US President Joe Biden blasted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “mistaken” Gaza policies as he called for a six to eight-week pause to the war in an interview he gave to the American-based Spanish language news station Univision Noticias.
Biden was asked if he thought that Netanyahu cared more for his own political survival than the Israeli people.
“I will tell you this. I think what he’s doing is a mistake. I don’t agree,” Biden said.
Mayor Olivia Chow says she won’t condemn six councillors who criticized the Toronto Police Service’s handling of a recent pro-Hamas rally. Neither will the six councillors who signed the letter answer questions put to them by The Toronto Sun, detailing the links between the groups organizing the protests and support for terrorism.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has opened up about her own horrifying experience of becoming the victim of AI-generated deepfake porn — warning that it is “not as imaginary as people want to make it seem.”
The Queens Democrat said she was scrolling through X while talking about legislation with her aides in a car in February when she came face to face with the AI-generated image of herself performing a sex act.
h/t Mauser
On Monday, the day of the total solar eclipse, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau donned a pair of blackout glasses. Not to stare at the sun, but to avoid seeing what is right in front of him: his abject failure to rebuild Canada’s armed forces.
Dating in Trudeau's Canada.
The end shows you if there will be a second datepic.twitter.com/3JcbG0xbAz— sonofabench (@therealmrbench) April 8, 2024
h/t Mauser
They have intimate links with the refugee lobby
When the meatpacking giant, Tyson Foods, announced plans last month to shutter its pork plant in Perry, Iowa and lay-off all 1,200 employees, it brought rare attention to one of the most influential, less scrutinised, dynamics of America’s mass migration debate. That is, the role played by large, politically connected corporations seeking to blunt wage growth.
Canadians at all levels of income pay more tax than residents in most other OECD countries around the world, according to a new report.
Why erase it? Why demand silence about a #genocide & a 75 yr occupation by an apartheid state?
Very strange response.
It’s shameful that academia & medical organizations have been silent for six months now. This demonstration of humanity is a breath of fresh air. https://t.co/64beU0Xtno
— Jennifer Purdy (@purdygreenKC) April 10, 2024
Thoughts on the current state of play?
Jennifer and James Crumbley, who were convicted of involuntary manslaughter for failing to prevent their teenage son from killing four fellow students in the deadliest school shooting in Michigan’s history, were each sentenced on Tuesday to 10 to 15 years in prison.
Their separate jury trials ended in guilty verdicts in February and March, making them the first parents in the country to be convicted over the deaths caused by their child in a mass shooting.
Mark Carney has joined the chorus of voices asking Justin Trudeau to call a first ministers’ meeting on climate change and the carbon levy.
Carney, often touted as a possible successor to Trudeau, threw down the request during an evening speech in Ottawa on Monday, framed as a manifesto of sorts on where the former bank governor stands on the big issues of the day.
Police Scotland has been overwhelmed by a “deluge” of ‘hate crime’ reports in the week since the country’s new public order act came into effect.
The force’s commitment to investigate every report—currently totalling an average of 60 an hour—means that it is failing to solve an increasing number of shoplifting cases, sexual assaults, and car thefts, according to analysis by The Daily Telegraph.
A Hamilton public school board trustee says she’s banned from participating in private board and committee meetings after refusing to delete a November social media post about being under investigation for other social media posts in support of Palestinians.
Sabreina Dahab, Ward 2 trustee for the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB), posted to X on Monday morning with the update, saying she is appealing her ban.
This is the crap she’s currently posting, outright false accusations of war crimes.
It was a great idea to invite Satan to settle here.
The prime minister’s six-day trip, accompanied by his son, to “strengthen ties” in the Indo-Pacific region in September cost taxpayers nearly $2 million, with nearly $200,000 spent on in-flight catering.
A truce between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza was never going to be easy. Weeks of talks have failed to produce agreement. But international pressure is growing.
Perhaps the biggest sign is the Biden administration sending William Burns, the head of the CIA, for the latest round of talks in Cairo.
Hamas has, in public at least, stuck with its initial demands of a permanent ceasefire, the complete withdrawal of Israeli troops and the return of displaced Palestinians to northern parts of the territory without restrictions.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meanwhile insists that Israel will continue fighting until Hamas is destroyed and hostages the group is holding are free.
Israel is damned if they do and damned if they don’t so they may as well do.
We could be witnessing a pantomime allowing the White House to save face and say they tried to negotiate a ceasefire.
The city of Oakland has experienced a dramatic crime surge since 2020 as arrests plunge and the police department struggles to fill vacancies.
From 2020 to 2023 burglaries increased by 99 percent, motor-vehicle theft surged by 72 percent, robberies jumped by 53 percent and homicides went up 16 percent, according to a supplemental police report on the Oakland public safety committee’s April 9 agenda. Arrests plummeted by 50 percent over the same period.
