A travesty .Mayor who stood up to Pride group has bank account garnished
Emo Mayor Harold McQuaker faces stiffer justice from authorities than bank robbers and carjackers
Author of the article:Joe Warmington
Published Dec 07, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 5 minute read
Emo Township in Nothern Ontrario has been ordered to a $10,000 pay a fine by the Ontario Human Rights Commission for not voting to fly a Pride flag
Emo Township in Nothern Ontrario has been ordered to a $10,000 pay a fine by the Ontario Human Rights Commission for not voting to fly a Pride flag
LGBTQ2+ activists have literally made Emo Township Mayor Harold McQuaker pay for daring to stand up to them.
Although the Northern Ontario municipal leader vowed not to honour a $5,000 fine the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) levied against him for comments surrounding town council not approving a motion to approve Pride month, he wasn’t given a choice.
In fact, the winner of the judgement that McQuaker called “extortion” has boasted it has already gone into his bank account to collect the money.
“Sure, sex is great, but have you ever garnished your mayor’s bank account after he publicly refused to comply with a Tribunal’s order to pay damages?” states a Borderland Pride post on Facebook.
It seems like they are enjoying this.
Council may not have let them raise a rainbow flag for Pride month but they are planting a flag in the ground to show Emo is their town.
“Mayor McQuaker’s comments in the Toronto Sun and other media were very clear that he did not respect nor intend to comply with the Tribunal’s orders,” Borderland Pride said in an email. “Consequently, it was apparent he would not voluntarily make payment of the damages ordered. We took immediate action to garnish his bank account.”
What McQuaker told the Sun was, “I utterly refuse to pay the $5,000 because that’s extortion” and also said he would not partake in an Ontario Human Rights Commission re-education course.
On ensuring he did pay, Borderland Pride said, “The garnishment was issued by the court and delivered to the CIBC in Emo, which is the only bank in that community” and ”there is no hearing or application to issue a notice of garnishment – it is a service provided at the court counter or online once a person has an order for the payment of money.”
Borderland Pride also wrote, “Orders of the Tribunal can be enforced in the same manner as any civil judgment for the payment of money. We intend to ensure the Tribunal’s orders are complied with.”
Turns out Mayor McQuaker is not in charge there – Borderland Pride is.
Cancel culture is cancelling this mayor and digging into his personal savings too. On a weak premise that there is discrimination of LGBT people there, the enforcement is harsher than most violent criminals receive. It seems like a heavy-handed, undemocratic move, not to mention a violation of personal finances, and cruel and unusual punishment.
It’s also a slippery slope.
Borderland Pride has taken Emo, Ontario by storm
Borderland Pride has taken Emo, Ontario by storm
The state using legal instruments to take from one person and give to others amounts to communism and authoritarianism that should scare every citizen. First, we saw government and banks freezing accounts of pandemic lockdown protesters, seizing donations to crowdfunding sites, and now in woke Canada comes word they can raid bank accounts, too.
A creeping police state is what should be cancelled, not a venerable village mayor. Just because people get the whip hand on somebody, does not mean they need to wield it. Power is not power when it’s abused. Restraint and fair play is power.
There is no decision so far on the status of the $10,000 fine HRTO slapped on the Township of Emo for the 2020 decision by town council to vote three to two against granting a request for there to be a Pride month in the village of just 1,400 people. And Borderland Pride said they have so far not garnished the township as they await that decision.
What’s McQuaker’s next move? Bow to the woke mob? Appeal? Resign? Fight on?
“I will not be commenting until next Wednesday (council’s next meeting) when we will make a statement,” McQuaker said Friday, adding his “knuckles have been rapped” this week.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford should send Municipal Affairs Minister Paul Calandra to intervene and end this madness, get both sides to shake hands with a compromise and be friends. Great grandfather McQuaker is a good citizen and so are the Borderland Pride volunteers. No one ever wins in a game of chicken.
