In an unprecedented move in US governance, the Biden administration has embarked on a policy that departs from its longstanding support for Israel.
Instead, there is a discernible tilt towards policies that favor the adversaries of the United States, notably Iran and its proxies such as Hamas and Hezbollah, as well as China and Russia. This strategic realignment marks a significant shift in US foreign policy and has generated a substantial risk both domestically and internationally.
CBS’s late night comedy game show After Midnight went off rails on Thursday as host Taylor Tomlinson and her fellow comedian guests yucked it up with some cheap and flippant anti-Jesus and “Jesus was gay” laughs.
So edgy!
Three teenage girls are expected to plead guilty in the swarming death of Kenneth Lee near Union Station in December 2022, court heard Friday.
The girls, aged 13, 13, and 14, appeared in provincial court in Toronto.
Three other girls, aged 15, 16, and 16, are expected to plead not guilty, court heard.
Eight teenage girls were initially charged with second-degree murder in connection with Lee’s death. They range in age from 13 to 16 years old.
The recently released 2016 video footage showing Sean “Diddy” Combs brutally beating his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura has provoked shock and outrage — from Combs’ fellow celebrities as well as the general public and even some politicians.
“Monster,” model Emily Ratajkowsk responded on Friday.
“The picture is getting a lot more clear for you all I can imagine,” wrote singer Aubrey O’Day, who once collaborated with Combs.
A 2016 surveillance video obtained by CNN shows Sean "Diddy" Combs violently grab, shove, drag and kick his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura during an altercation in a hotel in California.#Diddy #CassieVentura pic.twitter.com/hJFClKqkXS
— BM Media (@ByteMagnet) May 17, 2024
🔥🚨DEVELOPING: Footage of Sean Diddy Combs saying that electing Trump would cause a race war has resurfaced online. Puffy also official endorsed Joe Biden during this interview with Charlemagne.
I’m starting to notice something about the people that tell us not to vote for… pic.twitter.com/x3DH4Gpfyw
— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) March 30, 2024
It’s not a topic of conversation in English Canada. Mention “separation” in a political context and, just like Google search results, the discussion is likely to be about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s split from his spouse Sophie Grégoire or, as the Edmonton Journal recently put it, Alberta’s “slow-motion” separation from Canada. Quebec separation? Well, that matter was placed on the far back burner — you know, the one you forget about until it starts to burn?
If they take Trudeau I’m good.
The Pope has cracked down on Church endorsements of statues of the Virgin Mary that allegedly weep blood and perform miracles, even if they draw huge crowds.
In a new document issued on Friday, the Vatican ruled that only the Pope, not bishops, will on rare occasions rubber stamp supposed supernatural events including the stigmata, when a person suffers mysterious cuts similar to Christ’s wounds on the cross.
McGill University says it’s going to court again to dismantle the pro-Palestinian encampment that has been set up on its downtown Montreal campus since late April.
Earlier this week McGill failed to convince a Superior Court judge that the situation at the encampment was sufficiently urgent to justify a provisional injunction.
If Communist China wants to subsidize the world EV market, let them.
Not long ago, President Biden promised to transform the American auto industry — “first with carrots, now with sticks,” is the analogy the Washington Post used.
Now, I don’t know about you, but I’m not sure I’d trust the president to drive my car much less dictate the future of industrial policy. Yet, Mr. Biden implemented draconian emissions limits for all vehicles, ensuring that within nine years, 67 percent of all new passenger cars and trucks will be electric.
Minister suggests Canada is considering tariffs on Chinese EVs following U.S. move
Canada’s industry minister says Ottawa is “considering all measures” after the U.S. announced it would be hiking tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and other related goods.
François-Philippe Champagne wouldn’t rule out Canada imposing similar tariffs during an interview with CBC News Network’s Power & Politics on Friday.
The head of the CBC says that while the public broadcaster must prepare for “all possible outcomes,” it doesn’t have a specific plan in the works for the possibility of a future Conservative government cancelling all or part of the Crown corporation’s public subsidy.
