India raids offices of George Soros founded Open Society

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday carried out searches at eight locations in Bengaluru in connection with a foreign exchange violation probe against American billionaire George Soros founded Open Society Foundations and its impact investment arm Soros Economic Development Fund (SEDF), people familiar with the development said.

The searches, for potential violations of the Foreign Exchange Management Act or FEMA, were carried out at NGOs and other firms funded by OSF and SEDF, and at Aspada Investments Private Limited, which is the holding company of SEDF. ED said Aspada is the investment advisor/fund manager of SEDF in India and is wholly owned subsidiary of a Mauritius-based entity.

h/t Mauser

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SIEBERT: Nothing about the Carney Liberals looks good — or different

‘A Liberal win might be the wake-up call necessary to drive Alberta — followed by Saskatchewan — towards greater sovereignty.’

So, out with the old and in with the new as a replacement figurehead is installed on the old rotten ship, the HMCS Liberal Party. With such changes afoot it may be worth a closer examination of the track record left by the outgoing prime minister, as well as at his shiny new replacement.

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Carney will ask Governor General to dissolve Parliament Sunday and call election, sources say

Prime Minister Mark Carney will ask the Governor General to dissolve Parliament and call a federal election this Sunday, Radio-Canada has learned.

The election campaign will kick off barely a week after Carney was sworn in as prime minister and appointed his cabinet.

Carney’s trip to Rideau Hall to speak to Gov. Gen. Mary Simon will come a day before MPs were scheduled to return after Parliament was prorogued on Jan. 6.

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Michael Higgins: The great lengths being taken to uphold the residential school narrative

The Law Society of British Columbia (LSBC) has responded to a libel suit brought by one of its own lawyers, in a case involving claims that “bodies” were found at the Kamloops Indian Residential School (KIRS), by implying that he has committed that most pernicious of crimes: denialism.

The LSBC doesn’t outright accuse James Heller of denialism, but it certainly points the finger of suspicion his way.

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America’s always had a reason to deport Privileged Prince Harry … and it’s sickening

America’s Sussex-haters are feeling deflated today, as it seems like the Privileged Prince of Privacy may be here on US soil to stay.

On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security released Prince Harry’s application for a visa to live in the US – but, for some reason, the Duke’s files weren’t given the JFK treatment.

Instead of a bona fide document dump, we got a few sheets of near-fully redacted pages that could just as easily have been Queen Me-Again’s recipe book.

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Toronto’s Chairman Chow supports removing U.S. flags ‘wherever possible’

The mayor of Canada’s largest city and economic capital says she supports removing American flags “wherever possible.”

The office of Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow told Global News in a statement Wednesday that Chow is OK with the measure, which some municipalities in Ontario are starting to adopt.

“We are proudly Canadian and will never be the 51st state,” her office said.

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Tim Walz: Maga voters are scared of my masculinity

Tim Walz has claimed that Maga voters are “scared” of his masculinity.

The former vice-presidential candidate said Republicans targeted him during the election campaign because they were fearful he would win over male voters.

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Matthew Lau: Carney is as climate crazy as Guilbeault

Having left his gig as UN Special Envoy for Climate and Finance to lead the federal Liberal government, Mark Carney is now in a position to focus his and Greta Thunberg’s global climate crusade squarely on Canada. The crusade, Carney boasted back in 2021 while in his previous role, is worth many trillions of dollars. As he told CBC News at that year’s UN climate conference, “We have banks, asset managers, pension funds, insurance companies from around the world — more than 45 countries — and their total resources, totalling US$130 trillion” dedicated to transitioning the world’s economy away from fossil fuels. That dollar figure is higher than global GDP.

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CHARLEBOIS: Farmers pay the price for Ottawa’s electric vehicle obsession

Canada started a trade war with China, yet few in Ottawa seem willing to acknowledge the consequences.

Unlike the United States, which often imposes tariffs as a bargaining chip only to later negotiate, China takes a far more calculated and punitive approach. When Beijing retaliates, it targets industries with economic and symbolic significance, ensuring maximum pressure on its adversary.

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America’s Most Famous Illegal Alien Busted by ICE

Move over Mahmoud Khalil, the open borders crowd is about to have a much bigger martyr.

One of the most obvious signs that we were living in a system where immigration law could be openly flouted was the growing number of illegal aliens who would attend rallies, become professional activists and boast of their illegal status knowing that absolutely nothing would happen to them. This phenomenon really took off under Obama and in some parts of the country simply became the new normal. Illegals were untouchable.

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Is civil war coming for France?

The Republic can’t escape colonialism

Today marks the moment, 63 years ago, that France finally ceded control of Algeria. But speak to many in both countries and the war might have finished yesterday, with tensions between Paris and Algiers now higher than they’ve been for years. Consider, among other things, France’s recent decision to re-examine the “special” pact of 1968 that made it easier for Algerians to settle in France, with the Quai d’Orsay also presenting its former colony with a list of nationals it wants to send back home. Algiers reacted indignantly — but Algerian terrorists have attacked several French citizens over recent years, while many French Arabs continue to fiercely resent the land they call home.

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KLEIN: Canada sends $8.5B overseas while Canadians line up at foodbanks

On March 9, Canada’s Minister of International Development, Ahmed Hussen, stood at a podium and announced $272.1 million in new funding for 14 development projects in Bangladesh and across the Indo-Pacific region.

These projects aim to promote gender equality, advance sexual and reproductive health, and expand education and skills training.

The news came and went, barely causing a ripple in most media circles. No outrage. No tough questions. No debate. It was just another line item in the growing list of handouts from Canadian taxpayers to foreign governments and agencies.

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Snow White review — Disney has trashed its crown jewel and its reputation

Believe the anti-hype. It’s that bad. This latest Disney adaptation was yanked from prerelease marketing duties — the London premiere was axed — for good reason. It represents a new low for cultural desecration and for a venerable 102-year-old entertainment company that now looks at its source material with a pinched nose of disgust.

When the Snow White star Rachel Zegler, during a now notorious Vanity Fair interview, dismissed the Disney original as a politically retrograde “85-year-old cartoon”, she was merely echoing the same clueless company vandals who had, in previous reboots, made Cruella soppy, Mulan sexless and Maleficent misunderstood.

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Why the Trump-McGregor love-in terrifies the elites

It was a ‘dismal’ sight, cried the Irish Times. It was ‘beyond distressing’. It was ‘enough to curdle many a pint of stout’. ‘The shamrock bowl lies wilting’, the paper wailed, like one of those be-shawled auld women who once stalked the lanes of Ireland issuing dark prophecies to all and sundry. What has happened to stir up such fright and foreboding at Ireland’s newspaper of record? Have the Brits returned? Is a new potato blight afoot? Are the Magdalene laundries reopening? Nope – Conor McGregor went to the White House.

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Gwyn Morgan: Canadians need to vote against policy self-harm

Donald Trump’s bombastic style is hard to stomach, but the need to undo years of waste and corruption is undeniable. Trump’s reforms will speed up an economy that already far outperforms ours. According to the latest IMF World Economic Outlook data, U.S. GDP per capita this year is $89,678 (in “purchasing-power-parity” dollars), while ours is $64,566, just 72 per cent of that. In 2015, when the Trudeau government was elected, our per capita output was 81 per cent of the Americans’. According to the IMF’s forecasts, we’ll be below 70 per cent and still trending downward by 2029.

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