The B-52s, the kitschy 1970s-80s rockers famous for their off-beat tune “Love Shack,” decried the various bills and laws across the country that they say “promote transphobia,” by banning transgender mutilation of children and drag shows aimed at children.
Well, Colin Kaepernick has now gone from a mediocre football player with a racist grudge to a horrible human being with a racist grudge. He probably made that transition a long time ago, but he really made a jerk of himself this time. He’s now so drunk on anti-white racist rage that he has accused his white adoptive parents of “perpetuating racism” in an interview that aired on Thursday.
Giving your neighbour the middle finger may not be polite but is protected as part of a person’s right to freedom of expression under the Canadian constitution, a judge has ruled.
In a 26-page decision, Dennis Galiatsatos dismissed a case against a man accused of harassing his neighbour in a Montreal suburb.
An election interference network directed by China’s Toronto consulate allegedly involved a sitting member of the Ontario legislature, according to sources with knowledge of the investigation into Beijing’s covert efforts during the 2019 federal election.
Those sources assert that Vincent Ke, a Progressive Conservative member in Premier Doug Ford’s government since 2018, served as a financial intermediary in Chinese Communist Party (CCP) interference schemes described in two separate Privy Council Office intelligence reports reviewed by Global News.
I am getting awfully tired of these cocksucking traitors.
h/t SDMatt
Iran and Saudi Arabia are to resume diplomatic relations, the two countries announced in a joint statement on Friday, in a diplomatic coup for China, which brokered the agreement.
The agreement to restore ties within two months was reached after four days of meetings in Beijing between the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani and his Saudi counterpart Musaad bin Mohammed Al Aiban, the two countries said in a joint communique with China.
While Mary Walsh and her comedic Marg Delahunty TV character scored an exclusive encounter with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, not everybody’s laughing.
Trudeau, who has been stonewalling on intelligence operatives reportedly warning him about Chinese election interference, got some help off the bench, and out of retirement, from Walsh’s Delahunty character in blocking reporters from asking questions Thursday.
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Germany’s top court on Thursday ordered a new sentencing hearing for a German ISIS member who was given 10 years in prison for her involvement in the death of a five-year-old Yazidi slave girl.
Jennifer Wenisch joined ISIS in Iraq and allowed the young girl to die of thirst after she was chained up in the sun for wetting the bed in August 2015.
She and her then husband, an ISIS fighter, had bought the young Yazidi girl and her mother as household slaves.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. takes control of tech-focused lender following run on deposits
Regulators shut down Silicon Valley Bank Friday after a run on deposits doomed the tech-focused lender’s plans to raise fresh capital.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said it has taken control of SVB via a new bank it created called the Deposit Insurance National Bank of Santa Clara. All of the bank’s deposits have been transferred to the new bank, the regulator said.
Insured depositors will have access to their funds by Monday morning, the FDIC said. Depositors with funds exceeding insurance caps will get receivership certificates for their uninsured balances.
VATICAN CITY, March 10 (Reuters) – The war in Ukraine is driven by the interests of several “empires” and not just of Russia’s, Pope Francis said in an interview published on Friday.
Francis said the conflict was fuelled by “imperial interests, not just of the Russian empire, but of empires from elsewhere”.
China on Friday accused Canada of smearing its reputation over allegations China is secretly operating two overseas police stations in Quebec.
Canada should “stop sensationalizing and hyping the matter and stop attacks and smears on China,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said at a daily briefing.
“China has been … strictly abiding by international law and respecting all countries’ judicial sovereignty,” Mao said.
Hmmmm …
I think CSIS just used Twitter to dunk on the PMO https://t.co/7FfsbYcfyC
— (@BryanPassifiume) March 10, 2023
Alec Baldwin will face a two-week evidentiary hearing in a Santa Fe courtroom in May, as prosecutors seek to show there is enough evidence to try him for the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
At a brief status conference on Thursday, Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer scheduled the preliminary hearing to begin on May 3.
An article published by researchers at Lakehead University highlights the anxiety young Canadians experience due to climate change, and nearly half of the respondents said they think humanity is doomed.
The survey asked 1,000 Canadians between the ages of 16 to 25 a series of questions based on the threat of climate change and mental health.
HAMBURG, March 9 (Reuters) – A gunman in Germany shot dead seven people including an unborn child before killing himself at a Jehovah’s Witness worship hall in the city of Hamburg, police and prosecutors said on Friday.
The 35-year-old, a German citizen and former Jehovah’s Witness, used a semi-automatic pistol he had legally owned since December in the shooting on Thursday evening, a Hamburg state prosecutor said at a joint news conference with police.
OTTAWA – The RCMP watchdog has launched a systemic investigation of the British Columbia unit that polices anti-logging and pipeline protests, just as a proposed class-action lawsuit is filed in court over the actions of those officers.
Michelaine Lahaie, chairperson of the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission, says in a statement that the investigation will look into the activities and operations of the RCMP “E” Division Community-Industry Response Group.
Based on the Coastal GasLink incident my impression is that the RCMP do as little as possible.
The dissenting troops filmed a video message to complain about equipment, training and leadership
A group of mobilised Russian men in a video message said they are refusing to obey commanders’ orders to go into an assault outside Donetsk.
A dozen men were seen standing in a dark room, saying they were moved from Belgorod’s territorial defence last week to a Donetsk suburb of Shebekino and were ordered to “storm villages” without any training, equipment or official orders.
