Pope’s apology doesn’t acknowledge church’s role as ‘co-author’ of dark chapter: Murray Sinclair

The former Manitoba senator who chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada says there’s a “deep hole” in the apology issued by Pope Francis Monday for the role Catholics played in Canada’s residential school system.

Murray Sinclair says the historic apology, although meaningful to many residential school survivors and their families, fell short of Call to Action 58 in the final report.

It specifically called on the Pope to issue an apology “for the Roman Catholic Church’s role in the spiritual, cultural, emotional, physical, and sexual abuse of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis children in Catholic-run residential schools.”

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How the West Failed to Isolate Russia

Russian president Vladimir Putin has given the green light to a Black Sea grain export deal, the first major agreement between Moscow and Kyiv since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24.

“This is an agreement for the world,” said UN secretary-general António Guterres on Friday. “It will bring relief for developing countries on the edge of bankruptcy and the most vulnerable people on the edge of famine. It will help stabilize global food prices which were already at record-levels even before the war.”

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Downtown Toronto lags behind North American cities in economic recovery, study says

“… It is no coincidence, said study co-author Karen Chapple, that Toronto and San Francisco were two cities with some of the longest, deepest lockdowns during COVID-19. Other Canadian cities also lagged behind their U.S. counterparts.

“It’s clear. You look at that ranking chart and you look at the red cities, which are the Canadian ones, and Canada had much stricter lockdown policies than almost anywhere in the United States, with a couple of exceptions. The San Francisco area, sometimes New York were almost on the Canadian models,” said Chapple, director of the School of Cities at the University of Toronto.”

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GOLDSTEIN: Germany’s green energy disaster a warning for Canada

Germany, historically the economic powerhouse of Europe, has been brought to its knees through its reckless pursuit of so-called “green energy,” while deliberately forfeiting its own energy security.

The disastrous result is a warning to all nations, including Canada, about the dangers of the ideological pursuit of low-carbon energy polices, without considering how they put reliable energy supplies at risk.

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Greenpeace accused of siding with Putin and putting British security at risk

Greenpeace has been accused of making Britain more vulnerable to Russian blackmail by urging a judge to block drilling at a major North Sea gas field.

The eco campaign group claims Shell was wrongly granted a development licence for the Jackdaw field without proper environment checks last month, in defiance of the UK’s climate commitments.

It has brought a legal challenge against the Government and is vowing to frustrate other schemes brought forward in the North Sea as well.

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Arabs: ‘US President Decided to Tamper with [Middle East] Security for No Reason…’

Many Arabs believe that US President Joe Biden’s recent visit to the Middle East was a failure, mainly because the Arab countries still do not have confidence in his administration’s policies. The Arabs point out that one of Biden’s biggest mistakes was that he took America’s Arab allies for granted while embarking on a policy of appeasement towards Iran’s mullahs.

The Arabs are saying that Biden failed to promote normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia, convince the Saudis to increase oil production, and establish a security alliance to confront the threats from Iran and its proxies. He also failed to achieve a breakthrough in the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process, they note.

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Archbishop of Canterbury forced to allow clergy to reject declaration that marriage is ‘between a man and a woman’

The archbishop of Canterbury has been forced to allow Anglican bishops from all over the world the option of rejecting a statement on sexuality when they meet in Canterbury this week for the Lambeth conference.

The U-turn from Justin Welby, the leader of the global Anglican communion and the conference president, came late on Monday night, hours before 650 delegates began arriving for the 12-day meeting.

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The View Falsely Claims DeSantis Thinks Neo-Nazis Are ‘Good People’

The left is so terrified that Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis will be the GOP’s presidential nominee in 2024 that they’re already desperately trying to devalue his stock. This was evident on Monday’s edition of The View where co-host Joy Behar indignantly demanded that DeSantis denounce a tiny group of “neo-Nazis” that gathered uninvited on the periphery of a Turning Point USA event over the weekend where he spoke, despite the Governor having already denouncing them months ago.

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Ghislaine Maxwell will earn as little as 15 cents an hour cleaning toilets and washing dishes at new Florida prison

Ghislaine Maxwell will earn as little as 15 cents an hour cleaning toilets at the Florida prison where she is serving her 20 year sentence, DailyMail.com can reveal.

The former socialite, who once lived a lavish lifestyle and counted Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton among her friends, will earn the paltry sum at FCI Tallahassee where she has just been moved.

Prison consultants said that Maxwell will clean toilets, bathrooms or wash dishes before being assigned a long term job like managing payroll or reading water meters.

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‘She would have got chomped’: Woman is rescued after being BITTEN by monk seal protecting her pup in Hawaii – and ignoring calls to avoid the area

A woman was bit by a ‘protective’ monk seal off a beach in Hawaii after wildlife officials urged swimmers to avoid the area since a seal had given birth to her baby pup weeks prior.

The attack took place on Sunday morning around 8 am at Kaimana Beach in Waikiki on the island of O’ahu.

The female swimmer, who was not identified, is about 20 feet into the water when suddenly the monk seal emerges and starts to attack.


Florida rapper shot dead in front of home after daring critics to confront him

Florida rapper Rollie Bands was gunned down outside his Tampa apartment complex Friday minutes after he dared his critics to confront him at his house in an Instagram post.

“A lot of these n****s know where I live at fr,” the rapper wrote on his Instagram Story, according to HipHopDX. “I sleep in peace. If a n***a want smoke I’m at my crib in 5 mins.”

Just five minutes after his post, at around 3:30 p.m., the rapper was shot once in the parking lot of his apartment complex. He was rushed to an area hospital, but couldn’t be saved.


Brit tourist killed in helicopter horror went back on to the tarmac, ‘ignoring warnings to stop so he could take a selfie’

The Briton who was horrifically killed in Greece when he walked into a helicopter’s spinning rotor blade may have run back on to the tarmac towards the aircraft despite warnings to stop so he could take a selfie, Greek investigators have claimed.

Former public schoolboy Jack Fenton, 22, was struck when he walked behind the Bell 407 helicopter while its engine was still engaged at 6.20pm in Athens yesterday, after flying back from the tourist hotspot of Mykonos with three friends.

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