Valentina Petrillo will soon become the first openly transgender athlete to compete in the Paralympic Games. The 50-year-old biological male will be representing Italy in the 200m and 400m races next month under the T12 classification for visually impaired sportswomen.
Random Acts of God? Understanding #EnoughIsEnough
In Britain, we have a borderline treacherous establishment class that is fatally out of touch with the concerns of its own people.
Perhaps there are no more words left to be said about the Southport attack. Three beautiful girls are dead. In hospital, more lie injured, and the strain placed upon witnesses is untold. And yet, protests and riots have been breaking out on the streets of Britain. The online public square is aflame. The hashtag #EnoughIsEnough has been trending on X, formerly known as Twitter, for five days and the rage seems only to intensify with each passing day.
LILLEY: Terror suspect let into Canada because security not a priority
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wants you to know that his government is taking the case of Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi very seriously. In case you’ve missed the news, Eldidi is the father part of the father-son duo facing charges after their arrest two weeks ago for what authorities said was a terror plot.
The $22 Billion Plan to Turn a Defunct Airport Into a Small City
Canadian developer aims to preserve airport’s features, including hangars and a runway, to draw residents and businesses to the neighborhood
A planned community for about 55,000 residents in Toronto will include the usual playgrounds, bike paths and shops. It will also feature 11 airplane hangars and more than a mile of airport runway.
That is because the 30 billion Canadian dollar, equivalent to about $22 billion, development will be located at the city’s former Downsview Airport.
Airports have been repurposed as communities and parks before, but developers typically raze the original infrastructure and start from scratch. In this case, Northcrest Developments is betting that by preserving the airport’s main features it can enhance the community’s allure.
City subsidized Slum in 5 years time is my bet.
Toronto seeing ‘spike’ in Monkey Pox cases: officials
“Currently, mpox has spread mostly between people who have had close/intimate or sexual contact with a person who has the virus – with gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men being most affected,” TPH said, adding that case counts increased in late June and July following major events and festivals in the city.
Inside the pressure campaign on Danielle Smith to make gun ownership (and more) an Alberta right
Premier Danielle Smith intends to strengthen the little-known Alberta Bill of Rights this fall to include protections for people who refuse to be vaccinated, but she’s facing heavy pressure from United Conservative activists to go much farther in her overhaul, CBC News has learned.
A group from the premier’s riding in Medicine Hat, which calls itself the Black Hat Gang, has met with senior government officials and proposed a massive new draft of Alberta’s rights document. The “gang” wants it to enshrine an array of new rights, including confidentiality of health information and “informed consent” to medical care, as well as rights to keep and bear firearms, to use “sufficient force” to defend one’s property, and “freedom from excessive taxation.”
WTF?
OMG. 3 Minneapolis police officers testified after the BLM riots that Gov. Tim Walz told law enforcement to "give it up" when the city was burning to the ground.
Tim Walz wanted his own city to burn and fall into chaos.pic.twitter.com/CGvZ8Rz0Ui
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 12, 2024
Author of federally-funded handbook accusing white Christian males of ‘hate’ was in anarchist group
Records show the author of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) booklet that blacklists a Christian pro-life group and calls white men hateful has a history of participating in anarchist protests.
Documents obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter show American Spencer Sunshine is a former participant in Anarchist Youth protests.
Sunshine said he was not an anarchist per se, but on Thursday refused to take reporters’ questions.
WTF?
Look at the women and children seeking safety. Notice the future lawyers, doctors, and teachers coming to enrich our society with their skills.
This is what our forefathers had in mind for us. pic.twitter.com/gXGEvtoM8U
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) August 12, 2024
Tim Walz: The Mogadishuan Candidate
Under Tim Walz, Minnesota has become the test run for the war on Middle America.
As the Kamala Harris campaign unveiled their vice-presidential pick last week, conservatives could hardly contain their glee. The man of the hour, Minnesota governor Tim Walz, was a radical, they reasoned. The 2020 George Floyd riots began in his backyard. He championed every toxic left-wing cultural position available, from sex changes for minors to late-term abortion.
And — as the ensuing opposition-research feeding frenzy would soon come to reveal — he routinely misrepresented his military service overseas (or in this case, his lack thereof), up to the point of plausibly having committed stolen valor. “Republicans Are ‘Thrilled’ Tim Walz Is the VP Pick,” blared a New York Magazine headline. Among Republican insiders, the piece reported, “the response to Kamala Harris’s choice of Tim Walz as vice-president was one of overwhelming joy.”
A Consensus No Longer
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons becomes the first major medical association to challenge the consensus of medical groups over “gender-affirming care” for minors.
The main justification for “gender-affirming care” for minors in the United States has been that “all major U.S. medical associations” support it. Critics of this supposed consensus have argued that it is not grounded in high-quality research or decades of honest and robust deliberation among clinicians with different viewpoints and experiences. Instead, it is the result of a small number of ideologically driven doctor-association members in LGBT-focused committees, who exploit their colleagues’ trust. Physicians presenting different viewpoints are silenced or kept away from decision-making circles, ensuring the appearance of unanimity.
‘Wake-up call:’ Government’s own research suggests Canadians are worried about cost of clean energy transition
OTTAWA – As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tries to make his case that fighting climate change and tackling affordability go hand in hand, the government’s own public opinion research suggests Canadians are worried about how much the transition away from fossil fuels will cost them.
Two recently published reports commissioned by Natural Resources Canada earlier this year explore how Canadians feel about the clean energy shift, as well as their attitudes towards zero-emission vehicles.
Hamas ‘Politicians’ and Terrorists: No Difference Between Them
The Iran-backed Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has chosen arch-terrorist Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of the October 7, 2023, atrocities against thousands of Israelis, as the chairman of its “political bureau.” Sinwar, who has been hiding in the Gaza Strip since the Hamas-led attack, will take over from Ismail Haniyeh, the former chairman of the group’s “political bureau,” who was killed in the Iranian capital of Tehran on July 31.
Federal leaders won’t trust Canadians with the hard truth about defence spending
About $15-billion, a year: that is the amount that the Parliamentary Budget Officer estimates the federal government would have to invest to reach NATO’s defence spending requirement of 2 per cent of GDP.
It is a big number and a major challenge, one made harder in the context of a large federal budget deficit, an affordability crisis, and demands on Ottawa from premiers, interest groups and other Canadians to spend even larger sums in many other areas – not to mention those who want tax cuts. Compounding the problem is that Ottawa has spent 10 years trying to justify why it has not met this goal, rather than developing and executing a plan to get there.
‘Success:’ Sweden Has ‘Net Emigration’ for the First Time in 50 Years
For decades, Sweden had been known as the destination for non-European immigrants because of its welcoming culture and perhaps overly generous welfare system. But now that era seems to be ending. The Swedish Ministry of Justice recently announced that Sweden is on track to register the lowest total number of asylum seekers this year since 1997, having already reached ‘net emigration’ for the first time in half a century, meaning that more people left in 2024 than arrived.