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There are some 67 countries in the world that still consider homosexuality and gay rights a sin.
Some countries have made homosexuality punishable by death.
According to recent reports, executions for gay sex occur in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Yemen and Somalia.
In three more countries, the death penalty for consensual same-sex relations is on the books – Brunei, Mauritania, Nigeria – but by all reports, executions have not been carried out in recent years.
All we have to do is look at Uganda, which recently passed some of the harshest anti-gay laws just days before Pride Season began. Its government has imposed the death penalty for what is described as “aggravated homosexuality” – which includes gay people having sex with a minor or if the accused suffers from HIV.
Those human rights abuses should have been the focus as Pride Season kicked off this week.
But in what has become an increasingly divided LGBT community in Canada, the queer activists have hijacked the discourse.
They’ve decided those institutions and assorted others that don’t fly Pride flags or embrace gender ideology or don’t shout their gayness from the rooftops or don’t march in lockstep with their increasingly radical way of thinking are engaged in hatred.
This tweet from a socialist activist is highly indicative of their way of thinking:
Best yet. pic.twitter.com/wv7azUet49
— Birgit Omoruyi Umaigba 🇳🇬🇨🇦 (@birgitomo) June 1, 2023
I’m not sure who this activist defines as a “homophobe” but for years and years, Pride has been about acceptance, tolerance and just plain having fun.
But then the Rainbow flag was replaced by the Pride progress flag, a creation of queer activists who feel BIPOC queers and trans folk are more oppressed than regular mainstream gays and lesbians like me.
The queer activists have become louder and louder, declaring anyone, gay or straight, who doesn’t use pronouns or believes in ramming gender ideology down the throats of prepubescent children or who think biological males identifying as trans can’t have children, are hateful, transphobic and of course, from the dreaded far right.
They are enabled by corporate Canada (and America) desperate to look socially responsible and to make big profits off the LGBTQI+ population (instead of being attacked by the angry mob).
It was perhaps predictable to see the plethora of virtue signalling messaging from various corporate entities this week.
Happy #PrideMonth, Toronto! 🏳️🌈
— Toronto Hydro (@TorontoHydro) June 1, 2023
At Toronto Hydro, we’re proud to stand in solidarity with the LGBTQ2S+ community. Let’s continue to foster safe, inclusive and empowering workplaces where everyone can proudly express their unique selves. pic.twitter.com/XPAKfDRwWT
Note the Pride progress flag in these tweets:
Our commitments to the LGBT+ community don’t start and end with Pride. During Pride month and beyond, we respect and celebrate everything that makes you, you.
— Scotiabank (@scotiabank) June 1, 2023
TPA Directors @TpaGrande & @TPATomlinson were PROUD to join @TPS51Div this morning to raise the Progress Pride Flag & celebrate the start of #PrideMonth! If you were part of a Pride flag raising event at your division please tag @TPAca & let’s spread the love! Happy Pride!! 🌈 pic.twitter.com/uDLZ5y9YYS
— Toronto Police Association (@TPAca) June 1, 2023
These entities embedded the Pride colours right into their logos:
Of course, it’s easy for these corporations to virtue signal with a tweet, or a colouful logo. It’s far harder to do the heavy lifting and actually admit there are still countries (many with a largely black or Muslim population) that consider homosexuality a sin and where people must hide their true identities.
The activists would never go there, so to speak, given that there is likely a cognitive dissonance between the attitudes of those countries and the support of the woke for all BIPOC and Muslim causes.
Still, it is painful for many of us who lived in the closet or fought for gay rights in a far less tolerant era to see the divisiveness and the shrieking by these activists in search of a cause.
I’ve repeatedly said that they do not do any of us in the gay community a service with their attempts to bully anyone who doesn’t march to their precise drumbeat.
If there is any sort of backlash, it’s because parents and others – who are perfectly accepting of my marriage to a woman – are tired of being dictated to by the loud out-of-control queer activists.
A grown man exposed his penis to children while denouncing “white privilege” in a performance on the opening night of the taxpayer-funded Quebec City Museum of Civilization’s “Love me gender” exhibit.
The museum is defending the act as a “contemporary art performance” aimed at representing “artistic diversity.”
