LEFTY POLITICS IN ONTARIO'S MATH CURRICULUM

  Lilley:  “Mathematics is often positioned as an objective and pure discipline. However, the content and the context in which it is taught, the mathematicians who are celebrated, and the importance that is placed upon mathematics by society are subjective,” the new curriculum reads.

If we are talking about the history surrounding mathematics, then there may be some merit to this statement, but that is not the issue with this part of the curriculum.

“Mathematics has been used to normalize racism and marginalization of non-Eurocentric mathematical knowledges, and a decolonial, anti-racist approach to mathematics education makes visible its historical roots and social constructions,” the curriculum states.

TREE DNA USED TO PROVE THEFT

 Tree poaching is a growing issue in the Pacific Northwest. Thieves have consistently targeted public lands and national forests in Washington, California and Oregon, High Country News reported in 2017. The thefts cost the U.S. Forest Service about $100 million per year.

With the strict rules in mind, Wilke, 39, and Williams, 49, often scouted for trees at night, according to the indictment. From April to August of 2018, the men ventured into the forest, used an ax to peel back the bark and inspected the patterned wood underneath.

“After identifying maples with figured wood, Wilke and others used a chain saw to fell the targeted maples,” court documents said. “Wilke and others cut the trees into smaller rounds or blocks, which they removed from the national forest.”

The group would take the wood to a private property nearby and prepare it for sale to a mill in Tumwater, Wash. They’d then present the business with forged paperwork showing that they harvested the maples from private land.

WHY TRUMP IS SUING BIG TECH

Following last week's announcement that President Trump was filing a class-action lawsuit suing the CEOs of Facebook, Twitter and Google over allegations of illegal censorship, Trump has published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal where he lays out his legal team's argument: Big Tech has colluded with government to censor the free speech of the American people, Trump said.

 Since social media has become "as central to free speech as town meeting halls, newspapers and television networks were in prior generations." Despite the fact that the internet is "the new public square", Big Tech has become increasingly "brazen and shameless in censoring and discriminating against ideas, information and people on social media - banning users, deplatforming organizations, and aggressively blocking the free flow of information on which our democracy depends."

Trump also cited Big Tech's decision to bar him from Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. "Perhaps most egregious, in the weeks after the election, Big Tech blocked the social-media accounts of the sitting president. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you—and believe me, they are."

STOPPING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION TO THE UK

“We saw 43 people drown in the Mediterranean yesterday, honestly, there is going to be a very major tragedy in the Channel before too long,” Nigel Farage said.

The Brexiteer noted said that while the mainstream media often highlights pictures of young women and children, he said that it is overwhelmingly young men between the ages of 18 and 30 who are arriving.

“Very few have identity documents, they deliberately throw them away, because if you don’t know where they are from. Even if you had the will or were allowed to legally deport them you can’t do it because where would you send them?”

 “I’m going to stick my neck out and say that at least 20,000 come this year through the Dover route, and nothing Priti Patel has said is going to work,” Farage concluded.

TRUDEAU SPENDING ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL

 SURREY, B.C. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau moved his campaign-style sweep to Surrey, B.C., on Friday, announcing federal government funding of up to $1.3 billion to extend Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain line from Surrey to neighbouring Langley. 

Trudeau made the announcement in Surrey with the existing SkyTrain line in the background as protesters from different groups shouted in the plaza behind him and a convoy of trucks circled the block with horns blaring. 

Public transit is key to Ottawa's plan for a clean recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, Trudeau told the news conference. 

HARPER URGES SHUNNING OF IRAN'S PRESIDENT

 Governments around the world should shun Iran's incoming president based on his long-standing record of human rights abuses, a former Canadian prime minister  argued Saturday in a speech to an international conference on the state of the middle-eastern country. 

Stephen Harper's remarks came at a virtual sitting of the Free Iran World Summit. Canada's 22nd prime minister told attendees that hard-liner Ebrahim Raisi's rise to power is further evidence of escalating extremism at play in Iran.

The judiciary chief is set to formally take power next month, becoming the first serving Iranian president sanctioned by the U.S. government even before entering office in part over his involvement in the mass execution of thousands of political prisoners in 1988.

DEBATING TRANSGENDER DISPLAY IN SPA

Men have a clear legal right to display their “male-appearing genitalia” at children and women in health spas, as long as the men say they are transgender women, and especially when objectors are “bigots,” according to a condescending editorial in the Los Angeles Times.

The statement by the paper’s editorial board was intended to denounce widespread criticism of a man who claimed transgender status while displaying his male genitals in a Korean-style spa for women and girls in Los Angeles.

The June 26 dispute went viral when a black Christian woman disregarded the elites’ intense pressure for silence and subservience. She used her Twitter account to slam the man, the spa’s management, and the state’s anti-privacy law. The woman later held a July 7 press conference at her church, which received minimal publicity from pro-transgender reporters and editors