This occurred because democracy wasn’t respected when the town decided to pass on having Pride month. The Tribunal’s Vice Chair Karen Dawson claimed “Mayor McQuaker’s remark … that there was no flag for the ‘other side of the coin … for straight people’ was on its face dismissive of Borderland Pride’s flag request and demonstrated a lack of understanding of the importance to Borderland Pride and other members of the LGBTQ2 community of the Pride flag.”
Dawson wrote, “I find this remark was demeaning and disparaging of the LGBTQ2 community of which Borderland Pride is a member and therefore constituted discrimination under the code.”
Borderland Pride has won its case against Emo Township in Northern Ontrario. They have been ordered to a $10,000 pay a fine by the Ontario Human Rights Commission for not voting to fly a Pride flag
Borderland Pride has won its case against Emo Township in Northern Ontrario. They have been ordered to a $10,000 pay a fine by the Ontario Human Rights Commission for not voting to fly a Pride flag
But more offensive than anything McQuaker said is this ruling, which ignores McQuaker’s free speech and council’s free vote. It was an overreaction to a comment from a 76-year-old man in a town a long way from progressive municipalities more accustomed to Pride celebrations and who have a legitimate demand for them.
Instead of searching for a middle ground, blunt force was employed to destroy a good man who has served his community well. He doesn’t’ accept that he’s homophobic.
McQuaker maintains he doesn’t “hate anybody” and “did not do anything wrong.”
“If anybody needs training, it’s the LGBTQ2+ to quit pushing their weight around and make demands that people can’t live with,” he said.
This seems like a modern-day witch hunt.
While they didn’t win the June Pride month designation, Borderland Pride is winning the Battle of Emo now and using Ontario oversight and procedures to do it. Like it or not, with the help of highly-skilled, experienced and professional lawyer Douglas Judson, they are using the law and it is ruling in their favour.
However, it’s not helping Canada. And rubbing the Mayor’s nose in it and spiking the football on social media is unseemly.
But Borderland Pride says “despite suggestions in your prior reporting and elsewhere which portray the Mayor as elderly, vulnerable, or somehow economically disadvantaged, he owns a successful trucking company and is likely one of the wealthiest people in the community.”
While his financial status should be irrelevant, McQuaker is $5,000 poorer thanks to his bank account being garnished.
And a country understands Borderland Pride is the new boss.
jwarmington@postmedia.com
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For y'all that either a) didn't go beyond high school biology or b) don't bother to read up on biology in general past high school (or middle school)
Biological Transgenderism.
Rebecca Helm, a biologist and an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, Asheville US writes:
I see a lot of people are talking about biological sexes and gender right now. Lots of folks make biological sex seem really simple. Well, since it’s so simple, let’s find the biological roots, shall we? Let’s talk about sex...[a thread]
If you know a bit about biology you will probably say that biological sex is caused by chromosomes, XX and you’re female, XY and you’re male. This is “chromosomal sex” but is it “biological sex”? Well...
Turns out there is only ONE GENE on the Y chromosome that really matters to sex. It’s called the SRY gene. During human embryonic development the SRY protein turns on male-associated genes. Having an SRY gene makes you “genetically male”. But is this “biological sex”?
Sometimes that SRY gene pops off the Y chromosome and over to an X chromosome. Surprise! So now you’ve got an X with an SRY and a Y without an SRY. What does this mean?
A Y with no SRY means physically you’re female, chromosomally you’re male (XY) and genetically you’re female (no SRY). An X with an SRY means you’re physically male, chromsomally female (XX) and genetically male (SRY). But biological sex is simple! There must be another answer...
Sex-related genes ultimately turn on hormones in specifics areas on the body, and reception of those hormones by cells throughout the body. Is this the root of “biological sex”??
“Hormonal male” means you produce ‘normal’ levels of male-associated hormones. Except some percentage of females will have higher levels of ‘male’ hormones than some percentage of males. Ditto ditto ‘female’ hormones. And...
