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The head of the RCMP and the former public safety minister continued to insist on Monday that there was no political interference in a police investigation into the Nova Scotia mass shooting of April 2020.
The House of Commons committee on public safety called back Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair and RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki to drill down into the details of a tense conference call between Lucki and senior staff in Nova Scotia that was held in the days after the shooting.
Petty disputes are being recorded as crime in a “completely mad way” that is scaring the public, a police chief has said.
Sir David Thompson, chief constable of the West Midlands, told The Times that verbal spats between neighbours were being registered as criminal incidents in official data submitted to the government.
Police-recorded crime in England and Wales hit a new high last week with a total of 6.5 million offences in the 12 months to June 2022, up from the previous all-time high of 6.3 million in the year to March.
Is this the worst political ad ever? I’m not Jewish, but shande-wise this is embarrassing to me as a human. (I’m picturing Nancy Pelosi’s version. “Putani, eh? Dassa Italiano for Republicans. Pazzo! Imma talking anyone who vota for these stronzi…” Then Biden can get in on it with his fake Irish act, although that would take a while to record. Ilhan Omar, we could learn Somali…)
No matter where you stand politically, I think that we can all agree that this ad is cringy on so many levels. pic.twitter.com/Sl331QSfnO
— Dovi Safier (@safier) October 31, 2022
We live in serious times – yet our leaders are woefully inept.
During this summer’s Tory leadership contest, when the UK’s then foreign secretary, Liz Truss, was battling to become prime minister, the security services discovered that her personal mobile phone had been hacked. A year’s worth of messages – including sensitive discussions with foreign colleagues about the war in Ukraine as well as private conversations with her political allies – are believed to have been compromised. Then prime minister Boris Johnson and cabinet secretary Simon Case managed to suppress the news of the hack, until it was revealed in yesterday’s Mail on Sunday.
A year’s worth of messages between allies compromised? It makes me wonder if the speculation the US and Britain teamed up to destroy the Nordstream pipelines is true and has been exposed by the Truss hack.
Believing that there are only 2 genders is white supremacy pic.twitter.com/2ykFQVumk1
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 30, 2022
Women in the armed forces have been threatened with disciplinary action and told to stop “sleeping around” after they reported sexual abuse, The Times has been told.
The claims emerged as new analysis showed that only one in ten rape cases brought to MoD trial results in a conviction. Campaigners want an overhaul of the military justice system after a Times investigation found the conviction rate for rape cases heard at court martial was only a seventh of that in the civilian courts.
For your daily laugh that NPR calls their evening newscast All Things Considered, on Saturday night they celebrated the new pro-abortion movie Call Jane with actress Elizabeth Banks. Over eight and a half minutes, NPR host Michel Martin had no difficult or challenging questions, just facilitations.
Martin asked “How did this project come about and what attracted you to it?” And: “Do you have somebody in mind that you hope will see this film? And what are you hoping people will take away from it?”
MORBI, India, Oct 31 (Reuters) – Indian police arrested nine people on Monday, including ticketing clerks and contractors, as they investigate the collapse of a foot bridge in which at least 134 people, including many children, were killed.
CCTV footage from just before the collapse showed a group of young men taking photos while others tried to rock the suspension bridge in Morbi from side to side, before they tumbled into the river below as the cables gave way.
Video of the bridge collapse in Western India that killed at least 132 people
⚠️: Viewer discretion is advised pic.twitter.com/VFlPHCC8CP
— Faytuks News Δ (@Faytuks) October 31, 2022
If you’ve dismissed identity politics as frivolous, artificial and American, you may want to reconsider. For Canadian businesses dealing with the federal government, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is very real, and its impact can be very expensive. Not only that — it’s unfair and illiberal.
The good news is that Trudeau and his ministers will be sentenced to lengthy prison terms at the future Truth and Reconciliation hearings covering Liberal Party Acts Of Racism against Canadian Citizens.
Oct 31 (Reuters) – Shanghai’s Disney Resort abruptly suspended operations on Monday to comply with COVID-19 prevention measures, with all visitors at the time of the announcement directed to stay in the park until they return a negative test for the virus.
The resort said at 11:39 a.m. local time (03:39 GMT) it would immediately shut the main theme park and surrounding areas including its shopping street until further notice to comply with virus curbs.
Trans Barrister has meltdown because 8 hours is too long to work on a day… pic.twitter.com/IfVSzZ4G0w
— Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) October 30, 2022
Almost 1,000 references to dehumanising misogyny or violent action are recorded each day in the “incelosphere” as the toxicity of male supremacist content continues to intensify.
Analysis of the incel movement found that online references to inflicting violence and extremely degrading language on dedicated incel forums are running eight times higher than in 2016, when researchers first began tracking misogynist content on the internet.
Academics from the University of Exeter also noted an increasing overlap between incel followers and the far right, with online algorithms blamed for pushing young boys towards extreme rightwing ideology.
MSNBC’s Ali Velshi took his trademark cowboy hat and Saturday show to Phoenix from where he interviewed PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel about a Los Angeles Times op-ed she wrote entitled, How Elon Musk’s plans for Twitter could threaten free speech. Nossel warned that if Musk’s vision is ultimately realized, Twitter risks becoming the Tower of Babel.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The world’s preeminent women leaders in business, politics, advocacy and the arts published an open letter in Sunday’s New York Times calling for the immediate removal of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) from the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).
Signatories of the letter include Sec. Hillary Clinton, Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland, Media Leader & Philanthropist Oprah Winfrey, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate & Education Activist Malala Yousafzai, Economic & Political Leader Christine Lagarde, former First Lady of the United States & advocate of girls education Michelle Obama, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, former Executive Director of UN Women, Christiana Figueres DBE, former head of UN Climate Change Convention, former First Lady of the United States & Education Advocate Laura Bush, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate & Human Rights Activist Nadia Murad and women in leadership positions from 14 countries (and counting).
Who wants anything to with an organization like the UN that put Iran on the Status of Women thing to begin with? Next they’ll try to get Elon Musk deported!
Somalia’s president says at least 100 people were killed on Saturday in two car bombings at a busy junction in the capital, Mogadishu, and the toll could rise in the country’s deadliest attack since a truck bombing at the same spot five years ago killed more than 500.
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, at the site of the explosions in Mogadishu, told journalists that nearly 300 other people were wounded. “We ask our international partners and Muslims around the world to send their medical doctors here since we can’t send all the victims outside the country for treatment,” he said.
How can they tell when a bomb goes off? Does the place look better post detonation?
