The world’s first tampons for men have been criticised by feminist campaigners as an ‘insult’ to women who suffer period discrimination.
Vuokkoset, a Finnish company released the controversial new sanitary product earlier this month to coincide with Transgender Awareness week and International Men’s day.
A Canadian rapporteur said there was “well-grounded suspicion” that Han Dong, a member of Parliament from Toronto, may have benefited from support from the Chinese Consulate.
The newcomer landed in a district of northern Toronto and announced his bid for Canada’s Parliament. Though few knew him, an important factor helped offset his lack of name recognition — the backing of prominent local Chinese-Canadians.
“I’m very happy that I feel very well supported, surrounded by friends,” the candidate, Han Dong, said at a news conference.
But a government-appointed special rapporteur said there was “well-grounded suspicion” Mr. Dong also had help from a hidden source as he vied for the Liberal Party’s nomination: the Chinese Consulate.
Two weeks have passed since the murder of Thomas in Crépol, and the case—the subject of a vast enterprise of political manipulation—has found new heralds. The mayor of the town of Romans-sur-Isère, who is politically classed as ‘miscellaneous Right’ (divers droite), i.e., on the Right but with no party affiliation, has decided to raise her voice to defend the facts and what she has been subjected to for so many years in her municipality. She now faces a death threat.
In a new lawsuit, an association of harm-reduction nurses is arguing that individuals have a constitutional right to use illicit drugs anywhere they want (including playgrounds, beaches, bus stops and businesses) and that laws restricting this behaviour should be nullified. This is absurd — no such right exists.
… Mr Darmanin said the alleged attacker was heard shouting “Allahu Akbar”, Arabic for “God is greatest”, and told police he was upset because “so many Muslims are dying in Afghanistan and in Palestine”.
He said the suspect served four years in jail after being convicted for planning another attack in 2016 and was on the French security services watchlist.
The man was also known to have suffered psychiatric disorders, Mr Darmanin said.
On Saturday, a video was posted on social media in which the suspect criticised the French government and discussed what he described as the murder of innocent Muslims, AFP news agency reports.
Vidéo de revendication du terroriste de Paris #grenelle #attentat https://t.co/kIQaDVOUz2
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OTTAWA — If there is a common feature of the populist eruptions around the world this year it may be the belief that everyone in charge is just not up to the job.
Elites, experts, sacred institutions and, yes, even gatekeepers have been widely maligned.
And there are as many flavours of populism as there are countries. In Holland, long-time anti-immigrant campaigner Geert Wilders won the most seats in the recent general election, but may struggle to form a governing coalition.
Poilievre’s Housing doc.
Housing hell: How we got here and how we get out. pic.twitter.com/vVLsXMVM35
— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) December 2, 2023
Muslim-American leaders from nine swing states — livid at President Biden for siding with Israel in its war against Hamas terrorists — launched a campaign Saturday to boot the commander-in-chief from the White House.
“We are announcing today that President Biden has lost the 2024 election,” organizer Jaylai Hussein, head of the newly formed #AbandonBiden National Coalition, said at a conference in a Hampton Inn in Dearborn, Mich.
Jaqueline Belardi doesn’t know if she’ll ever be able to afford a home even though she earns a good salary. Belardi and her partner make a combined income of more than $180,000, but saving up enough money for a down payment feels out of reach.
“We can’t just borrow $50,000 from our parents,” she said. “That seems like the only way younger people are able to buy property these days.”
The Israeli military’s coming push into southern Gaza is driven by the belief that intelligence gleaned from hundreds of militants captured during the fighting in the north will allow them to find and kill leaders of Hamas.
Israel’s politicians and generals believe that taking out top commanders – and leader Yahya Sinwar – is their best chance of forcing the collapse of an organisation that is deeply embedded in Gaza, after nearly two decades controlling the enclave.
Two serving military officials with knowledge of strategy for the next phase confirmed there would be an intense focus on using new intelligence to target Hamas leaders.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stepped in it when he removed the carbon tax from furnace oil, while leaving 97% of Canadians out in the cold.
Even in Atlantic Canada, where Trudeau tried to buy off MPs with the carve-out, 77% of people in the region support carbon tax relief for everyone.
An explosion at a Catholic Mass in a university gymnasium in Marawi city in the Philippines killed four people and injured dozens more on Sunday.
“I condemn in the strongest possible terms the senseless and most heinous acts perpetrated by foreign terrorists. Extremists who wield violence against the innocent will always be regarded as enemies to our society,” said President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on social media platform X.
First videos from the scene in Marawi City in the Philippines where a terrorist bomb attack against a Catholic mass in a university this morning killed 4 people and wounded 50.
A 5 month battle was fought against ISIS in the city in 2017.
1100 were killed in that battle. pic.twitter.com/QxbU5FneEv
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) December 3, 2023
My wallet is stuffed with cards. I have a driver’s licence, firearms licence, health-care card, social insurance card, and several credit and debit cards. It’s annoying keeping up with the expiry dates on all these cards and it can be a catastrophe if they are lost. It tempts a person to embrace the concept of some kind of universal digital ID, and we have governments eager to set up such a system.
We can’t let ourselves succumb to the temptation of handing it all off to the state, however. The potential loss of privacy and personal liberty is too high a price in exchange for convenience.
As reported in the National Post on Wednesday, the Ontario Court of Appeal has decided in a unanimous 3-0 decision that a mandatory math exam for Ontario teachers isn’t unconstitutionally racist after all. A couple of months ago, a panel of the province’s divisional court obliterated the exam requirement introduced in 2021 on the basis, still relatively novel in Canadian law, of the “disparate impact” of an ostensibly race-neutral law on Black and Aboriginal teachers.
Bonnie Crombie declared new Ontario Liberal leader after three rounds of voting