...if you’re developing, your body may not produce enough hormones for your genetic sex. Leading you to be genetically male or female, chromosomally male or female, hormonally non-binary, and physically non-binary. Well, except cells have something to say about this...
Maybe cells are the answer to “biological sex”?? Right?? Cells have receptors that “hear” the signal from sex hormones. But sometimes those receptors don’t work. Like a mobile phone that’s on “do not disturb’. Call and cell, they will not answer.
What does this all mean?
It means you may be genetically male or female, chromosomally male or female, hormonally male/female/non-binary, with cells that may or may not hear the male/female/non-binary call, and all this leading to a body that can be male/non-binary/female.
Try out some combinations for yourself. Notice how confusing it gets? Can you point to what the absolute cause of biological sex is? Is it fair to judge people by it?
Of course you could try appealing to the numbers. “Most people are either male or female” you say. Except that as a biologist professor I will tell you...
The reason I don’t have my students look at their own chromosome in class is because people could learn that their chromosomal sex doesn’t match their physical sex, and learning that in the middle of a 10-point assignment is JUST NOT THE TIME.
Biological sex is complicated. Before you discriminate against someone on the basis of “biological sex” & identity, ask yourself: have you seen YOUR chromosomes? Do you know the genes of the people you love? The hormones of the people you work with? The state of their cells?
Since the answer will obviously be no, please be kind, respect people’s right to tell you who they are, and remember that you don’t have all the answers. Again: biology is complicated. Kindness and respect don’t have to be.
Note: Biological classifications exist. XX, XY, XXY XXYY and all manner of variation which is why sex isn't classified as binary. You can't have a binary classification system with more than two configurations even if two of those configurations are more common than others.
Biology is a shitshow. Be kind to people. <--- the most important part of this thread.
Rebecca R. Helm is a marine ecologist who studies life in the open ocean. Her research focuses on the ecology of the high seas, and how biodiversity on this ‘other half’ of Earth is impacted by human activity. She has authored publications in scientific journals like Science, PLOS Biology, and Marine Biodiversity. She is also active in science outreach, is a Templeton Foundation Beyond the Ivory Tower fellow, and her reporting has appeared in outlets including The Atlantic, Slate, and BioGraphic. She received her Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Brown University and was a postdoctoral researcher at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Before joining Georgetown, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina Asheville. She is now an Assistant Professor in the Earth Commons Institute at Georgetown.
Biological Transgenderism.
Rebecca Helm, a biologist and an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, Asheville US writes:
I see a lot of people are talking about biological sexes and gender right now. Lots of folks make biological sex seem really simple. Well, since it’s so simple, let’s find the biological roots, shall we? Let’s talk about sex...[a thread]
If you know a bit about biology you will probably say that biological sex is caused by chromosomes, XX and you’re female, XY and you’re male. This is “chromosomal sex” but is it “biological sex”? Well...
Turns out there is only ONE GENE on the Y chromosome that really matters to sex. It’s called the SRY gene. During human embryonic development the SRY protein turns on male-associated genes. Having an SRY gene makes you “genetically male”. But is this “biological sex”?
Sometimes that SRY gene pops off the Y chromosome and over to an X chromosome. Surprise! So now you’ve got an X with an SRY and a Y without an SRY. What does this mean?
A Y with no SRY means physically you’re female, chromosomally you’re male (XY) and genetically you’re female (no SRY). An X with an SRY means you’re physically male, chromsomally female (XX) and genetically male (SRY). But biological sex is simple! There must be another answer...
Sex-related genes ultimately turn on hormones in specifics areas on the body, and reception of those hormones by cells throughout the body. Is this the root of “biological sex”??
“Hormonal male” means you produce ‘normal’ levels of male-associated hormones. Except some percentage of females will have higher levels of ‘male’ hormones than some percentage of males. Ditto ditto ‘female’ hormones. And...
...if you’re developing, your body may not produce enough hormones for your genetic sex. Leading you to be genetically male or female, chromosomally male or female, hormonally non-binary, and physically non-binary. Well, except cells have something to say about this...
