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OPP mandatory alcohol screening during traffic stops ‘not acceptable’: CCLA

A spike in impaired driving-related collisions has caused Ontario’s provincial police to begin enforcing mandatory alcohol screening (MAS) at all traffic stops in the Greater Toronto Area — a move one civil rights group says is ‘not acceptable.’

Speaking with CP24 on Thursday, Shakir Rahim, director of the Criminal Justice program at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA), said that as the new measures do not require officer’s to have reason to request a breathalyzer test, they are unjustifiable.

“This is an unjustified power to interlude into someone’s life without any suspicion [that] they have done something wrong,” he said. “That’s not acceptable.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", WTF?

UCLA Hamas Encampment Fanatics Get No Jail Time, and It Gets Worse From There

I can’t say I’m surprised given I predicted this, but that doesn’t make it any less absurd. According to a local news report in California, the violent pro-Hamas students who set up an illegal encampment and trashed the UCLA campus received no jail time.

From the LA Times a fawning review.

With remains of UCLA camp tossed in dumpster, Gaza activists assess the future

With the help of bulldozers, items including tents, chairs and yoga mats were removed Thursday morning from the UCLA encampment occupied by pro-Palestinian protesters and shoved into a large gray dumpster.

Packages of unopened plastic water bottles lay on the grass. Nearby, two white trucks held pieces of wood that had been used by protesters to barricade the camp. A group of four UCLA graduate students walked over to Dickson Court, the area on campus where the encampment once stood, only to learn the camp had been taken down. The action followed the arrests early Thursday of more than 200 protesters by officers in body armor, helmets and face shields.

h/t XC & Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Islamization of the West, WTF?

Assholery on display

h/t Mauser

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Nearly 60% of retirees are supporting adult children financially, survey finds

The majority of Canadian retirees are supporting their adult children financially, which they say is having a negative impact on their own finances, a new report has found.

According to Fidelity Investments Canada’s annual retirement report for 2024, 59 per cent of retirees report helping their non-student adult children with both day-to-day expenses and big-ticket items like home purchases, weddings and even education savings for their grandchildren.

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Why US Gaza protesters’ plea for ‘no bagels’ sparked an anti-Semitism row

This time last year, two little words amid an inventory of campus protesters’ requests might well have gone unremarked upon by most. But when a list of “needs” allegedly drawn up by the Palestinian Solidarity Encampment at UCLA in the US specified “no bagels”, many were quick to see this as a very pointed culinary demand.

A list of desired donations was circulated online by protesters on Thursday, under a heading that read: “Please ensure the donations are BDS [boycott, divestment, sanctions] compliant”. It was said to have been issued by the Students for Justice in Palestine movement manning the barricades at the University of California, Los Angeles, and whoever wrote it was firm: they wanted hot food for lunch (stressing the importance of this in capital letters), and they wanted vegan and gluten-free choices. This being California, they wanted ice. And they did not, on any account, want packaged food, coffee, bananas, nuts – or bagels.

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Guy who stole bread from the mouths of children for 14 years says don’t steal from Loblaws on account they got integrity

Galen Weston calls Loblaw boycott ‘misguided criticism’, says grocer not responsible for higher prices

Loblaw (L.TO) chairman Galen Weston on Thursday called the boycott of the company “misguided criticism”, saying the company is not responsible for higher food prices and denouncing calls to steal from the grocery chain.

Speaking at the company’s annual meeting of shareholders on Thursday, Weston said that the grocery industry has faced “unprecedented criticism” amid higher food prices, and that “it is natural Loblaw would be singled out as a focal point for media and government and, of course, consumer frustration.” Weston also says that while shareholders “may be troubled by these often-repeated stories,” the grocery retailer “has and will continue to act with integrity.

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The menace the U.S. confronts from space

News that Russia may have the ability to launch nuclear bombs through space made headlines around the globe, but other world events soon stole the attention — much to our detriment, because what we’ve read and have been told is not even half the story.

The remaining part is much scarier. Not only could a trajectory through space accelerate the speed at which a missile could strike us, it limits our ability of detection and threatens the very satellites that make our modern day lives possible.

Cell phones. Internet. Television. Plane travel. And, most importantly, national defense.

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Doctors concerned about potential spread of bird flu in Canada

H5N1 or avian flu has been detected at dozens of dairy farms in the United States and Canadian experts are urging surveillance on the north side of the border.

“We should be actively looking for it,” said Dr. Isaac Bogoch, infectious diseases specialist at Toronto’s University Health Network.

Bogoch says the number and diversity of mammals that have been affected by H5N1 this year has jumped dramatically.

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