Mexican navy tall ship lost power before Brooklyn Bridge crash that killed 2, injured 17: NYPD

The Mexican navy tall ship that crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday night apparently lost power shortly before the collision, the NYPD said.

The hulking Cuauhtémoc, which holds a crew of 277 largely made up of cadets, appeared to lose control as it went backwards into the bridge and slammed its towering masts into the roadbed at about 8:30 p.m.

Two sailors were on top of one of the 147-foot masts when it struck the bridge. Two people were killed and 17 injured, including four critically, according to fire officials and sources.

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Handholding photo on West Bank trip costs cabinet minister her seat

A 2024 diplomatic mission to the West Bank has come under renewed scrutiny following revelations that Canadian officials described the controversial visit as “pleasant and friendly,” despite the fallout that cost former Addictions Minister Ya’ara Saks her job and eventually her seat in Parliament.

Blacklock’s Reporter says Saks, who represented York Centre, Ontario — one of Canada’s largest Jewish ridings — faced a wave of criticism after being photographed holding hands with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, a known Holocaust denier.

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Asylum hotel fires blamed on migrant couriers’ e-bikes

E-bike batteries used by migrants working as fast food couriers risk starting fires at hotels hired out by the Home Office.

The Telegraph has established that the London Fire Brigade (LFB) has been called six times to a single hotel housing hundreds of male migrants since 2023.

One of those blazes was caused by a lithium battery bursting into flames while charging in an asylum seeker’s room. The battery pack was believed to have been used to power a migrant’s e-bike used to deliver fast food and groceries ordered through app companies, including Deliveroo and Just Eat.

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Want to boost Albertans’ support for leaving CPP? Ask the question differently

It’s apparent that a fourth Liberal victory has triggered a surge in anti-Ottawa sentiment in Alberta, but have things changed so much that a populace long opposed to pulling the province out of the Canada Pension Plan now supports it?

One reading of fresh polling commissioned by the Premier Danielle Smith’s government argues as much.

A Postmedia writer got his hands on a provincially funded survey by pollster Janet Brown’s Trend Research, and used the results to argue that most Albertans — 55 per cent — now back an APP instead of a CPP.

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Conrad Black: High time for an American pope

There are two principal takeaways from the election last week of Pope Leo XIV, one reflecting on the condition of the Roman Catholic Church, the other that the new Pope is an American, albeit one who has spent much of his career in Latin America. Despite centuries of effort by millions of people to portray the Roman Catholic Church as a superstitious anachronism, it endures. This is the first pope whose native language is English since Adrian IV (Nicholas Breakspear), who died in 1159. English is the most widely spoken language in the world and although that singular self-nominated “defender of the faith” Henry VIII of England caused the English-speaking peoples to be more heavily influenced by the Reformation, and not necessarily its best aspects, than the other great western cultures, it is high time that there was an English-speaking pope.

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Andrew Norfolk embodied the spirit of truth

His fearless coverage of the rape-gang scandal was journalism as its very finest.

Everyone knows George Orwell’s wise words on the liberty to utter. ‘If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear’, he said. It’s a line inscribed by the entrance to BBC HQ in London, though its spirit has yet to enter the building itself. In recent years, the reporter, Andrew Norfolk, who died this week at just 60 years of age, was Orwell’s cry made flesh. In fact, with his fearless and tireless coverage of the rape-gang scandal, Norfolk gave liberty new meaning – he showed that if it means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what officialdom is absolutely adamant they should never hear.

So rare to speak of heroic journalists when discussing Muslim Rape Gangs.

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In Gaza, Long-Suffering Palestinians Are Directing Their Anger at Hamas

As the Gaza war nears its 20th month, pressure is building on Hamas from different fronts—not least of which is the growing anger among ordinary Palestinians who have had enough of the hunger, sleeplessness and the ever-present threat of airstrikes from Israeli forces.

