Why Canadian military’s Cyclone helicopters were grounded for 27 days in May

The Canadian military’s Cyclone helicopters weren’t flying for 27 days in May due to a lack of spare parts, and only one of them is now able to take to the skies.

Canada has 26 of the ship-borne maritime helicopters, with a final one slated for delivery this year. The $5.8-billion fleet is normally used to provide air support for the Royal Canadian Navy. Their missions include surface and subsurface surveillance, search and rescue, and anti-submarine warfare.

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Multiple people injured in ‘targeted terror attack’ in Boulder, Colorado as suspect hurls Molotov cocktails at pro-Israel rally

Several people have been injured in a ‘targeted terror attack’ involving Molotov cocktails in Boulder, Colorado.

Police and the FBI said the horror unfolded at Pearl Street Mall on Sunday afternoon.

‘We are aware of and fully investigating a targeted terror attack in Boulder, Colorado,’ said FBI Director Kash Patel just after 5.20pm.

Multiple people injured, evacuations issued after attack on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall

Multiple blocks of downtown Boulder were evacuated Sunday afternoon after an attack on the Pearl Street Mall that Gov. Jared Polis characterized as a “heinous act of terror.”

“Hate-filled acts of any kind are unacceptable,” Polis said in a statement on social media. “While details emerge, the state works with local and federal law enforcement to support this investigation.”

Several people were injured in the attack, which occurred near the Boulder County Courthouse at Pearl and 13th streets in downtown, the Boulder Police Department said on social media.

Twitter – Boulder Colorado

Note they are naming the suspect online but so far I have no official confirmation on the perp’s identity.

h/t Canucklehead & Patti Jo

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World Health Organization About to Give Itself Unlimited Power

The World Health Organization (WHO) might finally be getting just what it wanted: Unlimited power and control.

The deadline to opt out of the International Health Regulations is July 19 – less than two months from now. It is time to notify your lawmakers to take immediate action in their parliaments and say NO to these regulations. So far, no country has opted out, and due to lack of media coverage most people appear completely unaware that a problem even exists.

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Shithole City

Shithole City

The Fraser Institute publishes Canadian crime data.

h/t Mauser and Patti Jo

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Why American celebrities ‘escaping’ Trump by fleeing to Britain may be in for a big surprise

Since Trump began his second term, Britain has become a political escape hatch for American celebrities and wealthy Democrats.

It’s so popular that last week, the British Home Office released data showing that in the 12 months leading up to March, almost 7,000 US citizens applied to become British subjects or live here indefinitely — the highest number since such records began in 2004.

A third of those applications have been received since Trump took office at the start of 2025.

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Canada had big EV battery recycling plans, but without regulations it’s the ‘Wild West,’ expert warns

Lithium

A few years ago, Li-Cycle was one of the biggest players in electric vehicle battery recycling in North America, providing a roadmap to a circular, sustainable economy for electric vehicles.

But just last month, the Toronto-based company filed for bankruptcy protection in the U.S. and Canada after years of struggling to get a facility off the ground in Rochester, N.Y. The company said the planned hub would have been able to extract lithium and other critical minerals from recycled material to actually build new EV batteries — a crucial step that North American recyclers haven’t achieved on a commercial scale yet.

CBC EV cheerleading despite the whole scam crashing and burning before their eyes.

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Elderly Former Constable Gets Justice After Being Arrested by UK Police for Thought Crimes

In February, United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer sat down with Fox News’ Bret Baier, who asked him a question about Vice President JD Vance’s criticism of both Britain and the European Union’s censorship of free speech. Starmer responded, “We don’t believe in censoring speech…we champion free speech in the United Kingdom.”

The 2023 case of a man accused of thought crimes would indicate otherwise. Julian Foulkes, a retired special constable from Gillingham, Kent, did nothing but make a concerned response to an X post about the pro-Palestine protests that had erupted in the U.K. and the United States.

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Canadian parents petition legislature after student suspended for ‘straight pride’ shirt

Parents have petitioned the New Brunswick legislature after a student was suspended for wearing a “straight pride” shirt to school.

On May 27, Conservative Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) presented a petition calling for the removal of Belleisle Regional High School principal Jennifer McFadden for suspending a student for wearing a straight pride” shirt, according to CBC News.

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Germany Sees Record Number of Migrants Granted Citizenship

The German government handed out a record number of citizenships to immigrants last year, rising to nearly a quarter of a million passports, with Syrian and Turkish nationals representing the largest cohorts.

According to data collected by 13 of 16 federal states in Germany and provided to the Welt Am Sonntag newspaper, 249,901 foreigners were granted citizenship in 2024, the highest number since records began in 2000. This number surpassed the previous record set in 2023, when 200,095 people were awarded citizenship.

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Pride Toronto faces another setback as Google, Home Depot pull sponsorship

Pride Toronto has faced another setback, losing two more major corporate sponsors — Google and Home Depot — just before Pride Month begins, Pride Toronto executive director Kojo Modeste told CP24 Saturday afternoon.

This latest setback follows several other sponsorship losses Pride Toronto experienced in recent months. Modeste spoke to CTV News about those earlier losses in February.

The non-profit in charge of the 2SLGBTQ+ festival is facing a loss of around $700,000 in corporate sponsorships as a result of all the withdrawals, he said.

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Vivian Bercovici: Carney offers nothing but empty words on protecting Jews, furthering Mideast peace

SDEROT, Israel — Wednesday marked 600 days since the Hamas attack on Israel. War still rages, civilians suffer and die, hostages languish and no end is in sight.

In recent weeks, demands from even the staunchest allies of Israel, including the United States, have been mounting — demands for Israel to allow greater supplies of humanitarian aid to flow into the Strip, demands to end the war.

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Harvard Has Trained So Many Chinese Communist Officials, They Call It Their ‘Party School’

Kennedy School of Government is favored by party cadres seeking career boosts

U.S. schools—and one prestigious institution in particular—have long offered up-and-coming Chinese officials a place to study governance, a practice that the Trump administration could end with a new effort to keep out what it says are Chinese students with Communist Party ties.

For decades, the party has sent thousands of mid-career and senior bureaucrats to pursue executive training and postgraduate studies on U.S. campuses, with Harvard University a coveted destination described by some in China as the top “party school” outside the country.

Alumni of such programs include a former vice president and Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s top negotiator in trade talks with the first Trump administration.


It’s certainly endorsed by Carney.

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Ukraine launches major drone attack on Russian bombers, security official says

Ukraine has launched a “large-scale” drone attack against Russian military bombers in Siberia, striking more than 40 warplanes thousands of kilometres from its own territory, a security official said.

The claims could not be independently verified. But if confirmed, the attacks would mark Ukraine’s most damaging drone strike of the war to date, amid an escalation in cross-border incursions before planned peace talks in Istanbul on Monday.

“Ukrainian security services are carrying out a large-scale special operation aimed at destroying enemy bombers far from the front, in Russia,” the official was quoted by Agence France-Presse as saying, adding a fire had broken out at the targeted Belaya airbase.

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