A former British soldier has been killed fighting for the Ukrainian armed forces, his family has said.
Jordan Gatley, who left the British army in March and travelled to Ukraine, was described as “a hero” by his father Dean in a tribute on social media.
He died in the battle for the eastern city of Severodonetsk, which has seen intense fighting in recent days.
The Foreign Office has said it is “supporting the family of a British man who has died in Ukraine”.
… I’d gotten used to the crime, rarely violent but often brazen; to leaving the car empty and the doors unlocked so thieves would at least quit breaking my windows. A lot of people leave notes on the glass stating some variation of Nothing’s in the car. Don’t smash the windows. One time someone smashed our windows just to steal a scarf. Once, when I was walking and a guy tore my jacket off my back and sprinted away with it, I didn’t even shout for help. I was embarrassed—what was I, a tourist? Living in a failing city does weird things to you. The normal thing to do then was to yell, to try to get help—even, dare I say it, from a police officer—but this felt somehow lame and maybe racist.
Only a nuke can save San Francisco… If you’re wondering why there’s a homeless crisis wonder no more.
A couple of years ago, one of my friends saw a man staggering down the street, bleeding. She recognized him as someone who regularly slept outside in the neighborhood, and called 911. Paramedics and police arrived and began treating him, but members of a homeless advocacy group noticed and intervened. They told the man that he didn’t have to get into the ambulance, that he had the right to refuse treatment. So that’s what he did. The paramedics left; the activists left. The man sat on the sidewalk alone, still bleeding. A few months later, he died about a block away.
h/t CK
A bipartisan group of senators announced a deal on gun control legislation Sunday in the wake of recent mass shootings — though the compromise excludes President Joe Biden’s “assault weapons” ban and a raised minimum age for rifle purchases.
A specialist gang is smuggling valuable historic artefacts out of Ukraine and into Russia, according to an international team of academics and digital technology experts who are tracking thefts.
“There is now very strong evidence this is a purposive Russian move, with specific paintings and ornaments targeted and taken out to Russia,” said Brian Daniels, an anthropologist working with archaeologists, historians and digital imaging specialists.
Canada’s woefully short summer is now in full swing and it would be a killjoy thing to do to ask people to stop and ponder whether or not we’ll soon be back to governments eyeing a return to COVID-19 restrictions. But the question needs to be asked.
Why are people calling Toronto’s airport the worst in the world?
Because Canada’s worst gatekeeper, Justin Trudeau, punishes the population with COVID rules designed to punish unvaccinated people—now everyone is suffering.
End mandates. Remove restrictions. Reopen our country. pic.twitter.com/h6V1EqeOtV
— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) June 10, 2022
OTTAWA — Nowhere in the Liberal government’s latest attempt to craft clear, practical gun control legislation — by introducing a new handgun “freeze”— does it say “thou shalt not buy, sell, import, trade or transfer handguns.”
Instead, the mechanism to slap a freeze on the acquisition of handguns is found in the legalese of a 55-page bill — and accompanying regulations — that are typical of the morass that is firearms law in Canada.
It’s a classic example of the Liberals’ beleaguered efforts at gun control, which can often seem like more talk than action to its supporters and critics alike.
When Ontario Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca said he would resign in the wake of last week’s provincial election, he became the latest addition to a big group of Canadian party leaders to get only one kick at the electoral can.
I think the better question is how do these duds get elected leader to begin with?
Leftist activist and filmmaker Michael Moore used his Friday podcast “Rumble Michael Moore” to call for a full repeal of the Second Amendment in the wake of the Uvalde, TX school shooting.
Moore said, “I know that there are Democratic Party leaders that do not want me saying this we going to lose the election.”
Conservative Party of Canada leadership contender Jean Charest is accusing rival Pierre Poilievre of exaggerating his membership count, calling the claim “Pierreinflation.”
The former Quebec premier says the Poilievre campaign’s assertion that they’ve signed up 311,958 Canadians thus far to support their team is “all spin.”
“At the rate it’s going, we call it ‘Pierreinflation’ in terms of recruiting members. I think he’s recruited members in the state of Maine and New Hampshire if you’re to follow his logic… He keeps inflating the numbers, no one believes the numbers,” he told CTV’s Question Period.
Entomo Farms in Peterborough is noisy, but you can still hear crickets.
They’re not pests the farm intends to whack out with pesticides — these orthoptera insects are its entire business, and, on any given day, around 100 million crickets call Entomo their home — at least until they end up on dinner plates.
Entomo is one of the largest edible bug farms in North America, producing everything from cricket powder and flour to barbecue-flavoured whole roasted crickets and mealworms.
Of course the UN is all for it – “Edible insects: Future prospects for food and feed security”
A concerted effort is now underway to curb the spread of monkeypox in Toronto.
Starting tomorrow, the first of several community-based vaccine clinics will be held in the city. This initial clinic will specifically be for workers at Toronto bathhouses.
Run by Toronto Public Health (TPH) in partnership with Gay Men’s Sexual Health Alliance (GMSH) and other community organizations, the goal of this program is to offer protection to those who have had close contact with someone who has tested positive for monkeypox, those with high risk contacts, and those who have a higher risk of being exposed to the virus.
Ban Monkey bath houses.
Just days prior to the start of Pride Month, Niagara Catholic District School Board sent a letter announcing its decision — for the first time — to fly the Pride flag at all board schools and sites throughout the month of June.
The letter, written by director of education Camillo Cipriano, said Niagara Catholic is flying a locally created version of the flag designed by staff in the president’s office at Brock University.
Cipriano wrote, that while “not all of our families support flying the progress Pride flag … we see the flag as a very clear and public display that all who come to Niagara Catholic schools and sites are welcome, accepted, unconditionally loved and respected as children of God.”
“Not all our families support flying the pride flag … so fuck them”
Activist group Ruth Sent Us is advocating for protests outside the home, church and children’s school of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett over her fierce opposition to abortion.
The pro-choice activists have been holding weekly protests outside the Virginia home of Barrett after the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion suggesting they may overturn Roe v Wade, paving the way for a national ban on abortion.
On Wednesday, Ruth Sent Us tweeted: ‘If you’re in the DC metro area, join us. Our protests at Barrett’s home moved the needle to this coverage.’
People this intent on baby murder should have their heads read.
On a rainbow-coloured picnic table at what is usually a youth summer camp, a beaver carcass lies splayed across a garbage bag, a circle of blue-gloved women looking on.
As Christy Arsenault begins carefully cutting through a layer of muscle just below the beaver’s sternum and across its belly, to reveal its organs, game care instructor Nina Armitage provides guidance and tells the group that these skills can be applied to most other game, such as deer.
“You’ll see that the organs are attached to the spine,” Ms. Armitage tells the group. “If you were field dressing, you would hold your animal on a hill, belly side facing down. If you gently slide [your knife] against the spine, everything will naturally fall out.”
Go incognito.
So far, the various justifications the Trudeau government has given for invoking the Emergencies Act against the Freedom Convoy protests have fallen apart.
Consider the record to date.
Neither the RCMP nor Ottawa police asked the federal government to invoke the act, contrary to claims by Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino.
