Chinese Navy Escorting Commercial Cargo Ships in Red Sea

China’s navy has started escorting Chinese cargo ships through the Red Sea, according to a shipping company and Chinese state media reports. This comes as many cargo shipping companies have decided to avoid the globally important trade passage because of attacks from Houthi rebels.

Since November, Iran-backed Houthis have launched scores of drone and missile attacks on ships passing through the Red Sea, acts that they say are in support of Palestinian militant group Hamas in the war with Israel.

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The return to ‘Satanic panic’: Canada’s grief for mass murders never committed

On May 27, 2021, Chief Rosanne Casimir of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation announced that ground penetrating radar (GPR) technology had located the remains of 215 children on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School located in British Columbia, Canada.

The news was readily accepted and publicly grieved by every society figurehead and institution.

h/t Mauser

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Kill Crazy Trudeau Government halts assisted suicide program for mentally ill due to lack of willing executioners

Canada has delayed the extension of its assisted suicide program to people suffering solely from mental illness, health officials announced Monday.

Canada offers medically assisted death to terminally and chronically ill people, but the plan to extend the program to people with mental illnesses has divided Canadians, the New York Times reported. Some critics attribute the problem to a lack of adequate psychiatric care in the country.

The controversial policy would allow anyone in Canada with an incurable medical condition to apply for assisted suicide, even if the disease is not terminal, which makes the law one of the most liberal assisted suicide programs in the world.

Don’t for a minute think Trudeau’s government will stop at voluntary euthanasia.

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You Choose! Lyon Knife Attacker Known For Radicalization or Attack Is Non Terror-Related

From Fdesouche (Note Google Translate) – Lyon: an attack foiled, Sofiane K. threatened passers-by with a knife. This is an S file known for radicalization and with a psychiatric history

This Saturday, an attack was foiled in the city of Lyon, late in the morning. A 28-year-old young man named Sofiane K was arrested by the police while threatening passers-by. The suspect is listed as S for radicalization reasons.

An attack was foiled this Saturday, February 3 in  Lyon  late in the morning. According to information from CNEWS, the attacker is 28 years old and is called Sofiane K. He was already known to the police and suffers from a psychiatric history, schizophrenia.


From DW – Three people were injured in a knife attack at prominent Paris train station Gare de Lyon, French police have said. Police said the attack did not appear to be terror-related.

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Canada’s huge bet on the EV battery industry demands a jolt of reality

When it comes to the green transition, let no one say the Trudeau government is unwilling to put other people’s money where its mouth is. Why, in just one sector, a sector of a sector really – making batteries for electric vehicles – the government has put $44-billion at risk: one of the “big bets” on Canada’s industrial future of which it likes to boast.

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We know what ‘foo fighters’ that buzzed Second World War pilots really were, say scientists

In the 1940s, Allied pilots during the Second World War reported being hounded by fast-moving blobs, which they dubbed “foo fighters”.

Shaped like clouds, donuts, balls and spheres, and often glowing or translucent, the strange entities have fuelled conspiracy theories that Earth was being visited by advanced civilisations.

Now a paper suggests the phenomena are in fact plasmas, or ionised gases, which are drawn to the electrical charge of aircraft, spacecraft and satellites.

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Vibrant Diversity in UK politics

Angela Rayner introduced the world to the slang term ‘Ginger Growler’

h/t Mauser

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Public safety minister ‘struck’ by extent Canada is ‘net importer’ of intelligence from allies

OTTAWA – Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc told an inquiry on Friday that he was “struck” by how much intelligence Canada receives from its allies as opposed to the amount it shares with them.

“I was struck, when I became minister of public safety, the extent to which we’re net importers of intelligence information,” LeBlanc told the Public Inquiry on Foreign Interference Friday morning.

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Images released of vehicles, suspects involved in alleged $300,000 copper wire theft: Toronto police

Toronto police are looking for eight suspects who allegedly stole $300,000 worth of industrial copper cable from a downtown electrical station last month.

Officers responded to a break and enter call on Jan. 15 in the area of Lakeshore Boulevard West and Rees Street, police said in a news release issued Friday.

On Jan. 13 and 14, police said the suspects gained entry into an electrical station in the area. According to police, four separate vehicles were used over two days to complete the alleged theft.

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Today in “What will Trudeau say to score points with Hamas supporters”

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada is looking into sanctions against Israeli settlers in the West Bank who have been accused of attacking Palestinians and Israeli peace activists in the territory.

On Thursday, the U.S. State Department issued financial sanctions against Israelis living in illegal settlements. Washington says the sanctioned individuals are connected to “escalating violence” against Palestinians.

“We are looking at sanctions on extremist settlers,” Trudeau told reporters Friday after an unrelated announcement in Waterloo, Ont., where he offered no update on a Canadian missing in the Gaza Strip.

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