OTTAWA – Canada is planning to spend $1.8 billion to upgrade its fleet of military search-and-rescue helicopters — nearly double what was originally budgeted.
Defence Minister Anita Anand and Procurement Minister Helena Jaczek announced the sole-sourced deal to upgrade the military’s Cormorant helicopters late this afternoon.
The federal government has been planning to upgrade the Cormorant fleet for years, which will include modernizing its 13 existing helicopters and buying three new ones.
German authorities said on Thursday they had arrested an employee of the foreign intelligence service BND, on suspicion of the person sharing state secrets with Russia this year and thereby committing treason.
Police arrested the suspect, a German citizen identified as Carsten L, on Wednesday, in Berlin, the federal prosecutors office said, adding that the police also raided his flat and workplace as well as those of another person.
“The accused is suspected of state treason,” federal prosecutors said in a statement. “In 2022, he shared information that he came by in the course of his work with a Russian intelligence agency. The content is considered a state secret.”
Canada may face Charter test in attempt to seize millions from Russian oligarch: expert
Canada’s attempt to seize and forfeit a Russian oligarch’s holdings could be a major test of how Ottawa balances sanctions and Charter rights.
This week, Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said she plans to use a new law to confiscate and divert assets held by people who have been sanctioned.
It’s difficult because the Liberals don’t want to offend their Oligarch friends.
The video lasts less than 30 seconds, time enough for a pair of disembodied hands to deftly slice an entire English cucumber into wafer-thin discs.
As entertainment it was certainly minimalist, but the world was impressed. The clip by Canadian culinary star Wallace Wong — aka The Six Pack Chef — garnered 144 million views on TikTok this year.
A pro-life woman was arrested earlier this month for silently praying outside an abortion clinic in Birmingham, U.K. on the grounds that she had breached a speech buffer zone established by the local city council.
End times or what?
50 Italian priests declare their homosexuality in scandalous open letter
The letter raises concerns about the extent of the so-called Lavender Mafia in the Church.
Fifty Italian priests have announced that they identify as homosexual in a newly revealed open letter.
The letter was first circulated amongst Italian priests in a clandestine fashion but was eventually picked up by the Italian publication Domani and published on November 30.
In a famous exchange in the The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway wrote: “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually, then suddenly.”
“Gradually” and “suddenly” applies to higher education’s implosion.
During the 1990s “culture wars” universities were warned that their chronic tuition hikes above the rate of inflation were unsustainable.
Their growing manipulation of blanket federal student loan guarantees, and part-time faculty and graduate teaching assistants always was suicidal.
Former US government intelligence agents are now working across Silicon Valley in senior roles dedicated to censoring ‘misinformation’, DailyMail.com can disclose.
A large number of ex-officers from the FBI, CIA, NSC, and State Department have taken positions at Facebook, Twitter, and Google.
The revelation comes amid fears the FBI operated control over Twitter censorship and the Hunter Biden laptop story.
In the aftermath of the August 25, 2020 events in Kenosha which saw a young Kyle Rittenhouse kill two and maim a third, a joke went around, mocking the prevalence of depravity on the left. It went something like this: Where can you fire three rounds into a crowd and hit a pedophile, a domestic abuser, and a gun-toting felon? Answer? A BLM riot.
Evidence obtained in a months long investigation identifies the Russian regiment — and commander — behind one of the worst atrocities in Ukraine.
When videos and photos emerged in April showing bodies of dozens of civilians strewn along a street in Bucha, Ukrainians and the rest of the world voiced horror and outrage. But in Russia, officials had a completely different reaction: denial.
President Vladimir V. Putin dismissed the gruesome scene as “a provocation,” and claimed that the Russian Army had nothing to do with it.
But an eight-month visual investigation by The New York Times concluded that the perpetrators of the massacre along Yablunska Street were Russian paratroopers from the 234th Air Assault Regiment led by Lt. Col. Artyom Gorodilov.
The ‘one pill can kill’ synthetic opioid is 50 times more powerful than heroin and is fuelling an overdose crisis
In the basement of an apartment complex in Inglewood, Los Angeles, a metallic hum rings out as high-speed pill-pressing machines pump out thousands of tablets an hour, each laced with a deadly synthetic opioid.
The drugs are ready to be packaged and sold in their millions to customers across America through the dark web.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been portrayed as Santa in an anti-Western propaganda video released on the country’s social media.
The film – made by a production company called Signal – depicts ‘Santa Putin’ swapping a photograph of a child’s same-sex parents for one of a mother and father, and gifting the boy being raised as a girl a football, toy cars and a drum kit.
The video feeds into Russian prejudices about Europe and the United States which have been fuelled by pro-Kremlin propagandists during the war in Ukraine to frame the conflict as a clash of values between Russia and Ukraine’s western allies.
#Santa #Putin' swaps child's same-sex parents for a mother and father and gives a football, toy cars and a drum kit to boy being raised as a girl in #anti-West #propagandavideo #santapuntin #christmas pic.twitter.com/RmfGUNCzV9
— 6IX WORLD NEWS (@6ixworldnews) December 22, 2022
University of Cambridge academics believe men and women perceive what they see in different ways, dubbed the ‘affordance theory’
Women do most of the chores around the home because men do not see mess in the same way, University of Cambridge academics believe.
While men will look at a pile of dishes in the sink or crumbs on the counter as a mess, women view it as a job in need of doing and feel an urge to do so.
This comes from a deep-rooted social training which wires the brains of men and women differently from a young age, it is thought.
In a hard-hitting Christmas speech to Vatican officials, the Pope has warned them to watch out for the devil that “lurks among us”, calling it an “elegant demon” that appears with a bunch of flowers.
The Pope has often used his Christmas address to the cardinals and priests working at the Vatican to admonish them for their worldly sins, and this year he did not disappoint.
He told the prelates not to feel holier than thou just because they worked “in the service of the Holy See, at the heart of the Church”. He added: “Precisely for this reason, we could easily fall into the temptation of thinking we are safe, better than others, no longer in need of conversion.”
Russia’s brutal invasion has revealed the depth and strength of Ukrainian nationhood.
On 24 February 2022, the world changed in ways with which we are still to come to terms.
That, of course, was the day Russian president Vladimir Putin launched the invasion of Ukraine. ‘I have decided to conduct a special military operation’, he said, sat at a desk in the Kremlin, a Russian flag behind him.
A female correctional officer in Canada has won an employment tribunal case after she suffered a mental health injury while being assigned to monitor a trans-identified male inmate who had been transferred to a women’s prison.
