The headline on the front page of the Leicester Mercury this week read: ‘We will not let inciters of hate win.’
The respected local newspaper does not identify any of those exploiting tensions between Muslims and Hindus in a city held up as a model of multicultural Britain, but now living in fear of sectarian violence.
One of the agitators, however, who has remained anonymous until today, is a man whose notoriety extends far beyond the East Midlands.
The Russian president has rejected requests from commanders in the field that they be allowed to retreat from Kherson, a vital city in Ukraine’s south.
WASHINGTON — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has thrust himself more directly into strategic planning for the war in Ukraine in recent weeks, American officials said, including rejecting requests from his commanders on the ground that they be allowed to retreat from the vital southern city of Kherson.
A withdrawal from Kherson would allow the Russian military to pull back across the Dnipro River in an orderly way, preserving its equipment and saving the lives of soldiers.
The Biden administration implemented its agenda to revive the Obama nuclear deal after US President Joe Biden assumed office in January 2021. Now, more than a year and half of negotiations seems to have benefited no one except the ruling and Islamist mullahs of Iran. The endless negotiations seem simply to have bought time for the mullahs, so that they could comfortably advance their nuclear program to their highest level ever. Not only has the Biden administration seen no urgency to change its disastrous path, it is actually redoubling efforts to for Iran talks, presumably after America’s mid-term election on November 8.
Firms with ties to Brampton councillor, mayor got ‘unfair advantage’ on contracts, docs say
Companies that employed two men with close associations to an incumbent Brampton councillor and its mayor won city contracts after being afforded access not given to other bidders, new documents suggest.
Almost 500 pages of documents — including internal communications, bid details and reports — were obtained by Global News.
They lay out a timeline in which companies with links to Patrick Brown and Coun. Rowena Santos were given an apparent advantage, winning competitive contracts to work on a controversial university scheme in Brampton.
In his propaganda about supposed child graves, Raisi is merely reading our own misinformation back to us.
When dictators are called out by the international community for perpetrating human-rights abuses, they often attempt to deflect criticism by accusing their Western critics of hypocrisy. In April, for instance, China denounced the US State Department’s annual Country Report on Beijing’s human-rights practices as “a pretense the U.S. government uses to cover up its agenda of seeking hegemony” over such nations as Afghanistan. “The U.S. should immediately cease making irresponsible remarks,” said Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian. “Instead, it needs to reflect on itself, mend its ways, and work earnestly to improve its own human-rights situation.”
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — Houses have been washed into the sea, roofs have been torn off and Fiona knocked out power to almost all of one Atlantic Canadian province and 80 percent of another Saturday, as it made landfall as a big, powerful post-tropical cyclone.
Fiona transformed from a hurricane into a post-tropical storm late Friday, but it still had hurricane-strength winds and brought drenching rains and huge waves.
Ocean waves pounded the town of Port Aux Basques on the southern coast of Newfoundland, where entire structures were washed into the sea. Mayor Brian Button said Saturday over social media that people were being evacuated to high ground as winds knocked down power lines.
To imagine the extent of damage consider that this is just ONE wave, invading and battering just ONE house in Burgeo. The destruction as Fiona dwindles over many, many hours will be considerable. My friend Steve Hiscock and @onthego correspondent with BBS sent me this: #nlwx pic.twitter.com/WNmT37aIqk
— AnthonyGermain (@AnthonyGermain) September 24, 2022
MONTREAL—Everything old is new again: that’s one of the first take-aways from this week’s opening Trudeau-Poilievre question period engagement.
Barely five minutes into the exchanges, there was the prime minister talking about his commitment to “help the middle class and those working hard to join it.”
If that sounds familiar, it is because the line is probably the most tired talking point in the Liberal handbook. The party’s 2015 campaign mantra has been repeated so often since then that it has lost most of the magic it may have had in those more optimistic times.
After characterizing Ontario as “a big blue state to the north.” Maher stated, “They completely stood by her, the school district, talking about equitable treatment without discrimination. Yes, we’re all for that. Without — based not upon gender, yes, identity expression, we’re all for that. … But the giant tits are scaring the children. I mean, come on, can you just do anything?”
Bill Maher on the inflatable breast teacher pic.twitter.com/vZzcdilvdu
— Jeff Hannam (@HannamJeffrey) September 24, 2022
Forget wokery and fight crime, Suella Braverman orders police
The home secretary has told police chiefs to prioritise “common-sense policing” and stop focusing on “symbolic gestures”.
Suella Braverman sent a letter to senior policing figures last night, telling them to reverse the perception that officers care more about “woke” issues than tackling crime.
Braverman said the public had a perception that police officers spent too much time on “symbolic gestures” rather than tackling crime.
The word “hawk” and the name Bob Rae are seldom found in the same sentence — except when it comes to Ukraine.
Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations said recently that the federal government should give Ukraine every weapon it asks for.
Ever since the onset of major hostilities last winter, Rae — the former interim Liberal leader and former NDP premier of Ontario — has been one of the leading Canadian critics of the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Climate change. Inflation. Indigenous reconciliation. These are undoubtedly complex policy problems. Complex for policy wonks and outright mystical for everyone else, because addressing them causes an avalanche of unintended consequences across Canada’s entire economy.
Ismael was just 17 when I told the story that made him a hero in the eyes of the world. Years later he made a shocking revelation
…. What happened next plays out in dramatic detail in the film — but it’s here, in the Star, where Ismael’s story first became public, that I need to correct the record first.
Ismael Abdulle wasn’t exactly who he had told me he was that day we first met. He told me now what had really happened. Al-Shabab had indeed kidnapped him, but not because he had resisted their recruitment. Instead, Ismael was trying to rob people at the local market when a couple of al-Shabab members came up and asked if they could see his gun. He gave it to them; they turned it on him, and said he was a thief and would be punished.
A lot of time, money and goodwill were wasted on this thief but the Star reporter can’t help but remark how clever he was for pulling it off.
Some politicians demonstrate perfectly why their line of work consistently ranks among the least trusted professions in the country.
Last June, university students and members of the Jewish Federation of Edmonton who felt unsafe met with Heather McPherson, Edmonton Strathcona MP and federal NDP critic for Foreign Affairs, to discuss McPherson’s one-sided stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which glosses over Palestinian wrongdoings and blames Israel entirely.
TEHRAN: Thousands demonstrated across Iran on Friday at government-backed pro-hijab counter rallies, after a week of bloody protests over the death of a woman arrested for wearing the Islamic headscarf “improperly.”
At least 50 people have been killed by security forces in the anti-government protests, Iran Human Rights, an Oslo-based organization, said on Friday — more than three times the official death toll of 17, which includes five security personnel.
For aficionados of Canadian politics, an admittedly declining species, the House of Commons matchup of Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre is the main event of the fall season.
For the first time as Prime Minister, Mr. Trudeau faces a Leader of the Official Opposition who possesses communication skills that rival his own. Mr. Trudeau benefited from comparisons with previous Conservative Party leaders Andrew Scheer and Erin O’Toole, neither of whom could hold an audience. In Mr. Poilievre, he faces an opponent who can draw a crowd.
