Tories reject allegation they are behind bot posts after Poilievre rally

OTTAWA – The Conservatives say they have no connection to a rash of conspicuously similar social-media posts that flooded the X platform following a Pierre Poilievre event in northern Ontario last week.

The Conservative leader held a rally at a conference centre in Kirkland Lake on July 31, to what appears in a video to be a packed room of several hundred people.

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‘Nowhere to hide’ for influencers behind disorder – top prosecutor

The director of public prosecutions says his teams will consider seeking the extradition of social media influencers allegedly playing a role in the violent disorder gripping the UK from abroad.

Stephen Parkinson told the BBC that offenders “must know that they are not safe and there is nowhere to hide”.

He added that anybody involved in the violence should know they would face the most severe possible criminal charges, including terrorism.

h/t Patti Jo

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“No public events scheduled” – The PM is on a national campaign tour. He lies about it every day.

Here’s Justin Trudeau at the Saldenah Mas Camp in Toronto on July 18. Volunteers spend months making costumes every year for the Toronto Caribbean Festival. It’s a fantastic tradition. My father, who lived in Barbados for a while, used to drive us up from Sarnia every year for the parade.

The prime minister’s public itinerary, which is emailed daily to members of the Parliamentary Press Gallery and posted on his website, said that on July 18 he’d be in Ottawa for the Change of Command ceremony. It acknowledged no other public event.


He’s campaigning on your dime – Conservatives 42, Liberals 25, NDP 17 > Concern about economy on the rise

h/t Mauser

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Man arrested after multiple Hamas supporters attacked his vehicle on Gardiner Expressway

A man has been arrested after multiple protesters were struck on the Gardiner Expressway Tuesday morning, Toronto police said.

The protest started on the expressway at Jarvis Street and involved about 40 people, prompting road closures in the area, Toronto police said.

Police would not confirm what the protest was about.

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Thousands of police braced for far-right riots

More than 6,000 riot police will be put on standby overnight as far-right protesters prepare to target more than 30 immigration centres across Britain.

Sir Keir Starmer, the prime minister, has warned that police will take “all necessary action” after a list of potential targets for co-ordinated action was circulated online. The officers being mobilised on Tuesday night include 2,200 who can be deployed to support colleagues regionally and locally.

Senior police sources admitted that the “outlook is bad” for the coming 24 hours but insisted that they were “ready to respond” and had more resources on standby than last week. “We need to be ready,” they added.

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Canada’s major cities are rapidly losing children, with Toronto leading the way

Since 2016, the number of children under the age of 10 as a proportion of the population has shrunk in every one of Canada’s six largest cities. Most of these major cities are losing children at a rate faster than Canada’s overall national decline.

Not a surprise. Toronto will be a desert soon. I see rewilding in it’s future.

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Lawrence Krauss: Government should support science — not social engineering

For countries to compete economically in the 21st century, support for fundamental research in science and engineering needs to be an integral part of policymaking. China, India, Singapore, Korea and numerous other countries are devoting billions to building up their research enterprises, and in numerous cases are beginning to outstrip the West. One of the problems in North America is that major science funding agencies have become fixated on devoting resources to addressing perceived social justice issues, drawing key funding away from the science enterprise itself.

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Justice Dept. Charges Muslim with ties to Iran for alleged plot to kill President Trump & other U.S. Leaders

The Justice Department said on Tuesday that it had charged a Pakistani man who had recently spent two weeks in Iran with trying to hire a hit man to assassinate political figures in the U.S. Investigators believe that potential targets likely included former President Donald J. Trump, according to a senior law enforcement official.

The man, Asif Raza Merchant, 46, was arrested in New York on July 12, the day before a 20-year-old man, Matthew Crooks, shot at and slightly wounded Mr. Trump during a rally in Pennsylvania, according to a criminal complaint unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn on Tuesday.

Will he be offered a job with the Secret Service?

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