The commission, which was established by the government in 2019, shared the results of its work on Monday in a 250-page paper. The experts examined 349 pedophilia cases during this period, with priests being suspects in around 100 of them. More than 50 of these cases have been forwarded to …
Read More »If we erase every part of our history that’s deemed problematic by today’s ethical standards, what will be left?
Sir John A. Macdonald served as Canada’s first Prime Minister from 1867-1873 and again from 1878-1891. He was born in Scotland, moved to Canada with his family as a child, and was a lawyer by trade. And while experts consistently rank Macdonald as one of the country’s most effective leaders, …
Read More »Every third Canadian sees their country as racist, but views differ sharply by gender, age and political party – poll
In the Angus Reid Institute poll released on Monday, 54% of women under age 35 were ready to condemn Canada as racist, while only 21% of men over 55 agreed. Young women, in fact, were even more likely than non-whites to take a negative view on race relations. The survey showed that …
Read More »‘Every step we take’ could be monitored and analysed if facial recognition tech isn’t reined in, UK data watchdog warns
UK Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham noted in a blog post published on Friday that facial recognition technology can be harnessed to make our lives more efficient and secure, but said there was a clear danger that it could be misused. Live facial recognition (LFR) technology capable of scanning people’s faces …
Read More »With every other argument against the 2nd Amendment failing, a professor has finally found the killer blow: yep, it’s ‘RACIST’
Anderson, an African-American studies professor at Emory University in Atlanta, is promoting her new book, which provides critical race theorists the dual benefits of vilifying the founding fathers and telling us that the gun rights enshrined in our Constitution were not about individual liberty but – you guessed it – …
Read More »Bolivia has every right to prosecute coup perpetrators for their crimes
Bolivian authorities arrested ex-interim president Jeanine Áñez on March 14 for sedition, terrorism and conspiracy for her role in the 2019 coup that ousted former president Evo Morales and ushered in a dark age of violence and repression in the country. Justice Minister Ivan Lima said days after the arrest …
Read More »‘Wrong on every level’: Charlie Hebdo condemned for ‘disgusting’ cartoon making fun of royals, Meghan Markle and George Floyd
“Why Meghan Markle left Buckingham Palace,” read the cover of this week’s Charlie Hebdo, followed by the punchline, uttered by Markle: “Because I couldn’t breathe.” The illustration depicts Markle pinned under the hairy knee of a smiling Queen Elizabeth II, with the pose and punchline a reference to George Floyd, …
Read More »Why does every American president promise to bring the economy back? Boom Bust explores
“Right now, it’s having a kind of euphoric effect with these enormous promises that it’s going to solve our problems and bring us our economy back,” Wolff says, adding: “Here’s the irony, this constant message of bringing it back. Back to what? To what it was before Mr. Trump became …
Read More »EVERY FIFTH PERSON: The USSR’s loss of civilian and military life during World War II – our Great Patriotic War
March 3, 1943 saw the city of Rzhev liberated from the Nazi occupation. Out of the 50,000 people who used to live there before the war, only about 300 survived. Two days before the city was recaptured, German troops gathered the survivors in an old church and rigged it with …
Read More »Labelling every bad habit an ‘addiction’ simply means people with no self-control fail to take responsibility for their behaviour
So, what are we to make of a recently published alarmist report that claims that almost four out of 10 students are addicted to their smartphone? The authors of the report claim that smartphone addiction causes serious sleeping problems and can be both a symptom and cause of mental health …
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