Huntingdon suspect ‘linked to four knife crimes before attack’

Police are investigating whether the suspect in the Huntingdon train stabbings was involved in four knife-related incidents in the hours before the attack.

Anthony Williams appeared in court on Monday charged with 10 counts of attempted murder following a mass stabbing on an LNER train from Doncaster to London on Saturday evening. He was remanded into custody until Dec 1.

There have been calls for an urgent investigation into the police’s handling of the case amid claims there were a string of missed opportunities to apprehend the 32-year-old before the incident.

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Can the federal budget reset Canada’s economy?

By just about every measure, Canada’s economy is stuck in a ditch. Growth has sputtered. The unemployment rate is rising.

In normal times, the remedy is clear. The Bank of Canada cuts interest rates and the federal government boosts spending to help businesses and households weather the storm.

These are decidedly not normal times.

And Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem knows it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Why Trump speech scandal could be costly for the BBC

If Donald Trump’s recent tangles with the media are anything to go by, the US president will already be plotting his retaliation on the BBC for “doctored” footage of his Jan 6 speech.

The US president has famously become more aggressive towards what he calls the “fake news media” during his second term. Members of the press who have crossed him have been stripped of White House access or sued for millions of dollars.

Now, a report by one of the BBC’s own standards advisers has found a Panorama programme “completely misled” viewers by splicing together different sections of the speech Mr Trump gave before his supporters stormed the Capitol.

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Cloned meat is quietly getting closer to being sold in Canada — but people may not know they’re buying it

Cloned meat could be coming to a grocery store near you. Whether you’re receptive to the technology or not, you may be none the wiser from looking at the package. Health Canada has made moves to lift restrictions on meat from cloned cattle and pigs, no longer considering it a “novel food,” meaning it could be commercialized without notification or labelling.

h/t Patti Jo

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My would-be assassins’ sentencing is a verdict for liberty and a warning to dictators

A courtroom in lower Manhattan last week delivered more than a verdict — it delivered a message.

My Russian would-be assassins, sent by the Iranian regime, have been sentenced to prison. It was a beautiful day — a day of joy and freedom for me and my family.

I have always accepted the price of standing up to the mullahs, but moving from safe house to safe house 21 times hasn’t been easy.

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Mark Carney’s Liberals don’t have enough votes to pass their budget. So what happens now?

OTTAWA — When Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne presents his first budget on Tuesday, he will set off a high stakes game of parliamentary chicken as opposition parties plot their moves to either kick off a national election campaign or reluctantly support the fiscal blueprint.

Here’s how the budget and the Liberal government could live or die…

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Trump says it would be ‘hard for me’ to fund New York City if Mamdani becomes mayor

US President Donald Trump has said he would be reluctant to send federal funding to his hometown of New York if left-wing front-runner Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor of America’s biggest city this week.

“It’s gonna be hard for me as the president to give a lot of money to New York, because if you have a Communist running New York, all you’re doing is wasting the money you’re sending there,” Trump said in a television interview.

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Poilievre Says Tories Willing to Work With Liberals on ‘Affordable’ Budget as Deadline Nears

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said days before the release of the federal budget that he’s willing to work with the Liberals to draft an “affordable” budget that his party could support.

“I’m willing to work all through the night—tonight and tomorrow—to come up with an affordable budget that will make an affordable life for Canadians. But we will not vote to raise grocery prices and increase housing costs as the Liberals have done over the last decade,” Poilievre told reporters during a Nov. 2 press conference in Ottawa.

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Germany’s Migrant Crime Problem Is Out of Control

In a sane country, it would be unthinkable that the murder of a two-year-old boy would go effectively unpunished. And yet this is exactly what is happening in Germany. In January this year, a 28-year-old Afghan asylum seeker—Enamullah Omarzai—launched a brutal attack on a group of toddlers on a daycare outing, at a park in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria. With a large kitchen knife, he began stabbing two of the children—a two-year-old Moroccan boy and a two-year-old Syrian girl. One of the female teachers, as well as two male passersby, attempted to intervene, allowing the remaining teacher and children to escape. In the struggle, one teacher had her hand broken, while the two men were stabbed. The little boy and a 41-year-old man both died from their injuries.

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‘I don’t know what’ll happen’: Young Canadians anxiously await federal budget after Carney warns of ‘sacrifices’

OTTAWA — For many students across Canada, affordability is top of mind when it comes to the federal budget set to be tabled on Tuesday.

That includes Graham Baskin, a student at Carleton University. After Prime Minister Mark Carney told university students that Canadians should be ready for “challenges” and “sacrifices” in a speech last month outlining his priorities for the upcoming budget, Baskin said he is worried for his future.

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