Israel says it has started to expand its military offensive in the Gaza Strip, potentially displacing more Palestinians and occupying territory. The specter of starvation is growing from two months of Israel blocking humanitarian aid into the besieged enclave after a fragile cease-fire broke down. A U.S.-backed aid distribution is being planned, which Israel says would prevent Hamas profiting from seizures of food and fuel deliveries to civilians. An Israeli airstrike this week targeted Mohammed Sinwar, Hamas’ top leader in Gaza, which if proven to be successful would be a big blow to the militant group.

But few expected Hamas to be wrestling with the most visible internal challenge to its authority since it seized control of the Gaza strip in 2007: the people it professes to represent.

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Donald Trump’s envoy suggests talks ‘over the next couple of weeks’ will address the Canada-U.S. relationship

OTTAWA — Donald Trump’s new emissary to Ottawa struck a friendly tone toward his Canadian hosts in a speech at a business summit on Friday, where he dodged any direct reference to the trade war his president launched and alluded to discussions about how Canada and the U.S. can “move forward” with their relationship.

In a speech at the B7 Summit of business groups from G7 countries — a private sector preview of next month’s political summit of wealthy democracies in Kananaskis, Alta. — U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra spoke of his family connections to Canada and noted how his Dutch parents were “liberated by Canadians” in the Netherlands during the Second World War.

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Who Owns Your Children?

In a world where parental rights are increasingly under attack, one question looms large. Who truly owns your children?

I’m not talking about ownership like a refrigerator or a pet. I mean, who bears the responsibility, the authority, and the accountability for raising your child? Who teaches them morality? Who tells them what’s right and wrong? If you’re a parent of faith—particularly a Christian—the answer should be obvious. You do.

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The first chattel slave holder was black

The Hill reports that Democrat lawmakers have “reintroduced a resolution to offer reparations to descendants of enslaved Africans and people of African descent” to the tune of $14 trillion.

However, Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution clearly states, “No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.”  And Article I, Section 10 says, “No State shall … pass any Bill of Attainder, [or]  ex post facto Law.”  Apparently, the founders thought it important to ban such legislation at both the federal and state levels.

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KLEIN: Extremist politics have failed Canada — trading competence with conflict and theatre

Canada has always been a country of balance — steady, practical, reasonable. But in recent years, that balance has been lost. We’re not just off course — we’ve let our politics be overtaken by extremes, and it’s costing us.

I’m not here to rant. I’m not here to attack. I’m here to lay out the facts. Because when you strip away the noise, the evidence is clear: We are a divided country, and while politicians argue over slogans and ideology, the fundamentals that make a nation strong are slipping away.

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Inside a Muslim-majority northern town where locals say there is ‘no point speaking English’

Tariq Hussain admits he knew nothing about Keir Starmer’s plans to get tough on immigration, mainly because he’s been preoccupied with more pressing concerns lately.

His day job selling traditional Asian female clothes takes up a lot of his time and business has been slow. And when he gets home, he is on the phone to relatives and friends in Pakistan to check on their safety following recent tensions between the country and neighbouring India, which almost led to war.

But there is another more troubling reason why Mr Hussain was completely oblivious to Sir Keir’s pledge to overhaul a ‘broken’ immigration system, despite the fact that it could directly affect him and his family.

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Courage is to take off the veil in Kabul and Tehran, not to put it on in Cannes

It’s easy to be a leftist wearing a veil when you’re swimming in millions and risk nothing on the Rive Gauche.

The president of this year’s Cannes Film Festival is Juliette Binoche, a splendid actress but also an incorrigible left-wing bobo militant of beat environmentalism. She showed up with a strange veil on her head at Cannes. Perhaps a glamorous hijab? A winking half-veil? A chic white chador? In any case, she looked like a sort of Islamically correct Madonna.

It’s easy to be a leftist when you’re swimming in millions and risk nothing on the Rive Gauche (Left Bank of the Seine, Paris,ed.). But courage is taking off your veil in Kabul (where the Taliban whip women in public) and Tehran (where the Mullahs whip women in prison), not putting one on in front of an assembly of artists and billionaires who gorge themselves on caviar while talking about “sustainability”.

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