Tyree Moorehead was fairly well known in Baltimore for his protests against “gun violence,” which included spray painting “No Shoot Zones” at hundreds of crime scenes across the city. The 46-year old, who served 20 years in prison for a drug-related murder when he was 15, was himself shot and killed last weekend; not at the hands of any drug dealer or gang member, but by Baltimore police officers who responded to a call about a man armed with a knife who was attacking a woman.
A man has been arrested after eggs were thrown at the King and Queen Consort during a visit to York.
A protester was restrained by police as crowds gathered at Micklegate Bar, the traditional royal entrance into the city, to greet the couple.
He was heard to shout “this country was built on the blood of slaves” as he was restrained.
Sean Penn has given an Oscar statuette to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy during a meeting in Kyiv.
In a video posted on Zelenskiy’s Instagram account, Penn, who has been one of the most high profile supporters of Ukraine in its fight against Russian invasion, takes the Oscar statuette out of a bag and places it on a table in front of Zelenskiy, saying: “I feel terrible. This is for you. It’s just a symbolic silly thing, but if I know this is here with you then I’ll feel better and stronger for the fight.”
Sean Penn’s friendship is like a kiss of death.
The Archdiocese of Denver has directed local Catholic schools not to enroll transgender or gender non-conforming students.
In a 17-page document, the Archdiocese said progressive gender ideologies were a ‘danger to the faith of Christians’ and could not be supported by the church.
The guidance also noted trans and gender non-conforming students currently enrolled in schools should not be re-enrolled.
Will Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover have ‘big implications’ for Canada’s upcoming — and already contentious — online harms bill?
… Canadian lawmakers are already thinking about the battle ahead.
“The reality is Elon Musk and his takeover of Twitter have been disastrous, not just for the complete incoherence of Twitter, but the fact that he has — in a very real sense through his words and his actions — helped to promote hate,” said NDP heritage critic Peter Julian, who will be one of the MPs tasked with scrutinizing the online safety bill when it is introduced.
“The fact that they have gutted many of the jobs that were designed to curb hate through Twitter, and his deliberate fostering of disinformation and hate, is going to have an even greater impact.”
The red wave washed ashore as a ripple, though Republicans did make progress.
It’s late as I write this, though not late enough to know how things will turn out. But there are things we can safely say just after midnight Eastern time on Tuesday as the vote counts roll in and the races get called.
One of them is that for all the anger we’ve seen evidence of from Republican and independent voters, it seems pretty clear that channeling it into positive action is something beyond the reach of the GOP’s leadership and political class.
Sydney residents say they’ve become the ‘dumping ground’ for the prime minister after the first group of ISIS brides and their children were rescued from a Syrian refugee camp and resettled in the west of the city – as questions are raised as to why the families aren’t being welcomed in Victoria as a state election looms.
Fairfield Mayor Frank Carbone, Liverpool Mayor Ned Mannoun, and Campbelltown Mayor George Greiss, all regions that recently welcomed the former Islamic State families, hit back at the federal government’s decision to put them in their electorates.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has told world leaders they will not be able to tackle the climate crisis unless Russia’s invasion of his country ends.
“There can be no effective climate policy without the peace,” he said in a video address at the Cop27 UN climate summit in Egypt on Tuesday. “The Russian war has brought about an energy crisis that has forced dozens of countries to resume coal-fired power generation in order to lower energy prices for their people, to lower prices that are shockingly rising due to deliberate Russian actions.”
Victory will make us Green! This nonsense will cost Ukraine allies. Isn’t Trudeau on record saying the war is the best reason for implementing the green-scam?
Meanwhile in the UK – Sunak Says Ukraine War an Excuse to Push Green Agenda Even Harder
Despite the ongoing energy and cost of living crises facing Europe, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has argued the Ukraine War is an excuse to accelerate his green agenda, rather than backtrack and concentrate on keeping the lights on this winter.
Speaking to the global COP27 climate summit in Egypt, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak rejected suggestions that ongoing economic, security and social problems in Europe to do with the Ukraine War warrant a rethink of his hardline climate ideology, instead saying that the chaos justifies a further acceleration of green agenda efforts instead.
You have to remember that no one elected this clown.
This is officially a WEF war now.
Germany remains chummy with China. I wonder if this is because they know their NATO allies blew up the NordStream pipelines?
Republican Ron DeSantis was re-elected governor of Florida on Tuesday, setting him up for a possible presidential run in 2024.
Mr DeSantis, who won office by less than half a percentage point four years ago, easily defeated Democratic challenger Charlie Crist, a former Republican governor who switched parties and won a congressional seat as a Democrat.
Mr DeSantis, 44, is widely expected to seek the Republican nomination for the White House in 2024.
Last year’s federal budget gave the CBC an extra $21 million “to ensure its stability during the pandemic.” And last week’s fall fiscal update from Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland gave CBC yet another $42 million (on top of its annual taxpayer grant of nearly $1.3 billion) “to help CBC/Radio-Canada recover from the pandemic.”
Last month police said they made one of the largest seizures of 3D printed firearm components in the UK.
Officers from the Metropolitan Police’s Specialist Crime Command had discovered what they alleged was a “suspected makeshift 3D firearms factory” at a home in London on 7 October.
Officers said it demonstrated how “the emerging threat of 3D firearms continues to evolve”.
The discovery comes as some experts also warn of a growing threat.
Doug Ford’s U-turn on the use of the notwithstanding clause helped the premier avoid a public relations (and possibly province-wide) disaster, but in Ottawa it also spared Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from having to take action to match his rhetoric.
In the House of Commons last week, Trudeau said it was “wrong” for the Ontario premier to invoke the notwithstanding clause pre-emptively, and “wrong” to deny collective bargaining rights before that bargaining process had reached an impasse. “Suspending fundamental rights of Canadians without consequences,” the prime minister said, “concerns me.”
Ottawa’s long-awaited Indo-Pacific strategy will call out China as an increasingly disruptive global power, in a reversal of the government’s previous policy of avoiding confrontation with the world’s second-largest economy.
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly will outline the broad themes of the government’s new strategy in a major speech to be delivered in Toronto on Wednesday to the Asia Pacific Foundation and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. An advance copy of the speech was provided exclusively to The Globe and Mail.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was frustrated with Freedom Convoy protests in Windsor and Ottawa during a call with Ontario Premier Doug Ford during last winter’s protest, saying police needed to “do their job” and that they should not need more legal tools to clear protesters.
Mark Zuckerberg apologized to Meta workers after sending an early morning email confirming thousands of job losses amid soaring costs and a weak advertising market.
The Facebook founder told executives in a meeting yesterday that broad cuts of 11,000 jobs will be announced, with recruiting and business teams to face major losses.
Zuckerberg, 38, was said to have appeared gloomy on the call and also said he was accountable for missteps made by Meta.
