No kid is safe from anti-LGBQT hate, not even straight kids. This incident happened in Canada, but it’s going to happen here too, wait and see. A 9-year-old fourth grade girl was competing in an elementary school track meet at Kelowna, British Columbia, when a grandfather began yelling at her.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Canada’
June 14th, 2023 - 1:00 am § in Schools & Colleges
Even straight kids can be victims of anti-trans hate
January 30th, 2023 - 4:43 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Fox host calls for Maginot Line on Canada border
“Fox News host Emily Compagno said that the United States needs a ‘fortified boundary’ or another type of wall on the northern border with Canada” because of increased border crossing, Raw Story reported on Monday, January 30, 2023 (read story here). The Maginot Line was a se[...]
October 21st, 2022 - 1:24 pm § in Politics
Brotherly unlove
The mayor’s race in Port Colborne, Ontario, is pitting two estranged brothers against each other. Bill Steele (left, photo below) was a city councillor for 17 years before being elected mayor, and was running for reelection unopposed until his brother Charles, a retired mailman, decided to tak[...]
August 17th, 2022 - 4:38 pm § in Misc.
What happens when QAnon nuts try to arrest real police
This article contains language not suitable for children “A group of QAnon believers over the weekend tried to conduct citizens arrests of police officers in the city of Peterborough, Ontario,” Raw Story reported on Wednesday, August 178, 2022 (read story here). They’re followers [...]
August 2nd, 2022 - 10:51 am § in Misc.
The Queen of North America
Romana Didulo (photo), a Phillippines-born resident of British Columbia, has decided to replace the Canadian and U.S. governments with a monarchy (see story here). Didulo has proclaimed herself queen (see her website here). As a potentate with absolute power, she’s fashioning her government vi[...]
February 20th, 2022 - 12:37 am § in Politics
B.S. Alert: Ottawa police horse didn’t trample elderly woman
In the 1999 cult film “Fight Club,” a character named Robert Paulson was shot by police (details here). On Jan. 6, 2021, a rumor circulated on Twitter that a woman named Roberta Paulsen had been shot at the U.S. Capitol. While the incident was true (and widely covered by media), the Capi[...]
February 18th, 2022 - 8:14 pm § in Health
Do Canada’s stricter Covid-19 rules make a difference?
“Canada’s provinces have generally employed strict Covid-19 measures such as school mask mandates and vaccine passports … [that] have enjoyed broad public support in doing so; even the strictest restrictions are less controversial in Canada than in the US,” Vox says (here). ̶[...]
February 14th, 2022 - 9:14 pm § in Politics
Why is this needed for peaceful protest?
“Alberta RCMP submitted this photo of what they say is a cache of firearms and ammunition found in three trailers near an ongoing blockade of the Canada-U.S. border.” Read story here. Trudeau invoked the “Emergencies Act” to “address the impact of continued protests acr[...]
February 11th, 2022 - 11:50 pm § in Law and Courts
What will happen to blockading truckers who defy injunction?
A Canadian judge issued an injunction against the trucker blockade of the U.S.-Canada border crossing in Windsor, Canada, on Friday afternoon, February 11, 2022. Hours later, “little had changed” at the border. “Dozens of people were still on site well after 9 p.m.,” when the[...]
Canada’s approach to Covid-19 is different and better
“Canada’s provinces have generally employed strict Covid-19 measures such as school mask mandates and vaccine passports … [that] have enjoyed broad public support in doing so; even the strictest restrictions are less controversial in Canada than in the US,” Vox says (here). ̶[...]