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Sikh separatist movement gains steam in Australia, Canada; Hindu temples vandalized

Multiple Hindu temples have been vandalized in Australia and Canada, actions that have been attributed to members of the pro-Khalistan movement.

In the span of two weeks, three Hindu temples were vandalized in Australia – on January 12 at the Swaminarayan temple in Melbourne, January 16 at the historic Shri Shiva Vishnu Temple in Victoria, and on January 23 at the ISKCON Temple in Melbourne.

Breaking: Temple vandalised in #Canada by Khalistanis‼️
Gauri Shankar Mandir, a prominent Hindu temple in Canada, defaced with anti-India graffiti in Canada. It is suspected that the the temple was defaced by terror organisation Sikhs For Justice (#SFJ) and other Khalistani group pic.twitter.com/t62ruvmgGk

— kakalibran (@kakalibran) January 31, 2023

by Blazingcatfur•February 1, 2023February 1, 2023•0•Canada, India, Khalistan, WTF?

Alberta lawyers launch petition against mandatory course on Indigenous history

EDMONTON—A group of lawyers in Alberta is pushing back against a rule mandating professional development, which currently only applies to a course focused on Indigenous history and contemporary issues.

The petition, signed by 51 lawyers, calls for a special Law Society of Alberta meeting to vote on repealing Rule 67.4, which requires all Alberta lawyers to take an Indigenous cultural competency course called “The Path” or face penalty of suspension.

by Blazingcatfur•February 1, 2023February 1, 2023•0•"Identity Politics", "Peak Woke", WTF?

Canada Really Has to Reassess Which World Citizens It Is ‘Rescuing’

… Following a court ruling that mandated the immediate repatriation of Canadian ISIS terrorists who ended up in the Al Hol displacement camp in horrendous conditions (of course, they would not have found themselves there had they not joined ISIS in the first place!), we are now about to find ourselves dealing with the return of citizens who made a conscious decision to join a heinous jihadist organization that participated in unspeakable acts against many. Their victims include the Yazidis, a “nation” the terrorists saw as apostates and, hence, expendable.

by Blazingcatfur•February 1, 2023February 1, 2023•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, WTF?

‘Effectively a tool of Satan’: how the UK authorities were utterly terrified by TV

Forty years ago, the battle of early morning broadcasting came to a head. ITV lost, debuting its first ever breakfast show, Good Morning Britain, on 1 February 1983 – a full 14 days after the launch of the BBC’s Breakfast Time. But this was just a mere skirmish in a much bigger war – one that stretched from the 1950s until almost the 21st century. The battleground? How much TV should be allowed in Britain.

The conflict was fought between broadcasters, who wanted to make maximum use of a new medium, and politicians and moralists who feared that more TV would zombify the population and leave workplaces and schools empty as people stayed at home to slump in front of sets. For many decades, religious leaders argued that the box was effectively a tool of Satan.

by Blazingcatfur•February 1, 2023January 31, 2023•0•WTF?

Activists demand justice after shooting death of double amputee by Huntington Park police

Activists outraged at the shooting death of a 36-year-old double amputee demanded justice and accountability Monday during a news conference.

The Coalition for Community Control Over the Police and the family of Anthony Lowe Jr. held the conference to bring awareness to Lowe’s death.

“He was loved,” Ellakenyada Gorum, a cousin said as she sobbed. “And it’s sad how these police are getting away with killing our African American people. Just getting away with it. He was in a wheelchair. What more could he do? What more could he do?”

WARNING: GRAPHIC ⚠️ Cops in California shot and killed a disabled Black man who was trying to get away from them.

Anthony Lowe Jr., 36, was a double amputee and his family deserves justice.pic.twitter.com/eKOgolu8XT

— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) January 31, 2023

h/t XC

by Blazingcatfur•January 31, 2023January 31, 2023•0•WTF?

Vae/vem/vemself pronouns. “Hopefully that’s not too confusing” pic.twitter.com/zIhxfjSVu2

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 31, 2023

by Blazingcatfur•January 31, 2023January 31, 2023•0•WTF?

Trudeau’s Islamophobia generator Amira Elghawaby suggested Stephen Harper was ‘more hurtful’ than 9/11

A decade of Stephen Harper as Prime Minister was more “perhaps more hurtful” than 9/11, a federal inclusion advisor suggested in a 2015 newspaper column. Amira Elghawaby, in other commentaries, complained middle-class Canadians never experienced inequity and advocated for Muslim prayer in public schools since “parents of these children pay taxes.”

by Blazingcatfur•January 31, 2023January 31, 2023•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam's 5th Column, Islam's incompatibility with Western values, Islam's Useful Idiot Apologists, Islamic supremacism, WTF?

