The Trudeau Liberals were offering up a “Sunny Ways” beach towel in exchange for a donation this week. Perhaps they don’t realize that just as summer is coming to an end, so is the tolerance Canadians have for Justin Trudeau and his party.
First transgender manager ignites row by signing biologically male goalkeeper for women’s team
Sutton United, who this year appointed Lucy Clark as the first transgender manager in the top five tiers of the English female game, have ignited controversy by signing a biologically male goalkeeper for their women’s team.
Blair Hamilton, 34, has been recruited by Clark despite having previously drawn criticism from women’s rights groups for taking the place of a female goalkeeper. Sharron Davies, the former Olympic silver medallist and long-standing advocate for fairness for women in sport, described Sutton’s move as “shameful”.
Conrad Black: The chaos on U.K. streets was preventable
Because of old associations, natural affinities, and our shared status as secondary mainly English-speaking countries somewhat in the shadow of American contiguity and influence, Canada retains a greater interest in what happens in the United Kingdom than in most foreign countries. It has been distressing to see the violence in Britain this summer. In part Canadians may feel that if violence is more frequent and extensive in England than it has been it may come here next. We have long prided ourselves on our peaceable nature compared to American society although that is practically an inevitable distinction given the revolutionary origins of the United States, the admired tradition of taking up arms against oppressive behaviour, and the legacy of slavery that lingers yet in that country despite its Herculean effort, unique in world history, to raise up a formerly forcibly subjugated minority to a position of absolute equality with the majority that formerly owned the minority as property-human chattels.
IDF retrieves six bodies of Gaza hostages from Rafah
The bodies of hostages Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Carmel Gat, Almog Sarusi, Alexander Lobanov, and Ori Danino were found in the Gaza Strip, the IDF said on Sunday morning.
The IDF retrieved the bodies of the hostages from a tunnel under the city of Rafah in Gaza.
They were likely slaughtered by Hamas shortly before the IDF got to them in Rafah.
WTF?
@fancypants_s I had to watch it twice. https://t.co/VRkwgJXaoY
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) September 1, 2024
High-ranking Toronto cop who cheated in the name of equity received too light a penalty
In the cause of maintaining public order, we give police officers extraordinary powers. We authorize them to make arrests, carry firearms and use force when necessary. In exchange, we ask them to exercise those powers with restraint, probity and, above all, impartiality, treating everyone the same and doing no one special favours.
That is what makes the case of Stacy Clarke so troubling.
University cancels Anglo-Saxon ‘to decolonise’ the curriculum
Masters course renamed as academics worry term suggests ‘nationalist narratives’
The term Anglo-Saxon has been removed from a University’s module titles to tackle “nationalist narratives”.
The University of Nottingham offers leading courses in Anglo-Saxon history and literature and is the only university in the country to offer a Viking Studies course.
But in a move to “decolonise the curriculum”, professors have renamed a masters course in Viking and Anglo-Saxon Studies as Viking and Early Medieval English Studies.
GUNTER: Blacklock’s Reporter fights on in court after bizarre ruling from judge
Canadian officialdom just can’t get past the idea that they and they alone have been gifted with the intelligence and judgment to determine what the public should hear or see on the Internet.
British Columbia hospital distributing free crack pipes, snorting kits from vending machine
A British Columbia hospital now features a vending machine distributing free crack pipes and “safe” snorting kits.
In an August 26 video, Conservative Party of British Columbia candidate Gwen O’Mahony exposed that the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, which operates in the district in which she is running, is distributing free crack pipes and snorting kits at a vending machine outside its emergency room.
Germany: A Cold Wind
Germany’s manufacturing sector, the backbone of its economy, has been struggling of late. It is having to contend with slow domestic demand, and exports, a key element in its success, are running into headwinds. Manufacturing is an energy-intensive sector, and Germany’s high energy costs are hurting its competitiveness. These costs have been driven higher by the withdrawal of “cheap” Russian gas, by Angela Merkel’s decision to resume the country’s reckless abandonment of nuclear power (which is now complete) and by another project eagerly backed by Merkel, massive investments in renewables. Climate policy makers boast about green jobs (and there are some, although many more in China), but the statistic that matters will be the net jobs number. Is the energy “transition” creating more jobs than it is destroying?
Press tries to gaslight away illegal border crossers caught trying to board San Diego County children’s school buses
I knew it was coming.
The press is trying to gaslight the public into thinking that any concern about unvetted illegal border crossers attempting to board children’s school buses in San Diego’s back county is all in their heads and there’s “no cause for alarm.” Migrants wouldn’t dream of boarding a children’s school bus, see, because they’re all big on obeying gringo’s laws.
The Los Angeles Times’s report is pretty typical of this narrative
Brazil’s ban on X is a taste of things to come
X, the social-media giant owned by Elon Musk, has officially been banned in Brazil. Last night, X failed to meet a deadline set by a Supreme Court judge to block vast swathes of content and appoint a local legal representative for the company. It has now gone offline to its 22million Brazilian users – roughly one tenth of the national population.
Kamala’s Racist ‘White Devil’ Pastor
After the Biden coup, Kamala phoned Rev. Amos Brown to pray for her political campaign. Kamala, an “old timer” and “dues paying” member of Brown’s church had turned to one of the most hateful political figures in her old city to offer spiritual inspiration for her presidential bid.
Are we Jews only wanted in Israel? Sadly, it’s beginning to feel rather like it
When the culture wars started, I was frequently irritated and amazed by those who insisted it was all just Right-wing media provocation. It was blazingly obvious everywhere, from mandatory workplace unconscious bias training to increasingly illiberal student campaigns, to the deranged stunts carried out with increasing regularity by Greta Thunberg’s acolytes that it was anything but “just” that.
Even so, one could hide and take a break. One could go on a trip somewhere away from it all, leave London or student towns, turn off the news, change the subject.
Shootings Soar in One of North America’s Safest Cities. The Culprit: Tow-Truck Gangs
A turf war has fueled a 50% rise in Toronto shootings, mostly with guns smuggled from the U.S.
TORONTO—Towing cars has become a deadly business in Canada’s largest city.
Rival gangs control parts of the tow-truck industry here, using the heavy-duty vehicles to transport drugs, extort car-crash victims with high fees, and fake automobile accidents to defraud insurance. They once resolved their territorial differences with their fists, but now a wave of gun smuggling from the U.S. has turned their fights into a lethal blood sport.
This year through late August, Toronto shootings are up 50% compared with the same period last year and homicides are up 20%—a surge caused in part by “the tow-truck violence,” said Inspector Paul Krawczyk of the Toronto Police Service’s guns-and-gangs unit. In all, about one in seven of Toronto’s shootings and dischargings of firearms this year have been related to the towing industry, police said.
“It’s pretty brazen,” Krawczyk said.