Maybe cells are the answer to “biological sex”?? Right?? Cells have receptors that “hear” the signal from sex hormones. But sometimes those receptors don’t work. Like a mobile phone that’s on “do not disturb’. Call and cell, they will not answer.
What does this all mean?
It means you may be genetically male or female, chromosomally male or female, hormonally male/female/non-binary, with cells that may or may not hear the male/female/non-binary call, and all this leading to a body that can be male/non-binary/female.
Try out some combinations for yourself. Notice how confusing it gets? Can you point to what the absolute cause of biological sex is? Is it fair to judge people by it?
Of course you could try appealing to the numbers. “Most people are either male or female” you say. Except that as a biologist professor I will tell you...
The reason I don’t have my students look at their own chromosome in class is because people could learn that their chromosomal sex doesn’t match their physical sex, and learning that in the middle of a 10-point assignment is JUST NOT THE TIME.
Biological sex is complicated. Before you discriminate against someone on the basis of “biological sex” & identity, ask yourself: have you seen YOUR chromosomes? Do you know the genes of the people you love? The hormones of the people you work with? The state of their cells?
Since the answer will obviously be no, please be kind, respect people’s right to tell you who they are, and remember that you don’t have all the answers. Again: biology is complicated. Kindness and respect don’t have to be.
Note: Biological classifications exist. XX, XY, XXY XXYY and all manner of variation which is why sex isn't classified as binary. You can't have a binary classification system with more than two configurations even if two of those configurations are more common than others.
Biology is a shitshow. Be kind to people. <--- the most important part of this thread.
Rebecca R. Helm is a marine ecologist who studies life in the open ocean. Her research focuses on the ecology of the high seas, and how biodiversity on this ‘other half’ of Earth is impacted by human activity. She has authored publications in scientific journals like Science, PLOS Biology, and Marine Biodiversity. She is also active in science outreach, is a Templeton Foundation Beyond the Ivory Tower fellow, and her reporting has appeared in outlets including The Atlantic, Slate, and BioGraphic. She received her Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Brown University and was a postdoctoral researcher at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Before joining Georgetown, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina Asheville. She is now an Assistant Professor in the Earth Commons Institute at Georgetown.
Village People singer says YMCA not a 'gay anthem,' will sue anyone who disagrees
Author of the article
ostmedia News
Published Dec 08, 2024 • Last updated 8 hours ago • 3 minute read
It might be fun to stay at the YMCA, but the song is not a “gay anthem.”
So says the frontman of the Village People, who has taken to clarifying the matter some 46 years after the mega-hit was released.
Lead singer and lyricist Victor Willis is so adamant, he said he’s even willing to sue “each and every news organization” that refers to the song Y.M.C.A., either in headlines or the base of the story, as a gay anthem.
Willis wrote the 1978 smash hit with producer Jacques Morali and has taken to social media to insist it wasn’t written with the gay community in mind.
“There’s been a lot of talk, especially of late, that Y.M.C.A. is somehow a gay anthem,” Willis said on Facebook on Monday. “As I’ve said numerous times in the past, that is a false assumption based on the fact that my writing partner was gay, and some (not all) of Village People were gay, and that the first Village People album was totally about gay life.”
Added Willis: “This assumption is also based on the fact that the YMCA was apparently being used as some sort of gay hangout and since one of the writers was gay and some of the Village People are gay, the song must be a message to gay people. To that I say once again: ‘Get your minds out of the gutter. It is not.’”
The song from the band’s third studio album Cruisin’ has for years been an informal anthem of the LGBTQ community.
More recently, it has been embraced by President-elect Donald Trump, who has been playing it at presidential campaign rallies. A recent video posted online showed Trump dancing to the song along with Tesla CEO Elon Musk in Mar-a-Lago over American Thanksgiving.
Willis initially objected to his song being used by Trump, but in his Facebook post, he gave the president-elect his blessing to use the song, which topped the Billboard chart for digital sales of dance and electronic music this week.
