NDP to have ‘tough conversations’ about its deal with Liberals at coming retreat: MP

OTTAWA, W.Va. – New Democrat labour critic Matthew Green says his party will be having “tough conversations” about the future of its agreement with the Liberals at a coming caucus retreat.

Two years ago the NDP and Liberals forged a confidence-and-supply agreement, with the New Democrats agreeing to keep the minority government in power until June of next year in exchange for movement on key priorities.

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Israel: Ceasefire Deal Will Prevent Hostages from Coming Home, Anti-Government Protests Only Embolden Hamas

The aim of the execution of six Israeli hostages by the Iran-backed Palestinian terrorist group Hamas was to shock the Israeli public and incite it to rebel against the Israeli government. The goal of the executions, which reportedly took place in a tunnel in the Gaza Strip last week, was also to convey to the Biden administration the need to increase pressure on Israel to accede to most of Hamas’s demands in exchange for the release of the captives the terrorist group is holding in the Gaza Strip.

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Leigh Revers: A woke takeover is coming for Canadian physician training

“Victor Laszlo published the foulest lies in the Prague newspapers until the very day we marched in. And even after that, he continued to print scandal sheets in a cellar.” So ran the accusation by Colonel Strasser in Michael Curtiz’s impeccable 1942 film noir, Casablanca.

Strasser was vilifying the upstanding resistance leader who challenged the prevailing regime in Morocco that attended France’s surrender to Germany in the summer of 1940. Today, in Canada, more than three-quarters of a century later, this enduring scene begs comparisons to a new, looming rebellion, this time between doctors and their regulatory agencies, and one that bears all the same hallmarks of defiance.

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PBS: Conservative ‘Backlash’ Is Ruining DEI for ‘Trans Workers at Tractor Supply’

Taxpayer-supported PBS mourned success by conservatives on Wednesday’s News Hour in pushing back with consumer activism against the flagrantly dishonest “diversity-equity-inclusion” drives in corporate America. PBS used the term “conservative” six times, but never found an ideological label for the Left. They were “pro-DEI folks” pushing “diversity initiatives” for people like “trans workers at Tractor Supply.”

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Workers can’t find affordable housing. Their pension funds are part of the problem

Across Canada, a nurse earns between $28 and $50 an hour, which works out to a moderate to median annual household income of $58,240 to $104,000. At the Canadian standard definition of housing affordability – that housing takes up no more than 30 per cent of pre-tax household income – a single-parent nurse would be looking for a two- or three-bedroom home costing between $1,456 and $2,600 per month. But the average asking rent for a two-bedroom apartment rental in Vancouver is $3,666.

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To stem domestic violence, federal government urged to move quickly on gun regulations

Several civil society organizations, including women’s advocates, are calling on the Liberal government to swiftly flesh out firearm legislation passed last year by enacting crucial regulations and directives.

In December, Parliament approved a government bill that includes new measures to keep firearms out of the hands of domestic abusers.

It also cements restrictions on handguns, increases penalties for firearm trafficking and aims to curb homemade ghost guns.

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Poltava attack: at least 51 dead as Russian missiles hit central Ukraine

A Russian missile attack in central Ukraine has killed 51 people and injured more than 200, Ukrainian officials have said.

President Zelensky said that Russian forces struck “an educational institution and a neighbouring hospital” with two ballistic missiles in the city of Poltava. The educational facility in question is understood to be the Poltava Military Institute of Communications.

Video from the scene showed destroyed buildings and the wounded being treated on the street. The death toll is expected to rise.

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Traffic like Toronto’s prime for inducing road rage: psychologist

Cars driving on sidewalks, mirrors demolished with karate kicks, fully grown adults rolling around a freeway like wrestlers.

These are just a few examples, caught on camera, of how some Toronto drivers choose to respond to the city’s notoriously bad congestion, which has been called a crisis and some of the worst in North America.

Anyone who has been behind the wheel of a car in Toronto knows it can be frustrating, but its impact on road rage is up for debate.

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Swedish Study of Gun Violence Ignores Migration, Ethnicity of Shooters

A report from Sweden’s Crime Prevention Council (BRÅ), commissioned by the government to study the increase in gun violence, completely fails to consider mass migration or the ethnicity or culture of shooters in its analysis.

Henrik Angerbrandt, one of the authors behind the study, told news outlet Samnytt that the study did not include the background of perpetrators as it was not considered interesting for the report: “We have not looked at the individual level. We have not looked at foreign backgrounds, and we have generally not examined socioeconomic factors.”

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Gunshots fired into B.C. home of rising Punjabi music star AP Dhillon

Gunshots were fired into the home of Victoria-based singer, music producer and rising Punjabi music star AP Dhillon early Monday morning.

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Irish teacher jailed for third time after defying order to stay away from the school that fired him for questioning Transgender zealotry

LONDON (AP) — A teacher in Ireland who says he was fired for his views on gender has been jailed for a third time for refusing to stay away from the school where he used to work.

Enoch Burke was found in contempt by a High Court judge on Monday for violating a court injunction barring him from Wilson’s Hospital School in Mullingar, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) west of Dublin.

He was suspended by the school in 2022 after publicly objecting to what he called “transgender ideology” and refusing to address a trans student by their preferred name and pronoun. He was later fired, and has launched an appeal.

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