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Canary in the coalmine? Law Society of Canada says TWU's mention of "Jesus Christ" is discriminatory

Trinity Western University
Trinity Western University
Many of you have been following the case of British Columbia's Trinity Western University for quite some time. With Canadian law societies claiming that law students from a university with Christian principles would be too warped and bigoted by those principles to practice law in Canadian society, the case winding its way to the Supreme Court of Canada is one of the most consequential for religious freedom in over a decade. If Trinity Western loses the case, it will confirm in law what many progressive politicians already affirm in the actions they are taking against Christian schools across the country: Christians, based on their beliefs in biblical sexuality, are now second-class citizens.

Last week, Trinity Western University President Bob Kuhn sent out an email updating TWU alumni on the progress of the case-and included some jarring new developments:

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Mandalay Bay struggles with business after Las Vegas massacre - and the public still struggles with the official story

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Around dusk on a late November weekday, hundreds of people walked through Mandalay Bay, past empty restaurants just off the casino floor and toward the huge convention center.

Employees of CarMax, the nation's largest used-car dealer, had gathered here from around the U.S. to attend the company's annual President's Club gala, an award ceremony to recognize top talent.

Roughly 4,500 people filled the convention center to eat, dance and hobnob with CarMax senior management. Many employees stayed at the hotel.

"It's a business trip. We didn't choose the Mandalay Bay. It was already chosen for us since last year," said CarMax employee Felicia Green.

Visiting from Fayetteville, North Carolina, Green said she wouldn't have stayed at the Mandalay Bay if she'd had a choice. The Oct. 1 mass shooting that occurred at the hotel was still too fresh in her mind. On that late October Sunday night, a VIP guest staying on the 32nd floor blackened the image of Mandalay Bay when he smashed his room windows to spray gunfire on thousands of concertgoers across Las Vegas Boulevard, killing 58 people.


Comment: Of course the Sheldon Adelson-owned Las Vegas Review-Journal where this story was published would begin by hammering us with the official narrative - which has, by now, been thoroughly debunked by SOTT.net and many other sites and observers who maintain the basic ability to question "the news". See:


Comment: So the Mandalay Bay (like much of Las Vegas) has seen a predictable drop in business after the massacre, but the real story here - and what has been largely swept under the rug - is still just what the heck happened. More than two months later, and we are on to other news, and one of the worst shootings in US history has been all but wiped from the memory of the news consumers. Well, almost.

Shortly after the mainstream media quickly got their orders to do some serious spin in response to all the questions and inconsistencies of the official story, they chose to bless us with the following stories:

Five of the craziest conspiracy theories about the Las Vegas shootings and...

Las Vegas Shooting Conspiracy Theories Now Include the Illuminati and Antifa

But once you've begun questioning what's being told, it's very hard not to see through at least some of its bullshit. It can't be unseen. And thankfully, this has been proven true in a number of the comments that followed the drivel presented in the above articles. Take a look:

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Sure there's going to be a lot of nonsense and inane speculation when the facts just don't add up. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't be calling the mainstream media out for trying to obfuscate and confuse the situation either! Because the fact of the matter is, many Americans and people everywhere are fed with being treated like idiots, shouldn't accept it (like the above commenters), and refuse to take it lying down.


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NHS survey asks 10-year-olds: 'Do you identify as boy, girl or other?'

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Children as young as ten are being asked whether they are confused about their gender in a new survey distributed to schools by the National Health Service (NHS). Critics have called the question 'intrusive.'

The survey, conducted by the Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, usually monitors weight, height, and fitness. Now the form, which may have been sent to schools nation-wide, is asking children who have yet to attend high school whether they feel "comfortable in their gender."

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South London: Daughter murdered after 'walking in on killer dismembering pedophile father', police believe

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Police have made the grisly discovery of the dismembered body of a registered sex offender and his adult daughter. It is thought that the woman may have disturbed the killer chopping up her father's corpse, resulting in her own grisly end.

Metropolitan Police officers forced their way into a home in New Butt Lane, Deptford, in the early hours of December 4, following a tip-off from a neighbor concerned for the welfare of the man living there.

Inside, police found the bodies of Noel Brown, 69, and his daughter Marie Brown, 41, a crèche worker from Southwark. Police believe Noel was murdered between November 30 and December 4 and his daughter may have been killed between December 2 and December 4.

An inquest held at Southwark Coroner's Court on Monday heard that the provisional cause of death for Noel Brown was "neck compression" and his daughter's injuries were also "consistent with neck compression." Detectives from the Homicide and Major Crime Command are investigating.

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What's college worth these days?

Students don't seem to be getting much out of higher education.

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I have been in school for more than 40 years. First preschool, kindergarten, elementary school, junior high, and high school. Then a bachelor's degree at UC Berkeley, followed by a doctoral program at Princeton. The next step was what you could call my first "real" job-as an economics professor at George Mason University.

Thanks to tenure, I have a dream job for life. Personally, I have no reason to lash out at our system of higher education. Yet a lifetime of experience, plus a quarter century of reading and reflection, has convinced me that it is a big waste of time and money. When politicians vow to send more Americans to college, I can't help gasping, "Why? You want us to waste even more?"

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Judge who struck down Muslim travel ban caught in sleazy sex scandal

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© Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesJudge Alex Kozinski, of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Isn't it grand seeing the Swamp drain its self?

