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Unisex lavatories risk ‘discrimination against biological women’

The EHRC has warned shops, pubs, restaurants and cafés that after the Supreme Court ruling, failure to provide single-sex facilities may leave them open to legal challenge

Shops, pubs, restaurants and cafés which fail to provide single-sex lavatories may be committing “indirect discrimination” against women, the equality watchdog has warned.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said that transwomen — biological males — should no longer be allowed to use women’s facilities, including lavatories and changing rooms, after a Supreme Court ruling.

The ruling could lead businesses to convert single-sex lavatories into unisex facilities to ensure provision for transgender people.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Terror police investigate gun and crossbow attack on women in Leeds

A man has been arrested and counterterrorism police are investigating after three people were injured in an attack involving a crossbow and a firearm in Leeds.

Officers were called to the northwest outskirts of the city at 2.47pm on Saturday to reports of an “ongoing serious incident involving a man seen with weapons”, West Yorkshire police said.

Two women were taken to hospital for treatment. A 38-year-old man who suffered a “self-inflicted injury” was arrested and also taken to hospital. The injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Leftism is killing chocolate

After years of writing about politics, I’m a pretty hardened character. I’m cynical, pessimistic, and, while I’m often disgusted, I’m seldom shocked or panicked. But what I read at the JoNova site was so terrible I’m reeling: “Price fixing kills the cocoa farm.” It turns out that, thanks to price controls in Ghana, one of the world’s primary chocolate-producing countries, chocolate farmers aren’t even bothering to plant new crops. Honestly, I feel quite ill.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Sweden’s elder rape scandal

The sexual abuse of elderly women by migrant carers was shamefully ignored.

In autumn last year, Sweden was shaken by a scandal that shares some disturbing similarities with the grooming-gangs scandal in Britain. It is on a far smaller scale. But in Sweden, as in Britain, it seems that many vulnerable individuals have been raped and sexually abused, while the people whose job it should have been to protect them failed to do so. What’s more, those in positions of authority sometimes downplayed or hushed up allegations because of their low view of the victims and, potentially, the identity of some of the perpetrators.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Sweden, WTF?

Suspect in Vancouver festival attack ID’d as Kai-Ji Adam Lo, 30, after at least 11 killed, dozens more injured

The driver accused of fatally mowing down at least 11 festival attendees when he plowed through a crowd of people at a Vancouver block party Saturday was identified as local man Kai-Ji Adam Lo, authorities said Sunday night.

Lo, of Vancouver, is facing eight counts of second-degree murder so far after his alleged rampage at the Lapu Lapu Day festival – a celebration of the Filipino community – Saturday night.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Casualty Event", WTF?

Mystery man from mysterious Brampton mysteriously taken into custody on mysterious allegations he tried to join mystery terror organization in mystery country

Ontario man in custody on allegations he tried to join terror group: RCMP

A 32-year-old Ontario man has been arrested under the terrorism peace bond provisions of the Criminal Code after allegedly trying to leave Canada to join a terrorist organization, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).

The arrest was made by the RCMP’s Integrated National Security Enforcement Team.

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Dog found using owner’s t-shirt after 529 days in Australian wilderness

A miniature dachshund has been found alive and well after spending more than 500 days in the Australian wilderness.

Kangala Wildlife Rescue said it had been working “around the clock” to find the dog, Valerie, on Kangaroo Island, off the coast of Australia. She was last seen by her owners on a camping trip in November 2023.

Georgia Gardner and her boyfriend, Joshua Fishlock, had momentarily left Valerie in a playpen at their campsite while the couple went fishing. When they returned, she was gone.

How?

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Having babies makes you Hitler says Star

To keep Canada off Trump’s authoritarian path, we must reject pronatalism and protect women’s rights

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s recent talking point commiserating with couples in their late 30s whose fertility window is closing and who can’t afford to start families touched a nerve. While it’s true that some couples are starting families later or having fewer children, and Canada’s fertility rate is declining, Poilievre’s rhetoric about women’s biological clocks running out is offensive. Liberals and the NDP rightly condemned it.

While he meant to sound sympathetic, Poilievre calling women’s wombs into service as a means towards political ends should be seen for what it is: Canada’s own brand of pronatalism — societal and institutional pressures on women (mostly from men) to have children. It mirrors U.S President Donald Trump, the self-professed “fertilization president” who uses pronatalism as a cover for rolling back reproductive rights and gender equality.

Where does the Star find these extremist loons?

How Did Having Babies Become Right-Wing?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Worse Than Hitler", "You're A Nazi", Demography, Election 2025, The F$CKING Toronto Star, WTF?

Perhaps it’s time Alberta does go it alone and says goodbye to Canada says Star

Alberta is giving me a headache.

The province stands alone in its incurable sense of grievance with the rest of the federation.

Not even a $34.2-billion expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline (TMX) built by Ottawa to get Alberta oil to non-U.S. markets for the first time has reduced Alberta’s bellyaching.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Election 2025, The F$CKING Toronto Star, WTF?

9 people killed after SUV rams into Vancouver street festival

Several people have been killed and multiple others injured after the driver of a black SUV slammed into a crowd at a street festival Saturday evening, say Vancouver police.

It happened shortly after 8 p.m. near East 41st Avenue and Fraser Street, where the Lapu Lapu Day Block Party was winding down, after drawing up to 100,000 people through the day.

Police say a man in his 30s is now in custody.

Not an act of terrorism

Lapu Lapu Day is a Pilipino celebration.

h/t Al the Fish

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?