Hungary has vowed to block censorious attempts from globalist Eurocrats such as Guy Verhofstadt to impose sanctions on Tucker Carlson for interviewing Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
Liberals at risk of big losses in Vancouver, Toronto, Nanos projections shows
The federal Conservatives continue to hold a commanding lead over the Liberals, who are at risk of losing large swaths of Metro Vancouver and the Greater Toronto Area they won in the last federal election, according to latest ballot numbers and seat projection data from Nanos Research(opens in a new tab).
If the election was held today, the Conservatives would get 40 per cent of the ballot support marking a 15-point lead over the Liberals, who are at 24.7 per cent ballot support.
Houthis sentence 13 to public execution on homosexuality charges
A court of the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen has sentenced 13 people to public execution on homosexuality charges, the French wire service AFP reported on Tuesday. Another 35 people have been detained for similar charges.
The ruling was made in Ibb, a Houthi-controlled province from which the jihadist group has been launching attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, opening a war that reached its four-month mark this week.
Bell to cut 4.8K jobs, sell 45 radio stations in major shake-up
BCE Inc. is selling off 45 of its 103 regional radio stations as it cuts nine per cent of its workforce, including journalists and other workers at its Bell Media subsidiary.
The affected stations are in British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada.
The company announced Thursday in an open letter signed by chief executive Mirko Bibic that 4,800 jobs “at all levels of the company” would be cut.
Swedes Protest State Broadcaster’s Liberal Propaganda
Demos in Sweden mirror Europe-wide sentiment: citizens are fed up with funding politically biased public broadcasters.
Outraged citizens in Sweden have vented their anger at the state broadcaster for being politically biased and misleading its viewers. In a protest held on Saturday, around a thousand people marched to the headquarters of the public broadcaster to express their dissatisfaction with the reporting of Sveriges Television (SVT) and Sveriges Radio (SR).
ANALYSIS: Charging, Resale Among Added Hurdles Slowing EV Adoption
The near-term challenges of mass electric vehicle (EV) adoption inevitably begin with price, but a recent cold snap has re-emphasized battery and charging snags. In addition, as prices for new EVs trend down, new buyers also have to consider potentially lower resale values.
Tom Narayan, lead equity analyst covering global autos at RBC Capital Markets, told BNN Bloomberg on Jan. 31 that the EV market is going through a bit of a slowdown.
Revealed: suspected Russian spy ‘worked for MI6’ and Foreign Office
The refugee from Afghanistan, who met David Cameron, Gordon Brown and the future King, denies wrongdoing but says MI5 has accused him of being groomed by Russia since the age of five
An alleged Russian spy lied to gain asylum in the UK before he worked for the Foreign Office, accessed British military and intelligence secrets and met with the future King, The Times has learnt.
The refugee from Afghanistan, who is accused of spying for Russia’s military intelligence agency, also worked for GCHQ and MI6, a court heard.
He worked with two prime ministers and met Prince Charles and Prince William on visits to Afghanistan while working for the British government. He ultimately obtained both Russian and British citizenship.
“EnviroMENTAList”
WATCH: A climate protester set fire to an empty baby stroller and then glued herself to the brick pathway in front of Ottawa’s Peace Tower on Tuesday.
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— Globalnews.ca (@globalnews) February 7, 2024
h/t Mauser
‘Terrorizing our community’: Arrests made in GTA extortion attempts
Police in Peel Region are investigating 29 separate cases of attempted extortion targeting South Asian business owners in a rash of crime Brampton’s mayor says is “terrorizing” the community.
Investigators announced the probes as part of their newly-minted Extortion Investigative Task Force (opens in a new tab)(EITF) at a news conference on Wednesday and identified five suspects who have been arrested in connection with three alleged incidents across the Greater Toronto Area since December 2023.
Toronto police allege suspect connected to mother’s killing has fled Canada
Police said they had identified 19-year-old Ahmed Ali as the last of three suspects allegedly involved in the shooting and said he was facing charges of manslaughter and robbery with a firearm.
Ali is believed to have fled to Somalia shortly after the shooting, said Det. Sgt. Henri Marsman.
The mother of a school shooter was convicted of manslaughter. What does this mean for other cases?
A Michigan mother could face up to 60 years in prison after a jury convicted her on Tuesday on four counts of involuntary manslaughter, after her teenage son killed four students in a school shooting in 2021.
Prosecutors argued Michigan law compelled Jennifer Crumbley to prevent her then-15-year-old son, Ethan, from harming others, and the jury in the case agreed.
Now 17, Ethan is serving a life sentence after pleading guilty to murder and terrorism charges in October 2022. (His father, James Crumbley, will have his own involuntary manslaughter trial in March.)
Hundreds of families live in hotels and motels waiting for permanent housing in Ottawa
The City of Ottawa says there are about 300 families or 1,039 people staying in hotels, motels, and post-secondary residences waiting for permanent housing because emergency shelters are over-capacity.
Jamieson Ferguson and her family were once one of them. The 26-year-old mother of three, expecting her fourth, stayed in a motel for just over two years.
“Let me tell you, that is not a place for children,” she said.
British countryside is a ‘racist and colonial’ white space, wildlife charities claim
The British countryside is a “racist colonial” white space, wildlife charities have claimed.
Wildlife and Countryside Link, a charity umbrella group whose members include the RSPCA, WWF and National Trust, made the claim in evidence provided to Parliament on racism and its influence on the natural world.
Alberta’s 4,481 Megawatts of Wind Power Produced Only 3 MW Monday Night, 2 Tuesday Morning
Where are we going? Lower! That was the trend for wind power production in Alberta on Monday, Feb. 5, as the 4,481 megawatts of nameplate wind power generation capacity fell to just three megawatts output. That’s less than 0.1 percent, or less than 1 one-thousandth of nameplate capacity. If you want to get really technical, it’s actually 0.07 percent, or 7 ten-thousandths of nameplate capacity.
That’s according to minute-by-minute data from the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO).
On ArriveCan, Conservatives switch from prosecution to defence
In the long, strange series of hearings into the ArriveCan app, one of the most peculiar twists is that Conservative MPs have switched sides from prosecution to defence.
In November, when senior civil servant Cameron MacDonald appeared at hearings, Conservative MPs pounced. Now they are his defenders – and attacking investigators for treating him unfairly.
Mr. MacDonald had been a director-general of IT innovation at the Canada Border Services Agency when the ArriveCan project started in 2020.
The D.C. Circuit’s Misunderstood Trump Immunity Ruling
In my post Tuesday night, I tried to explain the one-page order the D.C. Circuit federal appeals court issued in conjunction with yesterday’s 57-page opinion denying former president Trump’s immunity claim. The order involved the timing of what’s known as the issuance of the “mandate” — basically, the court’s formal decision. The mandate conveys jurisdiction back to the District Court (where Judge Tanya Chutkan is presiding), which, in turn, must apply the Circuit’s ruling.
My post addressed how the Circuit is grappling with Trump’s strategy of delay — here, by nudging him into an expeditious appeal to the Supreme Court. There is much misunderstanding about this.