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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was frustrated with Freedom Convoy protests in Windsor and Ottawa during a call with Ontario Premier Doug Ford during last winter’s protest, saying police needed to “do their job” and that they should not need more legal tools to clear protesters.
Justin Trudeau to appear on ‘Canada’s Drag Race’ spinoff series
Justin Trudeau is swinging by the “werkroom” on an upcoming spinoff of “Canada’s Drag Race.”
Producers of the drag queen competition series say the Prime Minister will make a special appearance on “Canada’s Drag Race: Canada vs. the World.”
He’s the first world leader to visit the RuPaul-founded competition series, which has more than a dozen global spinoffs in countries including Sweden, Australia, Mexico and the United Kingdom
h/t DM
A pair of Florida sheriff’s deputies are being investigated for arresting a legally blind man after mistaking the folded cane in his back pocket for a firearm.
James Hodges, 61, was detained by the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office deputies on Oct. 31 as he walked on a sidewalk on his way home from the courthouse, First Coast News reported.
“Hi there. What’s this in your back pocket? I just saw you walking,” a female deputy says in the bodycam footage.
Transgender activists use TikTok to target youth and their guardians with false information about “gender affirming care.”
This activist claims puberty blockers are completely reversible and minors aren’t receiving sex change surgeries. pic.twitter.com/SOCgjTO9BA
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 7, 2022
It’s an Idiocracy world, and we’re just living in it.
Students at Jones College Prep in downtown Chicago conducted a sit-in on Monday after their Principal Joseph Powers was fired by the Chicago Public Schools. They were protesting Mr. Powers’ response to a student wearing a Halloween costume to school that the ignorant children mistook for a Nazi uniform but was, as Mr. Powers vainly tried to explain to the kids, a uniform worn by an East German border guard, probably from the 1980s.
Defeating Israel is part of a process to defeating the United States of America, the European Union and Canada, the leader of a Palestinian protest in Brussels declared in new footage released on Thursday by the NGO Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network.
Canadian TikTok and YouTube stars say they don’t want to have to fill in forms to prove they are producing Canadian content when Bill C-11 becomes law, with some saying they would be prepared to move to the United States or spoof an online location there to avoid extra bureaucracy.
They say having to certify their work is Canadian to satisfy a regulator after the online streaming bill passes through Parliament could dampen the spontaneity of their craft.
TikTok stars should worry about their data being sent to China.
Doug Ford says housing on protected Greenbelt needed due to rising immigration
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is justifying his proposal to remove land from the environmentally protected Greenbelt in order to build homes by saying the housing crisis has worsened and will become more dire because of increased immigration.
Ford says he welcomes a recent federal government announcement that it is seeking to boost immigration levels, bringing in 500,000 people in 2025.
But, he says, if hundreds of thousands of additional newcomers a year start arriving in Ontario, there isn’t going to be anywhere to house them.
The left should love him.
Director of the “Gender Health Program” at @childrensmn says kids can know they are transgender from the moment they can talk and that not all boys have penises.
Children’s Minnesota treats kids as young as 3 and offers puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. pic.twitter.com/zkurLEntTL
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 7, 2022
If one thing is evident from the Ottawa People’s Commission on the convoy occupation, it’s that many residents are still angry and concerned, and some still suffering, over the “Freedom Convoy’s” takeover of the city’s downtown core last winter.
On Saturday, the commission held its seventh public hearing, and third in-person, since hosting its first just over six weeks ago. Five speakers spoke at the Jack Purcell Community Centre, where about 30 people gathered to watch and listen. The hearing, which was hosted by commissioners Alex Neve, an adjunct professor in international human rights at uOttawa and Dalhousie University, and author and human rights activist Monia Mazigh, will be broadcast on the commission’s YouTube channel next week.
Federal government advised to pause Twitter ads after mass layoffs at company
A media and marketing agency that is responsible for buying and planning much of the government’s advertising has advised federal departments to pause activity on Twitter, citing mass layoffs at the company.
Cossette, which is the government’s “media agency of record,” issued guidance Friday to “pause activity immediately and monitor the situation over the weekend” due to “unknown continuity plans for moderation” and a “heightened risk of brand safety,” according to an internal document seen by CBC News.
The “heightened risk of brand safety.” Yea right.
Inside the unhinged midterm election conspiracy theories on Truth Social
Ballot boxes being stuffed. “BlueAnon”. Men in underpants. Every Democratic candidate: a “complete weirdo psychopath”.
To dive into Truth Social, Donald Trump’s Twitter-but-for-conspiracy-theorists social media platform, is to enter a world where all of the above are real topics of debate, breathlessly discussed by Trump-backing Republicans and anonymous rightwing provocateurs.
Truth Social has always been a platform for lies and obfuscations; about the 2020 election, the Democratic party, vaccines, Hunter Biden. But with less than a week before the election, the platform and its users have become even more unhinged.
Fugitive wanted for attempted double killing in Canada is found living in luxury Battersea tower block with its own rooftop pool
h/t Rosenmops
We have a serious mental health crisis in this country pic.twitter.com/NCrXwWk1eB
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 3, 2022
The New York City Fire Department says that a fire on the 20th floor of a Manhattan apartment building was caused by a lithium-ion battery connected to a micromobility device. Thirty-eight people were injured, including two critically.
