Cuba left without power — as president blames US ‘economic war’

Power went out across Cuba on Friday after the failure of its biggest power plant caused the collapse of the national grid.

President Díaz-Canel blamed the United States for waging “economic war” and said there would be “no rest” until the power was restored.

Life on the island of 11 million ground to a halt, with frustrated locals sitting on their doorsteps in Havana, sweltering in 28C (82F) heat, and shops were closed. Tourists milled around aimlessly, although generators kept the lights on at their hotels.

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Expect an ‘ugly fight’ over Trudeau’s leadership at national Liberal caucus meeting, say Grit MPs

MPs seeking Trudeau’s removal say leadership talks have been blocked by the national caucus chair and the PMO for months.

After nine years in power, and polling 20 points behind the Conservatives for more than a year, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing a serious challenge to his leadership from within his own caucus, and MPs and political insiders are predicting a showdown between a “motivated group” of more than 20 MPs pushing for a new leader before the next election, versus the prime minister and his supporters.


Meanwhile Freeland and Miller whistle past the graveyard.

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Gazans who hated Sinwar say video of his final moments ‘makes him look like a hero’

When reports of Yahya Sinwar’s death first swirled around Gaza, Enas immediately hoped they were true.

The 55-year-old Palestinian had lived a relatively comfortable and safe life working as a teacher in the heavily populated strip, but all that was lost after Hamas launched the Oct 7 attacks.

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Jordan Peterson says he is considering legal action after Trudeau accused him of taking Russian money

OTTAWA — Conservative media personality Jordan Peterson says he’s looking into legal action after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said this week that Peterson is receiving funding from Russian state-owned media outlet RT.

Trudeau made the comments under oath during his lengthy testimony on Wednesday at the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference and did not provide any evidence for them.

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Girl with suspected autism faces 12-match ban for asking transgender opponent: ‘Are you a man?’

A girl footballer with suspected autism is facing a ban of up to 12 matches for asking an adult transgender opponent: “Are you a man?”

In the latest case to raise major questions about the Football Association’s ongoing failure to ban those born male from the women’s game, the 17-year-old has been left distraught at being charged by her county FA over a remark made during a match against a trans-inclusive club.

She was charged last month with saying, “Are you a man?”, “That’s a man”, “Don’t come here again”, or similar comments during what was a pre-season friendly back in July.

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Hey Free Palestine Crowd Are You Swifties?! Have I Got A Protest Location For You!

Toronto to swiftly ‘limit activity’ near Rogers Centre during Taylor Swift’s 6 concerts

Taylor Swift is coming to Toronto and the city is working to shake off its gridlock problems by implementing a “limited activity zone” around the Rogers Centre during the two-week period when she is scheduled to play six sold-out shows.

A city spokesperson said the zone will circle Rogers Centre and the neighbouring downtown areas to help mitigate traffic woes during the two-week period in mid-to-late-November.


So the cops will let the Pallies tie up traffic for a year but act decisively to clear a path for Taylor Swift. F-You Chow.

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Judge Chutkan Unseals Mountain of Donald Trump Evidence From Jack Smith

Attorney General Bill Barr told Donald Trump that his claims of election fraud were “crazy,” newly released prosecution documents show.

Judge Tanya Chutkan unsealed nearly 2,000 pages of evidence in the former president’s election fraud case on Friday despite impassioned pleading from Trump’s lawyers that it could damage his presidential campaign.

The testimony forms part of the evidence in Trump’s election fraud case, suggesting that Barr may be called a witness, making him the first attorney general to testify against his president.

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Guy who’s probably OK with his son’s cutting their dicks off behind push to put both his transitioning children into female changing room

Cutting Off Son’s Dicks OK says free thinking Dad

Balgonie Elementary School in rural Saskatchewan is facing significant backlash after allowing two transitioning children of Sask NDP MLA Jared Clarke to use the girls’ changing room for gym class.

The controversy started when a Grade 7 student voiced her discomfort to her parents about sharing changing facilities with Clarke’s biologically male children. School officials said the concerned female student could use alternative changing areas if she felt uncomfortable

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Sex slave kidnapped by Muslims of ISIS at aged 11 ‘was starved for four days then fed cooked BABIES’

A Yazidi woman who was kidnapped by Islamist terrorists aged 11 has given a harrowing account of her years in captivity and the brutality she faced as a sex slave at the hands of ISIS before being trafficked to Gaza.

Fawzia Amin Saydo, now aged 21, was snatched from her home in Sinjar, Iraq, along with dozens of other children and women, whose babies she said were slaughtered by the terrorists.

The group were starved for four days before being handed plates of meat and rice, Fawzia said. Desperate for food, they consumed what was on the table, but soon began to have stomach ache and feel sick.

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Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre are putting their parties before the country, says guy who put his pension before Canada

Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre are putting their parties before the country, Jagmeet Singh says

OTTAWA—NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has accused his political rivals of putting their electoral prospects before protecting Canada’s democracy, the day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled bombshell allegations that there are Conservatives with ties to foreign meddling.

That the prime minister dropped those revelations at a public inquiry peeling back the layers of his own Liberal government’s response to foreign interference was not lost on Singh, who said Thursday that both Trudeau and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre “have, at many times, chosen to put their party before the country.”

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