The prison service has failed to recognise the dangers Islamist gangs and convicted terrorists pose inside jail, a report warns.
The independent reviewer of terrorist legislation, Jonathan Hall QC, said prisons must not provide opportunities for militants to plan new attacks.
But the service had “lost its role in the national endeavour to reduce the risk of terrorism”.
The Ministry of Justice said it was committed to isolating radicalisers.
A fatal design flaw in Russian tanks dating back to the Gulf War has made them ‘sitting ducks’ for Ukrainian attacks, experts have revealed.
Unlike in Western tanks, Russian vehicles store up to 40 shells in a carousel at the base of the turret, making them extremely vulnerable.
Even an indirect hit can spark a chain reaction, igniting all the ammunition at once and decapitating the vehicles dubbed ‘mobile coffins’ by Western military experts.
Fox News contributor and former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy called for Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate the Biden family’s potential corruption, saying the case for an independent probe is “bulletproof.”
McCarthy, who led the federal prosecution of the terrorists responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, issued the plea in an opinion column published by The Hill Thursday morning. Earlier this week, Garland told senators the case is being handled by the Department of Justice and there is no need for an independent investigation.
Leftists clutched their pearls all throughout Wednesday after billionaire Elon Musk called out Twitter’s top lawyer, Vijaya Gadde, for her censorship policies within the company.
The fiasco in Ukraine could be a reflection of a bad strategy or a poor fighting force
THE JOB of organising NATO’s biggest military exercise since the cold war kept Admiral James Foggo, then the commander of American naval forces in Europe and Africa, busy in the summer of 2018. Trident Juncture was to gather 50,000 personnel, 250 aircraft and 65 warships in the European Arctic in October. As logistically taxing as that sounds, it was small fry compared with what Russia was planning in Siberia in September. The Vostok exercises would be the biggest since the Soviet Union’s mammoth Zapad drills of 1981, boasted Sergei Shoigu, Russia’s defence minister: they would involve 300,000 troops, 1,000 aircraft and 80 warships.
This was a huge feat. “It was a big lift for us to get 50,000 people in the field,” recalled Admiral Foggo recently. “How did they do that?” The answer, he eventually realised, was that they did not do it. A company of troops (150 at most) at Vostok was counted as a battalion or even a regiment (closer to 1,000). Single warships were passed off as whole squadrons. This chicanery might have been a warning sign that not everything was as it seemed in the Russian armed forces, even before they got bogged down in the suburbs of Kyiv.
Q: What is the major question that must be posed by the inquiry into the calling of the Emergencies Act?
A: It is this. Was there ever the slightest chance of the government of Canada falling?
The CBC lied and Trudeau used that lie along with others to justify imposition of the Emergencies Act.
Lockdown measures inspired this “routine” abuse of our freedoms.
Pity that Deadmeet has agreed to prop up the Trudeau corpse for the duration.
Cabinet relied on #CBC stories in invoking #EmergenciesAct, @MinJusticeEn testifies. “CBC reported I believe on 14th of Feb or 13th of Feb there was foreign funding…various pieces of info we had explained the various measures that we took.” https://t.co/aTG0dSwSE1 #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/WA6BpG1lqm
— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) April 27, 2022
Pierre Poilievre may be known for his social media savvy, but his campaign is getting some help from a conservative meme machine.
Jeff Ballingall’s company, Mobilize Media, has been retained by the Poilievre Conservative leadership campaign, sources familiar with the hiring told CBC News.
... Ballingall specializes in shareable, anti-Liberal messaging that often takes on a mocking or outraged tone. His Canada Proud and Ontario Proud accounts have amassed hundreds of thousands of followers on Facebook and tens of thousands more on Twitter and Instagram.
The Horror!
Space-based threats from China and Russia have grown exponentially in recent years, according to a new report on the issue by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), published April 12.
“Evidence of both nations’ intent to undercut the United States and allied leadership in the space domain can be seen in the growth of combined in-orbit assets of China and Russia, which grew approximately 70% in just two years,” noted Kevin Ryder, DIA senior analyst for space and counterspace. “This recent and continuing expansion follows a more than 200% increase between 2015 and 2018.”
