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Ontario is planning to explicitly ban unpaid trial shifts for restaurant and hospitality workers, while also strengthening rules against deducting employee wages in the event of customer theft. The latest proposed changes are set to be announced today by Labour Minister David Piccini ahead of legislation expected to be tabled this afternoon that contains a host of new labour laws. Piccini says that while it is already the law that employees must be paid for all hours worked, unpaid trial shifts are still happening as part of the interview process in some restaurants, so the practice will be specifically prohibited....

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A charity for a disease that can cause serious pain and pregnancy complications for females has appointed a transgender woman to be CEO. Endometriosis South Coast (ESC) is described as an "inclusive" charity set up to support those diagnosed with endometriosis or adenomyosis. These two diseases occur when tissue similar to the lining of the uterus grows outside the uterus or into the uterine muscular wall itself. ESC recently announced that Steph Richards, a transgender woman who uses she/her pronouns, was named the new CEO of the charity. The announcement included a picture of Richards alongside a quote that read,...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. Our Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come; Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven...

The “pro-Palestinian” demonstrations that have taken place in the US and some European countries over the past few days are all about hating Israel and Jews, not about helping the Palestinians – especially those who have been living under the rule of the Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group in the Gaza Strip since 2007.People who are really pro-Palestinian would be demonstrating for them to have leaders that do not siphon off billions in international aid, or who shoot at themwhen they try to flee to safety, or who do not store weapons and ammunition in and near their homes and schools.

There has been plenty of talk lately about Silicon Valley abandoning the news business. That’s largely true, but it doesn’t get to an even deeper problem: the utter erosion of public confidence in the media, which stems from a long history of self-inflicted wounds, high-profile errors and unmistakable bias. *** The newer iterations – TikTok and YouTube influencers – are now stealing some of their market share, so this blame game isn’t convincing. The mainstream media, which once monopolized the industry, have blown it. *** As Charlie Warzel put in the Atlantic: "Readers are breaking up with traditional news." ***...

Despite an ongoing war in the Middle East, open borders flooding in millions of illegal immigrants, a worsening drug crisis, and increased risk of terrorist attacks in the U.S., President Joe Biden apparently has other priorities. According to an Epoch Times investigation of government spending, in the last three fiscal years, $4,100,000,000 “in federal money from taxpayers” has been put towards sexual perversion, deviancy, and immorality initiatives both within the U.S. and across the globe.In June, the Family Research Council published a report that tracked the Biden administration’s foreign policy sexual perversion, deviancy, and immorality priorities. Written by Arielle Del...

The record number of supertankers sailing toward the shores of the US is getting ever larger. There are 51 ships headed to the nation’s ports over the next three months. That’s the most in at least six years, climbing by three from the previous week’s record. About 80% of the vessels are empty, indicating that they intend to pick up cargoes in the US. The growing volume comes after US crude exports surged this year to a record. Overseas shipments have averaged 4.1 million barrels a day, based on the Energy Information Administration’s weekly data, up from 3.5 million in...

This is the shocking moment a group of brazen thieves looted an Amazon delivery truck while the helpless driver looked on. A group of approximately six thieves that looked to be young boys raided a large walk-in delivery truck after the driver left the door wide open. They frantically grabbed boxes as the female driver watched from a nearby sidewalk and did nothing. She appeared to be fed up with the robbers that snuck up on her while she delivered other packages in an apartment complex that is believed to be in Atlanta, Georgia. It is unclear exactly what was...

No...I'm not sorry. And no, I dont want to date her. But I think she and AOC may make a cute couple.

Much like today, Delaware in the early 20th century wasn’t known for a whole lot. The state maintained a small service sector and an even smaller industrial base. Without any real natural resources or tourist attractions, the state scraped by trying to leech business from those traveling between New York and Washington. But just over a century ago, in the early 1910s, Delaware spied an opportunity. In neighboring New Jersey, then-Gov. Woodrow Wilson took office pledging to clean up New Jersey’s corporate sector, which had transformed the Garden State into the go-to destination for corporations across the country looking for...

