For a moment it was as if the prime minister had undergone a Damascene conversion. In answering a question in Parliament about health care, Justin Trudeau said, “We can’t throw money at it.”
But surely that’s been Liberal policy ever since they came to power. See a problem? Throw money at it!
The Kremlin gave Tehran over £120m in cash along with state-of-the-art weaponry seized from Ukrainian troops
Iran was given a captured British anti-tank missile by Russia in exchange for unmanned drones used to attack Ukraine, the Telegraph understands.
The Kremlin handed over £120 million in cash along with state-of-the-art British and US weaponry seized from Ukrainian troops to pay for the drones, a security source has claimed.
The cash and weapons were flown into an airport in Tehran on a Russian military aircraft in the early hours of August 20, Sky News reported on Tuesday night.
The ruzzists again began to move in columns. No, of course it’s certainly good… #UkraineFrontLines #RussiaUkraineWar pic.twitter.com/QvYG90Fwrk
— Ukraine Front Lines (@EuromaidanPR) November 8, 2022
New report adds to years of warnings about Beijing’s meddling in Canadian politics: activists, experts
… Dennis Molinaro, a former national security analyst and now a legal studies professor at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, said he is barred from divulging what he learned while working in intelligence on the China file.
But from those warnings issued in 2010 by Richard Fadden, then CSIS director, to more recent alerts, it is in some ways nothing new, he said.
“CSIS has raised it repeatedly,” said Molinaro. “We have this situation where … CSIS is warning that these activities are going on and we have no way of stopping them.”
Toronto’s Medical Officer of Health has been directed to “urgently explore” the possibility of re-issuing mask mandates, especially in schools.
During Tuesday’s monthly Board of Health (BOH) meeting, Dr. Kate Mulligan introduced the motion, which aims to “reduce the spread of respiratory viruses and protect the capacity of pediatric care services.”
Justin Trudeau to appear on ‘Canada’s Drag Race’ spinoff series
Justin Trudeau is swinging by the “werkroom” on an upcoming spinoff of “Canada’s Drag Race.”
Producers of the drag queen competition series say the Prime Minister will make a special appearance on “Canada’s Drag Race: Canada vs. the World.”
He’s the first world leader to visit the RuPaul-founded competition series, which has more than a dozen global spinoffs in countries including Sweden, Australia, Mexico and the United Kingdom
h/t DM
The Rouleau Commission has now heard sworn testimony that the Freedom Convoy was not foreign funded and did not constitute a threat to democracy and that the Emergencies Act was not needed or asked for by any police force. That reflects very poorly on the prime minister. The act’s invocation was the worst peacetime assault on civil liberties since Pierre Trudeau’s use of the War Measures Act during the FLQ crisis 52 years ago — when a Quebec cabinet minister was assassinated and a British trade commissioner held hostage.
There were some crucial results still to come in the 2022 midterm elections as Wednesday dawned.
But some lessons were already clear after a dramatic night.
Elections are over – What we know so far…#Midterms #Midterms2022 pic.twitter.com/ik6OtA8Qae
— Zvonimir (@zvonko1976) November 9, 2022
US midterm elections: Who won, who lost and what it means so far
Hours after the first polls closed, many key races in the US midterms have yet to be called and control of the US Senate, in particular, is still very much up for grabs.
It has been a good enough night for Republicans, but far from a great one. Their hopes of a tidal wave that would sweep them to victory in dozens of toss-up races are not materialising so far.
They have already lost one Senate seat, in Pennsylvania, and will need to flip two among the three states of Nevada, Arizona and Georgia, to take control of that chamber.
A picture shows Russian troops held in a Putin ‘punishment camp’ for brave mobilised heroes who refuse to fight in his illegal war.
The enlistees were dumped in a cellar in Donetsk region where they are ‘starved’ and ‘threatened with mass execution by firing squad’.
Independent Russian media outlet The Insider highlighted the plight of 21 refuseniks illegally held in the Donetsk People’s Republic, which Putin has annexed.
Bad timing …
#Ukraine: A concealed Russian T-72B3 tank was hit by Ukrainian indirect fire in #Kherson Oblast. pic.twitter.com/vNh8k1kz3o
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) November 8, 2022
Democratic Senate hopeful John Fetterman beat Dr. Oz in the must-win Pennsylvania Senate race in the early hours of Wednesday morning as top Republicans admitted the red wave hadn’t materialized.
In what polls suggested would be a dominant night for the GOP with President Joe Biden’s low approval ratings serving as a drag, the Democrats won crucial House seats on the East Coast and held onto the endangered Senate seat in New Hampshire.
Trump-backed Republican J.D. Vance was victorious in Ohio and Ron DeSantis won a landslide to be re-elected as Florida Governor, but the GOP victory party was put on ice because of Democratic wins in swing states.
I never cared for Oz but losing to Fetterman is just sad.
For results:RealClearPolitics, Reuters
According to a recent report, Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk is considering putting the entire website behind a paywall after mass layoffs at the company and a new update to the site’s Twitter Blue premium service. This would require users to pay to even read content on the site.
I usually get Andrew Sullivan’s Substack Weekly Dish emailed to me. And last week, just before the Nov 8 midterms, he was agonizing over the Biden disaster: “Will Biden and the Dems Finally Get It?
In return for centrists’ and moderates’ support, Biden effectively told us to get lost. He championed the entire far-left agenda: the biggest expansion in government since LBJ; a massive stimulus… mass migration…
Of course, if Trump runs again, Sullivan will vote against him. Because Weimar.
“San Francisco is a sanctuary city and our policy is sacred.”
Officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security want to deport the man accused of bludgeoning U.S. Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer, but District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said Thursday that she will refuse to turn him over, citing San Francisco’s sanctuary city policies.
Today’s millenarians appear to be taking their cue from the Book of Revelations
A few weeks ago, I was standing in the cobbled lane that runs between Norwich Cathedral and its exquisite 14th century gatehouse when I heard a man yelling. I assumed initially that he was one of the people who had come to protest a talk that I had just given as part of Norwich’s Hostry Arts Festival, but it soon became clear that it was not trans activism that was exercising him.
Billions have been wasted on this joyless and flawed VR experience.
Mark Zuckerberg currently sees himself as the chief architect of an elaborate new fantasy world. He calls this world the Metaverse. And he desperately wants the rest of us to start meeting and trading in this virtual-reality frontier town. Last year, he even changed the name of Facebook’s parent company to Meta, just to show how serious he was about the whole enterprise.
Yet while Zuckerberg is pouring billions into the Metaverse to make this vision a reality, back home at Meta HQ, Rome burns. What began as murmurs of discontent have become a full-blown revolt.
