Electric Vehicles to Hit the Skies: Air Canada Orders 30 Plug-In Planes, But Only a Few Passengers Can Ride

I bet this burns for days.

You still can’t pack a lithium battery in your checked luggage, but by decade’s end you may be held aloft by aircraft engines powered by lithium batteries.

Thursday, Air Canada announced a purchase agreement with Heart Aerospace for 30 of its 30-passenger ES-30 electric-hybrid aircraft it plans to put into service in 2028.

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Academic who said ‘witch hunt’ was a racist phrase faces £170,000 court bill

A black British academic who claimed “witch hunt” is a racist term faces paying up to £170,000 to his former employers, The Telegraph can disclose.

Dr Mike Leary-Owhin, 66, was sacked from London South Bank University (LSBU) after being accused of bullying his line manager and “playing the race card”.

Dr Leary-Owhin, a senior lecturer in spatial planning, claimed he was unfairly dismissed and suffered racial discrimination. He alleged that Dr Duncan Tyler, his line manager and former friend, used racist terms against him during the disciplinary process.

The academic said he was accused of being a “witch hunter” who displayed aggressive and bullying behaviour, the tribunal was told. Dr Tyler said Dr Leary-Owhin had been “more concerned with witch hunting than changing his attitude” in staff meetings.

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FBI labeled veterans group “terror organization” despite knowing they weren’t

It seems increasingly likely that there is a core group of agents inside of the FBI that have grown tired of the overt politicization of the Bureau under the leadership of Christopher Wray and the direction of the Biden administration. Another whistleblower has reportedly come forward and presented information to members of Congress about the abuses taking place inside the FBI.

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Are You A Dangerous Right Wing Extremist Who Denies Men Can Have A Baby? You Might Be Conservative Commentator Ben Shapiro Says CBC!

‘It’s a slippery slope’: How young men fall into online radicalization

“It started out pretty benign,” he recalls. “You’re watching something about teen fashion and then the next thing you know, the algorithm would push you to a Ben Shapiro video.”

Though Shapiro describes himself as a conservative political commentator, his views are controversial — and some are outright discriminatory. He’s suggested, for example, that transgender people suffer from a “mental disorder.”

But he has a combined 9.4 million subscribers and followers on YouTube and Twitter, many of whom are young people, like Brown was when he got pushed in Shapiro’s direction.

They do suffer from a mental disorder and the CBC is a dangerous enabler attempting to criminalize dissent. Why are our tax dollars supporting gender extremists on CBC?

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Canada’s rising prices becoming entrenched, recession may be needed: economists

The underlying pressures driving inflation in Canada are likely to peak in the fourth quarter of this year, economists told Reuters, though most see signs fast rising prices are becoming entrenched and warn a recession may be needed to avoid a spiral.

Canada’s inflation data for August will be released on Tuesday, with analysts forecasting the headline rate will edge down to 7.3 per cent, from 7.6 per cent in July and a four-decade high of 8.1 per cent in June.

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‘Excess Deaths’ From Canada’s COVID Response: Justice Centre Challenges Narrative of ‘Success’

A Canadian legal advocacy organization is challenging the narrative by governments, media, and medical associations that Canada’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been “successful.”

In a report published on Sept. 13, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) argues that the “prevailing consensus” that the Canadian response to COVID has been successful is biased because there appears to be no reference to the “excess deaths” caused by Canada’s strategy that has been “among the most stringent and sustained lockdown policies in the world.”

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Fifteen arrested to ‘deter further disorder’ between Hindu & Muslim Communities in Leicester, say police

Police Hold Back Muslim Rioters in Leicester

Police and community leaders have called for calm after scuffles between large crowds led to arrests after “serious disorder” in Leicester over the weekend.

Two arrests were made and a large number of people were searched under section 60 stop-and-search powers, police said.

The disorder was the latest in a series of disturbances in the east of the city that have taken place after a cricket match between India and Pakistan on 28 August.

Such is the state of England as Queen Elizabeth is laid to rest. India is soon to be the largest Muslim nation by population. This will not get better.