In an interview that airs Saturday on CBC Radio’s The House, CBC president and CEO Catherine Tait said she has been working on efforts to transform CBC/Radio-Canada into a more efficient and valuable service — but the specific prospect of defunding is not a focus of those efforts.
“Of course we worry about the possibility, but I don’t think that … spending a whole lot of time trying to guess what that will look like is really going to be effective over the next months. Our job is to convince Canadians of our value,” she told host Catherine Cullen.
The man convicted of attempting to kidnap then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and attacking her husband with a hammer was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison.
Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley handed down the sentence for David DePape, 44, whom jurors found guilty last November of attempted kidnapping of a federal official and assault on the immediate family member of a federal official. Prosecutors had asked for a 40-year prison term.
Cripes serial killers don’t get that stretch nowadays.
Canada Needs Path to Citizenship for Undocumented Immigrants While Speeding Up Deportations, Trudeau says
There needs to be a path to citizenship for undocumented Canadian immigrants, while in other cases deportation proceedings must be “accelerated,” says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
“There needs to be … a pathway towards regularization and citizenship which I know [Immigration Minister Mark Miller] is working on. In some cases we need to accelerate deportation proceedings,” Mr. Trudeau said during a press conference on May 17.
“There’s a balance in making sure that the integrity of our immigration system holds.”
That lying prick is destroying Canada through his mass immigration scam.
Chants of “intifada revolution” rang out and a smoke bomb was set off at a large pro-Palestinian demonstration in central London on Saturday.
The latest pro-Palestinian march in the capital had been expected to attract unusually large numbers, with the date marking the 76th anniversary of the “Nakba” – the word, meaning
“catastrophe”, used by Palestinians to describe Israel’s settlement on their land.
Palestine supporter sets off a smoke bomb in London, which is now illegal.
No police to be seen.
Though to be fair, it’s not like the @metpoliceuk would do anything anyway… pic.twitter.com/P0oYFBmJ9e
— Turning Point UK 🇬🇧 (@TPointUK) May 18, 2024
Absolutely love this video of pro Israel supporters blasting “I’m still standing” at hate filled pro Palestine marchers in London.
One side making love signs with their hands, the other side hurling abuse.
🇮🇱 🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/9lnjmQWeaQ
— Chris Rose (@ArchRose90) May 18, 2024
Altercation between pro Isreal supporters & and a pro Palestine supporter on London Underground this evening. pic.twitter.com/UnyZai5tAb
— London & UK Street News (@CrimeLdn) November 26, 2023
Canada’s government has refused Toronto’s request to decriminalise the small possession of hard drugs in the city.
It was denied because of concerns over public safety and lack of political support, officials said.
Toronto had initially made the request in 2022 in a bid to tackle its overdose deaths crisis.
The rejection comes after British Columbia (BC) rolled back its own decriminalisation policy last month.
If you want a reminder of the security threats faced by the world today, take a look at how much governments have hiked defense spending. Global military budgets reached $2.44 trillion (€2.25 trillion) last year, nearly 7% higher than in 2022. It was the steepest year-on-year rise since 2009, recorded during the second year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
For every man, woman and child, world military spending is now at its highest since the end of the Cold War — at $306 per person.
With Kyiv unprepared to fight such a large-scale conflict, Western countries ramped up military aid to Ukraine, while other escalating tensions with Russia and in the Middle East and Asia also prompted governments to shore up their defenses, unlike any time since World War II.
Chris Selley: Trudeau’s abortion shtick reaches new lows
“Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that Canadian conservative leaders are as much of a threat to women’s right to a safe abortion as the rollback of the landmark Roe v. Wade court decision was in the United States,” the Toronto Star reported this week. I was disbelieving. Even by the standards of Trudeauvian hyperbole and Canada’s kabuki abortion politics, that would be a hall-of-fame howler.
