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Students at a ritzy Manhattan private school were reportedly forced to attend a drag show at church as part of its LGBTQ+ pride celebrations earlier this year, according to a report.
Grace Church High School — a progressive independent Episcopal school in the East Village that charges over $59,000 for yearly tuition — invited renowned New York City drag queen Brita Filter to its 6th annual “Pride Chapel” event for a live performance on April 27.
A very sick society.
Perils of Preaching Nationalism Play Out on Chinese Social Media
It doesn’t often happen that ordinary Chinese say publicly that they’re disappointed with their government. That they’re ashamed of their government. That they want to renounce their Communist Party memberships. And that they think the People’s Liberation Army is a waste of taxpayers’ money.
It’s even rarer that such angry comments come from the kind of nationalists who usually support whatever their leaders demand of them.
Alex Jones appeared shocked as he was told his lawyers had accidentally handed over hundreds of text messages by mistake after he told a court that they did not exist, after admitting that the Sandy Hook massacre did happen.
The InfoWars host squirmed in his seat after confirming his phone number was linked to the texts, after previously declaring under oath at the defamation hearing that there were no messages about Sandy Hook on his phone.
Jones was horrified to discover that his team sent a digital copy of every text and email about Sandy Hook, despite declaring under oath that they didn’t exist.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government will outspend the previous government of Liberal premier Kathleen Wynne this year, even when adjusted for inflation and COVID-19 expenditures, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says she and her department were unaware of intelligence reports delivered weeks before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in which diplomats in Kyiv were told Ukrainians who worked for the Canadian embassy there were likely on lists of people Moscow intended to detain or kill.
Ottawa police have arrested a man they say rammed a vehicle into the Parliament Hill gates while in possession of “edged weapons,” including a sword.
The driver, Maxwell Pate, 29, appeared in court later on Wednesday and was charged with dangerous operation of a vehicle and mischief. Pate was previously charged with two counts of assault with a weapon on May 2. He was out on release under the condition to possess no weapons.
Treasure hunters seeking 10 tonnes of Nazi gold allegedly stashed under a crumbling palace in Poland say they have been given the go-ahead to dig up a canister which may contain the loot.
Since May last year, the Silesian Bridge Foundation, a Polish group of treasure hunters, has been digging for gold that they believe was stashed under the 18th century palace in the village of Minkowskie.
They believe that the treasure was taken from rich German families on the orders of Heinrich Himmler, the SS chief, and buried beneath a conservatory as a war chest for a future Fourth Reich.
Dozens of men detained after the alleged gang-rape of eight women on a music video shoot in South Africa are expected back in court on Wednesday as police made more arrests of artisanal miners blamed by local people for widespread violence.
The arrests on Tuesday near Krugersdorp, a city north-west of Johannesburg, bring the total number of people detained since the attack to more than 120.
Dog shelter workers are protesting President Ebrahim Raisi’s regime in Iran after authorities allegedly stormed their compound and slaughtered up to 1,700 dogs.
Heart-wrenching footage shared on social media showed one volunteer in floods of tears as she clasped one of the dead hounds in her arms.
‘This was the most vulnerable and obedient one,’ she cried, before the camera panned to show several canine corpses strewn across the roadside and a nearby valley.
A webinar series for social workers titled “Recovery from White Conditioning” was held by the University of Minnesota and the Center for Practice Transformation.
The series focused on how participants could become allies and purge themselves of internalized white supremacy.
The incident occurred early Wednesday morning, at 3:30 a.m, when an unauthorized vehicle drove onto Wellington Street and into the front gates, the Ottawa Police Service said in a media release.
Canada must put China ‘front and centre’ in Indo-Pacific strategy or it risks irrelevance, experts say
The federal government’s forthcoming Indo-Pacific strategy must explicitly recognize and respond to the security threat China poses to the region, experts say, otherwise Canada risks being regarded as irrelevant in a part of the world that is expected to be a centre of economic growth for decades.
The Indo-Pacific region, which stretches from North America to India’s west coast, is home to 60 per cent of the world’s population, and it accounts for 60 per cent of global gross domestic product. About 60 per cent of world maritime trade passes through its oceans, a third of that through the South China Sea, where Beijing has made sweeping territorial claims.
… Two sources with knowledge of the strategy said the first draft, which was compiled by a team from Global Affairs, made no mention of China.
The strategy should have one goal – Make Communist China a pariah state.
A computer engineer who accidentally threw away a hard drive containing approximately £150m worth of bitcoin plans to use artificial intelligence to search through thousands of tonnes of landfill.
James Howells discarded the hardware from an old laptop containing 8,000 bitcoins in 2013 during an office clearout and now believes it is sitting in a rubbish dump in Newport, south Wales.
The council has previously denied the 37-year-old’s repeated requests to search the site due to environmental concerns but he has hatched a £10m hi-tech scheme backed by hedge fund money to find the digital assets.
This parent is raising “their” baby as gender neutral until he’s old enough to tell them which gender he wants to be pic.twitter.com/SfN6qrtlyi
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 2, 2022