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‘They won’t invade, will they?’ Fears rise in Russian city that Ukraine war could cross border

The war has become impossible to ignore in Belgorod, southern Russia, just miles from the border with Ukraine. Russian soldiers retreating from the Ukrainian counterattack now roam the streets. Air defences boom out overhead several times a day. The city is once again filled with refugees. And, at the border, Russian and Ukrainian soldiers stand within sight of each other.

Three Russian soldiers from Ossetia are wandering the unfamiliar streets past the grand Transfiguration Cathedral late one evening. They seem unsteady on their feet, perhaps drunk or tired. And they’re looking for a place to eat.

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China Covid: Quarantine bus crash kills 27 and injures 20

A bus carrying people to a Covid-19 quarantine facility in China has crashed, killing 27 of those on board.

The coach overturned on a motorway in the south-western province of Guizhou. Another 20 people were injured.

The accident sparked anger online from those critical of Beijing’s “zero-Covid” policy.

The policy involves mass testing and tracking. Those who test positive and their close contacts have to isolate at home or in a quarantine facility.

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Michigan Town Invites Islamist Antisemite to ‘Diversity Dinner’

A city in Michigan has invited an Islamist who has declared homosexuals to be cursed and Jews to have “incurred the wrath of Allah” to speak at a “diversity dinner” later this week. The Diversity Distinction Awards dinner, scheduled to take place on Wednesday, September 14, is organized by Sterling Heights’s Ethnic Community Committee. Dawud Walid, the executive director of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), will give the keynote speech.

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Sympathy for the Devil

Headline in an Australian paper, which cares about this issue for some reason: “White House Monkeypox Response Deputy Dubbed ‘Gay Satanist’ by Conservatives.” Now why would those meanies do that? Because he has a pentagram tattoo, and that symbol is — really — a trademark of the Church of Satan.

Well, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and offers dead crows to the Father of Lies at midnight like a duck, then one might infer something. What’s more, the Monkeypox Responder was profiled in 2014 by the New York Post as a co-owner of a dungeon-themed workout place. The article quotes patrons and staff, and, lest you think they’re all acolytes of evil, they are boring conformists trotting out rote pseudo-spiritual drivel.

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The For-Profit D.C. Firm Staging America’s ‘Grassroots’ Movements

The great American tradition of spontaneous local protest is funded and staffed to a large degree by a ‘dark money’ network controlled by Arabella Advisors

Behind the closed doors of an unassuming philanthropic consultancy in Washington, D.C., is one of the most powerful lobbying forces in the United States. The Atlantic has called it “the massive progressive dark-money group you’ve never heard of” and “the indisputable heavyweight of Democratic dark money.” The Washington Post believes its potent lobbying arm is reason enough for Congress to enact forced donor disclosure lawswhile Politico labelled it a “dark-money behemoth.” “The system of political financing, which often obscures the identities of donors, is known as dark money,” wrote The New York Times, “and Arabella’s network is a leading vehicle for it on the left.”

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JK Rowling condemns masked pro trans mob after violent clashes in Brighton at ‘Let Women Speak’ event

JK Rowling has slammed pro-trans protesters for ‘throwing smoke bombs’ and ‘howling abuse at lesbians’ after police arrested two people over clashes at a ‘Let Women Speak’ event.

Kellie-Jay Keen, who founded women’s rights group Standing For Women, was due to give a talk in Brighton today as part of her countrywide speaking tour.

Ms Keen, also known as Posie Parker, has frequently attracted the ire of pro-trans activists over her views on gender rights.

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It’s Too Late to Prevent an Iranian Nuke

“Iran will never get a nuclear weapon on my watch,” says Joe Biden often and unconvincingly. He said it to Israeli prime ministers Bennett in 2021 and Lapid in 2022. He has even threatened to use military force “as a last resort.” A cynic would suggest that Biden’s attempt to forge another Obama-like “nuclear deal” is designed to ensure that Iran gets a nuclear weapon on the next president’s watch. A pessimist believes it’s too late.

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