OTTAWA – The Canadian military says nearly 1,000 members have been denied exemptions from the military’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement.
Vice-chief of the defence staff Lt.-Gen. Frances Allen says more than 1,300 members of the Canadian Armed Forces requested exemptions for medical or religious reasons.
Allen says only 158 of those requests have been approved, while about the same number of requests are still being assessed.
Ottawa’s promised “just transition” to a new, low-carbon economy is now revealed as a useless sham.
Coals miners in Alberta and Saskatchewan have faced transition for several years now. But the feds have done nothing to help them, and have no working plan to start despite many promises.
That’s the conclusion of the federal auditor general, who finds that bureaucrats sat on their fat portfolios even as coal workers were losing their jobs.
The Trudeau eco-fascists are liars. Evil liars. Period.
Conservative Twitter users have noticed a massive uptick in followers and engagement following Elon Musk’s Twitter buy, while leftists on the platform are experiencing the inverse, prompting some to wonder if the company is undoing evidence that it rigged the reach of people it deemed to be undesirable.
President Biden is asking Congress to authorize more than $30 billion in security, economic and humanitarian assistance for Ukraine to help the country fend off the prolonged Russian attack over the next five months, administration officials said Thursday.
The White House says it needs Congress to approve just over $20 billion in security assistance for Ukraine, including $5 billion for weapons and other military aid, $6 billion for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, and $4 billion for the State Department’s foreign military financing program, an administration official told reporters on a call previewing the request.
Despite risk of breaching sanctions, stakes are high after supplies to Poland and Bulgaria are cut off
Energy companies in Germany and Hungary have confirmed they intend to comply with Vladimir Putin’s demand that buyers of Russian gas pay for contracts in roubles. But the EU has warned there is a risk the companies would be in breach of sanctions prohibiting transactions with Russia’s central bank. The stakes are high, because the Kremlin has already switched off supplies to Poland and Bulgaria.
Ukraine war: Putin warns against foreign intervention
Any country trying to intervene in the Ukraine war will face a “lightning-fast” response, Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned.
“We have all the tools no-one can boast of… we will use them if necessary”, he said, in what is seen as a reference to ballistic missiles and nuclear arms.
Ukraine’s allies have stepped up the supply of weapons, with the US vowing to make sure Ukraine defeats Russia.
Western officials say Russia is being hampered in its efforts in the east.
#Ukraine: A Ukrainian 9P140 Uragan multiple rocket launcher and 9T452 transporter-loader were hit by a claimed Iskander SRBM, West of Balakliya, #Kharkiv Oblast.
Pretty interesting way to use a ballistic missile. pic.twitter.com/C3tE2gXS6B
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) April 27, 2022
#Ukraine: Video of a drone operated by the 59th Motorized Brigade of the Ukrainian Army dropping munitions onto a Russian T-72 pattern tank- it seems it is at least damaged. pic.twitter.com/aouPgivh8y
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) April 27, 2022
With mounting evidence pointing to the Canadian Armed Forces having trained members of Ukraine’s military who are also reported to be part of extremist groups, experts say Ottawa needs to strongly bolster its investigation and vetting of the soldiers it trains and arms in the embattled country.
The Department of National Defence promised a thorough review of Canada’s mission in Ukraine after CTVNews.ca approached them for comment in October 2021, regarding a report from George Washington University that found extremists in the Ukrainian military were bragging about being trained by Canadians as part of Operation UNIFIER.
Information-sharing between intelligence officers and police needs an overhaul — and it could start with informing police of the reasons behind national security arrests — says a newly obtained internal report looking at the often fraught relationship between Canada’s spy agency and the RCMP.
In one instance, officers in one of the RCMP’s national security units quit their jobs after being asked to carry out an arrest without being told the reasons, says the redacted report, which was released through an access to information request.
The document is the end result of a behind-the-scenes review of how the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the national police force share information — or don’t.
