Opposition MPs are requesting a House of Commons committee meeting to examine the large increase in government contracts being awarded to the U.S. consulting firm McKinsey since the Trudeau Liberals took power in 2015.
“In the past seven years, McKinsey & Company has garnered $66 million in federal contracts, representing a 30-fold increase from the previous government according to media reporting,” reads a letter signed by all the opposition members on the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates and sent on Jan. 13 to Conservative MP Kelly McCauley, the committee’s chair.
DNIPRO, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian emergency crews on Monday sifted through what was left of a Dnipro apartment building destroyed by a Russian missile, placing bodies from one of the war’s deadliest single attacks in months in black bags and gingerly carrying them across steep piles of rubble.
Authorities said the death toll from Saturday’s strike rose to 40 and that 30 people remained missing Monday. Tall cranes swung across the jagged gaps in a row of residential towers, the engines growling as residents of one of Ukraine’s largest cities watched largely in silence under a gray sky.
#Ukraine: Rare footage from the Ukrainian 28th Mechanised Brigade in the area of #Bakhmut, showing a Russian Lancet loitering munition taken down by very manual means-small arms and ZU-23-2 autocannon fire. pic.twitter.com/uMciTu21Zu
During his first gubernatorial campaign, now-Gov. Gavin Newsom made a truly shocking — and horrifying — admission.
Newsom told a reporter from the New Yorker that in 2002, when he was on San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors, his 55-year-old mother, who had breast cancer, called to tell him that she had chosen to die by assisted suicide. (“In May, 2002, his mother decided to end her life through assisted suicide,” the New Yorker reports.)
Newsom wasn’t there to pick up the phone, though, because of his political duties.
When the cousin of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors died earlier this month after being tased by Los Angeles police, a narrative quickly emerged among activists.
Comedian and writer Travon Free wrote on Twitter, “The LAPD murdered Keenan Anderson. A beloved high school English teacher and father who FLAGGED THEM DOWN FOR HELP after a car accident. He was a threat to no one. He needed help and it cost him his life. The LAPD must be held accountable for this at all costs.”
No good deed goes unpunished. That must be what Patriot Mobile cellphone company, a company owned by conservative Christians, is thinking today. The company donated a pizza party to the Grapevine (TX) Police Department and its staff as a way to show its support and appreciation. Nice gesture, right? Not according to some members of the community.
As ordinary Iranians struggle to pay for fruit and vegetables, their leaders lavish cash on the guards brutally suppressing protests in the streets
Iran’s feared state security forces, which have played a violent role in suppressing nationwide protests, have been allocated $3 billion in the latest budget, despite the country’s collapsing economy.
Announced several weeks late by the government, the budget for the state militia, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), has been raised by 28 per cent. However, some experts estimate the actual income of the militia could be as high as $17 billion.
Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta was Martin Luther King’s church: His grandfather became the pastor in 1894, his father became the senior pastor in 1931, he was baptized there in 1924, and he served as co-pastor from 1960 until his assassination in 1968. How that mighty pulpit has fallen, as evidenced by Biden’s appearance there Sunday morning, which saw him tell blatant lies, mangle a Supreme Court justice’s name, and come on to a little girl.
What’s more important – women’s rights or Sam Smith’s feelings? We’ve had a loud and clear answer to that maddest of questions over the past few days. It’s Sam Smith’s feelings. Of course it is. The right of this ear-piercing nonbinary balladeer not to suffer the indignity of winning an award with the word ‘male’ on it – despite his obviously being a bloke – takes precedence over the right of female pop artists to have their own sexed awards category and to pick up gongs for their work. Smith’s eccentric identity trumps your right to win prizes, ladies. Suck it up.
Tennessee congressman Tim Burchett thinks it’s time the government stops covering up evidence of UFOs.
The Republican representative told News Nation over the weekend that the US government has been perpetually participating in a ‘huge cover-up’ of potential alien life, adding that there is proof of UFOs in the Bible.
Recently, a report delivered to Congress showed a sharp uptick in military sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena – the new term for UFO.
Jeremy Clarkson has been dropped by Amazon, it has been reported, as he revealed he had emailed the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to apologise for his “disgraceful” column inciting violence against Meghan.
