The Manhattan grand jury hearing evidence in the Stormy Daniels “hush money” investigation on Thursday voted to indict the former president, two sources with knowledge of the case told The Post.
The sealed indictment was filed with the clerk’s office Thursday evening — setting the stage for the first ever criminal prosecution of a former US president, the sources said. The specific charges were not made public.
World War II was already a year old when Germany, Japan and Italy formally signed the Tripartite Pact in 1940, creating a military alliance among three nations intent on world domination. History would subsequently call them the Axis powers. It would be another year before America entered the conflict, but this Axis alliance of power sent a sharp and chilling message to Washington. There was no mistaking now that our nation, and our very civilization, was now in serious jeopardy.
In its wake, America accelerated its defense planning and just prior to the Axis pact being signed, the United States reintroduced the draft in recognition that, pact or no pact, democracy was at risk.
The legacy media have a preset narrative machine when it comes to mass shootings. That narrative machine takes into account the identities of the shooter and the victims, and then churns out an explanation for the shooting. White shooter, black victims: systemic racism. Black shooter, white victims: alienation caused by systemic racism. Muslim shooter, gay victims: Christian homophobia.
The federal Liberals are trending downward on three key measures while Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has surpassed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau when it comes to the question of who Canadians would prefer now as their prime minister, according to Nanos Research.
Ballot support has been trending negatively now for weeks for the Liberals, while it’s remained steady for the Conservatives; meanwhile, support for Trudeau as prime minister has taken a sharp downward turn as Poilievre’s personal numbers have risen to the point of surpassing Trudeau’s.
TRURO, Nova Scotia (AP) — A public inquiry has found widespread failures in how Canada’s federal police force responded to the country’s worst mass shooting and recommends that the government rethink the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s central role in the country’s policing.
In a seven-volume report released Thursday, the Mass Casualty Commission also says the RCMP missed red flags in the years leading up to the Nova Scotia rampage that resulted in 22 people being slain April 18-19, 2020 by a denture maker disguised as a RCMP officer and driving a replica police vehicle.
Party ethics critics are arguing that the recently announced appointment of a temporary ethics commissioner, who has family ties to a cabinet minister, raises conflict of interest concerns and may shake the trust Canadians have in their public institutions.
The Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner announced in a Twitter post on March 28 that Martine Richard will serve as the interim ethics commissioner for six months. Richard, who has been employed as general counsel in the ethics office since 2013 and as a senior general counsel since 2015, steps into her interim role following the retirement of former ethics commissioner Mario Dion on Feb. 21.
You won’t believe this! Watch which Liberal family member is the new ethics commissioner. 🍌🍌🍌 pic.twitter.com/0QCDO507zY
— Michael Barrett (@MikeBarrettON) March 29, 2023
A 35-year-old ISIS supporter has been found guilty of war crimes after she posted photos from Syria of herself with severed heads on Facebook in 2014.
The Goteborg District Court in Sweden sentenced Fatosh Ibrahim, who pleaded not guilty, to three months in prison.
The court said on two occasions she published photographs of severed heads impaled on the fence that were placed there by so-called Islamic State militants in Raqqa.
Now if she had a Canadian passport she’d be looked after as a prized equity hire of the Trudeau government.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s 2023 federal budget makes it clear the Liberals are never going to deliver a balanced budget to Canadian taxpayers, despite repeated claims they would, starting in 2015.
That means Canadians will be paying for Trudeau’s deficits long after he’s gone.
That’s the point Justin doesn’t give a crap about consequences or collateral damage he thinks only in terms of self-aggrandizing selfies.
Several arrest warrants requested after video emerges which appears to show guards leaving as fire engulfs a cell with migrants locked inside
The deaths of at least 39 migrants in a fire at a Mexican detention centre are being investigated as suspected homicides, a prosecutor has said, accusing those in charge of doing nothing to evacuate the victims.
Authorities faced mounting scrutiny of their handling of the disaster after video surveillance footage appeared to show guards leaving as flames engulfed a cell with migrants locked inside.
An investigation was opened “for the crime of homicide and damage to property,” though other possible crimes will also be considered, Sara Irene Herrerias, a prosecutor specialising in human rights, said.
A proposed new law would give the government the power to filter what Canadians see in their news feeds, on YouTube and on social media. It also could block the next Justin…
In January 2007, Justin Bieber’s mom, Pattie Mallette, posted a video of her son, then 12, covering R&B star Ne-Yo’s “So Sick” at a kids’ singing competition in a little town near Toronto.
“I told him, ‘Okay, you’ve never sung in front of anybody before, and you’ve never had singing lessons,’” Mallette told me. ‘Let’s adjust our expectations.’ ” Bieber finished third. “One of the judges actually left because she was upset that he didn’t come first,” Mallette said.
A bearded pro powerlifter entered a women’s competition in Canada — and smashed a record held by a trans lifter who was watching on.
Avi Silverberg — the head coach for Team Canada Powerlifting for more than 10 years — entered Saturday’s Heroes Classic tournament in Lethbridge, Alberta, after identifying as a female.
International development groups say budget cut will end Canadian programs abroad
OTTAWA — Humanitarian groups are giving Tuesday’s federal budget a thumbs down, saying a projected $1.3-billion cut to foreign aid will end Canadian projects and create a backslide in progress on fighting disease and hunger.
“There is certainly a gap between rhetoric and reality in this year’s budget,” said Kate Higgins, the head of Cooperation Canada, which represents more than 95 non-profits.
“It undermines progress on development and Canada’s contribution to progress on development around the world.”
A 1.3 Billion cut? That’s a start but how do we end up with 95 non-profits reliant on the tax-payer teat? I bet that’s just the tip of the ice-berg.
How many of these actually accomplish anything?
The “QAnon Shaman” — known for storming the US Capitol shirtless in a horned coyote-fur headdress— was released from prison 14 months early and moved to a halfway house, his lawyer said Thursday.
Jacob Chansley, 35, who became the notorious poster boy of the Jan. 6 riots, had been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in federal prison but served only 11 months, said his attorney Albert Watkins.
h/t XC
A third of Chinese Canadians believe Beijing meddling in elections, pressuring Canadians: poll
Just over a third of Chinese Canadians believe the government of China has tried to interfere in elections here and pressure Canadians in pursuit of its political aims, suggests a new Postmedia-Leger poll of an ethnic group at the centre of the foreign interference affair.
… At the same time, more than half thought suggesting certain Chinese-Canadian politicians are under Beijing’s influence is racist.
As discussion and debate rages over allegations of meddling by Beijing in Canadian affairs, much attention has turned to the country’s 1.7 million or so residents of Chinese descent.
No punches pulled those numbers indicate a clear danger to our society.
Our Politicians have remade Canada into a balkanized 5th Columnist state via mass immigration, multiculturalism and the denigration of our nations values and heritage.
Playing identity politics with Canada’s security is a vile and dangerous practice that all our political parties engage in.
Down with the Uniparty.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter says it has removed thousands of tweets showing a poster promoting a “trans day of vengeance” protest in support of transgender rights in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.
Ella Irwin, Twitter’s head of Trust and Safety, said in a tweet Wednesday that the company automatically removed more than 5,000 tweets and retweets of a poster promoting the event.
“We do not support tweets that incite violence irrespective of who posts them. “Vengeance” does not imply peaceful protest. Organizing or support for peaceful protests is ok,” Irwin wrote in the tweet.
