Two Sasquatch hunters died after they went missing while searching for the elusive mythical creature in the Oregon wilderness on Christmas Eve.
The bodies of the two men, ages 37 and 59 years old, were found in a heavily wooded area of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington State, the Skamania County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday.
Police said the pair appeared to have died of exposure amid the harsh weather conditions and their ill-preparedness for the forest.
Jimmy Carter, a no-frills and steel-willed Southern governor who was elected president in 1976, was rejected by disillusioned voters after a single term and went on to an extraordinary post-presidential life that included winning the Nobel Peace Prize, died Sunday at his home in Plains, Georgia, according to his son James E. Carter III, known as Chip. He was 100 and the oldest living U.S. president of all time.
h/t Mauser
Mr. Wonderful — as he likes to call himself — gets a lot of air-time, cast as the heartless a–hole on “Shark Tank.” But it’s Kevin O’Leary, the clear-eyed dealmaker who I need to meet, to explain why he’s backing a $70-billion AI data centre industrial park near Grande Prairie in northwest Alberta.
“This is the largest data centre project on earth,” the 70-year-old entrepreneur enthuses on our Zoom call. With permits already approved, the land regulatory hoops jumped through, the investment adds up to “the lowest cost of energy with the most educated workforce.” On brand, Kevin has dubbed the project site in Alberta, “Wonder Valley.”
Throughout the 2024 campaign, Democrats insisted that we simply had to vote for Kamala Harris or else the nation would descend into the fascist rule of Bad Orange Man, the most dangerous enemy of “our democracy” since the reigns of terror of his good friends and role models Adolf Hitler and Genghis Khan. It was all bunkum, of course, and an extended use of the old tactic of accusing the enemy of what they were guilty of doing, as it was the Biden-Harris regime that took actual steps to criminalize opposition to its policies. And now, even after their disastrous electoral defeat, the defenders of democracy are still hatching plans to subvert the will of the people and prevent Donald Trump from returning to the Oval Office.
Jeff Steinman doesn’t know what else he can do to try and sell his condo after lowering the price by almost $135,000.
“Interest in the unit has been very low,” Steinman said. “I’ve had zero offers and it’s been on the market since the summer.”
In July, the Star spoke to Steinman about the difficulties he faced selling his downtown Toronto condo, highly unusual for a one-bedroom apartment on Charlotte Street, close to Spadina Avenue and Adelaide Street West, in a 13-storey boutique building close to theatres, TIFF Bell Lightbox, sports stadiums, and multiple transit lines.
Late-night comedy hosts including Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel spent 2024 repeatedly bashing now President-elect Donald Trump — and experienced another bad year as their cultural relevance and viewership continue to crash.
The network comedians told a total of 1,463 jokes about Donald Trump and Kamala Harris during the recent fall election period, with a whopping 98 percent of them aimed at Trump, according to a recent study by the Media Research Center. The study covered the period from September 3 through October 25.
Food banks across Ontario expecting higher usage in 2025
As millions of Canadians struggle with food insecurity, food banks across Ontario continue to see record volumes of visits.
In Toronto, the Daily Bread Food Bank says the need has hit levels not seen in its 41-year history, recording 3.75 million visits this past year.
In 2020, the organization only saw roughly 600,000 clients a year.
Russia is deploying “human waves” of North Korean soldiers, the U.S. said Friday, and at least one soldier captured by Ukraine died of his injuries.
According to White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby, some North Korean soldiers have taken their own lives rather than surrendering to Ukrainian forces.
These suicides, he said, were “likely out of fear of reprisal against their families in North Korea in the event that they’re captured.”
h/t Mauser
When RCMP Supt. Jean-Guy Isaya first started as a police officer 20 years ago, school outreach involved drug safety programs.
Now the Mountie says there’s a growing need to talk to kids about violent extremism.
“We believe that young people and minors pose the same threat as adults,” said Isaya, who works in the RCMP’s national security team.
“This trend is certainly continuing and it doesn’t seem to want to disappear.”
Joe Biden regrets having pulled out of this year’s presidential race and believes he would have defeated Donald Trump in last month’s election – despite negative poll indications, White House sources have said.
The US president has reportedly also said he made a mistake in choosing Merrick Garland as attorney general – reflecting that Garland, a former US appeals court judge, was slow to prosecute Donald Trump for his role in the 6 January 2021 insurrection while presiding over a justice department that aggressively prosecuted Biden’s son Hunter.
With just more than three weeks of his single-term presidency remaining, Biden’s reported rueful reflections are revealed in a Washington Post profile that contains the clearest signs yet that he thinks he erred in withdrawing his candidacy in July after a woeful debate performance against his rival for the White House, Trump, the previous month.
The Conservatives have shared their latest plan to bring down the Liberal government next month.
A House of Commons committee will meet in the new year to vote on a motion of non-confidence in the government.
If all goes according to the Conservatives’ plan, MPs in the House of Commons could be voting on a motion of non-confidence in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government as early as Jan. 30.
Dozens of supermarket customers fell ill in Germany’s eastern state of Saxony on Saturday after inhaling what media outlets described as “irritant gas.”
Customers were doing their grocery shopping in a supermarket in Saxony’s town of Waldheim when unknown people sprayed the gas, German media reported. A police statement said an “unknown substance” was released into the supermarket.
During December 2021 and January 2022 meetings, Detective Helen Grus warned Chief Peter Sloly, Deputy Trish Ferguson, and other senior officers that the Pfizer vaccine had never been tested on pregnant women. As a police detective, she expressed concern for the welfare of pregnant women receiving these experimental COVID vaccines.
In the context of widespread vaccine mandates and public health policies, Detective Grus highlighted that adverse effects were going unreported, and that persons were not being informed of potential adverse effects – which she described as potentially criminal. As an example she told the senior officers of an Ottawa motorist who had a medical event and collision when driving home from being vaccinated. The motorist died 2 days later.
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— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) December 29, 2024
H/T Auntie Polly
An Indiana man convicted of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 with his mother has reportedly applied for asylum in Canada — and is already living there, apparently — after failing to report to prison over the summer to serve his sentence.
Better off in North Korea.
