Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky was eviscerated by social media users over his Vogue photoshoot with his wife, First Lady Olena Zelenska, which transpired while their country continues to be invaded by Russia.
Marshal Kim Jong-Un disrupts international conference of musicologists, with surprising new theory
Musical theorem of Marshal Kim Jong-Un is peer-reviewed.
Results will be published momentarily.
Publication of theory begins:
Musical theorem of Marshal Kim Jong-Un is this:
(Foreign media sources must credit DPRK News Service.)
Musical theorem of Marshal Kim Jong-Un is that most western “hit” “rock” “music” is stolen from songs of peasants and disfavored minorities. [Thread Reader]
Original Twitter Thread The comments are interesting.
After pandemic pivots, where have Canadian workers gone?
Restaurants, airlines, schools and nursing homes are at the sharp end of a labour crunch that’s afflicted employers all year long. In June,the unemployment rate fell to a record low of 4.9 per cent, tightening the screws on an economy with more positions than it could fill.
Amid a prolonged pandemic, laid-off workers took stock and reassessed their priorities. Others, grappling with burnout in precarious or stressful work environments with long hours, simply walked away.
Elizabeth May set to join Green Party leadership race, sources say
OTTAWA—Elizabeth May is preparing to run for the federal Green Party leadership, sources say, confirming speculation that has swirled within the party that the former long-time leader would one day try to reclaim the position.
One source with direct knowledge of party affairs told the Star on Thursday that May is collecting required signatures from party members to apply as a candidate in the leadership race ahead of the Aug. 5 deadline.
Apology from Pope Francis was welcome — but it doesn’t mean Canadian settlers can now absolve themselves
Indigenous leaders have welcomed the apology by Pope Francis as a historic first step toward reconciliation for survivors of residential schools and the families of the estimated 6,000 Indigenous children who went missing — a call to action made by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) for the Catholic Church.
This is not the first time the Pope has spoken publicly about this topic. He first apologized on April 1, 2022 at the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. But apologies, no matter how many, aren’t enough.
This garbage is just another instance of Islamists latching on to Aboriginal issues.
NYC Wants “Monkeypox” Renamed to Something More Positive
The head of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene called on the World Health Organization (WHO) to rename monkeypox to prevent the “potentially devastating and stigmatizing effects” that the virus’s name could bring about.
B’nai Brith Announces Lawsuit Against McGill and its Student Clubs
MONTREAL – B’nai Brith Canada is backing a McGill student’s lawsuit against the university for failing to withhold student fees after repeated anti-Israel referendums, in violation of the university’s own policies.
The lawsuit names McGill University, the Student Society at McGill University (SSMU) and Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR), which promoted the referendum.
Members of SSMU endorsed a document accusing Israel of engaging in “settler-colonial apartheid against Palestinians,” and committing SSMU to boycotting all entities “complicit” in this activity, among other measures. The document’s language was so broad that it would have compelled SSMU to boycott virtually all Jewish clubs and associations on campus.
Germany turns off the hot water: Hanover becomes first big city to ban hot water in public buildings in response to Russian gas crisis
The Germany city of Hanover has become the first big city in Europe to ban hot water and central heating in public buildings in response to Vladimir Putin’s weaponizing of gas supplies.
The drastic step comes as Germans have been told to expect sky high electricity bills and sweeping gas rationing measures that will affect their day-to-day lives.
In a sign of things to come, Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony in the north west of the country, will cut off the hot water in public buildings, swimming pools, sports halls and gyms.
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Service Ontario employees among 28 people charged after police bust major auto-theft organizations
Snipped in solidarity: the American men getting vasectomies after Roe – while they can
Following the supreme court’s abortion decision, urologists say more men are taking charge of their reproductive health, to permanent ends
Shawn never really wanted children. A 32-year-old software engineer and amateur weightlifter living in central Florida, he had long contemplated a vasectomy. When he met his fiancee and learned that she also held no grand designs on reproduction, the matter was all but settled. He was, by his estimate, “90% certain”.
The supreme court’s recent overturning of Roe v Wade, and the nationwide convulsions over abortion access, was the final push he and his partner needed. When he read that Justice Clarence Thomas mentioned, in his opinion concurring with the controversial ruling, that the court should reconsider access to contraception, Shawn knew he had to move fast.
Federal Climate Policies, Fertilizer Plan, Will Cause Devastation, Say Saskatchewan Farmers
Farmers in Saskatchewan, a province that has nearly half of Canada’s arable land, say production will fall sharply if they are forced to use less fertilizer and pay increasingly high carbon taxes on fuel.
The government is moving ahead with its goal, first announced in December 2020, to reduce absolute levels of greenhouse gas emissions from fertilizer use by 30 percent below 2020 levels by 2030. Specifically, it aims to reduce nitrous oxide emissions associated with synthetic nitrogen fertilizer use.
In Portland, the Sexual Revolution Starts in Kindergarten
The city’s public schools teach K-5 students to subvert the sexuality of “white colonizers” and begin exploring “the infinite gender spectrum.”
Portland Public Schools has launched a war against the “gender binary” and adopted a radical new curriculum teaching students to subvert the sexuality of “white colonizers” and begin exploring “the infinite gender spectrum.”
I have obtained a cache of documents from a source inside Portland Public Schools that exposes the nature of this curriculum. The lessons seek to turn the principles of academic queer theory into an identity-formation program for elementary school students; it has been adopted in many of the district’s K-5 classrooms.
China and the US: Whose Side Is the Administration On?
China this weekend, according to reports, privately delivered a message to US national security officials reinforcing an earlier Chinese Foreign Ministry statement: if US Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi goes ahead with her planned August visit to Taiwan, it would be met with a “resolute and strong measures.”
China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao Lijian stated on July 19 that the visit “would seriously undermine Chinese sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
John Ivison: The first rule of Poilievre’s Fight Club is there are no rules
The Jean Charest campaign has written to the Conservative leadership election organizing committee urging the party to fine Pierre Poilievre’s campaign for a statement it claims “brings direct reputational harm” to the Conservative Party.
Frankly I believe the “elites” of the conservative party have accepted that Poilievre is likely to be elected the next leader.
He may not be their first choice but they will still manage to sort out a working relationship with PP.
The latter will continue his popular feisty ways occasionally tossing a tiny scrap of red meat to the hoi polloi while upholding the “acceptable conservative” positions on matters of substance.
GOLDSTEIN: Defences of PM’s carbon tax ‘wildly optimistic’
Three letters to the editor in the Toronto Sun Wednesday all raised the same invalid points in defending Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax.
They said a recent report by the Parliamentary Budget Officer that found most households in Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba will be paying more in carbon taxes than they get in rebates between 2021 and 2030 was flawed.