Nintendo includes transgender character in new ‘Paper Mario’ video game

The Nintendo Switch remake of the iconic role-playing game “Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door” features a transgender character, the game’s creators confirmed.

The trans character, Vivian, originally appeared in the 2004 version of the game, which was released for Nintendo Game Cube.

In the new update of the game, released on Thursday, Vivian — who was born male — initially appears as a villain alongside her sisters, Marilyn and Bedlam.

h/t XC

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Muslims tied to Islamic State plotted fatal Ontario restaurant shooting: Crown

A gunman who is accused of killing a young Ontario man and shooting four of his family members at their small Mississauga restaurant in 2021 was allegedly part of a trio who had pledged allegiance to the listed terrorist group Islamic State, a Crown attorney said in an opening statement in the Brampton murder trial this week.

The victim, 25-year-old Naim Akl, became a target when he realized the loyalties of the group, which operated a warehouse business in the Greater Toronto Area, and planned to go to Canadian authorities, said Crown Attorney David D’Iorio.

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Trudeau supports ICJ call for Israel to stop Rafah operation & beseeches Better Angels Of Hamas to lay down their arms at his behest

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he supports an order from the International Court of Justice for Israel to stop any military campaigns in Rafah.

Hamas should lay down its arms and release the hostages still in the group’s custody, but it’s also time for Israel to stop its military campaign, said Trudeau.

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Antisemitism Tsarina: If the DEI Cabal grants Jews victimhood status then they can continue hating on White People.

Eliminating religion as a hate speech defence an idea worth exploring, says antisemitism envoy

Canada’s special envoy for combating antisemitism says she’s “very interested” in exploring the idea of eliminating religion as a possible defence against hate speech charges.

Deborah Lyons, whose mandate also includes preserving Holocaust remembrance, appeared Thursday before a parliamentary committee that is studying antisemitism on university campuses.

Jewish leaders, students and faculty have been voicing concerns about an increase in hate speech and violence since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war last fall.


Lyons said she believes universities’ equity, diversity and inclusion strategies are “failing Jews in this country” because they don’t make much mention of antisemitism specifically.

So our Antisemitism Tsarina is saying that if the DEI Cabal grants Jews victimhood status then the cabal can continue hating White People.

Why not call for the dismantling of the DEI Cabal?

Does she not get that DEI is all about anti-White racism? Or is it that she approves?

 

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Green activists don’t care how many people will die from zero fossil fuel use

We endlessly hear the flawed assertion that because climate change is real, we should “follow the science” and end fossil fuel use.

We hear this claim from politicians who favor swift carbon cuts, and from natural scientists themselves, as when the editor-in-chief of Nature insists “The science is clear — fossil fuels must go.”

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Ex-Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby spared prison for perjury and fraud

A former Baltimore city prosecutor who achieved a national profile for charging police officers in a Black man’s death was spared prison time in her sentence on Thursday for perjury and mortgage fraud.

Former state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby’s sentence includes 12 months of home confinement, 100 hours of community service and three years of supervised release.

After the sentencing hearing, Mosby hugged her supporters, some of whom applauded when the judge announced the sentence. “I’m just so incredibly grateful,” Mosby told dozens of supporters outside the courthouse. “This is not over, but God was here today.”

 

Baltimore is so crooked.

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A ‘nice gesture but inappropriate’: Critics dismiss RCMP addition of Indigenous ribbon skirt to uniform

OTTAWA—The Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s addition of ribbon skirts to its uniform is being viewed as ignorant of the force’s history with Indigenous people rather than the symbol of reconciliation that it is being presented as.

On Wednesday, RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme announced on X, formerly Twitter, the addition of ribbon skirts, along with the eagle feather and Métis sash already in use, to “demonstrate the RCMP’s values of reconciliation, equity, diversity, and inclusion.”

I thought it was a Gay flag.

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It’s their culture!

Federal employee charged with sexual assault after former Afghan interpreter sues government

A federal public servant at Global Affairs who is being sued by a female former Afghan interpreter has now been charged criminally in relation to allegations in the lawsuit.

Galal Eldien Ali, a 64-year-old resident of Ottawa, has been charged with 11 counts, including multiple counts of sexual assault and sexual exploitation of a young person, assault, uttering threats and extortion.

The charges are related to the former interpreter’s claim that Ali sexually assaulted her multiple times between 2011 and 2013. Her name is under an automatic publication ban because of the nature of the charges.

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