WASHINGTON—A secret memorandum that expanded intelligence sharing with Israel after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack has led to growing concerns in Washington about whether the information is contributing to civilian deaths, according to people familiar with the issue.
Among the worries is that there is little independent oversight to confirm that U.S.-supplied intelligence isn’t used in strikes that unnecessarily kill civilians or damage infrastructure, the people said.
They say the deeper a soldier digs, the better his chances of survival. But on the front lines in eastern Ukraine, the pulverising power of Russia’s newest weapon is testing soldiers’ faith.
Outside the town of Lyman, a crater 15m across and deeper than any Ukrainian trench has been thumped into a Donbas field. The impact of a Russian glide bomb has left a hole big enough to accommodate a small house.
Without western fighter jets to provide the air cover they need, Ukrainian soldiers have little to protect them besides prayer.
There’s something wrong when more and more GTA residents feel compelled to hire private security firms to patrol their neighbourhoods, watching for auto thieves, a city councillor says.
“It’s a terrible sign of a terrible problem,” Coun. Dianne Saxe of University-Rosedale Riding said in an interview.
“Clearly, it’s an enormous problem.”
I guess the Hamas Support Marches are depleting resources.
Or is the TTC overwhelming the TPS?
Maybe diversity is making Toronto stronger!
Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt has made fighting hatred against Jews her life’s work. And since October 7, as Joe Biden’s special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism is fond of putting it, she has been working in a “growth industry”.
Lipstadt has found herself reckoning with a record wave of attacks on Jews globally in light of Hamas’s attack and Israel’s subsequent response. “Business is booming,” she joked recently of her office’s portfolio, “I’m the only one in the Biden-Harris administration hoping for a recession.”
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – The day Thomas Sajan was expecting to see a South Indian action epic at a theatre in British Columbia, a spate of shootings thousands of kilometres away disrupted his plans.
Sajan, a self-described South Indian film fanatic, said he had been waiting months to see Malaikottai Vaaliban, a blockbuster Malayalam-language film about an aging warrior who reigns over a vast desert.
Hours before the scheduled showtimein late January, Cineplex sent a message saying the screening had been cancelled and the company would be issuing a refund “due to circumstances outside our control.”
Renowned psychologist Jordan Peterson ripped the crazy beliefs and goals of climate-crazy global organizations and elites for the “communist” monstrosities that they are.
Peterson dropped the hammer on the insane eco-extremist agenda and the harm that it is causing people everywhere in the name of Gaia during a March 26 debate with commentator Steven Bonnell II, also known as Destiny, on The Jordan Peterson Podcast. Peterson laid out the ridiculous agenda in his description of it: “[The climate change movement]has this guise of compassion. ‘Oh, we’re going to save the poor in the future.’ It’s like, that’s what the bloody communist said!” Peterson also ripped into elites and organizations that obsessively shove the climate change narrative down the plebeians’ throats, , such as the World Economic Forum (WEF). “The alternative to [the climate agenda] is to stop having global-level elites plot out a utopian future,” Peterson said.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says federal immigration limits are undercutting her province’s ability to fill jobs, grow the economy and aid those fleeing violence in wartorn Ukraine.
Smith called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government Wednesday to immediately double to 20,000 the number of allotments to Alberta under the provincial nominee program and add 10,000 on top of that for Ukraine evacuees.
Good choice.
A Rutgers University professor told a seminar discussing the Israel-Hamas conflict that it is ‘violent’ and ‘homophobic’ to raise the issue of how LGBT people are treated in Gaza.
Maya Mikdashi, associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at New Jersey’s State University, told students earlier this month that she has been approached by people at pro-Palestine protests who tell her that she would be treated horribly by Hamas.
‘So I’ve been at protests where I’m then told “don’t you know what Hamas would do to you, if you were in Palestine”,’ she said.
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says the carbon price remains a “tough political battle” as the controversial decision to keep raising the price is set to kick in on Monday.
Guilbeault told The West Block host Mercedes Stephenson that the increase does more financial good than harm for average Canadians, and is necessary to solve climate change.
“We have a plan that is balanced, that is asking big polluters to do more — way more — than Canadians, but Canadians also have a contribution. We all have a role to play,” he said.
An Oregon man narrowly escaped death when a runaway saw blade whipped through a parking lot and lodged into a building.
Shane Reimche was entering a in Eugene on March 28 when the concrete saw broke loose from a nearby construction site.pic.twitter.com/q0RGbTsINK
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) March 31, 2024
California’s Math Framework (CMF) has been adopted in most of the state’s 950 school districts. And the one person most responsible for writing and pushing the framework, Jo Boaler, has been the target of a 100-page anonymous complaint that she misrepresented dozens of citations that underpin her research.
NEW – German public broadcaster ARD delivered a bizarre dance performance this year at a televised Good Friday service.pic.twitter.com/X8BNFwuw6V
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) March 30, 2024
h/t Hermes
Are Justin Trudeau and his cabinet the worst economic managers in the history of the country or just the worst since Confederation?
This week during a speech in Halifax, Bank of Canada Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Rogers pointed out that Canada’s level of industrial productivity had fallen to the lowest in the G7.
Protesters calling for a cease-fire in Gaza interrupted a Saturday night Easter Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, chanting “Free, free Palestine” before being removed from the service.
Thousands of pro-Palestine demonstrators gathered in Times Square earlier Saturday before some headed to the Easter Vigil service at St. Patrick’s, where their chants of “Free, free Palestine” could be heard during the second reading of the service.
Seriously f*ck these #FreePalestine terrorists. They suck the air out of every space. This is Easter morning mass at St Patrick’s Cathedral NYC. Imagine anyone trying this nonsense in a mosque, there would be hell to pay for the disgusting disrespect. pic.twitter.com/Tql4V67Ua6
— P👁🗨NY (@PONY_Official) March 31, 2024
Anti-Semitism campaigners have reacted with anger after a Metropolitan Police officer was filmed telling a Jewish woman that swastikas displayed during a pro-Palestinian march in London needed to be “taken in context”.
Footage uploaded to social media shows a Jewish woman complaining to an officer about placards bearing Nazi symbols being carried by anti-Israeli demonstrators.
