With the city accepting nominations for Toronto’s mayoral race Monday, municipal health officials are pushing for no criminal consequences for possessing any kind of illegal drug as long as it’s for an addict’s own use.
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Barbara Kay: Women are fuelling the crisis of wokeism on campus, and in society
An Angus Reid poll that canvassed the voting intentions of 5,000 Canadians from March 6-13 uncovered a wide gender gap between Conservative and Liberal supporters. Overall, the Liberals trail (29 per cent to 35 per cent). But while a plurality of men say they would vote Conservative if an election were held tomorrow, 44 per cent of women under 35 say they would vote for the NDP and 42 per cent of women over 55 intend to vote Liberal.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has his work cut out for him on that front. But he should understand that it’s got nothing to do with him personally. Numerous studies have concluded that educated women trend ideologically leftward at greater rates than men.
UK: Ethnicity of so called “Asian” child rapist grooming gangs cannot be ignored, police told
Political correctness must no longer prevent the police from using the ethnicity of suspects to identify grooming gangs, Rishi Sunak will say on Monday.
Asian grooming gangs will no longer be allowed to “evade justice because of cultural sensitivities”, a government spokesman said ahead of the unveiling of a package of measures designed to crack down on organised networks of abusers.
The Prime Minister will order police forces to improve the recording and analysis of ethnicity data – including sharing information throughout the country – in an attempt to prevent perpetrators of abuse from falling through the net.
Ruinous blackouts threaten to end ANC rule in South Africa
When the power started going out daily in South Africa, the lights also went out on Lungie Klaas’s coffee shop. He and his wife had poured in £14,700 of savings to get their business off the ground, and their hard work had been rewarded with a decent trade among the morning commuters in their Cape Town suburb.
That was until relentless rolling blackouts started hitting each day at their busiest time. At a stroke, coffee machines could not work during their peak business hours and they lost three-fifths of their custom. Running a generator was too expensive, so they had to close. “That put four guys out of a job,” he recalls.
Translating Liberalspeak
Liberals often talk about things but actually mean other things. For example, “trans rights” really means elevating the trans agenda to unearned prominence and insisting people pay attention. It is not about giving trans people “rights.” They have the same rights everyone else has. They just want more. “Trans rights” also means shoveling cartloads of money into trans causes.
The Kids Are All Woke
The revolution’s biggest targets are also its smallest.
In my last year of graduate school, when I was plodding away at my dissertation and, although every day more disillusioned with academia, hadn’t yet decided for sure that I didn’t want to be an English professor after all, I attended the Modern Language Association convention at a Manhattan hotel to interview for a faculty job in Georgia. I met my interviewer in his room. We sat on his bed. It was weird. I felt like a hooker. He told me his area of specialization – I don’t remember what it was. Mine was modernism. He started with a simple query: “What’s modernism, anyway?”
Ukraine’s survival hinges on Avdiivka
As Russia has intensified efforts to envelop the fortified town of Avdiivka, Ukraine’s military has this week insisted that its opponents are failing to make progress. Avdiivka’s strategic importance was highlighted earlier this month when President Volodymyr Zelenskyy name-checked it alongside other eastern battlegrounds like Bakhmut and Vuhledar as a place where “the future of all Ukrainians is being fought for”.
#Ukraine: A Ukrainian Krab 155mm self-propelled howitzer along with an ammo truck was destroyed by a Russian Lancet loitering munition. pic.twitter.com/9NdEcgCxKb
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) April 2, 2023
The British working class is what real anti-racism looks like
It is the elites who are obsessed with race and division.
… One of the most poisonous projects of the past decade has been the ID-pol brigade’s attempt to drive a wedge between the races, rather than stick to a sensible Marxist class analysis of power. So it was refreshing to hear Smallman rejecting every invitation she was given to speak in a racially divisive manner.
First, Smallman willingly gave up her special victim status by boldly stating that the white working class also suffers from police brutality. She brought up grooming gangs as the prime example of this. Smallman rightly pointed out that the police demonised the raped and trafficked white children involved, rather than take on their Muslim exploiters.
