Petition to make you watch Elizabeth May walk around naked sponsored by Green Party leader – again

Petition to make you watch Elizabeth May walk around naked sponsored by Green Party leader – again

Petition to make public nudity in Canada legal sponsored by Green Party leader – again

Could public nudity of the “non-sexual variety” become legal in Canada?

For the second time in four years, Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May is sponsoring a petition, launched by Gibsons, B.C. resident Scott Bleackley, asking the feds to legalize “non-sexual” public nudity, reports CTV News.

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John Lewis has lost its Christmas touch

John Lewis has lost its Christmas touch

It’s hard work being a grandparent in 2026. There you were, thinking that you’d earned some long-overdue rest, when all of a sudden you’re being propositioned by penniless grandchildren, whose few acts of decency are belied by a frustration that the Commons has once again quashed their hopes of euthanizing you. So what are you supposed to do? The answer — at least, according to John Lewis — is this: put on your finest cashmere and jump on a rickshaw.

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What the Huawei Trial Is Really About: A Contest for the World’s Networks, and Its Freedoms, Fought in a U.S. Courtroom

What the Huawei Trial Is Really About: A Contest for the World’s Networks, and Its Freedoms, Fought in a U.S. Courtroom

BROOKLYN, New York — In 2004, Nortel’s security adviser Brian Shields found that a computer in Shanghai had been reading an Ottawa executive’s email. As I reported for Global News in 2020, the intruder controlled the accounts of at least seven Nortel executives. On one day in April 2004, an address tied to the same Shanghai front company downloaded 779 documents using the chief executive’s credentials. “China is the source of all extractions we are aware of,” Shields wrote.

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The Eclipse of MAGA

The Eclipse of MAGA

The midterm elections have soundly rebuked President Donald Trump, returned control of the Senate and the House of Representatives to the Democrats, and given that party’s 2028 presidential candidate a solid early advantage. Leftist pundits are crowing that “the MAGA movement” is dead, and that is likely true. Not only has Trump’s initiative to restore American greatness fallen well short of its stated goals, but one thing is certain about the people under whose rule America will suffer for the foreseeable future: they will not make America great again. In fact, they will do just the opposite.

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The Michigan race was identity politics at its deadliest

The Michigan race was identity politics at its deadliest

And there you have it. It is outrageously racist to imply a Muslim political candidate has ‘jihadist’ sympathies. But it’s fine – more than fine, it will get you column inches in Vanity Fair – to say a candidate who supports the Jewish homeland embodies ‘violent, chauvinist power’. It is ‘Islamophobic’ to wonder if a Muslim candidate sympathises with jihadi movements. But it’s all good to say a pro-Israel candidate engaged to a Jew is pursuing an ‘odious culture war’ that is ‘tied to a very real war’ that started in the ‘concentration camp’ of Gaza.

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Scott Stinson: Trump’s midterm rebuke should be good for Ontario. But it could be bad for Doug Ford

Scott Stinson: Trump’s midterm rebuke should be good for Ontario. But it could be bad for Doug Ford

When Doug Ford was at the height of his frustrations with Donald Trump in the summer, back when he invited the U.S. president to kiss his posterior and called him a bully and a loser, there was a concern among his supporters that he was a little out over his skis.

Trump, after all, remained a political force even if his popularity was sagging. More importantly, he was wildly unpredictable, and making him mad had obvious risks.

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Musical about Scottish culture given ‘trigger warning’ over loud bagpipes

Musical about Scottish culture given ‘trigger warning’ over loud bagpipes

A musical about Scottish culture has given audiences a warning – about the sound of bagpipes.

Ceilidh The Musical, which is being performed in east London, follows a family trying to teach a traditional Scottish dance as they encourage audiences to join in.

An audience advisory notice on the show’s website warns: “Ceilidh uses a fog machine, mild profanity and live music, including bagpipes, that can be loud.”

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Foreign companies buying key Canadian defence firms with no objection from feds

Foreign companies buying key Canadian defence firms with no objection from feds

Two key Canadian defence firms have recently been purchased by foreign companies despite Prime Minister Mark Carney’s push to cut the country’s reliance on military equipment controlled by other nations.

U.S. defence giant Lockheed Martin purchased Ultra Maritime, the Dartmouth, N.S. company founded in 1947. Ultra plays a key role in the development of sonar and other undersea warfare systems. It’s equipment is on board the Royal Canadian Navy’s Halifax-class frigates and will be installed on Canada’s new River-class warships. Lockheed Martin purchased the firm for more than $3.4 billion.

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UK Starts Reparation Talks with Caribbean Nations, Reluctant on Actual Payments

UK Starts Reparation Talks with Caribbean Nations, Reluctant on Actual Payments

ing Charles III and Prime Minister Andy Burnham of the United Kingdom have travelled to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting with the leaders of 56 nations in St John, Antigua and Barbuda on 3–4 November. The main topic on the agenda is potential reparations paid by the UK to Caribbean countries whose people were victims of the transatlantic slave trade in past centuries.


I hope Charlie stands firm.

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HANNAFORD: Trump’s fight goes on

HANNAFORD: Trump’s fight goes on

US President Donald Trump’s life just got significantly more difficult. Even without the full results of the November 3 US midterm elections available, it is clear his Republicans lost control of both the House and the Senate in the next Congress. Democrats secured majorities in both chambers, flipping multiple seats deep in former Republican strongholds and ending the Grand Old Party’s power trifecta.

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Trump Looms Over GOP’s Midterm Failure — And His Tweets Show Where He Went Wrong

Trump Looms Over GOP’s Midterm Failure — And His Tweets Show Where He Went Wrong

November 6, 2018 was a very different world. Democrats won control of the House of Representatives, but the Senate remained in Republican hands. That latter Republican victory crucially handed a Supreme Court seat to Amy Coney Barrett, filled the courts with more conservative judges, and contributed to blocking a host of Democratic policies during the Biden administration.

Contrast that to today. Republicans have failed abysmally, and are on track to lose possibly nine Senate seats, including in South Carolina, Kansas, and Mississippi.

The problem this cycle: Trump has lost touch with the American people.

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