Ron Sept is getting desperate.
He can’t afford a car, his prescription medications, eyeglasses or new clothes, he said. He’s stopped eating meat to save on groceries, which he can only buy with the money his son living overseas sometimes sends him. If you visit him in his one-bedroom apartment in Nanaimo, B.C., you’d have to sit on the floor, because he has one chair and no table.
Mohammad Deif, the leader of the Izzadin al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, was targeted in an airstrike in the Khan Yunis area of southern Gaza, Israel’s Army Radio reported on Saturday.
A senior source noted that there was a high likelihood that Deif was killed in the strike, but that confirmation was, as of yet, forthcoming, Israeli state broadcaster KAN reported.
This is what remains of Muhammad Deif, H×mas' chief of staff, the second in command after Yahya Sinwar 👇
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) July 13, 2024
Incumbent governments around the world are in trouble, and some parties are hitting the panic button as a result. Alongside dramatic electoral results in the U.K. and France, in just the last few weeks we’ve seen heated debates emerge around the leadership of both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Joe Biden. Members of both leaders’ parties have called for each to step aside, hinting at much sharper feedback behind the scenes.
I taught humanities to hundreds of students at two international schools in Germany over a period of several years. My primary subject was history and each time it came to covering World War II, British kids were excited; American kids were broadly well-informed; and the German kids dreaded it. Their heads dropped at the very mention of the unit. I vividly remember Laura, an 8th grader, say, “We’re the bad guys and everyone hates us. We did nothing—our parents weren’t even born.” That is quite a weight to carry before a single class had been taught.
‘I make promises that I can keep and right now we are, our country, is broke,’ Conservative leader says
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he won’t commit to meeting the two per cent NATO defence spending target if he becomes prime minister.
“I make promises that I can keep and right now we are, our country, is broke,” Poilievre said. “I’m inheriting a dumpster fire when it comes to the budget.
“Every time I make a financial commitment, I’m going to make sure I’ve pulled out my calculator and done all the math. People are sick and tired of politicians just announcing that they’re going to spend money without figuring out how they’re going to pay for it.”
He’s ahead of the story. Justin is going to pile on the debt between now and his political death to fiscally tie Poilievre’s hands.
Following Joe Biden’s disastrous performance against Donald Trump in their debate on June 27, White House reporters started poring through the visitors log at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. One name kept cropping up again and again: Dr Kevin Cannard.
The neurologist and specialist in movement disorders works at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, which serves the President. Eagled-eyed journalists spotted that he visited the White House no fewer than eight times between last July and this March.
Dear The Right Honourable.
It certainly would aggravate even a normal person to hear, day in and day out, that the large majority of the population wants to see the hind end of you as you exit — and fast.
And even though you are by no means normal, it must gall your supersized ego.
Joe Biden should end his career because “the gaffes are not going to stop”, a former British ambassador to the US has said.
Lord Darroch, who served as the UK’s representative in Washington until 2019, on Friday called on the US president to suspend his campaign after a series of embarrassing mistakes on the world stage.
Mr Biden fuelled concern about his mental fitness with two gaffes at the Nato summit on Thursday, when he introduced Volodymyr Zelensky as “President Putin” and described Kamala Harris as “Vice President Trump”
And from an former US Ambassador to Canada – Former U.S. ambassador to Canada says Biden isn’t strong enough for another term as president
As calls for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step down grow louder, inevitably, talk of “rebranding” the Liberal party of Canada in a post-Trudeau era has begun. But let’s pause and consider the weight of that word: rebranding.
In marketing and politics, “rebranding” is often tossed around as if it were a magic wand, capable of instantly transforming public perception. This notion is not just simplistic; it undermines the complex reality of brand equity and the arduous process of shifting deeply ingrained public perceptions.
When Kamala Harris took to the stage during a Democratic primary debate before the 2020 election and implied that Joe Biden was racist, his wife, Jill’s, response was crystal clear.
‘Go f**k yourself,’ the then-future first lady vented, as she allegedly admitted during a conference call with supporters.
And the relationship between the two women – that began badly enough during that contentious battle for the presidential nomination – has only gone downhill from there.
Uh-oh. The Prime Minister says he has full confidence in his finance minister. Sounds like Chrystia Freeland is dangling at the end of a thread.
You might recall the moment in August, 2020, when sources said Mr. Trudeau’s previous finance minister, Bill Morneau, might no longer be the person the Prime Minister wanted in the post.
The Muslim invaders clashed with Polish forces on the Polish border trying to enter Poland via the Belarusian border.
In your opinion, what is the solution? pic.twitter.com/OJjSMDTrHI
— Salwan Momika (@Salwan_Momika1) July 12, 2024
For a man giving away all his money, Bill Gates gets people angry. Some are angry for microchips-in-vaccines reasons. Some are angry for perhaps more reasonable reasons. They claim that he has too much power; that he has swapped a monopoly in computing for a monopoly in health; that he is, still, an unaccountable billionaire controlling lives.
Happily there is, he says, a cunning way of rectifying that. Gates sits, rocking slightly disconcertingly back and forth in his chair, in a side room at London’s Science Museum, and outlines his solution. To dilute his power, he explains, other people can just give away money too.
OTTAWA – Three weeks after the federal Liberals promised to do a “formal, independent review” of the appointment of Canada’s new human-rights commissioner, the government hasn’t provided any details about what that review will entail.
Birju Dattani, former executive director of the Yukon Human Rights Commission, was named as the new head of the Canadian Human Rights Commission on June 14.
On Aug. 8, he is set to start a five-year term in the new job, as the first person of colour and the first Muslim man to hold the role.
The British Empire should be taught to school pupils like Nazi Germany, curriculum guidelines state.
Guidance created by school support organisation The Key and offered to teachers across the country provides tips on how to make the history curriculum “anti-racist”.
Teachers are advised to present the British Empire to secondary pupils like Nazi Germany, as a power that “committed atrocities”.
Pupils should also not be taught about the balance of “good and bad” aspects of Empire, the guidance states.
