Olivia Chow’s victory in Monday’s mayoral byelection in Toronto could be seen coming a mile away. It was so clear, even days and weeks in advance, that any news scribes looking to have an easy go of it on election night could have had most of their copy written in advance. And it seems like many of them did.
While trying to attend my 14yo brother's graduation, security removed me and my crew for wearing Save Canada hats.
Who brings security to an elementary grad in a town of 1K?
Jacqueline Poirier,
a superintendent at the @RCDSB.
The same woman going after both of my parents' jobs. pic.twitter.com/QmJmhbZ4RP— Josh Alexander (@officialJosh_A) June 28, 2023
h/t Mauser
A Yaletown resident is suing city hall, the regional health authority and a local non-profit, alleging the “ham-fisted operation and oversight of the small, poorly suited” overdose prevention site on Seymour Street has turned the area into “a centre point for crime and public disorder.”
Second hand fentanyl sucks.
Ban open drug use.@KenSimCity @PeterMeiszner @VancouverPD @VCHhealthcare @DeputyChow @Dave_Eby @PierrePoilievre @VancouverSun @nationalpost @KevinFalcon @JM_Whiteside @Carolyn_Bennett
Close down the injection site Downtown/Yaletown. pic.twitter.com/TMvbErlm0K— Vancouver Seedy (@SeedyVancouver) June 23, 2023
New ad from Minnesota State’s Tourism Department promotes drag shows, trans kids, and “gender care” pic.twitter.com/Ulnx847W5Y
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 28, 2023
This ought to excite the Somalis.
Presumed human remains recovered from the wreckage of the Titan submersible, the US Coast Guard has said.
Medical professionals will formally analyse the remains which are understood to have been found within the debris from the sea floor at the site of the deep-sea vessel’s fatal implosion, which killed five people.
With a court deadline looming on July 10 for the City of Phoenix to clean up a squalid homeless encampment known as “The Zone,” more homeless people than ever are flooding the area despite the city’s aggressive efforts to address the disorder.
The failure to clean up “The Zone” is leaving business owners and other neighbors more distraught than ever about destruction of property, violence, drugs and filth, and even dead bodies.
Portland, Ore., Is Losing Residents Weary of Crime and High Housing Prices
PORTLAND, Ore.—Mark Rogers has made a list of things he misses about Portland—its vegan restaurants, Powell’s bookstore, public transit—and the things he doesn’t—having his things stolen, stepping in human excrement, extreme politics.
The 44-year-old artist moved across the country to Fort Wayne, Ind., last year.
By and large, if there is one thing that the world absolutely does not need any more of, it’s podcasts. And yet the death of Prince Harry and the Duchess of Sussex’s Spotify deal – as public and messy as it was – has by all accounts deprived us of an absolute corker.
Last week, Bloomberg reported that one podcast idea seriously mooted by Harry was to make an entire series about childhood trauma. Not just his own trauma, because he has obviously got enough mileage out of that elsewhere, but the trauma of a group best described as “world baddies”. As Bloomberg wrote, the concept of the show was as follows: “Harry would interview a procession of controversial guests, such as Vladimir Putin, Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump, about their early formative years and how those experiences resulted in the adults they are today.”
I hope they have been ridiculed enough to cause them to disappear from the public eye.
The pope did not wear Balenciaga. And filmmakers did not fake the moon landing. In recent months, however, startlingly lifelike images of these scenes created by artificial intelligence have spread virally online, threatening society’s ability to separate fact from fiction.
To sort through the confusion, a fast-burgeoning crop of companies now offer services to detect what is real and what isn’t.
The European Palestinians Conference, held in Malmö, Sweden on May 27, had clear and strong connections with Hamas, including through conference chairman Amin Abu Rashid. Before the conference, it was reported that several members of parliament from Sweden’s Green Party, Left Party and Social Democratic Party would be participating in the conference.
When the Swedish media wrote about the connection between the European Palestinians Conference and Hamas, however, MPs, one by one, began withdrawing from the conference — although, notably, without distancing themselves from Hamas.
Those drag queens have a great sense of humor, don’t they? I mean, who wasn’t laughing when the drag nuns parodied the crucifixion or mocked the Eucharist?
Trudeau says ‘full buy-in’ from opposition needed before launching new foreign interference probe
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government won’t be announcing any next steps on probing foreign interference until the Liberals get “full buy-in” from the opposition parties, to avoid the process devolving as it did under former special rapporteur David Johnston.
“As we put forward proposals to the other parties on how we can move forward to restore Canadians’ confidence in our abilities to fight foreign interference, we will ensure before we launch any next process, that there is full buy-in by the other parties on how it will be done, and who will do it,” Trudeau told reporters on Wednesday.
Debris from the lost submersible Titan has been returned to land after a fatal implosion on a voyage to the wreck of the Titanic earlier this month, with the loss of all five aboard, deep in the north Atlantic.
Pieces of the mangled craft were brought ashore in Newfoundland, Canada, on Wednesday morning, in hopes of assisting an investigation into the tragedy and answering questions about the craft’s experimental design, safety standards and lack of certification.
OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says the country welcomed more than 145,000 immigrants during the first three months of the year.
That’s the highest number for a single quarter on record, since comparable data became available in 1972.
No one in the PC Party has spoken out about this assault on Canada.
Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Other A-Listers Threaten to Strike If Actors Union Demands Not Met
A-list actresses Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and others have all vowed to strike against the studios if they do not meet the proposed demands from the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) union.
I forgot all about the writer’s strike. Frankly Hollywood on strike is probably good for the collective mind.
As Canada’s population reaches the milestone of 40 million people, economists and housing experts are warning that accelerating immigration numbers could strain the country’s housing market and health-care system.
“My first reaction is that it’s great for the people coming to the country, but maybe it’s not so great for the people in the country,” Frank Clayton, a senior research fellow at the Centre for Urban Research and Land Development at Toronto Metropolitan University, said in an interview.
