The House Oversight Committee is preparing for what will likely be a tense hearing on Tuesday with the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Deanne Criswell. The hearing was called after it was disclosed that a FEMA employee told her colleagues canvassing victims of hurricanes Milton and Helene to avoid homes with signs in support of President Trump in Florida.
The teenager hospitalized with bird flu in British Columbia, Canada, may have a variation of the virus that has a mutation making it more transmissible among people, early data shows – a warning of what the virus can do that is especially worrisome in countries such as the US where some H5N1 cases are not being detected.
The US “absolutely” is not testing and monitoring bird flu cases enough, which means scientists could miss mutated cases like these, said Richard Webby, a virologist at St Jude children’s research hospital’s department of infectious diseases.
Europe’s battery strategy is disintegrating, a prime exhibit of hubris and inflated rhetoric.
Its flagship Northvolt gigafactory in northern Sweden has run out of money and is talking solemnly to creditors. The Swedish press reports that it may seek bankruptcy protection within days.
More than half of the EU’s big battery projects face delay or cancellation. Europe still relies almost entirely on China, Korea and Japan for cathode and anode material, electrolytes and polyolefin separators, the real value in the lithium-ion supply chain.
There’s always value in watching what’s going on in other countries to learn something about what is happening in your own.
As someone fascinated by British politics, I’ve been closely watching the political developments in the United Kingdom over the past year, particularly Labour’s 2024 electoral victory.
He won’t differ much on immigration from Trudeau, the numbers may come down but the pattern won’t change as Canada becomes the 3rd world.
He will play identity politics, just more discreetly.
Will he defund CBC? A little maybe but my guess is he will leave it mostly intact. He’ll still campaign on defunding of course.
Will he continue to fund the news media? Yes.
Will he end affirmative action hiring that legalizes discrimination against whites and especially white males? Not likely.
Will he do a DOGE on our massive public service vote bank? Not if he can swing it to his favour.
He won’t be Justin Trudeau and for most that’s all they need.
LeBlanc yesterday bends over backwards defending the US legal system on immigration. Rosie asks about the 'moral' argument.
The moral thing to do was never invite millions in originally when the system couldn't handle it.
In fact, the moral thing to do is get the message out… pic.twitter.com/kUneUxQCOo
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) November 18, 2024
A federal lawsuit challenging vaccine mandates initiated by the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) during the COVID-19 pandemic has been thrown out by a judge presiding over the case.
The legal action sought $1 million in damages for each of the 330 plaintiffs. Together, they claimed the 2021 vaccine mandates violated their rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
UK Farmer “we’ve had rain everyday for the last 9 months – i genuinely believe this is manipulated by man, I don’t believe this is natural at all”
The Farmers know. Clearly. pic.twitter.com/aH1GdyZ0LT
— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) November 19, 2024
h/t Mauser
Russia says Ukraine has fired US-supplied long-range missiles into the country, a day after Washington gave its permission for such attacks.
Ukraine used the Army Tactical Missile System (Atacms) in a strike on Russia’s Bryansk region this morning, the ministry of defence in Moscow said.
Five missiles were shot down and one damaged, with its fragments causing a fire at a military facility in the region, it said in a statement.
And …
Putin approves changes to Russia’s nuclear doctrine
Vladimir Putin has approved changes to Russia’s nuclear doctrine, setting out new conditions under which the country would consider using its arsenal.
The doctrine now says an attack from a non-nuclear state, if backed by a nuclear power, will be treated as a joint assault on Russia.
Guys, I think we might be in trouble… pic.twitter.com/3eMcYrr8OD
— AlphaFo (@Alphafox78) November 18, 2024
h/t Mauser
Each Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) practitioner is meant to follow the criminal law. Yet Dirk Huyer, Ontario’s chief coroner, at first publicly, and then for years privately, warned that there is a “pattern of noncompliance” by physicians and nurses with the criminal law on MAID. More than 428 flagged cases later, as I wrote in a recent investigative report for The New Atlantis, no one is listening.
Yes, the legacy (formerly mainstream) media just literally lied relentlessly https://t.co/1NC8T39o5J
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 19, 2024
The police force investigating a newspaper columnist for allegedly inciting racial hatred has recorded 1,500 non-crime hate incidents in the past two years.
Essex police logged 702 non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs) between June 2023 and June 2024 and 834 in the 12 months before that, freedom of information responses revealed.
PM Trudeau says his government’s trade policies are based on empowering women and celebrating diversity. pic.twitter.com/lVCbtuNPse
— True North (@TrueNorthCentre) November 18, 2024
The federal government issued a new passport to an admitted human smuggler after he was ordered to surrender the travel document as part of court-imposed release conditions, CBC News has learned.
The new passport was discovered in June 2023 by RCMP investigators executing a search warrant at the Montreal home of Thesingarasan Rasiah during a probe targeting an international human smuggling network that Rasiah allegedly headed, according to court records obtained by CBC News.
