NATO chief tours Arctic defences as Canada comes under pressure to guard the Far North

NATO’s secretary general is getting an up-close look at Canada’s northern defences Thursday as he visits the Arctic — a region of escalating geopolitical competition.

Accompanied by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Jens Stoltenberg will get a first-hand look at a North Warning System radar station Cambridge Bay, Nunavut — part of a system due to be modernized as part of a multi-billion dollar refurbishment of NORAD, the North American air defence system.

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‘I got something for you, motherf*****s’

A crazed driver told his victims ‘I got something for you, motherf*****s,’ before mowing down three men and killing them outside of a Chicago gay bar.

Tavis Dunbar 34, was charged with three counts of first-degree murder after turning himself in on Monday following the deaths of Jaylen Ausley, 23, Devonta Vivetter, 27, and Donald Huey, 25, outside of Jeffery Pub around 5am on August 14.

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Squirtgun Assault! Deadline passes for The United People of Canada to leave Ottawa church

Members of a Freedom Convoy-affiliated group remain at a church in Ottawa’s Lowertown neighbourhood today, hours after an eviction deadline passed for the group to leave the property.

A bailiff with Cease Bailiff Services delivered a “Notice of Termination of Tenant” to The United People of Canada on Aug. 17, giving the group five days to leave St. Brigid’s Church.

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Black Boards Matter: Whiteboards Now Considered Racist

Raise your hand if you had white boards being racist on your 2022 bingo card. Nope, me neither, but bizzaro world strikes again.

Everything is racist these days. I mean, everything that has to do with people of color. Apparently, you can’t be racist against white people; white privilege and all.

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Kiwi climber given $1m medical bill after 80ft plunge in California

A tourist from New Zealand said she was thankful to be alive after breaking almost every bone in her body in a fall while climbing in California.

Anna Parsons, a 21-year-old-student, fell about 80ft (25m) from the Half Dome rock face in Yosemite National Park after her foot slipped. She broke her neck, spine, pelvis and three ribs while the injuries to her left foot were so severe that it had to be amputated.

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WTF?

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Naming Rotherham the ‘Children’s Capital of Culture’ is a sick joke

The council’s scandalous failure to tackle grooming gangs is in danger of being forgotten.

In 2025, a town in the UK will become the first ever ‘Children’s Capital of Culture’. Many people will be more than a little shocked to learn that, of all the towns in Britain, the government has chosen Rotherham for the role – the south Yorkshire town at the centre of Britain’s decades-long grooming-gangs scandal. Between 1997 and 2013, an estimated 1,400 girls in Rotherham were sexually abused by gangs of predominantly Pakistani men. All while the local authorities turned a blind eye.

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RCMP head Brenda Lucki tells N.S. inquiry she was unaware for months a report on morale issues among Mounties was completed

The head of the RCMP says she wasn’t aware for several months that a report documenting morale problems among officers in Nova Scotia had been completed.
Commissioner Brenda Lucki took the witness stand on Tuesday at the inquiry that is examining how a gunman driving a replica police car carried out 22 murders over 13 hours on April 18-19, 2020.

Lucki said it was only in June of this year that she saw the “wellness report” that had been prepared for the RCMP about its Nova Scotia division. The report by Ottawa-based consultant group Quintet Consulting Corp. was completed in September 2021.

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