The federal and Saskatchewan governments are stepping in to prevent Canadian rare earth metals from falling into the hands of a Chinese buyer after facing backlash from critics who alleged that allowing the transaction to proceed was anathema to Canada’s critical minerals policy.
Australia-based Vital Metals Ltd. in December announced it was selling its stockpile of rare earths that were mined at the Nechalacho Project in the Northwest Territories to China’s Shenghe Resources Holding Co.,Ltd.
Multiple events hosted at a historic former hotel in Berkeley, California, have brought together people from intellectual movements popular at the highest levels in Silicon Valley while platforming prominent people linked to scientific racism, the Guardian reveals.
But because of alleged financial ties between the non-profit that owns the building – Lightcone Infrastructure (Lightcone) – and jailed crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried, the administrators of FTX, Bankman-Fried’s failed crypto exchange, are demanding the return of almost $5m that new court filings allege were used to bankroll the purchase of the property.
Green Party Leader Elizabeth May says it’s time for her fellow party leaders to sit down for “an adult conversation” about the foreign interference report released earlier this month that’s been dominating debate in Ottawa for the past two weeks.
“I think that conversation has to happen in a secure location where we all have top secret security clearance and can discuss things with each other without a media lens,” she said.
“I think when we do that, we will be able to continue the work that actually puts in place the kinds of protections we need.”
I’m starting to suspect she’s hiding something.
A mass stabbing in a supermarket in the Northern French city of Metz has left five people injured, including at least one very seriously.
According to a report from the Le Figaro newspaper, the mass stabbing attack is believed to have been an act of “score-settling” within the local Afghan community in Metz and is believed to be linked to racketeering.
How protesters and the university each see their fight
Inside of the University of Toronto protest encampment — marked by a tall fence reinforced with zip ties and guarded by bouncers — there was an art installation.
Using invasive plant species like the “dog-strangling vine,” a local florist was creating a “symbol of ongoing colonialization.”
The invasive species were meant to represent Zionists.
The paradox of this dehumanizing display, which sat underneath a Progress Pride flag, is that it was created in a place its architects say was founded on compassion.
Oh I’m sure everything will turn out just fine.
Islam is the religion of peace after all and I’ve been cured of my Islamophobia by Justin Trudeau’s shining example.
Reconciliation and mass slaughter will be just around the corner the minute Israel is dissolved.
The top intelligence agency in the United States is celebrating Pride Month by inviting agents to have the transgender flag painted on their nails, participate in a “Pride Ally Challenge,” and learn from a “non-binary,” “Filipinx” activist who has taught children about her non-binary identity, a document exclusively obtained by The Daily Wire reveals.
h/t Mauser
With shots fired at two Canadian Jewish schools in late May, and an anti-Israel tirade waged by a guest speaker reported at a Catholic school, where should Jewish students turn? Where are we safe?
On May 21, students at St. Theresa of Lisieux Catholic High School in Richmond Hill, Ont., were unwittingly ushered into an assembly where a guest speaker, introduced simply as a surgeon, projected graphic imagery from the Israel-Hamas conflict. Accompanying the visuals were a series of unfounded claims about the war, according to an anonymous letter shared by the Jewish Educators and Families Association of Canada.
It is long overdue that blame be placed on our mainstream political parties for their callous import of Islamists. Why were they so cruel to us?
“The far right made big gains in European elections,” reads the Associated Press headline on last week’s European Parliament elections. Lest you wonder why you should dread gains by the “far right,” the lead sentence of the article notes that the European Union has “roots in the defeat of Nazi Germany and fascist Italy.”
For many readers, that juxtaposition is a reminder of the sharp rise in Nazi party percentages in Weimar Republic elections to 43 percent in 1933, 33 and 37 percent in 1932, and 18 percent in 1930, from 3 percent in 1928.
OTTAWA – National Defence Minister Bill Blair’s office says sending a Canadian ship to Cuba, where it docked alongside some of Russia’s fleet, was a “carefully” planned move to increase its presence in the region.
Spokesman Daniel Minden issued a statement saying the visit to Havana’s port “was carefully and fulsomely planned,” and the minister authorized it on the advice of the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian Joint Operations Command.
What is it with people making up fake hate crimes? And why are they always people on the left? When did “fake it until you make it” become a rule for Democrats?
h/t XC
Arctic Canada has 34 public charging stations for seven electric vehicles. Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut are the first region to achieve 100% charging capacity.https://t.co/5CKuie7nN9 @NRCan #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/B9EDjLI5p1
— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) June 17, 2024
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Ukraine’s minister of foreign affairs, Dmytro Kuleba, says his country is in urgent need of weapons and wishes the air defence system Canada promised more than a year ago was already in Ukraine.
Canada announced plans in January 2023 to donate a $406-million surface-to-air missile defence system, but there’s still no delivery date.
“Of course, we wish the system was already in Ukraine because we are in a situation where every piece of air defence matters,” Kuleba said when asked by CBC News at the conclusion of the Ukraine peace summit in Switzerland on Sunday.
A top education ministry official has been fired after over a botched response to a dispute about academic freedom and the right to protest.
Sabine Döring was found to have explored a scheme to sanction, with financial cuts, university lecturers who spoke against the removal of a pro-Palestinian protest camp at a Berlin university.
Next year, Grade 10 students in British Columbia will be required to learn about the Holocaust as part of their coursework to graduate. It is content the provincial government added to the mandatory curriculum last October, weeks after the deadly Hamas attacks on Israel.
But internal communications among members of the BC Teachers’ Federation, as well as screenshots of deleted social-media posts obtained by The Globe and Mail, show deep division about the current conflict in the Middle East, with some Jewish teachers deeply offended by the actions of other teachers belonging to a social-justice group.
You knew that was coming.
Volodymyr Pikuzo does not look like someone immersed in the shadowy arms trade, scouring the globe in search of weapons capable of sending Russian troops to an early grave.
Yet that is precisely what the 38-year-old lawyer has been doing for two years, having founded Ukraine’s Defence Procurement Agency shortly after President Putin invaded his country. “In Ukraine we have a saying that not everyone can become a lawyer, but a lawyer can become anyone,” he says.
