A seven-month-pregnant woman has been murdered by her boyfriend in a suspected honour killing, police in Sweden say.
Saga Forsgren Elneborg, 20, was found strangled to death with a lamp cord at home in the city of Örebro – which is two hours from the capital Stockholm.
Prosecutors claim that her boyfriend, Mohamedamin Abdirisek Ibrahim, 22, a refugee from Somalia, killed her in April last year rather than face the shame of introducing the mother of his child to his Muslim family.
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TORONTO — Ford Motor Co. is delaying the start of electric vehicle production at its plant in Oakville, Ont., to 2027.
The U.S. automaker had planned to start production at the Canadian plant in 2025.
What Tesla’s troubles tell us about the EV industry
Tesla’s disastrous earnings report this week has sparked a sell-off of the world’s largest electric vehicle manufacturer and widespread skepticism about the state of the EV industry as a whole.
“This is a fork in the road, not just for Tesla, but for the entire industry,” said Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives in an interview on Wednesday.
Tesla’s stock sold off sharply this week after its earnings report showed the company was on track for its slowest quarter since 2022.
They still hold out hope that EV’s will conquer.
The majority of gender-confused children grow out of that feeling by the time they are fully grown adults, according to a long-term study.
Researchers in the Netherlands tracked more than 2,700 children from age 11 to their mid-twenties, asking them every three years of feelings about their gender.
Results showed at the start of the research, around one-in-10 children (11 percent) expressed ‘gender non-contentedness’ to varying degrees.
Federally-funded women’s contraception can safely be said to do one thing: maintain the Liberals’ feminist image.
It won’t realistically improve access for most among the young and the poor, because most provinces already offer targeted coverage for these groups. It won’t help the privately insured. It will provide a nice, but unnecessary, break to everyone else who can front the mild cost. And for those women who don’t want to use any medically prescribed contraception, it provides nothing.
The President of Botswana is threatening to send 20,000 elephants to Germany.
Mokgweetsi Masisi is irked by environmental legislation in Germany with Berlin imposing limits on hunting and nature conservation in Africa.
Botswana is struggling with an excess of elephants. Hunting is seen as a solution for this, giving local communities an incentive to keep the animals’ population at a suitably sustainable level but in check.
The brute force of an elephant pic.twitter.com/rBVefChOeY
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“With CSIS, everything’s a big secret,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford once said about a 2022 briefing his government received about Chinese interference.
It seemed funny at the time, because of course Canada’s spy agency is secretive. But when you hear the way federal officials failed to pass on useful information of foreign election interference to political parties during the 2021 election campaign, you can see the problem.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has signed into law three measures aimed at replenishing the ranks of his country’s exhausted and battered army, including lowering the age when men become eligible for conscription and eliminating some medical exemptions.
While Mr. Zelensky did not say why he had decided to move ahead on at least some changes, Russia’s forces have been on the offensive along the front line and the ongoing fighting has shrunk Ukraine’s supplies of soldiers and weapons.
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The freebies are already pouring forth from the Trudeau government in the lead up to the April 14 federal budget announcement. So far their pre-announcements include free contraceptives and more free child care, but expect more giveaways over the next couple of weeks as the Liberals do all they can to try and woo voters back.
What we shouldn’t expect though are any signs of fiscal restraint from what could be described as Trudeau’s “desperation budget,” given his dreadful showing in the polls.
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It is never easy being a teenager, and each new generation brings a new trouble to the table. Each new generation of adults, likewise, tries to identify and solve these problems with the benefit of their own newfound maturity, whether it is television rotting teenagers’ brains in the 1980s, video games making them violent in the 1990s, over-protective parents and “participation trophies” making them incompetent little self-absorbed whiners in the 2000s, or coddled snowflakes needing safe spaces to protect them from disagreement in the 2010s. Now, the great modern scourge of youth is smartphones, and their most addictive feature, social media applications. These are the subject of new massive legal claims by four Ontario school boards, controversially targeting social media apps like Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat for deliberately creating this new addiction and negligently ignoring evidence of its harms. It is just the latest and most striking action against smartphones and the tech companies that profit off them. The National Post breaks down the problem and the responses.
It should indeed be a Trump priority.
Is there anything more poisonous or ridiculous than insisting that corporations and the government treat people fairly regardless of race?
Apparently not. An Axios report on the Trump team’s intention to use civil-rights laws to target DEI policies discriminating against whites has occasioned sneering and denunciations.
A well-known French radio comedian recently suggested an armed revolution in the event Marine Le Pen is elected president in 2027. Mahaut Drama made her comments not in jest, but during a debate at a left-wing media festival in Paris entitled “How to fight the far right.” Envisaging a Le Pen victory, Drama said: “What do we do? Do we have armed factions too?… Should we start a revolution?” She continued: “If there are people who are prepared to be brave to that extent, I can only encourage them.”
All of the world’s billionaires younger than 30 inherited their wealth, the first wave of “the great wealth transfer” in which more than 1,000 wealthy people are expected to pass on more than $5.2tn (£4.1tn) to their heirs over the next two decades.
There are already more billionaires than ever before (2,781), and the number is expected to soar in the coming years as an elderly generation of super-rich people prepare to give their fortunes to their children.
Research by Forbes magazine found there were 15 billionaires aged 30 or under but that none had created their own wealth, instead benefitting from huge inheritances.
The “$60,000 Electric Junkers to Save the Planet” industry is running into trouble. Tesla sales are down and GM is running into trouble with its lineup of electric junkers. Especially since with the Bolt gone, it has no more remotely affordable EVs. And the people who can drop a year’s salary to save the planet are buying luxury brands.
