Sharks taken from waters off the coast of Brazil have tested positive for cocaine, confirming suspicions that sea life could be affected by drugs seeping into the water system as a result of the illegal drug trade.
Researchers bought 13 sharpnose sharks from small fishing vessels operating near Rio de Janeiro, dissected them, and tested their muscle and liver tissue for signs of contamination.
h/t XC
Nearly half of Canadians are teetering on the brink of insolvency, a new survey suggests.
Forty-six percent of Canadians say they are $200 or less away from failing to meet all their financial obligations, according to the MNP Consumer Debt Index survey conducted by Ipsos and released July 22.
Shocking new footage shows local cops and a Secret Service agent standing over the dead body of would-be Donald Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks as they appeared to confirm the 20-year sniper was identified as a suspicious person before he opened fire.
The bodycam video, released by Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, shows Crooks’ lifeless body as a pool of blood trails along the roof where he wounded Trump and killed a hero firefighter earlier this month during a Pennsylvania rally.
JUST IN: Bodycam footage released by Senator Chuck Grassley from the Trump Pennsylvania rally on July 13th.
The video was obtained from the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit.
In the footage, the men were discussing how they had noticed Thomas Crooks earlier before the… pic.twitter.com/KQErF69xk5
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 23, 2024
Ottawa councillor Matthew Luloff, who called the Freedom Convoy a group of rowdy, hateful “miscreants,” faces impaired driving charges.
Luloff is the councillor for Ottawa’s Orléans East-Cumberland and current chair of the Ottawa Public Library Board. He also served in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) from 2003 to 2009, including a deployment in Afghanistan, and now acts as a veteran’s liaison.
A SOLDIER is fighting for his life after a brutal knife attack outside an army base.
Witnesses were appalled as a man armed with two kitchen knives set upon the soldier outside Brompton Barracks in Gillingham, Kent, at around 6pm yesterday.
Mental Health of perp is in play as usual.
Court documents show federal immigration officials warned that the government risked undermining the temporary immigration system with the design of the emergency visa program for war-displaced Ukrainians.
Immigration Department staff raised the concern in a memo to Sean Fraser, immigration minister at the time, shortly after the program was announced.
The documents were disclosed as part of a lawsuit against the federal government by two Afghan Canadians, who allege Canada discriminated against Afghan refugees by treating them differently than it did Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion.
Sounds like another open the floodgates gambit.
Ask Republican operatives in Trump’s orbit how they plan to attack likely Democratic nominee Kamala Harris on the campaign trail, and the response goes something like this: Lay blame on her for every single one of the Biden administration’s failures, argue that she’s more liberal than the current incumbent, and accuse her of being part of the conspiracy to hide her boss’s decline from the public.
You’d have to hate Israel very bitterly indeed to wish to deprive it of Iron Dome, its missile defence system that has saved countless lives both before and after October 7. The system consists of ten batteries, with plans for a further five, positioned around the country and at sea at a cost of $50m each.
Yet Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the representative for New York’s 14th district and the figurehead of the progressive wing of the Democrats, openly burst into tears in 2021 when a bill providing $1 billion in new funding to Iron Dome was passed by the House of Representatives.
For decades, environmentalists have warned that there are ‘too many people’ on the planet. Apparently, the world is facing mass famine, ecological disaster and total societal collapse if the global population continues to expand. But what if the opposite is true? According to demographer Paul Morland, author of new book No One Left, it is not overpopulation, but depopulation that poses the greatest threat to mankind. All over the world, even in poorer countries, fertility rates are plummeting. Unless we reverse this demographic decline, humanity could soon struggle to sustain itself.
The powers that be decided this week that despite her disastrous approval numbers and long history of unpopularity among Democrat voters, Vice President Kamala Harris will take President Joe Biden’s place as the blue party’s presumptive 2024 candidate.
Here are 30 reasons why Harris, whether through Biden’s resignation or the upcoming election, would make a terrible president.
More from the first television interview with Donald Trump since the attempted assassination attempt on July 13, recorded one week later in Grand Rapids, Michigan, took up a significant part of Watters World on the FOX News channel last evening. The first sections are here and here.
Among the segments was Trump’s further recollections about being wounded by gunfire. Jesse Watters’ interview with the former president also included Trump’s running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance.
On Sunday, the impossible finally came to pass. Joe Biden, after swearing that only the Lord Almighty himself could compel him to step down from the 2024 presidential race, suddenly revealed that he was finished. The announcement, which only came in the form of a social media post, caught his own staffers by complete surprise. Even those working in the White House only came to learn of his decision on X.
To say that this is an unprecedented situation risks underselling the uniqueness of the current moment. Not only are we in very strange territory electorally (given the announcement’s proximity to the party convention), but there is also a sense that something has gone seriously wrong with the political system itself.
Anti-Israel radicals who resigned their government posts over President Joe Biden’s support for Israel are betting on Vice President Kamala Harris to adopt more hardline policies toward the Jewish state. It’s a good bet: Harris throughout her vice presidency touted her public opposition to Israel’s war on Hamas and praised campus protesters who have violently harassed Jews.
In their zeal to defend abortion at all costs, governments are beginning to criminalise silent thought. Their efforts must be resisted.
Since its earliest versions surfaced sometime in the Middle Ages, the venerable German folk song “Die Gedanken sind frei” (Thoughts are free) has been an anthem to a keystone of human dignity: freedom of thought. This song gives voice to the fact that, while oppressive authorities can forbid speech, assembly, worship, or anything else that happens outside the realm of a person’s consciousness, what goes on inside the brain cannot be stopped by anyone. In Germany, the song’s contemporary version took shape in the first half of the 19th century, expressing popular opposition to censorship and authoritarianism. Forbidden after the failed German revolution of 1848, it resurfaced in 1898 when the composer Gustav Mahler included it in his song collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy’s Magic Horn). In the 1930s and ’40s, the song played a role in the resistance against Nazism. In 1989, demonstrators sang it to express their demand for a peaceful transition to democracy in the German Democratic Republic.
The tenants of an apartment building in one Toronto neighbourhood say they were issued a letter from management after items including “human waste” were allegedly thrown from balconies to workers below.
