With the spotlight on China’s interference in Canadian elections, the case of Cameron Ortis, the former RCMP spy master who was charged in 2019 with violating the Security of Information Act, is still hidden in the shadows. He was released on bail in December and is set to be tried in October, but the details of the case, likely involving China, have been hidden from the public. They should be disclosed immediately.
These revealing photographs show shop shelves in a provincial Russian city groaning under piles of fresh food.
As British supermarkets ration eggs and an array of fruit and vegetables amid shortages provoked in large part by the Ukraine war, no such hardships afflict Vladimir Putin’s citizens.
The pictures were taken at a food hall, two superstores and a corner shop in Perm, a city with a population the size of Birmingham in the Ural mountains, a 24-hour drive from Moscow. The images suggest the West’s much-vaunted sanctions on Russia, imposed to punish President Putin for his invasion, are not having a deep bite.
Calling it a humanitarian “crisis” resulting in some children not being properly fed, the mayor of Niagara Falls is urging Ottawa to do more than just drop migrants off in the famous tourist city.
“It is a crisis,” said Mayor Jim Diodati Monday.
Ukraine has urged the international criminal court to investigate footage circulating on social media that appeared to show Russian fighters killing a Ukrainian prisoner of war.
In the graphic clip that first circulated on Telegram, a detained combatant is seen standing in a shallow trench and smoking a cigarette. The soldier says “Glory to Ukraine” and is then apparently shot with automatic weapons.
🇺🇦 Murdered for being Ukrainian and not giving the Russians any information. His last words. "Glory to Ukraine" they shot him in cold blood. They murdered a prisoner of war.
Khamzat Galeav, the Hero. 🕯️
Remember his name.
Do not forget his defiance in the face of evil. 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/gVtJPRCSUc— Hiding in the cracks. 🇬🇧🇺🇦 (@moscow_english) March 6, 2023
An Alberta city councillor who posted a meme with an anti-Christian theme on social media has publicly apologized as a city resident says the meme was a “personal attack” against him for objecting to an upcoming event that advertises a drag artist as the main feature.
As a result of the post and circumstances leading up to it, the resident Leighton Grey says city councillor Chris Vining, who is also a school principal, violated the codes of conduct for city councillors and educators. Vining, for his part, says he has received harassing emails and calls and that he and his family now feel unsafe in their home.
A school principal huh? But they’re not groomers.
Artificial intelligence programs that mimic speech have been used to impersonate politicians and celebrities, saying implausible or outrageous things yet sounding awfully like them.
They can also do an impression of a close relative calling to ask for money, as part of a new type of telephone scam that has proved convincing to some of its targets.
People living in Toronto feel less safe on public transit than other Canadians, according to a new Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News.
The poll suggests 44 per cent of Toronto residents feel unsafe riding transit alone. That compares to 35 per cent of riders in the 905 region around Toronto and 27 per cent across the country.
Professor Sir Chris Whitty warned against imposing the lockdown “sex ban” because the public was not “likely to listen” to an order not to see their partners, The Telegraph can disclose.
England’s Chief Medical Officer said the Government should use a “bit of realism” and stop short of an outright ban, instead encouraging couples not living together to avoid contact “if they can”, leaked WhatsApp messages show.
Taxpayers will find out in two months how much extra it will cost to fix the mechanical problems and lead-tainted water on board the navy’s new Arctic and offshore patrol ships.
But Procurement Canada’s top bureaucrat has reassured parliamentarians that costs on the multi-billion vessels are coming down, despite figures showing the price tag actually jumped another $780 million over the past year.
My favourite definition of ethics is obedience to the unenforceable. Acceptable behaviour in the stark light of day is just good thinking.
In the dark recesses, doing the right thing is never that easy.
Trudeau asked the national security committee, which he has often ignored in the past, to investigate election interference
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is asking a parliamentary committee, an independent review agency and a special rapporteur to investigate claims China influenced Canada’s elections unfairly.
Newly revealed surveillance footage from Jan. 6, 2021, shows two Capitol police officers escorting Jacob Chansley, the be-horned so-called “QAnon Shaman” who has come to symbolize the riot, through the halls of the Capitol and to the very door of the US Senate.
The footage aired on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show Monday night shows the officers closely following Chansley as he wanders the corridors of the Capitol, bare-chested and wearing face paint and a luxuriant fur hat with Viking horns.
🚨BREAKING: Never before seen video of January 6 shows Jacob Chansley, the QAnon Shaman, being led through the Capitol by police the entire time that he was in the building. pic.twitter.com/rikoRMWezF
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 7, 2023
Tucker FLAMES J6th Committee:
"Democrats in Congress, assisted by Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney, lied about what happened that day. They are LIARS!" 🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/jZmHhBj7xK
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 7, 2023
h/t XC
Remember all that political hay the far left and its media allies made during the Vietnam War about the wickedness of America’s South Vietnamese ally and the importance of abandoning that country to the communists?
Sometimes a single incident efficiently summarizes a larger trend. So it is with New York University’s selection of its new president, Linda Mills, a licensed clinical social worker and an NYU social work professor. She researches trauma and bias, as well as race and gender in the legal academy. She is a documentary filmmaker and teaches advocacy filmmaking. She serves as an NYU vice chancellor and as a senior vice provost for Global Programs and University Life. In all these roles, Mills is the very embodiment of the contemporary academy. The most significant part of her identity, however, and the one that ties the rest of her curriculum vitae together, is that she is female, and thus overdetermined as NYU’s next president.
Since 2018, the military has shifted to focus on China and Russia after decades fighting insurgencies, but it still faces challenges to produce weapons and come up with new ways of waging war
Clint Hinote returned from a deployment in Baghdad in the spring of 2018 to a new assignment and a staggering realization.
A classified Pentagon wargame simulated a Chinese push to take control of the South China Sea. The Air Force officer, charged with plotting the service’s future, learned that China’s well-stocked missile force had rained down on the bases and ports the U.S. relied on in the region, turning American combat aircraft and munitions into smoldering ruins in a matter of days.
“My response was, ‘Holy crap. We are going to lose if we fight like this,’” he recalled
