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Green MP Jenica Atwin crossing the floor to join the Liberals

… Recent party infighting over issues like the Israel-Palestine conflict took her away from the issues that matter most to her constituents, Atwin said.

“It certainly played a role,” she said, when asked whether a recent dispute over Green Party Leader Annamie Paul’s public statements about the Middle Eastern conflict pushed her to join the Liberals. Paul has been accused of ignoring established party policy on Israel.

At a press conference alongside Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc today, Atwin said that while she’ll stand for a different party in the coming election, “my priorities, my values remain the same.”

Annamie is pro-Israel so the Libs have just welcomed… what exactly?

by Blazingcatfur•June 10, 2021•0•WTF?

Sex Slavery Driving Jihadism in Nigeria: Group

American activists decrying the Christian genocide in Nigeria are asserting that jihadist violence is motivated partly by an effort to enslave women and girls.

“Most of the individuals captured by Boko Haram jihadists are young women and girls taken by force and trafficked as slave concubines,” the Committee to Free Nigerian Slaves (CFNS) said a statement.

by Blazingcatfur•June 10, 2021June 10, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Nigeria

RCMP broke privacy laws in using controversial Clearview AI facial recognition tools, watchdog says

OTTAWA — Canada’s national police force broke privacy law by using controversial facial recognition software that put innocent Canadians in a “24/7 police lineup,” the federal privacy commissioner says.

The RCMP conducted “hundreds” of searches of Clearview AI’s database of billions of photos scraped from the public internet, including social media sites, without consent. The company lets law enforcement and private business then match photos against that database.

by Blazingcatfur•June 10, 2021June 10, 2021•0•"Surveillance Society"

Illinois Police Workforce Crisis Exacerbated by Criminal Justice Overhaul

CHICAGO—Since Illinois lawmakers passed a major criminal justice reform bill in January, five Illinois sheriffs have retired early and six sheriffs are set to retire this summer, according to Illinois Sheriff Association (ISA) executive director Jim Kaitschuk.

“This is the most I’ve seen. They’re quitting as a direct result of the legislation,” Kaitschuk told The Epoch Times.

by Blazingcatfur•June 10, 2021June 10, 2021•0•"Depolicing"

“Mentally ill Canadian” convicted in terror probe lands in U.S. supermaximum security prison

A Canadian family and U.S. experts alike say a mentally ill man from Mississauga, Ont., who was convicted for his role in an online terror plot while a teenager shouldn’t be in a supermaximum security prison in Colorado.

Instead, they say he should be sent back to Canada where he can serve the remainder of his 40-year sentence and get the psychiatric help he needs.

Allah must love the mentally ill.

by Blazingcatfur•June 10, 2021June 10, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

‘Claims could run into billions’: the interests at stake if Olympics in Japan were cancelled

The least divisive statement in the saga surrounding Tokyo 2020 – assuming, as many people now do, that it will happen in just over 40 days’ time – is that it will be an Olympics like no other.

Overseas fans have been banned; athletes will spend what for many will be the pinnacle of their career sealed off from the outside world; GPS-tracked journalists hoping to escape their hotel rooms for a late-night fix of ramen risk being put on the next flight home.

Since their unprecedented postponement in March last year, as the coronavirus began its surge around the world, the Games have been stripped of almost every vestige of what makes them the most anticipated event in the sporting calendar.

by Blazingcatfur•June 10, 2021June 10, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

G7 leaders will call for fresh WHO inquiry into Covid origins, leaked communique suggests

Leaders at the G7 summit will call for a new, transparent investigation by the World Health Organization into the origins of the coronavirus, according to a leaked draft communique for the meeting.

The call was initiated by Joe Biden’s administration and follows the US president’s surprise decision to expand an investigation by the country’s intelligence agencies into the origins of the pandemic.

A draft communique, first seen by Bloomberg News, calls “for progress on a transparent, evidence-based, and expert-led WHO-convened phase 2 study on the origins of Covid-19, that is free from interference”.

