Jewish organisations have defended JK Rowling after a US comedian claimed that the depiction of goblins in her Harry Potter books was anti-Semitic.
Jon Stewart slammed the author over the goblins that run Gringotts bank in her Harry Potter series on his podcast, The Problem with Jon Stewart.
Stewart, who is Jewish, questioned why Rowling chose to ‘throw Jews in there to run the f***ing underground bank’ in a fictional world where people ‘can ride dragons and have pet owls’.
Stewart is an ass.
Meghan Markle and her husband Prince Harry’s charitable foundations spent more in legal fees than they actually raised in 2020, according to uncovered financial filings.
A prosecutor is seeking the death penalty for two people charged with shooting dead a veteran Illinois police officer with her own weapon as she pleaded for her life on the ground and critically wounding her partner, who is now fighting for his life.
Although Illinois isn’t a death penalty state, the U.S. Attorney General can authorize the filing of a petition to seek out the punishment in certain federal murder cases.
In court on Monday, Kankakee County State’s Attorney Jim Rowe painted the picture of a cold-blooded killing that deserved that designation during a bond hearing for Xandria Harris, 26, of Bradley in the county’s Circuit Court.
I can’t wait to read the CBC’s headlines on the latest poll from Maru Public Opinion.
I would bet solid money, though, we won’t see: “More than three-quarters of Canadians turn up noses at thought of moving to Quebec.” Nor: “Quebec dead last among desired provinces for relocating Canadians.”
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Seven children are among at least 13 people found dead after a fire at Philadelphia Housing Authority apartments in Philadelphia’s Fairmount neighborhood on Wednesday morning. The Philadelphia Fire Department arrived to heavy flames at the building on the 800 block of North 23rd Street just after 6:30 a.m.
“It was terrible, most of, I’ve been around for 35 years now and this is probably one of the worst firsts I’ve ever been to,” Philadelphia Deputy Fire Commissioner Craig Murphy said during a press conference.
WATCH LIVE: The Phila. Fire Dept. provides an update on fire on this morning’s deadly fire https://t.co/i0zad3IGZO pic.twitter.com/Ay0aB1E7El
— Matt Petrillo (@MattPetrillo) January 5, 2022
A booze-fueled charter flight out of Canada has sparked an official investigation after a wild video circulated of the selfie-obsessed passengers flouting aviation and coronavirus regulations.
The footage shows an unruly, unmasked group on a Sunwing Airlines charter flight from Montreal to Cancun on Dec. 30, dancing in the aisles, vaping, using the public address system and posing for selfies with a bottle of Grey Goose vodka.
Ontario reports 14 new COVID-19 deaths; hospitalizations up 62 per cent in one day
Ontario reported 14 new COVID-19 deaths on Wednesday, as the number of people in hospital with COVID-19 jumped by 62 per cent in a single day.
There are now 2,081 people admitted to hospitals across Ontario testing positive for COVID-19, up from at least 1,290 one day earlier and 965 one week ago.
There are 11,582 new cases of #COVID19.
Today’s numbers will be available at 10:30 a.m. at https://t.co/ypmgZbVRvn.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) January 5, 2022
COVID-19 testing capacity is overwhelmed. Here’s how Canadians can still measure risk
Canada has lost sight of the true size of its pandemic, with the number of people infected with COVID-19 now a mystery, as the highly infectious Omicron variant overwhelms testing capacity across the country.
Omicron is causing a never-before-seen surge in COVID-19 that has prompted provinces to reinstate curfews and gathering restrictions, shutter bars and restaurants and move schooling back online in a desperate attempt to mitigate the impact on hospitals.
New Ontario COVID-19 restrictions take effect today amid ‘explosive’ growth in hospitalizations
Ontario residents and business across the province will face a new set of restrictions Wednesday meant to curb the rampant spread of COVID-19.
The measures were announced by Premier Doug Ford on Monday and went into effect at 12:01 a.m. on Jan. 5.
The restrictions, a return to Step Two of the province’s reopening plan, include the closure of indoor dining, food courts, gyms and theatres, as well as lower capacity limits in most other settings.
PSAKI: “On Thursday [Jan. 6], the President is going to speak to the truth of what happened, not the lies that some have spread since—and the peril it has posed to the rule of law.”pic.twitter.com/LgS1eg7dxH
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) January 4, 2022
Over the last year, governments, media entities, and useful idiots unified in their collective slander of anyone who can put two and two together, labelling everything off message as a conspiracy theory. This happened consistently throughout 2021, even as governments laid the groundwork to implement the very policies they claimed were risible ‘conspiracy theories.’
Retrospectively, it almost seemed like a war against critical thinking.
A dangerous transgender serial killer, who targeted women, is now being housed in female prison after “identifying” as a woman. “Donna Perry,” born Douglas, was transferred to the Washington Correctional Center for Women under new laws that allow gender self-identification.
“Here’s a shock. But Quebec in this benighted and cowardly country of mine has just initiated a curfew. And banned private gatherings. Resist, Montreal! Take to the streets at 10:00 pm tonight. Defy this appalling law! Or lose more freedom to the bureaucrats,” tweeted Peterson on New Year’s Eve.
What are the odds that three independent media outlets decide to run, independently, the same story on the same day? Depends on what the story is of course, if there’d been a ‘plane crash, then pretty high. But to independently warn us all that if the Republicans get elected then democracy in America is dead? That’s stretching the bounds of belief that it is indeed all independently.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday warned of ‘challenging’ weeks ahead as he urged unvaccinated Americans to seek out shots as the best way to protect themselves from the surging Omicron variant of COVID-19.
Speaker of the House of Commons Anthony Rota ruled on Monday that Chinese-made masks will be banned from Parliament by the end of January, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
MPs also voted to ban Chinese-made masks from all federal buildings across Canada. The move comes after MPs realized that their masks were being imported from the communist regime and not coming from local manufacturers.