DISTURBING: A man shows children his penis & denounces “white privilege” as part of a performance at the Quebec City Museum of Civilization’s new “Love me gender” LGBTQIA2S+ exhibit. “Because a black trans woman proceeded my route, I can emancipate myself tonight at the museum.” pic.twitter.com/pwCAsSpBWs
— Élie Cantin-Nantel (@elie_mcn) June 1, 2023
According to a news release, the museum’s new “LGBTQIA2S+” exhibit allows people to “explore the plurality of experiences related to genders. It also highlights how they have transformed over time and in different cultures, in Québec and elsewhere.”
“The main subjects of the exhibition are gender identities and gender expressions; diversity in sexed bodies in the animal and human world; social gender norms and the discrimination associated with them; the social movements and their past and present demands as well as queer and trans cultures of today,” adds the museum.
An undercover video from the exhibit’s opening night by Rebel News shows a shocking performance in which a man in a plexiglass case exposed his penis to children while discussing transgender people and denouncing white privilege.
“White skin, white skin, emaculated, white skin, privileged. Are you afraid to think about it?… Because a black trans woman proceeded my route, I can emancipate myself tonight at the museum,” said the naked performer wrapped in saran wrap and tape, before two other individuals unwrapped him and cut off his underwear. The man then put on a women’s dress.
In the video, kids are seen reacting uncomfortably to the nudist act.
The Civilization Museum’s “LGBTQIA2S+” exhibit also features multiple pride flags, different modellings of penises, vaginas and breasts, vials of hormones, photos of political tattoos, trans bodies and desecrated Christian outfits and symbols.
A look at the taxpayer funded Quebec City Museum of Civilization’s “Love me gender” LGBTQIA2S+ exhibit – which featured a “contemporary art performance” by a man who exposed his penis to children on its opening night. (Source: @RebelNewsOnline) pic.twitter.com/FL82X0WvyA
— Élie Cantin-Nantel (@elie_mcn) June 2, 2023
Phrases seen in the exhibit include “queer power,” “they/them/theirs,” “it’s a beautiful day to smash the patriarchy,” “sex work is work,” “men need abortions too” and “respect my pronouns.”
In response to a query by Le Journal de Montreal columnist Sophie Durocher, a museum spokesperson defended the performance – while boasting about the taxpayer-funded institution having also invited children’s drag performer Barbada de Barbades to the opening night.
“During the opening night of the Love me gender exhibition, several artists were invited to perform, including Barbada, the circus company Flip Fabrique and the theatrical company Kill ta peur, who offered a contemporary art performance,” said public relations officer Anne-Sophie Desmeules.
“All these performances and interventions took place exclusively as part of the launch evening, and were aimed at an informed audience. They aimed to represent the artistic diversity of this community.”
WATCH: @ThevoiceAlexa of @RebelNewsOnline asks Quebec children’s drag performer Barbada (school teacher Sebastien Potvin) about the naked man at the museum. “If the parents wanted to go there, I trust the parents in that… Nudity should not be taboo, a body is a body.” https://t.co/idQ9QCgK2j pic.twitter.com/inU0A2JnLz
— Élie Cantin-Nantel (@elie_mcn) June 1, 2023
The Museum of Civilization now has a “benevolent warning” for the “all ages” exhibit on its website, noting that it “shows some explicit anatomical elements and partial nudity scenes.” It hence recommends that “children be accompanied by adults to guide them in their visiting experience and start a dialogue on gender diversity.”
In an email to True North, Conservative Party of Quebec leader Eric Duhaime described the exhibit as “the wokinization of our institutions.” He added “I was outraged to learn that they want to indoctrinate children in gender theory. For me, moral values are the job of parents, not the government.”
Many people on social media reacted with disgust at the nudist performance entertained by the museum.
https://t.co/wdAkMjtMur pic.twitter.com/eVmNwRXm8z
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) June 2, 2023
“I have no words to describe how much contempt I have for the gender ideologues and their enablers, they’ve set tolerance for normal people back 30 years,” said one Twitter user, while another said, “this is the reason people are hating on pride so bad. Leave children out of it.”
