The news that Ontario’s population grew by just over 500,000 in the last 12 months is a bit alarming, given that the number is equal to Canada’s entire annual immigration target. Ontario’s total is about double its typical population growth.
Does a province desperately short of housing and health-care services really need another 500,000 people? It’s time politicians took a serious look at that question.
Five large objects have been photographed on the roof of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, increasing fears that Russia may be preparing to blow it up.
Satellite images of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, taken by San Francisco-based Planet Labs on 5th July, showed that packages had been placed on the roof of Reactor No. 4.
None of the objects can be identified but this week, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russia was planning on blowing up the plant and then blaming it on Ukraine.
The problem with workplace diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) training is that it can involve the berating of staff so bad that it leads to worker’s compensation claims — and even lawsuits.
It’s a lesson that’s currently being learned by Toronto District School Board (TDSB). In April, principal Richard Bilkszto sued TDSB for its failure to defend him in an allegedly hostile DEI training session that took place in 2021, where it was insinuated that he was a white supremacist for defending Canada as a less-racist place than the United States. TDSB has since sued the company that gave the DEI training, the KOJO Institute, for negligence and for breaching contract — asking for damages in the amount it will need to pay Bilkszto if he wins.
For more than six months, President Biden and his aides have been wrestling with one of the most vexing questions in the war in Ukraine: whether to risk letting Ukrainian forces run out of the artillery rounds they desperately need to fight Russia, or agree to ship them cluster munitions — widely banned weapons known to cause grievous injury to civilians, especially children.
On Thursday, Mr. Biden appeared on the verge of providing the cluster munitions to Ukraine, a step that would sharply separate him from many of his closest allies, who have signed an international treaty banning the use, stockpiling or transfer of such weapons.
#Ukraine: A Russian T-72B3 tank with KMT-7 mine roller was disabled by an AT mine in the vicinity of Marinka, #Donetsk Oblast, and was then struck with an ATGM by Ukrainian Forces. pic.twitter.com/H489AeGSVB
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) July 6, 2023
The $15-billion agreement to keep an electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in Windsor, Ont., is “massively expensive for taxpayers,” says the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
“These big corporations are getting buckets of cash courtesy of cost to taxpayers while the rest of us get tax hikes,” said Franco Terrazzano, federal director for the Ottawa-based federation.
“We have governments that are choosing to help multinational corporations over taxpayers.”
A gang member behind the savage ‘honour’ killing of a young woman who rejected an arranged marriage, dramatised in a TV show starring Keeley Hawes, is still too dangerous to be released and deported, it’s been ruled.
Mohamad Hama, then 30, is serving life after being found guilty of murder as part of a gang of thugs who tortured, raped and strangled 20-year-old Banaz Mahmod, in January 2006.
Military recruitment in the Canadian Armed Forces dropped by 35 percent in 2022, with only 5,242 volunteers signing up compared to 8,069 in 2021, according to a federal briefing note by the Department of National Defence.
“The Canadian Armed Forces serves Canada by defending our values, interests and sovereignty at home and abroad. However, the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) is experiencing a shortfall in personnel that has been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic and Canada-wide labour shortages,” said the briefing note titled “Recruitment And Retention.”
Somebody needs to inform the brass that there’s only so many transvestites to go round.
A shark fin that sparked panic on a British beach was a fake planted by a prankster.
The anonymous practical joker went to great lengths to carve the shape of the distinctive dorsal fin out of hardened insulation foam and paint it dark grey.
They then fixed it to a wooden cross with a weight on the bottom that kept the fin afloat.
WARNING: This is graphic. It is, however, real. Not a movie. This disturbing fight that turned into a stabbing at Eglinton on TTC Thursday. It has been zoomed in and slowed down to help @TorontoPolice identify the knife-wielding suspect. If you know him call TPS ASAP pic.twitter.com/8yzV10Lejs
— Joe Warmington (@joe_warmington) July 7, 2023
Hop aboard the Chowtown Express.
Gatineau Police have arrested and charged a 27-year-old social media influencer from Quebec after he allegedly posted videos of fake crimes online in an effort to boost his following.
Police say Anthony Gagné was charged with attempted public mischief and appeared in court Wednesday.
According to police, an investigation began in May after they received a complaint that someone was driving around in a truck with “Free Candy” on it.
Two Pakistani men have today been jailed for life in Greece for gang-raping a British 18-year-old woman on her sunbed after she went for a morning swim on holiday.
The two men, aged 27 and 24, raped the Briton, who has not been named, on a beach in Rethymno, a city on the north coast of Crete, in July 2022.
h/t kiki9
Former prime minister Stephen Harper says he wants closer ties between right-leaning political parties including the Conservative Party of Canada and the Hungarian government, who has been accused of democratic backsliding.
Harper chairs the International Democrat Union, a global alliance of right-leaning political parties that includes Canada’s Conservatives as well as the Fidesz Party led by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
Our media is “Outraged” or “Appalled” and Harper is Hitler of course.
Jesus H Christ… This is just appalling.
Ex-PM Stephen Harper seeks closer ties with Hungary’s far-right leader Viktor Orbán https://t.co/6c4cMzYCiS
— Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦 (@acoyne) July 6, 2023
Social media users posted videos of unsold cases of Bud Light over the Fourth of July weekend as beer drinkers continue to shun the brand over its marketing partnership with transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
TikTok user Phillip Hawkins wandered into a local retailer and recorded a video showing 12 packs and 24 packs of Bud Light languishing on shelves and in the aisles despite parent company offering significant rebates.
When Ian Runkle set off the security alarm on his way out of an Edmonton Walmart in May, he didn’t pause for the store guard who called after him. Runkle had rightfully paid for all his groceries at the self-checkout, and as a criminal defence lawyer, knew his rights.
“I kept walking because I’m not really under any obligation to stop,” he said. When cooking dinner later that night, Runkle found the culprit — a small, metal security tag hidden under the label of the steak he had purchased. The checkout machine didn’t catch it.
Two Canadian women and three children on way home from detention camps in Syria
OTTAWA – Two women and three children who were temporarily missing in Syria after failing to board a repatriation flight to Canada in April are finally on their way home.
The women and children were among a group of 19 people Canada agreed to bring home from Kurdish-operated prison camps in northeastern Syria in January.
They have been held for years at displaced persons camps in a region now controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.
Stupid move allowing murder cultists into your home.
