The leaders of a coup in Niger have defied a threat imposed by regional powers to relinquish control or face possible military action and have instead asked Russia’s Wagner mercenary group to help them cling to power.
Mutineer soldiers had until Sunday night to return President Bazoum to power or face the consequences decided by west Africa’s regional bloc whose defence chiefs have drawn up a plan to use force.
We spent millions training Nigers armed forces but no worries Joly is on the case.
It’s NFL training camp season again, and that means it’s time for us to hear yet again about how far-left race hustler and former quarterback Colin Kaepernick, despite having derided the NFL for years as a racist enterprise that treats its employees like slaves, is trying to get back into the league yet again. If you’re tired of Kaepernick’s cynical act, you’re not nearly as tired of it as is Terence Garvin, a former NFL linebacker who had a few choice words for the attention-seeking apparatchik this time around.
The FBI lied about the extent of its communications with Facebook regarding the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020, newly disclosed communications from the tech company reveal. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) says that the FBI’s claim it only met with Facebook once about Biden’s “Laptop from Hell” are “completely false.”
Volodya arranges his torso a little straighter to recall the moment a mortar shell exploded in front of him in Bakhmut. The 47-year old infantryman was defending a building from the Russians’ street-by-street advance when, as his squad waited to move out, he went to examine one of the block’s doorways.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing a serious blow black for the July 26 cabinet shuffle from some passed-over Liberal MPs who believe the promotions of seven backbench colleagues to the front bench were not merit-based, and the PMO “misjudged and misplayed the whole thing completely.”
More than a third of UK residents do not know that transgender women are biologically male, according to a poll, calling into question public understanding of the debate over gender.
Campaigners said that the finding showed politicians, journalists and pollsters needed to be more explicit when speaking about gender issues, as in many cases members of the public did not know what politically correct terms meant.
Comedian Jimmy Kimmel opened the 2023 Academy Awards with a quip that — excuse the bad pun — punched above its weight: “When I look around at this room I can’t help but wonder, is Ozempic right for me?”
He was referring to a weekly injected drug that increases the production of insulin, thereby reducing appetite with generally tolerable side effects. The pounds fall away without the feeling of deprivation that accompanies other forms of dieting.
An heir to the Anheuser-Busch company said that his ancestors would have “rolled in their graves” if they knew the beer company gave a case of brew to a transgender influencer, causing conservative drinkers to toss their light beers in the trash.
Billy Busch said during an interview with TMZ that the ad campaign with Dylan Mulvaney would have been an outrage to Adolphus Busch — who died in 1913.
The Canadian elite has engineered a perfect storm
When Canada’s population hit the 40 million mark earlier this summer, it was celebrated as a milestone and a “signal that Canada remains a dynamic and welcoming country”, in the words of the country’s chief statistician. The Washington Post, among other foreign observers, cited this as evidence that “Canada is booming like it never has before”. It failed to mention, however, the recent closure of Roxham Road on the New York-Quebec border, an entry point for many thousands of irregular refugee border crossings since 2017.
Three pickup trucks lined up on a highway in front of a Tesla in Phoenix, Arizona, to form a rolling roadblock. The Tesla driver, a computer scientist, moved lane to wait for them to let him past. What came next was unexpected: a video on social media from the incident in June shows a belch of acrid black smoke from the engine of one of the trucks, enveloping the electric car following behind.
The Tesla driver had been caught by a “rolling coal”, a deliberate modification of a diesel engine to increase the engine’s horsepower – while also dramatically increasing pollution. It is also illegal: Sinister Diesel, one of the companies selling “defeat devices” used to roll coal, agreed to pay a $1m (£780,000) fine this week for breaking environmental laws.
It was not a one-off. Since at least 2014 rolling coal has become a symbol of dirty protest against the rise of electric vehicles (EVs). Around the world, the electric car has been caught up in the culture wars, as tensions grow around the shift from the era of fossil fuels to net zero carbon emissions.
In a political environment where global firms are increasingly willing to withhold key services, a principled stand today will protect our sovereignty tomorrow
This week, the technology firm Meta began blocking Canadian news on its Facebook and Instagram platforms, with Google anticipated to follow suit shortly, in response to the government’s recently introduced news media funding law, previously known as Bill C-18.
We are not alone. Read the comments, few seem to give a crap about Trudeau’s bill and the effect on media. It’s not that anyone has a favourite it’s just that everyone hates Trudeau more than Big Tech.
Headlines over “gun deaths” will always draw eyes. Some people will immediately click the link, then share it all over social media, just so they can say, “See! I told you guns are bad!”
There are usually problems with this, though.
For example, these reports rarely provide any context and they also tend to involve a fair bit of sensationalism in presenting all firearm-related fatalities as the same.
Majority of Canadians blame climate change for extreme weather: Nanos
Canadians are twice as likely to attribute climate change as the cause of recent extreme weather events rather than natural variations of weather patterns, according to a new poll by Nanos Research for CTV News.
Of the respondents, 64 per cent believe that high-intensity storms and extreme weather events, such as wildfires and floods, are a result of a changing climate, while more than one in four believe extreme weather is a result of natural variations in the weather. Eight per cent of respondents were unsure, Nanos reports.
Kirk Cameron and Brave Books rally thousands in library event across 46 states: ‘Absolutely incredible’
Thousands of children and their families attended Kirk Cameron’s “See You at the Library” event held at hundreds of libraries across multiple states.
On Saturday, families rallied at story hours in libraries participating in Cameron’s “See You at the Library” event, held in coordination with his faith-based children’s book publisher Brave Books.
