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In Vicenza in north-east Italy, pro-Palestine supporters get a beating from the police & the full water cannon treatment.
Warms the cockles of your heart. pic.twitter.com/wKqgaeDi1c
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) January 20, 2024
Canadians aged 18 to 24 frame the country as being caught in a tide of anti-Muslim hate that easily eclipses anything happening to Canadian Jews, a Leger survey found
Shocking video shows moment NYC driver intentionally plows into NYPD officer: ‘F–k these cops!’
h/t Lenny Schneider
UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland caught attention before his main event fight on Jan. 20 in Toronto as he sparred with journalists, criticized the prime minister, and told Canadians he’s standing up for their freedom.
The American mixed martial artist told a rowdy crowd at the event’s press conference on Jan. 18 that he would continue to “stick up for you [expletive] guys.”
He appeared donning a white t-shirt with the printed words “Strickland” and “Make Canada Great Again.”
NEW: UFC’s Sean Strickland is asked if he’ll challenge Trudeau to a cage match.
“He actually boxed once, it’s the most f** pathetic thing on the planet.”
– “Did he do it in blackface?” #UFC297 #seanstrickland #Trudeau #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/PXEPev49r6
— William Diaz-Berthiaume (@wdiazberthiaume) January 20, 2024
NEW: UFC champ Sean Strickland tells Canadian journalist to go "f**k" himself after the journalist tried asking a 'gotcha' question about the LGBT community.
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"You're a weak f**king man. You're the f**king problem. You elected Justin Trudeau."
"The fact that you have no… pic.twitter.com/LpThPtBFwD
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 17, 2024
Borrell calls for two-state solution, accuses Israel of having ‘created’ Hamas
Top European Union Diplomat Josep Borrell has accused Israel of having “created” and “financed” the militant group Hamas — which carried out unprecedented and deadly attacks on Israel on October 7 — in a bid to weaken the two-state solution.
“We believe that a two-state solution must be imposed from outside to bring peace. Although, I insist, Israel is reaffirming its refusal (of this solution), and to prevent it they have gone so far as to create Hamas themselves,” Borrell said during a speech at the University of Valladolid in Spain.
Rising migration levels are putting public services under strain
Population growth used to be determined by birth rates. But in the infertile West, it’s increasingly immigration policy which makes the difference. One might think, then, that no government would use this power beyond reasonable bounds. However, that’s to reckon without Justin Trudeau. During his eight years in office, the Canadian Prime Minister has pursued a recklessly liberal immigration policy.
OMFG 🤣 @BetterDwelling https://t.co/i61g3rAUvX
— Nya Pfannerstill (@NyaPfanner) January 20, 2024
H/T SweetPea
The future of iconic magazine Sports Illustrated looked dire Friday after the publisher announced mass layoffs.
The Arena Group — which had been roiled by reports that the fabled magazine published AI-generated content — admitted to failing to make a $3.75 million quarterly licensing payment to Authentic Brands Group due this week.
As a result, the publicly-traded Arena announced Thursday it would make a “significant reduction” in its workforce of more than 100 journalists.
h/t DS
Canadians are experiencing scandal fatigue with the federal government.
Rather than expressing rage or even annoyance as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did a new version of his old Aga Khan private resort vacation debacle, citizens are responding with a resigned shrug of the shoulders. While whiffs of possible government corruption involving the controversial ArriveCan APP are emerging and federal officials are being suspended, Canadians aren’t even batting an eye. People have given up hoping for accountability as the government continues to skate on, scandal after scandal, without resolution.
The Duke of Sussex has withdrawn his libel case against the Mail on Sunday and now faces an estimated legal bill of more than £750,000.
Prince’s Harry’s lawyers informed the court at 10am on Friday that he was “discontinuing” his case.
The development came just hours before he was due to hand over relevant documents to the High Court.
After eight years of the Trudeau Liberal government managing the Canadian economy, Canadians are in the throes of a cost-of-living crisis. While this crisis is being felt by citizens in countries around the world, the Trudeau government’s policies are exacerbating the tight financial situation most Canadians find themselves in. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, and a host of senior ministers are championing fiscal and economic policies that are proving to be detrimental to the economic well-being of individual Canadians and of the country as a whole.
Rocked by two weeks of farmers’ demonstrations against cuts in diesel subsidies, Germany now faces hundreds of disaffected hauliers protesting, as they assembled in Berlin Friday morning to oppose plans for raising road tolls and carbon taxes on their industry.
Approximately 1,500 trucks paraded along the A13 road towards Berlin in a two-kilometre long convoy before paralysing the city centre on Friday afternoon. Truckers are getting organised against recent government tax hikes and foreign, predominantly Eastern European, drivers undermining wage rates.
The German farmers and truckers are still protesting against planned tax increases.
Do you support the farmers?
— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) January 19, 2024
The lifetime cost of buying, owning and operating the air force’s troubled CH-148 Cyclones is now expected to top $14.87 billion, according to a leaked internal Department of National Defence briefing document obtained by CBC News.
Most of the expense — $10 billion — is being attributed to the cost of sustaining the aircraft. The CH-148 Cyclone is unique; no other nation flies the maritime helicopter.
The estimate is contained in a spreadsheet in a submission sent to the federal Treasury Board in late 2021, when the Department of National Defence (DND) was seeking an additional $111 million to top up the program’s budget. The increase eventually was approved.
Sainsbury’s has said it is “terribly sorry” after spoof pricing labels were spotted by pots of Israeli hummus accusing shoppers of “supporting genocide”.
The fake shelf labels, which were found Thursday morning at Vauxhall train station in London, said shoppers could purchase “apartheid hummus” for £19.48, a reference to the year of the establishment of the Jewish State.
It further encourages consumers to “search #BDS for more info” and notes, “Buying this product helps support genocide.”
Toronto’s federal Liberal MPs can get mad and stomp their feet at Mayor Olivia Chow. They can shake their fists at her. They can reprimand her on talk radio as Etobicoke Centre MP Yvan Baker did earlier this week.
Heck, they can erect a billboard in the heart of soon to be “Sankofa Square” accusing the mayor of unfairly maligning the federal government as stingy. But none of it matters one bit. Because voters don’t care that politicians treat each other with professionalism and kindness in the service of getting things done. They only care that things get done.
Red on Red.
OTTAWA – Canada has become a “safe haven” and international hub for notorious crime groups as illicit trade in the country is “booming,” according to a report by an American think tank.
“Canada has become a safe zone for the world’s most notorious crime groups and threat networks that are harming Canada’s national security and imperiling the security of other nations,” warns a report published in late November by the International Coalition Against Illicit Economies (ICAIE).
