Without vital US military support there is a real danger Ukraine could end up losing this war – not immediately but in the longer term.
President Volodymyr Zelensky is in Washington to spell that out, hoping that he can persuade Congress to pass a $60bn aid package that has stalled amid a row over US border security.
On Sunday, Ukraine’s first lady, Olena Zelenska, warned Ukraine is in mortal danger without continuing American support.
It is an underpublicized fact that the Israeli-Hamas war is unfolding as an overwhelming Israeli success. The Israel Defence Forces are now operating over practically the entire territory of Gaza. They have eliminated or shut down hundreds of miles of the Hamas tunnel network and uncovered and removed large quantities of Hamas arms and munitions. The Israeli general staff has revealed that for the first time, Hamas warriors are beginning to surrender on assurances of civilized treatment.
Harvard University announced Tuesday that under-fire President Claudine Gay will keep her job — even after reportedly losing more than $1 billion in donations since her disastrous congressional testimony about antisemitism.
The Harvard Corporation — the university’s highest governing body — made its announcement Tuesday following night-long talks between Gay and university leaders, a source familiar with the decision told the student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson.
“As members of the Harvard Corporation, we today reaffirm our support for President Gay’s continued leadership of Harvard University. Our extensive deliberations affirm our confidence that President Gay is the right leader to help our community heal and to address the very serious societal issues we are facing,” the group said in a statement.
Canada eventually will support an “accountability system” to investigate Israel’s military conduct during its war against Hamas, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said Monday.
Joly also called for an end to the violence in Gaza but stopped short of demanding a ceasefire. She said Canada was still looking at different versions of an expected ceasefire resolution that the United Nations General Assembly is expected to vote on Tuesday.
h/t Mauser
Major (res.) Roy Yanovsky, head of the Channel 13 News investigative desk, on reserve duty with the 7007th Reserve Battalion in Gaza, posted pictures of the items he and other soldiers found in Gaza houses on his X account.
“Things you find in Gaza homes:” Yanovsky wrote, starting a thread and noting that the most common items were RPG missiles and Kalashnikov rifles. “The supply is highly impressive,” he wrote.
The second common item is explosive charges. “It’s hard to find a street without a house that has several ready-to-use, including vests, uniforms, and pretty impressive combat equipment,” he added.
Roy Yanovsky, a journalist serving in the IDF posted a series of photos entitledL "Things you find in Gaza homes." The most common items were RPG missiles and Kalashnikov rifles. "The supply is highly impressive" https://t.co/MH9vMOv7LW
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) December 12, 2023
More on the morally bankrupt state of Canadian education: this woman asserts, based on her knowledge of the struggle for Indigenous rights learned in Canadian classrooms — that the Hamas Oct 7 rapes and murders were justified. pic.twitter.com/nLAaqezw9k
— Linda Frum (@LindaFrum) December 11, 2023
Ads for several prominent Canadian companies and organizations have been appearing in the feeds of extremist accounts on X, prompting some of them to pause advertising on the social media platform following an investigation by CBC News.
They join a growing number of brands that are backing away from X, formerly known as Twitter, amid the unchecked rise in hateful content and owner Elon Musk’s seeming endorsement of antisemitic and other far-right conspiracy theories.
A review by CBC News of about two dozen accounts linked to white nationalists, white supremacists, misogynists and other extremists found ads by major brands such as Samsung Canada, CF Montréal and Pathways Alliance, an oil industry lobby group.
I wonder if Musk can sue CBC as he did Media Matters?
If you wondered about the difference between wanting and deciding, this is what deciding looks like.
Now it’s a death match, organizationally speaking. Media Matters only wins if Musk runs out of money and lawyers before they do. Lol.
2024 is looking amazing. https://t.co/YEUyt408i3
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) December 11, 2023
The Russian president is depicted with bulging veins in a black “Z” T-shirt on the front of the calendar released by a support group for FSB veterans.
Organized crime groups are attempting to “infiltrate” government agencies and departments, a report obtained by Global News suggests.
The Criminal Intelligence Service Canada (CISC) reported in 2022 that 29 organized crime groups reportedly have “influence and access” within the public sector, while at least 369 groups are believed to be trying to gain a toehold in government.
Yea they’re called the Liberal Party.
Ukraine has released images which appear to show the dead body of a former MP whom it allegedly assassinated in Moscow, in a warning to other Russian collaborators.
Illia Kyva, a pro-Kremlin opposition politician who fled to Russia after it invaded Ukraine in February 2022, was shot dead on 6 December by a Ukrainian assassin.
The federal government says it supports listing Black and LGBTQ people among groups facing systemic workplace barriers under the Employment Equity Act, CBC News has learned.
The Liberal government is backing the legislative change after a task force report recommended the move.
A source told CBC News earlier on Monday that Ottawa “broadly supports” that recommendation and others from a task force that reviewed the legislation. The government made an initial commitment Monday to modernize the act, the source said.
A 55-year-old Montana woman was busted for allegedly slamming her car into a demonstration by a New York-based black Hebrew group in the Treasure State over the weekend, injuring one marcher.
Genevienne Rancuret was charged with drunk driving and felony assault after cops in Billings said she repeatedly drove her car into a gathering by members of Israel United in Christ on the sidewalk shortly after 12:30 p.m. on Saturday.
Sounds like a good citizen.
EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY
Whistleblower from Trudeau's $1 Billion Green Slush Fund testifies:
$150 million in taxpayer money misappropriated.
Habitual conflicts of interest violations by Liberal appointed board members.
Coordinated effort by government to coverup.
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WATCH pic.twitter.com/ppXsGNqLzK— Michael Barrett (@MikeBarrettON) December 12, 2023
The decision taken by the left-liberal majority in the Danish parliament, the Folketing, late last week to ban public Quran burning has garnered sharp criticism from both domestic politicians and political leaders in neighboring Scandinavian countries, with many arguing the law represents a capitulation to Islamic thuggery.
Following a contentious debate on the floor of parliament on Thursday, December 7th, lawmakers voted 94-77 in favor of a law that criminalizes the so-called “inappropriate treatment” of religious texts. The three governing parties—the Social Democrats, the Liberals, and the Moderates—along with the Radical Left voted in favor of the legislation, while the rest of the opposition opposed it.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published the results of the 2022 PISA test this week and the news for Canada is not good.
PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) is a standardized test used by many OECD countries to gauge how kids in their public school systems are doing in subjects like math, science, and reading. These assessments are not content-based but rather skills-based tests.
