Pregnant woman injured when rock smashes through Tesla windshield: VPD

Vancouver police are investigating after a woman was injured by a large rock that smashed into the window of a Tesla she was riding in.

Police said the woman was in the passenger seat of a grey 2022 Tesla heading north on Nanaimo Street near East 27th Avenue at around 8:45 p.m. on Sunday when a flying rock smashed into the windshield, hitting her.

The rock landed on the vehicle floor. The woman, who is pregnant, suffered a serious but not life-threatening injury.

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The invasion of America’s cringe academics

We don’t want their cowardly cosplayers

Many of us born post-1945 have wondered at some point how we might deal with an approaching fascist threat. Luckily, we have three preeminent American scholars of fascism to help advise us. And the answer from Professors Jason Stanley, Timothy Snyder, and Marcia Shore seems to be: run away.

Stanley, the philosopher-author of How Fascism Workssays he is leaving the States for Canada because of the oppressive political climate. Historian Shore, who writes about totalitarianism and is married to fellow historian Snyder of On Tyranny fame, pronounces herself “heartbroken at what has happened to my own country”. All three were at Yale, and soon will be at the University of Toronto; safely away from Trump’s targeting of DEI policies, and the recent slashing and burning of university funding. His rationale, insofar as anyone can discern it, is combatting antisemitism on campus, though what the exact connection is supposed to be is not entirely clear.

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American tourist arrested in India for attempting to contact Sentinelese tribe

An American tourist who attempted to make contact with an isolated tribe while bearing gifts of Diet Coke and coconuts has been arrested in India.

Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, travelled for nine hours in a small inflatable boat with an outboard motor in order to reach North Sentinel Island, part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Indian Ocean.

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Carney’s Dad Referred To Aboriginal Children As Culturally Retarded

Untangling Mark Carney’s father’s ties to Fort Smith, N.W.T., Indian day school

“Mr. Carney, at the teachers conference not long ago, you told about a program you have working at the Joseph B. Tyrrell (JBT) school in Fort Smith for culturally retarded children,” the host began. “First of all, would you define a culturally retarded child for me?”

The reply was unequivocal and direct.

“A culturally retarded child in the context of the Northwest Territories is a child from a Native background who for various reasons has not been in regular attendance in school,” said Carney.

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Meghan Murphy: Liberals feign outrage over Poilievre’s truth about biological clocks

Canadian Liberals performed a traditional dance of outrage on X this week, reminiscent of Twitter circa 2015. There was even a hashtag — #WomenAgainstPoilievre — despite the fact X owner Elon Musk told users hashtags had become irrelevant in December.

What was the apparent offence that caused legions of Liberals and social media commentators to post things like, “This is unbelievable in this day and age,” “Gilead Pierre wants to regulate ovaries” and “Imagine being a Woman and voting for this garbage. Ew!”

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Trump’s Fight Against Antisemitism Has Become Fraught for Many Jews

Jewicidal Rabbi

American Jews have watched with both alarm and enthusiasm as strong-arm tactics, including arrests of activists, have been deployed in their name.

Rabbi Sharon Brous was growing increasingly alarmed at the Trump administration’s strong-arm tactics, like its attacks on higher-education funding and bullying of law firms, all in the name of protecting Jews.

So early last month, she delivered an impassioned sermon titled “I Am Not Your Pawn” to her Los Angeles congregation. Hours later, the next shoe dropped. Immigration agents began detaining activists and foreign students who had been involved in pro-Palestinian protests.

“This is not going to protect Jews,” Rabbi Brous said in an interview. “We’re being used.”

You just can’t please some people.

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Satanist NJ janitor sentenced after putting poop and ‘bodily fluid’ in kids’ school food

An elementary school janitor in New Jersey has been sentenced to eight years in jail after admitting he deliberately contaminated students’ cafeteria food with feces and bodily fluids.

Giovanni Impellizzeri, 27, a self-identified Satanist who claimed to be doing the devil’s work, pleaded guilty to second-degree official misconduct and third-degree possession of child sexual abuse material in January, as reported by NBC Philadelphia.

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Trapped with a Tesla: my dream car has become a living nightmare

After our children left home, my wife and I decided to treat ourselves and buy a new car for a driving holiday in Europe. We’d been driving a family estate car for years, loading it up with kids and making trips to and from universities, but we wanted something for ourselves.

As a surprise, she booked a test drive for the Tesla Model S for my birthday. It was unlike any car I’d been in before. I thought “Wow, this is amazing.” It felt like the future: a computer on wheels that was constantly updating with new features. I can’t say I feel that way now – and many people seem to share that view. Tesla sales figures declined by 13% in the first few months of this year. Others feel even more uneasy: more than 200 demonstrations happened last weekend outside company facilities around the world to protest against Elon Musk and the wrecking ball he has taken to the federal government.

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Neo-Nazi terror propagandist ‘Dark Foreigner’ guilty on all counts

An Ottawa man accused of trying to sow hate and fear by helping create racist recruitment videos and other propaganda for a now defunct far-right international neo-Nazi terrorist group has been found guilty on all charges

Justice Robert Smith found Patrick Gordon Macdonald guilty of the three charges against him on Wednesday: participating in terrorist activity, facilitating terrorist activity and committing an offence for a terrorist group.

Joy has returned to the CBC.

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