“This is simply not ok in any way shape or form. Completely unacceptable on every level,” said another Twitter user. “What’s more disturbing is parents who sat there watching the whole process,” writes another.
The Quebec City Museum of Civilization is a provincial government institution and receives millions of dollars annually from taxpayers. The Quebec Government says the museum’s purpose is “to make known the history and the various cultural elements of our civilization, particularly the social and material aspects of the cultures of the occupants of the territory of Québec .”
The “Love me gender” exhibition will be at the museum until Apr. 14, 2024. It is sponsored by TD Bank and Ubisoft.
The vote left no doubt where the House of Commons stood when it came to demanding special rapporteur David Johnston resign.
The vote for his ouster was 174-150.
The former governor general released a statement following the vote on a motion brought forward by the NDP, which the Conservatives and Bloc Québécois supported while the Liberals stood opposed.
His reason for refusing to step down? He was appointed to probe allegations of foreign interference by the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and not by the Commons.
The motion called on Johnston, whom Trudeau named back in March to look into allegations that China tried meddling in the past two federal elections, to “step aside from his role.”
It asked the government to instead launch a public inquiry into the issue of foreign interference, a move that all opposition parties want, but that the former governor general recommended against in his initial report last week.
“When I accepted the mandate to act as independent special rapporteur, I did so with full knowledge of the fact that the work ahead would be neither straightforward nor uncontroversial,” Johnston said in his statement.
“I deeply respect the right of the House of Commons to express its opinion about my work going forward, but my mandate comes the government. I have a duty to pursue that work until my mandate is completed.”
Earlier in the day, Trudeau said he maintained confidence in Johnston, despite the stance of opposition MPs.
Opposition parties initially decried his appointment because of Johnston’s family connections to the prime minister’s family and the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.
Trudeau brushed off those concerns, telling reporters that he views the matter as political parties wanting to score “partisan points.”
“The fact of the matter is David Johnston has served this country in extraordinary capacities for decades,” Trudeau said on his way into a meeting with his Liberal caucus.
“He’s taken this incredibly seriously.”
Johnston said in his report that due to the sensitive nature of national security and the intelligence he studied, there would be no way to divulge the information Canadians are seeking publicly. He said that would defeat the purpose of a public inquiry.
He said what he plans to do instead is hold a series of public hearings to further probe the issue.
Those hearings would focus on hearing from officials of both past and present governments, as well as members of diaspora communities affected by foreign interference attempts.
“As I have indicated, there is much work yet to be done and a further public process is required to identify specific reforms that are necessary to preserve the integrity of our democratic institutions.”
“Foreign governments are undoubtedly attempting to influence candidates and voters in Canada, and I have identified serious shortcomings in the way intelligence is communicated and processed from security agencies through to government,” Johnston said in his statement Wednesday.
There is a new Leger poll, however, which indicates Canadians have not bought into Johnston and his appointed role.
According to Leger, Canadians are not satisfied with the findings and recommendations of Johnston in his role as special rapporteur on foreign interference.
Johnston released his first report on Tuesday in which he shut down calls for a public inquiry into the matter.
The Leger poll, commissioned by the National Post, suggests that many Canadians are not persuaded by Johnston’s report or his reasoning.
According to the poll of 1,531 Canadians recently conducted online, only 27% of respondents said they believe Johnston’s report was “rigorous impartial work” or contained “foreign policy expertise.”
Thirty-three percent said they don’t agree that Johnston’s report was grounded in sufficient expertise or impartiality, while 40% said they are either not sure or do not know.
Half said they do not think that Johnston’s report will “change anything” in the way the government handles foreign interference in the next election, while 25% said they think it will and 25% said they are unsure.
The poll also reveals that Canadians are concerned about China’s influence and activities in Canada, and that they have low trust in the federal government’s handling of the issue.
More bad news for the Liberals.
A Toronto man arrested for allegedly threatening to shoot the city’s mayoral candidates received funding from the City of Toronto in 2013 via a grant program dedicated to funding local artists.
A Toronto Arts Council 2013 Allocations funding document lists the accused, Junior Francois Lavagesse, as the recipient of a $1,000 microgrant from the City through a “Arts for Children and Youth” fund.
