Judge in hush money trial threatens Trump with jail after holding him in contempt for violating gag order
🇺🇲 2024 GE: "If Trump is convicted of crimes related to his handling of classified presidential documents"
🟦 Biden 50%
🟥 Trump 50%
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"If Trump is convicted for RICO in trying to influence the 2020 election results in Georgia"🟦 Biden 50%
🟥 Trump 50%
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"If Trump is… https://t.co/Voxor8cGwF pic.twitter.com/njIj6YNHCW— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) April 29, 2024
h/t Mauser
Ottawa is planning to roll out a mandatory buyback program for military-style firearms during the 2025 election year, after the program was delayed by Canada Post’s refusal to participate, sources say.
With only months to go before its launch, details of the vast logistical operation remain in flux, federal officials have told Radio-Canada.
The government likely will need to adapt the program on a province-by-province basis, due to its struggle to find partners willing to collect and transport AR-15s and other weapons that were banned in 2020.
WHITBY, Ont. — Ontario’s police watchdog says an infant is among the four people killed in a crash involving multiple police vehicles Monday night in a town east of Toronto.
UPDATE: Collision investigation continuing, #Hwy401 closed in both directions between LakeRidge Rd and Brock St Whitby.
Expect to reopen WB lanes from Brock St shortly ^ks pic.twitter.com/SwoeTxlWkZ— OPP Highway Safety Division (@OPP_HSD) April 30, 2024
Organised gangs of thieves are prowling some of the wealthiest neighbourhoods in Los Angeles to steal Birkin handbags that can be quickly sold on the black market.
The leather Hermès totes, beloved by celebrities including Kim Kardashian and Jennifer Lopez, are some of the most sought-after items in fashion. They can cost tens of thousands — sometimes hundreds of thousands — of dollars, and the French luxury brand was recently sued in California by customers alleging they were barred from buying one.
I’d bet most of the “victims” vote Democrat but this still won’t change their mind on open borders.
If you think life is unaffordable under Justin Trudeau, just wait until @MarkJCarney has a kick at the can and your life savings …
Mark Carney's Economic "Lookahead" Lecture Becomes Unhinged on NetZero says Friends of Science Society https://t.co/HEkLYqQSbR
— Dan McTeague (@GasPriceWizard) April 29, 2024
Justin Trudeau was hoping his housing budget would reverse the government’s slide in popularity. Instead, things have gotten worse.
For the good of the Liberal Party he leads, the Prime Minister needs to think about his future.
The government gambled everything on this budget. Younger voters are unhappy. Economic uncertainty and high interest rates have worsened housing shortages, making ownership impossible and rent exorbitant for many. Their support has shifted emphatically from the Liberals to the Conservatives.
Junior will never think of what’s best for anyone or anything but himself.
A coalition of lawyers domestic and abroad — including at least 20 that work in the Biden administration — are calling on President Joe Biden to halt military aid to Israel, arguing that its actions in Gaza do not comply with U.S. and international humanitarian law.
They plan to send a letter arguing their case to Attorney General Merrick Garland and general counsels across the administration in the coming days. In the letter, obtained by POLITICO, the lawyers contend that Israel likely violated U.S. statutes including the Arms Export Control Act and Leahy Laws as well as the Geneva Conventions prohibiting disproportionate attacks on civilian populations.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he’s still not ready to say whether his caucus will support the federal budget, citing a need for further “clarity” over whether the Liberals intend to address concerns surrounding the Canada Disability Benefit program.
Speaking to reporters on Parliament Hill on Monday, as MPs resume debate on the 2024 financial plans, Singh said that while his caucus “fought hard” to ensure the budget included relief for Canadians such as new renter protections, a national school food program, and diabetes and contraception coverage, the government didn’t go far enough in other areas.
Some of Britain’s lower-grade universities are awarding educational visas to foreign students “indiscriminately” so they can benefit from their higher tuition fees, an immigration expert has claimed.
Robert Bates, who is research director at the Centre for Migration Control think tank, told The European Conservative that “the main function of many British universities now seems to be the distribution of British visas to foreign nationals.”
I don’t think it a coincidence that Britain’s immigration mess parallels our own. It is organized criminality.
OTTAWA – The Crown is asking a judge to consider an Ottawa man’s pro-Hamas comments at a Toronto protest to be an aggravating factor in sentencing for breaching the bail conditions of an unrelated charge.
The Crown says Mohammed Assadi was supposed to be living under house arrest with his sister in Ottawa while out on bail on an assault charge.
WOODSTOCK, N.B. — Police officers across New Brunswick are no longer investigating thefts of fuel from service stations unless there is a threat to public safety.
Earlier this month, the New Brunswick Association of Chiefs of Police sent a letter to petroleum retailers across the province, saying the change was needed because there are more effective ways of dealing with the steady increase in fuel thefts. The change took effect April 15.
You don’t win an oral argument by painting a picture of reality that the judges don’t recognize. It’s an even worse idea to tell them to just blindly trust the judgments of others in deciding what the law is. That’s what government lawyer Michael Dreeben tried on Thursday in the Supreme Court argument over presidential immunity in Trump v. United States. Dreeben, a veteran advocate who has made more than 100 Supreme Court arguments, unaccountably acted as if he’d forgotten that he was arguing before a Court that believes in the rule of law — not the rule of lawyers.
Forty years ago, a KGB defector, Yuri Bezmenov, revealed the systematic plan Soviet communists used to take down countries and establish a communist-type society and regime. More recently, a Chinese defector immigrant, Xi Van Fleet, has been on a crusade to warn Americans about the parallels between what is happening in America today and what Mao did in the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
The systematic plan Bezmenov revealed involves four fluid stages of communist subversion: 1) demoralization, 2) disorientation, 3) crisis, and 4) normalization. In Mao’s America, Xi Van Fleet explains how Mao’s destruction of the “Four Olds” (old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits) is being replicated by today’s leftist cancel culture, which will end what is left of freedom in America if not stopped.
Sometimes the metaphors write themselves. As Putin purportedly seeks to showcase the illusion of Russian strength by parading a captured British Saxon armoured personnel carrier from the 1970s in Red Square – donated to Ukraine in 2015 from mothballed British stocks – Ukrainian saboteurs are deep behind Russian lines actually doing the business.
Whereas Russia is desperate to display ‘destroyed’ western kit, Ukraine is hard at work eroding Russian capacity and, crucially, hitting Moscow where it hurts – inside its own borders. The news today that two railway lines in Russia have been destroyed is a clear example of an evolving strategy designed to hurt a security-obsessed Putin and degrade Moscow’s ability to wage war.
One of the largest state security trials in German history, involving suspected members of a far-right plot to seize power which “would involve killing people”, started in Stuttgart on Monday.
In the first of three separate court cases against a total of 27 suspects, nine alleged members of a suspected terrorist organisation went on trial accused of high treason and plotting a violent coup d’état. They are alleged to have planned to storm the Reichstag and install a Fourth Reich, led by the disenchanted aristocrat Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss.
