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Taxi drivers are asking for advance payment to go to ‘dangerous’ areas of Toronto

A seemingly endless wave of violent crime may have some would-be transit riders opting for other means of getting around the city, and even Toronto’s taxi drivers are on edge as shocking headlines continue to be published daily.

Riders opting for the old-fashioned mode of taxis to get around town are finding some drivers reluctant to accept fares to particular areas of the city without a cash advance payment, a scenario playing out even for well-dressed senior citizens.

Seems scammy, I think some of the cabbies are often the “bad neighborhood.”

More on TO … Judge tosses attempted murder charge in latest of four gun cases to collapse over Toronto police conduct

An attempted murder charge tossed by a judge this week — the fourth firearms case to collapse in the past two months due to Toronto police conduct — has sparked concerns about the force’s handling of gun cases.

The judge’s decision on Tuesday found police failed to disclose evidence on an alleged shooting ambush in a timely fashion. Judicial reasons for tossing the other cases include racial profiling, an unwarranted no-knock raid, and slow disclosure.

This week’s ruling also comes as Toronto police presses the federal government for legal reforms to crack down on firearms cases.

h/t DM

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", WTF?

Canada’s designated COVID-19 quarantine facilities cost nearly $389M over 3 years: PHAC

The federal government spent just shy of $389 million over three years on its designated COVID-19 quarantine facilities, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada.

In a statement provided to Global News on Wednesday, a spokesperson for Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada said there were a total of 38 sites set up as designated quarantine facilities between March 2020 and September 2022.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", Canada, WTF?

An alleged $500 million Ponzi scheme preyed on Mormons. It ended with FBI gunfire.

LAS VEGAS — The FBI arrived at the only house on this stretch of Ruffian Road at 1:25 p.m., parking out front of the $1.6 million property, hedged by empty lots of scrub and dust.

The three agents approached the camera-equipped doorbell at the home’s perimeter, pressing it once. Then they pushed past an unlocked gate, cut through the courtyard and rapped against the glass French doors of Matthew Beasley’s home.

The Las Vegas attorney, then 49, had been anticipating this visit for months, he would tell an FBI hostage negotiator. He’d already drafted letters to his wife and four children, explaining what he could and describing how much he loved them.

They were promised 50% returns. How could that be suspicious?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime, WTF?

AFN national chief calls outside probe of her workplace conduct ‘colonial’

RoseAnne Archibald – culturally appropriated purple hair

Assembly of First Nations National Chief RoseAnne Archibald claims the workplace misconduct investigation probing her treatment of staff is following a “colonial path” because its non-Indigenous investigators could “demonize” Indigenous cultural practices.

The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) launched an external investigation of Archibald’s conduct last spring after four of her senior staff and the AFN’s outgoing CEO accused her of bullying and harassment.

In a memo sent on Jan. 26 to chiefs-in-assembly, Archibald called the probe a “colonial legal process” that distracts from the AFN’s real work.

Who’s conducting the investigation Sir John A?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues, WTF?

Sikh separatist movement gains steam in Australia, Canada; Hindu temples vandalized

Multiple Hindu temples have been vandalized in Australia and Canada, actions that have been attributed to members of the pro-Khalistan movement.

In the span of two weeks, three Hindu temples were vandalized in Australia – on January 12 at the Swaminarayan temple in Melbourne, January 16 at the historic Shri Shiva Vishnu Temple in Victoria, and on January 23 at the ISKCON Temple in Melbourne.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, India, Khalistan, WTF?

Alberta lawyers launch petition against mandatory course on Indigenous history

EDMONTON—A group of lawyers in Alberta is pushing back against a rule mandating professional development, which currently only applies to a course focused on Indigenous history and contemporary issues.

The petition, signed by 51 lawyers, calls for a special Law Society of Alberta meeting to vote on repealing Rule 67.4, which requires all Alberta lawyers to take an Indigenous cultural competency course called “The Path” or face penalty of suspension.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Identity Politics", "Peak Woke", WTF?

