Saudi authorities have arrested a man who claimed to have travelled to the Muslim holy city of Mecca to perform an umrah pilgrimage on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II.
The man, a Yemeni national, published a video clip of himself on social media on Monday at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Islam’s holiest site, where non-Muslims are forbidden.
In the clip, he held up a banner saying: “Umrah for the soul of Queen Elizabeth II, we ask God to accept her in heaven and among the righteous.”
No one has ever accused the cast of ABC’s The View of being truly reflective or the pinnacle of civility on daytime TV. Yet on Monday’s show, in the wake of America remembering the tragedy of September 11, 2001, the cast was perplexed by the apparent loss of civility and unity in the country. One co-host even suggested that until America had a racial reckoning for slavery, we would NEVER be able to replicate that kind of unity.
With perfectly malignant timing, Biden decided to host a celebration for his Inflation Increase Act, which taxes and audits Americans to fund subsidies for Tesla drivers and other green energy special interests, even as the latest report shows food and shelter prices rising.
Western-leaning politician allowed to voice rare criticism in what may be ploy to prepare the Russian people for possibility of peace talks
A war commentator invited on to Russian state television told viewers that Vladimir Putin has been misled by advisers and said Ukraine cannot be defeated, in what appeared to be a rare example of sanctioned criticism.
Boris Nadezhdin, a Western-leaning politician appearing for the first time in months, called for peace talks as he made a surprise appearance on state-controlled NTV over the weekend.
Mr Nadezhdin, who for years played the token liberal on state television, said: “We’re not at the point where we have to understand – it’s absolutely impossible to defeat Ukraine, using the resources and colonial war methods that Russia is using to win this war.
#Ukraine: The 59th Motorized Brigade of the Ukraian Army hit a Russian tank in the South, causing damage at least. pic.twitter.com/OksaOuJwxs
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) September 13, 2022
Environmental activists on Monday protested in front of a fuel element factory in Germany where a Russian uranium shipment was set to arrive.
The Russian ship Mikhail Dudin was expected to arrive at the Rotterdam port Sunday evening, and the uranium was to be transported by truck on Monday to a plant in Lingen, near the German-Dutch border.
Protesters demanded an “immediate stop to nuclear deals with Russia,” according to a statement published by a citizen initiative.
Have these guys signed a non-aggression pact we’re not aware of?
Canada’s new Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has vowed to “fight tooth and nail” for Canadians as he sets his sights on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government.
“Canadians are hurting, and it is our job to transform that hurt into hope,” Mr Poilievre said in his first address to his party caucus on Monday.
Mr Poilievre was elected leader of the Conservative party on Saturday after winning it in a landslide first-ballot victory with nearly 70% of the vote from party members.
Commentators have said the leader of the right-wing party will usher in a new era of populist politics in Canada.
Twitter’s former head of security, Peiter Zatko, has told US lawmakers the firm is “misleading the public” about how secure the platform really is.
He claimed Twitter was “a decade behind” security standards, that users’ data is not sufficiently protected and that too many staff have access to it.
Mr Zatko was giving evidence following an 84-page long whistleblowing complaint he made about security practices inside the social network.
He was fired by the firm in January.
In a recent interview with the CBC, Adrian Monck, managing director of the World Economic Forum (WEF), said that, “Canada should be talking about a lot of things right now. It shouldn’t really be talking about the World Economic Forum based here in Geneva.… You know, there are bigger issues, really, for it to be thinking about.”
Freeland gives off that Groupie vibe.
Monday, Sept. 19 will be a federal holiday for Queen’s funeral: Trudeau
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Monday, Sept. 19 will be a federal holiday and a day of mourning as Queen Elizabeth II is buried in the U.K.
“We will be working with the provinces and the territories to try and see that we’re aligned on this,” Trudeau said at a news conference in New Brunswick Tuesday. “There are still a few details to be worked out, but declaring an opportunity for Canadians to mourn on Monday is going to be important.”
In Poilievre, Liberals face a leader who gets under his opponents’ skin
A few days before he stepped into a boxing ring with Senator Patrick Brazeau in 2012, Justin Trudeau rose in the House of Commons and asked the Conservative government about its support for young people.
James Moore, the heritage minister at the time, stood to respond.
“My colleague will have to wait for the budget tomorrow but I know that he is very anxious to please Canadians,” Moore teased.
That’s a great kick-off – Hey remember when Justin beat up the drug and booze addicted Indian?
Now more than ever, Statscan needs to re-examine how it measures inflation
… A new paper from MEI director of research Valentin Petkantchin and senior economist Nathalie Elgrably-Lévy argues that the year-over-year change in the consumer price index, or CPI – the figure we commonly call the inflation rate, which sat at 7.6 per cent in July – has routinely understated the pace of consumer inflation this year.
They calculated that based on a more timely “speedometer” for prices, the annualized inflation pace exceeded 10 per cent from March through June, topping out at a massive 12.5 per cent in May – nearly five percentage points higher than the official inflation rate reported by Statistics Canada that month.
Shame on me for suggesting a politicized public service would finagle the numbers to help Trudeau!
Heritage Canada will ensure multiple government officials review funding applications — and get better training on how to vet social media posts — following the revelations the Liberal government funded anti-racism training by a consultant with a history of antisemitic tweets.
A Texas teen has been arrested after he was allegedly caught in a shocking video mowing down a disabled man and then driving away without helping him.
Pablo Antonio Avila-Banagas, 17, was booked into Travis County Jail on Friday on charges that include failure to stop and render aid, injury to a disabled person and unlawful possession of a firearm.
OTTAWA – A new poll suggests that while many Canadians plan to watch Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral next week, the vast majority have not been personally impacted by her passing and feel no attachment to the monarchy.
The poll from Leger and the Association of Canadian Studies also found that while some Canadians are happy about King Charles III taking the throne and others are not, most are largely indifferent to Canada’s new head of state.
The results, which are based on an online survey of 1,565 Canadians polled between Sept. 9 and 11, are among the first to assess how Canadians feel about the monarchy since the 96-year-old Queen died last week.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and newly elected Conservative party leader Pierre Poilievre both met with their respective caucuses on Monday, and both had a few choice words for each other.
Poilievre challenged Trudeau to refrain from raising taxes and Trudeau criticizing Poilievre’s use of dogwhistles and divisive rhetoric.