A video posted to Lavagesse’s YouTube channel, titled “16 Bars,” on May 28, 2014 also references the Toronto Arts Council microgrant. Lavagesse also went under the stage name “Jae Legit” and was a performer in the local Toronto rap scene.
On Thursday, the Toronto Police Service (TPS) arrested Lavagesse and charged him with two counts of weapons dangerous, carrying a concealed weapon, uttering threats and failure to comply with a recognizance.
According to a TPS news release, “a man entered a location and made threatening remarks about shooting Toronto mayoral candidates” and “the man brandished what appeared to be a firearm.”
Lavagesse appeared before the Toronto Regional Bail Centre on Friday morning for a scheduled court appearance.
“No candidates were present when the threats were made today. As far as I’m aware, the location is unrelated to any candidate appearances,” TPS spokesperson Stephanie Sayer told the outlet CP24.
“This was a blanket threat and there was no specific candidate named.”
Lavagesse also received glowing coverage from Canadian legacy media outlet The Globe and Mail in 2014
The outlet dedicated a special profile to the accused, Junior Francois Lavagesse, in an article titled “From brooklyn to beats and Toronto Streets” in Jan. 2014.
According to Globe reporter Sissi Wang, Lavagesse had “turned his life around” as a youth leader and hip hop artist in Toronto.
In the interview, Lavagesse claimed that he left “the thug life” behind and pursued a life as a hip hop artist, hoping to encourage others to do the same.
“Growing up, music was my passion and an outlet to express myself. Running workshops for 16 Bars Hip Hop made me realize my potential and released me from the thug life,” said Lavagesse.
Independent journalist and filmmaker Aaron Gunn has travelled the country to highlight how permissive drug policies are harming communities and making the problems they purport to solve worse. He joined True North’s Andrew Lawton for a wide ranging discussion about his new documentary, “Canada is Dying,” which you can watch here.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used a Toronto Raptors event on Thursday to launch partisan attacks against the Conservatives, blaming the rise in gun violence on the government of former prime minister Stephen Harper.
Trudeau gave a short speech alongside president of the Toronto Raptors Masai Ujiri in Toronto at an OVO Athletic Centre announcement.
During his remarks, Trudeau made several digs at “Conservative politicians” for allegedly stoking fears around violent crime.
Yesterday PM @JustinTrudeau used a @Raptors event to launch partisan attacks against the @CPC_HQ and the Harper government for his failures in preventing a surge of gun violence. pic.twitter.com/bJSgM9z42A
— Cosmin Dzsurdzsa 🇷🇴 (@cosminDZS) June 2, 2023
“Let’s be honest here, Conservative politicians spend a lot of time stoking fear around violent crime but they have consistently stood against measures to ensure less crime and fewer victims,” claimed Trudeau.
“The truth is the previous Conservative government made absolutely no effort to tackle gun violence and to this day Conservative politicians continue to cozy up to the gun lobby but our government will continue to step up because this is what responsible leadership requires us to do.”
Harper has not been prime minister for nearly eight years.
Major cities like Toronto have seen a sharp spike in gun crime incidents over the past few years. According to Toronto Police Services data, 2022 saw a 22.1% increase in total shootings and firearm discharges.
Last year, the city witnessed a total of 166 events with 64 people killed or injured.
Trudeau marked the first National Day Against Gun Violence on Friday to raise awareness about the issue across Canada.
On social media, Canadian Coalition for Firearms Rights spokesperson Tracey Wilson slammed the government for its failed approach on gun violence.
“Canada is experiencing a 32% increase in violent crime, a 92% increase in gang homicide, our revolving door legal system spits violent, repeat offenders back onto the street thanks to Liberal policies and drugs flow like water,” said Wilson.
“This is a perfect example of being the worst, most ineffective, damaging, worthless government in the history of this country.”
As the Trudeau government’s controversial Online News Act, C-18, inches closer to becoming law, tech giant Meta is testing a new feature on its platforms that will block news content for many Canadians in a trial run that will last a month.
The announcement comes after the Head of public policy at Meta Canada Rachel Curran said the platform would be making a stand against Bill C-18, which would require social media platforms to pay Canadian media outlets for their content.
