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Family and intimate partner violence in Canada is rising and while women and girls remain the primary victims, the number of cases where men and boys are the victims appears to also be growing, new data shows.
Police-reported family violence rose by 17 per cent and intimate partner violence by 13 per cent from 2018 to 2023, according to a Statistics Canada report published Thursday.
Outrage has erupted on social media after Somalia’s Family Minister Gen Bashir Mohamed Jama shared photos on X of himself and another male delegate representing Somalia at a UN meeting about women’s issues.
“It is tone-deaf for the Somali government to have men on the frontline, representing women at the conference,” Fathiya Absie, a well-known Somali author and human rights activist, told the BBC.
I bet Hussen attended.
Children’s handwriting is now so bad that teenagers need lessons in secondary school, experts have warned.
Handwriting is taught in primary schools, with children expected to write in cursive “legibly, fluently and with increasing speed” by the time they leave at the age of 11.
But the increasing use of screens in and outside of the classroom has been blamed for a decline in how often and how well children can write compared to previous generations.
OTTAWA — Postmedia journalist David Pugliese says allegations by a former Conservative cabinet minister that he was recruited by the Soviet Union’s intelligence agency in the 1980s as part of a global subversion campaign are “ridiculous” and “entirely false.”
Chris Alexander, a former politician and diplomat, made the accusations during a House of Commons standing committee on public safety and national security on Thursday evening, saying they were based on documents that “originate in the pre-1991 archives of the Ukrainian KGB.”
Officials in Lancaster County, Pa., are investigating about 2,500 voter registration forms dropped off in two batches at the last minute before registration closed on Oct. 21 to determine whether they were fraudulent.
Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams said in a statement that “numerous applications appeared to have the same handwriting and other details, like addresses, appeared incorrect on some applications.”
Have you ever wanted to signal your commitment to veterans and your undying allegiance to trans ideology? Well now, for just eight British pounds, you can purchase your very own Progress Pride poppy pin, just in time for Remembrance Day.
Just say no.
An anti-Trump “poop” statue has been placed on the National Mall in Washington DC after being granted a permit by a government agency.
The excrement sits on a bronze replica of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk on the strip of land that hosts some of the city’s most iconic monuments, and in view of the US Capitol.
The satirical display was granted a permit by the US National Park Service (NPS) with less than two weeks to go until election day on Nov 5.
Mayor Olivia Chow concerned about new federal immigration cuts
When Chow was asked what these cuts could mean for the city and whether she has concerns, she was quick to raise what it could mean for family reunification.
“I am concerned about all of those people that have been waiting to bring their mom and dad to Canada … I’m worried about refugees in refugee camps waiting to come and join their loved ones,” she told reporters.
BREAKING: non-citizens in Minnesota say they are registered to vote.
But the media told me this never happens and that’s why 198 Democrats voted against a bill requiring proof of US citizenship to vote…
Video by @realmuckraker @OversightPR pic.twitter.com/w6WAgdj6Y8
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 23, 2024
Hillary warns that Trump is re-enacting a Nazi rally from 1939.
All guests (allegedly) are required to put on their Waffen wear and there will be a Schnitzel stand. pic.twitter.com/j1i0vHVlhe
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) October 25, 2024
If Canadians could vote in the U.S. election, a majority would choose to send Kamala Harris to the White House.
In a new survey from polling firm Leger, 64 per cent of Canadian respondents said if they could cast a ballot, they’d put their support behind vice-president Harris, while 21 per cent would support former president Donald Trump. Fifteen per cent weren’t sure what they would do.
They elected her non-binary Canadian counterpart.
It's a MIRACLE! @fancypants_s https://t.co/ddRaUlZ7xI
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) October 25, 2024
h/t Auntie Polly
BREAKING : Woman Breaks 84 Year Silence To Accuse Donald Trump Of Groping Her Aboard The Titanic pic.twitter.com/qy7pO2m4Qp
— @stevenvoiceover (@stevenvoiceover) October 24, 2024
