A Palestinian journalist was hiding Israeli hostages in his home for Hamas, Israel said on Sunday.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that Abdullah al-Jamal, who wrote for the Palestine Chronicle, a US-based non profit news website, was keeping Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov, and Shlomiz Siv captive in his family home.
The IDF stormed the home by ladder and killed Jamal, his father Dr Ahmed, and his wife, Fatima in the raid that freed the trio on Saturday.
Chrystia Freeland is warning that democracy is at stake if Canada doesn’t raise the capital gains inclusion rate. Justin Trudeau’s deputy prime minister was speaking Sunday of the cold and dark future that awaits Canada if this specific tax change isn’t made.
The Texas Democratic Convention was held in El Paso and ended on Saturday. The convention featured speakers such as transgender activist Charlotte Clymer, gun control activist David Hogg, and “full-time” drag queen Brigitte Bandit.
Bandit – who hosts a drag show titled “Big T**s Bigger Dreams” and promotes the “Big D***s Bigger Dreams” drag show – declared to have “worked with children for over a decade” at the Texas Democratic Convention.
h/t XC
A group of housing providers in the province are calling out the Ford government, saying reform is needed to help small-ownership landlords and good tenants.
Small Ownership Landlords of Ontario (SOLO) held a rally outside Queen’s Park on Saturday, calling on the province to provide better ways to protect small ownership landlords from tenants who refuse to pay.
“My tenant stopped paying rent to the tune of $26,000, and then he eventually burned my house down,” said Kevin Costain, SOLO board member.
The situation is so bad for renters that when they do fall into arrears it’s easy to just say F*ck it and screw the system.
… Trips now take up to 250% longer during morning rush hour than before the construction. Afternoon rush hour is taking 230% longer. Commercial drivers are spending 80% more time on the roads. And travel times are up 43% on the main parallel routes.
These numbers are staggering, but sadly not surprising.
I don’t go downtown anymore. City Hall wins.
The Green Left has an array of tricks to scare people into accepting authoritarian forms of climate regulation. Here are the most overused…
Though President Joe Biden touts the economy under his administration, polls consistently show Americans are sour on the state of economic affairs — probably because, as economist E.J. Antoni told The Federalist, “the economy has only been adding jobs that are held by foreign-born workers while native-born Americans are losing jobs.”
Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for the month of May shows that foreign-born workers in the United States gained 637,000 jobs year-over-year, while native-born workers lost roughly 299,000.
Canada’s top trade bureaucrat criticized Beijing’s trading and business practices in meetings with his Chinese counterpart last year, an internal Global Affairs document indicates, but a former ambassador says the Canadian approach made Ottawa “sound like beggars.”
The briefing note for Rob Stewart, deputy minister of international trade, cited what it called unfair Chinese bans on imports of Canadian beef and pet food, obstructive regulations for foreign businesses, and favouritism toward state-owned and other domestic companies.
But Justin and Joly are world class diplomats!
Crazed MSNBC analyst Donny Deutsch recently urged the U.S. military to release an ad campaign against former President Donald Trump ahead of the upcoming presidential election.
True story, as Joe Biden might say.
According to exit polls for the European Parliament elections, the “green” parties have received a continent-wide kick in the teeth.
While the European Parliament grew by 15 seats, the polls on June 9 suggested representatives of the green bloc dropped from 71 to 53, making them the biggest loser.
In Europe’s leading nations, Germany and France, the predicted results were abundantly clear.
“All these big deviants are catching hell in 2024. It’s up for all of them. It don’t matter if you’re Diddy, or whoever…all lies will be exposed [sic],” the comedian Katt Williams confidently declared in a podcast with retired American football player Shannon Sharpe in January, discussing prominent rappers accused of sexual crimes.
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says an Israeli raid on a refugee camp – which led to the rescue of four hostages – killed 274 people, including children and other civilians.
On Saturday Israel’s forces, backed by air strikes, fought intense gun battles with Hamas in and around the Nuseirat refugee camp, freeing the captives.
Noa Argamani, 26, Almog Meir Jan, 22, Andrei Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 41, who were abducted from the Nova music festival on 7 October have been returned to Israel.
Convo Summary:
BBC: I won't congratulate you on the return of the hostages. Why didn't you warn the Palestinian civilians imprisoning hostages of the raid to save them?@jconricus: If you warn t3rrorists you're about to save hostages, hostages won't be alive when you arrive. pic.twitter.com/HzWKroOF0x
— dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ (@DahliaKurtz) June 9, 2024
h/t Mauser
PARIS — The far-right National Rally is projected to win the European election in France with 31.5 percent of the vote — more than twice that of President Emmanuel Macron’s party.
The shock result pushed Macron to call a snap election Sunday evening.
The National Rally, headed by Jordan Bardella, is set to achieve its highest-ever finish in a nationwide election.
Macron Dissolves French Parliament After Getting THRASHED by Le Pen’s National Rally at European Elections.
French President Emmanuel Macron has dissolved the national parliament following his party’s thrashing by Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in the European Elections on Sunday. The nation will now face domestic elections, with opinion polling showing the right-wing party in the lead. The next presidential elections are scheduled for 2027.
Europe swings to the right — led by France
Europe’s center of political gravity is veering to the right.
Center-right and far-right parties are set to take the largest number of seats in Sunday’s European Union election in the most populous nations: Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Poland.
France led the rightward lurch with such a crushing victory for the far-right National Rally that liberal President Emmanuel Macron dissolved France’s parliament and called an early election. Early results suggested the National Rally would win some 32 percent of the vote, more than twice that of the president’s party.
🚨BREAKING:
Anti-immigrant Malachy Steenson has been elected in Dublin! pic.twitter.com/PkBLYoi6Ig
— Europe Invasion (@EuropeInvasionn) June 9, 2024
h/t DS and Mauser
For Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, even something as serious as ending shootings in Toronto is about making announcements, not getting results.
After a week of shocking and outrageous shootings, Toronto Centre MP and Trudeau cabinet minister Marci Ien was bragging about what her government had done.
Conrad Black is a lot of things…a Donald Trump and Richard Nixon apologist, a big fan of Henry Kissinger and Rex Murphy, and an optimist about the future of democracy in Canada.
But it was the former newspaper magnate’s outright denial of the death of Indigenous children at residential schools that caused a contingent from the CRTC and a delegation from Northern Native Broadcasting to walk out of Thursday’s Western Association of Broadcasters (WAB) conference.
Our media sucks.