This new movement that is sweeping the nation taking aim at holding powerful men accountable for sexual harassment, misconduct, and assault has now named a prominent Liberal jurist as a serial harasser. It's now being reported that six former far left liberal Ninth Circuit clerks and externs are now saying that the liberal Judge Alex Kozinski subjected them to sexual comments and unwelcome situations.

One of the former Kozinski clerks, Heidi Bond, who was his clerk between 2006 and 2007 has gone on the record with allegations that on multiple occasions the judge summoned her alone to his chambers in order to show her pornography which was unrelated to any case before the judge. He then asked if the images turned her on. Bond recounts at least three different instances of being shown porn by her boss and says the experiences were shocking. She has also written an extremely disturbing first-person account of her experiences of clerking for Judge Kozinski where she also details Kozinski isolating her from her co-clerks to discuss his sexual history

Comment: It's good that long-term sleazes like Kozinski are finally being called out for their appalling behavior. But the rush to expose the true predators brings with it the danger of overreaction, sweeping up and damning those who's behavior may be mildly obnoxious but in no way predatory.


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Bulgaria discovers stash of seized Bitcoins that could pay off a fifth of their debt

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Hundreds of thousands of bitcoins have been seized in an anti-corruption operation in Bulgaria, reports Zerohedge. They are currently worth $3.6 billion, which is enough to pay off a fifth of the country's national debt of $16.5 billion.

Dozens of people were arrested in May following an investigation by the Southeast European Law Enforcement Center (SELC) into an alleged customs fraud, according to the article.

Police confiscated 213,519 bitcoins, at the time worth $500 million. The seized amount is now approximately worth a staggering $3.6 billion due to the digital currency's bull run.

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London police arrest two men in connection with horrific two-day kidnapping

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London police have arrested two men after a man was held hostage in a horrific two-day kidnap ordeal. A criminal gang allegedly stripped the victim, beat him up, threatened him with knives and a gun, and later robbed his parents' home.

The 24-year-old victim, from the London borough of Croydon, was lured into a house by two male acquaintances on December 4 after they had spotted him wearing a Rolex watch. The victim was asked whether the £9,000 timepiece was genuine before he was led into the house where a group of men were waiting, armed with weapons including a gun.

During a 50-hour ordeal the man was stripped, tied up, threatened with a gun and kicked in the face, leaving him with bruised lips and a lump on his forehead. The gang then forced him to call his parents and asked for a ransom. When his parents said they could not pay, their son was forced to hand over keys to their home and two of the gang allegedly burgled the property.

Comment: The massive ego in criminals has no concept of value. If they see something they want, they think they deserve to have it just because of their delusional sense of entitlement. There is no room for considerations of the harm they cause others, nor do they have an ability to put themselves in another person's shoes. These are all thinking errors that lead to the types of crime described above. The 'criminal mind' however, doesn't just apply to criminals. Most of us have these errors to different degrees. Understanding them and correcting them can not only provide protection but also a much more meaningful life.

See Stanton Samenow's books:


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Lawyer confirms no formal complaint was ever lodged against Wilfrid Laurier TA Lindsay Shepherd

Lindsay Shepherd
Letter says there may be no document of what sparked the controversy over Shepherd's tutorial

The lawyer engaged by Wilfrid Laurier University to prepare a fact-finding report into a controversial reprimand of graduate student Lindsay Shepherd has confirmed there was never a formal complaint about her tutorial.

In a letter dated Dec. 4, and sent to Shepherd's lawyer Howard Levitt, from the Laurier-hired lawyer Robert Centa, it reads: "You asked for a copy of the complaint or complaints filed against your client. At this point in my investigation, I do not believe there is a document that contains a 'complaint' made about Ms. Shepherd nor is there anything I would describe as a formal complaint under any WLU policy," wrote Centa,

In a Twitter post, 23-year-old Shepherd made a comment on the discovery.

"The concern could've been discussed face-to-face with (professor) Rambukkana, sure. But with no evidence, how will I ever know what was truly said by the complainant?"

Comment: The only thing Lindsay Shepherd is guilty of was believing the that her university actually held to the principle of the free exchange of ideas it supposedly espoused. She has had a rough, rude awakening, but hopefully she will emerge stronger and wiser for it. She is fortunate to have models like Prof. Jordan Peterson to light the way.


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Half of Russians unsurprised by Hollywood sex scandals - just a part of everyday life in Western show business

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Half of respondents to a survey in Russia told researchers they were unsurprised by recent Hollywood sexual harassment scandals. The historical allegations against famous figures were viewed as just an everyday occurrence in western show business.

In a poll conducted by the Public Opinion research foundation, about 51 percent of Russians said that they had heard about the latest string of sex-related scandals in Hollywood. Of those who'd heard about them, 18 percent thought that the victims' testimonies are truthful and well-founded, 15 percent called the accusations far-fetched, while 20 percent said they did not know enough to draw conclusions.

Almost all respondents who were aware of the stories - 50 percent - stated that they considered sexual harassment an ordinary, everyday occurrence in western show business. 31 percent thought that it was wrong for alleged victims to raise the issue decades after the event, but 50 percent said that sex crimes should have no statute of limitation.

Comment: Russians seem to have a much better understanding of how things work in show business and find the ongoing hysteria rather amusing: Russia wonders what the big deal is over sexual harassment scandals in US