Justin Trudeau got a bit of a reprieve this summer from the questions about whether he was staying on to fight the next election.
Two months since those questions rose to a fever pitch after the Liberals’ loss of their St. Paul’s seat in Toronto, Trudeau and his team are probably thinking they rode out that storm — as they have ridden out so many storms over the past decade.
“This too shall pass” is an integral part of the Trudeau crisis-management method.
Ukraine’s special forces have released footage which they claim shows a pontoon bridges being destroyed with US-made missiles in Kursk.
The footage displays a range of attacks in Russia’s border region, including Himars hitting the bridges, which Kyiv said were destroyed along with crucial Russian equipment.
It also shows Ukrainian Defense Forces destroying Russian field ammunition, fuel depots, a radio-electronic warfare complex, and a 152-mm D-20 gun, a Ukrainian military officer told the Kyiv Post.
Canada’s goal of reducing carbon emissions cannot be achieved without relying on China, a new energy industry report says.
The key to success is copper, an essential component of electrification, according to the authors of “Securing Copper Supply: no China, no energy transition,” published by data and analytics firm Wood Mackenzie.
China dominates in the smelting and refining of copper, which is essential to creating tools needed for cleaner energy and reduced carbon emissions, the report says.
Crucial supply chains are under threat across North America after a rail labour dispute in Canada led to shutdown of freight traffic on the country’s two largest railways.
Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC), locked out nearly 9,300 workers after midnight on Thursday (04:00 GMT), after failing to clinch a late deal with the Teamsters union.
Canada sends around 75% of all the goods it exports to the US, mostly over rail. A prolonged dispute could disrupt shipments of a wide range of goods, from grains and beans to potash, coal and timber.
White people when their dad drops the N word at the dinner table: pic.twitter.com/WEIVI7rimo
— Rev. Ray Cistman ✊🏾🙏🏾 (@RevRayCistman) August 22, 2024
The Trudeau government has claimed that Canada “continues to have an enviable fiscal and debt position relative to international peers” because we have the lowest net debt-to-GDP ratio in the G7. But this is misleading. In reality, Canada is actually a highly indebted country relative to our international peers.
Iran is signaling that its promised strike against Israel may not be imminent, with comments from senior officials temporarily easing fears of escalation into a wider regional conflict.
Iran for weeks has warned of a “devastating” reprisal to “punish” Israel after the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh while visiting Tehran in late July — as officials in Israel, Washington and the wider Middle East have nervously waited for a response.
Broadcaster Charles Adler says he’s asked for a face-to-face meeting with the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs and its grand chief after the assembly called for Adler’s recent Senate appointment to be rescinded over what it called “grossly offensive” comments he made about Indigenous communities 25 years ago.
“I am accountable for what I say and do,” Adler said in a brief emailed statement on Tuesday, adding that he looks forward to hearing from the advocacy group, which represents all 63 First Nations in Manitoba.
Militant group has also destroyed thousands of musical instruments in Afghanistan over the past year in campaign to enforce Sharia law
The Taliban has sacked hundreds of men from Afghanistan’s security forces because they are unable to grow beards.
Thousands of musical instruments had also been destroyed by the militant group in the past year, the notorious ministry for the propagation of virtue and prevention of vice said in its annual update.
Nothing just the Taliban burning piles of confiscated music instruments, sound systems, and board games. Year: 2024 pic.twitter.com/Xj3Cce9CRB
— Roh Yakobi (@RohYakobi) August 19, 2024
Justin who?
Bonnie Crombie is distancing her provincial party from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s struggling federal Liberals.
As the Ontario Liberals gather in London, Ont. for a Sept. 20-22 policy conference, Crombie has invited some prominent Trudeau critics to speak to delegates.
The Paris Olympic Games came to an end on Sunday, August 11th. While they were expected to be a windfall for Parisian retailers, restaurateurs, and hoteliers, who were hoping for a massive influx of customers to boost their sales, the accounts reveal a much more mixed picture. For some, the government is even considering compensation.
Few Canadians are immune to the rising cost of living, according to a new report from Statistics Canada, with 9 percent of those in the highest income quintile considering using a food bank.
Data from spring 2024 shows that while 42 percent of Canadians are concerned over rising food prices, about 9 percent of those in the highest income bracket report they may have to turn to a food bank or similar community organization for help. That number rises to 14 percent for those in the second-highest income bracket, StatCan said.
Nearly half of Canadians report struggling to meet day-to-day expenses, up 12 percentage points from 2022 to 45 percent.
A man has been arrested in Vernon after allegedly starting “several” fires outside St. James Catholic Church.
Dillon Alexander Leon, 33, was taken into custody on Monday and charged with one count of mischief over $5,000 and possession of incendiary material.
Can they really make this work?
It is appropriate that Kamala Harris is from the town of Oakland, Calif., of which it was famously said there was no there there.
It is hard to think of another presidential nominee who has felt so utterly superficial — not as a campaign tactic, but as a reality.
Certainly, she’s nowhere close to as compelling, distinctive, and commanding as Barack Obama and Donald Trump when they rose to become their parties’ nominees.
