Trans women must stop bathing in Hampstead Heath’s famous ladies pond before its looming centenary anniversary, campaigners have demanded in a fresh row.
A debate has erupted over the gender identity policy introduced by town hall bosses three years ago for the beauty spot in north London.
The Kenwood Ladies’ Pond was opened in 1926 and is billed as a “unique women-only space” that “provides a place of refuge and security for women and girls of all ages”.
OTTAWA — It’s just after 9 a.m. on a Friday morning at Wilfrid’s Restaurant in the Chateau Laurier and guests are helping themselves to a breakfast buffet when Jean Charest takes his seat in the corner of the room.
This iconic hotel down the street from Parliament Hill, the scene of so many political tete-a-tetes and soirees, is about as cliche a meeting place as you can get in official Ottawa. It’s somehow entirely appropriate.
Frankly I’m more interested in what’s on offer at the breakfast buffet.
When the Duke and Duchess of Sussex sealed the deal with the Queen for liberation from royal life in January 2020, their statement pledged that “everything they do will continue to uphold the values of Her Majesty”.
How distant that promise seems now, as the Balmoral breakfast table heaves with headlines featuring slings and arrows so frequently fired by the Sussexes at the monarch’s family and the institution she leads. But the Queen, 96, has been keeping calm and carrying on during her annual Scottish break. “She has had a busy summer with lots of visitors and has been out picnicking,” says a Palace source.
It’s something of a rite of passage for a prominent conservative politician to pledge to defund the CBC. You just have to do it, whether your heart is truly in it or not.
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry praised its use of High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) against Russian forces in a quirky clip shared Friday on the ministry’s official Twitter account.
HIMARS has proven itself in Ukraine, but now it's taking on the biggest stage in American television.
HIMARS Got Talent pic.twitter.com/J8CgoPgKIZ
— Saint Javelin (@saintjavelin) September 2, 2022
Jordan Peterson has hit back at actress and film director Olivia Wilde, who said the sinister character in her upcoming film, Don’t Worry Darling, was based off the controversial Canadian psychologist.
TO USE the modern parlance, I felt somewhat ‘triggered’ by the recent TCW article entitled ‘No whites please – we’re the RAF’. It led to my writing this brief tale.
On November 20 1919, Edward Morton Hunter was born in a tenement in Rutherglen Road in Glasgow’s Gorbals district to a catering worker mother and a foundry-worker father. The father, also Edward Hunter, had served 12 years in the Royal Navy, principally aboard the destroyer Scorpion and the cruiser Berwick and had seen active service in the Dardanelles during the Great War. Leaving the Navy that year the ex-Chief Petty Officer Hunter sought what work he could find in industrial Glasgow south of the Clyde. Tragically he died aged 30 when Edward was just a few months old.
Senior Canadian intelligence officials would support an inquiry into their organisation’s deeply contentious role in the smuggling of British schoolgirl Shamima Begum into Syria, the Observer has been told.
Sources have told Tasnime Akunjee, the lawyer representing Begum’s family, that there is significant concern within its ranks that a people smuggler working for Canadian intelligence helped Begum and two friends from Bethnal Green, east London, to join Islamic State in Syria. Until now, sources within the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) have kept their counsel over the scandal since it was revealed last week that the Metropolitan police in London allegedly knew that a people smuggler linked to western security services trafficked the then 15-year-old.
The RCMP feared that serving Mounties sympathetic to the convoy protest against pandemic measures in Ottawa earlier this year might leak operational plans to protesters, says an internal threat advisory obtained by CBC News.
“The potential exists for serious insider threats,” says the Feb. 10 advisory from the RCMP’s ideologically motivated criminal intelligence team.
“Those who have not lost their jobs but are sympathetic to the movement and their former colleagues may be in a position to share law enforcement or military information to the convoy protests.”
Here are more signs of how cultist our green thinking has become
Want a glimpse of just how cultist North American governments have become over all things “green,” especially electric vehicles? Vancouver is giddy about being the first city in the country to receive an all-electric fire truck.
Good Lord.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accusing Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson and other premiers of being dishonest with Canadians about the impact of his carbon tax on the cost of living was pretty astounding in its hypocrisy.
The Canadian International Air Show has become an annual summer tradition — 73 years and counting — and so have calls to abolish it for its potential trauma-triggering effect on people with lived experience in war zones, as well as environmental damage it can instigate.
The show, which sees a number of fighter jets fly over Toronto for the last three days of the Canadian National Exhibition, purports to display the country’s military history while recognizing its military personnel and veterans, and inspiring the next generation of pilots. But detractors say the show does more harm than good, both for the environment and for the downtown population — some of whom are recent immigrants from countries with war history and fresh memories of air bombings.
Pity no strafing demos are scheduled.
While 3D guns are the latest problem for law enforcement in some parts of the country, Toronto has so far been somewhat spared.
“While we haven’t seen a rise in 3D guns in particular in Toronto (since 2020 TPS has seized a total of 8, 3D printed gun or gun parts), TPS is increasingly seizing guns that are privately manufactured without serial numbers. These can include 3D printed firearms, converted pellet style guns and other homemade firearms,” Toronto police said in an email.
Since applying for her cannabis retail licence, Sasha Soeterik had been biding her time, operating a coffee and gelato shop in Toronto’s trendy Trinity Bellwoods neighbourhood while she waited for her application to go through.
The province had been ramping up approvals ever since it scrapped the controversial lottery system it initially used to give out cannabis retail licences, replacing it with an open licensing model.
Near to me is the Queensway, its been overrun by pot shops.
Housing, Diversity and Inclusion Minister Ahmed Hussen says the Department of Canadian Heritage will be improving its vetting process to make sure it doesn’t give money to organizations that espouse hatred — and those that do could be banned from future funding.
In an interview with CBC’s The House airing Saturday, Hussen said the federal government giving $133,000 (Liar – they got 600K) to the Community Media Advocacy Centre to develop and run an anti-racism strategy for broadcasters indicated a failure of the vetting process.
In posts on social media, CMAC’s senior consultant Laith Marouf talked about “Jewish white supremacists,” referred to some Indigenous and Black individuals using the term “house slave” and spoke about francophones in Quebec using the slur “frogs.”
