50 years ago, Israel came as close as it ever did to losing a war. While the Arab Islamic nations can repeatedly lose wars without paying much of a price, Israel can only lose one major war.
That Israel survived the grim days of that October when the sirens sounded, the radios blared unit names and young men rushed from synagogues to cars and then tanks and planes on the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, and went on to win the war, had little to do with the nation’s government.
Some members of the local Ukrainian community say there’s “broken trust” after a former Ukrainian soldier who fought in a Nazi division was honoured in Parliament during President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to Ottawa — and want an apology of their own.
“This is just so, so disappointing,” said Jane Kolbe, an active member of the community in Ottawa.
Now-former House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota invited veteran Yaroslav Hunka, one of his constituents from North Bay, Ont., to sit in the gallery during Zelenskyy’s address on Sept. 22.
Ukraine is fighting Russia on many fronts. And just as progress on the battlefield is hard won, so too these days are its diplomatic gains.
Since Russia’s invasion last year, Western support for Kyiv has remained largely strong. But cracks are beginning to form in the pro-Ukraine alliance.
The United States is Ukraine’s greatest supporter by a long way, providing more than $110bn (£90bn) in military and economic support. Yet over the weekend, Congress ditched plans to give Ukraine another $6bn in a bitter internal battle over how to fund the federal government.
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— Ontario Principals' Council (@OPCouncil) October 1, 2023
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As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tackles simultaneous domestic and international crises, the government’s incumbency and longevity is both a blessing and curse, according to communications specialists.
When managing crises, “it’s really good to be government,” but “somewhat more difficult to be late government,” said Chad Rogers, a partner at Crestview Strategy.
Former President Donald Trump is facing a judge inside a lower Manhattan courthouse Monday, for the opening of a $250 million civil trial over charges he overinflated the values of his many properties.
The fraud lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James accuses Trump, sons Eric and Don Jr., and the Trump Organization of a decades-long scheme.
Trump says, “It’s a witch hunt and a disgrace. It’s all run by a corrupt Attorney General.”
I agree. Do you?
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) October 2, 2023
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In 2020, police rolled up to a truck in small-town Saskatchewan as paramedics helped a woman inside. She had overdosed, but survived thanks to her companions’ call for emergency help. The officers, suspecting drugs, detained her companions and searched their truck, finding modified handguns, gun parts, ammunition, baggies, scales and needles. The findings screamed “drug dealer.” One companion, a man, was charged with carrying prohibited weapons and a fake ID.
Disturbing surveillance footage out of the Bay Area in California shows a serial shoplifter setting a store clerk’s hair on fire with stolen lighter fluid after he tried to stop the alleged thief from stealing.
Suraj — the store clerk who declined to reveal his last name out of fear of being targeted again — is seen on video tussling with Kendall Burton before Burton doused Suraj’s head in lighter fluid on Sept. 22 at the Appian Food and Liquor in El Sobrante, according to a video obtained by CBS News.
Jewish groups say the federal government must disclose more information from investigations into alleged war criminals who entered Canada after the Second World War, in a push that was re-energized after Parliament honoured a man who was revealed to have fought for a Nazi unit.
“When it comes to remembering the victims, we’ve done a lot. But when it comes to remembering the murderers, we’ve done very little,” David Matas, senior legal counsel for B’nai Brith Canada, said in an interview on Rosemary Barton Live that aired Sunday.
When FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire teetered on the brink of collapse, top lieutenant Caroline Ellison addressed a group of employees. One part of the empire, trading firm
Alameda Research, had made risky bets using customer deposits from its sister crypto-exchange FTX and now the money was gone.
When an employee asked who decided to take customer funds, Ellison hesitated, then said, “Sam, I guess.”
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— WHAT'S INSIDE? (@whatsinside) September 30, 2023
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VANCOUVER – Nearly two-thirds of the overdose deaths in British Columbia this year came after smoking illicit drugs, yet only 40 per cent of the supervised consumption sites in the province offer a safe place to smoke, and the chief coroner says that needs to change.
Lisa Lapointe said the latest data show 65 per cent of overdose deaths in 2023 came after smoking drugs, compared to 15 per cent involving injection, 14 per cent snorting and five per cent from oral consumption. The coroners’ office notes that people can consume using multiple methods.
Also in the data, the updated overdose death toll since the province declared a public health emergency in April 2016. Almost 13,000 have died since then, more than 1,600 this year.
If visitors to the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris are impressed by the lack of homelessness on the city’s streets, this will not be because the issue has been resolved. It is instead being brushed under the carpet—or, rather, shifted temporarily to nearby towns.
According to CNN, between 50 and 150 people have been carted out of the city every week during the summer, and removed to one of ten locations across France. Officials in these areas were asked earlier in the year to establish “temporary regional accommodation facilities.”
This past weekend, I was a guest on the CBC’s weekly call-in show, Cross Country Checkup, to discuss and debate the question: do we still need the CBC?
I was there in particular to make the case that the news media market has evolved over the past decades such that a public broadcaster of the size and scope of the CBC is no longer justified. Others argued in favour of preserving the CBC. And then there was a combination of callers and experts who found themselves somewhere in the middle.
An idea whose time has come.
Kyiv has a battle plan to recapture the peninsula but behind the scenes there are serious fears about what would happen next
Last week Mykhailo Podolyak, one of President Zelensky’s main advisers, made it clear that Ukrainian attacks on Crimea would only intensify, because he saw it as crucial to winning the war. When Crimea falls, he predicted, “Russian troops at the front will panic and Moscow’s political rhetoric will change completely.” The fighting talk apart, it is less clear how the peninsula could be liberated, and even whether this would be wise.
