I joined the federal Liberal Party 20 years ago this spring because I deeply admired the party’s commitment to fiscal discipline, human rights and national unity as exemplified by the governments of Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin.
My involvement in Liberal politics has shaped my career and personal life in ways I could never have imagined when I first showed up at my local MP’s campaign office in 2004.
Using “chestfeeding” instead of “breastfeeding” desexualizes the word and makes it more inclusive to non-binary and transfolks.
And if there is one thing I am, it’s inclusive. pic.twitter.com/3FSDu9pehm
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) March 27, 2024
From Montreal to Vancouver, some residents are losing faith in a longstanding social safety net that is central to the country’s identity.
Canada has long prided itself on its social programs, meant to reduce poverty and equalize access to what are seen as core rights like health care, education, food and shelter. It spends hundreds of billions of dollars a year on social safety supports that are a major reason millions of people want to move to the northern nation.
But key parts of its safety net are fraying — in some cases badly. In 2013, Canada ranked 13th out of 170 countries in meeting the basic needs of citizens, according to data tracked by Social Progress Imperative. By 2023, it had fallen to 39th, in large part because of a lack of affordable housing.
There’s no reason why we can’t combine Easter with Trans Day of Visibility as this church does. pic.twitter.com/rgHimUhiP7
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) March 30, 2024
From the outside, Johannesburg does not look like it is doing well.
Roads littered with potholes. Broken traffic lights not repaired for months. Rotting rubbish in the streets.
But from the inside, the scale of the problems facing the biggest city in South Africa and the richest and most industrialised in the continent is even worse.
From taps regularly running dry to daily four-hour power cuts – known locally as load shedding – life for many people in Jo’burg has declined dramatically.
The WHITE ghettos that blight South Africa
#Chowtown#Toronto is a town of suckers for allowing her to be voted in, this , is, only, going, to, continue to grow. https://t.co/PEmC2VqIlr
— Ross McLean (@McLeanChronicle) March 30, 2024
The Biden administration is poised to complete its radical rewrite of the U.S. Department of Education’s regulations on Title IX, the 1972 law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education. To label the administration’s proposed changes as highly controversial would be an understatement. One seismic change would expand Title IX’s prohibition on sex discrimination in education to include “gender identity”—a fundamental reworking of Title IX that would be catastrophic for female athletes.
It was a snub of biblical proportions that did not go unnoticed by Canada’s 19 million Christians.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, after all, would never miss offering good wishes to any other religion at the start of their most sacred holidays.
Too busy whoring himself to Muslims.
Special Counsel Jack Smith’s efforts to imprison Donald Trump for mishandling classified documents have hit a few snags recently, and the latest snag is, indeed, a big one.
The ascent of Iran’s nuclear program under the watch of the Biden administration stands as a grim illustration of its failure and inadequacy. Iran’s mullahs appear to have been tacitly handed an alarming green light to pursue their nuclear ambitions with impunity. The bleak reality is that time is rapidly running out for concerted action to stop Iran’s march towards acquiring nuclear weapons capability. The Biden administration’s response, however, has been marked by silence, massive funding of Iran and a conspicuous absence of intervention.
Pro-Palestinian protestors harassed individuals on a New York City street as they exited a reelection fundraiser for US President Joe Biden, as shown in videos posted to social media on Friday.
More from last night: Young woman harassed and followed by group of anti-Israel demonstrators outside Biden fundraiser in New York.
“You fucking murderous k*ke.”
“Fucking die.”
“Keep it moving bitch.”pic.twitter.com/Jc5QW15Uxp— Breaking 4 News (@Breaking_4_News) March 29, 2024
The Canadian Immigration Lawyer Association is calling for a plan to address a looming backlog in work permit and permanent residency applications as the Ukrainian emergency visa program ends.
“We’re going to have about 200,000 Ukrainians in Canada based on this program, probably closer to 250,000. So, what is going to happen when their work permits are ultimately running down and they want to stay? That’s another thing that needs to be addressed,” immigration lawyer Lev Abramovich told Global News. “I don’t think we’re going to be deporting people back to Ukraine. So, I think a little bit more thought needs to go into the permanent residency part of the piece.”
An evangelical Christian teacher who was jailed for refusing court orders faces a disciplinary hearing after ‘verbally abusing a Judge’.
Enoch Burke launched into an outburst during his High Court appearance last week.
He was jailed in 2022 for breaching a High Court injunction ordering him to stay away from Wilson Hospital School in County Westmeath.
The teacher was suspended after he refused to refer to a pupil as their preferred pronoun.
That courtroom needs more than abusing.
The politics surrounding the price on carbon have reached a fever pitch. The latest increase in the pollution price, and the dollar-for-dollar jump in rebates that are built into the revenue-neutral system, have been so clouded by partisan posturing that basic facts are being ignored — or deliberately misrepresented.
New York Attorney General Letitia James is facing mounting pressure to prosecute comedian Jon Stewart after it was revealed that he overvalued his Manhattan home — the same so-called “offense” for which James is prosecuting former President Donald Trump.