The YMCA — the Young Men’s Christian Association — was originally set up as a non-political Christian movement in London in 1844. It is commonly referred to as “the Y,” and has since become a global organization where men are welcome to come and exercise, play sports and seek shelter.
Willis said he wrote the song without knowing that the YMCA was “a hangout for gays.”
He said: “I therefore wrote Y.M.C.A. about the things I knew about the Y in the urban areas of San Francisco such as swimming, basketball, track, and cheap food and cheap rooms. And when I say, ‘hang out with all the boys’ that is simply 1970s Black slang for Black guys hanging out together for sports, gambling or whatever. There’s nothing gay about that.
“So, to the extent that Y.M.C.A. is considered a gay anthem based on the fact that gays once used certain YMCA’s for elicit activity, the assumption that the song alludes to that is completely misguided.”
Willis said he won’t hesitate to take legal action related to any supposed misuse of the song going forward.
“Since I wrote the lyrics and ought to know what the lyrics I wrote is really about, come January 2025, my wife will start suing each and every news organization that falsely refers to Y.M.C.A., either in their headlines or alluded to in the base of the story, that Y.M.C.A. is somehow a gay anthem because such notion is based solely on the song’s lyrics alluding to elicit activity for which it does not. However, I don’t mind that gays think of the song as their anthem,” he said.
torontosun.com
Author of the article
ostmedia NewsPublished Dec 08, 2024 • Last updated 8 hours ago • 3 minute read
It might be fun to stay at the YMCA, but the song is not a “gay anthem.”
So says the frontman of the Village People, who has taken to clarifying the matter some 46 years after the mega-hit was released.
Lead singer and lyricist Victor Willis is so adamant, he said he’s even willing to sue “each and every news organization” that refers to the song Y.M.C.A., either in headlines or the base of the story, as a gay anthem.
Willis wrote the 1978 smash hit with producer Jacques Morali and has taken to social media to insist it wasn’t written with the gay community in mind.
“There’s been a lot of talk, especially of late, that Y.M.C.A. is somehow a gay anthem,” Willis said on Facebook on Monday. “As I’ve said numerous times in the past, that is a false assumption based on the fact that my writing partner was gay, and some (not all) of Village People were gay, and that the first Village People album was totally about gay life.”
Added Willis: “This assumption is also based on the fact that the YMCA was apparently being used as some sort of gay hangout and since one of the writers was gay and some of the Village People are gay, the song must be a message to gay people. To that I say once again: ‘Get your minds out of the gutter. It is not.’”
The song from the band’s third studio album Cruisin’ has for years been an informal anthem of the LGBTQ community.
More recently, it has been embraced by President-elect Donald Trump, who has been playing it at presidential campaign rallies. A recent video posted online showed Trump dancing to the song along with Tesla CEO Elon Musk in Mar-a-Lago over American Thanksgiving.
Willis initially objected to his song being used by Trump, but in his Facebook post, he gave the president-elect his blessing to use the song, which topped the Billboard chart for digital sales of dance and electronic music this week.
The YMCA — the Young Men’s Christian Association — was originally set up as a non-political Christian movement in London in 1844. It is commonly referred to as “the Y,” and has since become a global organization where men are welcome to come and exercise, play sports and seek shelter.
Willis said he wrote the song without knowing that the YMCA was “a hangout for gays.”
He said: “I therefore wrote Y.M.C.A. about the things I knew about the Y in the urban areas of San Francisco such as swimming, basketball, track, and cheap food and cheap rooms. And when I say, ‘hang out with all the boys’ that is simply 1970s Black slang for Black guys hanging out together for sports, gambling or whatever. There’s nothing gay about that.
“So, to the extent that Y.M.C.A. is considered a gay anthem based on the fact that gays once used certain YMCA’s for elicit activity, the assumption that the song alludes to that is completely misguided.”
Willis said he won’t hesitate to take legal action related to any supposed misuse of the song going forward.
