A month after Israel escalated its war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, airstrikes continued to hit Beirut on Tuesday including one 2,000lb bomb which was caught on camera hitting and destroying an apartment building.
A burst of images showed the descent of the bomb before it slammed into the multistorey block in the city’s Ghobeiry neighbourhood, quickly reducing it to rubble.
The government takeover of child care is reaching a crisis point in Ontario. This week, child-care operators are participating in rolling closures to protest the provincial funding formula and the inflexibility of the federal program. Daycare operator and industry group leader Jacky Sheppard of Peel Region estimates 30 or more daycare centres are taking part. Krystal Churcher of AACE National, a national committee of child-care operators, said she didn’t know exactly how many Ontario centres would be closed but “it’s a lot.” AACE National is organizing two protests of its own this week, one at Queen’s Park on Tuesday and another at Parliament Hill on Thursday, where it says “hundreds of child-care providers, parents and supporters will gather to make their voices heard.”
It took the world community nearly a year to condemn the war in Lebanon, but they got the wrong mark. Instead of condemning Hezbollah, the world’s largest Iranian proxy terrorist army, with an estimated 40,000 – 50,000 fighters, for starting a year-long war on October 8, 2023 in support of the terrorist organization Hamas, the West’s political “elites” condemned Israel for defending itself by targeting Hezbollah’s leadership.
OTTAWA — The Trudeau Liberals added thousands of executives to the ranks of Canada’s public servants since 2015, government documents reveal.
According to human resources statistics published online by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, Canada currently employs 9,155 public servants in the executive categories, responsible for interpreting policy and managing government departments and agencies.
Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has been diagnosed with leukemia, a form of bone marrow cancer, multiple reports detailed Monday.
Work to replace parts of 470,000 failing water meter transmitters in homes and businesses across Toronto is underway, but the latest update shows it will cost taxpayers millions of dollars to solve the problem that’s only getting worse.
In July, civil servants said thousands of radio transmitters on water meters were failing years ahead of schedule, meaning they can’t relay usage from homes or businesses to the city. In a new report to councillors on the infrastructure committee, Toronto Water says over 150,000 of those units have now failed and the city will need to spend $5.6 million on the first wave of replacements.
Kamala Harris will say or do whatever it takes to win the presidency, and her campaign is built on a foundation of lies—whether it’s smearing Donald Trump or distorting her own record. But Harris’s troubling relationship with the truth didn’t start in politics. In fact, she may owe her entire career to a lie that helped her get into law school in the first place.
Toronto’s homeless shelters now house almost triple the number of kids they did eight years ago — with more than 1,400 in hotel rooms paid for by city hall
… As of September, nearly 1,500 kids were staying in the city’s shelter system, two thirds of whom were 10 or younger, as well as more than 1,400 children waiting for space in scattered hotel rooms paid for by city hall
… These “bridging hotel” rooms are different from hotels leased as temporary shelters during the pandemic, which are now considered part of the regular shelter system and offer more services like meals. The federal government also operates its own network of hotels specifically for refugees.
The Pentagon has reportedly named Chief of Staff of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations, Ariane Tabatabai, as the prime suspect for an alleged leak of classified documents, Sky News Arabia reported on Tuesday, citing a senior Pentagon official.
Tabatabai, an American of Iranian origin, is also an officer in US Naval Intelligence.
Wait, so Ariane Tabatabai is the suspect for the leak?
You mean the same person who was already outed as an Iranian agent?
Shocking! pic.twitter.com/uiisiezPCL
— Jews Fight Back (@JewsFightBack) October 22, 2024
Her name has been bandied about for some time as someone to watch. This deliberate carelessness speaks volumes about the Biden-Harris admin.
h/t patthedog
Thirteen years ago, U.S. President Barack Obama stood in front of the world and announced that, “The United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaida and a terrorist who is responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women and children.” The death of the mastermind of 9/11, nearly 10 years after the attacks took place, was generally well received throughout the western world.
Contrary to their reputation for being largely indifferent to the ways of humans, cats pay close attention when we speak and can beat babies at a word-association game, a study suggests.
The research seems to show that cats can assign a meaning to a word in a matter of minutes. Moreover, they did this without special training or the prospect of being rewarded, which mirrors how infant humans learn languages.
Immigration Minister Marc Miller today called efforts by disaffected Liberal MPs to oust Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “garbage” and said it would be better for the team to pull together to take on their main opponent: Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.
“Any minute spent on this garbage is a minute that’s not spent on Pierre Poilievre and what he wants to do to this country, and I think that is very dangerous,” Miller told reporters ahead of a cabinet meeting.
Two civil servants are being sued by a colleague who claims their view that transgender people cannot change their sex is discriminatory.
It marks the latest row in the Whitehall “culture wars” in which civil servants who believe that sex cannot be changed feel they are victims of a “witch hunt” by “bullies with a dangerous agenda”.
The case will go to court on Tuesday to determine if the civil servant who is bringing the claim can remain anonymous.
The Hamas-supporting terrorist group Samidoun represents a conundrum for this country. But it might not be the one you’d think.
We can take Samidoun at its word — that they really do have a vendetta against Canada and the western world in general. The federal government has, finally, listed the group as a terrorist organization.
Lots of great questions “why” for the Hamas supporters.
But I would love to ask our political and chattering classes why they run cover for the Islamist cult, why they invited the cult to settle in Canada and what they propose to do to safeguard society from Muslim predation. Look to Europe to glimpse Canada’s future with Islam. Nothing ever gets better by adding more Islam.
China and the Vatican have agreed to extend a deal on the appointment of Catholic bishops in the Asian nation by four years. Some conservative Catholics have criticized the accord for handing too much control to Beijing.
