Bromley Council measured ‘no overall lowering in pollution’ after mayor expanded £12.50 daily charge zone last year.
Liberal MP who called for Trudeau to resign says his mind hasn’t changed ‘one iota’
OTTAWA — With Liberals set to gather next week for a caucus retreat, one of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s MPs is once again calling for a change in party leadership.
New Brunswick Liberal MP Wayne Long first called for a change of leadership after the Liberals’ loss in the Toronto—St. Paul’s byelection in June. The downtown Toronto seat had been considered a safe seat for the party and the loss to the Conservatives led to many whispered calls for change.
Hunter Biden ‘All Smiles’ After Guilty Plea. He Should Be.
If there’s anyone who was truly “shocked” by Hunter Biden’s decision on Thursday to plead guilty to all charges in his California tax fraud case, they clearly haven’t been paying attention.
Jagmeet Singh opens the Jack Layton playbook for a longshot election gamble
Jagmeet Singh’s advisers must have scripted a line for him to repeat every time a reporter asked his reason for pulling out of the NDP’s deal to support the Liberal government, and he repeated it doggedly. But it wasn’t really an explanation. It didn’t explain much of anything, and it wasn’t supposed to.
Mr. Singh didn’t point to any bargain that was broken or new development. He said the NDP got a lot done under the supply-and-confidence agreement, “but it became very clear to me that Justin Trudeau was too beholden to corporate interests to go further.” After two and a half years of an alliance, Mr. Singh had apparently discovered the Prime Minister’s true nature.
Lifelong Democrat Alan Dershowitz Blasts Biden and Harris, Announces His Departure From the Democrat Party
Lifelong Democrat and renowned Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz on Friday announced he has left the Democrat party.
Justin Trudeau draws in Mark Carney as Liberal MPs gather to consider the coming election
Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney is scheduled to attend the Liberals’ summer caucus meetings in Nanaimo, B.C. where, starting Monday, Grit MPs will plot the return of Parliament and the next election.
Carney won’t be joining the Liberal team as a cabinet minister — despite earlier talks with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Instead, the likely future Liberal leadership candidate has been tapped to advise the party on an economic productivity plan, one that could inspire the Grits’ platform or government policy.
Urban warfare expert debunks lies about Israel, explains how it shows restraint in Gaza
John Spencer is one of the world’s preeminent experts on urban warfare. He’s been inside Gaza three times since December, embedded with the Israel Defense Forces, analyzing the war against Hamas from multiple angles. He interviewed the prime minister, the IDF chief of staff, division commanders, brigade commanders, battalion commanders, “all the way down to soldiers in the field.”
Adam Pankratz: Jagmeet Singh just clinched it for Pierre Poilievre
Whenever a politician insists on the phrase “Let me be clear,” the one thing anyone within earshot can be assured of is that clarity will be in very short supply. The only phrase that foretells an even foggier utterance is the worrying assurance that a politician is being “absolutely clear.”
The Manchurian by Way of Minnesota Candidate
When Tim Walz met with supporters at a Lancaster, Pennsylvania, campaign office on Wednesday, a Harris–Walz staffer instructed reporters to “not disrupt” him when an impertinent one in their ranks dared ask a question.
“Walz is not taking questions from the media while here,” Fox43’s Alyssa Kratz reported. “We were also not allowed to put microphones up by Gov. Walz while he was speaking.”
Microphones nevertheless picked up that Walz addressed local Democrats in English and not Mandarin Chinese.
‘The demon was me’: Toronto 18 ringleader’s new book offers rare glimpse inside the mind of a convicted terrorist
Zakaria Amara would like to be forgiven.
Forgiven by Canadians. By Muslims. By his family. Even by the men he conspired with to commit atrocities.
“I ask the Canadian public to forgive me for betraying their trust and welcoming arms,” he wrote in a newly released, self-published book.
American-Turkish activist killed by Israeli forces at West Bank protest
American-Turkish human rights activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, succumbed to her wounds on Friday after being shot in the head by Israeli forces during a weekly protest against settlement expansions in the West Bank, according to Palestinian Authority-run news outlet Wafa.
During the weekly protest in Beita, south of Nablus in the West Bank, IDF soldiers opened fire at the protesters using live ammunition, the report noted. Eygi was subsequently critically wounded in the head. The 26 years old activist was evacuated to Rafida Hospital in Nablus, where she later died.
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Durham College student accused of threatening to start school shooting
A new academic year requires a new approach to combatting antisemitism on campus
The days leading up to a new academic year at a university are typically filled with a mix of excitement and anticipation for both faculty and students alike. Yet this year, it brought trepidation and even fear for many in the Jewish community. At my own university, faculty attended training sessions on coping with potential classroom intruders, including tips for de-escalation strategies and detailed security procedures. Students normally thinking about orientation programming were instead forced to ask themselves difficult questions about whether to conceal their religious or political beliefs, for fear of risking backlash or ostracization from fellow students and even faculty.
I don’t know that there is much hope for our universities.
Anti-Israel protesters ‘speaking out for all the right reasons,’ Walz says in Michigan radio interview
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz said in a radio interview on Thursday that anti-Israel protesters are “speaking out for all the right reasons” and that more pressure should be applied to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept a Palestinian state.
The Michigan NPR station WCMU asked the governor of Minnesota how a Harris-Walz administration would break from the Biden administration handling the Israel-Hamas war.