An Indigenous social worker says he’s been unfairly branded as racist and harassed after being charged following an argument with a Muslim family outside a London big-box store.
David Lavoie, 57, was charged with assault last Monday , one day after he got into a heated exchange with a family in the parking lot of the Costco on Wellington Road.
TORONTO – A technology company says it will temporarily take its food delivery robots off Toronto’s streets as the city considers whether to ban such devices from sidewalks.
Tiny Mile, the company behind a series of pink, heart-eyed robots named Geoffrey, says it is making the temporary move because it wants to collaborate with authorities and the accessibility community.
A bunch of these little guys got stuck in an inch of snow recently.
The Public Health Agency of Canada struggled to keep track of whether travellers ordered to stay in quarantine hotels actually did so, according to a new report from the auditor general.
Auditor General Karen Hogan tabled four reports this afternoon in the House of Commons looking at COVID-19 measures. One of the reports examines enforcement of quarantine hotel stays and testing requirements from July 1, 2020 to the end of June 2021.
At the start of the year — in addition to the already required 14-day quarantine period — the government introduced new rules for incoming travellers meant to limit the spread of COVID-19 and its variants.
In Canada if you do the right thing, or rather what the government tells you is the right thing, you get fucked over. The guy who has cut my hair for nearly 20 years may be closing up shop. He played by the covid rules and locked down his shop. He refused under the table “home” business etc. Meanwhile everyone else was making bank doing home visits or even in one case he knows of opening up a full fledged mini-salon in their home.
He’s trying to make it work but the costs of employing staff and rent for a storefront shop etc are currently insurmountable. Changed consumer habits make it doubtful he’ll see business rebound. Walk in traffic is way down from pre-pandemic days and ongoing covid restrictions mean that the events people used to get a cut for occur at nowhere near past levels. Finally people just like the convenience of a cut at home. A bad time for the traditional barber shop.
CHICAGO — Jussie Smollett was convicted Thursday of staging a hate crime nearly three years after he claimed two Trump-loving bigots beat him up, tied a noose around his neck and doused him in bleach in a misbegotten bid to raise his public profile.
Twelve jurors in Chicago criminal court found the disgraced actor guilty of five of six counts of felony disorderly conduct for filing a false police report following testimony from 13 witnesses and more than nine hours of deliberation.
Classic
Jussie Smollett is a despicable and disgraceful human being who should have the book thrown at him. pic.twitter.com/aSeqDI5oOj
— Thought Criminal (@Craftmastah) December 10, 2021
Ellen page rant
h/t INGENUI & kiki982
This is who’s teaching your kids. He brags about showing up to teach in drag, heels, and makeup. Disgusting pic.twitter.com/GiXYyJS3QH
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) December 9, 2021
Critical Race Theory (CRT) teaches children to view everything through the lens of race and power. It teaches children that race is more important in their lives and to their future accomplishments than their own hard work, dedication, intelligence or character.
h/t Marvin
At least 12 major U.S. cities have set annual murder records in 2021 even as there are still several weeks remaining in the year, data shows.
Philadelphia, one of the largest cities in the United States, saw 525 murders in 2021, according to police data. That’s higher than the previously set record of 500 murders in 1990.
In October 2007, the cover of Newsweek magazine described Pakistan as the Most Dangerous Nation in the World. Five years later, TIME magazine followed with a cover that labelled my birthplace as a country with a “Dark Heart.”
On the eve of the resumption of the Iran nuclear talks in Vienna, Arabs have again warned the Biden administration against being duped by the mullahs of Tehran.
The Arabs, who share Israel’s concern over Iran’s accelerated efforts (and deceptive tactics) to achieve nuclear weapons, also warned the Biden administration against reaching a temporary deal that would give Iran more time to proceed with its disastrous and dangerous plans.
I took down from the bookshelf last night my faded copy of Stephen Leacock’s fabulous Nonsense Novels. I was checking to see if our great humorist, in that fine survey of silliness and vacuity, had lent his quill to the operations of the Toronto District School Board. Alas, not. He was too early on the Earth to reap the harvest the TDSB could have offered him. Even so, were he alive today, even his grand radar for the ridiculous might have been overwhelmed by the density and volume of material, already at hand and in no need of comic exaggeration, for his satirical treatment.
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley wrote Wednesday that disgraced former Empire actor Jussie Smollett could walk out of court a free man, thanks to testimony aimed at persuading the jury to sympathize with him.
I can’t see a jury deliberately ignoring evidence and letting Jussie off. He isn’t “likeable” for any reason.
Pity that at most he faces 3 years in jail. I doubt he’ll do a third of that.
Postmedia’s Adrian Faull, Senior Vice President for Local Sales, sent an apology to Honest Reporting Canada after the group alerted the company to an anti-Israel advertisement from Amnesty International Canada in the Montreal Gazette. The group’s complaint also prompted the media company to hold a mandatory training session for its sales team across Canada.
Maker of suicide pod plans to launch in Switzerland
The company behind a 3D-printed pod which can help carry out assisted suicide has said it is confident it could be used in Switzerland as early as next year.
Sarco commissioned a Swiss legal expert, who found that the machine did not break any laws in the country.
But other lawyers questioned his findings.
And assisted-suicide organisation Dignitas said it would be unlikely to meet “much acceptance”.
A key question arising from the death of a gunsmith near Port Dover involves the “customer” who was in his shop Nov. 3 when the gunsmith died in a hail of police bullets.
Questions about the mysterious customer have circulated now for more than a month.
This smells bad.
A Maryland woman charged in connection with selling US nuclear submarine secrets to a foreign power wanted to flee the country because she despised President Donald Trump, not because she feared arrest, her lawyers said.
Diana Toebbe and her husband Jonathan were arrested in October and face espionage charges. Prosecutors have argued against freeing them on bail, citing a text message from Diana saying the couple would be “welcomed and rewarded by a foreign [government].”
At a hearing on Wednesday, her lawyers presented additional messages to argue she was motivated by disdain for the Republican president, not fear of being caught.
