David Hogg, the new vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), has had enough of Elon Musk’s ceaseless efforts to drain the swamp in Washington, DC, and restore accountability to those who have stewardship of U.S. taxpayer dollars.
An affidavit filed by private investigators retained by the province to surveil supervised consumption sites says they observed apparent drug transactions, public intoxication, discarded drug paraphernalia, physical altercations and public drug use in their vicinity.
But harm reduction advocates and the people who run the sites say they paint a misleading picture.
“All they have here is more evidence of people trying desperately to survive a drug poisoning crisis,” said Sarah Ovens, an organizer with the Toronto Overdose Prevention Society.
The North Korean assault on his paratroopers’ positions had been intense and lasted for hours. Kim Jong-un’s men fired accurately, moved fast, looked after their wounded and refused to give up long after it should have been clear they had lost the battle.
Major Anton of Ukraine’s 95th Air Assault Brigade was relieved that Pyongyang’s infantry had not had Russian support. Combined with artillery, attack drones and tanks, they would have been a formidable fighting force.
Nearly 20,000 Indian students have failed to enrol at their designated colleges and universities after arriving in Canada. This has raised significant concerns about immigration fraud and the misuse of the student visa system.
A variety of factors play into this mystery. The first involves many Indian students being lured by fake colleges. And some have used their student visas to enter Canada and work rather than study. Some of those students seem to have been misled by unregulated agents promising easy access to jobs or permanent residency.
A Michigan state representative claims she underwent a sterilisation procedure to avoid becoming pregnant while Donald Trump is in office.
Laurie Pohutsky, a Democrat, said she went through with the surgery because she believed that the US President could choose to ban contraception.
“Just under two weeks ago, I underwent surgery to ensure that I would never have to navigate a pregnancy in Donald Trump’s America,” she said at a protest on Wednesday.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s statements about annexing Canada are not a joke, and are driven in part by his desire to see the U.S. benefit from Canada’s critical mineral resources, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
“I suggest that not only does the Trump Administration know how many critical minerals we have but that may be even why they keep talking about absorbing us and making us the 51st state,” the prime minister told a Toronto gathering of Canadian company executives, industry and union leaders behind closed doors.
America’s foreign aid agency could see its staff slashed from about 10,000 to fewer than 300 globally as the Trump administration makes major cuts to government spending.
All but a handful of essential staff are already set to be placed on administrative leave at midnight on Friday, including thousands based abroad. An online notice says a plan is being prepared for return travel and the termination of non-essential contractors.
One union representing employees – which is involved in a legal challenge to the plan – told the BBC’s US partner CBS News that just 294 staff have been deemed essential.
USAID is a scam of almost unbelievable scale.
Let’s take a moment to appreciate how outrageous it is that Canada’s Parliament is not sitting during this critical time.
In three weeks, U.S. President Donald Trump could decide, because his breakfast eggs are too runny that morning, or he doesn’t like the look of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s face, that our efforts to secure the border have proven unsatisfactory. He could then plunge our economy into a recession, and our Parliamentarians will have to resort to the lowest chamber – social media – to speak on behalf of their constituents. All because the Liberals need time to choose between Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland.
The first fortnight of Donald Trump’s second term has not been light on incident. Practically every day, the United States president has done something many would have thought undoable. He has sent the military to the Mexican border, began deporting migrants to Guantanamo Bay, started or threatened trade wars with China, Canada, Mexico and the EU, banned transgender women from female sports, frozen the $41 billion per year USAID programme, proposed annexing Greenland and suggested turning the ruins of Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East.”
Given this extraordinary catalogue, is it so fanciful to think he might deport a single British citizen resident in California: one Prince Harry?
OTTAWA — It’s a race to two per cent.
A day after Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney pledged he would hit Canada’s long-delayed defence spending target by 2030, two other leadership rivals declared they would achieve that threshold even faster.
In a statement Thursday, former finance minister Chrystia Freeland unveiled her own plan to boost Canada’s defence spending to the equivalent of two per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2027.
I’m so looking forward to the day when you don’t get a pass for being a racist just because you are a woman of colour.@samkerr1 is meant to be a role model for young female footballers. What message is @ChelseaFC sending out to their young fans?
— Laurence Fox (@LozzaFox) February 7, 2025
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the architect of the European migration crisis, has once again criticised the leader of the centre-right CDU party, Friedrich Merz for allowing the right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party to support his proposals on toughening asylum laws.
Her criticism comes as a new poll shows that the majority of Germans disagree with her, with almost two-thirds of the country’s citizens wanting illegal and undocumented migrants turned back at the border.
South Africa is a wealthy nation that should not be relying on handouts from US tax payers to mitigate the poor life choices of its citizens https://t.co/zfIgr8Rcca
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) February 7, 2025
Nearly eight in 10 Canadians are in favour of establishing a network of oil and gas pipelines across the country, a new survey suggests.
An Angus Reid poll found 79 percent of respondents agreed with the statement that Canada “needs to ensure it has oil and gas pipelines running from sea to sea across the country.”
Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) hit an unexpected roadblock today when a federal judge in Massachusetts temporarily blocked its signature initiative mere hours before deadline. Yet even with this judicial intervention, the programme has already achieved something remarkable: convincing tens of thousands of federal employees to voluntarily resign. While falling well short of the administration’s ambitious target of 100,000 to 200,000 departures, these 40,000 resignations represent the largest voluntary exodus from federal service in America’s post-war history. Even as the White House denies reports that it’s drafting orders to cut thousands more workers from health agencies, America’s vast bureaucratic apparatus is facing one of the biggest shake-ups in its history.
