Iran unveils ‘We will kill Trump’ banner – but US president may now be tempted to resume bombing

Iran unveils ‘We will kill Trump’ banner – but US president may now be tempted to resume bombing

Iran this week unveiled a huge billboard and banners over Enqelab Square in central Tehran. The billboard pledged in English: “We will kill Trump” – elevating the degree of personal animus with which Donald Trump is viewed in official Iranian circles.

The poster depicts the US president behind bars with his head bowed. And in a sense, given the US midterm election results on Tuesday, Iran has indeed killed Trump, or at least the second term of his presidency. Trump’s reverse is all the more piquant because it comes on the day Iran’s leadership celebrates the anniversary of the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran in 1979, an event that ensnared Jimmy Carter, and a reminder of how Iran has ruined the prospects of more than one US president.

Not surprisingly, the keenly followed election results have led to a good degree of triumphalism inside Iran.

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LeBlanc says ‘focus hasn’t changed’ on trade talks, despite Democrat sweep in U.S. midterms

LeBlanc says ‘focus hasn’t changed’ on trade talks, despite Democrat sweep in U.S. midterms

OTTAWA – Despite a Democrat sweep in the U.S. midterms on Tuesday evening, Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said it won’t change Canada’s focus or approach to trade talks with the U.S. administration.

“We obviously want to congratulate the women and men who are elected to the United States Congress, many interesting races at the state level as well,” LeBlanc told reporters on his way into a caucus meeting on Wednesday.


Their focus is have China and the EU as co-rapists.

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Vance walks Trump tightrope with scathing election critique blaming Iran war

Vance walks Trump tightrope with scathing election critique blaming Iran war

Vice-President JD Vance sent shockwaves through Washington on Wednesday by blaming his party’s midterm defeat squarely on the Iran war, in what was widely interpreted as an effort to distance himself from President Donald Trump ahead of a potential 2028 White House run.

In a carefully calibrated, 600-word statement on X, the vice-president acknowledged that Trump’s 2024 voters had deserted Republicans in the midterm election.

“The reason we lost is the war,” he wrote. “The president himself said so last night.”

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Peter Menzies: Future Decisions on Canada’s Immigration Levels Will Be Critically Important

Peter Menzies: Future Decisions on Canada’s Immigration Levels Will Be Critically Important

When even recent immigrants think Canada has been absorbing too many immigrants, we learn at least two things.

One is that there’s a good chance Canada’s immigration levels—at least those unleashed during the years when Justin Trudeau was prime minister—have been beyond the country’s ability to absorb. By that I mean the capacity to employ newcomers, house them, educate their children—particularly if they don’t speak either of Canada’s official languages—and provide them with health care and other public services.

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Germany: African migrant slices woman’s head off, led police to her body after claiming she was ‘injured’

Germany: African migrant slices woman’s head off, led police to her body after claiming she was ‘injured’

On the afternoon of Nov. 3, 2026, a 27-year-old Gambian male migrant walked into a Hamburg police station claiming he wanted to report a woman with a bodily injury. Minutes later he guided officers to a nearby apartment building, where they found the body of a woman with her head cut off. He was arrested on the spot on suspicion of a homicide offense.

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Canadian military counterintelligence operative to face court martial for giving Ukraine sensitive information

Canadian military counterintelligence operative to face court martial for giving Ukraine sensitive information

Master Warrant Officer Matthew Robar, who had originally been charged with eight offences under the National Defence Act, will be tried on three counts beginning Dec. 9, the office of the chief military judge said in a statement on Wednesday.

He was accused of communicating “special operational information” to a foreign entity, which was not identified at the time of his arrest almost a year ago.

A CBC News investigation at the time of his arrest reported that he was accused of passing sensitive information to Ukraine.


Freeland was unavailable for comment.

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The Nordstream Sabotage Trial

The Nordstream Sabotage Trial

After multiple delays and postponements, first in Bologna and later in Hamburg, the trial of Serhii Kuznetsov has at last begun.

Kuznetsov faces charges of complicity in a war crime involving destruction of civilian assets, organisation of an act using explosives, destruction of structures and obstruction of the work of enterprises that serve public needs. He faces up to 15 years jail, showing that the German federal republic takes this war crime stuff really seriously.

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‘Just trust us’ is a bad police communications strategy

‘Just trust us’ is a bad police communications strategy

It may be that Toronto police did everything they could when they encountered Daijohn Richards in a hospital in the early hours of Oct. 29.

Mr. Richards has since been identified as a suspect in the home invasion that night in Toronto’s Bridle Path, which left four family members injured – three with gunshot wounds. But at 4:15 a.m., which is when he walked himself into St. Joseph’s Health Centre, he was just a man with a gunshot wound to his shoulder.

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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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