Undercover investigation exposes plan by up to 100 Animal Rebellion activists to storm Grand National Steeplechase
A secret plot by more than 100 eco-activists to sabotage the Grand National has been exposed by an undercover Mail on Sunday investigation.
Militant vegans and animal rights campaigners plan to use ladders and bolt cutters to storm security fences before the race at Aintree, then glue themselves together as a human barricade and sit across the course.
The conspiracy – revealed just two weeks before the race meeting – was uncovered by an MoS reporter posing as a member of the Animal Rebellion campaign group.
Don’t be afraid of AI – it’s going to change your life
Whether its picking movies or providing mental health support, the latest tech is the biggest step forward since the printing press
It’s a battle that’s fought every Saturday evening, in homes across the land: what film will be an enjoyable watch for the whole family? The debate can rage for hours, frequently leads to tears, and more often that not, the screen stays silent.
No longer, however. Fancy something similar to, but different from, The Lord of the Rings? Now you only have to turn to ChatGPT for a ream of insightful suggestions. One colleague tried it recently with her children aged six, nine and 12 and her 44-year-old husband. “Something like Narnia” they requested. And lo, the chatbot suggested The Golden Compass, an adaptation of Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights, starring Nicole Kidman. That doesn’t say much for ChatGPT’s taste in movies – the film has a fairly dire 43 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes – but the recommendation turned out to be a good one. Arguments miraculously averted, popcorn happily consumed. Technology is the stuff of small miracles.
With Trump Indictment, Revisit 20 Times Leftists Melted Down Over ‘Lock Her Up’ Hillary Gibe
With the indictment of former President Donald Trump, the U.S. has entered the “era of police-state politics,” as The Federalist’s Margot Cleveland put it Friday morning. The prosecution and expected arrest of a former president — and likely presidential challenger — is a serious thing, made all the more outrageous by the nakedly political nature of New York D.A. Alvin Bragg’s mission. Bragg appears to be ginning up a criminal probe out of a possible campaign finance issue that federal prosecutors had already declined to pursue.
An inside look at who’s working behind the scenes for those running to be Toronto’s next mayor
A pioneer of controversial right-wing social media campaigns. The mastermind behind Kathleen Wynne’s ambitious policies. Stephen Harper’s advertising guru. A Polaris Prize-winning musician.
They’re all among the growing list of people working on Toronto mayoral campaigns.
No mention of Furey in this article which seems a deliberate “oversight”.
I would trust him to be the most conservative of contenders.
It’s an open secret Saunders is Ford’s choice. That’s good enough reason for me to park my vote elsewhere. Who wants another squishy liberal?
‘Gone with the Wind’ novel to include trigger warning about ‘racist depictions’
The publishers of “Gone with the Wind” will amend the latest printing of the classic American novel to include a trigger warning over racism and a new introduction that addresses “white supremacy.”
The London-based publishing house, Pan Macmillan, determined that a cautionary note was necessary to include with Margaret Mitchell’s detailed depiction of slavery in America during the Civil War.
Kelly McParland: Chrystia Freeland’s budget is gas for the inflation fire
The funny thing about Chrystia Freeland’s latest budget is that everyone knew what she was going to do, even as she gave speeches insisting she wasn’t going to do it.
What everyone expected was that she would announce a big plan to spend billions and billions more dollars on top of the hundreds of billions the Trudeau government has already borrowed and spent in its seven years of power. The Liberals don’t have the new billions any more than they had the previous billions. They just borrow it. Since 2015 the Trudeau Liberals have spent at least $500 billion they didn’t have, almost doubling the debt of all the prime ministers that went before them.
RCMP ‘will be successful’ in laying more interference charges: interim chief
The interim commissioner of the RCMP says he would support additional laws that allow police to further crack down on foreign interference in Canada, as well as ways to further collaborate with intelligence officials on the issue.
But Mike Duheme adds multiple investigations remain underway that he’s confident will lead to criminal charges, though he did not give specifics.