TORONTO – A report released today indicates the number of people who used Ontario food banks went up 38 per cent last year, which it says is the largest single-year increase recorded by the province’s food bank network.
The new report by Feed Ontario, a collective of hunger relief organizations, says more than 800,000 people in the province turned to emergency food support between April 1, 2022 and March 31, 2023.
A suspect has been arrested over the shooting of three Palestinian college students in Vermont – as the life of one hangs in the balance.
Jason J. Eaton, 48, was seized on Sunday afternoon near the site of Saturday’s attack and is expected to appear in court on Monday, Burlington Police revealed.
Less than 50 percent of Canadians say they believe the government respects rights and freedoms, according to a report from the Public Safety Ministry.
The Departmental Results Report, which looks at the performance and results of the ministry and compares it to the targets set, found that 43 percent of the population think the federal government “respects individual rights and freedoms while ensuring the safety of Canadians.”
As he sits in Geneva, Michel Dreifuss does not feel all that far away from the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 and the subsequent war at Gaza. The ripples are rolling through Europe and upending assumptions both global and intimate — including those about his personal safety as a Jew.
“Yesterday I bought a tear-gas spray canister at a military-equipment surplus store,” the 64-year-old retired tech sector worker said recently at a rally to mark a month since the Hamas killings. The choice, he says, is a “precaution,” driven by a surge of antisemitism in Europe.
Canada’s justice minister is considering options raised by the independent adviser on unmarked graves, who says Indigenous leaders want Canada to move on criminalizing residential school denialism.
Kimberly Murray called on lawmakers to consider “legal mechanisms” that could address the practice of denying or minimizing the abuses Indigenous children suffered at residential schools in her interim report released back in June.
In practice, voting means choosing between two parties which can’t, or won’t, reduce migration – though at every turn voters have expressed an overwhelming desire to do so.
There is a certain type of commentator – generally with an inexplicable book deal – who delights in telling the British just how much better things are on the Continent. WS Gilbert described them as “the idiot who praises in enthusiastic tone, all centuries but this and every country but his own”. Though around for centuries, they’ve been particularly active since 2016, keen to portray the European landmass as an enlightened haven of liberal values compared to “rainy Brexit island”.
This is a well written piece that mirrors our Canadian experience. Unfortunately our Mainstream media would recoil in terror at offending Justin for telling such truths.
Canadian Housing Resembles A Return To Victorian-Era Inheritance Culture: Stat Can
Canada is quickly reverting back to a Victorian-era style inheritance culture. That was the suggestion from the country’s national statistics agency, when exploring the role of parental wealth on the homeownership rate of young adults. A lack of upward social mobility can turn into a big problem for Canada, which depends on attracting immigrants. No immigrant has ever said they moved across the world and worked hard so their children could have less opportunity.
Conor McGregor, one of the world’s most famous athletes, is standing in front of a burning bus in Dublin. Dressed in his trademark three-piece suit, he gazes into the distance as a mob — fists clenched, faces covered, petrol bombs in hand — stand behind him.
The image is a fabrication, a digitalised “artwork” posted to Twitter/X on Friday by Paul Golding, leader of the far-right political group Britain First, who has previously been convicted of religiously aggravated harassment and a terror offence.
That putrid scent wafting across the country is the desperation sweating out of every pore of the Trudeau Liberal establishment in Ottawa.
We saw it all last week as the Liberals belatedly tried to score political points against Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives, who have been dominating them in the polls for almost six months.
The Washington Post is falling down on the job.
Its coverage of the war between Israel and Hamas has been so irresponsible, so sloppy, and so tilted in favor of the group that rules Gaza that it’s difficult to see it as anything but pro-Hamas.
Forget George Floyd’s drug overdose or any of the other cases hyped by BLM. There is an actual bad case that comes from a politically inconvenient case.
To understand why it’s politically inconvenient, consider who the mayor of Jackson, MI is.
Aurora Bird (aka Birdy and) is a 20-something woman who chopped off her breasts; claims to be both “transgender” and “non-binary”; sports a weirdly epicene voice, a skimpy beard and mustache, long hair, and pretty feminine features; wears poorly applied make-up…and is seriously contemplating converting to Islam. She’s utterly pathetic and is noteworthy only because she perfectly exemplifies the damage that woke culture does to a growing number of young people.
Trans nonbinary tiktoker found religion and might want to convert to Islam. Who wants to tell she/he/they? pic.twitter.com/lS8BY9HYHH
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 26, 2023
“Credibility, an editor once said, “is the lifeblood of our profession. Without it not one person will believe a single word that we write.”
Hence, Reuters’ categorical denial of bias in reporting the Holocaust-like events of October 7 in the Gaza envelope can be, as the saying goes, laughed out of court. “Reuters is committed to delivering independent, accurate and unbiased news.” Really? A freelance “stringer” from Gaza, whose Bible is the Koran and whose family are back in Gaza City scared stiff of what Hamas might do to them, can deliver independent, accurate, and unbiased photographic or video images of a pogrom on Jews? His work must inevitably be advocacy journalism at best or anti-Semitic propaganda at worst.
AI is a new front in our civilisational war
The blink-if-you-missed-it four-day drama at the tech firm OpenAI requires deep attention. On the surface it looks like power shenanigans; underneath lies a tale of humanity’s future and geopolitics.
The strange saga began a week ago, when the board of the nonprofit decided to fire its AI guru and cultish leader, Sam Altman. But when the 700+ staffers of OpenAI wrote an open letter saying that they too would go with the ousted CEO, he was swiftly reinstated.
Where did it all go so wrong for Sweden? The nation once known for ABBA, IKEA and its social-democratic welfare state has now become a byword for gangland killings and grenade attacks. Crime has soared to unprecedented levels. Grenade attacks have become an unwelcome feature of suburban life. Islamism is spreading unchecked. Even some on the Swedish left have been forced to acknowledge that multiculturalism is unravelling and that the state has failed to integrate vast numbers of migrants.