Meta says it is prepared to block news on Facebook and Instagram if Bill C-18 passes the Senate, which could come as early as later this month.
Curran told The Canadian Press that the first tests would affect anywhere from one to five percent of Canada’s 24 million users and would prevent them from viewing links to news articles, reels and stories.
Meta says it will randomly choose news outlets and notify them that some users in Canada will not be able to view or share their content during the testing period. Curran clarified that only users who reside in Canada will be affected.
Curran says that Meta will not remove content or pages that are not related to news and that most pages will still be accessible.
“This is a business decision that we are forced to make,” said Curran last month highlighting Meta’s concerns with the legislation. “We will remove news in a way that is careful, responsible and transparent.”
“We believe that news has a real social value,” said Curran. “The problem is that it doesn’t have much of an economic value to Meta.”
“So if we are being asked to compensate news publishers for material that has no economic value to us, that’s where the problem is.”
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez called Meta’s refusal to with the proposed legislation, “unacceptable.”
“The fact that Facebook is still refusing to work with Canadians shows how deeply irresponsible and out of touch they are,” wrote Rodriguez in a tweet.
“When a big tech company, no matter their size, no matter the amount of money and the powerful lawyers they have, comes here and tells us, “if you don’t do this or that, then I’m pulling the plug” – that’s a threat and is unacceptable,” Rodriguez wrote.
“Canadians will not be intimidated by these tactics.”
When a big tech company, no matter their size, no matter the amount of money and the powerful lawyers they have, comes here and tells us, “if you don’t do this or that, then I’m pulling the plug” – that’s a threat and is unacceptable. (1/2) https://t.co/kaLie2azm0
— Pablo Rodriguez (@pablorodriguez) June 2, 2023
Meta isn’t the only big tech platform opposing the government’s Online News Act.
In March, Google announced they were running tests in order to understand how Bill C-18 would affect search results and concluded they were not in favour of the bill in its current form.
“Bill C-18 puts a price on free links,” wrote Vice President of Google Canada Sabrina Geremia.
“When you put a price on linking to certain information, you no longer have a free and open web.”
In addition, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, which represents more than 200,000 businesses, wrote a protest letter to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage against Bill C-18, saying it is undemocratic.
A University of Manitoba recreation professor is organizing drag and gender play workshops for “queer children” with the goal of helping them affirm their “complex gender identities.”
Dr. Fenton Litwiller, who identifies as “non-binary” and uses “they/them” pronouns, seeks to “create spaces for queer joy” with a gender, youth, sexuality, and play project – which is made possible in part by funding from the Government of Canada.
A University of Manitoba professor organizes drag & gender play workshops for "queer children" with the goal of helping them affirm their "complex gender identities." The "non-binary" prof also connects kids w health workers who "can support them in the long term." #CAMPUSWATCH pic.twitter.com/Xcx5TN9Ucl
— Élie Cantin-Nantel (@elie_mcn) June 2, 2023
In an interview with University Affairs magazine, Litwiller said grant money was used to hire drag performers and purchase makeup kits for LGBTQ children – who were then able to start wearing both regular everyday makeup and drag makeup.
“Drag artists mentor queer youth through makeup and movement, to music and costuming,” said Litwiller. “Youth learn how to embody different genders through costuming, and some of them are quite brave, performing with the drag artists.”
Litwiller also said that “the drag mentors and I have worked hard on our own stuff to make sure that this space is inclusive of all genders.”
The professor’s “explicitly queer space” also allows children to try on clothing of the opposite gender. “For trans youth, genderplay is an opportunity to be real.”
Litwiller also connects children with healthcare workers and organizations who “can support them in the long term.”
“I think this work has the capacity for social change,” says Litwiller. “Everyone has a gender and a sexuality. We need to get away from binary thinking around gender and sexuality.”
Litwiller wants the project to become a “curriculum,” saying, “in working with the mentors and in working with the youth, we realized we should make this a longer project.”
While many progressives support the promotion of gender ideology with children, others are pushing back and sharing their opposition and concerns.
