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The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has launched a review into how one of the Islamist terrorists behind the Manchester Arena bombing allegedly attacked three prison officers with weapons and boiling cooking oil.
Counter-terror police are leading an investigation into the “serious assault” by Hashem Abedi, who reportedly threw hot oil over three officers on Saturday before stabbing them with “homemade weapons”.
OTTAWA — Jaden Braves, 16, says being unable to vote in this federal election is a “disappointment” — and he’d like to be one of the last young Canadians to be left out of the conversation.
Braves and the organization he leads, Young Politicians of Canada, want to see the federal voting age lowered to 16.
“I hope that by the time I am 18, 16-year-olds that will be two years younger than me will have the chance to show up to the polls and cast a ballot,” said Braves, who is also involved with Vote 16 Canada and has a motion before Toronto city council that would extend municipal voting rights to 16- and 17-year-olds.
A mother was banned from her daughter’s primary school after complaining that staff were teaching children about transgender identity, The Telegraph can reveal.
Karina Conway, 42, was ordered to stay away from the playground before being told eight months later she could come back if she agreed not to post anything negative about the school online.
The mother-of-two had raised concerns that the school was teaching 11-year-old children that “transgender identity” was a protected characteristic.
Just a reminder to get ready for the Silent Riot! They will not be silenced. pic.twitter.com/IAwdLO1pRf
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 9, 2025
This mildly offensive, yet funny video would get him a lifetime prison sentence in England. pic.twitter.com/xpJSTLYqnK
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 12, 2025
English Heritage has claimed that Easter was not originally Christian.
The charity is accused of “whitewashing” the holiday by claiming its roots lie in a pagan festival celebrating the start of Spring.
A booklet about Easter’s origins given out at several of its historic sites says that the word comes from the name of the goddess Eostre while failing to mention Christianity at all.
More than 50 shops selling illegal magic mushrooms are operating in major cities in Canada and most of them make unsubstantiated health claims that could cause harm, according to a study by Canadian researchers published last week.
Of the 57 dispensaries found selling psilocybin as of May last year, 55 were located in Ontario or British Columbia, with 35 in the Toronto area and 15 around Vancouver. Hamilton had four and the Ottawa-Gatineau area had six.
So should we all just adopt an illegal side hustle to help pay the bills? No repercussions are evident.
WorldPride, the LGBTQ+ festival celebrating “diversity, equality and love on a global scale,” is expected to bring 2 to 3 million people to Washington beginning May 17. But a number of international groups, worried about the Trump administration’s attacks on diversity, inclusion and equity efforts and its targeting of transgender rights in the United States, say they are planning to stay away.
The executive director of the Capital Pride Alliance, which is hosting the 23-day WorldPride festival, says he doesn’t blame them.
h/t Mauser
This is an actual teacher… Another ad for homeschooling pic.twitter.com/pYMbESarqj
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 11, 2025
When you need so much holy water that you have to use a hose. pic.twitter.com/4WHKxGPJva
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 12, 2025
When Bella Bautista, who identifies as transgender, announced in February that he would be competing in the Miss Georgia USA pageant, he went on a press tour of sorts to trumpet his participation.
In an interview with Rough Draft Atlanta, Bautista spoke about how his participation would be subversive.
“I’m going into a space where I’m not sure how the treatment or reaction is going to be, but all I can hope for and pray for is that I’m treated equally and I’m scored fairly,” Bautista said.
The list of penalties for insulting people in Germany reads like a classic Mastercard advert. Displaying your middle finger to a fellow motorist: €600 to €4,000. Using the informal version of the word “you” to a police officer: €600. Calling someone a “wanker”: €1,000.
To all this, a growing number of Germans are inclined to add that upholding freedom of expression is priceless.
AAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! @fancypants_s https://t.co/Wk6E5CQfLQ
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) April 12, 2025
H/T Auntie Polly
Coachella appears to have already descended into ‘chaos’ with dozens of attendees already branding it ‘the worst in history’ and comparing it to the disastrous Fyre Festival – despite doors not even officially being open.
The iconic music festival held in California, which runs across two weekends every year, will open its gates later today to a sea of A-list celebrities and ticketholders.
But car campers have taken to social media in their droves this morning to relay the carnage in the car parks.
This and Burning Man seem to have lost their cache.
h/t Mauser
The US Air Force once made plans for a ‘gay bomb’ that would use chemical aphrodisiacs to make enemy soldiers ‘irresistibly attractive to one another.’
The bizarre plan, formulated by the military’s Wright Laboratory in 1994, was part of a six-year non-lethal weapons development project costing $7.5 million that was ultimately scrapped.
A three-page document obtained by the Sunshine Project, an anti-biological weapons organization, details the laboratory’s proposal for a bomb ‘that contained a chemical that would cause enemy soldiers to become gay.’
