Battery electric vehicles make up just 1% of Canadian fleet amid feasibility concerns over 2035 gas ban

New data from Statistics Canada reveals that battery electric vehicles (BEVs) account for only 1.3% of the 25.7 million road vehicles in the country, casting doubt on the federal government’s ambitious mandate to eliminate new gasoline and diesel vehicle sales by 2035.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the Vehicle Registrations 2023 report, released Monday, shows that gasoline-powered light-duty vehicles still dominate the roads, representing 93% of the national fleet.

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How Israel and Iran are waging war in the shadows

Tehran appears to be taking espionage lessons from the Mossad spy agency as it attempts to bribe vulnerable Israelis into betraying their country

Israelis have been paid hundreds of thousands of pounds in cryptocurrency by Iran to take photographs of sensitive military sites, according to prosecutors, as evidence grows of a successful espionage operation by Tehran.

The Nevatim airbase, which was hit by Iranian ballistic missiles this month, the Golani training base, where four soldiers died from a Hezbollah drone attack, and batteries of the country’s Iron Dome air defences, were all reconnoitred by alleged Iranian spies.

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Quebec TV Exec to Replace Catherine Tait as Head of CBC

Marie-Philippe Bouchard, a seasoned executive from a Quebec news channel, has been tapped to lead Canada’s national public broadcaster.

Bouchard’s appointment as the next President and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada was announced on Oct. 22. She will begin her five-year term on Jan. 3, 2025.

Bouchard has been President and CEO of TV5 Québec Canada since February 2016, overseeing the TV5 Unis channels and other digital platforms for Francophone audiences in Canada. Before joining TV5 Québec Canada, she held senior executive positions at CBC/Radio-Canada, managing various departments including legal, strategic, and digital services.

Just think, she may not finish her 5 year term if a certain promise is kept.

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U.S. Republican says Trudeau, not Trump, is NATO threat on defence spending

A U.S. Republican congressman is calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a “threat” to NATO’s stability and success, saying Canada’s defence spending and military contributions aren’t enough.

U.S. Rep. Mike Turner made the comments in an op-ed in Newsweek suggesting “Trudeau, not (Donald) Trump, is a threat to the stability and success of NATO” because of the country’s long-standing lag on a plan to hit the agreed upon target for members to spend two per cent of their GDP on defence.

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Trudeau’s zero hour: Liberals gear up for high-stakes showdown Wednesday

OTTAWA — Liberal MPs are gearing up for a high stakes caucus meeting on Wednesday that could see multiple calls for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to resign, but it is unclear what, if anything, will come of the internal revolt or if it will simply fizzle out.

Before the cabinet meeting, Liberal ministers on Tuesday were reaffirming their confidence in Trudeau in droves while downplaying the idea that dozens of MPs had added their signatures to a letter to ask the prime minister to step down for the good of the country.

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Muslim wife’s shocking plot against secret lover after husband discovered her affair

A Muslim wife and her husband allegedly attempted to murder her former lover in a Chick-fil-A parking lot after her spouse uncovered the affair.

Hanna Alolaimi, 35, and her husband Omar Bishtawi, 48, face charges of aggravated kidnapping and aggravated assault after allegedly trying to kill her unidentified ex-boyfriend on Saturday night.

The couple lured her ex-lover, who is a DoorDash driver, to a Chick-fil-A parking in Houston, Texas, where they ambushed him, held a gun to his head, and shot him twice in the leg and foot, according to KHOU.

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Auditor general to investigate all government payments to ArriveCan contractor GC Strategies

Canada’s auditor general will conduct a full audit of all government contracts awarded to GC Strategies, the company at the centre of the ArriveCan controversy.

In a letter sent to the House of Commons on Monday, Karen Hogan confirmed that her office will look at all government contracts awarded to GC Strategies, its predecessor Coredal and other companies incorporated by the two co-founders. She will also examine related subcontracts.

Everywhere you turn the Liberal government is stealing hand over fist.

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Carson Jerema: Defund the professors. Every last one

It is offensive that public money — any amount — goes to universities to fund the self-actualization of professional activists masquerading as academics, but that is what is being supported. Too many professors twist and abuse their status to push whatever progressive cause they care about at the moment. It is an unforgivable use of tax dollars.

No one has destroyed the reputation of experts more than the so-called experts themselves, who expect their opinions to be given greater weight because of their credentials, even when they are spouting obvious gibberish.

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The Biden – Harris Iran Scandal Gets Worse

The source of last week’s leak of U.S. intelligence about Israel’s plans to strike Iran, which has occasioned an investigation, isn’t yet known. What should be obvious, though, is that no individual who has had extensive contact with Iranian intelligence and diplomatic officials, and who has deferred to the direction of those officials before, should have ever been put in a sensitive position in the first place.

The Biden administration has ignored this rather simple rule.

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