FIRST READING: The Canadian lawyers and professors signing petitions to ‘contextualize’ Hamas terror

This week, more than 700 Canadian lawyers, law students, law professors and other academics signed their names to a petition saying that Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacres should be placed in their proper “context,” rather than condemned. “We reject the notion that it is antisemitic, hateful, or illegitimate to contextualize the October 7th, 2023 attack,” they wrote.

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Your foodbank donations may have been doled out to foreign students

Misunderstanding from social media spurs rise in international student food bank visits

A misconception about how Canadian food banks operate — combined with some misleading information on social media — has led to a sudden increase in usage among international students at London’s food bank along with others in Canada.

London Food Bank co-executive director Glen Pearson said his staff was already dealing with a 43 per cent increase in visits at the start of this school year when they began to notice a spike in food requests from post-secondary students.

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The 3 R’s In Ontario Classrooms – Reading, Writing and Racism!

h/t Mauser

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Former fashion mogul Peter Nygard found guilty of 4 counts of sexual assault

One-time Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard, who was accused of attacking five women in the private bedroom suite of his downtown Toronto office building, was found guilty by a Toronto jury on Sunday of four counts of sexual assault.

He was acquitted of one of five counts of sexual assault and one count of forcible confinement.

Nygard, 82, who wore a black parka in court, didn’t appear to show any emotion as the verdict was handed down on the jurors’ fifth day of deliberations.

Maybe stay away from the guy with the Stripper pole in his jet.

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On mute: Tijuana passes law banning ballads praising Mexican drug trade

A typical song by Peso Pluma, one of Mexico’s most popular singers, might start with a guitar and a trumpet, sounding like something for the older crowd – but then come the lyrics telling of drug shipments, stacks of cash and diamond-encrusted pistols.

Peso Pluma has produced some of the most notorious recent examples of narcocorridos – ballads celebrating the exploits of the Mexican underworld that are hugely popular not just at home but across Latin America and the US.

One of them – a paean to a foot soldier of the Sinaloa cartel – probably led to recent death threats he received in the border city of Tijuana, forcing him to cancel concerts.

My God but Mexico is messed up.

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Scientists Want Meat Slapped With ‘Cigarette-Style’ Warning Labels About Climate Change. Here’s Why It’s Completely Asinine

A group of scientists is proposing government-mandated cigarette-style caution labels on meat packages that could read, “Warning: Eating meat contributes to climate change.” The anti-meat scientists, who falsely claim meat consumption is detrimental to health and the environment, began pushing for the labels after conducting a study at the UK’s Durham University.

The researchers took a group of 1,000 meat-eating adults and split them into four groups. Depending on what group a participant was in, they were shown photos of hot meals assigned climate, health, or pandemic warning labels or no warning label at all.

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WaPo plays the antisemite card on Elon Musk

In “Long before Musk, Henry Ford battled with Jewish Groups“ (11/8/23), The Washington Post stoops to an absurd comparison between Henry Ford and Elon Musk. Henry Ford was known for his rabidly antisemitic hate speech, whereas Elon Musk merely hosts a virtual town square for speech by others. Ford was a source of inspiration to Adolf Hitler, whereas Elon Musk has never backed a hate group.

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New Jersey elementary school janitor Giovanni Impellizzeri who ‘urinated in food, put feces in taco meat and rubbed his genitals on cooking utensils’ claimed he was a ‘Satanist’ and WANTED to make kids sick, prosecutor says

A janitor at a New Jersey elementary school went online to brag about how he had contaminated food being served to children with bleach, bodily fluids, and even his own feces in order to get them sick, it is alleged.

Giovanni Impellizzeri, 25, claimed online to be a Satanist ‘doing the devil’s work’, has been charged with child endangerment, aggravated assault and tampering with the food at Elizabeth F. Moore School in the Upper Deerfield School District.

Messages Impellizzeri allegedly posted to the encrypted phone app Telegram, were displayed in Cumberland County Superior Court as part of bail hearing that saw Judge Cristen D’Arrigo remand him in custody rather than being released.

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Union warns of ‘insane’ drug problem at B.C. prison

A union leader says a prison in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley is experiencing an “insane” drug problem, with drones making multiple deliveries to prisoners each day.

John Randle, regional president of the Union of Canadian Correctional Officers, says staff at the Mountain Institution in Agassiz are exhausted from handling the “non-stop” drone drops and overdoses among inmates.

The union says in a statement that officers seized almost 200 grams of crystal meth and other drugs at the prison on Wednesday.

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