WTF?

WTF?

X now translates Tweets automatically which works fine on X however the translation does not carry over to embeds.

Translation – Luke Aikins, jumping from 7,620 meters—where there’s almost no oxygen at all—without a parachute, lands on a net setup spanning 30×30 meters without his parachute.

The only person in history to jump from an airplane without any flight equipment and land without any equipment…

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Fraser Tolmie: Snowbirds’ ‘pause’ a devastating blow to recruitment

Fraser Tolmie: Snowbirds’ ‘pause’ a devastating blow to recruitment

The Liberal government is cancelling the Snowbirds without a replacement jet in sight, after more than 50 years of service. The 431 Air Demonstration Squadron has served as a highly effective recruitment tool for the Canadian Armed Forces and a showcase of Canadian military excellence since 1971.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is ready to erase that proud legacy and deal a devastating blow to recruitment when our forces need it most.

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Irrelevant Europe

Irrelevant Europe

Josep Borrell is a Spanish socialist who held several high-ranking positions in the European Union. Until 2024, he was a vice-president of the European Commission and the high representative of the European Union for foreign affairs and security policy. In that capacity, he ran Europe’s External Action Service, which is the diplomatic body that executes Europe’s foreign policy decisions around the world. He remains a man with a great deal of influence over European perspectives.

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Pentagon’s Defense Pause Is Also a Trade Warning for Ottawa

Pentagon’s Defense Pause Is Also a Trade Warning for Ottawa

The Pentagon’s May 18 decision to pause U.S. participation in the Permanent Joint Board on Defence should not be treated as a routine bureaucratic dispute. The board is old, but not irrelevant. It sits inside the history of Canada–U.S. continental defence and carries symbolic weight beyond its meeting schedule.

The United States framed the pause as a response to Canada’s failure to make credible progress on defence commitments. That explanation may be partly true, but it is unlikely to be the whole story. The timing matters. The decision lands just weeks before the review of the Canada-United-States-Mexico Agreement, known in Washington as USMCA and in Canada as CUSMA, begins on July 1. It also comes as the United States reorganizes defence policy around homeland security, Western Hemisphere control, allied burden sharing, and deterrence of China.

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Give the Greens the illegal migrants and the wind farms they vote for – in their own backyards

Give the Greens the illegal migrants and the wind farms they vote for – in their own backyards

EARLIER this month, Reform UK, Nigel Farage’s latest political incarnation, proposed one of the sharpest political ideas of modern times: to site new migrant detention centres in areas that vote heavily for the Green Party, which famously advocates for a ‘world without borders’. Likely locations include the historic Green Party stronghold of Brighton, but after last week’s local election success the list could easily extend to newly-won councils in Norwich, Hastings, as well as the London boroughs of Hackney, Lewisham and Waltham Forest. This is nothing short of a masterstroke in political simplicity: holding people to the professed beliefs they routinely foist on others.

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Jerry Amernic: I was set up by CBC and mocked for the crime of not hating Canada

Jerry Amernic: I was set up by CBC and mocked for the crime of not hating Canada

Our state broadcaster, publicly funded, is mired in ideology and short on responsible journalism. It’s alienated viewers for years. Why anyone would watch the drivel it dispenses is beyond me, but then I don’t buy lottery tickets or follow the Game of Thrones. There is also a TV network, publicly funded, to enrich our understanding of Indigenous cultures, identities and languages. Sometimes these organizations join forces.

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‘Maniac’ sex criminal spits on British families as he is deported from UK on holiday flight to Turkey

‘Maniac’ sex criminal spits on British families as he is deported from UK on holiday flight to Turkey

A handcuffed sex criminal spat on British families while being deported from the UK on a budget holiday flight to Turkey.

Holidaymakers travelling on a Wizz Air service from London to Istanbul last Wednesday watched in disbelief as the scenes unfolded at Gatwick Airport.

The man – understood to be a Turkish national being deported after serving a prison sentence in Britain – was hauled from a van and forced onto the aircraft by officials in high-vis jackets.

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Canada summons Israel’s ambassador over handling of activists on Gaza aid flotilla

Canada summons Israel’s ambassador over handling of activists on Gaza aid flotilla

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says she’s summoned Israel’s ambassador over the Middle East country’s treatment of a flotilla of activists, including Canadians, bound for Gaza.

The flotilla was intercepted by Israeli forces in international waters on Tuesday and later taken to an Israeli port.

Ms. Anand said Canadians were among those on the flotilla.

h/t Patti Jo

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KAPLAN: Alberta’s carbon tax shock — why Carney-Smith’s net zero pact may backfire on the oil sands

KAPLAN: Alberta’s carbon tax shock — why Carney-Smith’s net zero pact may backfire on the oil sands

The misguided decision by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to accept Ottawa’s demands to increase the province’s effective industrial carbon tax to $130 per tonne by 2040 will impose an estimated additional $33 billion in cumulative carbon costs (an average of $1.26 per barrel across all oil sands production) on the oil sands sector between 2030 and 2040.

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