Impasse between PM Trudeau and dissidents frustrates Liberal grassroots, and a ‘distraction’ to governing, say insiders

Plagued with caucus dissent, a gridlocked minority Parliament, bleak public opinion polls, and a mounting slate of domestic and foreign policy problems, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faces an immense challenge to carry on effectively in his job.

“More and more Liberals are recognizing Trudeau can’t recover, and they would like a chance of winning the next election,” said pollster Greg Lyle, president of Innovative Research, in an interview with The Hill Times.

Lyle said the prime minister’s circumstances are “only going to get worse.”

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More than 600,000 Russian casualties in Ukraine war, says Nato

More than 600,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or injured since the invasion of Ukraine, the secretary-general of Nato has claimed.

Speaking to journalists in Brussels, Mark Rutte confirmed that North Korean troops had been sent to help Russia and said some had already been deployed in the Kursk border region, which Ukrainian forces have partly occupied.

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The Bloc Québécois is getting into ‘bring down the government’ mode as its deadline looms

OTTAWA — Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet is expected to announce Tuesday morning on Parliament Hill that his party will now be in “bring down the government” mode, a source told the National Post.

Blanchet has been very clear about his demands over the past month. If the Liberals wanted his party’s support until January, they had to “fully” pass in an “irrevocable and non-negotiable” manner a private member’s bill to increase Old Age Security (OAS) benefits for younger seniors (ages 65 to 74) by 10 per cent and a bill to protect supply management from international trade negotiations.

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FBI investigating as ballot boxes go up in flames in Vancouver, Washington

Ballot boxes in Washington State and Oregon were set alight by the same culprit damaging hundreds of votes, the FBI believes.

Footage of the blaze in Vancouver, Washington shows smoke billowing from a red drop box as a uniformed officer scrapes at the smouldering remains of voter slips.

Hundreds of ballots appeared to be reduced to ashes and local media reported that only a handful were saved.

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Amidst broken stations, EV drivers ask, ‘Why is it so hard to maintain an electrical plug?’

On paper, Canada officially boasts more than 32,000 public charging ports for electric vehicles, but on the web, EV drivers say the true number is far smaller because so many stations are out of service.

“This has to be the worst station around. It’s constantly broken,” the driver of a 2023 Chevrolet Bolt EUV who goes by “Adam” said on Oct. 24 on a website called Plug Share about the Trenton, Ont., ONroute charging station just off Highway 401.

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MEOW!: Cats next on Guilbeault hit list

Claws out!

The Department of Environment, led by Minister Steven Guilbeault, has highlighted household cats as a significant ecological threat to birds in Canadian cities.

Blacklock’s Reporter says a recent report, Green Cities: Benefits For All, raised concerns about tens of thousands of pet cats roaming urban areas and hunting migratory birds, which rely on city greenspaces for food and shelter.

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Democrats Are Melting Down on Purpose

The fever pitch of hysteria emanating from Democrats right now has some Republicans thinking that Democrats know they are losing and are desperate. Now, there’s something to that: The trends have been moving against Democrats lately, and there’s an edge of panic creeping into the sound of their leaders and spokespeople. But at least if you look at the public polling, Democrats are still (barely) ahead in the key battleground Senate races, and Donald Trump’s leads in the battleground states are mostly within the margin of error. If the polls are just a few points off-center — well within historic norms — it’s easy enough to see Kamala Harris winning, Democrats retaking the House, and Republicans winning just a one-seat margin in the Senate.

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Will The Corrupt News Media Accept Election Results If Trump Wins, Or Will They Start A War?

It was such a fun time last week watching the perpetual drama queens that make up our national news media boil with rage over two newspapers declining to issue meaningless campaign endorsements. But it also revealed something unsettling about the unhealthy degree of emotional investment they have in this race.

Will the media accept the outcome of the election if Donald Trump wins? It’s far from a foregone conclusion that they will. There’s a strong argument they didn’t the last time Trump won. Why should anyone expect them to accept it this time around?

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Che Guevara was a sadist

Fitting model for a Che Guevara t-shirt

Why do people still glorify this child murderer?

Che Guevara died 57 years ago this month and yet, even now, he remains the epitome of revolutionary cool. You never know when he is going to pop up. I came across him recently in the lobby of a hotel in Kandy in the highlands of Sri Lanka. There he was with that determined, heroic look under a dashing beret with a red star badge. He was on a poster dominating the wall above the capitalist till where the luxury hotel took payment.

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NBC report: Swing state food banks unable to meet demands of hungry clients

The “strongest economy ever” sure has a “weakest economy ever” feel.

According to a new report from Shannon Pettypiece NBC News, food banks lines around the nation are “growing longer” and the demand for food is “significantly higher” than it was during 2020… when the global economy came to a grinding halt, and the government dictatorially shuttered “non-essential” businesses and shoved millions of Americans into debt, poverty, and bankruptcy.

How’s that for building back better?

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Trump Assassination Attempt Updates

The Secret Service is in disarray – while the nation’s true “secret” service needs investigation.

On July 21, Department of Homeland Security boss Alejandro Mayorkas appointed a panel to investigate the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13. That day Thomas Matthew Crooks got off eight shots, wounding Donald Trump, killing Corey Comperatore, and wounding James Copenhaver and David Dutch. The federal panel has now issued a report finding “deep flaws” within the U.S. Secret Service, “a troubling lack of critical thinking,” and a need for “fundamental reform” of the agency.

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My Shocking Report from Inside Trump’s Nazi Rally

You have likely already read reports from the mainstream media about the “Nazi rally” President Trump held at New York’s iconic Madison Square Garden last night. Many of these articles appear to have been written by journalists who wisely avoided the menacing event and reported on it from the safety of their own basements.

h/t SweetPea

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