Dr. Debra Soh, a neuroscientist who specializes in gender, sex, and sexual orientation, wrote in the Washington Examiner that “although transitioning can help some adults struggling with gender dysphoria, this is not the case for everyone, particularly in the context of children.”
“Due to the larger push for affirmation only and legislation outlawing therapies that are not activist-approved, it has become extremely difficult for clinicians to rule out comorbidity and determine whether a transition is right for a patient,” she added.
Multiple people who underwent gender transitions as youths have since opted to detransition – and are now speaking out about the harms of imposing trans ideology on gender confused youth.
“I don’t want history to repeat itself. I can’t let this happen to other kids,” says detransitioner Chole Cole, who has been vocally speaking out against transitioning minors.
Litwiller is described on the University of Manitoba website as “a leisure scholar who uses qualitative and post-qualitative research methods and critical theories to account for 2SLGBTQ experiences, identities and expressions.”
The professor teaches several courses, including one titled Critical Race Theory, Indigeneity, in Leisure, Recreation, and Sport
True North asked Litwiller what type of healthcare professionals children will be connected to, as well as if the scholar has anything to say to those who oppose the project. However, Litwiller did not return True North’s request in time for publication.
At the very least, the House of Commons affairs committee must investigate attempts by Chinese communist actors to cost Conservative votes in the 2021 campaign, former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole told the Commons.
And rightly so.
“My parliamentary caucus and myself were the target,” said O’Toole following a secret briefing with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).
“My parliamentary caucus and myself were the target of a sophisticated misinformation and voter suppression campaign orchestrated by the People’s Republic of China.”
This puts added public pressure on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to call the public inquiry he insists is not needed, and who is backed by former governor general David Johnston, the Trudeau-appointed special rapporteur into communist China’s interference and manipulations in recent Canadian elections.
Johnston’s main publicly stated reason to quash the need for a public inquiry appears to be the huge amount of classified information that must be protected from public eyes.
According to O’Toole, China provided money, workers and negative propaganda in a coordinated effort to defeat O’Toole and the Conservatives in the 2021 election.
“The first category of threat is related to foreign funding, specifically, the payment of funds by the Chinese Communist Party through the United Front Work Department (UFWD) to create specific products of misinformation about me as a member of Parliament and as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada,” O’Toole told the House.
He also said that the UFWD supplied human resources, providing workers to campaign against him, with some employed by this Beijing-directed group and others who were just aligned.
“They were organized and directed by a foreign state to amplify misinformation efforts,” O’Toole said.
“Unfortunately we’re seeing that countries, state actors from around the world, whether it’s China or others, are continuing to play aggressive games with our institutions, with our democracies,” Trudeau said when asked Monday.
“I also believe my privileges as a member and officer of Parliament were infringed by the government’s unwillingness or inability to act on the intelligence related to foreign interference,” O’Toole said.
“The briefing confirmed to me what I had long suspected – that my party, several of my caucus colleagues and myself were the target of a sophisticated misinformation and voter suppression campaign orchestrated by the People’s Republic of China before and during the 2021 general election.”
The issue of foreign interference in Canadian elections — chiefly from the Chinese government — has dominated federal political discussions for months. After media reports citing leaked documents by Global News and the Globe and Mail, Trudeau appointed former governor general David Johnston as a “special rapporteur” on foreign interference.
The opposition New Democrats, who have propped up the minority Liberal government, is now calling on Johnston to resign after he recommended against a public inquiry into foreign interference – a decision that has faced intense scrutiny and criticism since he announced it last week.
It began after months of media reporting, primarily Global News and the Globe and Mail relying on national security sources and leaked documents, revealed that Conservative MP Michael Chong’s family was targeted by Chinese officials upset about the Ontario MPs support for a motion to recognize China’s treatment of the Uyghur minority as genocide.
But targeting the leader of the Conservative — at that time, a potential prime minister — is another kettle of fish.
“The Communist government’s ideal outcome is to have its critics pull their punches and turn a blind eye. It is to create, at the end of the day, a chilling effect on public policy and a chilling effect on parliamentary debate,” O’Toole said.
“This novel and expanding situation of foreign interference in our politics, seeking to silence the debates of this Parliament, must be met and our parliamentary democracy must be defended.”
