Why the stakes are the highest they’ve ever been for Jagmeet Singh: ‘The moment that makes or breaks his political career’

OTTAWA—Inside the world of Jagmeet Singh, things are looking pretty swell.

The NDP leader prematurely withdrew from his increasingly perilous alliance with Justin Trudeau’s minority Liberals — after extracting almost everything he wanted from him.

He posted a byelection result he insists proves the New Democrats are more competitive than any other party.

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Trump assassination attempt suspect Ryan Routh’s son arrested on child porn charges after ‘feds find hundreds of sick images’

The son of alleged would-be Donald Trump assassin Ryan Wesley Routh was arrested Tuesday morning on child pornography charges after the feds found hundreds of sick images when they searched his phone following his dad’s arrest.

Oran Routh is accused in a North Carolina federal court of receiving and posessing child porn — a fact which the feds discovered on Sept. 21 when they were searching his Greensboro home in connection to a separate investigation, according to a criminal complaint.


Same guy – Speaking to the Daily Mail, he described his father as someone who is not violent, claiming he has had only “a couple traffic tickets,” but noted that he does hate Trump, as “every reasonable person does.”

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Jamie Sarkonak: New York Times fails again to get the ‘unmarked graves’ story right

Two hundred million dollars. Dozens of church arsons. No confirmed bodies. That’s Canada’s balance three years after the New York Times dropped a bunk story about a “mass grave” discovered in the apple orchard of the former Kamloops, B.C. residential school. And on Friday, the newspaper continued to push the story.

“Despite possible evidence of hundreds of graves at former schools for Indigenous children, challenges in making a clear conclusion have given rise to skeptics,” reads the headline.

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Commons committee to debate motion on quickest path to Palestinian statehood

MPs on the House of Commons foreign affairs committee are expected to resume a contentious debate later this morning on the quickest path for Canada to recognize a Palestinian state.

The text of the motion — first presented to a closed-doors session of the committee last Thursday by Liberal MPs — asks committee members to dedicate four sessions to studying the matter, sources told CBC News last week.

CBC News agreed not to identify the sources as they were not authorized to comment publicly on the matter.

Liberals and the NDP luv the Muslim vote.

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Germany: AfD adds to string of successes in Brandenburg

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has once again seen strong electoral gains.

In the state election in Brandenburg, which surrounds Germany’s capital, Berlin, the AfD received 29.2% of the vote, almost 6% more than in 2019. However, it finished second to the incumbent Social Democrats (SPD), the party of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and has little prospect of participating in the new state government since all other parties have ruled out forming a coalition that includes the AfD.

That means they will win outright next go round.

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Why Doug Ford won his by-elections and Justin Trudeau lost his

The commentariat is obsessed with the federal Liberal loss last week in the once-safe Montreal riding of LaSalle-Émard-Verdun. Few, in contrast, took note of last week’s by-election in the Ontario provincial riding of Bay of Quinte, won by Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives.

Why did Mr. Ford’s PCs win their by-election while Justin Trudeau’s Liberals lost theirs? One reason might be that the Premier obsesses over the needs of suburban, middle-class, car-commuting voters, while Mr. Trudeau has other priorities.

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Is America turning its back on the great legal weed experiment?

Supporters of the ‘green rush’, when Colorado and Washington became the first states to legalise, lament the industry’s decline — and wonder if it was a mistake

As Sean Azzariti tells it, queueing in the snow outside a cannabis dispensary in Denver was the end of a long road from Iraq.
The former marine had been in charge of base security at al-Qa’im and al-Asad — “constantly mortared, constantly being shot at” — causing post-traumatic stress disorder that a 13-pill cocktail of stimulants, tranquillisers and antidepressants had done little to assuage.

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Narcissist Trudeau tells Stephen Colbert it’s a ‘tough time’ in Canada … casts no blame on his destructive policies

Justin Trudeau’s interview on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” began with the expected jokes about bacon and Canadians saying sorry a lot, but the prime minister acknowledged it’s “a really tough time” in the country when the host asked about an expected confidence vote in Parliament this week.

“People are hurting. People are having trouble paying for groceries, paying for rent, filling up the tank,” Trudeau said during the CBS program Monday in New York, where he has been meeting with world leaders attending the United Nations General Assembly.

Trudeau admitted there’s frustration. He said the housing crisis “is a little sharper” in Canada than it is in the U.S. And even though he said Canada’s economy is performing better on a “macro” level than its southern neighbour’s, people don’t feel it when they’re at the checkout.


‘Lacks self awareness’ doesn’t cut it.

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Police attacked during illegal street racing, ring of fire in Center City, Philadelphia

Police were attacked and their vehicles damaged over the weekend as officers worked to disperse large crowds that had gathered at multiple illegal car meetups and street races at locations throughout Philadelphia, Pennsylvania late Saturday into early Sunday.

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‘It’s disgusting’: Ford calls for investigation into Toronto school field trip that ended at ‘Palestinian rally’

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) should investigate how some students on a recent school field trip ended up at a rally(opens in a new tab) where pro-Palestinian slogans were shouted.

“It’s disgraceful… [The students] should be in the classroom learning about reading, writing, spelling, arithmetic, the whole shebang, but instead, the TDSB and these teachers want to bring them down to a rally, a Palestinian rally, and it’s ridiculous,” Ford said at an unrelated news conference on Monday.

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Albania Planning Vatican City-Style Muslim Microstate

Albania’s government is set to grant sovereignty to the Tirana-based Bektashi Muslims, an Islamic Sufi order, in the hope of promoting a moderate form of Islam. If plans are seen through, the “Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order” would become the smallest state in the world, just a quarter of the size of Vatican City.

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