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There is a metal box placed on the wall of the bathrooms that most wouldn’t even notice.
Intravenous drug users, though, know what it’s for.
Even the shiny new $824-million Union Station transit hub subtly offers a hint of the problem authorities have no answer for. Drug use is common on TTC and GO properties. When you have that you will also have crime, overdoses, unstable behaviour and, of course, danger.
Indigenous, racialized, LGBTQ groups and sex workers criticize online hate bill
OTTAWA – Members of the LGBTQ community, Indigenous people and racialized groups fear a proposed law tackling online harm could disproportionately curtail their online freedoms and even make them police targets, responses to a government consultation have warned.
The documents, revealed through an access to information request, contain warnings that federal plans to curb online hate speech could lead to marginalized groups, including sex workers, being unfairly monitored and targeted by the police.
The team was assembled to stop a pandemic — and then disappeared
In August 2016, a group of public health experts, policymakers and donors met in the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Conference Center overlooking Lake Como. Their aim was ambitious: to agree on “bold global action” that would mark the “beginning of the end of the pandemic era”. In other words, they hoped to find which viruses might cause the next pandemic, and get a head start on developing vaccines and drugs.
Something odd appears to be happening across America: In the past six months, 18 U.S. food processing plants have reportedly burned down, and Twitter has questions.
“This is an odd coincidence,” remarked Wall Street Silver, who posted a collage of headlines from Texas, Nebraska, Oregon, Tennessee, California, and more, all screaming “Fire!”
Trans non-binary elementary teacher says 3 year olds are old enough to learn about gender identity, sexual orientation, and pronouns. These are the people teaching your kids. pic.twitter.com/fylE9jCQrF
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 10, 2022
Coca-Cola Consolidated and Giant Food held an Earth Day environmental cleanup event with a Democratic Washington, D.C., councilman who has accused Jews of controlling the climate.
Ward 8 councilman Trayon White Sr., who is challenging incumbent mayor Muriel Bowser in the Democratic mayoral primary, teamed up with the Coke-bottling company and grocery chain last week to host the cleanup day for Oxon Run, a stream located in White’s ward.
Much of the world has been stirred by the courage and determination of the Ukrainian people as they fight the Russian oppressor.
Marvin Westwood, an emeritus professor of counselling psychology at UBC, has spent three decades working with veterans, expresses compassion for the men of Ukraine and elsewhere. They are confronted with horrible options.
“War is a setback for gender equality. There’s still this bias around the world. It’s socialized in almost every country that guys are supposed to be the ones who fight. The highest value is that men don’t need protection; they protect everybody else. But many men don’t necessarily want to fight.”
Do what Canada does and make the armed forces viable for transgenders only.
Russian authorities have launched a criminal investigation against a student from Zambia for dancing in front of a war memorial.
The woman, identified by local media as Rebecca Ziba, 21, posted a clip of herself ‘shaking a**’ next to the Memorial of Glory in the city of Khanty-Mansiysk.
She is now suspected of committing a crime under Part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation which ‘provides for the responsibility for the rehabilitation of Nazism’.
“Here’s a developmentally appropriate way to talk to toddlers about gender”
“The parents guess the baby’s gender based on genitals and sometimes they make a mistake” pic.twitter.com/NMJHmyuk0l
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 21, 2022
Ontario NDP pledges free prescription birth control if elected in June
The Ontario NDP is promising to cover all prescription contraception under OHIP if it is elected to form government in June.
“People should not have to shell out $30 a month, every month for years on end, for birth control,” Party Leader Andrea Horwath said in a statement. “And no one who wants contraception should go without because it’s just not in the monthly budget.”
The New Democrats say they could implement free birth control “within weeks” of a victory in June.
A worthwhile initiative.
h/t MP
Kamala Harris on space is truly remarkable. Enjoy: pic.twitter.com/Z5NkME491A
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) April 20, 2022
‘Deadly’ misogyny is apparently surging in the classroom
Exhale, everyone. The results from the NASUWT teachers’ union poll are finally in.
And as the weekend’s headlines all suggest, they paint a very grim picture indeed. Deadly misogyny is “surging” in the classroom, leaving female teachers feeling “scared or intimidated just for showing up to work.” And the reason for all this, of course, is “the influence of the ‘incel’ subculture on teenage boys.”
Burger King has apologized, and it wasn’t for its burgers. That’s the news. An advertising campaign in Spain during Easter caused a flood of complaints calling for a boycott for offending Catholics. On the billboard, the words of the consecration, the most sacred words in the missal, could be read in thick letters: “Take and eat. This is not meat.” And smaller: “100% vegetarian. 100% flavor. Big King Vegetable.” In another ad from the same campaign, there was the biblical reference: “Flesh of my flesh,” with the word “flesh” crossed out and replaced by “vegetable.” This blasphemous campaign launched just as Spain fills up with religious tourism to celebrate Holy Week. What a brilliant idea, Burger King!
IMF report warns that haywire climate plans could trigger energy price crack-up
Tuesday’s 180-page World Economic Outlook from the International Monetary Fund is a gloomy portrait of a global economy heading into slower growth due to the war in Ukraine, pandemic lockdowns, monetary risks, fiscal extravaganzas and other products of interventionist policy-making. It makes for unsettling reading. No less grim is the second IMF report of the day, a 100-page Global Financial Stability Report, which warned that inflation, private debt, sovereign debt and other risks have risen in the wake of Vladimir Putin’s war.