“Since I wrote the lyrics and ought to know what the lyrics I wrote is really about, come January 2025, my wife will start suing each and every news organization that falsely refers to Y.M.C.A., either in their headlines or alluded to in the base of the story, that Y.M.C.A. is somehow a gay anthem because such notion is based solely on the song’s lyrics alluding to elicit activity for which it does not. However, I don’t mind that gays think of the song as their anthem,” he said.
Village People singer says YMCA not a 'gay anthem,' will sue anyone who disagrees
It might be fun to stay at the YMCA, but the song is not a “gay anthem." So says the frontman of the Village People.
Alberta pushing discrimination and child endangerment...
Not everyone is okay with it.
Have children. Real children not dogs cats or nieces and nephews. Your thoughts would be 100% different.
Do no harm....
Puberty blockers alone should not cause infertility, but taking them in combination with estrogen or testosterone can:
Cross-sex hormones
If a person who has taken puberty blockers transitions to cross-sex hormones without going through puberty, their reproductive organs may not fully mature. This could affect their fertility.
Long-term effects
Puberty blockers can have long-term effects on fertility, depending on when they are started.
Other concerns
Puberty blockers can also have other side effects, including mood disorders, seizures, cognitive impairment, and osteoporosis.
Before starting puberty blockers, it's important to discuss long-term fertility options. This includes talking about the potential risks and consequences of the treatment.
Hope he appeals!!Mayor who stood up to Pride group has bank account garnished
Emo Mayor Harold McQuaker faces stiffer justice from authorities than bank robbers and carjackers
Author of the article:Joe Warmington
Published Dec 07, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 5 minute read
Emo Township in Nothern Ontrario has been ordered to a $10,000 pay a fine by the Ontario Human Rights Commission for not voting to fly a Pride flag
Emo Township in Nothern Ontrario has been ordered to a $10,000 pay a fine by the Ontario Human Rights Commission for not voting to fly a Pride flag
LGBTQ2+ activists have literally made Emo Township Mayor Harold McQuaker pay for daring to stand up to them.
Although the Northern Ontario municipal leader vowed not to honour a $5,000 fine the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) levied against him for comments surrounding town council not approving a motion to approve Pride month, he wasn’t given a choice.
In fact, the winner of the judgement that McQuaker called “extortion” has boasted it has already gone into his bank account to collect the money.
“Sure, sex is great, but have you ever garnished your mayor’s bank account after he publicly refused to comply with a Tribunal’s order to pay damages?” states a Borderland Pride post on Facebook.
It seems like they are enjoying this.
Council may not have let them raise a rainbow flag for Pride month but they are planting a flag in the ground to show Emo is their town.
“Mayor McQuaker’s comments in the Toronto Sun and other media were very clear that he did not respect nor intend to comply with the Tribunal’s orders,” Borderland Pride said in an email. “Consequently, it was apparent he would not voluntarily make payment of the damages ordered. We took immediate action to garnish his bank account.”
What McQuaker told the Sun was, “I utterly refuse to pay the $5,000 because that’s extortion” and also said he would not partake in an Ontario Human Rights Commission re-education course.
On ensuring he did pay, Borderland Pride said, “The garnishment was issued by the court and delivered to the CIBC in Emo, which is the only bank in that community” and ”there is no hearing or application to issue a notice of garnishment – it is a service provided at the court counter or online once a person has an order for the payment of money.”
Borderland Pride also wrote, “Orders of the Tribunal can be enforced in the same manner as any civil judgment for the payment of money. We intend to ensure the Tribunal’s orders are complied with.”
Turns out Mayor McQuaker is not in charge there – Borderland Pride is.
Cancel culture is cancelling this mayor and digging into his personal savings too. On a weak premise that there is discrimination of LGBT people there, the enforcement is harsher than most violent criminals receive. It seems like a heavy-handed, undemocratic move, not to mention a violation of personal finances, and cruel and unusual punishment.
It’s also a slippery slope.
