Jamie Sarkonak: Expect more injustice from the Liberals’ forthcoming Black Justice Strategy

The following are essential components of a racially fair Canada according to a pair of federally appointed brainstormers: dedicated Black courts and federal departments, racial “decarceration” targets … and, possibly, reparations for slavery.

These measures, numbering 114 in total, were recommended to the federal government by a steering group at the end of June to shape the Liberal government’s forthcoming Black Justice Strategy. It’s an initiative that will be sure to promote disorder and advance the well-being of a select few, if the guiding material is any indication.

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A Blind Spot and a Lost Trail: How the Gunman Got So Close to Trump

About an hour before a gunman let loose a volley of bullets that nearly assassinated a former president, the law enforcement contingent in Butler, Pa., was on the verge of a great policing success.

Among the thousands of people streaming in to cheer former President Donald J. Trump at a campaign rally on Saturday, local officers spotted one skinny young man acting oddly and notified other law enforcement. The Secret Service, too, was informed, through radio communication. The suspicious man did not appear to have a weapon.

Remarkably, law enforcement had found the right man — Thomas Matthew Crooks, a would-be assassin, though officers did not know that at the time. Then they lost track of him.

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Labour minister Seamus O’Regan leaving cabinet

Federal Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan is resigning from cabinet, CBC News has learned.

O’Regan, 53, is stepping down for family reasons, sources said. The Newfoundland and Labrador MP is planning to stay on as a member of Parliament until the next federal election but won’t seek re-election, the sources added.

The government is expected to announce his replacement in cabinet on Friday.

A steady trickle.

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JD Vance at RNC: Career Politicians Like Joe Biden Pillaged American Towns Like Mine with Free Trade and Endless Wars

Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), former President Donald Trump’s running mate, torched President Joe Biden during his Republican National Convention (RNC) speech on Wednesday evening, calling him a “career politician” who has spent his life in politics pillaging middle-American communities with job-killing free trade and endless wars.

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New Toronto Star Editor Promises To House All Potential Deportees At Her Home

‘Shocking and unjustifiable:’ Canada is deporting migrants at its highest rate in more than a decade

“… The deportation rate in 2023 was the highest since 2012, when more than 19,000 people were deported under Stephen Harper’s Conservative government. The deportations include “all removals enforced in each fiscal year,” the CBSA said, including refugee claimants, and migrants residing, working or studying in Canada who have overstayed their legal status.”

OMG! The government is deporting illegals! The Horror!

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Amid new photos, families of Israel hostage soldiers plead for deal

The families of five Israeli women soldiers held hostage in Gaza since the October 7 Hamas attacks on Tuesday pleaded with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make an accord for their release before he goes to Washington next week.

Facing mounting international and domestic criticism, Netanyahu is set to speak to a joint meeting of the US Congress on July 24 and to meet President Joe Biden. The families released new pictures of the detainees to increase pressure on Netanyahu.

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ANALYSIS: Why Challenges to Trudeau’s Leadership Aren’t Anything Like the Chrétien/Martin Era

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau so far appears to have weathered the storm after the surprising June byelection upset in the longtime Liberal riding of Toronto–St. Paul’s. He has said he is committed to staying on as prime minister, and there are a number of factors working in his favour.

Back in the early 2000s, Paul Martin managed to displace Jean Chrétien as prime minister at a time when the Liberal Party had a comfortable majority in the House of Commons and had up to that point faced a fractured opposition.

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Germany to halve military aid to Ukraine

Germany plans to halve its military aid for Ukraine, cutting more than £3 billion next year as it struggles to fill a black hole in its finances with spending cuts.

The reduction from one of Ukraine’s most generous sponsors risks renewed accusations from the United States that Europe is not doing enough to pay for a war in its own backyard.

Donald Trump and JD Vance, his vice-presidential nominee, have both demanded that European Nato allies increase their defence spending and pay more to Kyiv.

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Alleged ‘pipe bombs’ turn out to be sandstone firecrackers for work, Coutts trial hears

What undercover officers deemed to be “pipe bombs” during the Coutts protest in 2022 have been verified as firecrackers for the purpose of unearthing sandstone for construction work.

The trial continues for the remaining two of the “Coutts Four,” a group accused of conspiracy to commit murder against a police officer at the border blockage in Coutts, AB. Anthony Olienick and Chris Carbert are currently on trial in Lethbridge to address charges stemming from the pandemic-era blockade at the Canada-US border crossing.

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In their outrage over J.D. Vance’s ‘Islamophobia’, the Left have completely missed the point

The British Left were always bound to loathe any running mate of Donald Trump. Yet they’ve launched into J.D. Vance in record time. And it’s all because of a joke.

“I was talking with a friend recently,” Mr Vance told a recent conference of American conservatives,” and I [asked], “‘What is the first truly Islamist country that will get a nuclear weapon?’ And we were like, ‘Maybe it’s Iran’, ‘Maybe Pakistan already kind of counts.’ And then we finally decided, ‘Maybe it’s actually the UK, since Labour just took over…’”

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Doug Ford says provinces need Ottawa to pay ‘fair share’ of costs for asylum-seekers

HALIFAX — Ontario is asking the federal government to pay up and cover the costs of supporting and housing asylum-seekers, as Quebec’s premier said his province is willing to give up some funding so that other provinces can take in larger numbers.

Speaking at the final news conference at the Council of the Federation’s annual summer meeting — this year hosted by Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston — Premier Doug Ford said Ontario spends $1 billion a year and that asylum-seekers are often left in limbo by the federal government.

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