GOLDSTEIN: Ford believes best shot at re-election is to support Trudeau

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has decided his best chance of re-election in June is to cozy up to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rather than anyone in the federal Conservative leadership race.

On Wednesday, Ford appeared with Trudeau as they jointly announced an investment of $131.6 million each by the Ontario and federal governments in Honda Canada’s $1.4 billion project to retool its Alliston, Ont. plant to produce hybrid electric vehicles.

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Court orders hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett release from jail during appeal

CHICAGO — Jussie Smollett was ordered released from jail Wednesday by an appeals court that agreed with his lawyers that he should be released pending the appeal of his conviction for lying to police about a racist and homophobic attack.

The ruling came after a Cook County judge sentenced Smollett last week to immediately begin serving 150 days in jail for his conviction on five felony counts of disorderly conduct for lying to police. The appeals court said Smollett could be released after posting a personal recognizance bond of $150,000.

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Who is Joe Rogan’s audience?

Fox News is the most watched cable news channel in America. According to figures for the fourth quarter of 2021, the network’s top show, The Five, pulled in 3.3 million viewers. The runners-up, Tucker Carlson Tonight and Hannity, were close behind. Altogether, Fox is comfortably ahead of the liberal news channels MSNBC and CNN. 

However, the channel would lose its top spot if the Joe Rogan Experience was included on the chart.

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Transport Canada investigating whether Freedom Convoy supporters aboard flight were screened for vaccination

Transport Canada is looking into a chartered flight that brought supporters of the so-called Freedom Convoy from Western Canada to Ottawa last month, to ensure passengers were properly screened for COVID-19 vaccination.

According to one of the passengers on the flight, some of those aboard were not vaccinated, an apparent violation of the federal government mandate requiring most air and rail passengers to produce proof of vaccination before travel.

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Houston gas thieves siphoned 1,000 gallons of diesel from an underground tank using minivan with a TRAP-DOOR

A family-owned gas station in Houston, Texas lost out on nearly $5,000 after a group of thieves stole more than 1,000 gallons of fuel last week – a series of brazen daylight thefts that come as Americans are becoming increasingly desperate for cheap fuel.

Gas prices have been rising steadily since Russian forces invaded Ukraine on February 24, with prices averaging $4.325 for a gallon of regular on Monday.

That is up more than a quarter from one week ago, according to AAA, and nearly a dollar – or a whopping 24 percent – from one month ago.

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The real tragedy of the Ukraine War: Social media influencers left adrift after Russia Instagram ban

The cries of Russian social media influencers could be heard across the internet before going dark when Instagram was banned in the country on Monday.

Russian state media regulators followed through on the promise to ban Instagram after alleging the platform is being used to call for violence against Russian citizens and military personnel.

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Atlantic: Nuclear war would be bad because climate change

The war in Ukraine is a bad thing. It seems clear that few people in the known world would argue with that painfully obvious statement aside from Vladimir Putin and a few of his stooges. But what would be even worse is a potential scenario where the conflict escalates and results in World War 3 and an exchange of nuclear weapons. In a rare moment of solidarity, this is an assessment that we can share even with the ultraliberal outlet The Atlantic.

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