Prime minister to testify at Emergencies Act inquiry

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be called to testify at hearings into the government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act to end anti-mandate protests earlier this year.

The Public Order Emergency Commission, led by former Ontario Superior Court justice Paul Rouleau, is scheduled to begin hearings next week, with the mandate to assess the government’s use of the Act for the first time since it became law in 1988. .

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Anger Over Russia’s Battlefield Defeats Bursts Into The Open, Posing A Challenge For Putin

For weeks now, on the uncensored Telegram channels of hard-line nationalists and Russian military bloggers, there’s been a litany of angry criticism of Russia’s military commanders amid a stunning Ukrainian counteroffensive in the Kharkiv region and elsewhere resulting in substantial Russian losses.

Now with the Ukrainians’ weekend victory in Lyman, a Donetsk region city and strategic rail hub southeast of Kharkiv, that criticism is bursting into wider public view, hitting the front pages of some of Russia’s biggest newspapers.

That’s a serious problem for Russia’s military brass — and potentially for the Kremlin.

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Government needs to overhaul how it fights scams after ‘historic’ year of losses, anti-fraud expert tells MPs

OTTAWA – Canadians only recovered the equivalent of one per cent of the “historic” $379 million declared lost to fraud last year, leading one veteran retired RCMP expert to call for an overhaul of how authorities combat the crime.

“If the status quo approach to fraud awareness worked, we would not be seeing losses growing on a yearly basis,” John Mecher, an RCMP fraud investigator for 10 years who retired in 2019, told MPs on the federal industry committee Monday.

The LPC is the MAFIA.

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Freeland peppered with affordability questions, as MPs set to swiftly pass GST boost

Appearing before the House of Commons Finance Committee on Monday, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland defended the government’s response to Canadians’ affordability concerns as “focused” and fiscally responsible.

“I think the support we’re talking about today, the GST tax credit, is actually now support that everyone around this table agrees is the right thing to do,” Freeland said, appearing before the committee to testify about Bill C-30, one of the Liberals’ two affordability-focused pieces of legislation. “It’s targeted, it’s focused, it reaches the people who need it the most. And we have really been careful to keep an eye on spending.”

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Killings at ‘epidemic levels’: Nigerian Christians slaughtered by radical Fulani herders, ISWAP terrorists

ABUJA, Nigeria — Suspected Fulani herdsmen killed two Christians in Plateau state, Nigeria, a day after Islamic State terrorists allegedly killed two others in the city of Kano last Saturday, sources said.

In northern Nigeria’s Kano state, suspected members of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) shot the two Christians to death at about 8 p.m. local time on Sept. 25 in the state capital, said area resident Chukwudi Iwuchukwu.

He identified the slain Christians as Ifeanyi Ilechukwu, 41, and Chibuke Emannuel, 33. Iwuchukwu said ISWAP terrorists approached them at their shop in Kano city’s predominantly Christian area of Sabon Gari in Fagge County.

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‘Dead Russian soldiers are good to see’: how war changed a volunteer fighter

The last time I saw Mariana Zhaglo, war was still a rumour. It was January 24, a full month before the Russian invasion, and she stood in her kitchen in Kyiv with the Zbroyer Z-15 hunting carbine she had bought to defend her city against possible Russian attack.

Few of her neighbours believed the Russians would really invade, and Mariana’s preparations — the pickles and tins of fish and ham she had stashed as emergency rations, together with boxes of ammunition — seemed zealously pre-emptive.

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They ‘Own the Science,’ and They Want to Control How You Access Information About It

We all know that Big Tech is rotten and companies like Alphabet and Meta control search results. We all know that the World Economic Forum is rotten. Naturally, an incestuous union between the two would result in a mutant child that would rival anything from the fever dreams of the most creative science fiction and fantasy authors. And that is what we are about to see to ensure that we get a dystopian future, good and hard.

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‘They are driving this country apart’: Caitlyn Jenner blasts the radical left for ‘hijacking and politicizing the trans issue’ after Vermont high school banned female athletes from their locker room when they objected to a transgender student using it

Caitlyn Jenner has accused the left of hijacking and politicizing the trans community after a high school banned some female athletes from their own locker room over their objections to a transgender student using it.

Members of a Vermont girls high school volleyball team were banned from using their own locker room and now have to change in a single bathroom stall after they complained about a transgender teammate.

Some teammates allege that the transgender player at Randolph Union High School made an ‘inappropriate remark’ to some of them while they were changing in the locker room.

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Burkina Faso coup fuels fears of growing Russian mercenary presence in Sahel

Russian mercenaries may be poised for further expansion in Africa’s strategically important Sahel region after the latest coup d’etat in the region, western officials and analysts fear.

Ibrahim Traoré, a 34-year-old army captain, took power in Burkina Faso on Friday, overthrowing Lt Col Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who he accused of failing to effectively counter rising violence by Islamic extremists in the unstable and poverty-stricken country.

The international community widely condemned the ousting of Damiba, who himself overthrew the country’s democratically elected president in January.

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If Putin Nukes Ukraine, Russia Could Win the War

… If Ukrainian troops, armed with an array of Western weapons, continue their counteroffensive, they will pose a threat to the Russian homeland in the form of its newly acquired territories. Putin will respond by doing what he has repeatedly warned he would do: employ nuclear weapons. Whether such a use is against a target in Ukraine or just a demonstration shot, the effects would be the same. Such a move would undoubtedly undermine Western support for Kyiv, given that the United States and NATO are virtually certain not to respond in kind. It could also lead to the collapse of the NATO alliance. In essence, Putin might win by losing.

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The Falling Black Incarceration Rate

The disparity between whites and blacks has shrunk.

William J. Sabol and Thaddeus L. Johnson of the Council on Criminal Justice have released a new report breaking down the black–white gap in incarceration since 2000—focusing on state prisons, which house the vast majority of prisoners in the U.S., and excluding Hispanics from both the black and white populations.

They find that the disparity has markedly decreased, a little-noticed trend. In 2000, fewer than 300 of every 100,000 white adults were in state prisons. For blacks, the number was about eight times higher—nearly 2,500. Over the next two decades, the black rate fell by nearly half, while the white rate first edged up and then dipped somewhat, bringing the disparity under five-to-one in 2020.

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If Facebook, Twitter, And Google Hide Information For The World’s Rulers, Elections Are A Scam

In the name of ‘saving democracy,’ the global ruling class is making sure nobody’s votes count but theirs.

In a September interview that went viral on social media Sunday, a United Nations operative admitted the U.S. government-funded organization “partnered with Google” to rig the results returned on the world’s dominant search engine for the phrase “climate change.”

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