Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has found himself, once again, at odds with Israel’s war effort, calling on Wednesday for the Israeli military to nix plans to mount an attack on Rafah. But while Trudeau may have, in his own mind, been taking a principled humanitarian stand, his words played right into the hands of Hamas, whose clear endgame has always been to pack as many Gazans as possible into the city for use as human shields.
The U.S. Navy approved more than $750,000 for a project that, while purporting to “equitably” increase the number of students interested in serving in the Navy’s STEM fields, prioritized recruiting underrepresented minority students, documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation show.
The deal between Justin Trudeau’s Liberals and Jagmeet Singh’s New Democrats has already lasted longer than most minority governments in Canadian history.
Within a matter of days, that deal will either collapse or carry on — depending on whether the two sides can come to some kind of agreement to bring pharmacare to Canada.
Two questions hang over that fork in the road for the two parties. Can the deal last? Beyond that, though, should the deal continue?
Is it possible for the NDP to steal Liberal seats next election?
Would that possibility be aided by keeping this sorry alliance together thus earning goodwill from LPC voters looking for a new home?
Both Trudeau and Singh are preening virtue signalers with grating personalities. Canada has had enough of both.
London, Ont., police officers participating in a competition in Dubai alongside a Chechen group accused of committing atrocities in the conflict with Ukraine “damages the image of Canada,” says a University of Toronto professor with expertise in international relations and political science.
“When you are doing anything internationally, you have to also be aware of the image of the country, it’s not just a local matter. And so there’s an extra duty,” said Aurel Braun, who’s also an associate with the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.
Ramzan Kadyrov: The Chechen Warlord Who Does Putin’s Dirty Work in Ukraine
Climate campaigners now accept they have to get the public onside more so than polarise them
On Tuesday morning, Jess Knowles carried her 20-month-old son Rico out of her terraced Victorian home in southwest London in a mad rush, conscious that she probably could not waste a minute if she was to make it on time to her child’s hospital appointment.
The stay-at-home mum was greeted by a disastrous sight after she walked over to the driver’s side of her black Jeep Night Eagle, a sports utility vehicle (SUV) that she uses through her disabled father’s mobility allowance — two deflated tyres.
There’s a heartbreaking scene near the end of the First World War movie “Gallipoli” in which Australian soldiers are preparing to get out of their trenches and charge the Turkish machine guns. They’re writing letters home and leaving their watches behind because they know they’re about to die. Most have a blank, resigned expression on their faces.
I wonder if the Trudeau Liberals reached their Gallipoli moment this week. Judging by Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan’s demeanour as he was sent out to meet a barrage of fire from reporters on the government’s latest tweaks to its climate policy, the answer may well be yes.
NEWS – Egypt is building a wall and is levelling land near its border with the Gaza Strip ahead of a planned Israeli offensive targeting the border city of Rafah, satellite images analyzed Friday by The Associated Press show.
Egypt, which has not publicly acknowledged the construction, repeatedly has warned Israel not to forcibly expel the over one million Palestinians now displaced in Rafah across the border into its territory while it battles the militant group Hamas for a fifth month.
Has Justin mounted his Virtue Signaling Podium to denounce Egypt?
h/t Mauser
As soon as Canada announced it would cap the number of international students here, experts anticipated a dogfight among Ontario colleges for the limited new study permits for the province.
One prediction was that the colleges would throw Kitchener-based Conestoga College — the school with the most international students in the country — “under the bus.”
This week, disputes have boiled over in full public display, with two college presidents lashing out at one another.
It’s amazing how long bad ideas take to die. That’s certainly the case with one of the least successful ideas in the world. The idea of the two-state solution in the Middle East.
How do we know it is unsuccessful? Because it has been tried for decades and never works.
Generations of US Presidents have wasted energy on the idea. All based on a falsehood.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is handing a 10-year tax holiday worth $2.1 billion to electric auto battery manufacturers, government documents show.
Government amendments to Income Tax Act regulations grant the decade-long tax waiver to battery factories on top of the billions in subsidies they are already receiving.
“The cost of foregone federal tax revenue associated with the regulatory amendment is estimated to be about $2.1 billion over 10 years starting in 2024,” reads a Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement first obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter.
A series of gangland-style killings in inner-city Brussels has highlighted the city’s continued descent into narco-terrorism, with one local mayor warning that drug gangs have “taken the city hostage.”
Police descended on the southern municipality of Saint-Gilles early on Wednesday morning as locals reported the fatal shooting of a local dealer by rivals just hours after a similar gun attack in the same area.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is pledging that a future government would cut what he calls “wasteful foreign aid” and would not allow funding to go to “dictators, terrorists and multinational bureaucracies.”
He made the comment Thursday in response to a question about his position on NATO’s military spending targets, as ministers from the military alliance meet in Brussels.
All foreign aid is wasteful.
Alexei Navalny is dead, the prison service of the Yamalo-Nenets region where he had been serving his sentence said on Friday.
The jailed opposition leader fell sick during a walk, fainted and died quickly after that, the prison service said in a statement.
OTTAWA – Diverse views in the Liberal party are a source of strength, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insisted Thursday as questions persisted about caucus discord over the government’s policy on the Israel-Hamas war.
“We have a large number of Muslim MPs. We have a large number of Jewish MPs,” Trudeau said at a news conference in Winnipeg.
“The kinds of conversations that go on within our party are not always easy, but they reflect the diversity of conversations happening across the country.”
Junior has already picked a side. Ask Amira.
Several Dutch political parties have backed the populist Geert Wilders to have another go at forming a government.
Almost three months after an election comfortably won by Wilders’ national-conservative Party for Freedom (PVV), talks on this new government have to be rebooted, after a major prospective partner suddenly backed out.
Since his party’s victory on November 22nd with a quarter of the vote, Wilders has been trying to form a coalition with the center-right People’s Party of Freedom and Democracy (VVD) of outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte, the centrist New Social Contract (NSC) and the agrarian populist Farmer-Citizen movement (BBB). This would have created a comfortable majority of 88 seats in the 150-seat Lower House.
