… Over the past two weeks, the chances of a Trump victory in the November election have surged on Polymarket, a crypto-based prediction market. Its bettors were giving Trump a 62% chance of winning on Thursday, while Harris’s chances were 38%. The candidates were in a dead heat at the start of October.
It’s disturbingly plausible, as Tasha Kheiriddin argued here on Thursday, that Justin Trudeau might have extended his proverbial runway on Wednesday with his jaw-dropping performance before the parliamentary inquiry into foreign interference in Canadian elections. The most unhinged Trudeau and Liberal partisans are now convinced that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is some kind of Manchurian candidate — or the Indian-brainwashed equivalent — thanks to the prime minister’s claim to know the names of Conservative parliamentarians and candidates “who are engaged in or at high risk of foreign interference.”
ABC’s The View is so anti-Trump that they will denounce even legitimate charities that help many people if they dare to invite him to an event; even a charity event that traditionally invites both major party presidential candidates. The liberal ladies kicked off their Friday episode by attacking Catholic Charities for keeping with tradition and inviting former President Trump (and Vice President Harris) to their Al Smith Dinner.
On October 15 the United States Treasury Department announced a joint action with the Canadian government, targeting the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network. The U.S. slapped sanctions on the organization and Canada listed the group as a terrorist entity.
The Treasury Department press release refers to Samidoun as a “sham charity” and accuses it of raising funds for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a secular Marxist-Leninist Palestinian political party, which has been designated as a terrorist organization by the State Department.
With two and arguably three assassination attempts on Donald Trump from spun-up TDS-afflicted wackadoodle or Iranian assets, we thought the media had agreed to tamp down the crazy before the election. If they ever did, we missed the pause. And now a piece in “The Atlantic” has presented a story that should go down as the most buffoonish, caterwauling, dumbassery of recent political journalism. It gives dumb a bad name.
As a growing chorus of Liberal MPs are renewing calls demanding Justin Trudeau resign, Joe Rogan and Kevin O’Leary are sounding the alarm over the unpopular prime minister.
In a conversation with Shane Smith this week on an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, the podcast host spoke about his love for Canada, telling the Ottawa-born co-founder of Vice that he flirted with the idea of moving north of the border before becoming so disillusioned with Trudeau.
Stellantis is closing its largest vehicle testing facility in Yucca, Arizona, after having laid off more than 1,000 auto workers at its Warren, Michigan, plant this month and about 200 auto workers at its Sterling Heights, Michigan, plant last month.
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There are several good reasons why medical schools would want to graduate physicians who reflect the diversity of Canada’s population. Studies show that patients tend to feel most comfortable with physicians who look or sound like them, who can communicate in their native languages, and/or who understand their cultural norms or religious practices. We know that institutional bias still exists in our medical system, and that Black, Indigenous and other racialized Canadians experience poorer health outcomes as a result. At worst, this bias manifests in extreme cases of medical neglect, such as that of Indigenous woman Joyce Echaquan, who was taunted by Quebec hospital staff as she writhed in pain, dying of pulmonary edema.
The Tower of Babel was not a success.
A drone fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon that exploded in the central seaside town of Caesarea early on Saturday targeted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private home, his office said.
The premier and his wife were not present and no injuries were reported.
h/t Patti Jo and XC
I have some questions. pic.twitter.com/Qx1VNs5Xix
— Uncensored USA (@CarlosSimancas) October 19, 2024
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Weeks after she was stripped of her history-making rank for helping a number of racialized cops cheat to get promoted, Supt. Stacy Clarke is seeking to appeal her demotion, arguing she was villainized for conduct that is “rampant” within Canada’s largest municipal police force.
Calling the recent penalty decision in her high-profile misconduct hearing “excessive, harsh, unwarranted and disproportionate,” Clarke — the first Black female superintendent in Toronto police history — filed a notice of appeal late last month to the province’s police adjudicative body.
She should have been fired.
I guess union members don't understand antisemitism pic.twitter.com/Zd7yan8GWz
— George Sawision ME (@GSawision) October 19, 2024
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Power went out across Cuba on Friday after the failure of its biggest power plant caused the collapse of the national grid.
President Díaz-Canel blamed the United States for waging “economic war” and said there would be “no rest” until the power was restored.
Life on the island of 11 million ground to a halt, with frustrated locals sitting on their doorsteps in Havana, sweltering in 28C (82F) heat, and shops were closed. Tourists milled around aimlessly, although generators kept the lights on at their hotels.
MPs seeking Trudeau’s removal say leadership talks have been blocked by the national caucus chair and the PMO for months.
After nine years in power, and polling 20 points behind the Conservatives for more than a year, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing a serious challenge to his leadership from within his own caucus, and MPs and political insiders are predicting a showdown between a “motivated group” of more than 20 MPs pushing for a new leader before the next election, versus the prime minister and his supporters.
When reports of Yahya Sinwar’s death first swirled around Gaza, Enas immediately hoped they were true.
The 55-year-old Palestinian had lived a relatively comfortable and safe life working as a teacher in the heavily populated strip, but all that was lost after Hamas launched the Oct 7 attacks.
Ese tipo cobarde que ven en el sillón tirándole un palo a un dron es Yahya Sinwar, el autor ideológico de la peor masacre de judíos desde el Holocausto.
Murió como una rata asustada. pic.twitter.com/T3eZ9VzVza
— SissiEmperatriz (@GabyLob) October 18, 2024
