The View from Hats and Heels: Sanitary pads

The big announcement from the Liberals this week was.....wait for it.....sit down.....hydrate....breathe deeply into a paper bag.....the passing of a law that will require all federal government washrooms to stock sanitary pads and tampons in both the women's and MEN'S washrooms!%$^&#!@%$#@

Soon to be equipped with pads and tampons.

Yep, you read that right. All men's washrooms will have to provide sanitary products for women who identify as men or non-binary.

I AM NOT KIDDING!!!!!!!!!

In addition, these products will have to be stocked in each stall, so a non-woman, who is menstruating (huh??!!) can change her -- sorry "its" -- pad or tampon in private.

How much will that insanity cost??!!! Don't even ask because you will undoubtedly be outraged. It'll mean individual dispensers in thousands and thousands of stalls across the country. Thousands!

Yep, that's what this government has sunk to. Their priority, when people can't even afford food, is to make sure non-women-women can use a men's washroom and change "its" pad.

I have no words.

Here's another biggie: Because a 14,000 people signed a petition, the name of Dundas Street in Toronto was to have been done away with. Why? Because Lord Henry Dundas delayed the abolition of slavery in England -- the first country to abolish the practice -- by a few months in 1834. Dundas delayed it only to lobby to ensure all members of parliament would vote for it; otherwise, they would not have.

Think about it. There are 281,280 Blacks in Toronto, out of a populations of 2.93 million, but because a measly 14,000 people signed a petition, they held sway and were about to do away with the name "Dundas".

Cancel culture run amok. That's what is happening all over the "civilized" world. Naturally, the ethnically-rabid Olivia Chow...

Ms. Chow

...vowed to dump the Dundas name when she ran for mayor. Chow was born and educated in Hong Kong, so she knew nothing of Lord Dundas. But you'd at least have thought someone on her staff would have looked the man up and briefed her on who he really was.

Thankfully, a huge backlash ensued, so now only the Yonge and Dundas Square will be re-named. But the name "Dundas" will still be stricken from the subway station that bears it. But those moves in themselves are an outrage!

And what will they rename Yonge-Dundas Square? Councillors in a moment of breathtaking, self-flagellating insanity, voted to rename it "Sankofa Square". Huh!!?? Whaaaaat??!!! Evidently, this historically-deprived -- or should I say, "hysterically" -- mob also hadn't bothered to look up origins of the word. It derives from the West African Akan people who were themselves avid slave traders. Oops.

Yep, history has been thrown to the curb in all the woke school curricula these days. Take poor Egerton Ryerson. Protesters defaced and toppled his campus statue in 2021, claiming he was one of the evil founders of Indigenous residential schools. Apparently, they forgot to do their research and missed the bit about how Ryerson himself actually had no direct role in their creation.

They also missed the part where he learned to speak Ojibway, lived among the "Mississaugas of the Credit" as a missionary and vigorously defended their land claims. Oops again. But like Dundas, Ryerson -- along with Hector Langevin and Sir John -- is the victim of an age that ignores historical accuracy in favour of political orthodoxy.

And who were the dunderheads behind this nonsense? Some guy named Andrew Lochhead, who Wikipedia describes as being, "an artist and goth detective", and Black city councillor Chris Moise -- a self-described "he/him". WTF??!!!

Moise. I imagine his race determines his opinions about White history in Canada.

According to Moise, the word "sankofa" is a concept with roots in Ghana and refers to "The act of reflecting on and reclaiming teachings from the past which enables us to move forward together".

Huh??!! What has a Ghanaian saying got to do with the Toronto subway??!! Nevertheless, Toronto councillors covered their eyes and ears and actually voted for the disgraceful change.

And just to top it all off, council also voted to rename an Etobicoke stadium after the late crack-head mayor Rob Ford. All in a solid day's work, I'd say, wouldn't you?

Rob, you will remember, was the guy who created many dramatic scenes of ugly slurs, drunken rants and lewd remarks which put Toronto on the international map, but not in a good way. He made Toronto a laughing stock. As 'Globe and Mail' columnist Marcus Gee put it:

"We usually name public building after admirable figures like Nathan Philips, Terry Fox, Roberta Bondar or Nelson Mandela. What sort of message does Rob Ford Stadium send?"

The late Mayor Ford smoking crack with a couple of his buddies from 'The Hood'.

Precisely the wrong one. The respectable, dead burghers of what was once known as "Toronto the Good" must be rolling over in their graves.

And let's not forget a truly "Emperor's New Clothes" moment for the ages. While the climate fanatics were signing, decreeing and declaring impossible nonsense at COP28 in Dubai, having flown there in their private jets, three of the world's largest oil companies were announcing a huge, new $10 billion investment in oil and gas.