The Good Ship Canada is taking on water, and bringing in far too many unproductive crew, and its Captain Justin Trudeau simply re-arranges the deck chairs.
Suddenly, Canada’s economy contracted in the second quarter this year and heads toward a recession, the first high-income country to do so. Canadians threaten to mutiny — a recent poll showed that a majority want Trudeau and his governing sidekick, Jagmeet Singh, out of office.
Ten thousand people are missing after unprecedented flooding in Libya, the Red Cross said on Tuesday, as the extent of the damage to Derna, the port city where two dams burst over the weekend, became more clear.
Tamer Ramadan, the Libya envoy for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, gave the figure at a UN briefing in Geneva, describing the death toll as “huge”.
The health minister in the administration that controls the east of Libya said more than 3,000 people had been confirmed dead. “The number of missing people is in the thousands, and the number of dead is expected to reach 10,000,” Othman Abdel Jalil told Al-Massar TV channel.
DEVASTATION: Eyewitness footage shows the aftermath of a flood that ripped through Libya’s eastern Al Bayda city. More than 2,000 people are believed to have died in floods that hit the region. https://t.co/QA69oDr3Ht pic.twitter.com/ZIt3U4hxig
— ABC News (@ABC) September 12, 2023
For the second time in his tenure, an official trip to India by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has become defined by a cascading series of gaffes, snubs and diplomatic embarrassments.
Customers have reported problems with slot machines and online room booking systems following a cyber-attack on casino and hotel giant MGM Resorts.
Certain systems were shut down due to a “cyber-security issue”, the firm said.
But it added that its facilities remained “operational”.
One customer at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas said she had walked into the wrong room because the hotel’s digital keys were malfunctioning, and said staff had to distribute physical keys.
OTTAWA—For the Liberals to win an election, a seasoned Conservative organizer mused the other morning, they need to fall in love with their leader.
Conservatives? They need to fall in line.
The two Conservative leaders before Pierre Poilievre grappled with a party that never fully united around the boss.
A lithium deposit discovered in a volcanic crater along the Nevada-Oregon border may hold up to 40 million metric tons of the rare metal — possibly the largest ever in the world, which could have a massive impact on the electric vehicle industry, according to a new study.
The deposit hidden within the McDermitt Caldera is estimated to hold between 20 million and 40 million metric tons, which would be nearly double the current record of about 23 million metric tons found over the summer beneath a Bolivian salt flat, researchers reported in Science Advances.
Not great news for Justin’s battery play.
Companies specializing in the production of cricket-based human food have received substantial subsidies from the federal government amounting to $420,023 since 2018, according to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF).
“Canadians are struggling as inflation pushes up grocery bills, but subsidizing snacks made out of bugs doesn’t sound like the right solution for taxpayers,” Franco Terrazzano, CTF federal director, said in a Sept. 11 news release.
CTF said it “gathered the list of cricket corporate welfare deals by reviewing the federal government’s proactive disclosure of grants and contributions.”
Pigeons cause £15,000 of damage to East London flat after patio door is accidentally left open
This is the horrendous £15,000 worth of damage wreaked by pigeons on an East London flat after tenants accidentally left a patio door ajar.
The messy birds managed to flutter their way into the two-bed house and proceeded to take over every room in the house.
Over the course of the next four weeks, the birds splattered every room with poop, with the worst hit being the living room and kitchen.
More than half of Canadians want the federal government to accept fewer immigrants than it is planning for in 2023, a new poll shows – a rise from one in three in March.
The poll also found that 55 per cent of Canadians want Canada to accept fewer international students than the 900,000 expected by the government this year.
A Nanos poll for The Globe and Mail found a rise of almost 20 percentage points in the past six months in the number of Canadians who think this country should accept fewer immigrants than Ottawa’s 2023 target of 465,000.
Reporter yesterday asked Trudeau what Canada contributed to the final G20 leaders' declaration.
"Gender language."https://t.co/CD9zIqsvsmhttps://t.co/j83KrbwrLG pic.twitter.com/zf04iVhh7T
— Noé Chartier (@NChartierET) September 11, 2023
It is enough to make a connoisseur weep – the sight of millions of litres of red wine flooding down the streets of a Portuguese village.
The freak occurrence took place when two huge wine tanks burst at a distillery in Sao Lourenco do Bairro in central Portugal.
WATCH: Streets flooded with wine after tanks burst at Levira, Portugal distillery pic.twitter.com/GReBurByxN
— BNO News (@BNONews) September 11, 2023
Canada’s housing minister says the government is open to revising its immigration targets amid unprecedented strains on the country’s housing market.
One avenue to alleviate housing pressures could be through reducing the surging number of international student visas, said Sean Fraser, who previously served as immigration minister.
Get your soldier certificate. Join Ukraine’s International Legion. Earn €3,400 a month.
So offers a private tactical and security training company in Spain.
According to Euronews, G.O.A. Tactical, based in Lleida, is recruiting soldiers for Ukraine.
#Ukraine: A concealed Russian tank (presumably a T-80BV) was destroyed by three FPV loitering munitions of the Ukrainian army in #Luhansk Oblast. pic.twitter.com/bhUGN780X0
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) September 11, 2023
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe’s government is accusing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of damaging relations with India and keeping the provinces in the dark about trade talks.
In a letter Moe released Monday, Saskatchewan Trade Minister Jeremy Harrison argues Trudeau is picking a fight with India for domestic political gain and risking access to one of his province’s most important export markets.
Harrison claims the province learned that Canada paused trade talks with India through media reports, and that Trade Minister Mary Ng had not replied to a late July letter seeking an update on the negotiations.
A woman who sprang to fame giving controversial parenting advice has been charged with six counts of child abuse. What happened to Ruby Franke and her family?
On a late August morning in Utah, a 12-year-old boy covered in open wounds knocked at the door of a neighbour’s house asking for food and water.
He had escaped a nearby home moments before, by climbing out a window and running away with duct tape still on his ankles, police say.
