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More people leaving Toronto, Montreal for smaller pastures as pandemic hastens urban exodus

Canada’s urban exodus picked up steam into the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, with tens of thousands of people leaving Toronto and Montreal for smaller cities or rural areas, official data showed on Thursday.

More than 64,000 people left Toronto for other parts of Ontario from mid-2020 to mid-2021, up 14 per cent from the previous 12-month period, according to Statistics Canada population estimates, with another 6,600 moving out of province.

Montreal, Canada’s second-largest city, lost nearly 40,000 residents to other areas of Quebec, up 60 per cent on the year, with another 3,600 moving out of province.

Good timing! Toronto’s proposed budget for 2022 includes largest property tax hike of Tory’s tenure

by Blazingcatfur•January 13, 2022January 13, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Oath Keepers Leader Charged With Seditious Conspiracy in Jan. 6 Investigation

Stewart Rhodes, the leader and founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, was arrested on Thursday and charged along with 10 others with seditious conspiracy for allegedly organizing a wide-ranging plot to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6 last year and disrupt the certification of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s electoral victory.

The arrest of Mr. Rhodes, 56, was a major development in the sprawling investigation of the Capitol attack. The case against him and the other members of his group was the first time that prosecutors have filed charges of sedition against any of the more than 700 people accused so far of taking part in the assault.

Mr. Rhodes was arrested shortly before 1 p.m. at his home in Granbury, Texas, his lawyer, Jonathon Moseley, said.

by Blazingcatfur•January 13, 2022January 13, 2022•0•Trump Derangement Syndrome

Is mandatory COVID vaccination legal? Here’s what Canada’s charter says

Governments are stepping up their efforts to convince people to get inoculated against COVID-19, with Quebec becoming the first province to announce a special tax on the unvaccinated.

The move, announced by Premier François Legault on Tuesday, mirrors that of European nations that have forged ahead with a form of mandatory vaccination.

by Blazingcatfur•January 13, 2022January 13, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

WTF?

If a white therapist gives bad advice it’s because of white supremacy pic.twitter.com/1yFa7NzWX6

— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) January 13, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•January 13, 2022January 13, 2022•0•WTF?

Barry and Honey Sherman murder detectives learn cellular ‘tower dump’ was a bust

Bell, Rogers, Telus and Freedom Mobile were served with court-ordered “production orders” to release cellphone “tower dumps” to the Toronto Police Intelligence Unit. It was a considerable task for the telecommunications companies, assembling thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of bits of data — the electronic tracings of phone calls and text messages that passed through cellular towers in two areas Barry and Honey travelled both the night they were murdered, and at other key times.

These so-called “tower dumps” were then compared to about 300 cellphone numbers police had gathered in their investigation — belonging to a mix of Sherman friends, family, work associates and others. Maybe, detectives thought, just maybe, they would strike investigative gold.

Use HMA with this link to access.

by Blazingcatfur•January 13, 2022January 13, 2022•0•Crime

‘We Failed’: Major Danish Newspaper Apologizes For Regurgitating Government Info On COVID Without Investigating

Ekstra Bledet, a major newspaper in Denmark, apologized for publicizing government-issued COVID-19 information unquestioningly rather than conducting independent investigations in an article titled “We Failed.”

by Blazingcatfur•January 13, 2022January 13, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

GOLDSTEIN: In ‘Don’t Look Up,’ greed and green energy hysteria destroy us

While the movie Don’t Look Up starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence and Meryl Streep has been promoted as a satirical warning about ignoring the existential threat posed by climate change, that’s not the message the plot delivers.

The actual message, whatever the intent of the filmmakers, is that what destroys the planet is a greedy corporation attempting to greenwash itself, while making usurious profits from climate change hysteria, even at the risk of ending life on earth.

by Blazingcatfur•January 13, 2022January 13, 2022•0•Green-Scam

Arab Racism and the ‘Jewish State’

Palestinians and other Arabs are furious because Mansour Abbas — an Arab member of Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, and head of the United List Party — announced that he recognizes Israel as a Jewish state.

