USA Boxing has adopted a ‘Transgender Policy’, which will allow male boxers who transition to fight in the female category from 2024.
The governing body, which oversees America’s amateur and Olympic-style boxing, will allow transgender athletes to compete under certain conditions.
While boxers under the age of 18 must still compete as their birth gender, transgender fighters will be permitted to fight in the category of their choice.
If ever Prince Harry writes another volume of memoir, he may choose to look back on 2023 as his annus horribilis. The year began in high-profile fashion, with the publication of his autobiography Spare. This book swiftly became the fastest-selling non-fiction work of all time; he marked its appearance with promotional interviews that alternated between defensive, irritable and unduly arrogant. Yet Harry’s year is ending with myriad humiliations. These include losing one of his apparently innumerable court cases, he and his wife, Meghan Markle, being described as the ‘biggest Hollywood losers’ and a much-ridiculed video clip of the various endeavours of their charitable foundation Archewell over the past twelve months.
“It is Holy Night and there will be no shooting.” The soldiers agreed.
The story of the Christmas truce of 1914 is well known to us: Allies and Germans laid down their arms and exchanged greetings and gifts, played football matches, and even took photos together. But there is another, lesser-known Christmas truce that took place thirty years later, on Christmas Eve 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge, the last German offensive in the West. In a hunter’s hut in the Hürtgenwald, on the German side of the Belgian border, four German and three American soldiers laid down their weapons and shared Christmas dinner.
The ballooning number of people dying while waiting for medical treatment is just one of the many symptoms of Canada’s current health-care crisis.
Surgical waitlist deaths have increased 64 percent nationwide since 2018, according to the think tank SecondStreet.org, which gathered health-care data through access-to-information requests.
The public policy think tank has also found that more than 3 million Canadians are currently on waitlists for surgery, diagnostic scans, or an appointment to see a specialist. That’s some 140,000 more than in 2022. The number could be upwards of 5.1 million, as some provinces did not report all of the requested data.
… “In the case of Ontario, the answer was actually that we we have no intention of doing anything about this.”
When asked for its response, the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks did not return a request for comment from CBC News.
Winfield said the fact there is no public policy on the disposal of EV batteries is concerning because a number of the chemicals and components used to make EV batteries, such as cadmium, arsenic and nickel are listed as toxic under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) and simply can’t be thrown into a landfill.
Federal Housing Minister Sean Fraser’s year-end announcement in an interview with The Canadian Press that the Trudeau government will unveil a “renewed” housing plan in 2024 raises the question of what happened to all of its previous housing plans?
I remember seeing a movie a while ago that disproved this claim
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— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) December 28, 2023
The concept of providing all Canadians with free money to alleviate poverty has been gaining traction on social media, as a Universal Basic Income (UBI) bill works its way through Parliament.
Bill S-233, which would require the development of a framework for a Guaranteed Livable Income, is currently being reviewed by the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance, while an equivalent private members’ bill has been tabled in the House. It is rare for private members’ bills to become legislation, unless they get the backing of government.
Jeffrey Marsh tells kids on TikTok that he loves them and they can be in his family if they want to cut off contact with their families. Major predator vibes 🚩 pic.twitter.com/KbrBV27fO0
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 29, 2023
Across America, the social fabric looks increasingly threadbare.
Whatever else it may be, crime is mostly neither glamorous nor mysterious. A quotient of antisocial behavior has figured in every known society. In the Denmark of the human soul there is something eternally rotten. Some have peered into the dark heart of criminality and found, not inscrutable evil or anguished reaction to an oppressive system, but untrammeled self-interest. “All the lofty talk about the ‘root causes’ of crime,” writes social thinker Thomas Sowell, “fail[s] to notice the obvious: People commit crimes because they are people—because they are innately selfish and do not care how their behavior affects other people, unless they have been raised to behave otherwise or unless they fear the criminal justice system.”
You are probably almost as sick of hearing about Claudine Gay — as of this writing, still the president of Harvard University — as I am of writing about her. As I pointed out a year ago in this space, Harvard’s appointment of Gay, a black woman, was simply the next chapter in the university’s long-running pursuit of its racial spoils system. Gay’s entire academic career has been a testimony to the power of that enterprise. What a prize Harvard had in Claudine Gay: a black female who was an avid proponent of the whole “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” racket. Could there be any doubt that she was being groomed for the top slot?
The British Columbia Supreme Court has blocked new provincial laws against public consumption of illegal substances.
The Dec. 29 ruling in favour of the Harm Reduction Nurses Association imposes a temporary injunction until March 31, pending a constitutional challenge, with the judge saying “irreparable harm will be caused” if the laws come into force.
The past 12 months have seen a number of setbacks for the US, Europe and other major democracies on the international politics stage. None has been disastrous, for now. But they point to a shifting balance of power away from the US-dominated, Western values that have held sway for years.
On many fronts, the wind is blowing in the wrong direction for Western interests. Here’s why, and what benefits could still emerge from changes under way …
In addition to increasing the level of enriched uranium to near nuclear-weapons grade; helping to fund and plan a genocidal war against Israel; attacking US troops in Syria and Iraq with its militias more than 100 times in just the last two months to try to force the US out of the region, and incontinently bogus-trialing, torturing (even children) and executing its own citizens, the Iranian regime has also been orchestrating the assassinations of individuals, particularly those considered opponents to the ruling mullahs’ clerical establishment.
The New York Times lead story Thursday certainly was a downer for those who support the one democracy in the Middle East in its war on the terrorists of Hamas. Longtime reporter Neil MacFarquhar penned a piece headlined “Skepticism Grows Over Israel’s Ability to Dismantle Hamas.” But MacFarquhar’s long history of anti-Israel, pro-Arab bias makes him the least dependable reporter to pen a lead story on the Israel-Gaza war.
His lead opened the floor to Hamas’s representative in Lebanon.
