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This is one of the more interesting narrative collapses I've seen.

The 200 body-sized "mass grave" at a former Native Residential School was detected by LIDAR-style techniques that likely just found tree roots. "Zero" actual bodies have been unearthed...https://t.co/QC7Wv4cdh3

— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) January 17, 2022

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They wanted to burn down churches so they made up a story. How many times have we been down this road folks.

— 🙈🙉🙊 (@memaw110) January 18, 2022

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An Ontario school board is facing charges of censorship this week after shutting down a teacher’s presentation to the group, saying her comments about books on transgender issues violated the province’s human rights code.

 

Start home-schooling the kids.

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Afghanistan is the world’s most dangerous place for Christians, displacing North Korea for the first time in 20 years in a Christian advocacy group’s annual report.

Open Doors released its 2022 World Watch List on Wednesday, identifying 50 countries where as many as 100 million Christians face danger because of their faith. Nigeria and India are among the top 10 nations on the list, and China is ranked 17.

“There are just so many people [globally], 360 million Christians by our estimate, [who] live in places where there are high extreme or severe levels of persecution,” said Open Doors President David Curry, whose organization has operated for more than 60 years.

“Christians are the largest minority religion, persecuted minority religion in the world. I think people overlook it, because in America, we have so many freedoms,” he added.

There were about 2.38 billion Christians in 2020, making it the most widely practiced religion, according to estimates by the World Population Review, a global compilation of census and demographic data. There were about 1.91 billion Muslims, 1.16 billion Hindus and 507 million Buddhists.

Mr. Curry said there are far more underground Christians in North Korea than there are in post-Taliban Afghanistan, but the Islamist resurgence means there are “clear and present dangers for people of Christian faith in Afghanistan.”

“The failure in Afghanistan has massive repercussions,” he said, adding that the “massive refugee issue” sparked by the takeover means the Taliban will seek to kill those “suspected to be Christians” as well as those “from a different political background.”

In October, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom reported that conditions for religious minorities in Afghanistan “have deteriorated since the Taliban seized control.”

An Afghan Christian refugee who used the alias of “Paul” told an Open Doors interviewer that, for believers, “You’re always living inside the cage. You are always limited. You have always a fear in your heart.”

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A Warsaw court has declared the repatriation of a Polish citizen being starved and dehydrated in an English hospital lawful. 

Now RS’s family, government, and Poland herself are waiting for the British authorities to release him into their care. 

The Polish patient, who sustained serious brain-damage in early November after suffering a heart attack, was granted diplomatic status by the Polish Government on Friday, in the belief that this would remove him from the jurisdiction of the British courts. On December 15, the UK Court of Protection granted permission to an NHS hospital and wife to decide between them when to stop RS’s life-sustaining treatment. A Warsaw court subsequently gave Poland permission to bring her citizen home. 

“All we need is that consent of Great Britain,” Poland’s deputy Justice Minister, Marcin Warchoł, told his nation’s media. 

“I trust that such consent will be given quickly.”

Warchoł described the negotiations between Poland and Britain for the survival of the Polish citizen as a “game for the life of our compatriot.”

“I believe that we will win; I believe that the civilization of life will conquer the civilization of death,” he said.

 

The British healthcare system killed two children in its care for fun.

I doubt this Polish national will be treated with any regard.

Joseph Conrad must be spinning in his grave.

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Apparently, there are no unemployed people in Canada:

Canada’s immigration system for high-skilled workers is severely backlogged and even amidst a labour shortage, the government is pausing new invitations because the department simply can’t process them quickly enough, according to a briefing document.