Rachel Gilmore accuses Jordan Peterson of poor social media conduct

Global News reporter Rachel Gilmore said she wants to see a full representation of the tweets which led to prominent Canadian psychologist and author Dr. Jordan Peterson being investigated by the College of Psychologists of Ontario (CPO).

“This piece fails to mention whether his professional association took issue with this one,” said Gilmore in a Wednesday tweet.

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Taxpayer-Funded VIA Rail on Track to Lose $411 Million in 2023

Taxpayer-funded Crown corporation VIA Rail will run at an estimated operating deficit of $411 million this year, according to the company’s newest corporate plan. Despite layoffs and service cuts to try and slow steep losses, the railway is expected to continue to lose money for at least two more years, according to the report.

The railway lost $370.5 million in 2021 and $415.8 million in 2020.

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Is it racist to like big butts?

The derriere discourse guilt-trips white women

The human butt has long been the object of all manner of obsessions. We worry over it: its size, its shape, whether or not it has cellulite on it, how it looks in a pair of jeans. But now, a new source of concern emerges: the alarming possibility that one’s butt — or at least, one’s relationship to butts generally — is racist.

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The Star’s Worst Nightmare: Toronto man used COVID-relief money to import Donald Trump-branded gun

Toronto man used COVID-relief money to import Donald Trump-branded gun parts through the mail

A Toronto man who used COVID-relief funds to buy and illegally import gun parts from the southern United States — including a Donald Trump-branded semi-automatic pistol — is now looking at a penitentiary sentence.

Last fall, on the eve of trial, Devon Pelley pleaded guilty to 10 firearm importation and gun possession charges laid after the Canada Border Services Agency and Ontario Provincial Police in October 2020 intercepted packages containing four firearm slides and barrels, sent by the mail from Alpharetta, a city in northern Georgia, to a fictitious person at a budget hotel on Queen Street West in Toronto.

OMG! It has Trump on it!

The perp imported one Trump gun not multiple Trump gun parts.

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‘Native American’ artist Kay LeClaire accused of being white also ‘made up stories about visions,’ is married to researcher

There were already accusations of fraudulent behavior shadowing Kay LeClaire when they showed off their intricate bead- and basket-work on Etsy and social media over the last two years. The posts described the “visions” and dreams that led the Wisconsin artist — who identifies as non-binary and Native American — to create the elaborate pieces of art.

But more than once, the real creators of the work had come forward to take ownership of pieces that LeClaire, 28, tried to appropriate, said a Native American administrator who has known LeClaire since 2020.

“[LeClaire] passed off people’s crafts as their own, and made up stories about the visions,” said Jon Greendeer, the Health and Wellness Coordinator at the Ho-Chunk Nation, in Black River Falls, Wis. “In this way, they did more damage than any European colonizers did in the old days.”

This gal raised the bar on crazy race faking.

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Nuclear reactor pressure tubes are deteriorating faster than expected … so it’s full speed ahead on EV-topia

Early in the summer of 2021, Canada’s nuclear safety regulator received alarming news.

Inspections had revealed that two pressure tubes from different reactors at Canada’s largest nuclear power plant, the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, had deteriorated far more quickly than expected. This meant the station’s operator, Bruce Power, had violated the terms of its operating licence. The revelation put the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission in a tight spot. How were its leaders to respond?

Pressure tubes are commonly described as the heart of the CANDU reactor, Canada’s homegrown nuclear reactor design. The tubes contain uranium fuel bundles and heavy water, which serves as coolant.

We can barely keep current infrastructure working yet Junior assures us everything will be just dandy in Electric-La-La-Land.

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Funeral home owner jailed for selling body parts

A former funeral home owner has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for dissecting hundreds of bodies and selling the parts.

Megan Hess, 46, pleaded guilty in July to defrauding relatives of the dead by dissecting 560 corpses and selling body parts without permission. Hess had operated a funeral home, Sunset Mesa, and a body parts entity, Donor Services, from the same building in Montrose, Colorado.

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More needs to be done to contain GG’s extravagance

Indian name means “Put it on the tab”

In a rare show of unity, members of Parliament from all parties are angrily demanding answers about sky-high expenses racked up by Gov. Gen. Mary Simon and her team.

Curiously, Rideau Hall’s rebuttal is essentially that the expenses are “not very extravagant” (emphasis added). MPs haven’t bought that line since the moment the National Post broke the story about Simon and her entourage racking up nearly six figures on airplane food during a week-long trip to the Middle East. Yet, government bureaucrats remain committed to misleadingly downplaying the wasteful spending and offering half-measures rather than meaningful reforms.

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Transgender man dipped prosthetic penis into pub drinker’s pint, court hears

A transgender man dipped his prosthetic penis into a pub drinker’s pint, a court has heard.

Jesse Hawthorne, 30, was asked to leave the pub after fellow drinkers took offence over the prank, but he subsequently smashed a bottle by throwing it at a one-armed bandit machine.

Hawthorne was later arrested for criminal damage over the incident at the Cwtch bar in Caerphilly, south Wales.

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