Born in Morocco, of Canadian nationality, the imam of the Aïcha mosque, in Montpellier, is the subject of a complaint filed in 2019 by one of his nieces, denouncing sexual assault, when she was a minor, then of age, which would have been repeated from 2005 to 2017. “She denounces the touching during the Rouqia, a practice which aims to remove evil spirits”,
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Clearly, by the number of riders on these buses, people are not following orders to stay home.
The people driving overflowing TTC buses don’t have the luxury of obeying the government order.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA — The Opposition Conservatives are urging the federal government to push back on President Joe Biden’s protectionist Buy American plan.
B.C. MP Tracy Gray, the party’s international trade critic, says expressions of disappointment won’t get the job done.
Poor white teenagers in Britain’s ‘left behind’ ex-industrial and coastal towns are least likely group to go to university, watchdog warns
Poor white teenagers in Britain’s post-industrial and coastal towns are the least likely group to go to university, a watchdog has warned.
The Office for Students, an independent regulator for higher education said such youngsters – and their home communities – have been ‘left behind’.
Chris Millward, its director of fair access, suggested that there is more belief in equality of opportunity in big cities, which tend to attract a higher proportion of ethnic minority populations.
Gov. Gen. Julie Payette departs office, we learn, with a pension of about $150,000 a year, for life, for doing a job not very well, and for not very long.
She is 57 years old. It will sting, but do a little math. If she lives for another 30 years, that’s $4.5 million. With indexing, of course, it would be a great deal more than that, but the point is made: this is a lifetime of financial security for an appointment that did not last three-and-a-half years.
Because…
Canada has a permanent political class. They work to insulate themselves from you, from justice, from scrutiny all at your expense. It is evolving into a Kleptocracy. There are rarely repercussions of any severity for bad or even illegal behavior.
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler blasted with pepper spray an unmasked man who confronted him and former Mayor Sam Adams with a video camera as the two left a pub Sunday night, the two men told police.
Wheeler and Adams had just finished dinner at the McMenamins Hillsdale Brewery & Public House on Southwest Sunset Boulevard around 8 p.m. when a man both described as middle-aged accused the current mayor of dining without a mask, according to a Portland Police Bureau report released Monday afternoon.
Four days before the FBI secured a surveillance warrant against him in fall 2016, Trump campaign adviser Carter Page repeatedly knocked down the key allegations at the heart of the Russia collusion investigation while talking to a government informant who was wearing a wire.
Page’s unwitting statements of innocence to informer Stefan Halper were never shared with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court before it approved four warrants authorizing a full year of surveillance of Page’s communications.
Canadian deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland and Health Minister Patty Hajdu will be among the world leaders and global elites speaking as the World Economic Forum officially launches its “great reset” this week.
They are determined to flush Canada down the toilet.
JOE BIDEN looks tipped to battle it out with German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s successor who pushed a US-ISIS conspiracy theory.
…Mrs Merkel may not have much say in how the US-Germany relationship pans out, as she was last week replaced as leader of Germany’s Christian Democrats (CDU) by centrist Armin Laschet.
Many now note that while it is difficult to predict how Mr Laschet will engage with Mr Biden, looking back on the German politician’s previous rhetoric might offer some clue as to how their relationship will develop, and potentially collide.
…Mr Laschet, who was then MP for North Rhine-Westphalia, replied: “Yes, Mr Kerry, but You supported ISIS and Al Nusra against President Assad in Syria.
“And they are financed by Qatar and Saudi-Arabia.”
He added: “Assad was fighting against ISIS and Kerry tried to weaken Assad in this fight.”
Mr Laschet’s line has been described as a “conspiracy theory” which pushes an element of legitimacy onto the country’s President – who has been described as a dictator – Bashar al-Assad.
He went on to claim that many of the victims of the Syrian war were “killed by rebels and al Nusra terrorists”, and not overwhelmingly by Assad and his forces.
OTTAWA — New documents show Canada’s cyberspy agency was so alarmed by the potential fallout from an alleged secrecy breach by a senior RCMP employee that it revised a damage assessment to “severe” from “high” in the days after his arrest.
Cameron Jay Ortis was taken into custody in September 2019 for allegedly revealing secrets to an unnamed recipient and planning to give additional classified information to an unspecified foreign entity.
Ontario is reporting 1,740 cases of #COVID19 and over 30,700 tests completed. Locally, there are 677 new cases in Toronto, 320 in Peel and 144 in York Region.
As of 8:00 p.m. yesterday, 295,817 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) January 26, 2021
Ford government extends state of emergency, coronavirus stay-at-home order for additional 14 days
The Ford government has extended its second state of emergency and a stay at home order due to coronavirus for an additional two weeks.
Included as a line in a news release about the vaccine program, the province says both the state of emergency and the stay-at-home order will now extend until at least Feb. 9.
Oh Oh! There are now 43 confirmed cases of the UK B117 variant in Ontario and Toronto’s top doctor says you should assume it is spreading
Your Liberal Government hard at work securing vaccines… Anand’s office forced to clarify statements made by Fergus
No one saw this coming! Coronavirus: Vaccine supply fears grow amid EU export threat
Last week, AstraZeneca told the EU it was falling behind on its supply target because of production problems and Pfizer-BioNTech has also said supplies of its vaccine will be lower.
In response, EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides has now said companies making Covid vaccines in the bloc will have to “provide early notification whenever they want to export vaccines to third countries”.
Billions of dollars in increased federal government spending has failed to improve the standard of living for Indigenous Canadians, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.
Despite a four-fold increase in spending between 1981 and 2016, the gap between Indigenous Canadians and other Canadians based on the Community Well-Being Index, which uses census data to measure income, employment, housing and formal education every five years, has barely budged in 35 years
A doctor from the Wuhan hospital hit hardest by the Covid-19 epidemic has said he and colleagues suspected the virus was highly transmissible in early January last year, weeks before Chinese authorities admitted it, but were prevented from warning anyone.
The doctor’s testimony – in a new BBC documentary on the 54 days between the first known case of coronavirus and the Wuhan lockdown – adds to mounting evidence of Beijing’s early attempts to cover up the virus outbreak, and intimidate healthworkers into staying quiet.
Canada’s natural resource minister rebuffed calls to issue sanctions on the United States over President Joe Biden‘s move to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline expansion.
“Madame Speaker, I have not yet heard a single argument that would convince me that a trade war is in the best interests of our oil and gas workers,” Seamus O’Regan said during an emergency debate in the House of Commons Monday evening.
Have a drink Seamus your work here is done.
Angus Reid Poll: Overall, 59 per cent of Canadians say it’s time to move on from Keystone XL, an opinion driven by respondents in the country’s most populous provinces, especially Quebec
Imagine changing the rules in the middle of the game, so that hits rather than runs, or first downs rather than touchdowns, determine the game winner. That is exactly what is happening with COVID reporting, just as many of us predicted. This confirms the lingering question of how much of COVID was about the actual virus versus a political club to hurt President Trump and drive him from office, quite successfully.