Borderland Pride has taken Emo, Ontario by storm
Borderland Pride has taken Emo, Ontario by storm
The state using legal instruments to take from one person and give to others amounts to communism and authoritarianism that should scare every citizen. First, we saw government and banks freezing accounts of pandemic lockdown protesters, seizing donations to crowdfunding sites, and now in woke Canada comes word they can raid bank accounts, too.
A creeping police state is what should be cancelled, not a venerable village mayor. Just because people get the whip hand on somebody, does not mean they need to wield it. Power is not power when it’s abused. Restraint and fair play is power.
There is no decision so far on the status of the $10,000 fine HRTO slapped on the Township of Emo for the 2020 decision by town council to vote three to two against granting a request for there to be a Pride month in the village of just 1,400 people. And Borderland Pride said they have so far not garnished the township as they await that decision.
What’s McQuaker’s next move? Bow to the woke mob? Appeal? Resign? Fight on?
“I will not be commenting until next Wednesday (council’s next meeting) when we will make a statement,” McQuaker said Friday, adding his “knuckles have been rapped” this week.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford should send Municipal Affairs Minister Paul Calandra to intervene and end this madness, get both sides to shake hands with a compromise and be friends. Great grandfather McQuaker is a good citizen and so are the Borderland Pride volunteers. No one ever wins in a game of chicken.
This occurred because democracy wasn’t respected when the town decided to pass on having Pride month. The Tribunal’s Vice Chair Karen Dawson claimed “Mayor McQuaker’s remark … that there was no flag for the ‘other side of the coin … for straight people’ was on its face dismissive of Borderland Pride’s flag request and demonstrated a lack of understanding of the importance to Borderland Pride and other members of the LGBTQ2 community of the Pride flag.”
Dawson wrote, “I find this remark was demeaning and disparaging of the LGBTQ2 community of which Borderland Pride is a member and therefore constituted discrimination under the code.”
Borderland Pride has won its case against Emo Township in Northern Ontrario. They have been ordered to a $10,000 pay a fine by the Ontario Human Rights Commission for not voting to fly a Pride flag
Borderland Pride has won its case against Emo Township in Northern Ontrario. They have been ordered to a $10,000 pay a fine by the Ontario Human Rights Commission for not voting to fly a Pride flag
But more offensive than anything McQuaker said is this ruling, which ignores McQuaker’s free speech and council’s free vote. It was an overreaction to a comment from a 76-year-old man in a town a long way from progressive municipalities more accustomed to Pride celebrations and who have a legitimate demand for them.
Instead of searching for a middle ground, blunt force was employed to destroy a good man who has served his community well. He doesn’t’ accept that he’s homophobic.
McQuaker maintains he doesn’t “hate anybody” and “did not do anything wrong.”
“If anybody needs training, it’s the LGBTQ2+ to quit pushing their weight around and make demands that people can’t live with,” he said.
This seems like a modern-day witch hunt.
While they didn’t win the June Pride month designation, Borderland Pride is winning the Battle of Emo now and using Ontario oversight and procedures to do it. Like it or not, with the help of highly-skilled, experienced and professional lawyer Douglas Judson, they are using the law and it is ruling in their favour.
However, it’s not helping Canada. And rubbing the Mayor’s nose in it and spiking the football on social media is unseemly.
But Borderland Pride says “despite suggestions in your prior reporting and elsewhere which portray the Mayor as elderly, vulnerable, or somehow economically disadvantaged, he owns a successful trucking company and is likely one of the wealthiest people in the community.”
While his financial status should be irrelevant, McQuaker is $5,000 poorer thanks to his bank account being garnished.
And a country understands Borderland Pride is the new boss.
jwarmington@postmedia.com
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WARMINGTON: Mayor who stood up to Pride group has bank account garnished
LGBTQ2+ activists have literally made Emo Township Mayor Harold McQuaker pay for daring to stand up to them.
Well shit eh?
Andrew Gregory Health editor
Wed 11 Dec 2024 13.54 GMT
Puberty blockers for under-18s with gender dysphoria will be banned indefinitely across the UK except for use in clinical trials, the government has announced.
