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It is one of Italy’s best-selling souvenirs – a calendar depicting handsome young Catholic prelates, popularly known as “the hot priest calendar”.
But the photographer who took the images for the A4-sized calendar has admitted that hardly any of the cassock-wearing hunks are really priests. Some were models, while others were just ordinary men who agreed to pose for him, he said.
Thanks to Isolated Incidents, I have reposted you, but this is too good to miss.
In Vicenza in north-east Italy, pro-Palestine supporters get a beating from the police & the full water cannon treatment.
Warms the cockles of your heart. pic.twitter.com/wKqgaeDi1c
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) January 20, 2024
Canadians aged 18 to 24 frame the country as being caught in a tide of anti-Muslim hate that easily eclipses anything happening to Canadian Jews, a Leger survey found
Shocking video shows moment NYC driver intentionally plows into NYPD officer: ‘F–k these cops!’
h/t Lenny Schneider
UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland caught attention before his main event fight on Jan. 20 in Toronto as he sparred with journalists, criticized the prime minister, and told Canadians he’s standing up for their freedom.
The American mixed martial artist told a rowdy crowd at the event’s press conference on Jan. 18 that he would continue to “stick up for you [expletive] guys.”
He appeared donning a white t-shirt with the printed words “Strickland” and “Make Canada Great Again.”
NEW: UFC’s Sean Strickland is asked if he’ll challenge Trudeau to a cage match.
“He actually boxed once, it’s the most f** pathetic thing on the planet.”
– “Did he do it in blackface?” #UFC297 #seanstrickland #Trudeau #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/PXEPev49r6
— William Diaz-Berthiaume (@wdiazberthiaume) January 20, 2024
NEW: UFC champ Sean Strickland tells Canadian journalist to go "f**k" himself after the journalist tried asking a 'gotcha' question about the LGBT community.
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"You're a weak f**king man. You're the f**king problem. You elected Justin Trudeau."
"The fact that you have no… pic.twitter.com/LpThPtBFwD
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 17, 2024
The future of iconic magazine Sports Illustrated looked dire Friday after the publisher announced mass layoffs.
The Arena Group — which had been roiled by reports that the fabled magazine published AI-generated content — admitted to failing to make a $3.75 million quarterly licensing payment to Authentic Brands Group due this week.
As a result, the publicly-traded Arena announced Thursday it would make a “significant reduction” in its workforce of more than 100 journalists.
h/t DS
The lifetime cost of buying, owning and operating the air force’s troubled CH-148 Cyclones is now expected to top $14.87 billion, according to a leaked internal Department of National Defence briefing document obtained by CBC News.
Most of the expense — $10 billion — is being attributed to the cost of sustaining the aircraft. The CH-148 Cyclone is unique; no other nation flies the maritime helicopter.
The estimate is contained in a spreadsheet in a submission sent to the federal Treasury Board in late 2021, when the Department of National Defence (DND) was seeking an additional $111 million to top up the program’s budget. The increase eventually was approved.
OTTAWA – Canada has become a “safe haven” and international hub for notorious crime groups as illicit trade in the country is “booming,” according to a report by an American think tank.
“Canada has become a safe zone for the world’s most notorious crime groups and threat networks that are harming Canada’s national security and imperiling the security of other nations,” warns a report published in late November by the International Coalition Against Illicit Economies (ICAIE).
Shahzad Masih, a Pakistani Christian, was 16 years old and working in a hospital as a janitor in 2017, when Muslims falsely accused him of blasphemy. Since then, has spent more than five years in prison, and has been sentenced to death by hanging for statements he did not even make.
In 2017, authorities arrested Masih after a Muslim coworker and another man linked with the Islamic terrorist group, Tehreek-e-Taliban Islami Pakistan (TTIP), accused him of insulting Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. In 2022, a court sentenced Masih to death.
For nearly a decade after 911 Pakistan was the largest source country for Muslim immigrants to Canada.
Company that supplies animals for television work asks question that leaves owners scratching their heads
An agency that supplies animals to the media has asked owners whether their pets are gender neutral or non-binary in a drive to be more “inclusive”.
Urban Paws, which describes itself as the leading animal talent agency in the UK, included four gender options on the application form owners are required to complete to register their pets: male, female, gender neutral/non-binary and prefer not to say.
OTTAWA — Apparently, being Liberal isn’t as fun as it used to be.
Sean Casey, the long-serving MP for Charlottetown, will admit that. And how could he deny it? One glance at the polls would make any Grit cringe. Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives — whom many Liberals disdain as their ideological opposites — are threatening to unseat them. And Casey has picked up on public fatigue with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, which he sees as the predictable result of grievances accumulated through eight years in power.
Even so, to Liberals like Casey, it is too early for defeatism.
Sadiq Khan has been filmed celebrating Transport for London’s decision to “pause” enforcement action against the capital’s cabbies who failed to meet English language requirements.
In footage exclusively obtained by GB News, the London Mayor was seen entering a crowd of flag-waving and placard-clutching demonstrators outside City Hall.
h/t Mauser
Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister, Chrystia Freeland explains at the World Economic Forum that ‘Decarbonization’ is the way.
She is admitting to committing GENOCIDE against Canadians.
Arrest this stupid Nazi Bitch. pic.twitter.com/RAnzBTUb2l
— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) January 18, 2024
I grow weak at the thought!
Federal Green Party leader Elizabeth May will restrict her liquid intake to the minibar in support of hunger strikers demanding Canada implement Israel arms embargo #cdnpoli https://t.co/BqFd7WPExT pic.twitter.com/aIR7dXFnfX
— Fancypants Maloney (@fancypants_s) January 19, 2024
Convicted Toronto terrorist Rehab Dughmosh — who attacked a Scarborough Canadian Tire in 2017 with a golf club and a knife, shouting “This is for ISIS” — continued to express her solidarity with the Islamic State terror group and a desire to kill people while in prison, and she may commit another terrorism offence now that she’s been released, an RCMP officer told a judge on Wednesday.
