Friday Fuss

Here on the last day of the normal workweek, starting with our friends up north, are some things going on:

From CBC News, growing (newly legal) cannabis isn't all that easy.

From the National Post, Toronto mayor candidate Faith Goldy is not a white supremacist.

From CTV News, the legalization of cannabis could lead to a court backlog due to charges of driving while impaired.

From the Bangor Daily News, a Canadian illegally enters and tries to hunt moose in the United States.  (via CTV News)

From the Metro, the Huddersfield, England rape gang is sentenced to a total of 221 years in prison.

From the Express, French President Macron and German Chancellor Merkel demand concessions from the E.U. to the U.K.  (Did their pub crawl which I noted yesterday have anything to do with this?)

From the Independent, a black panther has reportedly been spotted in Scotland.  (This type of cat is actually a leopard, or maybe a jaguar, with black fur.)

From the Evening Standard, 100,000 citizens of the E.U. stayed away from the U.K. due to Brexit.

From France24, Air France and five unions reach a deal to avert further strikes.

From RFI, the new head of the Francophonie rekindles the ties between France and her country Rwanda.

From the NL Times, the Netherlands issues its first ever gender neutral passport.

From Deutsche Welle, Eastern German states demand €60 million to phase out coal mining and burning.

From Radio Poland, the E.U. Court of Justice wants retired Polish judges to be reinstated.

From Russia Today, a large fleet of Iranian oil tankers heads for China, ahead of American sanctions.

From Sputnik International, the U.S. Justice Department charges a Russian national with interfering with U.S. elections.

From the Greek Reporter, a look at the school of Aristotle in Greek's Macedonia region.

From ANSA, French police may have made another migrant drop near the Italian border.

From El País, the Spanish Supreme Court rules that banks must pay mortgage taxes.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey, Germany, Russia and France will convene over Syria next week.

From Rûdaw, ISIS makes a "desperate" effort to hold onto the area around Hajin, Syria.

From Arutz Sheva, according to western intelligence sources, Iran has been providing Hezbollah with GPS-equipped weapons.

From The Jerusalem Post, three Church leaders urge Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop a bill that would allow the confiscation of Christian property.

From The Times Of Israel, a neo-Nazi group made flyers blaming Jews for the allegations against Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

From Gatestone Institute, are there Turkish spies in America?

From FrontpageMag, in Los Angeles, hate crimes hit Jews far worse than Muslims.

From National Review, "the blackface party"

From Townhall, President Trump has freed the GOP from the media.

From The Washington Free Beacon, an anti-Trump GOP women's group gets their money from a billionaire Democrat donor.

From AP News, the Central American migrant caravan breaks into Mexico.  (via the Washington Examiner)

From The Verge, Saudi Arabian money supports the "future of transportation".

From Breitbart Tech, Facebook blacklists a left-wing site that had praised their purge of Infowars.

From Breitbart Entertainment, a model who portrayed Melania Trump as a stripper also mocks her accent.  (If you can speak Slovene without an American accent, and four other languages fluently, then you should be allowed to mock Mrs. Trump's accent.  Enough with the Slavophobia.)

From The Daily Caller, everyone from the Proud Boys to Louis Farrakhan have free speech rights.

And from Fox News, if you have an extra $65,000 or so lying around, you can own a menu from the Titanic.