TDSB launches $90M lawsuit against city, fire department, over massive blaze that destroyed York Memorial Collegiate Institute

The Toronto District School Board has launched a $90 million lawsuit against city, its fire department and police services board, as well and the Ontario Fire Marshal after a blaze two years ago that gutted York Memorial high school, alleging the scene was not put under a proper fire watch which led to the “rekindling” of the initial smaller fire.

The lawsuit also alleges that incident reports were “modified in an effort to suppress evidence of negligence” on the part of the fire services in relation to the blaze at the school on Eglinton Avenue West and Tretheway Drive in May 2019.

The City of Toronto is named in the suit as it oversees Toronto Fire Services, and the province as it oversees the Office of the Fire Marshal.

A pity as York Memorial had a rich history but does the TDSB really need the facility restored when many schools operate well below capacity or in fact sit empty? Of course not, they remain arrogantly eager to play with tax payer money.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Conservatives break fundraising records but struggle to break through with voters

Conservatives break fundraising records but struggle to break through with voters

The Conservatives broke new fundraising records in the first months of 2021, raising more money than any party ever has in a first quarter and outpacing the governing Liberals by their widest margin yet.

But the party’s success on the fundraising front hasn’t led yet to a boost in its political fortunes.

According to data published by Elections Canada, the Conservative Party of Canada raised $8.5 million between January and March 2021 — its best first quarter ever. And because the CPC has a long history of raising more money than any other party, its first quarter performance was the best by any federal political party on record.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

‘Actually It Does’: Joy Reid Mocks Parent For Saying It Isn’t Racist To Oppose Critical Race Theory

MSNBC host Joy Reid mocked a parent Tuesday night for saying that opposing critical race theory in schools was not racist.

Reid said that thanks to the “1619 Project,” a controversial initiative to teach history in a way that centers around slavery and teaches that 1619 was the true founding of the United States, “we’ve seen a growing movement to reframe how American history is taught in public schools.”

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Cracks appear in China’s New Silk Road

The Australian government may have only halted a couple of small joint-infrastructure projects with China, but the response from Beijing to the decision was one of rage and threats. The Chinese Embassy in Canberra has called the halt “unreasonable and provocative” and vowed revenge.

Canberra stepped in last year to pass a law that allows the federal government to overrule agreements made by Australian states with foreign countries. The decision followed deals signed by the state of Victoria in 2018 and 2019 to cooperate with China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) — often dubbed the New Silk Road — a massive infrastructure plan that aims to smooth trade links with dozens of countries.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Australia

Ontario reports 2,941 new Covid cases … and … Border Blues

When will the Canada-U.S. border reopen?

Travel across the Canada-U.S. border could resume by late summer or fall, according to the cautious estimates of some experts, but they say the process will be complicated.

The border has been closed to non-essential travel like tourism and recreation since March 2020, and the closure agreement between Ottawa and Washington is expected to be renewed on May 21.

The agreement makes exceptions, for example, on compassionate grounds like attending a funeral, or to apply for refugee status, and enforcement has been less than absolute.

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Why Is The Left So Obsessed With Cancel Culture?

The American left has gained a ton of notoriety these last two decades, especially at the tail end of the Bush administration. They were certainly disagreeable then, but cross-party relationships still remained relatively intact and generally non-hostile, at least compared to today. The left has flown off the handle as the Obama administration egged on bad behavior and active hostility toward conservatives. Social justice became a huge topic, even gaining rabid activists that usually started in their teenage years. At first, it started out annoying, but relatively harmless. Then social media blew up. It was all downhill from there. Social media became a staple in American life and gave people incredible influence just for being present on social media. Young people were the first to adopt these platforms and have in turn become some powerhouse for reciting activist rhetoric. What’s worse is that these young people could spout insane nonsense and have other teenagers agree with them. The internet became an echo chamber for off-the-wall beliefs and perpetuated naïve beliefs that were carried into adulthood because of the nature of the internet.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", "The Liberal-Left eats its own", Batshit crazy lefties

Liberal media personalities increasingly talking up the need to ‘deprogram’ Trump supporters

Their normal human sympathies have atrophied. They live in the desert of their own inhuman politics. They are cold and apparently lack a spiritual life. Desperate to look down on other people, they take fatuity to a new level.

David Atkins, recently elected as a California member of the Democratic National Committee, mused on Twitter (Nov. 21, 2020): “How do you deprogram 75 million people who would literally die to stick it to the domestic enemies the teevee and youtube conspiracy vids told them to hate? No, seriously…how DO you deprogram 75 million people? Where do you start? Fox? Facebook? We have to start thinking in terms of post-WWII Germany or Japan. Or the failures of Reconstruction in the South.”

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", Batshit crazy lefties, Donald Trump, Leftist scumbags, Leftists - intolerance of political right