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All schools in the Niagara Catholic District School Board (NCDSB) are currently under a hold-and-secure order following an undisclosed threat.

In a tweet posted at 12:13 pm., NCDSB advised parents and guardians that an “unidentified individual contacted the Board with a threat to an unidentified Niagara catholic school.”

Too much or too little cross-dresser grooming?

A submersible used to take people to view the wreck of the Titanic has gone missing in the Atlantic Ocean, sparking a search and rescue mission.

The Boston Coastguard told the BBC on Monday that an operation to find it was under way.

It is not clear how many people, if any, were on board at the time it went missing.

Small submersibles occasionally take paying tourists and experts to view the wreck of the Titanic.

h/t Mauser

Police in northeastern Ontario say a man accused in three Sudbury-area homicides in the past few months has escaped from the local jail.

The Greater Sudbury Police Service shared little information about when 33-year-old Joel Roy was believed to have fled the facility, but issued a release about his escape on Saturday evening. Staff Sgt. Sherry Young says he remains at large as of Sunday night.

h/t Mauser

A Church of England school teacher told a pupil she was “despicable” after she refused to accept that her classmate identifies as a cat.

The 13-year-old girl and her friend were reprimanded by their teacher at Rye College, in East Sussex, on Friday at the end of a Year 8 class on “life education” in which they were told they can “be who you want to be and how you identify is up to you”.

Man says women are invading his spaces, are threatening to kill him, and priests preach about killing trans people. Source?? https://t.co/FucvfnvZte pic.twitter.com/euhdgVzFlc

— TroonyToons (@troonytoons) June 17, 2023

In an unlikely alliance, Christian family values groups and an LGBT activist have signed a petition against a proposed Connecticut bill they say could make pedophiles a protected sexual minority.

The bill, HB 6638, would revise the language of the state’s anti-discrimination statutes.

The current definition of “sexual orientation” in Connecticut law excludes protections for “any behavior that is a sex offense crime.” An update to the law would remove that wording.

h/t Kiki9

Irish citizens who campaign against transgender women being able to use female changing rooms or crisis centres risk jail under an “Orwellian” hate-speech law, critics have claimed.

The Irish senate last week debated the controversial Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022.

The bill seeks to expand the range of people protected from hate speech to include those with “gender identities”, including transgender or “gender other than those of male or female”.

The last thing Teresa Holmes could remember when she woke up was walking in the West Yorkshire countryside with Michael, 57, her husband of 34 years, on one of their regular lunchtime rambles. After being airlifted to hospital where she had been unconscious for a week, she awoke to white lights, antiseptic smells and bleeping machines. Michael was nowhere to be seen. Her daughters and the doctors had to tell her that she was now a widow and would be paralysed for life.