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John Tory’s resignation leaves power vacuum at Toronto city hall

As Toronto prepares to elect a new mayor following Friday’s surprise resignation of John Tory, Canada’s biggest city prepares for the kind of political upheaval rarely seen over the past decade.

“During the pandemic, I developed a relationship with an employee in my office in a way that did not meet the standards to which I hold myself as Mayor and as a family man,” the now-former mayor said in a statement read before reporters Friday evening at Toronto City Hall.

Please God restore Rob Ford to life.

by Blazingcatfur•February 12, 2023February 11, 2023•0•"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Sami Nomads Are Only ‘Indigenous’ People in the EU, Presidency Claims

The nomadic Sami people of Scandinavia are the only European Union’s only “indigenous” people, the bloc’s rotating presidency has claimed.

A social media account for the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the EU has described the nomadic Sami people of Scandinavia and north-west Russia, once more commonly described as Lapps or Laplanders, as being the EU’s only “indigenous” people.

by Blazingcatfur•February 12, 2023February 11, 2023•0•"Identity Politics"

NDP leader should be holding Trudeau to account

It would be kind to call federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh “two-faced.”

During daylight hours, Singh is the enthusiastic lickspittle of the Trudeau Liberals. “Yes, Mr. Trudeau. Whatever you say, Mr. Trudeau.”

But after dark, “Jag-meek” transforms into “Jag-gernaut.” After propping up the Liberal government all day, Singh opens up his Twitter app and spends his evening hours tearing the Libs new ones.

by Blazingcatfur•February 12, 2023February 11, 2023•0•NDP

Mosque visited by members of the Royal Family was attended by members of the ISIS ‘Beatles’ and should have had counter-extremism funding reviewed, report into Prevent finds

Meghan Markle visits Muslim terrorist mosque.

A mosque that has been visited by William, Harry and Meghan should have had its counter-extremism funding reviewed after it was linked to jihadists, according to the report into Prevent.

The report highlighted how Al-Manaar Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre in West London was attended by terror suspects, including members of the ISIS execution gang dubbed the ‘Beatles’.

The centre, which has received at least £100,000 in Prevent funding, was visited frequently by the Duchess of Sussex in 2018. Several times she went to a community kitchen there as its staff were at the forefront of helping victims of the Grenfell fire. The Duchess also championed a cookbook that raised funds for the centre’s Hubb Community Kitchen.

by Blazingcatfur•February 12, 2023February 11, 2023•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, WTF?

Wanna see somethin real damn scary?

Potential candidates mull Toronto mayoral run after John Tory resigns

by Blazingcatfur•February 12, 2023February 11, 2023•0•"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", WTF?

McDonald’s to remove ‘tasteless’ McCrispy ad across from crematorium

It didn’t register.

An advertisement for McDonald’s McCrispy chicken sandwiches placed across the street from a British crematorium is reportedly being removed after being dubbed “tasteless.”

by Blazingcatfur•February 12, 2023February 11, 2023•0•WTF?

Why Tory knew he had to quit once extramarital affair exposed

Among the many opinions being offered about Toronto Mayor John Tory’s shock resignation Friday because of an extramarital affair with an advisor in his office, some are saying since the relationship was a private matter, consensual and has ended, he should not have had to resign.

Not often a 68 year old gets to do the nasty with Miss North Of Wawa or whatever. It may have been worth the risk of blackmail.

by Blazingcatfur•February 12, 2023February 11, 2023•0•"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Food at Royal Military College Often Spoiled, Kitchen Previously Infested by Rodents: Source

Food served to naval and officer cadets at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) in Kingston, Ontario, is often spoiled or poor in quality, and one of the College’s dining areas was previously closed off due to a rodent infestation, according to source information.

The Epoch Times received written testimony along with photos depicting some of the meals served at RMC in late 2022 from a source with access to the College, who provided the information on condition of anonymity.

by Blazingcatfur•February 12, 2023February 11, 2023•0•Canada, WTF?

Covid and the pandemic of moral injury

THE term ‘moral injury’ is a new one for me, as it probably is for most. It’s more commonly applied in a military context and only recently in health and social care, since 2020 to be precise. Indeed, the literature gently, knowingly or unknowingly, nudges us into believing that moral injury, reframed as occupational moral injury, isn’t a new concept but an inevitable consequence of working in an ethically challenging health and social care system.

by Blazingcatfur•February 12, 2023February 11, 2023•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

China Building a Satellite Base at Antarctica, Stirring Embers of Monroe Doctrine

James Monroe, call your office — or, better yet, ring President Biden — for it looks like Communist China, intensifying a competition for control over the South Pole, is building in Antarctica a satellite base that could serve as a surveillance hub in the very hemisphere that the Monroe Doctrine was intended to protect.

China is getting help from Argentina, now governed by a left-of-center regime. The Chinese, the director of the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Ryan Berg, tells the Sun, are leveraging their relationship with Buenos Aires to advance their interests in the South Atlantic.

by Blazingcatfur•February 12, 2023February 11, 2023•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

Yes, environmentalists want to take your car away — just slowly

Non-Californians were treated to an amusing spectacle last summer. In the Gilded State, it wasn’t so funny.

California’s electrical utilities, you may recall, had to beg the state’s residents not to charge their electric vehicles at night because it was putting too much stress on the state’s fragile grid and potentially forcing rolling blackouts. This urgent request came six days after California passed a new regulation banning the sale of gasoline-powered vehicles beginning in 2035.

by Blazingcatfur•February 12, 2023February 11, 2023•0•Green-Scam

Are offshore wind farms responsible for recent whale deaths?

When I was a kid, I remember environmentalists being utterly obsessed with “saving the whales.” So where are all these whale-loving environmentalists when you really need them?

Over the past two months, eight whales have washed ashore across New Jersey and New York beaches. Coincidentally or not, the major uptick in deaths of these majestic mammals also happens to be occurring as construction has begun for Empire Wind, a massive offshore wind farm located in the very same waters.

by Blazingcatfur•February 12, 2023February 11, 2023•0•Green-Scam, WTF?

Irony: Might AI replace many people in Hollywood?

Much of the current buzz in the tech sector these days revolves around advances in artificial intelligence and where and when it might start replacing human beings in their jobs. While the creators of these tools keep assuring us that it won’t happen, plenty of examples have already turned up. Google recently administered an employment examination to ChatGPT for a coding job and it qualified for a third-level position earning almost $200K to start. A judge in Columbia recently used AI to write a judgment in a case. And CNET has already been found to be using the technology to write and publish financial articles.

Not sure if people will ever give up their meat-world idols entirely but AI could certainly gain a slice of the entertainment world.

by Blazingcatfur•February 12, 2023February 11, 2023•0•"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

The IRS Came After Pro-Israel Groups, But Protected Hamas

“Come navigate the fine line between legal activism and material support for terrorism.”

David Boim was only 17 years old when he was shot and killed while waiting at a bus stop north of Jerusalem. The American teenager’s parents, Stanley and Joyce, have spent a quarter of a century since trying to bring Hamas, the Islamic terror group behind the attack, and its funders in the United States to justice. Their lawsuits have targeted, among others, the Holy Land Foundation which was found in federal court to have provided “material aid to Hamas” in what became the largest terrorism financing prosecution case in the United States.

by Blazingcatfur•February 11, 2023February 11, 2023•0•WTF?