A Moroccan convicted of belonging to an Islamic State-affiliated ring and sentenced to death for the beheadings of two Scandinavian tourists has killed himself in prison, Moroccan officials said.
The facility where he was held in the eastern city of Oujda said in a statement that staff found his body early Tuesday.
A majority of Canadians believe China attempted to interfere in recent federal elections and want to see stronger measures to prevent foreign meddling, a new poll suggests, adding to the growing calls for Ottawa to take action.
The new poll from the Angus Reid Institute, released Wednesday, also found 53 per cent of those surveyed believe the Liberal government has not been strong enough in responding to China’s alleged interference attempts, and even more (64 per cent) want more focus on national security and defence.
Business owners are fleeing Portland in droves amid a pronounced rise in crime and homelessness, officials in the Democratic stronghold have revealed.
Public data shows that since the pandemic, more than 2,600 downtown businesses have filed changes of address with the U.S. Postal Service to leave their downtown ZIP codes.
Several big-name employers, from Unitus Community Credit Union to Umpqua Bank, have been among the mass exodus, carried out by owners who have taken issue with the rising crime levels and homelessness – and the city’s failure to address it.
It’s entirely predictable, even inevitable, that public broadcasting would favor socialism in all its programming. But it’s a little more surprising when it openly touts The Communist Manifesto.
Since I’m a conservative glutton for punishment, I was driving on the highway on Sunday morning listening to the NPR-distributed program On The Media with host Brooke Gladstone, a longtime fixture on NPR. It was predictable when she chatted with socialist Naomi Oreskes about their mutual loathing of “free-market fundamentalism.” But the next segment was even worse. My jaw dropped.
This week, Kazakhstan shipped the first batch of crude to Germany through the Druzhba pipeline system as the German government looks to shore up supplies for a key refinery in Eastern Germany that until the turn of the year was fed almost exclusively by Russian oil.
The shipment of 20,000 tons, or about 145,000 barrels, is part of Germany’s broader plan to cut its dependency on Russian oil. Europe’s largest economy stopped buying oil from Russia this year even as pipeline crude oil remains exempt from a European Union embargo on Russian oil prompted by Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
OTTAWA – China’s embassy in Ottawa is denying reports of attempted election interference in Canada, saying the claims are “baseless and defamatory” and harm diplomatic relations.
The Liberal government has come under pressure in recent weeks to explain what Canada is doing about allegations of Chinese meddling in the last two federal elections, after they were spelled out in anonymous leaks to the media from security sources.
“China has always been firmly against any attempts to interfere in other countries’ domestic affairs,” reads a statement the embassy emailed to The Canadian Press.
FBI Director Christopher Wray has said that the bureau believes Covid-19 most likely originated in a Chinese government-controlled lab.
“The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident,” he told Fox News.
It is the first public confirmation of the FBI’s classified judgement of how the pandemic virus emerged.
Not an accident.
MUST WATCH TUCKER ON THE COVID CHINESE LAB LEAK: “The origins of Covid was never a secret.” “The people who knew lied about the truth.”
Chinese virologist who worked in the Wuhan lab tells Tucker that COVID was deliberately leaked from a Wuhan lab.https://t.co/cOHcriZvrI
— 🇺🇸 Pamela Geller 🇺🇸 (@PamelaGeller) February 28, 2023
Bomb threats and death threats, along with vile voice-mail messages, protests and police presence.
For students, staff and trustees, this has been the reality at Oakville Trafalgar High School for the past six months.
As the controversy over a teacher’s attire continues to engulf the school, on Tuesday officials told the Star that educator Kayla Lemieux is now on home assignment, though remains an employee of the Halton District School Board.
Three crew members from the ill-fated Western Rust have filed suit against Alec Baldwin, claiming they suffered post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety due to the accidental shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
The politically connected Chinese donors who pledged $1-million to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and the University of Montreal did not only want to build a statue of the former prime minister.
They also sought to erect a statue at the university’s law school of chairman Mao Zedong, the Chinese leader who brought his country under Communist control and, in his decades as the Great Helmsman, oversaw policies that led to huge numbers of deaths from famine and violence.
“They suggested one of Trudeau and Mao together,” Geneviève O’Meara, a spokesperson for the University of Montreal, confirmed to The Globe and Mail.
KING Charles is evicting Prince Harry and Meghan from Frogmore Cottage — and has offered it to Prince Andrew.
The Sussexes are now drawing up plans to ship their remaining belongings to the US.
Oilpatch emissions will fall ‘because we’re going to force them,’ environment minister says
When it comes to cutting carbon emissions, regular Canadians are doing their part.
Emissions from heating homes, driving cars, flying and even garbage are all down from 2005 levels.
But this progress on the path to net zero is being cancelled out by significant rises in emissions from big business and industry.
Recent revelations that the CCP has thoroughly infiltrated the Liberal Party makes me suspect that China dictates our so-called climate change policy.
Steven Guilbeault just said that 75% of Canadians believe that climate change is a threat that requires urgent action.
Do you believe him? pic.twitter.com/pT0V6JcGpW
— Rob Primo (@therobprimo1) February 28, 2023
A Christian high school withdrew from a state basketball tournament rather than face a team with a transgender player.
The Mid Vermont Christian School Eagles (MVCS) girls basketball team pulled out of the Vermont Division IV state tournament on February 21 after learning that their opponents’ team would include a biological male. The head of the school, Vicky Fogg, said in a statement regarding the decision to forfeit that including men in women’s sports was a bad sign for the future of women’s sports.
OTTAWA — A Liberal MP accused of benefiting from Chinese interference during his election has twice missed Parliamentary votes declaring Beijing’s treatment of Muslim Uyghurs a genocide.
CHICAGO — Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago lost her bid for a second term on Tuesday, The Associated Press said, a resounding defeat that reflected widespread dissatisfaction from voters over her handling of crime and policing in the nation’s third-largest city.
Four years ago, Ms. Lightfoot made history as the first Black woman to be elected mayor of Chicago when she swept all 50 of the city’s wards. But she saw her popularity plunge during the coronavirus pandemic as Chicago suffered a spike in violent crime, with looting and destruction on its famed Magnificent Mile in 2020.
I’m gonna miss you.
