Our lovable protagonist, Captain Canada, is at it again. Like our very own Inspector Gadget, who tries to foil Dr. Claw but invariably ends up tangling himself in his helicopter hat, Ontario Premier Doug Ford spent millions of dollars to try to persuade Americans to turn on their President’s tariffs. But somehow, Canada ended up with a 10-per-cent hike on existing tariffs. Whoops. These damn gadgets never seem to work right.
Twenty years ago, in October 2005, two young boys, Zyed and Bouna, sought refuge in an electrical transformer while trying to escape a police check and died there. In response, violent riots broke out in Clichy, in the Paris suburbs, before spreading throughout France and causing chaos for three long weeks. Since then, these events, which were unprecedented at the time, have been repeated and will continue to be repeated: the lessons of this episode have not been learned, condemning France to relive an increasingly intense and violent scenario of urban warfare.
The events took place in Clichy-sous-Bois on October 27th, 2005: two teenagers, Zyed Benna and Bouna Traoré, were electrocuted in an electrical substation while trying to escape a police check.
Millions of dollars of Canadian technology has been shipped through a sprawling network of Hong Kong-based shell companies to feed Russia’s war machine, according to an investigation by a human-rights watchdog.
The Washington-based Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation (CFHK), in collaboration with the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, combed through Ukrainian battlefield forensics, Hong Kong public records and three years of Russian customs data.
OTTAWA — Liberal members of Parliament lined up Wednesday to say Canadians are in no mood to go to the polls for a second time this year, as the government warns it lacks the votes needed to pass
The spectre of a possible Christmas-time election has been raised as Government House Leader Steven MacKinnon accuses opposition parties of presenting demands that he says are unserious and signalling that the minority Liberals should not count on their support.
While president, Joe Biden turned feeble before the nation’s eyes. His closest allies — his chief of staff, doctor, even his wife — refused to stop him from making a fool of himself on the world stage. They treated him like a puppet, abused the highest office in the land, and with the help of the propaganda press, lied to the American people all the while.
Can you guess which demographic is “causing problems” in German cities?
Friedrich Merz, German chancellor and leader of the center-right CDU (Christian Democratic Union) party, has just spoken a simple truth about the effect on German society of the migrants, overwhelmingly Muslim, now living in Germany. What he said was, under the circumstances, most mild: he noted that those migrants have “caused problems,” especially in German cities. In response, many people, though by no means all, denounced Merz for speaking an obvious truth…
A City of Richmond letter to property owners in the Cowichan Aboriginal title area recognized by the B.C. Supreme Court has brought the judgment’s potential impacts into stark reality.
“For those whose property is in the area outlined in black,” the letter explained, “the Court has declared Aboriginal title to your property which may compromise the status and validity of your ownership.”
Climate change is not the end of the world, according to Bill Gates. In a blog post yesterday, the Microsoft co-founder — whose foundation has donated billions to philanthropy projects aimed at mitigating a climate disaster — criticised the “doomsday outlook” of the “climate community”.
The squall-in-a-ramekin over Sarah Pochin’s comments on diversity in advertising looks to be blowing itself out. It may even strike a nostalgic note by the time you dip into this column, as you seek some temporary escape from the latest horror to unfold on the streets of London.
The latest round in the very syncopated Canadian-American tariff disagreements and discussions has more the air of oversized children in a sandbox hurling mud balls at each other than statesmen of governments of serious countries attempting to resolve a disagreement. In Canada, the second ring level of jurisdiction between the federal government and municipal governments are called provinces and under the Canadian Constitution, provinces have rather greater powers than American states, including a concurrent jurisdiction in direct personal and corporate income taxes.
The royal woes are far from over for Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson as a leading royal biographer has claimed there is a ‘very good chance’ the pair could end up behind bars.
Speaking on TalkTV last night, Andrew Lownie, author of Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, said the Royal Family will ‘throw him under the bus’ due to the ‘reputation damage’ he has caused.
Mr Lownie told the programme: ‘I do think the authorities will want to pursue some of these investigations. They will bring charges. I think if they do so there is a very good chance that both he and Sarah Ferguson may well go to prison.’
The number of legally sanctioned homicides has grown substantially in states with expanded self-defense rights under stand-your-ground laws
It’s easier than ever to kill someone in America and get away with it.
In 30 states, it often requires only a claim you killed while protecting yourself or others.
While Americans have long been free to use deadly force to defend themselves at home, so-called stand-your-ground laws in those 30 states extend legal protections to public places and make it difficult for prosecutors to file homicide charges against anyone who says they killed in self-defense.
The number of legally sanctioned homicides by civilians in the 30 stand-your-ground states has risen substantially in recent years, The Wall Street Journal found in an analysis of data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
OneBC MLA Tara Armstrong has accused the BC NDP of “humiliating” Canadian children in school for, among other things, “having the wrong ancestors.”
During Question Period on Tuesday, she called on the government to get back to teaching students to “take pride in their culture.”
Sometimes the most significant food-policy changes happen not with a bang, but with a bureaucratic whisper.
According to Health Canada’s own consultation documents, Ottawa intends to remove foods derived from cloned cattle and swine from its “novel foods” list — the very process that requires a pre-market safety review and triggers public disclosure. Once this policy takes effect, cloned-animal products could enter the Canadian food supply without announcement, notice or label.
Who remembers cocainegate? It was when the illicit narcotic was found not far from the Situation Room in the West Wing. It’s the most secure office and residence in the world. There are cameras everywhere, and whoever brought cocaine into the Biden White House is the luckiest person alive, because they got away with it. The Secret Service was powerless in their investigative efforts to discover the culprit, who many joked was Hunter Biden. Frankly, would you be shocked if, in due time, we learned that it was Hunter’s cocaine? And we later learned that unqualified former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who was Jill Biden’s gal pal, wanted the evidence relating to this case destroyed.