Canada Really Has to Reassess Which World Citizens It Is ‘Rescuing’

… Following a court ruling that mandated the immediate repatriation of Canadian ISIS terrorists who ended up in the Al Hol displacement camp in horrendous conditions (of course, they would not have found themselves there had they not joined ISIS in the first place!), we are now about to find ourselves dealing with the return of citizens who made a conscious decision to join a heinous jihadist organization that participated in unspeakable acts against many. Their victims include the Yazidis, a “nation” the terrorists saw as apostates and, hence, expendable.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, WTF?

‘Effectively a tool of Satan’: how the UK authorities were utterly terrified by TV

Forty years ago, the battle of early morning broadcasting came to a head. ITV lost, debuting its first ever breakfast show, Good Morning Britain, on 1 February 1983 – a full 14 days after the launch of the BBC’s Breakfast Time. But this was just a mere skirmish in a much bigger war – one that stretched from the 1950s until almost the 21st century. The battleground? How much TV should be allowed in Britain.

The conflict was fought between broadcasters, who wanted to make maximum use of a new medium, and politicians and moralists who feared that more TV would zombify the population and leave workplaces and schools empty as people stayed at home to slump in front of sets. For many decades, religious leaders argued that the box was effectively a tool of Satan.

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Activists demand justice after shooting death of double amputee by Huntington Park police

Activists outraged at the shooting death of a 36-year-old double amputee demanded justice and accountability Monday during a news conference.

The Coalition for Community Control Over the Police and the family of Anthony Lowe Jr. held the conference to bring awareness to Lowe’s death.

“He was loved,” Ellakenyada Gorum, a cousin said as she sobbed. “And it’s sad how these police are getting away with killing our African American people. Just getting away with it. He was in a wheelchair. What more could he do? What more could he do?”

h/t XC

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Trudeau’s Islamophobia generator Amira Elghawaby suggested Stephen Harper was ‘more hurtful’ than 9/11

A decade of Stephen Harper as Prime Minister was more “perhaps more hurtful” than 9/11, a federal inclusion advisor suggested in a 2015 newspaper column. Amira Elghawaby, in other commentaries, complained middle-class Canadians never experienced inequity and advocated for Muslim prayer in public schools since “parents of these children pay taxes.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam's 5th Column, Islam's incompatibility with Western values, Islam's Useful Idiot Apologists, Islamic supremacism, WTF?

Gene editing company hopes to bring dodo ‘back to life’

The dodo, a Mauritian bird last seen in the 17th century, will be brought back to at least a semblance of life if attempts by a gene editing company are successful.

Gene editing techniques now exist that allow scientists to mine the dodo genome for key traits that they believe they can then effectively reassemble within the body of a living relative.

Dodos are most closely related to pigeons, according to sequencing of the proverbially dead bird’s genome.

Well the genie is out of that bottle.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Loblaw ends No Name price freeze, vows ‘flat’ pricing ‘wherever possible’

Loblaw will not be extending its price freeze on No Name brand products, but vows to keep the yellow label product-pricing flat “wherever possible.”

“The more than three-month price freeze ends January 31 — but we’re not done,” a Loblaw spokesperson said in an email to CTV News Monday. “Looking ahead, we’ll continue to hold those prices flat wherever possible, and switching to No Name will still save the average family thousands this year.”

And… Majority believes Canada is in a recession

The proportion of Canadians who believe Canada is in a recession (69%) has increased since last year at this time, when 51% believed Canada was in a recession.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corporate Welfare Class, WTF?

RCMP says it’s running checks on equipment purchased from company linked to China

A senior RCMP official says the force is in the midst of examining equipment it obtained from a company linked to China’s government to search for any points of vulnerability.

The national police force suspended its contract with Sinclair Technologies for radio frequency (RF) equipment last year following reporting by Radio-Canada that revealed Sinclair’s parent company, Norsat International, has been owned by Chinese telecommunications firm Hytera since 2017.

The Chinese government owns around 10 per cent of Hytera through an investment fund, Radio-Canada reported.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Espionage, RCMP, WTF?