Fewer than 40 per cent of 400,000 registered Liberals voted in leadership race

After the Liberal Party boasted in January of signing up nearly 400,000 registered Liberals, only about 38 per cent of them made it through the verification process and turned out to vote in the race that elected Mark Carney as the party’s new leader and Canada’s next prime minister.

The party said 163,836 people successfully went through the authentication process. Of those, 151,899 voted in the race, or 93 per cent, which is the percentage the party is using for turnout.

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Aliens are real and there’s a cover-up, new documentary aims to prove

Thirty-four senior officials detail government secret-keeping around UFOs in the explosive documentary “The Age of Disclosure,” which had its world premiere at SXSW.

AUSTIN — What if the big question surrounding the existence of aliens wasn’t if they exist, but why the U.S. government has been hiding this information from the American public for so long?

And what if, in hiding that information, our own leaders were putting us in danger of annihilation?

The congressional hearings of 2022 and 2023 into greater government disclosure about UFO encounters were just the beginning, according to Dan Farah, director of the explosive new documentary “The Age of Disclosure,” which debuted at SXSW on Sunday.


The Egg Guy soured me on the topic. I still want to believe but with only the Navy Vids to go one it’s getting more difficult to trust any source.

A somewhat skeptical take below.

‘The Age of Disclosure’ Review: A Documentary Claims to Offer Proof that Alien Spaceships Are Visiting Us. But Does It Really?

 

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X cyberattack: Elon Musk claims disruption originated in Ukraine

Elon Musk pointed the finger at Ukraine after claiming that a “massive cyberattack” had caused severe disruption on his social media site X.

Users began reporting problems at about 5.30am ET (9.30am GMT) on Monday, according to the website DownDetector, which tracks internet outages. The problems appeared to abate before another wave of complaints at 10am ET (2pm GMT), with some 40,000 users reporting that the platform would not load. The problems returned at 12.30pm ET (4.30pm GMT), prompting Musk to issue a statement.

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Calling Hamas terrorists is ‘dehumanising’, academic claims at university book launch

Calling Hamas terrorists is “dehumanising”, an academic claimed as a controversial book launch went ahead at the London School of Economics (LSE).

Prof Jeroen Gunning, of King’s College London (KCL), told the event that “labelling” the Palestinian terror group as “terrorists” leads to their “dehumanisation”.

The academic was speaking at a launch event for his book entitled Understanding Hamas: And Why It Matters, which was co-authored by Helena Cobban, at LSE on Monday.


Meanwhile in the Caliphate of Toronto

I note this chatter about criminalizing the naming of Hamas supporters as Hamas supporters seems coordinated, the TPS vid, the recent “Islamophobia Report” by the Liberal party’s Islamophobia Tsar and now this addition to the junk pile by the ever toxic LSE.

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Donald Trump rails against Doug Ford’s electricity retaliation move – Raises Steel & Aluminum Tariff to 50%

U.S. President Donald Trump has been jolted by Ontario’s 25 per cent surcharge on electricity sold stateside in retaliation his tariffs.
Twelve hours after Premier Doug Ford imposed what he dubbed “tariff response charge” to be paid by utilities in New York, Michigan and Minnesota that import Ontario power, Trump took to social media to complain.


Trump raises Canadian steel, aluminum tariffs to 50% in retaliation for Ontario energy duties

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he has ordered his administration to raise tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum imports by an additional 25%, bringing the total duties to 50%.

The new policy will go into effect Wednesday morning, Trump said in a Truth Social post that also repeated his calls for Canada to be absorbed into the U.S. as the “Fifty First State.”

h/t DS

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The secret to Trump’s Ukraine negotiations is hidden in plain sight

America’s decision to cut weapons deliveries and aid to Ukraine, as well as the dressing down of Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office, has triggered understandable outrage amongst Western allies.

But perhaps they shouldn’t be surprised.

Mr Trump’s tactic to bring Ukraine to heel and force the country to negotiate on peace follows a careful plan written and published in black and white last summer by none other than the president’s Kyiv envoy.

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John Ivison: Carney is already having trouble not looking like Trudeau 2.0

Canadians, as new Liberal leader Mark Carney pointed out in his low-key victory speech , want change.

The question, perhaps the ballot question, is whether Carney can convince them he is an agent of that change, and distinguish himself from his predecessor, Justin Trudeau.

The task was not helped by the format of Sunday evening’s event, which served as both a tribute to Trudeau and a launching pad for his successor.

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Trump Education Department announces 60 more universities under scrutiny over antisemitism

The Department of Education warned 60 colleges and universities Monday that they could be next to have federal funding taken away over antisemitic discrimination and harassment.

Those named and shamed included six of the eight Ivy League institutions — Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton and Yale — and local schools Rutgers, Rutgers-Newark, Sarah Lawrence, three branches of the State University of New York, The New School and Wellesley.

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Trump Adviser Says Canada Not Doing Enough to Combat Drug Labs

U.S. President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser is accusing Canada’s law enforcement agencies of not taking enough action on fentanyl labs, while reiterating previous comments from the U.S. administration that the tariffs put on Canada are part of a “drug war, not a trade war.”

“I can tell you that in the Situation Room, I’ve seen photographs of fentanyl labs in Canada that the law enforcement folks were leaving alone. Canada’s got a big drug problem, even in their own cities,” U.S. National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said during an interview on ABC News on March 9.

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Cartels laundering drug sales though Canada’s trade system, RCMP assessment says

Drug cartels are using Canada’s trade system to launder the proceeds of drug trafficking, according to an internal police intelligence report obtained by the Investigative Journalism Foundation.

The 2022 assessment from the RCMP’s organized crime division says that “cartel drug trafficking” accounts for most of the money being laundered in Canada through trade, according to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).

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