QUESNEL: Activist and NDP candidate tests Canadian tolerance of genocide revision

Yves Engler, a Montreal-based writer and activist, exemplifies troubling tendencies toward moral inversion and selective memory in discussions of genocides. As he gains prominence — particularly through his bid for the federal NDP leadership — it is essential to scrutinize his approach to historical atrocities and understand what this reveals about his ethics.

I hope he wins and then declares himself NDP Party Overlord for life.

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President Trump: Charge Soros under RICO for US unrest ties

President Donald Trump issued a scathing statement on Wednesday, calling for legal action against billionaire George Soros and his son, Alexander, citing their alleged role in supporting violent protests across the United States.

“George Soros, and his wonderful radical left son, should be charged with RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) because of their support of violent protests, and much more, all throughout the United States of America,” Trump wrote in a social media post. He accused Soros and his associates of contributing to national unrest, saying, “Soros and his group of psychopaths have caused great damage to our country!”

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Ford to maintain U.S. booze ban in Ontario until tariffs removed or new trade deal reached

Doug Ford’s Basement

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he will maintain his ban on American booze despite Canada dropping some retaliatory tariffs in the ongoing trade war with the United States.

Ford says he will drop the ban on selling U.S. alcohol at the Liquor Control Board of Ontario when U.S. President Donald Trump removes tariffs placed on Canadian goods or when the two countries strike a new free trade deal.

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The awful spectacle of la belle France dissolving makes me fear for Britain

What has happened to my beloved France, the country where I spent my childhood summers, studied and worked in my 20s? Once the embodiment of European confidence and cultural supremacy, the land of Voltaire, Bastiat and de Tocqueville is now trapped in an accelerating spiral of decline.

British tourists – some nine million a year – might experience la France profonde, the warm baguettes, contented cows, the exquisite parking. But beneath the idyll lies the reality of a country at war with itself, its government fighting crises on economic, political and social fronts.

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Minneapolis Church Shooter Identified As Robin Westman – And All Indications Suggest He’s Every Bit The Degenerate You’d Expect

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‘We’re in a war zone’: On patrol with security in a First Nation gripped by tensions

Kanesatake pot stores

… Community members told CBC News that incidents such as arson, vehicle accidents and conflicts have increased over the past three years. Some in the community, which has no police force, blame the presence of cannabis megastores and a spate of illegal dumping that saw as many as 500 trucks a day roar into Kanehsatà:ke, according to Quebec court records.

… The stores operate outside of Quebec and Canada’s cannabis laws, and the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake has so far failed to pass any rules to regulate these operations, some of which are linked to organized crime, according to elected band officials.

“We’re in a war zone,” Montour told CBC News. “Nobody is helping us.”

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German Chancellor Admits That Welfare State Is Running Out of Other People’s Money

The biggest, boldest lie of every welfare state is that the goods and services it is providing to its citizens are “free.” Those of us with brain cells and an aversion to lying know that this is not only untrue, but also impossible. Politicians are fond of throwing taxpayer dollars around like drunk Kennedy cousins on summer break in Monte Carlo in order to make voters love them.

h/t DS

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Mounties, Overstretched and Overmatched by Foreign Mafias, No Longer Fit for Service

The head on that fish has been rotten for some time.

OTTAWA — The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, once a proud symbol of Canadian law and order, is now an institution in crisis. Reports that nearly 20 percent of members are off on sick leave confirm what many of us who have served and worked alongside the RCMP have known for years: the force is no longer capable of fulfilling its federal policing mandate.

Instead of standing at the forefront of the fight against transnational organized crime, terrorism financing, cybercrime, and foreign interference, the RCMP is bogged down in contract policing, backfilling gaps with temporary duty assignments, and diverting precious resources to VIP security. What was once a national force is now an overstretched patchwork, trying—and failing—to be all things to all people.

h/t SC

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Denmark summons top US diplomat over alleged Greenland influence operation

Denmark’s foreign minister has summoned the top US diplomat in Copenhagen, following a report that American citizens have been conducting covert operations in Greenland.

Denmark’s public broadcaster DR quoted sources as saying the aim was to infiltrate Greenland’s society and promote its secession from Denmark to the US, although it was unable to clarify who the men were working for.

Danish intelligence warned Greenland was being targeted by “various kinds of influence campaigns”.

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Gunman opens fire on Catholic Church during Mass – Minneapolis police say shooter ‘contained’

9:45 a.m. – An Annunciation parent who was sitting in the back pew at the 8:15 a.m. Mass said students were packed into the pews when a shooter opened fire outside the building with some kind of semiautomatic weapon.

“He just pepper-sprayed through the stained-glass windows into the building, 50 to 100 shots,” said the parent, who did not want his name used. “He killed two kids.”

“This is terrible,” he said. ”This is evil. I don’t know how you defend against this.”

UPDATE: The suspected gunman in a horrific church and school shooting in Minnesota took his own life after a rampage cops say killed at least two people and wounded as many as 20 others, with victims including kids and adults.

Police said the unidentified shooter — who was described as dressed in all black and armed with a rifle — died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at Annunciation Church and school in Minneapolis.

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Canada scrambles to fill equipment gaps as it extends Latvia mission

The Liberal government has extended Canada’s NATO presence in Latvia for another three years, but it is still struggling to fill in the equipment gaps as the war in Ukraine rapidly reshapes the battlefield troops might be expected to fight on.

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the three-year extension Tuesday night following a meeting with Latvian Prime Minister Evika Silina in Riga, the capital of the Baltic country.

On Wednesday, he visited Canadian troops at Camp Adazi, where roughly 2,200 Canadian soldiers are serving along with 1,300 troops from more than a dozen other NATO nations.

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