From disinformation campaigns to soaring scepticism, plummeting trust and economic slumps, the global media landscape has been hit with blow after blow.
World News Day, taking place on Saturday with the support of hundreds of organisations including AFP, aims to raise awareness about the challenges endangering the hard-pressed industry.
h/t DS
Residents, chemists and firefighters are raising concerns about prevention and emergency preparedness after 15,000 kilograms of lithium batteries inside a shipping container caught fire at the Port of Montreal on Monday.
“Around 6 p.m., I started smelling something chemical in my place,” said Lia Chauvel, who lives about two kilometres from the port. “Like at 7 p.m., I get a text from the city. I thought it was spam.”
The fire started at 2:40 p.m. About two hours later, the city issued a precautionary lockdown notice through landlines to some nearby residents. A reminder alert was sent at 6:51 p.m.
The boss of a Minneapolis food pantry, funded by city taxpayers, has banned white people from taking advantage of the resource.
Mykela ‘Keiko’ Jackson used a Minnesota State grant to launch the Food Trap Project Bodega designed to help poor and hungry residents living close to the Sanctuary Covenant Church in the north of the city.
A transgender Syrian refugee claims she has been stranded in a Turkish airport for seven months after a Canadian diplomat alleged that she underwent gender reassignment surgery in a bid to gain access to the country.
Arwa Almsrawi had initially been granted refugee status by Canada after the nation received a referral from the U.N. Refugee Agency.
But while on her journey to her new homeland, she got into trouble at Istanbul Airport, learning she was on the U.S’ ‘No Fly List’ and eventually had her refugee status revoked.
I’m surprised Trudeau hasn’t personally intervened.
h/t DS
Former President Donald Trump slammed Vice President Kamala Harris during a Michigan rally Friday after federal immigration authorities admitted that close to 15,000 illegal immigrants convicted or accused of homicide are in the US and not in their custody.
“She let our American sons and daughters be raped and murdered at the hands of vicious monsters,” Trump told supporters during a rally in Walker, outside of Grand Rapids.
@fancypants_s, great idea for panhandlers in Canada – replace Kamala with the @liberal_party. https://t.co/Zz50rHRXHF
— Kaffir Kanuck (@Kaffir_Kanuck) September 28, 2024
h/t KaffirKanuck
The Liberal Party of Canada can’t even raise a decent revolt against its wildly unpopular prime minister — another sign of drop-dead decay.
Polls show that the only way the Liberals can win another election, or even hope to be the official Opposition, is to get rid of Justin Trudeau.
Canadas Conservative Party leader @PierrePoilievre hails the elimination of the Hezbollah leader saying it “means justice for countless families.”
In an X statement the political leader said:
“The elimination of Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, means justice for countless… pic.twitter.com/tBFOLdGVzF
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) September 28, 2024
The boy is obsessed.
Abortion restrictions put women’s lives in danger.
We’re protecting your right to choose, and making it easier — not harder — to get an abortion when you need one.
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) September 28, 2024
h/t Mauser
Isn’t this a nice ‘howdy do’?
Nothing but the finest for our troops, always. And the finest of craftsmen to build them.
This is scary, RCN scary but on a larger scale.
h/t patthedog
Jihadists in Brampton, Canada attack and deface a statue of Ranjit Singh.
Ranjit Singh was the father of the Sikh Empire, last man to successfully hold Afghanistan and generally loved by all in South Asia. This isn’t about Israel or Palestine, it’s about the destruction of… pic.twitter.com/ZSyWFQNIIr— Daniel Bordman (@DanielBordmanOG) September 28, 2024
I see the hands of foreign interference at work.
I also see the inevitable result of identity politics and a deliberately destructive immigration policy.
Canada is being reduced to warring factions within a balkanized society where foreign tribes have been encouraged to import their ethnic and religious conflicts.
Multiculturalism and diversity has taught them to reject integration with Canadian society.
Each tribe is provided official government victim status and encouraged to commit violence to assert that claim.
One tribe is never allowed to speak out though.
Canada and Canadians be damned is the motto of our ruling class.
A Democrat judge in Texas was busted for allegedly using a fake Facebook page to direct racist comments toward himself in an attempt to garner sympathy and secure re-election.
Fort Bend County Judge KP George, a top elected official in the suburban Houston county, won a 2022 re-election bid against his Republican opponent, Trever Nehls.
A woman in a hijab was confronted by a man “yelling derogatory comments” who later assaulted her and two bystanders, London police say – an incident that has unnerved local Muslim leaders and that investigators are treating as a possible hate crime.
London police say it was about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday when the incident happened in the area of Berkshire Drive and Berkshire Place, a suburban neighbourhood near the intersection of Wonderland and Springbank roads.
Justin is getting smacked in the comments.
I’m angry to learn that women wearing hijabs were the target of a violent attack in London, and a mosque in Winnipeg was the target of hateful harassment.
Islamophobia kills. Whenever we see it, we’ll confront it — and we’ll work to keep our communities safe from it.
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) September 27, 2024
Sorry, but she needed to take that call. @fancypants_s https://t.co/rLYvrz37mS
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) September 28, 2024
h/t Patti Jo
A trans woman has been jailed for six and a half years after being found guilty of rape following a night out.
Lexi Secker raped a woman in Blunsdon, Wiltshire, on 23 April 2023. The attack took place before Secker began identifying as a woman.
The attack took place in secluded woods after the pair took a walk “under the pretence of sobering up”.
Secker, 35, of Lowbourne, near Melksham, has been ordered to carry out her sentence in a male prison and will remain on the sex offenders register indefinitely.
Canada’s new military chief says she aims to fill all the vacancies in her organization within five years, as she prioritizes retention and changing recruitment methods to diversify the ranks.
Many people have idly fantasised about wanting to be rid of their ex, or boss, or perhaps a celebrity. But a few, motivated by hatred, jealousy or rage, have taken matters a step further.
A hitman-for-hire website set up on the dark web is estimated to have taken more than £400,000 from individuals who have ordered the deaths of about 175 innocent people. Unbeknown to its customers, the website is a scam by criminals — but the threat to the targets is real.
