Ontario police getting new powers to deal with car rallies in mall parking lots

The Ford government is extending the legal definition of a highway to include parking lots in response to a request from provincial police forces that say they’re struggling to tackle increasingly complicated cases of careless driving and noisy late-night car rallies.

The changes come through new transport and safety legislation the provincial government plans to pass with a focus on enhancing police powers over auto theft and driving offences.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime, WTF?

Hooters Sued By Guy They Wouldn’t Hire

An upstate New York transgender woman is suing Hooters for repeatedly refusing to hire her — while the restaurant claims she was booted for inappropriate behavior starting before she transitioned.

Unconvincing woman calls himself Brandy

Brandy Livingston told NEWS 10 that she applied three times to work as a tight-topped staffer at the chain’s diner in Colonie — despite alleging that she was harassed by staff there as a regular customer.

“They would use male pronouns — they would refer to me as ‘he,’” alleged Livingston, who only recently transitioned to female.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Trudeau hopes a ‘silent majority’ is still willing to listen

He surely would reject any such comparison but, in a recent interview, Justin Trudeau briefly sounded just a little bit like Richard Nixon.

Taking part in an conversation with Village Media, the prime minister fielded questions about the dissent within his caucus and his party’s descent in the polls. He was also asked about the “F–k Trudeau” flags that have — as much as any policy or political gesture — come to define this Liberal government’s third term.

One of the interviewers remarked that he couldn’t remember similar flags being flown for Stephen Harper or Jean Chretien. The unhappiness, he said, seemed “personal.”

Trudeau doesn’t understand that he stoked the ire of people who just wanted to be left alone.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

‘Crocodile tears and genocide’: How the Gaza war is threatening Kamala Harris’ White House chances

As Kamala Harris was walking on stage to rapturous applause at the Democratic National Convention in August, outside, protesters in keffiyehs chanted “free Palestine!”

They held up placards which called on her to “end genocide” and “free Palestine”. Some simply read: “Abandon Harris ‘24.”

The war in Gaza has enraged swathes of progressive voters who could normally be relied upon to support a Democratic candidate.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Kamala Harris", Election 2024

Peanut the Squirrel, beloved pet and internet sensation, euthanized after being seized by NY state

Peanut the Squirrel, of internet fame, has been euthanized after the pet was seized by New York state earlier this week, according to the Department of Environmental Conservation.

The seven-year-old gray rescue squirrel, commonly referred to as “P’Nut” on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok, was put to death, along with Fred the raccoon, so that the animals could be tested for the presence of rabies, according to a statement from the agency obtained by WETM.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Carson Jerema: Trudeau Liberals settle on campaign tactics — lies

Liberal backbenchers who tried to stage a coup against Justin Trudeau’s leadership have been demanding a clear plan on how to stop the party’s collapse in the polls and prevent Pierre Poilievre’s ascension to government. It is something they’ve been clamouring for since the Liberals lost two byelections and the NDP tore up the confidence agreement it had with the party. And now we know what that plan looks like: lies. Lies of omission, distortion and complete fabrication about the Conservative leader.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Universe would die before a monkey finished typing Shakespeare

Scientists set out to test the famous ‘infinite monkey theorem’ to estimate how long it would really take a simian to write the Bard’s full collection

It would take longer than the entire expected lifespan of the universe for a monkey to type the works of William Shakespeare by bashing randomly at a typewriter, scientists have calculated.

The researchers, who presumably also had a lot of time on their hands, set out to test the famous “infinite monkey theorem” to estimate how long it would take one immortal and incredibly patient simian to type everything from Hamlet to Macbeth through random keystrokes.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

A Trump victory represents a dangerous threat for Canada says Star

If Donald Trump survives the unhinged belligerence of his campaign, and wins the presidency, it will be splendid news for regimes in China, Russia and Iran. Dictators are his role models. He, too, yearns to be unconstrained by rule of law.

But for Canadians concerned about their own security, Trump’s return would be a national emergency, as he abandons alliances and changes the reasons and goals behind deploying a superpower’s global influence.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

France at ‘tipping point’ after shoot-out involving ‘400 gang members’

Minister says ‘choice is between general mobilisation or Mexicanisation of the country’ after gunfight leaves teenager fighting for life

France has reached a “tipping point” on drug-related violence, the country’s hardline interior minister warned on Friday, after hundreds of people took part in a massive shoot-out.

The gunfight, which left a teenager fighting for his life and four others seriously wounded, erupted overnight in the western city of Poitiers.

Police intervened at around 10.45pm after shots were fired outside a restaurant in the Couronneries district of the city and found the first casualty on the ground.

From Fdesouche – Poitiers (86): five injured in a shooting. Hundreds of people involved, a 15-year-old boy hit in the head. It is believed to be an inter-ethnic brawl between West Indians and North Africans against a backdrop of drug trafficking.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Diversity", France, WTF?

Terry Newman: Trudeau tokenism was ‘dehumanizing,’ former MP tells Jordan Peterson

Celina Caesar-Chavannes recently sat down with Jordan Peterson and described how quickly her time as a Liberal MP went from “sunny ways” to dark days. Little of what Caesar-Chavannes says here about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s behaviour is new, but since she, Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott left parliament, these behaviours have been corroborated so many times that they should now be impossible to ignore.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government