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When students at a Missouri high school got together to discuss starting a chapter of the conservative organization Turning Point USA, they were met by protesting peers who jeered them and ended up shattering a glass table.
According to The Kansas City Star, when the politically conservative students met in the Lee’s Summit West High School library on Tuesday, “many [other] students filled the library to protest, while hundreds more protested outside in the courtyard.”
The rot runs deep.
‘A crutch to continue to prejudice’: Montreal’s LGBTQ community fears stigma from monkeypox
David Hawkins wasn’t alive during the height of the AIDS crisis in the mid-1980s, but decades later, his organization is still working on dispelling harmful myths associated with the disease.
“All these years later, it is still seen as being the gay disease, and it’s stuff like that that people still point to as the reason for the blood ban for men who have sex with men to donate blood … We’re still fighting that,” said the executive director of Montreal’s West Island LGBTQ2+ Centre.
Now, LGBTQ advocacy groups and experts are concerned about another wave of discrimination hitting the community as several countries, including most recently Canada, are confirming cases of monkeypox, which has so far been identified mainly among men who have had sexual relations with other men.
Scientists, it seems, are baffled by the unexplained appearance of the smallpox-like illness associated with rodents called “monkeypox” in the West which brings unsightly sores to the skin of those who are afflicted with it.
Long a disease seen mostly in parts of tropical Africa, it has now made appearances in the U.S. continental Europe, Canada, and the U.K., all at approximately the same time.
Content warning for Indigenous readers: colonial violence is discussed in this essay.
Let’s liberate the Canadian landscape from the Group of Seven and their nationalist mythmaking
It has taken me a long time to reconcile the Group of Seven and their place in Canada’s mythology. On one hand, I love their paintings: they are beautiful and varied in their landscapes, a representation of these lands in all their sacredness and life. On the other hand, they suffocate. The Group of Seven’s nationalist story surrounds us like the prints of their work that hang in Canada’s households, schools, and galleries.
This sounds like culturally appropriated Bullshit. h/t DM
Because all criminals follow strict gun laws. pic.twitter.com/dVAy8f0tc4
— Steve Inman (@SteveInmanUIC) May 20, 2022
This licensed therapist is really happy that she was able to help a young girl get top surgery because of a TikTok video. Keep your kids off TikTok. pic.twitter.com/4SrMX3f64z
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 19, 2022
Conservative leadership hopeful Leslyn Lewis has outlined a frightening scenario: if Canada signs an international pandemic treaty, Canadians’ travel and medication choices could be restricted, the Constitution could be suspended and it could all pave the way for a global government.
Lewis made those claims in a half-hour-long live event broadcast on Facebook and Twitter Wednesday night. They build on arguments she has made already about the dangers involved in Canada signing the World Health Organization’s Pandemic Response Treaty.
Several legal experts say her claims are completely untrue.
Russia claims to have used laser weapons on the battlefield in Ukraine, although the US says it has seen no evidence of this and Ukraine has derided it as propaganda. What are laser weapons and how effective could they be in the conflict?
Yury Borisov, the deputy prime minister in charge of military development, told Russian TV that a laser prototype called Zadira was being deployed in Ukraine and had burned up a Ukrainian drone within five seconds at a distance of 5km (three miles).
Conservative Party investigating racist email sent to Brown campaign
The Conservative Party of Canada says it’s investigating a complaint from the Patrick Brown campaign about a racist email which expressed support for Adolf Hitler and Nazism.
Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner, co-chair of Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown’s campaign for the Conservative leadership, posted the text of the email Wednesday on her Twitter account.
This stinks from the head down.
Please watch and share this woman’s heartbreaking story and important message pic.twitter.com/e2OdSyyjc5
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 19, 2022
What were they thinking?
That’s what customers, restaurants and delivery workers want to know after a surprise promotion by the food delivery platform Grubhub went badly awry – and proved there’s really no such thing as a free lunch.
Grubhub’s plan was ambitious: to feed everyone in New York City and the surrounding Tri-State area for free, during lunch hours on Tuesday. The platform cited a survey it had conducted that found that 69% of working New Yorkers said they had skipped lunch.
Montreal’s top public health official is urging people not to panic as her department investigates 17 cases of suspected monkeypox in the greater Montreal region.
At a news conference Thursday morning, Dr. Mylène Drouin said there are 15 suspected cases on the island of Montreal, one on the South Shore and another north of Laval.
What is monkeypox?
At a former paintball park in west Ukraine, Canadian, British and American military instructors were putting two dozen recruits through a warm-up drill.
“Breathe!” a U.S. army veteran told the trainees, who lay prone in the ankle-high grass, aiming their AK-47 rifles at the treeline.
“Keep your fingers on those triggers!”
The instructors were members of the Wolverines, a group started by international veterans who have been quietly operating in Ukraine.
Measures akin to a COVID lockdown are needed in order to curb the EU’s reliance on Russian oil, one member state has said.
Lockdown-like measures should be implemented across the European Union to curb the bloc’s reliance on Russian oil, Luxembourg’s energy minister has said.
The demand comes as the transnational bloc prepares to publish a plan aimed at weaning the EU off of fossil fuels supplied from Russia, with some nation-states such as Germany being badly addicted to the likes of natural gas provided by the state.
Luxembourg? Isn’t that next to the Grand Duchy of Fenwick? I bet it’s a wet dream to Justin though.
SCOOP: Students at an Oregon high school speak out over school’s bathroom policy which allows males to use the girl’s bathroom.
They voiced concerns of being sexually assaulted and a parent tells me the staff was completely dismissive.
Watch one student share her experience: pic.twitter.com/b4PjALfWye
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 18, 2022