The former Top Gear host wrote in The Sun last month that he had dreamed of the Duchess being paraded through British towns naked while crowds hurl excrement and chant “shame”.
He claimed that “everyone who’s my age thinks the same way”.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government is looking “carefully” at a letter from Canada’s premiers calling for reforms to the country’s bail system.
Premiers from all 13 provinces and territories signed the letter sent to Trudeau on Friday. In it, they say the time for action is now and “our heroic first responders cannot wait.”
The letter was initiated by Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s office following the late December killing of an Ontario Provincial Police officer.
What BS. They’ve lessened sentences for gun crime, and are on a path to create a two tiered justice system.
On CBS’s “60 Minutes” earlier this month, scientists claimed that humans are causing a “sixth mass extinction” and that we would need the equivalent of five planet earths for all humans to live at current Western levels.
“No, humanity is not sustainable to maintain our lifestyle — yours and mine,” claimed Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich. “Basically, for the entire planet, you’d need five more Earths. It’s not clear where they’re gonna come from.”
The third world war has already started, according to one of France’s leading intellectuals, Emmanuel Todd. Speaking to Le Figaro last week, the anthropologist and historian claimed that, contrary to the prevailing idea that Russia has more to lose than its liberal opponents, the West, too, has entered into an “existential” conflict.
“It’s obvious that the [Ukraine] conflict, which started as a limited territorial war and escalated to a global economic confrontation between the whole of the West on the one hand and Russia and China on the other hand, has become a world war,” Todd told the French newspaper. He acknowledged that Vladimir Putin had made a miscalculation at the beginning of the conflict, assuming that Ukraine would roll over at the first sign of aggression, but made clear that Russia has itself exceeded expectations, including those of its own people, who “did not anticipate” that they would be able to withstand economic pressure from NATO.
How did it come to be that silence regarding Anglo-European Canadians became the law of the land?
… Breaking down 2021 federal election results highlights the “strength of the Liberals and NDP in visible minority majority urban ridings and the relative strength of the Conservatives in ridings with between five and twenty percent visible minorities.”
A new report from the National Opinion Centre has delivered a rarity among immigration-related communications in Canada. Among other vital statistics related to Canadian demography, the following statement speaks to the impact of immigration intake in Canada:
“The number of ridings in which visible minorities form a majority of the population has increased from one in ten (33) in 2011 to close to one in six (51), reflecting high and increasing levels of immigration.”
If the “racialized” don’t vote Conservative why does Poilievre’s CPC support mass immigration like Justin and Singh?
Peter Zeihan: Canada’s 5 Problems – Worth a watch, basically our immigration policy is fecked. Kinda funny too.
Below – This dates from 2019 but holds true. No one needs Canada all that much, especially the US – The Cutting Room Files, Part 3: The Future of Canada
… Mexico’s market is growing. Yours is not. Your market is protected. Mexico’s is not. The Mexican labor force is complementary to ours. Yours is not. We have a deal with the country that matters, and that isn’t you. We are leaving NAFTA. You know our terms. Take them or leave them. We are moving on.
In a single searing moment of revelation, everything that had guaranteed Canada leverage over America, everything that granted Canada a place in the world, everything that had generated any meaningful international influence, had evaporated. Canada capitulated within days and signed on for NAFTA2.
Canada isn’t yet looking at sending Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says, despite a report that the Ukrainian leadership intends to request them.
According to a report from The Globe and Mail on Monday, Ukraine intends to ask Canada for some of its Leopard-2 main battle tanks — if Germany approves the re-export of the weaponry, which Chancellor Olaf Scholz is facing pressure to do.
Britain is sending the Ukrainians the wrong tanks
Jordan has recently retired its fleet of around 400 British Challenger 1 tanks, enough to supply Ukraine with the entire fleet it needs
The Government has said that it will supply the Ukrainian armed forces with British main battle tanks in the form of the mighty Challenger 2. The logic is compelling: we have spare tanks and Ukraine needs armour for the upcoming spring offensive, when the biting Eastern European winter gives way to more favourable fighting conditions. What is less compelling, however, is the argument that we should give Kyiv Challenger 2.
