Amazon rejects plea to stop selling taxi roof signs as cab scam spreads across Canada

After a long day at a work event in July, Kathryn Kozody was relieved when she spotted a car with a lit-up taxi sign.

She thought it was odd when the driver told her she’d have to pay her fare with a debit card. Still, a tired Kozody hopped in the car.

“I was like, ‘Fine, it’s kind of weird, but let’s go home,'” said Kozody, who lives in Calgary.

All those foreign workers gotta get paid ya know.

h/t DS

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Murder of teen by ‘cow vigilantes’ exposes India’s religious divide

The killing of a Hindu teenager by a group of “cow vigilantes” who thought he was Muslim has laid bare how mob violence in the name of protecting holy animals has become normalised in Narendra Modi’s India.

Aryan Mishra, 19, was travelling in a car with friends in the northern city of Faridabad when they were spotted and chased by another vehicle for some 18 miles, apparently on suspicion of being Muslim cow smugglers.

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Jewish voters favor Kamala Harris over Donald Trump 68% to 25%, poll shows

American Jews plan to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris by a wide margin, according to a new survey by a Jewish Democratic group.

The survey also found that 87% of American Jewish voters support the Biden administration’s efforts to reach a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas War that would release the Israeli hostages held in Gaza.

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Canada: ‘DEI Expert’ says antisemitism definition will be used ‘to attack Palestinian activism, promote Islamophobia’

White people are the target of DEI scammery.

Kehillat Beth Israel Congregation in Ottawa has invited former J-Space president and leftist “anti-racism expert” Karen Mock to speak about antisemitism. J-Space is the Canadian counterpart to J-Street in the U.S. The announcement was circulated in a newsletter by the organization Israel Now, which was founded by Meir Weinstein, former Canadian national director of the Jewish Defense League.

h/t Patti Jo

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