATO formally came into being with the signing of the Washington Treaty in the U.S. capital 75 years ago, when 12 western democracies — including Canada — banded together against what they saw as Soviet Russia’s expansionism in Europe.
Its creation helped to inaugurate the Cold War and, six years later, brought about the creation of the rival Warsaw Pact of communist countries, led by the Soviet Union.
The President of Botswana is threatening to send 20,000 elephants to Germany.
Mokgweetsi Masisi is irked by environmental legislation in Germany with Berlin imposing limits on hunting and nature conservation in Africa.
Botswana is struggling with an excess of elephants. Hunting is seen as a solution for this, giving local communities an incentive to keep the animals’ population at a suitably sustainable level but in check.
The brute force of an elephant pic.twitter.com/rBVefChOeY
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) March 26, 2024
It is never easy being a teenager, and each new generation brings a new trouble to the table. Each new generation of adults, likewise, tries to identify and solve these problems with the benefit of their own newfound maturity, whether it is television rotting teenagers’ brains in the 1980s, video games making them violent in the 1990s, over-protective parents and “participation trophies” making them incompetent little self-absorbed whiners in the 2000s, or coddled snowflakes needing safe spaces to protect them from disagreement in the 2010s. Now, the great modern scourge of youth is smartphones, and their most addictive feature, social media applications. These are the subject of new massive legal claims by four Ontario school boards, controversially targeting social media apps like Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat for deliberately creating this new addiction and negligently ignoring evidence of its harms. It is just the latest and most striking action against smartphones and the tech companies that profit off them. The National Post breaks down the problem and the responses.
All of the world’s billionaires younger than 30 inherited their wealth, the first wave of “the great wealth transfer” in which more than 1,000 wealthy people are expected to pass on more than $5.2tn (£4.1tn) to their heirs over the next two decades.
There are already more billionaires than ever before (2,781), and the number is expected to soar in the coming years as an elderly generation of super-rich people prepare to give their fortunes to their children.
Research by Forbes magazine found there were 15 billionaires aged 30 or under but that none had created their own wealth, instead benefitting from huge inheritances.