A WHO inquiry? That’s like asking Al Capone to investigate the Mafia.

by Blazingcatfur•June 10, 2021June 10, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Ashli Babbitt: Family of woman shot in US Capitol riot demands police files

lhn ,/.The husband of Ashli Babbitt, the woman fatally shot by a police officer while breaching the US Capitol in January, is demanding access to files from a probe into the incident, US media report.

In a lawsuit, Aaron Babbitt has asked for Washington DC police to disclose details including files revealing the identity of the officer who shot her.

An earlier investigation found there was insufficient evidence to charge the Capitol Police officer with wrongdoing.

by Blazingcatfur•June 10, 2021June 10, 2021•0•Trump Derangement Syndrome

Is the Biden Administration Helping Iran to Achieve Its Nuclear Dream?

The most likely outcome of US President Joe Biden’s ill-considered attempt to revive the nuclear deal with Iran is that it will lead to a dramatic reduction in the time frame Tehran requires to build an atomic warhead.

One of the central goals of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) struck with Iran by former US President Barack Obama was to delay Tehran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons for more than a decade.

At the time the deal was agreed in 2015, intelligence experts predicted it would take it Iran about one year to develop the technological know-how to develop a nuclear warhead if Iran was allowed to continue with its nuclear activities.

by Blazingcatfur•June 10, 2021June 10, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Iran, Iranian Nuclear Capability, Islam, Islam and violence

Maya Forstater: Woman wins tribunal appeal over transgender tweets

A woman who lost her job after saying that people cannot change their biological sex has won an appeal against an employment tribunal.

Maya Forstater, 47, did not have her contract renewed after posting tweets on gender recognition.

She lost her original case in 2019, with the judge at that point saying that her approach was “not worthy of respect in a democratic society”.

by Blazingcatfur•June 10, 2021June 10, 2021•0•Big Tranny

FATAH: Muslims not safe in Canada? Nonsense

The horrific killing of an entire Muslim family, allegedly mowed down in London by 20-year-old Nathaniel Veltman has left all Canadians traumatised. We had barely absorbed news of 215 dead aboriginal children at a residential school in Kamloops, when we were jolted from our collective slumber by the reality of hatred and racism that simmers just below the surface of our contrived calm exterior.

But as it is with every such tragedy, the mandarins who have crafted their leadership in ‘multicultural’ society cry victimhood without ever glancing at the mirror to vet their own prejudices.

by Blazingcatfur•June 10, 2021June 10, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Canada

Two men charged with first-degree murder in Mississauga restaurant shooting of 5 family members; 3rd suspect remains at large

Two men have been arrested while a third suspect remains outstanding after a shooting at a restaurant in Mississauga in May that left a man dead and four others injured.

On the evening of May 29, police said an unknown man entered the Chicken Land restaurant located in the area of The Collegeway and Glen Erin Drive and opened fire at staff.

by Blazingcatfur•June 10, 2021June 10, 2021•0•Crime

‘Wake-up call for Canada’: Security experts say case of 2 fired scientists could point to espionage

Justin Trudeau Xiangguo Qiu Keding Cheng – Everybody say Xi

China says its scientific co-operation with Canada should not be politicized, responding to questions about two scientists fired from Canada’s only Level 4 lab — a case that has led to an RCMP investigation, demands for details in Parliament and concerns about Chinese espionage.

Very few people know why Dr. Xiangguo Qiu and her biologist husband, Keding Cheng, were marched out of the Winnipeg-based National Microbiology Lab (NML) two years ago and stripped of their security clearance. They were officially fired last January.

However, two national security experts believe the case of the scientists raise the possibility of Chinese espionage.

by Blazingcatfur•June 10, 2021June 10, 2021•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Ontario reports 590 new Covid cases … and it’s facemasks forever in Toronto

Ontario reports 590 new COVID-19 cases, 11 more deaths

Hang on to your face masks until fall: Toronto city council votes to extend bylaw

Toronto city bylaws requiring people to wear masks in public and keep a six-foot distance from others will be extended to October, council voted Wednesday.

Council also voted to extend the amendments to Toronto’s municipal code that require bars and restaurants serving food and drink to screen staff for COVID-19, limit the number of patrons, including the number of people at each table, and to continue maintaining customer logs.

by Blazingcatfur•June 10, 2021June 10, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"