‘I’m very nervous’: Public servants react to feds’ plan for increased in-person work

Tanya King, a transgender and autistic public servant working for Public Services and Procurement Canada, said she is concerned about the possibility of having to spend more time in the office, given that she has faced harassment and micro-aggressions from her coworkers.

These are the foot soldiers of your ruling class. Perks unheard of by working people mean civil servants do not vote conservative in any number worth considering.

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Columbia University community ‘shattered’ after police raid

Police and private security throng every entrance but one. Steel barriers line the streets. Students pack up belongings in their cars and leave for home – classes are cancelled, and exam plans are up in the air.

Everywhere there is gloom, and uncertainty about what happens next at Columbia University in New York City.

Students told the BBC that the university’s decision to call in police to clear a Gaza protest late on Tuesday, leading to a raid on the occupied Hamilton Hall and more than 100 arrests, has left the college community shattered.

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Paris City Hall highlights “Minima Gesté”, a drag queen who will carry the Olympic flame through the streets of the capital

Translation – “Perched on 25 cm heels, for performances lasting more than 2 hours, the drag queen
@minima_geste is ready for her Olympic Torch relay 🤩

See you this summer, on July 14 & 15, for the passage of the Flame in the capital!”

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Poilievre flirts with far right while media looks away says silly woman who went moist between the hams for Venezuelan dictator

A dozen years ago, Pierre Poilievre was a relatively obscure political figure who was mostly regarded — to the extent he was regarded at all — as a fiercely anti-labour guy on the far-right of the Harper cabinet.

But there he was in Parliament last February, voting in favour of pro-labour legislation banning scabs in federal workplaces.

Has he fundamentally changed his thinking — or was that simply part of his new, air-brushed “friend of the working man” look?


More on Linda and her fellow travelers: Venezuela’s collapse and the ‘useful idiots’ of the Canadian left

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Terrified kids flee as trans sex offender allegedly tries to grab one of them from school grounds

Disturbing video captures the moment screaming kids run in terror as a transgender sex offender allegedly tried to snatch one of them from their Colorado elementary school.

The surveillance footage leading to the arrest of Solomon Galligan, 33, was first shown Monday to families of the children involved in the scary ordeal at Black Forest Hills Elementary School in Aurora last Friday, according to CBS Colorado.

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Birley Academy: Three stabbed at Sheffield school as boy, 17, is arrested for attempted murder

A 17-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after three people were stabbed at a school in Sheffield.

Officers responding to reports of an incident involving a sharp object at The Birley Academy at around 8.50am, South Yorkshire Police said.

Two adults suffered minor injuries while a child was also checked over after being assaulted.

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Brock University launches review after professor compares Israel to Nazi Germany

Decolonization and anti-racism scholar

Brock University has launched a review after a professor praised Hamas’s October 7 atrocities against Israeli civilians, compared the Jewish state to Nazi Germany, and cited antisemitic conspiracy theories in a series of blog posts.

Tamari Kitossa, a decolonization and anti-racism scholar at Brock University, where he heads the critical sociology department, wrote a four-part series written following the Hamas atrocities, which Kitossa describes as “miraculous.” He argues that Zionism and Nazism are one and the same.

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D-Day beach cafe ‘hates the English and refused to serve British soldiers’

A Second World War tour guide has criticised a cafe overlooking Normandy’s Omaha beach, claiming it declined to serve a group of visiting British soldiers “because they are English”.

Creperie la Falaise, in Vierville-sur-Mer, sits near the famed coastline stormed by Allied troops on D-Day as they battled to liberate France from Nazi occupation.

With the landmark 80th anniversary of D-Day just weeks away, and despite local businesses being reliant on foreign visitors, battlefield guide Eugenie Brooks said the soldiers she took to the eatery were refused service.

I have read that allied soldiers preferred the Germans to the French.

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