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In 2019, Shelly Bruce, then-chief of the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), and David Vigneault, current director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), led a contingent of Canadian security and intelligence officials in the Ottawa Pride Parade, hoisting an LGBT rainbow banner. For those unaware, CSIS is Canada’s rough equivalent to the CIA; the contingent was made up of those tasked with keeping Canada safe from threats, both foreign and domestic.
Online safety a key part of Ottawa’s new gender plan — and to world peace, says envoy
OTTAWA – Authoritarian countries are leveraging social media to set back progress for women worldwide, a Canadian special envoy says, as Ottawa refreshes its cross-government gender policy.
Canada’s ambassador for women, peace and security, Jacqueline O’Neill, says these threats require supporters of gender equality around the world to work together.
… She signalled it will also include considerations around how climate can affect women’s security.
“We’re seeing a lot of armed groups around the world taking advantage of climate disruptions to both recruit women into their forces (and) to abduct girls to be, effectively, sex slaves,” she said.
Ham's new musical production looks promising!
Tsiporela Ensemble pic.twitter.com/N7g2MOtwXD
— The Mossad: Satirical, Yet Awesome (@TheMossadIL) February 24, 2024
The sea of chanting, nearly-naked men tussle, push and shove towards the shrine. “Washoi! Washoi!” they yell – let’s go, let’s go.
It is scene that has barely changed in the 1,250 years the Hadaka Matsuri, or the Naked Festival, has been taking place at the Konomiya Shrine, in central Japan.
But this year there is a change – a big one.
Away from the men’s huddle, a group are about to become the first women to ever take part.
Looks like fun.
This has to be among the most foul pro-Hamas propaganda I’ve seen in Canadian media.
It is unfathomable that an editor would allow these words to grace the page of major Canadian newspaper.
Totally and utterly disgusting. https://t.co/6bANgbiscc pic.twitter.com/02i7XLKpOb
— Joe Roberts (@Joe_Roberts01) February 24, 2024
A Stephen Harper tweet was the latest reminder of the depth of Western bias on Israel-Palestine
On Wednesday, former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper was in Jerusalem, shaking hands with the butcher of Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. According to his tweet, Harper witnessed “an Israel scarred by the unprovoked horrors of Oct. 7, but also united in its determination to end the threat of Hamas once and for all.”
“Unprovoked.” “Ending the threat of Hamas.” Phrases being repeatedly used to justify the unjustifiable.
Harper’s ahistorical and disingenuous framing of what’s unfolding in Gaza reflects the extent to which what we’re witnessing from the powerful is an attempt to promote a simplistic viewpoint of “good” and “bad.”
I try to ignore Shree Paradkar as one of her racist screeds is pretty much like another but they keep pulling me back in …
A senior Health Canada official removed mention of a “high level of impurity” in mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in an assessment done by a colleague for the department’s chief medical adviser, internal records show.
The assessment was meant as a brief on recent findings about the creation of unintended proteins by mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.
Two senior Health Canada (HC) officials, including the one with final authority on vaccine authorization, expressed concerns about the conclusions written by the HC scientist tasked with producing the assessment.
Among the $3B programs announced by Trudeau in Kyiv today is one whose goal is to establish “a gender and diversity working group to promote gender-transformative mine action in Ukraine.”
No joke!
YOU’RE ALL PAYING TO PROMOTE GENDER-INCLUSIVE DEMINING IN UKRAINE! pic.twitter.com/ZyxPP5t4wx
— Maxime Bernier (@MaximeBernier) February 25, 2024
Britain’s top universities warned staff and students that saying ‘the most qualified person should get the job’ is a microaggression.
Russell Group universities, including the University of Glasgow, have issued guidance and even provided training courses to educate people on how to eliminate microaggressions.
Guidance from the Scottish university alongside the engineering department of Imperial College London insisted that using the phrase was discriminatory.
Canada’s former Deputy Prime Minister is under fire by users on social media after repeatedly denying that biological males who identify as “women” have “male anatomy.”
Sheila Copps first entered politics in 1981 after being elected to serve as the Liberal Party Member of Parliament for Hamilton Centre. In 1984, she was elected Member of Parliament for the riding of Hamilton East and was re-elected in five successive elections.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was booed and heckled by her constituents at a heated town hall on Thursday.
AOC was interrupted by angry voters when presenting the benefits of the Green New Deal at an event in Queens.
One of the hecklers, Jonathan David Rinaldi, stood up while AOC was on the stage and announced that he was challenging Ocasio-Cortez for her congressional seat.
AOC got heckled by her constituents yesterday in a townhall here in NYC.
And I’m all in support of her heckler. 😆🥲
“You don’t care! All you care about are illegal aliens!”
🔥👏🏼🍿🍿 pic.twitter.com/7BZs71yUje
— Jinee (@jineeminee) February 24, 2024
Watching American political news these days, many Canadians may be tempted to be smug — our politics isn’t that bad, at least not yet.
It might be a good idea to put that smugness on hold. Abacus Data went into the field this week for the Star with some probing questions about trust in the media and institutions, and uncovered some stark polarization emerging in Canada.
Abacus CEO David Coletto calls it troubling, and even ventures to say we could be witnessing the emergence of two Canadas. “Basically, Canada is two worlds — those who have some trust in most institutions and those who don’t.”
Thanks to conservative transphobes, this woman lost her job and can’t afford anything now, including bottom surgery.
Can you spare some cash to support her electrolysis? pic.twitter.com/sTEGDRbRG2
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) February 24, 2024
Peel police have issued a public safety alert to residents of Mississauga and Brampton after a 21-year-old offender was released back into the community.
Police say Oloruntimilehin Ojeikere was released from custody on Feb. 22, 2024, after being charged with sexual assault, criminal harassment, and uttering threats. Among the requirements of his house arrest are that he wear a GPS monitor, remain at home except for medical emergencies or to meet with lawyers or attend court, and not go anywhere near his victims.
… Officials say Ojeikere – who also goes by “Timi” – is staying in the Erin Mills Parkway and Brittania Road area and while he may present a safety risk to the public, they will act to protect his rights “if they are infringed upon.”
Woman goes on unhinged rant claiming if white people make art that doesn’t have a political message for “collective liberation” for marginalized groups then it’s not real art pic.twitter.com/suZuAkvq2J
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 23, 2024