Israeli forces have cut the Gaza Strip in two, surrounded Gaza City, and are tightening the noose around the reported nerve center of Hamas. Before the ground invasion began on October 28, Israel pounded the strip with artillery and air strikes, killing scores of terrorists and their leaders. Many have hidden in the matrix of tunnels, which has been an operational concern for the IDF. They’re booby-trapped. It’s nearly impossible to see, and some tunnels are 250+ feet underground. So far, Israel has been able to make inroads, but some 30-40,000 Hamas terrorists remain embedded in the strip like ticks....

Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC) and Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. made a major step in the proposed Truth Social merger that would inject the company with significant financing, a Monday announcement from both companies revealed. [cut] The merger would allow Truth Social to go public, issue stock, and access hundreds of millions of dollars in financing. Former President Donald Trump created Truth Social after Facebook and Twitter, now known as X, banned him from the social media platforms. Reuters reported in October that DWAC, the special purpose acquisition company designed to take Truth Social public, said this week...

A Secret Service agent assigned to protect President Joe Biden’s eldest granddaughter, Naomi Biden Neal, opened fire late Sunday as several people were breaking into an unoccupied government vehicle, the agency's spokesman said Monday. The agents detailed to her "encountered possibly three individuals breaking a window on a parked and unoccupied government vehicle," said Anthony Guglielmi, chief of communications for the Secret Service. "During this encounter, a federal agent discharged a service weapon and it is believed no one was struck." The individuals immediately fled the scene in a red vehicle, and a regional lookout was issued to supporting units,...

The Department of the Air Force expects to add about 50 more recruits per year after lifting its maximum age limit for initial accession from 39 years old to 42 on Oct. 24, the latest in a long series of efforts to expand the talent pool in the midst of an ongoing recruiting shortage. The change applies to both officers and enlisted in both the Air Force and Space Force … The new age limit is the latest in a series of changes made by the Air Force over the last few years to usher in new members. Giving qualified...

Israel Is WinningLately there hasn’t been a lot of hard news about Israel’s progress in destroying Hamas. But this is a watershed moment: Israeli soldiers pose in Hamas’s “Parliament” building, which they have captured:Defense Minister Yoav Gallant describes the campaign’s progress:“There is no force of Hamas capable of stopping the IDF. The IDF is advancing at every location. The Hamas organization has lost control in Gaza: Terrorists are fleeing south, civilians are looting Hamas bases. They have no confidence in the government,” Gallant said, after holding an assessment on the fighting.One sign of Israel’s progress is a dramatic drop-off in...

The former MEP wants to show he's 'not nasty'-and might have to chomp animal appendages to do so. LONDON--Never mind the animal bollocks, here's Nigel Farage. After much speculation, the controversial former Brexit Party leader was confirmed Monday night as a contestant on this year's "I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here," a long-running British reality TV show that sees participants shipped off to the Australian jungle to perform grueling tasks---known as 'bushtucker trials' in a bid to win a public vote. In the past these have included eating camel testicles, chomping on crocodile anus---and being enclosed in a coffin...

Former U.S. President Donald Trump's social media platform Truth Social has lost $73 million since its launch in early 2022, a securities filing by Digital World Acquisition Corp (DWAC.O), the SPAC that plans to merge with the company, showed on Monday. Trump had announced the launch of his social media app in Oct 2021, saying it would "stand up to Big Tech" companies such as Twitter and Facebook that previously barred him. In 2022, Truth Social posted a loss of $50 million, with net sales of just $1.4 million. It lost $23 million in the first half of this year,...

A pair of University of Arizona education professors was recorded telling a “Cultural Pluralism for Young Children” class that Hamas is not comprised of terrorists, but is a “resistance” group merely opposed to Zionism.Rebecca Lopez and Rebecca Zapien (pictured above), both of whom teach “teaching, learning & sociocultural studies,” initially appear to differ somewhat in their views in the audio obtained by the X account Israel War Room.But not for long.One of them concedes that Hamas representatives appear to be “like, speaking, like very antisemitic,” but is countered by her peer who says “they’re probably anti-Zionist, which, again, is about...

At 3:30 p.m. Monday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass participated in a press conference to discuss the blaze that has crippled the downtown commute for hundreds of thousands of Angelenos. Newsom began the press conference by describing the fire as being set with “malice intent,” saying the fire burned within the fence line and appeared to be an act of arson. Newsom had previously said that the area was being leased by a company that the state knew well and was involved in active litigation with, adding that the lease had recently expired. “The structural...