Veteran actor Joe Flaherty, best known for starring in the popular Canadian sketch comedy series SCTV and as Harold Weir on Paul Feig’s Freaks and Geeks, has died. He was 82.
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This may be the funniest video I’ve ever seen. pic.twitter.com/X5fXRq1YcL
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) March 31, 2024
German Establishment Parties Unite To ‘Protect’ Constitutional Court from ‘Extremists’
The German Union parties (CDU/CSU) are again considering backing an initiative by the left-globalist ‘traffic light’ coalition to amend Germany’s constitution in an attempt to keep the anti-establishment Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party from influencing the Federal Constitutional Court.
Negotiations between the Union and the governing parties concerning the latter’s proposed draft law—framed as necessary to ‘protect’ the court from ‘extremists’—began in late January but concluded shortly thereafter when the CDU and CSU stated that they found no compelling reason for the constitutional amendment.
Poilievre wades into Middle East conflict during speech to Montreal-area synagogue
Says Conservatives would ‘defund antisemitism’
It can be one of the thorniest issues for Canadian politicians — highly divisive and filled with decades of fighting, with potential for political blowback from one side or the other.
While conflict has raged in the Middle East in recent months, federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has tended to focus on bread-and-butter domestic issues, such as inflation and the Liberal government’s carbon tax.
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This story cannot be verified and is now being labeled fake news.
The lifeless body of Iraqi refugee and Islam critic Salwan Sabah Matti Momika has been found in Norway. Momika was known for organizing demonstrations in Sweden where he publicly burn Koran several times.https://t.co/I9yOTeSQOJ
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) April 2, 2024
World Central Kitchen halts operations in Gaza after strike kills staff
International food charity World Central Kitchen (WCK) is suspending its operations in Gaza following the death of seven of its workers in an Israeli air strike.
The charity said those killed were part of an aid convoy that was leaving a warehouse in central Gaza on Monday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has acknowledged that Israel’s forces hit “innocent people”.
Gaza’s Hamas-run media office also blamed Israel.
Bad things happen in war zones.
Court to decide if Ontario must pay for surgery to make vagina if patient also want to keep penis
In a lengthy legal battle that could lead to more requests for individually customized and unorthodox gender-affirming surgeries, an Ontario resident is seeking publicly funded surgery to construct a vagina while preserving the penis.
The case, now before the courts, reflects a small but growing demand for niche surgeries for people who identify as non-binary, meaning neither exclusively female nor exclusively male.
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zero media coverage of Hamas supporters attacking a synagogue in New Jersey
no comment by Biden, Kamala or Sen. Schumer https://t.co/U20UY4QlRE
— Daniel Greenfield – "Hang Together or Separately" (@Sultanknish) April 2, 2024
OpenAI’s voice-cloning tool is too effective for public use
OpenAI has said it is withholding a voice-cloning tool from public release over safety fears.
The artificial intelligence company, which created the instant messaging tool ChatGPT, claims its Voice Engine programme can clone a person’s voice with 15 seconds of recorded speech.
It announced the technology on Friday, a week after filing a trademark application for the same name.
Are ‘mom-and-pop’ investors pricing out first-time homebuyers?
With new condo construction hitting “record levels,” prospects for first-time homebuyers may be improving, but experts warn competition for those units will be fierce.
Wealthy investors looking for a second or third property are common customers for those types of homes. Recent trends show more of them are purchasing properties than first-timers, said John Pasalis, Realtor and broker at Realosophy Realty.
Over 150 students and staff at North Carolina university are diagnosed with host of tumors – as officials find lecture halls and classrooms teeming with toxic chemicals
More than 150 students, staff and alumni have reportedly been diagnosed with cancers and other diseases linked to a university building teeming with toxins.
Cases of lymphoma and thyroid and breast cancers have been reported among patients who spent time at Poe Hall, a class building at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.
The building closed in November 2023 amid reports of exposure to concerning levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), toxic chemicals linked to cancer.
Canadian accused of using Tesla tech to start China-based company released on bail in U.S.
A Canadian entrepreneur in China accused of stealing battery manufacturing technology from Tesla has been released on bail in the United States.
Klaus Pflugbeil, a Canadian citizen living in Ningbo, China, had a bond hearing on March 22 and was released on bail March 28, according to information provided by Danielle Hass, spokesperson for the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, in an email to CTVNews.ca on Monday.
Poilievre Decries ‘Federal Food Bureaucracy’ After Trudeau Announces $1 Billion School Food Program
Following the Liberal government’s announcement that it will launch a $1 billion national school food program, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre criticized the prime minister for announcing the plan on the same day the federal carbon tax was raised.
“After eight years of promising that he’d helped the middle class, well now by his own admission, one in four kids don’t get enough food. I find it ironic that he is promising a federal food bureaucracy in Ottawa the same day as he raises taxes on food,” Mr. Poilievre said during a press conference in Nanaimo, B.C., on April 1.
The Second Battle for Shifa Hospital Shows Israel Will Accept Only Victory
This is what a ‘sustainable campaign’ to eliminate Hamas looks like.
Those who camouflage their hostility toward Israel’s objectives in its defensive war against Hamas as little more than antipathy toward Benjamin Netanyahu must be frustrated today. The dubious claim that Israel is conducting a cruel war devoid of respect for human life is being rebutted today by one of the Israeli prime minister’s foremost domestic opponents.
Leftists Waste No Time In Attacking Legacy Of Francis Scott Key After Baltimore Bridge Collapse
Almost immediately after the Francis Scott Key Bridge fell into the Baltimore Harbor, the vulturous left began circling the wreckage, seeing the tragedy as an opportunity to disparage America’s past.
The bridge’s namesake, famous lawyer-poet Francis Scott Key, has been a target of ridicule for anti-American revisionist historians for several years now. With the destruction of the bridge, the left all-too-gladly resumed its effort to erase Key’s memory from our national consciousness as a part of its endless crusade against notable figures in American history.