An alleged Russian spy who had been stripped of his citizenship was flown to Britain during the evacuation of Kabul even though he had been excluded because of national security fears.
The suspected agent, who worked at the Foreign Office and had access to top secret documents, had been told in 2019 that his British citizenship was being removed due to the spying allegations and that he was considered a national security risk.
A former Chinese official who worked for a notorious religious persecution agency controlled by the Chinese communist regime resided in Vancouver at the time of his death, according to an official obituary. The agency, known as the “610 Office,” has been a key part of the persecution campaign against Falun Gong practitioners in China since 1999.
Zhang Guoqiang, originally from Zhejiang Province, had served in various Chinese military and government roles, including as the director of the provincial 610 Office, according to the obituary published on local online news outlet Zhejiang Daily. He died at the age of 70 in Vancouver on Nov. 15, 2021, reportedly succumbing to an illness after unsuccessful medical treatments.
Looks like Justin will have another guest in parliament
Canadian MP:
"There's no such thing as parental rights in Canada"
The leftists in Canada just said the quiet part out loud.
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— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) February 9, 2024
h/t Mauser
Vladimir Putin took aim at President Biden, Bill Clinton and the CIA in his hotly anticipated interview with Tucker Carlson, where he praised George Bush and gushed over ‘very smart’ Elon Musk.
The two-hour interview was posted on Carlson’s website, the Tucker Carlson Network, shortly before 6pm on Thursday.
Speaking through a translator, Putin started off by responding to a question about the Ukraine war with: ‘Are we having a talk show or a serious interview?’
HA!
Vladimir Putin used an interview with U.S. media personality Tucker Carlson to take a shot at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for joining in a standing ovation for a veteran of a Second World War Nazi unit during his visit to Canada. https://t.co/kuyI3Qlmsn .
— CBC News (@CBCNews) February 9, 2024
Ep. 73 The Vladimir Putin Interview pic.twitter.com/67YuZRkfLL
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) February 8, 2024
A trans-identified male in Michigan is suing his ex-partner for the return of his preserved testicles, which he had kept in their shared fridge following his genital surgery.
Brianna Kingsley, who identifies as a Muslim woman, is demanding $6,500 for the loss of "deez nuts." pic.twitter.com/0JRVQiqRb4
— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) February 8, 2024
h/t XC
The central conceit of government is that the people working in it have the intelligence and expertise to solve complex problems. And yet, evidence of these high-level problem-solving skills is difficult to find.
Take the housing crisis, an issue felt most acutely in Ontario, which has the country’s fastest population growth and its greatest housing supply shortage. Fixing the problem is largely up to the government of Premier Doug Ford and the province’s 414 municipalities. Feeling confident?
Police in Switzerland have shot dead a man armed with an axe and a knife who took 15 passengers hostage on a train on Thursday night.
The hostage-taker, reported to be a 32-year-old asylum seeker from Iran, boarded a local train near Yverdon.
He forced the driver to stop the train and to join passengers in the carriage.
Officers stormed the train and “fatally wounded” the man after he attacked them, police reports say. The hostages were all released unharmed.
You can’t get a bottle of shampoo larger than 100 ml past security on a commercial flight, so how is it that 4,000-pound stolen cars, luxury SUVs or pickup trucks can be shipped across the ocean without detection?
Two leading right-wing MPs aligned with the former ruling party, Law and Justice (PiS), were prevented from entering the Polish Parliament (Sejm) by police Wednesday, after the Speaker of the Sejm, acting on a Supreme Court opinion, declared one of them no longer a member of the body.
The federal government recently finalized regulations for its “zero-emissions vehicle” mandate. The mandate requires sellers of light vehicles (passenger cars and light trucks) to sell a rising minimum of zero-emissions vehicles — basically, electric vehicles or EVs — every year, culminating with 100 per cent EVs in 2035, just 11 years from now. Reasonable forecasts of production and sales make clear that Ottawa’s timeline is unrealistic.
There cannot be optimism for an idea doomed to fail from the start.
Reverend Matthew Firth tells how he wanted to hit stop button on the ‘conveyor belt’ of asylum seekers converting to Christianity
In 2018, when the Reverend Matthew Firth took up his new post at St Cuthbert’s, the church which has been at the heart of the north-eastern market town of Darlington since the 12th century, he was eager to bring new souls to the faith he passionately believes in.
It didn’t take long, however, for Matthew to figure out that there was something suspicious about the large number of souls from the Middle East who were queuing up to be converted to Christianity.
With car theft accelerating in Canada, the federal government and law enforcement officials say more needs to be done to restrict the different technologies being used by criminals to steal vehicles.
The country’s auto theft problem was front and centre in the capital, Ottawa, Thursday with cabinet ministers meeting law enforcement agencies, border officials and other industry stakeholders at a national summit to combat increasing vehicle thefts.
OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising to revoke the planned expansion of medical assistance in dying (MAID) for people suffering solely from mental illnesses if he forms government.
“We will not expand MAID to include mental illness. So, where Justin Trudeau has delayed this decision until after the election, we will revoke it entirely,” he told reporters on Thursday in Vancouver, B.C.
I will have more detail later on this morning’s Supreme Court argument in Trump v. Anderson regarding whether the Colorado Supreme Court was right to throw Donald Trump off the ballot on the theory that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment disqualifies him from serving in federal office again after he “engaged in insurrection.” The short summary, for now: It seems very unlikely that the Court is inclined to let a state remove Trump from the ballot before Election Day, the Court is unlikely to reach the merits question of what it means to engage in insurrection, and the decision isn’t likely to be a close one — but it is very possible that we get a fractured decision, with different justices citing different reasons to throw out the Colorado ruling. That’s by no means a certain outcome; with a huge number of legal issues to address, the fact that different justices were thinking about different things doesn’t preclude them from coming together on at least one conclusion that commands a majority. The work of building that consensus may yet lie ahead in chambers and in the exchange of draft opinions.
A conservative legal group identified grave markers for various deceased Michigan residents still listed on the state’s voter rolls, video footage provided to The Federalist shows.
Published by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), the mini-documentary shines a light on the inclusion of long-deceased Michigan residents as active voters on the state’s voter registration lists. As shown in the video, some of these individuals have remained on the lists despite dying decades prior.
