The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) thought it was doing the right thing by purchasing drones to monitor the border with the United States, but it chose a Chinese brand that the Americans no longer want to see flying, Radio-Canada has learned.
The organization purchased DJI drones, despite knowing they cannot be used at the border , a Canadian agent from theGRC, who is not authorized to speak publicly.
A Georgia mayor who claims to be “America’s first Black Lives Matter organizer elected to public office” is accused of spending $26,000 of public funds for unauthorized expenses, primarily for international travel.
OTTAWA—Former finance minister Chrystia Freeland made it official Sunday afternoon, telling a crowd full of supporters in Toronto that she is seeking the Liberal party leadership to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Her launch event was repeatedly disrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters, including one who attempted to rush the stage as Freeland began her remarks.
“I am not going to let anyone stop me from working with you, from talking with you, and from talking about how we together are going to stand up for our amazing country,” she said at the St. Alban’s Boys and Girls Club in Toronto Sunday. “There are definitely people who want to stop us, but we are not going to let them.”
Chrystia Freeland kicks off her campaign by getting screeched at unintelligibly by some kook wearing a mask.
What a shitshow lol. pic.twitter.com/tIgmCeoRF3
— Bret (@Bret_Sears) January 19, 2025
Hamas supporters are typically LPC/NDP so this is self defeating.
Nearly two thirds of convicted rapists in Sweden are migrants or second generation immigrants, a new study has found.
Researchers at Lund University found that 63 per cent of convictions for rape or attempted rape were handed down to people born abroad, or whose parents were born abroad.
The study examined 4,000 convictions between 2000 and 2024 and also suggested that the longer a foreigner lived in Sweden, the less likely they were to commit rape.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — And so we arrive at the cusp.
You can feel it in the city of presidents, this metropolis of neo-Roman edifices that once claimed to lead to the “free world,” and is now soon to experience its “Make America Great Again” restoration. The anticipation, the trepidation, the excitement, the dread. A weekend of galas and rallies; celebrants in their signature red hats meandering past the fences and porta potties on the National Mall; fireworks scheduled for Saturday night at Donald Trump’s golf course outside of town. And all of it hurtling towards the single, tremulous question.
What is about to happen?
The Star wants to terrorize the populace.
Russia is deploying soldiers sent by Kim Jong-un who ‘will feel like they have stepped out a of a time machine’. Thousands have been killed or wounded
President Zelensky of Ukraine posted a picture on X last Saturday that showed a captured solder lying on a thin mattress with a rough grey blanket draped across his legs. His hand is heavily bandaged and he stares into the camera with a look of trepidation.
In another photograph, a second soldier is wrapped in military fatigues with his bruised and swollen jaw swaddled in gauze. The two men were North Koreans, some of the first prisoners of war from the secretive state captured in combat since the Korean War that began in 1950.
In the wake of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s drawn-out defenestration from his party’s top job, some Liberal MPs are opening the door to a formal mechanism to remove leaders, but most caucus members remain silent.
Three MPs told The Hill Times they support the party adopting the Reform Act in the next Parliament, which would provide a formal mechanism to remove a leader through a majority caucus vote—a tool that Liberal MPs lack in the current Parliament.
A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took hold at the Gaza Strip on Sunday, ushering in an initial six-week period of calm and raising hopes for the release of dozens of hostages and an end to a devastating 15-month conflict. A last-minute delay by Hamas put off the start of the truce by nearly three hours and highlighted its fragility.
Israel said the first three hostages have been handed over to the Red Cross and are on their way back to Israel. The truce, which started at 11:15 a.m. local time, is just the first step toward ultimately ending the conflict and returning nearly 100 hostages abducted and still held by Hamas terrorists.
OTTAWA — A court has agreed to expedite its hearing of a legal challenge of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s move to prorogue Parliament.
In a ruling late Saturday, Federal Court Chief Justice Paul Crampton said the court’s usual rules on timelines will not apply, setting the stage for a hearing Feb. 13 and 14 in Ottawa.
In their application filed Jan. 8, Nova Scotia residents David MacKinnon and Aris Lavranos seek an order setting aside Trudeau’s decision to advise Gov. Gen. Mary Simon to exercise her power to prorogue Parliament until March 24.
A new US law banning TikTok has come into effect, hours after the popular app stopped working across the country.
Late on Saturday a message appearing on the TikTok for US users said a law banning TikTok had been enacted, meaning “you can’t use TikTok for now”.
The video-sharing app was banned over concerns about its links to the Chinese government. It was given until 19 January to be sold to an approved US buyer to avert the ban.
Trump and Musk Buy Tik Tok
AOC has Meltdown pic.twitter.com/X8Ew66Dq1a— The United Spot (@TheUnitedSpot__) January 19, 2025
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly will endorse Mark Carney in the race for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada, Radio-Canada has learned.
Joly will make the announcement in a written statement on Sunday, according to a source with knowledge of the decision who spoke to Radio-Canada.
This development comes on the same day that former finance minister Chrystia Freeland will deliver the first speech of her campaign to become Liberal leader. Her official campaign launch is scheduled for mid-day at an event in her Toronto riding.
Just a few hundred yards from Oxford’s Magdalen College — host to punting tourists and the college’s own deer park — lay the nerve centre of one of the most prolific and violent organised child-grooming gangs in Britain.
In the 2010s the Cowley Road, which stretches from Magdalen Bridge over the Cherwell river and into east Oxford, was revealed as the city’s dark underbelly.
A series of trials revealed how at least two dozen men, largely of British-Pakistani heritage, groomed hundreds of victims.
With the Trudeau government soon to become history, whatever happens in the next federal election, the most accurate portrayal of what it became comes from a 30-year-old book on the prevailing liberal political vision of our time – the vision of the anointed.
Forcing Ukraine to negotiate with Russia before it regains the advantage on the battlefield would be a catastrophic mistake, officials in Kyiv have warned ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Fearing that the new US administration could reduce military aid if he refuses talks, Volodymyr Zelensky is scrambling to make the case that Ukraine first needs time and support to escalate its campaign deep inside Russia.
A failure to make Vladimir Putin “feel pain” before negotiating would would embolden the Russian president, weaken Ukraine and ultimately damage the West’s reputation and interests, according to Mr Zelensky’s aides.
Ingrid Buday, founder of the group No More Noise Toronto, says her launch into pro-quiet activism came during the pandemic, when the emptier-than-normal streets near her west-end home started to sound like a nightly drag race.
The whine of racing motorcycles and the growl of illegally modified mufflers, echoing off nearby underpasses, left her so sleep-deprived she was unable to return to her job in IT as COVID-19 restrictions were lifted.
Good.
