Head of Toronto’s real estate agency offered staff, niece below-market rentals despite city’s affordable housing rules

Head of Toronto’s real estate agency offered staff, niece below-market rentals despite city’s affordable housing rules
Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?

The head of the city’s real estate agency offered apartments with below-market rents exclusively to his own employees earlier this year, in violation of city policies on affordable housing, the Star has learned.

Internal emails, obtained through a freedom of information request, show Brian Johnston, then CEO of CreateTO — an arm’s length city agency started under Mayor John Tory’s administration that’s responsible for selling and leasing land to developers to build affordable housing — also sought a below-market unit for his niece from The Biddington Group, which, earlier this year, was renting out the newly built J. Davis House near Yonge Street and Davisville Avenue.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Public Service Union Predator Class

Diane Francis: The spy who burned us

This country’s membership in the Five Eyes military-intelligence alliance — which consists of Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand — has been damaged by a lingering espionage and law-enforcement scandal in Ottawa that’s been shrouded in secrecy.

In September 2019, the RCMP’s highest-level intelligence official, Cameron Ortis, was arrested and remains in jail. No trial date has been set and court documents have been sealed.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, military, spying

Speaking Up for the Voiceless Victims of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Speaking Up for the Voiceless Victims of the COVID-19 Pandemic

They’re everywhere, and they deserve to be heard.

Americans are well versed in the consequences for physical health from COVID-19. Newspapers brim daily with scary headlines alarming us of any risk that it might pose, no matter how minor or remote. But there are other nasty and less often discussed consequences brought on by this pandemic and by our collective reaction to it — whether that’s due to people locking themselves up at home out of fear of encountering others or government-ordered lockdowns.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease"

Mozambique Terrorist Group Poised to Establish an Islamic Emirate

Jihadists in northern Mozambique have intensified their military operations this year in an apparent attempt to establish an Islamic Emirate in the province of Cabo Delgado. The Islamist insurgency, which began in October 2017, remained below the radar until recently. The escalating violence, however, has become a security concern for Mozambique’s regional neighbors, including South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya and Somalia. Radical Muslims from Kenya and Tanzania are transforming what was initially a low-intensity ethnic rebellion, into a full-fledged Islamic jihad against Mozambique’s central government.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Mozambique

Anarchists plan ‘week of action’ to avenge ‘PRESIDENTIAL ASSASSINATION’ of alleged Antifa killer Michael Reinoehl

Anarchists are planning a “week of action” across the US to take revenge for what they called a “presidential assassination of a comrade” – the September shooting of Michael Reinoehl by federal agents.

A Twitter account called “The Base” posted a message on Monday night showing a poster that the group created to promote its “call to action.” The message invited followers to request a PDF version of the poster and to display it in their towns and cities to “help highlight” President Donald Trump’s “assassination” of Reinoehl. The poster reads, “Rest in Power Michael Reinoehl. Every revolution needs people who are willing and ready to fight.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAntifa

Vancouver plan to decriminalize street drugs sets up battle with Ottawa

Vancouver has set the stage for a showdown with Canada’s federal government by moving to become the first city in the country to decriminalize street drugs – setting itself on a collision course with Justin Trudeau, who has so far declined to pursue the option.

The city’s council voted unanimously last week to ask the federal government in Ottawa for an exemption to the country’s criminal code, which, if granted, would remove the threat of criminal sanctions for possessing small amounts of street drugs for personal use within a city.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

‘If a non-trans person played a trans character there would be uproar’: Umbrella Academy fans react to news Ellen Page will continue playing female role in Netflix show after announcing she is a transgender man

‘If a non-trans person played a trans character there would be uproar’: Umbrella Academy fans react to news Ellen Page will continue playing female role in Netflix show after announcing she is a transgender man

Confused fans of the Netflix show The Umbrella Academy have called it ‘political correctness gone crazy’ that Elliot Page will continue playing a female character despite coming out as a transgender man when it’s considered unfair for cis people to play trans roles.

On Tuesday, Elliot – who is best known for his role as Juno, when he played a pregnant teenage girl and went by the name Ellen – announced that he was transgender and that his pronouns are ‘he and they’.

He was universally embraced by Hollywood; stars like Ellen DeGeneres congratulated him and Netflix announced that he would stay on in his role as Vanya Hargreaves, a cisgender lesbian, in The Umbrella Academy, which he has already held for two seasons.

So now she’s a lesbian playing a guy?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny, WTF?