‘Polish voice is on the rise’: The European leader pushing Trudeau to spend more on defence

More than a million people of Polish descent live in Canada. In the rural community where I grew up in southwestern Ontario, there was a Polish hall where I was sometimes recruited to serve up cabbage rolls and pierogis.

Back then, that Polish cohort didn’t stand out from the rest of their European peers — the Belgians, the Germans, the Hungarians. Today, Poland’s role in assisting Ukraine has been a game-changer; the country shares a 200-plus kilometre border with Russia and is the logistical hub for the transportation of military equipment and refugees from Ukraine.

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From solar to EVs: How China is overproducing green tech

United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned China last weekend against overproducing clean-energy products such as solar panels, wind turbines and electric vehicles (EVs) in the race to slow climate change.

During a trip to China, Yellen said the country’s unfair trade practices — dumping artificially cheap products on global markets — were a threat to US businesses and jobs. Washington is considering imposing higher tariffs and closing trade loopholes if Beijing maintains its existing policy.

Chinese firms can often undercut their Western counterparts for many reasons, including cheaper labor and economies of scale. But they also benefit from very generous state incentives, which help to make foreign rivals uncompetitive.

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Iran’s Dangerous New Terror Proxy: Sudan

Iran’s Encirclement of Israel, Control of Red Sea, Almost Complete

While the Biden administration is preoccupied trying to win re-election this November, as well as putting out a series of fires it helped start in Ukraine, the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific, a new area of urgent concern, largely flying under the public’s radar, has been brewing: Iran’s increasing penetration of Sudan.

Pocketing Sudan would provide Iran with more oil, gold and rare minerals, as well as another port on Red Sea from which to continue blocking maritime commercial passage. Sudan would also provide Iran with proximity to Israel, and serve as an additional launching pad from which to swarm Israel with more lethal drone attacks – at least until its nuclear weapons program is complete.

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WARMINGTON: Like the Middle East, Toronto’s ‘Little Gaza’ is separated by fence

They have created their own little Gaza strip — a caliphate right in the heart of Canada itself.

To get into walled-in “Little Gaza,” an accepted entrant must present their credentials through an unofficial passport control border-point gate staffed by security, wearing Arab-style keffiyehs, which cover their faces and identities.

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Pro-Palestianian protesters are backed by a surprising source: Biden’s biggest donors

President Joe Biden has been dogged for months by pro-Palestinian protesters calling him “Genocide Joe” — but some of the groups behind the demonstrations receive financial backing from philanthropists pushing hard for his reelection.

The donors include some of the biggest names in Democratic circles: Gates, Soros, Rockefeller and Pritzker, according to a POLITICO analysis.

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Police Ask Residents for Security Footage in Search for Calgary Church Arson Suspect

Authorities are investigating a fire believed to have been started by arson at a northeast Calgary church.

“The Calgary Fire Department attended and extinguished the fire quickly, however the church sustained minor damage,” a May 2 press release from the city of Calgary said.

“We are now asking for the public’s help to locate the man believed to be responsible.”

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Cubans lured to Russian army by high pay and passports

Russia has likely been recruiting Cuban nationals to fight in its army in Ukraine, research by the BBC has shown.

In September and October 2023, passport details belonging to over 200 Cubans who allegedly joined the Russian army were leaked online by a pro-Ukrainian platform called InformNapalm.

The passport details were obtained, the site said, by hacking the emails of a Russian military recruitment officer in Tula, south of Moscow.

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Trudeau ‘absolutely’ best person to lead the Liberals in next election says man whistling past graveyard

Trudeau ‘absolutely’ best person to lead the Liberals in next election: LeBlanc says

Cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc insists he’s not planning a leadership campaign to head the Liberal party, should current leader and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resign, seemingly quashing rumours he’s planning to make a move for his boss’ job.

LeBlanc — who serves as the minister of public safety, democratic institutions, and intergovernmental affairs — told CTV’s Questions Period host Vassy Kapelos in an interview airing Sunday that Trudeau should “absolutely” remain as Liberal leader in the next election.

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Who is paying for the American campus protests?

There has been an undeniable influx of money from overseas into the most prestigious universities in the United States. For almost 20 years, a central player in this development has been Qatar.

Over the past few weeks, dramatic scenes of mob action have unfolded across dozens of campuses across the United States.

Large groups of students, faculty and professional agitators have taken over major swaths of quads and other areas to voice support for the Hamas terror organization and to intimidate pro-Israeli and Jewish students. These protests have often taken the form of encampments in central locations on university grounds, which have prevented Jewish students from accessing classes and other facilities.

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Pro-Hamas law students paying the price

For seven months, since Oct. 7, university students have been enjoying revolutionary cosplay. Their faces swathed in Arafat scarves, they wave flags, demand Israel disinvestment, scream mantras premised in genocide of Jews: Living entirely in the moment, they find it all tremendously exhilarating. That there may be an eventual downside to their conduct doesn’t seem to occur to them.

So it came as a shock to some law students in the U.S. that certain pro-Hamas public pronouncements they put their name to following the Oct 7 pogrom of Israeli civilians might affect their post-university careers.

Affirmative action at work.

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The women cheering on Hamas rapists are an insult to feminism

At the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, the mythical figure of the “Karen” rose to prominence. A Karen was a middle-class woman entitled by her “white privilege”, whose main crime seemed to be a predilection for complaining to the manager, and demanding basic competence when paying for services.

For all the loathing she received on social media, Karen was harmless. Her successor is not. This woman throngs university campuses, leading protests, wrapped up in keffiyehs and a face covering, passionately crying out for what she calls freedom fighters and their “just war” against Zionist apartheid, genocide and occupation, and the general existence of the Jewish state.

I will never tire of Ms. Slutzky

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Montreal man on the hook for thousands of dollars after a feature on his Tesla caused an accident

George Ghazzoul is warning other drivers about the new Smart Summon feature on Tesla vehicles after his self-driving vehicle side-swiped another in a parking lot.

When Ghazzoul bought a Tesla two years ago, he admitted it wasn’t just the car’s style that drove him; it was his love of technology.

“Really, the selling point for me is the fact you get software updates and you always get new features on the car,” he said.

WTF!

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Australian police kill ‘radicalized’ teen knifeman

Police in Western Australia say they have fatally shot a 16-year-old who allegedly stabbed a member of the public in a car park on Saturday.

The incident took place at around 10 am in Willetton, a southern suburb of Perth. When police arrived at the scene, the teen reportedly refused to put down the knife, and charged at the officers.

Western Australian Police Commissioner Col Blanch told reporters that the suspect was “a Caucasian male” who had converted to Islam. He reportedly called the police himself, warning that he was about to commit an unspecified “act of violence.”

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