Scientists make me laugh. What is the difference in a rock 1 billion years old compared to 4.6 billion years. Who in their right mind would even come up with this unbelievable dating system? Has anyone ever counted to a billion?
First, put an immediate halt to all immigration, illegal or otherwise. I have a sense this entire border crossing issue is a red herring when compared to the impact of Canada's normal immigration policy.
Once a moratorium on immigration in in place, then have a debate on what it is that Canadians want to achieve in the longterm from their immigration policy and how it should go about meeting those goals.
For example, according to Stats Canada reports, if current immigration trends continue (not illegal immigration) then Canada will go from being 80% European to just 20% European by the end of this century. Is that something the majority of Canadians welcome? If not, then the trend should not be allowed to continue.
Ever notice that the comments sections of North American and European papers are always most fired up on the subject of immigration? It's because we are dramatically changing the character of our civilization. Canadian cities are becoming chinese colonies , the USA is becoming more and more like Latin America and Western European cities are dominated by muslims. Western people don't mind some immigration but we have too much , it's changing our civilization too fast and in many cases it's driving down wages and driving low skilled native born workers out of the labour force .
As one who has lived in Vancouver most of my life I totally agree with the professor. I left for Victoria a year ago because the Vancouver I grew up in and thought I would never leave changed dramatically in the last 10 years. My guess is that the greater Vancouver population is 50% Asian and that has changed the atmosphere in the city completely. Does telling the truth make me or the Professor racist? I don't think so.
The union that represents letter carriers in Saskatoon has reached an agreement with Canada Post to deliver an anti-abortion flyer that targets Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau.
Five carriers refused earlier this week to deliver the flyers from a group called the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform because of their graphic content.
The flyers, inside envelopes labelled as “Important Election Information,” contain pictures of an aborted fetus and Trudeau.
The flyer says the man vying to become the next prime minister supports abortion until birth and “a vote for Justin Trudeau is a vote for this,” referring to the picture.
The University of Toronto says it stands by a health-studies course in which students were required to read and watch material stating vaccines are toxic and linked to serious health problems.
The course, taught at U of T’s Scarborough campus earlier this year by Beth Landau-Halpern, a homeopath who has written that measles and chicken pox help children grow, was under review following a report in The Globe and Mail in February about her anti-vaccine stance.
The university’s review concluded the course content on immunization “had not been unbalanced” and that “in context, [it] would enable critical analysis and inquiry,” according to an e-mail statement from Althea Blackburn-Evans, U of T’s director of media relations.
The report was completed in March but was not released publicly until Monday.
The review focused primarily on a course material involving vaccination. The required reading and viewing material for that lecture included a two-hour long interview with Andrew Wakefield, the disgraced former British surgeon who popularized the false idea vaccines are linked to autism and other chronic illness. Other course material included a video promoting the idea vaccines are unsafe; a video titled Vaccine’s Safety: A Crime Against Humanity; and a book that claims vaccines have not reduced rates of disease or increased lifespan.
The recommended reading included several articles falsely linking vaccines to autism as well as chapters of a book linking vaccines to violent behaviour and disease. There are no materials from government agencies or respected medical journals documenting the many successes of vaccination programs.
The university’s review, conducted by Vivek Goel, U of T’s vice-president of research and innovation, stated the material was not unbalanced because students “have already seen the other side” of the vaccine debate in other courses. According to the review, Ms. Landau-Halpern told Dr. Goel that students are “able to have a discussion from all perspectives.”
Jen Gunter, a San Francisco-based obstetrician-gynecologist who blogs about evidenced-based medicine, called the conclusion “obscene.”
“I think it’s a perversion of science,” she said in an interview. “Two plus two is always four. You don’t get to have a class where two plus two is five and the students help to balance it out.”
In addition to concerns over anti-vaccine material, a group of scientists and U of T faculty members also complained in a letter to university president Meric Gertler about course material used by Ms. Landau-Halpern that stated quantum physics can be used to explain why meditation can reduce the size of cancerous tumours and why homeopathic remedies can heal even though they don’t contain active ingredients. The review did not address any of those concerns.
Anad Mahmoud, a 22-year-old electrician, says masked ISIL men dressed in long Pakistani-style robes came last week to the farming village of Guba, on the outskirts of Mosul. Though Mr. Mahmoud is a Sunni Arab, most of his neighbours were Shia Turkmen and Shabaks, another religious minority.
Mr. Mahmoud says the Shiite men captured by ISIL were made to dig a pit that would prove to be their mass grave. “They took about 80 Shiite people to a giant hole. They put jerry cans that were filled with something like kerosene in the pit with them, and then blew them up. I heard the sound.”
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Mr. Mahmoud, who now shares a tent with five Mosul refugees in Khazir, says he narrowly avoided death himself. “First they said ‘You are a Shiite and we are going to execute you.’ Then when they discovered [from his identification] that I am Sunni, they said ‘You are living in a Shia area, so we will treat you the way we treat them. You must be killed.’”
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The controversial exclusion of women from various settings in Israel because of pressure from ultra-Orthodox Jewish leaders reached a new level this week with a major conference on gynecological advances that is permitting only males to address the audience.
The conference on “Innovations in Gynecology/Obstetrics and Halacha [Jewish law]” is being held by the Puah Institute this Wednesday in Jerusalem. It will include such topics as “ovary implants,” “how to choose a suitable contraceptive pill” and “intimacy during rocket attacks,” in which there are many qualified female professionals, but none will be permitted to speak, at least not from the podium.
Women are allowed in the audience, in a section separate from men.
Embattled minister Ted Haggard admitted yesterday that he received a massage and bought methamphetamine from a gay prostitute who claims to have exchanged sex for money with the evangelical church leader for three years.