Corrections Canada to distribute items for ‘safe snorting’ in federal prisons

Corrections Canada to distribute items for ‘safe snorting’ in federal prisons

The Correctional Service of Canada has confirmed that paper straws will soon be distributed in federal prisons to facilitate safe snorting of drugs.

This week a social media post included photos of a memo distributed to Corrections staff stating that paper straws were being newly “introduced” for “safer snorting” and “intended for inhaling substances in powdered form or inhaling vapour from heated substances.”

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Bare nails are a white supremacist beauty standard say top experts

Bare nails are a white supremacist beauty standard say top experts

In recent months, Paloma Buddemeier has watched a stream of people walk into her nail salon with the goal of looking as if they’d never been there at all.

“It’s crazy,” the owner of Wumman Spa in London says.

These customers still get their nails filed, buffed, and trimmed. “You still do the cuticle, you do the soaking and hydrate everything,” says Buddemeier, “but you just put no polish on.”

… “They are often called elegant or tasteful, and these are often usually euphemisms that perpetuate white supremacist standards of beauty.”

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Bonus Racist. GRRRRR!

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The end of the Harold Ballard curse? Home of controversial ex-Maple Leafs owner is demolished in Etobicoke

The end of the Harold Ballard curse? Home of controversial ex-Maple Leafs owner is demolished in Etobicoke

As the Toronto Maple Leafs take to the ice for their 110th season this week, a landmark of one of the most controversial — and never dull — owners in their storied history has just been razed in Etobicoke.

Heavy machinery, which came on the heels of workers in haz-mat suits, has demolished the longtime home of former Toronto Maple Leafs owner Harold Ballard, who died in 1990. The house at Montgomery Road and Bloor Street in The Kingsway played a key role in sending Ballard to prison for fraud and theft more than 50 years ago, not long after the Leafs last won the Stanley Cup.

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ISIS terror suspect arrested in Montreal was in Canada illegally: RCMP

ISIS terror suspect arrested in Montreal was in Canada illegally: RCMP

A man arrested in Montreal after he allegedly planned a terrorist attack on behalf of the Islamic State was in the country illegally, according to police.

Louay Angoud “has no legal status in Canada,” the Royal Canadian Mounted Police told The Gazette.

Angoud was arrested Wednesday at Place Ville Marie by the RCMP and faces three terrorism charges in relation to a planned attack with a chemical weapon.

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The violent life of Woody Harrelson’s hitman father

The violent life of Woody Harrelson’s hitman father

“Based on a true rumour,” claims the opening of the new Apple TV comedy, Brothers, about Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey – occasional co-stars and real-life best buds – discovering that they might be, well, brothers. This story has been doing the rounds since 2023, after McConaughey’s mother, Kay, told Harrelson that she had known Harrelson’s father years earlier.

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