The phrase “evidence-based decision-making” was used a lot during the pandemic by government officials. “Following the science” was another common one.
It’s strange, then, that a government claiming to believe so deeply in rational thought has placed unverifiable spiritual belief at the core of how it judges the environmental impact of energy and other natural resources and infrastructure projects — and has shielded those beliefs from Canada’s transparency laws.
An increased number of potentially violent individuals from abroad are expected to infiltrate the ranks of those protesting against President Macron’s pension reforms during the latest round of strikes and marches, Paris’s police chief has warned.
“What poses a problem for us is the pre-cortege, these individuals who come in front of the trade union procession,” Laurent Nunez, the president of Paris’s prefecture de police, told Radio France.
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JUST IN – Police release footage of officers neutralizing the transgender shooter who killed multiple children and teachers at a Christian school in Nashville yesterday.pic.twitter.com/TqH0bd4Imc
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The US has accused former FTX chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried of paying a $40mn bribe to one or more Chinese government officials in a revised indictment filed in federal court in Manhattan on Tuesday.
Prosecutors allege Bankman-Fried sent the bribe in cryptocurrency to Chinese officials in order to regain access to trading accounts that had been frozen by law enforcement in the country. The accounts were linked to Alameda Research, FTX’s sister company.
The new bribery charge was added to twelve counts already faced by the former FTX chief, whose exchange collapsed in November last year after it was unable to meet a wave of withdrawal demands from customers.
Maybe wonderboy will do serious time. Maybe.
Two women have been stabbed to death at a Muslim religious centre in the Portuguese capital Lisbon, police say.
The attack took place at the Ismaili Centre on Avenida Lusíada. The suspect, who was in possession of a large knife, was shot in the leg by police.
He was then detained and has been taken to hospital. The motive for the attack is not yet clear.
Police said they received a call at about 11:00 local time after the suspect entered the centre.
Officers asked the suspect to stop the attack, but he disobeyed and was shot.
Speaking to SIC Notícias, the leader of the Ismaili community Nazim Ahmad said the attacker was Afghan and the two victims were Portuguese women.
NB: It may be an honor killing – Attack on Ismaili Center: It was not a terrorist attack, but an “honor crime”
Authorities are still investigating the motives that led a man aged around 40 to enter the Ismaili Center in Lisbon and attack the people there. At least two people died , two Ismaili women, one in their 20s and the other in their 40s. SIC commentator, Daniel Pinéu, believes that it was not a sectarian attack, nor a terrorist attack.
Daniel Pinéu argues that the contours of this attack lead to the theory that it could be a crime with personal motivations, especially taking into account the identity of the fatal victims, two Ishmaelite women.
Elsewhere…
Eight Mohammedans arrested in Belgium over alleged terrorist plot
Eight people were arrested in Brussels and Antwerp as part of an anti-terrorist operation on Monday evening, the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office has confirmed. Those close to the investigation told RTBF that the detainees “seemed determined to carry out a terrorist attack.”
… Among those detained, some of the individuals have been known to police for being radical Islamic extremists, two of whom were already under the police’s radar as a potential risk. Initially, the arrests had been conducted separately until investigators found a link between the violent men, as well as the other six radicals.
China’s furtive efforts to affect policy and raise its stature worldwide achieved some of its greatest successes in Utah — a deeply religious and conservative state seemingly a world away from the machinations of Beijing’s Communist government, the Associated Press reported Monday.
For years, China and its affiliates in the US have worked behind-the-scenes to cultivate relationships with state and local officials and lawmakers, connections that have allowed Beijing to delay legislation it didn’t like and ditch resolutions that expressed dissatisfaction with its actions.
The important role pets play in families who are separating is being addressed in proposed amendments to British Columbia’s Family Law Act.
Attorney-General Niki Sharma says amendments she introduced in B.C.’s legislature will clarify the law around pets, property and pensions for couples and families going through a separation or divorce.
Nashville police have released footage showing the moment a transgender 28-year-old shot down the door of a Christian school she attended as a child and began stalking the corridors, assault rifle in hand.
Audrey Hale arrived at the Covenant School in her Honda Fit just before 10am and killed six people before she was shot dead.
Hale opened fire on arriving police from the second floor of the school before she was confronted by Officer Rex Englebert, a four-year MNPD veteran, and Officer Michael Collazo, a nine-year MNPD veteran. The pair returned fire and shot her dead.
BREAKING: Footage released of Nashville transgender mass shooter pic.twitter.com/9d1fQcIWRL
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) March 28, 2023
Nashville school shooter’s chilling final messages to pal revealed: ‘I’m planning to die’
Saturday’s fatal stabbing of a 16-year-old boy in a Toronto subway station, another seemingly random violent attack in the transit system, again brings fear and urgent focus to a city on edge and looking for answers.
More than 60 per cent of transgender prisoners behind bars in Scotland only began transitioning after they were locked up, it has emerged.
Data obtained under Freedom of Information laws state there were, at the start of last month, 19 transgender prisoners in custody, 12 of whom (63 per cent) are recorded as beginning their transition “after their date of admission”.
Two victims of a Canadian 23-year-old who styled himself as a cryptocurrency genius, only to allegedly defraud investors of millions, have emerged – as the self-styled prodigy’s parents agree to return cars worth $100,000 and $812,000 in cash.
A Toronto realtor, Sacha Singh, sparked the collapsed of Aiden Pleterski’s alleged scheme in July 2022, when he filed court documents requesting the immediate freezing of Pleterski’s accounts, in a bid to recoup the CA $4.56 million ($3.32 million) he invested.
A grandmother who lost CA $50,000 ($34,000) said she does not know ‘how he can live with himself’.
MPs on a House of Commons committee are set to vote this week on a motion calling for former governor general David Johnston—the recently appointed special rapporteur tasked with investigating foreign interference in Canada’s last two elections—to appear at committee for questioning about his work.
NDP MP Rachel Blaney recently served notice that she will ask the Commons Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs to vote on the motion this week, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
The Chinese government may be using its shipping technology as a spy tool.
For more than 15 years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has developed an elaborate espionage campaign to gather insight on American businesses, strategic assets, and supply-chain weak links. The goal: to gain a competitive foothold it can leverage against the United States and our allies.
‘MAYDAY! Mayday!’ is something no airline pilot wants to say, and no passenger wants to hear, but this month Virgin Australia, Emirates, United and Southwest airlines have all turned back aircraft or made emergency landings because air crew have suffered serious health incidents. A British Airways pilot died of a heart attack just before he was due to fly a plane from Egypt.
This week, Chinese president Xi Jinping met with Russian president Vladimir Putin to discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Sino-Russo relations. During their meeting, Xi stated that Russia’s development had “significantly improved” while Putin claimed that China “made a colossal leap forward.”
The visit came just days after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Putin for committing war crimes in Ukraine. China is not a state party of the Rome Statute, a treaty recognizing the ICC. Thus, Xi’s visit suggests that China feels no need to hold the Russians accountable for their ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Many members of the international community are also skeptical of China’s neutrality in the war, given Xi’s close relationship with Putin.
