The money’s been deposited, the order’s been placed. It’s been more than one year and Canada still hasn’t delivered its promise of a $406-million missile system to help Ukraine in the battle against Russian invaders.
National Defence Minister Bill Blair, in Edmonton this week to announce a $45-million infrastructure project at CFB Edmonton, said the hang-up is stateside.
Michael Gove has been warned he must name Islamist groups or his crackdown on extremism will not work.
The Communities Secretary has been told by senior Tories and a leading anti-Islamist campaigner that the Government would be seen as “weak” if it failed to “call out” the extremist groups trying to subvert democracy.
Mr Gove has come under pressure ahead of an announcement this week of a new official definition of extremism that will enable the Government and bodies such as universities and councils to ban funding for or engagement with Islamist and far-Right groups.
OTTAWA — Canada will join an international effort to deliver humanitarian assistance to Gaza by sea, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly announced on Sunday, as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians continue to go hungry.
Joly issued a statement saying Canada will join the international coalition that is working together to increase the flow of aid to Gaza through a humanitarian sea corridor originating from Cyprus. Further details have not yet been released.
The announcement came following a meeting between Joly and her counterpart in the United Arab Emirates, Foreign Affairs Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed.
Update – Kate Middleton reveals SHE edited Mother’s Day portrait – as she apologises ‘for any confusion the family photograph caused’
Major photo agencies have pulled a new image of the Princess of Wales from circulation over concerns it was “manipulated” by “the source”.
The image was circulated by a number of picture agencies on Sunday before Reuters, Associated Press (AP), Getty Images and Agence France-Presse (AFP) told media outlets to “kill” the photo from their systems and archives.
Others are claiming further errors.
Homeowners in Canada are edging closer to mortgage default as many near the “trigger point” on their loans, according to a federal memo to the superintendent of financial institutions.
A trigger point is when the amount of interest is equal to the fixed monthly mortgage payment, meaning that zero is going to pay off the principal of the loan. At this point, nothing is being paid down on the mortgage itself. If interest rates keep going up, those with variable rate, fixed payment mortgages will need to pay more just to cover the interest payments.
Were they deliberately deceiving their audiences, or themselves?
Much of what passes today for news analysis is anything but.
Let’s take a recent example: the legal discourse surrounding Colorado’s efforts to remove former President Donald Trump from the state’s ballot.
The US faces a significant threat in Venezuela’s cozy relationship with Iran, with enemy nations using the socialist country as a base in the hemisphere to attack America, experts have warned.
Fears are rising over the influence Iran has on Caracas as the two regimes strengthen economic and military ties and grow more hostile towards Washington DC.
Last week the FBI Miami launched a manhunt to find Iranian spy Majid Dastjani Farahani, who the government accuses of looking for allies to kill US officials while operating from Venezuela.
In the recent summit in Paris of European Union leaders on Ukraine, there was an elephant in the room: The US Republican Party and its current mahout, former President Donald J. Trump.
According to those who were able to peep into the session, much of the discussion was about what the US will or won’t do in case the volatile mahout rides his elephant into the White House in November.
Trump’s musings about ending the war in Ukraine and taming Vladimir Putin without war and his quip about refusing to support a NATO member not paying its share, if attacked by Russia, took up a disproportionate part of the discussions. Then came the French President Emmanuel Macron’s bombshell about boots on the ground in Ukraine.
As Joe Biden spends millions to drop free food onto Gaza amid Hamas reports of mass starvation, the question arises as to whether the Gazans actually are starving.
Israel says they aren’t, but no need to take their word for it. More about that later.
Gaza’s denizens themselves have decided to let us know.
The surrender of Nikki Haley — long drawn-out but long expected — has set both of America’s major parties on the same course: a limp coronation, conducted through process of elimination. Donald Trump’s path is clear, competitors fallen away, while Joe Biden is also slipping through effectively unopposed, happily ignoring token challenges by Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson. But the frictionless progress of both candidates through their party’s internal processes is concealing a hidden truth about this year’s election. Americans don’t want Joe Biden or Donald Trump. They see the race as a horror-reality show featuring two geriatrics who seem doddery, unwell, and angry at being told so. It is increasingly possible that they support independent candidates who could deprive both Trump and Biden of the votes needed to win the presidency. America could end up with a hung presidential election.
After Old Joe Biden’s ranting, rabidly partisan declaration of war against half the country, also known as his State of the Union address, the figurehead Commander-In-Chief huddled with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, and another sycophant, and boasted about the pressure he was putting on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “I told him, Bibi, and don’t repeat this, but you and I are going to have a ‘come to Jesus’ meeting.” Calculated disrespect? Galloping dementia? We’ll likely never know, for, as usual, the leftist press corps is too busy propping up Old Joe to look into anything that might cast him in a negative light.
Podcaster Joe Rogan has said that Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was an ‘identity hire’ and the worst spokesperson in White House history.
In a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, the host and American conservative activist Christopher Rufo openly bashed Jean-Pierre – who is a black, gay woman – and her boss, President Joe Biden.
Rogan, 56, started off by calling out Biden’s concerning old age, and said that the 81-year-old is ‘so frail’ and ‘transparent.’
Fireworks were ignited and eggs thrown as pro-Palestinian protesters gathered in Amsterdam where a new National Holocaust Museum has been opened.
The Israeli president’s visit to the newly-opened National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam has sparked protests in the city.
Thousands of protesters were heard chanting “never again is now” and “ceasefire now” at Waterloo Square in central Amsterdam, near the museum, which held an opening ceremony on Sunday and invited guests including the Israeli president Isaac Herzog and Dutch King Willem-Alexander.
BREAKING: Pro-Palestine protests take place outside the opening of a National Holocaust museum in Amsterdam, where Israeli President Isaac Herzog is in attendance. https://t.co/PAiZ4D1jU3
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There’s a lot to unpack about the awkward, subheadlined-item in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Feb. 24 release about the $3.02 billion allocated to Ukraine—it certainly caught a few people’s attention.
I write of course about the $4 million allocated to “Gender-inclusive demining for sustainable futures in Ukraine.”
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) promotes its standards of care (SOC) as a lodestar for the treatment of gender dysphoria. Its devotion to the “affirmation” transition model for gender-confused children, involving rapid introduction to hormones and surgery that allegedly prevent suicide, have long dictated policy in hospitals, health authorities and medical schools, including those in Canada.
Last week, WPATH was hit by a bombshell : the release of the “ WPATH Files ,” a collection of leaked internal communications between WPATH members from 2021 to 2024. The files were analyzed by Mia Hughes, a women’s rights activist, and published by investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger’s Environmental Progress.
