Doug Ford’s campaign manager accuses Poilievre camp of ‘campaign malpractice’

Leading Conservative campaign strategist Kory Teneycke is taking aim at his own party, accusing Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and his team of squandering a big lead.

“I know it’s uncomfortable for people to hear that said out loud, but it’s in every poll and every poll aggregator, the numbers are the numbers, and saying that you don’t believe in polls, if you’re managing a campaign, it’s delusional,” Teneycke told CTV Power Play host Vassy Kapelos in an interview on Tuesday.

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Diet of worms will help us survive climate change, say top chefs

Crunchy worms au paprika, carrot kimchi and artichoke caviar could feature on the fine dining menus of the future, according to Alain Ducasse and other leading French chefs.

Ducasse and more than 100 fellow exponents of haute cuisine tested this dish and other delicacies at a chefs’ lunch in Meudon, near Paris, this week with the theme “What will we be cooking in 2050?”

The chefs squirmed at first when presented with an hors d’oeuvre of grilled mealworms — the larval form of a species of yellow beetle — spiced with paprika.

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Russian spies ‘paid teenager to burn down Ikea’

Russia allegedly paid a Ukrainian teenager to firebomb an Ikea store as part of its “hybrid war” on the West, US media reported on Thursday.

Russian spies are said to have offered the 17-year-old $11,000 (£8,000) in cash and a BMW to carry out the attack on an Ikea store in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, the New York Times reported.

The agents communicated with him via the encrypted Chinese messenger app Zengi, under the James Bond-inspired alias of Q, Lithuanian prosecutors allege.

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Palestinian-American billionaire quits Harvard post after lawsuit claims he helped build Hamas terror tunnels, rocket launch sites

WASHINGTON — A billionaire Palestinian-American developer accused by Oct. 7 victims’ families of “aiding and abetting” Hamas has resigned from his position on the dean’s council at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, The Post can reveal, with the school acknowledging the civil complaint “raises serious allegations.”

Bashar Masri stepped down from his post at the Ivy League university days after nearly 200 family members of victims of the deadly attack in Israel sued him in Washington, DC, federal court for allegedly aiding the construction of tunnels and rocket launchers at Gaza-based properties.

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Paging Dr. Kildare …

Palestinian news outlet mocked after claiming ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ doctor coming to Gaza ‘to offer medical help’

A news outlet linked to Gaza’s rulers wound up with egg on its face Friday after using a photo of an American actress from the television series “Grey’s Anatomy” in a post about a female doctor coming to the Gaza Strip.

h/t MP

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Hamas claims UK terror designation ‘breaches human rights’

Hamas is appealing against the UK government’s decision to designate it as a terror group by claiming that the ruling breaches the European Convention on Human Rights.

The organisation has instructed British lawyers to launch legal action in a bid to remove it from a Home Office list of terrorist organisations, which makes it a criminal offence to have any association or show support for the group in the UK.

England being England Hamas could win this case.

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