On Thursday morning, the federal heritage minister, Pascale St-Onge, gave forth the outlines of her plan to reform the CBC and adapt it to the future. You might think such an exercise would involve asking questions about the CBC’s prior performance, or whether a state broadcaster is really necessary in the 21st century, or exactly what parts of it are essential.
An officer in the Australian Army has been stripped of his security clearance because Asio believes he is more loyal to Israel than Australia, and at risk of being exploited by the Mossad.
The man told Asio interviewers he did not view Israel as a foreign government and that he would share classified information with the Israel Defense Forces if they asked for it.
Asio said the officer, who is Jewish and served 19 years in the Australian military, withheld information from Australian officials about training courses he had undertaken in Israel – where he is not a citizen – which included self-defence, security and firearms training.
OTTAWA — Thousands of people have electronically signed a parliamentary petition calling for revocation of Elon Musk’s Canadian citizenship over his role in the Trump administration, which is pointedly threatening Canada’s sovereignty.
Volodymyr Zelensky is willing to “immediately” step down as president of Ukraine in exchange for peace or the country being granted Nato membership.
On Sunday, the Ukrainian president told a press conference in Kyiv: “If there is peace for Ukraine, if you really need me to leave my post, I am ready…I can exchange it for Nato.”
Mr Zelensky added that he was focused on Ukraine’s security now, not in 20 years’ time, saying that it is not his “dream” to remain president for a decade.
…Unveiled in 2022, the memorial listed 67 individuals as having “paid the ultimate sacrifice.” However, it was only on December 4 that Veterans Affairs acknowledged some of those named were still alive, had died of natural causes, or never saw combat.
Having spent the last four years researching a biography of the Duke of York, I have always maintained that the real issue surrounding him is financial and not sexual. Extensive column inches have been devoted to his association with Jeffrey Epstein and the claims of Virginia Giuffre. But far less attention is paid to how the duke has been able to finance his extravagant lifestyle.
This has become an even more pressing question with the debate on whether he can afford to stay in Royal Lodge and recent revelations about his business activities. Yet getting anywhere close to the bottom of Prince Andrew’s finances, as I have been trying to do for some time, is a fraught and fiendishly complex business.
Increasing Canada’s national carbon tax (aka the consumer fuel charge) as scheduled on April 1 by almost 19% to $95 per tonne of industrial greenhouse gas emissions from the current $80 per tonne, when we may be in a full-scale tariff war with the U.S. by then, is economic insanity.
Firemen are too male and too white, say chiefs
Britain’s fire service is too male and too white, a report has claimed.
The report, which was commissioned by the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC), found that the fire service was “institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic”.
It said firemen in Britain were not “diverse” enough because the service’s proportion of women and ethnic minorities is less than in wider society.
“My response to people who say you couldn’t carry my husband out of a fire is he got himself in the wrong place if he needs me to carry him out of a fire”
This woman is the Assistant Fire Chief for the city of Los Angeles. Unbelievable.
— Mel (@Villgecrazylady) January 9, 2025
JUST IN: LA Mayor Karen Bass says the "buck stops" with her moments after she completely threw Fire Chief Kristin Crowley under the bus.
LA deserves better than this clown.
On Friday, Bass put the blame on Crowley and fired her from her position.
The comment from Bass came… pic.twitter.com/Y9r0hdJANX
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 21, 2025
OTTAWA – Liberal leadership candidates have contrasting plans for Canada’s federal public service — with presumed front-runner Mark Carney taking the most aggressive stance so far.
Carney recently vowed to cap the size of the public service and rein in government spending.
While he hasn’t said where this cap would be set or how much he would reduce spending, Carney told a press conference on Wednesday he would review program budgets and use new technology like artificial intelligence to improve efficiency.
The public service runs in the millions.
They are well financed and organized. No Liberal is going to risk their vote.
Germany is preparing for the general elections this Sunday, February 23, with the possible consolidation of Alternative for Germany (AfD) as the country’s second-largest force in a surge that challenges the traditional political balance. It deeply worries the socialist-conservative establishment within Germany—and at the European level.
Last Saturday in Ottawa, Pierre Poilievre delivered what many described as the most important speech of his life. For weeks, the Liberals have rapidly regained ground in the polls following Justin Trudeau’s announcement that he was leaving politics.
Amidst a Liberal leadership race that former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney seems to already have in the bag, the NDP vote is collapsing, with the governing Liberals being the main beneficiaries.
U.S. President Donald Trump has said he wants to make Canada the 51st state, threatening to use “economic force” to make that dream a reality.
He’s also signed an executive order to place blanket tariffs of 25 per cent on all Canadian imports that could start March 4.
One of the reasons experts believe Trump could be targeting Canada is its resources, including its critical minerals — and its water.
On the ground in Kensington, where addicts are being ravaged by an animal-grade sedative
Philadelphia — “Angie” didn’t think she’d ever get into drugs. Then tragedy struck and she lost control. Over the span of seven minutes inside a homeless shelter in late January, this twentysomething woman tells me the story of how her life turned upside down here in this godforsaken neighborhood of Kensington, the heart of Philadelphia’s open-air drug market.
NBCUniversal is settling a $30 million defamation lawsuit brought by a doctor at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center, Mahendra Amin, after MSNBC’s biggest stars aired false accusations that he was a sinister figure known as “the uterus collector” who performed mass, unnecessary hysterectomies on migrant women.
A court filing on Friday said that NBCUniversal and Dr. Amin, had reached a settlement of his defamation lawsuit.
I am old enough to have owned a half-dozen cars or trucks with no computers, including a 1941 Ford coup, a 1956 Chevrolet two-door sedan, and a 1966 Chevrolet Malibu. Fixing these vehicles to make them run correctly took some rudimentary skills and a Motors Manual. The electrical system comprised wires, fuses, and a fuse box. The fuel system was simple as well. Diagnosing the problems was simple, and I could fix it all myself. Even the carburetor was not that hard to rebuild.