Wes Streeting, the health secretary, said that after receiving advice from medical experts, he would make existing emergency measures banning the sale and supply of puberty blockers indefinite.
The Department of Health and Social Care said the Commission on Human Medicines (CHM) had published independent expert advice that there was “currently an unacceptable safety risk in the continued prescription of puberty blockers to children”.
Streeting said the commission had recommended indefinite restrictions while work is done to ensure the safety of children and young people.
The NHS announced in March that children would no longer be prescribed puberty blockers at gender identity clinics, with the then Conservative government saying this would help ensure care was based on evidence and was in the “best interests of the child”.
In May, that government introduced a ban on puberty blockers through emergency legislation, preventing the prescription of the medication from European or private prescribers and restricting NHS provision to within clinical trials.
A challenge to that ruling, brought by campaigners who said they were concerned for the safety and welfare of young trans people in the UK, failed in July when the high court ruled that the ban was lawful.
Dr Hilary Cass, who wrote the Cass review into children’s gender care and published her final report in April, described puberty blockers as “powerful drugs with unproven benefits and significant risks”.
She said: “That is why I recommended that they should only be prescribed following a multi-disciplinary assessment and within a research protocol. I support the government’s decision to continue restrictions on the dispensing of puberty blockers for gender dysphoria outside the NHS where these essential safeguards are not being provided.”
Boys will grow to be men and girls will grow to be women. They wont stay children to be abused by child diddlers.
You cant arrest a diddler when the pube free boy or girl (they stay boys and girls on blockers) is over 18.
The pedophiles found a loophole and its been slammed shut like a virgin sphincter.
Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK
Health secretary says emergency measures banning sale and supply will be made indefinite after expert advice.Andrew Gregory Health editor
Wed 11 Dec 2024 13.54 GMT
Puberty blockers for under-18s with gender dysphoria will be banned indefinitely across the UK except for use in clinical trials, the government has announced.
Wes Streeting, the health secretary, said that after receiving advice from medical experts, he would make existing emergency measures banning the sale and supply of puberty blockers indefinite.
The Department of Health and Social Care said the Commission on Human Medicines (CHM) had published independent expert advice that there was “currently an unacceptable safety risk in the continued prescription of puberty blockers to children”.
Streeting said the commission had recommended indefinite restrictions while work is done to ensure the safety of children and young people.
The NHS announced in March that children would no longer be prescribed puberty blockers at gender identity clinics, with the then Conservative government saying this would help ensure care was based on evidence and was in the “best interests of the child”.
In May, that government introduced a ban on puberty blockers through emergency legislation, preventing the prescription of the medication from European or private prescribers and restricting NHS provision to within clinical trials.
A challenge to that ruling, brought by campaigners who said they were concerned for the safety and welfare of young trans people in the UK, failed in July when the high court ruled that the ban was lawful.
Dr Hilary Cass, who wrote the Cass review into children’s gender care and published her final report in April, described puberty blockers as “powerful drugs with unproven benefits and significant risks”.
She said: “That is why I recommended that they should only be prescribed following a multi-disciplinary assessment and within a research protocol. I support the government’s decision to continue restrictions on the dispensing of puberty blockers for gender dysphoria outside the NHS where these essential safeguards are not being provided.”
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Boys will grow to be men and girls will grow to be women. They wont stay children to be abused by child diddlers.
You cant arrest a diddler when the pube free boy or girl (they stay boys and girls on blockers) is over 18.
The pedophiles found a loophole and its been slammed shut like a virgin sphincter.
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You'd think if that was important to you, you'd be for helping/being okay with trans kids who social transition and puberty blockers (which are used by non-trans kids and no one bats an eye at the side effects of non-trans kids using them).
I'm not keen on puberty blockers of any kind. There are quite a few medications out there i am not keen on. A lot of stuff following the science leads back to the money.
The only ones endangering kids are the groomers and the complicit. Which one are you?