Abbas is being denounced as a “traitor” and “Zionist” by many Palestinians and Arabs who define their countries and political systems as “Arab” or “Islamic.” They claim that the idea of a Jewish state is “racist” but seem not to feel the same way about openly Islamic states: The Islamic Republic of Iran, the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.

by Blazingcatfur•January 13, 2022January 13, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Israeli - Islam Conflict

Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Giuffre demands identities of eight high-profile John Does named in civil lawsuit she filed against Ghislaine Maxwell be unsealed

Lawyers for Prince Andrew’s accuser have asked a judge to unseal documents containing ‘vast swathes of information’ about Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s ‘sex trafficking operation.’

Attorneys for Virginia Roberts Giuffre said Judge Loretta Preska should publicly release material from the 2015 civil lawsuit she filed against Maxwell that include references to eight anonymous John Does.

The individuals are identified in court documents only as ‘Non-Parties 17, 53, 54, 55, 56, 73, 93 and 151’. It is not clear if one of them is the Duke of York.

H/T Linda

by Blazingcatfur•January 13, 2022January 13, 2022•0•"Woke Royals"

German court jails former Syrian intelligence officer for life

A German court has sentenced a Syrian former intelligence officer to life in prison in a case the UN rights chief said could lead to accountability for other perpetrators of the war’s “unspeakable crimes”.

Anwar Raslan, a former colonel loyal to the regime who later defected and gained asylum in Germany, was deemed by the judge at Koblenz higher regional court to have verifiably overseen the murder of at least 27 and torture of at least 4,000 prisoners at a detention facility in Damascus.

by Blazingcatfur•January 13, 2022January 13, 2022•0•"Islamophobia"

Oh Canada! Muslima traitor who joined ISIS and was inexplicably allowed back is under investigation for terrorism, war crimes

A ~~Canadian woman~~ traitor who was held for two years at an ISIS detention camp in Syria is now under investigation for terrorism offences and war crimes. However, her lawyer has suggested RCMP officers are exploiting their powers by both monitoring and investigating the ~~Calgary mother~~ ISIS Slag, according to court documents recently filed at the Calgary courthouse.

A publication ban protects the 30-year-old woman’s identity. CBC News will call her “S.A.,” as she was previously identified in Federal Court.

In late 2021, the woman was issued emergency travel documents and returned to Canada, landing in Calgary in late November to reunite with her five-year-old daughter, who eight months earlier had been released to the woman’s sister and American diplomat Peter Galbraith.

by Blazingcatfur•January 13, 2022January 13, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

71 new charges: Waukesha parade killer Darrell Brooks had to lean out of window because victim on windshield blocked his view, prosecutors claim

The Waukesha Christmas Parade killer leaned out his window to steer because someone had landed on his windshield and was blocking his view after he drove his SUV through the crowd, prosecutors said in a criminal complaint that added 71 new charges against him.

Darrell Brooks, 39, steered his Ford Escape for five blocks through the parade route in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, suburb of Waukesha on November 21, killing six people and injuring dozens more.

Authorities estimate that the SUV reached speeds of up to 25 mph and said some people landed on the hood, with Brooks carrying them along.

by Blazingcatfur•January 13, 2022January 13, 2022•0•Terrorism - Domestic, USA

Indonesian woman flogged 100 times for adultery, man gets 15 lashes

An Indonesian woman has been flogged 100 times in Aceh province for adultery while the male involved, who denied the accusations, received just 15 lashes.

Ivan Najjar Alavi, the head of the general investigation division at the East Aceh prosecutors’ office, said the court handed down a harsher sentence for the woman after she confessed to investigators she had sex outside of her marriage.

Judges found it difficult to convict the man, who was then the head of the East Aceh fishery agency and also married, because he denied all wrongdoing, Alavi said.

by Blazingcatfur•January 13, 2022January 13, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islam's war on women

RCMP Releases Guide to Reporting Suspicious Incidents

OTTAWA, ON, Jan. 10, 2022 /CNW/ – The RCMP, in collaboration with various law enforcement partners, has produced a guide to inform and assist Canadians on how and when to report suspicious incidents to police with a view to keeping Canadians safe.

The public is an important ally in the fight against criminal activities. If anyone is concerned that someone is considering, planning, or preparing to commit an act of violence, or is supporting, inciting or counselling others in committing violent acts, they should immediately contact their local police service or the RCMP.