Trump announces deal for Russian diesel as Zelensky calls it a gift to Putin

Trump announces deal for Russian diesel as Zelensky calls it a gift to Putin

President Donald Trump has announced a deal to import Russian diesel into the US, as he faces mounting pressure to bring down fuel prices.

Trump said Putin had agreed to release 300,000 tonnes of diesel immediately “to the American and global marketplace” followed by 500,000 tonnes in November and another million after that.

The move on Friday sparked anger from Ukraine’s President Volodymr Zelensky, who called it a gift to Putin that amounts to “an investment in a war that must be ended, not prolonged”.

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Why Drug Trafficking Is Now Almost a Human Right in Canada

Why Drug Trafficking Is Now Almost a Human Right in Canada

Last week, a Canadian judge ruled that addicts have a human right to access a legal supply of currently prohibited substances—such as cocaine, heroin, fentanyl, and meth—and that, by extension, criminalizing drug trafficking is unconstitutional. Though the ruling is clear judicial activism, it could nevertheless impose drug legalization across Canada unless it successfully appealed.

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WTF?

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Is the Trump phenomenon an anomaly?

Is the Trump phenomenon an anomaly?

I suppose you could say that the Trump decade began on June 16, 2015, when Donald and Melania Trump descended the golden escalator in Trump Tower to announce his candidacy for the presidency and the birth of MAGA, the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement.

There are, however, a few problems with that start date. For one thing, the Trump decade, which may have started then, did not stop when Trump took an extended vacation from the White House beginning on January 20, 2021. It continued running, like a television set blaring in another room, all through the Biden presidency. And now, in October 2026, the Trump decade has lasted more than a decade. Really, we are talking about the Trump era.

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WTF?

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Ottawa declassifies new details about CIA’s role in resettling Nazi war criminals in Canada

Ottawa declassifies new details about CIA’s role in resettling Nazi war criminals in Canada

The government has declassified portions of a report on the resettlement of Nazi war criminals that reveal new details of how dozens of people, including those suspected of collaboration with the Third Reich, were helped to come to Canada after the Second World War through a secret CIA program.

The newly declassified information sheds more light on the role American intelligence agencies played in facilitating the settlement of Nazi collaborators in Canada, in some cases by providing false identity papers. Sections of the report kept secret for decades also reveal new specifics about the number of people thought to have entered the country with U.S. covert help.

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Trump Administration Cracks Down on Hamas in the US

Trump Administration Cracks Down on Hamas in the US

While Hamas continues its forever war against Israel following its attack on the Jewish state on October 7, 2023, often ignored is how the Trump administration is combating Hamas’ growing threat to the U.S. — namely its fundraising and its growing inspiration for terrorism in the homeland.

To that end, the Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced the unsealing of an indictment charging Saleem Al-Zaq, as well as the arrests of Omar Adhami, Abdel Adhami, and Raed Yousef, for their involvement in fundraising for Hamas. Additionally, the DOJ coordinated with France to arrest three additional associates of Al-Zaq in France: Faouzi Barika, Amel Oualid, and Nordine Barika.

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Putin Talks Peace. His Missiles Say Otherwise

Putin Talks Peace. His Missiles Say Otherwise

Russian President Vladimir Putin has rediscovered the vocabulary of peace at the precise moment his army is taking Ukraine apart, one bridge and one power station at a time.

On September 25, addressing Russian journalists, he said that every proposal for settling the four-and-a-half-year war remained on the table, then attached the condition that empties the offer of content. “We are ready for talks and to wrap them up as soon as possible, but on conditions acceptable for the Russian people,” Putin said. Moscow would first assess what served its own interests.

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“The future of Canada will be decided by Canadians” says some guy who’s probably in Canada less than Elon Musk

“The future of Canada will be decided by Canadians” says some guy who’s probably in Canada less than Elon Musk

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is the latest Canadian politician to rebuff statements by a high-tech billionaire that provinces would be “better off” seceding from Canada.

Speaking at a press conference in Sherbrooke, Que., on Thursday, Carney addressed Musk’s comments — made Wednesday on X in reply to a post quoting newly elected Quebec Premier Paul St-Pierre Plamondon as saying Quebec’s independence “will be realized one day.”

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ABC News Deletes ‘Biased Hit Piece’ on Trump Sons’ Business and the Pentagon

ABC News Deletes ‘Biased Hit Piece’ on Trump Sons’ Business and the Pentagon

Fox News media reporter Brian Flood reported that ABC News quickly deleted an investigative article about the president’s sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump. On Wednesday, it came with the headline, “Trump sons’ investments have won billions in Pentagon contracts since his election.”

Profiting off government contracts! They alleged Anduril, the company investing in a new Baltimore shipyard, had ties to the Trump sons.

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Gee I hope this doesn’t jeopardize their citizenship … Crime spree lands accused murderers behind bars

Gee I hope this doesn’t jeopardize their citizenship … Crime spree lands accused murderers behind bars

Three men have been sentenced to jail terms for a commercial robbery spree in southern Manitoba launched just two weeks after they were accused of killing a 19-year-old man in Abbotsford, B.C.

Twenty-two-year-old Ravdeep Gill of Winnipeg, pleaded guilty Monday to four counts of robbery and Harmandeep Gill, 27, of Brampton, Ont. and Jaskaran Singh, 21, of Surrey, B.C., each pleaded guilty to two counts of robbery for a 10-day crime blitz that targeted gas bars in Swan Lake, Teulon and St. Laurent, and a meat shop in Winnipeg.

h/t AL

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Canada sheds 68,000 jobs, unemployment rate up to 6.5% in September

Canada sheds 68,000 jobs, unemployment rate up to 6.5% in September

Canada’s economy posted a second consecutive month of job losses in September, pushing up the unemployment rate and offsetting what had been a hot streak for the labour market earlier in the year.

Statistics Canada said Friday the economy lost 68,000 positions in September, coming off a loss of 42,000 roles in August. Economists had expected a gain of 9,200 jobs in the month.

StatCan said job losses were nearly evenly split between full- and part-time work and were concentrated in the public sector.

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