Toronto police hit with class action lawsuit over ‘carding’ stops

A class-action lawsuit has been launched over the now-outlawed and racially skewed Toronto police practice of stopping, questioning and documenting people in non-criminal encounters, also known as “carding.”

While the practice was abandoned in Toronto in 2015 amid intense controversy and has since been reigned in across Ontario, with the introduction of clearer rules around what are also known as “street checks,” Ayaan Farah is an example of how data collected in the past continues to disproportionately haunt racialized Torontonians.

Farah, a 38-year-old Black woman and representative plaintiff in the lawsuit, temporarily lost her job as a worker at Pearson International Airport because of information collected by Toronto police in a 2011 encounter. That information ended up in the hands of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and resulted in the removal of her security clearance.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Justice"

Scaremongers on the Left Surprisingly Calm as Deaths Mount From Electric Bike and Car Battery Fires

The New York Fire Department recently reported that so far this year, there have been 108 lithium-ion battery fires at New York City, which have injured 66 people and killed 13. According to the FDNY commissioner, Laura Kavanagh, “There is not a small amount of fire, it (the vehicle) literally explodes.” The resulting fire is “very difficult to extinguish and so it is particularly dangerous.”

Last year there were more than 200 fires from batteries from e-bikes, EVs, and other devices.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles"

Should Canadians offer up spare rooms to help with housing crunch?

With many Canadians struggling to find a place to live with rising home prices and interest rates, governments at both provincial and municipal levels are trying new methods — but those in the industry say building more homes is the key factor to actually solving Canada’s housing crisis.

The calls to keep the focus on building more comes after Nova Scotia Municipal Housing Minister John Lohr last week announced the government was extending its contract with the national online home-sharing platform Happipad, and called on residents who may have a spare bedroom to consider opening up their home to share.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

The left is upset Poilievre stole their WEF conspiracy theories

An embarrassing attempt at journalism from the usually upright Canadian Press over the weekend was desperate to convince readers that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is moving conspiracy theories from “the fringes of the internet to mainstream thinking.” It didn’t offer a single piece of evidence to support this thesis.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, Canada, WTF?

Solutions in Plain Sight

California could make a major dent in its homelessness problem merely by reversing some of its most destructive policies.

Half of America’s so-called unsheltered homeless live in California. It’s not hard to understand why. Along with having the most hospitable weather on earth, California is a welcoming place for drug addicts, petty thieves, and anyone else attracted to beachside living, free government food, and no requirement to work.

Federal policy has played a part in California’s homelessness problem. The counterproductive “Housing First” rule, emanating from the Department of Housing and Urban Development during the Obama era, favors programs that prioritize “supportive housing” over activities like drug counseling or job training.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Progressive Paradise"

‘You’re kind of raised to hate tourists’: Maui fires fan tensions on Hawaiian island

At Maui’s Wailea Beach on Monday the skies were bright and clear. Luxury hotels lined the beachfront, their guests spread on the sand. Some waded in the ocean, while others sat under umbrellas with white monogrammed towels on their chairs.

Inside one of the hotels, beyond a pool, a two-tiered fountain and a glass-walled habitat for the resident parrot, was a wooden-framed screen advertising a relief fund for the resort’s employees – the first sign of the destruction in Lahaina, just 30 miles (48km) up the coast.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

NPR Airs MASSIVE Story On the ‘Cost’ of Parents Pushing Librarians on ‘Book Bans’

National “Public” Radio is staunchly taking sides in the debate over “book bans” of explicit sexual material in public libraries. On Saturday night’s horribly named show All Things Considered, Boston-based NPR reporter Tovia Smith filed a 12-and-a-half minute story warning “The battle over books comes at a cost.” Librarians have been smeared as evil people and their lives have been put in danger by nasty right-wingers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inThe Media Lies

Palestinians: Prime Minister Shtayyeh’s Straight-Faced Lies to Official US Delegations

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has shown that he can include two lies in one short sentence. On August 8, he met with a visiting US Democratic Congressional delegation in his office in Ramallah, the de facto capital of the Palestinians where he and his boss, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, live and work.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsraeli - Islam Conflict

The real life Da Vinci Code? Historian uncovers graves belonging to members of the Knights Templar in Staffordshire

Graves belonging to members of the Knights Templar – a mysterious holy militia that sprang up in the 12th century – have been uncovered at an English village church in one of the ‘most nationally important discoveries’ of its kind.

The medieval order, which had chapters across Europe, including in Britain, were known for their role in the Crusades and as one of the Middle Ages’ most powerful and wealthy religious organisations.

Historian Edward Spencer Dyas made the Da Vinci Code-style discovery of eight Knights Templar graves at St Mary’s Church in Enville, Staffordshire.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

22 per cent of Canadian homebuilders cancel projects amid high rates despite severe housing shortage

At a time when Canada desperately needs to build more housing — and Premier Doug Ford is opening up part of the Greenbelt to be developed — the construction industry “remains downbeat” amid high interest rates, with 22 per cent of Canadian homebuilders cancelling projects entirely in the second quarter of 2023.

The Canadian Home Builders’ Association (CHBA) released its second-quarter report last week, which saw the construction of both single- and multi-family units remain low but increase slightly in the second quarter — an improvement from the lows recorded in the fourth quarter of 2022.

Crank immigration to 11 having made no provision for housing and infrastructure to handle the tidal wave.

That was so thoughtful of our political class. Their cronies are going to make out like bandits.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

Trudeau government lying about 2 billion tree pledge, environmental watchdog says

Ottawa using ‘creative accounting’ on its 2 billion tree pledge, environmental watchdog says

Canada’s environmental watchdog says Ottawa is using “creative accounting” to support the claim that its program to plant two billion trees is exceeding targets.

Commissioner of Environmental and Sustainable Development Jerry DeMarco told CBC News that Natural Resources Canada (NRCAN) is using trees planted under a different program — and a different department — to boost its numbers.

“It’s creative accounting,” DeMarco told CBC. “It’s certainly within their prerogative to do that.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam