Letby case ‘has echoes’ of wrongly accused Canadian nurse, says expert

The Lucy Letby case bears striking similarities to a Canadian nurse wrongly accused of poisoning babies, an eminent neonatologist has said.

Dr Desmond Bohn, who spent 35 years as a paediatric intensive care specialist, was working at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto when nurse Susan Nelles was blamed for the deaths of four infants in her care.

Between June 1980 and March 1981, there was an alarming increase in cardiac deaths on two neonatal wards at the hospital.

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Plagiarism and Disparities

There is no reason to expect an even distribution of academic dishonesty.

Journalism, in part, is the work of turning up stones. Sometimes a reporter finds nothing underneath. Other times, he uncovers shock, scandal, or corruption.

An entire twentieth-century lore, beginning with The Jungle and culminating in the Watergate reporting, portrays the reporter as a man who stands against the corruption of institutions. But as the Left, which invented muckraking, has consolidated its power over those same institutions, the story has been recast.

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John Ivison: No one in Washington believes Trudeau’s empty NATO promises anymore

Justin Trudeau is so schooled in the art of denial that he now tries to deflect inescapable truths.

In Washington Thursday, at the conclusion of the NATO summit there, the prime minister unveiled what his defence minister, Bill Blair, called a “credible, verifiable path to two per cent” spending of gross domestic product on defence by 2032.

Let’s leave aside the fact that the plan is neither credible nor verifiable. Trudeau was asked if he was worried that the political problems that have dogged him this week will now hang over this country for the next eight years.

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ANALYSIS: As Canada Grapples With Foreign Interference, Most Recent National Security Strategy Is 20 Years Old

The last time Canada published a national security strategy, Facebook had just launched and TV sitcom “Friends” was airing its final episode.

The year was 2004 and Paul Martin was prime minister. The world had been shaken a few years earlier by the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and authorities were taking stock of the SARS outbreak.

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BIDEN BORDER CRISIS: 7 New Illegal Immigrant Crimes ABC, CBS, NBC Are Burying

The tragic cost of Biden’s border crisis keeps rising as more horrific acts committed by illegal immigrants seem to be happening on an almost daily basis. Senator Ted Cruz encapsulated Americans’ frustration when he posted “Every…damn…day” in response to a July 8 story of an illegal (who had already been deported) allegedly raping a Utah child.

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Canadian tech worker sues Google, claiming she was fired for being pregnant

A lawsuit against Google claims the global tech giant suddenly and wrongfully fired a female employee after she told the company she was pregnant and planning a maternity leave.

Sarah Lilleyman filed a statement of claim against Google in Toronto’s Superior Court of Justice on Friday, saying her joyful news was not greeted with the same enthusiasm by Google Canada, and she was given notice of termination within days of her telling her bosses.

I predict an out of court settlement. She had a pretty sweet WFH gig.

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Michael Moore: ‘We Know What We Saw Something‘s Wrong‘ with Biden

Liberal documentary filmmaker Michael Moore said Thursday on CNN’s “NewsNight” that voters saw something was wrong with President Joe Biden during the presidential debate.

Anchor Abby Phillip said, “My next guest has called Biden’s debate performance, quote, the cruelest form of elder abuse I have ever been forced to watch joining me now is Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore. Michael do you still feel that way? Is this still elder abuse after what you saw in the press conference tonight?”

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More than half of recent Senate appointments have ties to Liberal Party

Despite Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s promise to rid the Senate of partisanship and patronage, most of the senators appointed to the upper house over the past year have ties to the Liberals.

Since July 2023, Trudeau has nominated 12 senators, eight of whom — 66 per cent of the total — have donated money to the federal Liberals or have worked with the federal party or a provincial Liberal party.

That’s a significant jump in the number of Senate appointees with partisan Liberal ties — up from about 30 per cent of all senators appointed between January 2019 and July 2023.

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Hakeem Jeffries meets with Biden after gaffe-filled presser, as nearly 20 House Dems tell prez to step aside

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries met with President Biden on Thursday night after his gaffe-filled “big boy” press conference capped the NATO summit in Washington, DC — and just hours before an 18th House Democrat would come forward and call for the commander-in-chief to drop out of the 2024 race.

Jeffries (D-NY), in a “Dear Colleague” letter Friday morning, revealed that he “was graciously granted a private meeting” with the 81-year-old president.

Big Donors and pols are telling Joe to go. Jill stands in their way.

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