Gene editing company hopes to bring dodo ‘back to life’

The dodo, a Mauritian bird last seen in the 17th century, will be brought back to at least a semblance of life if attempts by a gene editing company are successful.

Gene editing techniques now exist that allow scientists to mine the dodo genome for key traits that they believe they can then effectively reassemble within the body of a living relative.

Dodos are most closely related to pigeons, according to sequencing of the proverbially dead bird’s genome.

Well the genie is out of that bottle.

by Blazingcatfur•January 31, 2023January 31, 2023•0•WTF?

Loblaw ends No Name price freeze, vows ‘flat’ pricing ‘wherever possible’

Loblaw will not be extending its price freeze on No Name brand products, but vows to keep the yellow label product-pricing flat “wherever possible.”

“The more than three-month price freeze ends January 31 — but we’re not done,” a Loblaw spokesperson said in an email to CTV News Monday. “Looking ahead, we’ll continue to hold those prices flat wherever possible, and switching to No Name will still save the average family thousands this year.”

And… Majority believes Canada is in a recession

The proportion of Canadians who believe Canada is in a recession (69%) has increased since last year at this time, when 51% believed Canada was in a recession.

by Blazingcatfur•January 31, 2023January 31, 2023•0•Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, WTF?

RCMP says it’s running checks on equipment purchased from company linked to China

A senior RCMP official says the force is in the midst of examining equipment it obtained from a company linked to China’s government to search for any points of vulnerability.

The national police force suspended its contract with Sinclair Technologies for radio frequency (RF) equipment last year following reporting by Radio-Canada that revealed Sinclair’s parent company, Norsat International, has been owned by Chinese telecommunications firm Hytera since 2017.

The Chinese government owns around 10 per cent of Hytera through an investment fund, Radio-Canada reported.

by Blazingcatfur•January 31, 2023January 31, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Espionage, RCMP, WTF?

Jump or be pushed: German conservatives turn on ex-Nazi hunter over race comments

“… Now, after Maassen mused in an interview about “a green-leftist race theory” that casts “whites as inferior” and promotes “immigration by Arabic and African men”, the CDU have lost patience with a man who kept doubling down on culture war tropes, making himself a cult figure on the right fringes.”

by Blazingcatfur•January 31, 2023January 30, 2023•0•"Cancel Culture", "Criminalizing Dissent", WTF?

Connecticut Parents Arrested for Letting Kids, Ages 7 and 9, Walk to Dunkin’ Donuts

“I have never felt threatened by a single person in this town until meeting those officers and the social worker.”

It was Super Bowl Sunday in February 2019. Cynthia Rivers and her husband decided that their kids, ages seven and nine, deserved a long-promised treat for cleaning their rooms: the right to walk to Dunkin’ Donuts by themselves. (Reason has changed her name to protect the family’s anonymity.)

This was in Killingly, Connecticut, a suburban town in the northeast part of the state. The Rivers’ lived near an elementary school, library, state police barracks, sidewalks, crosswalks, many Victorian-style homes, and the aforementioned donut shop. The kids gathered $7, and off they went.

by Blazingcatfur•January 30, 2023January 30, 2023•0•WTF?

Now that’s desperate …

Veteran Ontario Liberals want Green MPP Mike Schreiner to be their leader

Some veteran Ontario Liberals want Green Leader Mike Schreiner to cross the floor and seek the leadership of the Grits — but he’s not interested.

In an open letter to Schreiner to be released Sunday, 39 Liberal activists plead with the Guelph MPP to consider entering their undeclared leadership contest.

“We are a group of Ontario Liberals who are deeply concerned about the state of politics in Ontario, and more broadly, about the future of our province and our country,” says the letter, signed by former cabinet ministers Deb Matthews, Greg Sorbara, Liz Sandals, and John Milloy as well as Kate Graham, who finished third in the 2020 Liberal leadership, MPP Lucille Collard (Ottawa-Vanier), and ex-leader Lyn McLeod.

Update: Green Leader Mike Schreiner now says he needs ‘time’ to think about joining the Liberals, but some call the plan ‘an insult’