China wants to ban clothes that ‘hurt nation’s feelings’

A draft law banning speech and dressing “detrimental to the spirit of Chinese people” has sparked debate in China.

If the law comes into force, people found guilty could be fined or jailed but the proposal does not yet spell out what constitutes a violation.

Social media users and legal experts have called for more clarity to avoid excessive enforcement.

China recently released a swathe of proposed changes to its public security laws – the first reforms in decades.

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Only Fat Dumb Criminals Can Make the Air Force ‘Diverse’

Air Force Chief of Staff Charles Q. Brown Jr, Biden’s nominee to replace Milley as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had signed off on a memo to impose a 43% quota for white male officers in the Air Force. That would be catastrophic at a time when the Air Force is struggling with recruitment, faces a shortage of over 1,000 pilots and 86% of its pilots are white men.

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Titless Teacher A Big Bust

HUNTER: With police escort, teacher ZZZ top is queen for a day

The two protesters showed up but left before brandishing their placards.

Tuesday was not the first day of classes at Nora Frances Henderson Secondary School in Hamilton. That honour would go to Wednesday.

Nonetheless, a quartet of photographers showed up to capture Woman of the Year, Kayla Lemieux. They were from the Daily Mail, New York Post and the Toronto Sun.

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Police issue warning as mysterious ‘Christmas gnomes’ appear in people’s gardens

Police have warned of a garden gnome scam that could leave homeowners at risk of burglary.

North Wales Police said it was aware of “Christmas gnomes” being left in people’s front gardens in Flintshire.

They warned the behaviour was sometimes used by thieves as a “calling card” method by thieves and other criminals to identify people’s schedules and time spent at home.

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Guy Who Thinks He’s A Woman Makes Cricket Debut For Canada

History arrived quietly in a most peculiar setting on Monday afternoon, as cricket entered a new era with Danielle McGahey’s debut for Canada’s Twenty20 women’s national team.

McGahey became the first transgender player to appear in an official international match, at the ICC T20 Americas Qualifier for next year’s World Cup, and if it was big news around the cricket world, it barely made a splash at Woodley Park’s cricket grounds in Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley.

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Dinner plate-size surgical tool found inside woman’s body 18 months after C-section

A woman complaining of chronic pain discovered that she had a surgical tool the size of a dinner plate inside her abdomen more than a year after delivering her baby via cesarean section, health officials said.

An extra large Alexis retractor, or AWR — a device used to draw back the edges of a wound during surgery that can measure 6 inches in diameter — was left inside the mother’s body after the birth of her baby at Auckland City Hospital in 2020, according to a report by New Zealand’s Health and Disability commissioner.

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Former Canadian fighter pilots face RCMP probe over training work for ChiComs

Former Canadian fighter pilots face RCMP probe over training work in China

The RCMP are investigating three former Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilots who are training military and civilian pilots in China, even though their employer, a South African flying academy, insists no sensitive information is being passed on to Chinese authorities.

The work the three pilots are doing in China has also come under scrutiny from Canadian security officials, who reached out to the former top guns in late August. The Department of National Defence says it referred the matter to the RCMP.

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Trudeau’s Shithole Canada: The housing crisis is leaving Ukrainian evacuees homeless in Calgary. Here’s why

Snizhana Bora was forced from her home in Kharkiv by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

She left her father, a brother and husband behind to bring her mother and four-year-old daughter to safety in Canada — only to spend the last three months in a desperate search for somewhere to live.

“It was terrible. I really cried every day,” she told CBC News.

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