Due to the vacuum of leadership that the Biden administration has left on the global stage, China, Russia and the Iranian regime have become more empowered and emboldened than ever — a situation that helps the Iranian regime to skirt US sanctions. It also enables the ruling mullahs to gain access to funds and advanced military materiel, empower its militia and terror groups in region, and especially accelerate its race towards acquiring nuclear weapons.
ARKANSAS — First son Hunter Biden says he has already paid $750,000 in child support to his baby mama as he seeks to cut down the monthly payments, his lawyers revealed in an Arkansas court Monday.
President Biden’s 53-year-old son appeared in person for the paternity suit hearing in Batesville amid his ongoing battle to reduce payments for the 4-year-old daughter he has with Lunden Roberts, 32, a former stripper with whom he had a month-long affair.
Six people are wanted in an alleged coordinated theft from a downtown Toronto store — and police they have been involved in similar incidents across the GTA.
Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton faced accusations of pushing “pornography” for schoolchildren after she came out against “bans” of sexually explicit pro-LGBTQ materials in schools nationwide.
Taking to Twitter on Thursday, Clinton declared “over 50% of the attempted book bans last year involved books with LGBTQ+ characters & themes,” though she made no note of the explicit nature of such publications.
Alleged Chinese police stations still open in Quebec, despite minister’s claims
MONTREAL – Two Montreal-area community groups under investigation for allegedly hosting secret Chinese government police stations say they are operating normally.
Their comments contradict claims made last week by federal Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, who told a parliamentary committee that the RCMP had closed all the alleged secret police stations in the country.
A Massachusetts middle school student has claimed he was kicked out of school for wearing a t-shirt with words stating that there are only two genders.
Liam Morrison, 12, told the Middleborough School Council on April 13 how his father had to pick him up from John T. Nichols Jr. Middle School the month before when he refused to change out of his t-shirt that read ‘There are only two genders.’
He said school officials told him other students were complaining that it made them feel ‘unsafe’ and was ‘disrupting education.’
The Biden Administration has asked Ottawa to reimpose visa requirements on Mexicans entering Canada in order to prevent a surge of illegal crossings at its northern border. But Canada’s minister of immigration Sean Fraser said he has no plans to do so.
A protester in Nantes was being treated on Monday after reportedly having his hand blown off by a stun grenade amid the largest May Day protests in 30 years.
The incident occurred in an atmosphere described as “electric” in several big cities, including Paris, Lyon and Nantes, where protesters threw stones and set fire to the local council building. Police riposted with tear gas, stun grenades and riot guns.
#Riot police hit by #Molotov cocktail during mayday riots in #Paris #WorkersDay #WorkersDay2023 #France pic.twitter.com/QNiSnlPA4k
— Oʂɯαʅԃσ Rσყҽƚƚ (@oswaldosrm) May 1, 2023
France as usual the police are attacking people#ReformeDesRetraites #1erMai #manifestation #manifestations #manif1ermai #mayday #1MAYIS pic.twitter.com/rgdf0ym57A
— Anonymous 🕸 (@Parrattarna) May 1, 2023
Two Canadians have been killed in action around the fiercely contested Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, with one of them telling CBC News before his death that the conditions on the front line were like a “meat grinder.”
Kyle Porter, 27, of Calgary, Alta., and Cole Zelenco, 21, of St. Catharines, Ont., were both serving with Ukraine’s International Legion which was attached to the 92nd Mechanised Brigade.
In January, Iran executed a former senior official who provided Britain with valuable intelligence on Iranian nuclear and military programs over a decade, according to Western intelligence officials.
In April 2008, a senior British intelligence official flew to Tel Aviv to deliver an explosive revelation to his Israeli counterparts: Britain had a mole in Iran with high-level access to the country’s nuclear and defense secrets.
The spy had provided valuable information — and would continue to do so for years — intelligence that would prove critical in eliminating any doubt in Western capitals that Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons and in persuading the world to impose sweeping sanctions against Tehran, according to intelligence officials.
Residents and businesses in the heart of downtown Toronto are bracing for disruption as a years-long road closure begins.
Starting on Monday, May 1, a major portion of Queen Street will be closed to all traffic while construction takes place on a new subway station.
“It’s definitely a sense of anxiousness. There’s still a lot of uncertainty,” Meg Marshall, manager of the Queen Street West BIA, told Global News.
Regulators seized control of First Republic Bank and sold it to JPMorgan Chase on Monday, a dramatic move aimed at curbing a two-month banking crisis that has rattled the financial system.
First Republic, whose assets were battered by the rise in interest rates, had struggled to stay alive after two other lenders collapsed last month, spooking depositors and investors.
First Republic was taken over by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and immediately sold to JPMorgan. The deal was announced hours before U.S. markets are set to open, and after a scramble by officials over the weekend.
h/t Mauser & XC
To support its cultural industries in the face of American dominance, Canada has for many decades depended on regulating television and radio broadcasters to share and finance Canadian stories and songs. Yet the barely regulated internet, a product of Silicon Valley’s maverick free-market mindset, now allows users to make and hoover up the content of their choosing. For people seeking stories and songs around the world, borders now barely exist.
The federal government has been trying since 2020 to wrangle together legislation that would force streaming services such as Netflix and Spotify to promote and finance the country’s cultural content just like old-guard broadcasters must. It finally received royal assent on April 27, but it wasn’t easy. What unfolded in the past few years far more resembled an agonizing battle than a nation-building exercise.
My statement on The Globe and Mail report regarding a diplomat of the People’s Republic of China in Canada.https://t.co/9Fcm46tZSs#cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/WL6zJNbBvE
— Michael Chong 🇨🇦 (@MichaelChongMP) May 1, 2023
Expect nothing better of Justin he is Xi’s puppet.
Link to the Globe Report here, and here.
Tentative agreement reached for 120,000 public servants
… In a statement on its website, PSAC said the tentative agreement includes wage increases of 12.6 per cent compounded over four years, and a one-time, pensionable lump sum payment of $2,500.
It includes language on remote work that gives members “additional protection” from “arbitrary decisions,” and it requires managers to assess requests individually instead of by group, and give responses in writing to allow members and PSAC to “hold the employer accountable to equitable and fair decision-making,” PSAC said.
Trudeau and his civil servants are vile thieves. I will vote for the party that vows to slice and dice the public service unions.
