Ford, Freeland, among others encouraging Tory not to resign as Toronto mayor: source

Ontario Premier Doug Ford, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland and the Toronto police union have reached out to Toronto Mayor John Tory, encouraging him not to resign, a source tells CityNews.

In a shocking announcement, Tory announced in a late-night press conference on Friday he would be stepping down as the city’s mayor after revealing he had an affair with a former staffer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tory said the relationship with the woman, reportedly 31 years old, ended mutually in early 2023.

Nothing says Establishment Uniparty better.

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University of Regina strips Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond of honorary degree

Grey Owl is sad.

A major Canadian university has stripped former B.C. representative for children and youth Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond of an honorary degree.

In a Monday statement, the University of Regina said it had rescinded an honorary doctor of laws degree it bestowed on Turpel-Lafond in 2003.

The school said the decision came following a request from the Indigenous Women’s Collective to revoke such degrees.

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Rising seas threaten ‘mass exodus on a biblical scale’, UN chief warns

An increase in the pace at which sea levels are rising threatens “a mass exodus of entire populations on a biblical scale”, the UN secretary general has warned.

The climate crisis is causing sea levels to rise faster than for 3,000 years, bringing a “torrent of trouble” to almost a billion people, from London to Los Angeles and Bangkok to Buenos Aires, António Guterres said on Tuesday. Some nations could cease to exist, drowned under the waves, he said.

Wow what an hysteric.

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Heritage Ministry Testifies Its Had To Hire A Collection Agency To Recover Funds Paid To Trudeau’s Consultant For The Propagation Of Hate

The Canadian Heritage Ministry will change its contractor vetting process, it said at an inquiry Monday, after it had to cancel a contract with an organization accused of antisemitism. The contract was under the purview of the ministry’s anti-racism initiatives.

The inquiry found that other government departments had awarded multiple contracts to the same organization and that the heritage ministry has had to call in a third-party collection agency to try to get back funds already paid out for the contract.

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Britain banned from deporting 53 foreign terrorists as European judges say it would breach their human rights

Murderers, bomb plotters and would-be suicide bombers are among 53 foreign terrorists whose deportation is being blocked by European human rights laws, a Mail on Sunday investigation today reveals.

In one extraordinary case, an Islamic State member from Bangladesh who was jailed for attempting to recruit new members in Birmingham has successfully blocked his deportation because he would lose access to free NHS healthcare.

Another terrorist, an Iranian who had ingredients for a bomb in his garage in Surrey, has managed to stay in Britain by claiming he suffers from depression.

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James Clapper now claims he didn’t call Hunter Biden laptop ‘Russian disinfo’

A key signer of the open letter that wrongly suggested The Post’s bombshell reporting on Hunter Biden’s emails was part of a “Russian information operation” has accused Politico of distorting “what we said” — more than two years after the fact.

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper tried Monday to tamp down the growing controversy over the letter that he and 50 other ex-spooks signed after The Post first revealed the existence of the first son’s infamous laptop in October 2020.

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Weinermobile in a pickle after falling victim to catalytic converter thieves

One of the US’s most easily recognizable vehicles is back on the road after it fell victim to a crime that has grown more common in recent years: catalytic converter theft. While parked in Las Vegas ahead of a Super Bowl weekend appearance, the Weinermobile, a 27ft-long bright yellow-and-red hotdog on wheels, was disabled after someone took the vehicle’s hardware.

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New York vets inundated with stoned dogs eating cannabis discarded on the streets

Pet dogs are getting stoned after eating cannabis discarded on the streets of New York, according to veterinarians.

Vets in the city are reporting a surge in cases of confused canines in their surgeries since recreational cannabis was legalised in 2021, The New York Times reported.

In many cases, the cannabis is in the form of the remnants of joints. But dogs can also be affected by second-hand smoke or by munching gummies and marijuana-laced chocolate

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We need an “Elderly Asian Male Registry”

At least eight people are injured after U-Haul mows down pedestrians, cops and moped drivers in Brooklyn: ‘Emotionally disturbed’ homeless man, 62, is taken into custody after 30-minute rampage

At least eight people are injured including a police officer and multiple moped drivers after a U-Haul truck driver went on a 30-minute rampage in Brooklyn.

The driver, was named by police sources cited by NBC as Weng Sor, a 62-year-old Asian man with ties to Brooklyn.

His motive remains unclear, but police sources described him to DailyMail.com as being ’emotionally disturbed’ and homeless.

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