The Israel Defence Forces have told CBC News that they dug 20 to 30 metres deep in a Gaza war cemetery where 22 Canadian soldiers are buried in order to destroy a Hamas tunnel.
An IDF officer who spoke to CBC News on background and who was involved in combat operations in the area said he was not able to give any assurance that Israeli forces had taken measures to preserve human remains.
The grandson of the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup inventor is calling out chocolate maker Hershey’s for “quietly replacing” the ingredients of the popular chocolate and peanut butter candy.
Unmitigated corporate greed.
A Bangladeshi immigrant deported from Canada two decades ago after the refugee claim he made using a false identity was rejected has won another shot at keeping the Canadian citizenship he obtained after marrying a woman in Bangladesh five months later who had permanent residency status here.
New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani (D.) has appointed three officials who cofounded a Muslim group that blamed Israel for Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack to prominent roles in his administration. One of them is serving as Mamdani’s head of faith-based partnerships, another as his chief of immigrant affairs, and the third as the leader of his judiciary advisory committee.
The federal government is shaking up its main economic immigration program to facilitate the entry of high-skilled military recruits for the Canadian Armed Forces, part of Ottawa’s renewed focus and spending push on the defence sector.
On Wednesday, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada announced new categories for selecting immigrants via Express Entry, a points-based system that is the main entryway for skilled workers seeking permanent residency.
There was a time when Ukrainian diplomats would quietly excuse Valerii Zaluzhny’s lack of willingness to speak in public in London, whispering concerns about him overshadowing President Zelensky.
But now the ambassador to Britain, widely seen as the top political rival to the Ukrainian leader, has indicated a possible desire to run for the presidency.
In a rare interview, Zaluzhny, 52, refused to explicitly discuss his political ambitions, saying he did not want to risk harming national unity during a war with Russia that is approaching its fourth anniversary.
You cannot escape it. Walk into any bank, any school, even your kid’s minor hockey association, and you are met with the same mantra: transgender rights are human rights.
It is on government websites, in corporate mission statements, and in human resources training.
(Incognito)
A TfL advert has been banned for portraying a black man as an aggressor. It seems only Caucasian males are allowed to be villains
Transport for London (TfL) has had to pull part of its latest video campaign against harassment of female passengers because, in the offending clip, the man who was shown pestering a woman happened to be black (while the woman happened to be white). And, after receiving a single complaint from the public, the Advertising Standards Authority ruled that the clip “had the effect of perpetuating a negative racial stereotype about black men as perpetrators of threatening behaviour”.
The thing about “the world stage” is not just that it’s a place for play-acting. It’s also a global venue for wishful thinking, the construction of heroes and villains and imaginary plot twists and sometimes whole-cloth inventions of scenes that sometimes bear almost no relationship at all to events in the real world.
Evidence is mounting that Elon Musk’s decision to deny Russian forces access to his Starlink satellite-based internet service has blunted Moscow’s advance, caused confusion among Russian soldiers and handed an advantage to Ukraine’s defenders.
But for how long? And what can Ukraine’s military achieve in the meantime?
“The Russians… lost their ability to control the field,” a Ukrainian drone operator who goes by the callsign Giovanni told us.
Maxime Bernier, leader of the People’s Party of Canada (PPC), has called for “justice” to be served to politicians and others responsible for promoting the “dangerous” COVID jabs and and mandating them on the Canadian public.
“The truth about the covid vaccine revealed! For years, they called us ‘anti-vaxxers.’ They called us conspiracy theorists. They ridiculed us and silenced us,” wrote Bernier in a recent post on X.
The troubled, racist son of trans Nazi-loving Rhode Island killer Robert Dorgan was jailed last year for setting a series of fires at a predominantly black church, according to a report.
Kevin Colantonio, one of six children Dorgan had with three different women, is serving a nearly seven-year sentence in a Texas federal prison for using gasoline and a lighter to spark five fires outside Shiloh Gospel Temple Ministries in North Providence in February 2024, WPRI reported.
Two weeks ago, Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre met in the prime minister’s Parliament Hill office in an apparent attempt to find common ground on the government’s legislative agenda.
“My message to him is to work with us,” Poilievre told reporters afterwards.
Perhaps Carney took that message more literally than Poilievre intended.
Bono lambasts ICE, Putin, Netanyahu and more as U2 release first collection of new songs since 2017
U2 have released their first collection of new music since 2017 – a politically charged EP entitled Days of Ash, which focuses on a series of high-profile global deaths including the killing of Renee Good by ICE agents.
Good, a mother of three children who was killed on 7 January while protesting against ICE activity in Minneapolis, is the subject of the opening song, American Obituary.
He was carrying the stairs and the woman wasn't, still he won.
Diversity hiring of women in jobs like the fire department and police forces can cost lives.
Men are way stronger, have far better stamina, and can make better quick decisions. pic.twitter.com/Ehy9sEoh8f
— ︎ ︎venom (@venom1s) February 18, 2026
