There is a cardboard bowl filled with urine sitting in the middle of George Galloway’s by-election campaign headquarters.
The former Labour MP turned populist renegade has based himself in the garage of a second-hand car dealership at the edge of Rochdale town centre and one of the mechanics working overnight had been unable to access the toilets.“By-elections are never glamorous,” says an aide, hastily pouring the liquid down a drain.
Rates of syphilis during pregnancy have risen a whopping 2,345 percent in Ontario in just four years, according to recently released government data.
Cases of congenital syphilis—where the disease is passed to a baby during pregnancy or at birth—have increased substantially across Canada, rising 599 percent between 2018 and 2022, the last year for which figures are available.
Has Joe Biden finally had enough of Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and, if so, will he take any action beyond swearing about him?
On Monday it was widely reported the US President had described the Israeli leader as an “a–hole” and might start to dial down the flow of American aid and weapons to Israel.
Mr Netanyahu’s rejection of Hamas’s contribution to the ongoing peace talks as “delusional”, his fearsome calls for “total victory” and his threatened assault on Rafah, where over a million displaced are sheltering, appeared to have finally cut through.
The federal government paid to have a “high-speed” ship on stand-by to evacuate Canadians in Lebanon, then later canceled the $440,000-a-week contract after five weeks, deciding it wasn’t needed after all, officials say.
Joining with one or more other countries to put the ship on retainer — and later scrapping the deal — underscores the tricky logistical and political challenges Ottawa faces around the conflict on Israel’s border with Lebanon.
Last week, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly announced that Canada was sanctioning 11 Hamas leaders for their participation in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel – a redundant and pointless gesture, since Hamas is considered a terrorist entity by the Canadian government. The ministry’s own news release acknowledged the superfluous nature of the announcement, noting that members of terrorist organizations are inadmissible to Canada and that their property is subject to forfeiture.
It was a little bit of security theatre by the Canadian government, part of its continuing effort to demonstrate that it cares deeply about Israelis/Gazans/Jews/Muslims/whoever’s turn it is next, even if it was announced four months after the Hamas attack. Indeed, one would think that the time for such wholly symbolic gestures was on Oct. 8, not months later.
As a victim-services advocate in Chicago, Zerlina Smith-Members struggles every day to obtain scarce resources and shelter space for victims of violence in the city.
As a black mother and activist on Chicago’s West Side, she can’t help but notice the poor-performing schools, the bad health outcomes, the food deserts, the homelessness, the high taxes, the gangs, and the illegal guns that plague her community.
“It’s just a lot, and it’s overwhelming,” Smith-Members said of the challenges.
A former close business associate of Hunter Biden has told Congress that President Biden was aware of his son’s business dealings and even discussed the “broad contours” of those arrangements after he left the White House in 2017. The associate says that Biden family members “sold” the elder Mr. Biden’s name to foreign entities for tens of millions of dollars, dangling the prospect of access to the family patriarch.
Trump was president. The sun was shining and so began a perfect day in NYC.
Start the day with coffee …
Disgust young Democrat …
In 1970, the intelligentsia loved Diary of a Mad Housewife. In the movie, a woman with an emotionally abusive husband starts an affair with an emotionally abusive man. The movie’s dénouement sees her telling her story to an emotionally abusive group therapy session. Now, that same movie would be about a bored, elitist housewife who has polyamorous relationships, writes books, gets celebrated in the New York Times—and still isn’t happy. I hate to say it, but if these women took motherhood and grandmotherhood more seriously, they’d be happier and less slutty.
Imagine if Nigel Farage were to win the next general election on an anti-immigration ticket. Unlikely, I know, but stay with me.
In this scenario, he does so well that no else has a credible mandate to become prime minister. However, lacking a majority, he needs to form a coalition government. The trouble is that that his potential partners — different factions of a fractured Conservative Party — are playing hard to get. The negotiations drag on. Days turn into weeks and weeks into months.
In the left’s mythology, there are white people and “people of color.” White people are bad; “people of color” are good. Racism is bad unless you’re mocking, stereotyping, and discriminating against white people, which is simply redress for centuries of white supremacy. White people are always oppressors in every case, and “people of color” are always noble victims. One of the hosts of the cringefest known as “The View,” however, got a rude awakening Tuesday, in the form of a reminder that reality is not really that simple.
How did a bunch of ‘adult-baby’ fetishists manage to host an event in a children’s party venue?
It really shouldn’t need to be said, but a children’s soft-play centre is not an appropriate venue for a fetish party. The reason this does apparently need to be said is because a kids’ party venue in West Sussex recently hosted an after-hours ‘play session’ for adult fetishists.
Paris remains the City of Love, the French kiss a globally renowned tongue twister and Serge Gainsbourg’s graphically sexual Je t’aime, moi non plus, a shock to the senses.
Everywhere you look, it seems, the French are at it. This week alone, reports emerged of a senator caught with his trousers down on the job with an assistant in a sex tape blackmail scandal.
The Senate president is looking into it.
All help to bolster the long-held belief that France is the land of romance, seduction, and by extension, of frequent, unbridled sex – whether within a relationship, with a lover “de cinq à sept”, or in the arms of a total stranger.
On 23 January 2002, American journalist Daniel Pearl was kidnapped by Islamic terrorists in Pakistan. Pearl was an accomplished journalist for The Wall Street Journal, where he had worked since 1990. Starting in 2000, he served as the newspaper’s South Asia Bureau Chief, based in Bombay, India. As part of his journalistic responsibilities, he traveled throughout South Asia and occasionally ventured into Pakistan. On 1 February 2002, he was decapitated for being both American and Jewish.
Swiss police have opened an investigation into a ski hire shop’s announcement it would no longer rent skis and sledges to Jewish customers.
The shop, in the famous resort of Davos, has now reversed its decision.
It has taken down the signs, translated into Hebrew, which informed customers of the ban.
But many have argued the case is a clear violation of Switzerland’s laws against discrimination and incitement to racial or religious hatred.
