Two former Russian mercenaries have admitted killing hundreds of Ukrainian civilians, including dozens of children who were sheltering in a basement in eastern Ukraine.
Alexey Savichev and Azamat Uldarov told a Russian human rights activist that they had been recruited from Russian prisons to fight in Ukraine for the Wagner Group, the private military company that is headed by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Kremlin-linked tycoon.
Arguably, humans and nation-states share at least one desirable characteristic: the capacity for self-awareness. In periods of stability, self-awareness need not be at the top of the list of the most desired characteristics. However, with the rapid political and social changes taking place in the world right now, self-awareness, for both individuals and governments, is critical.
Chinese spy balloons generated sensational press attention earlier this year, but they are no longer a significant problem now that we have adjusted our air defense radar systems. Large balloons can easily be detected, and, if necessary, destroyed, long before they reach the U.S. However, before concluding that U.S. airspace is secure, consider these disturbing incidents documented by investigative journalists at The War Zone:
To the best of my knowledge, none of these incidents has been resolved.
At the beginning of the pandemic, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau repeatedly used the phrase, “We are all in this together and we are there for you,” speaking about the federal government.
But during the pandemic, Canadians learned they weren’t all in this together. Not really.
That there were two classes of Canadians — those in the public sector and those in the private sector.
Just Stop Oil protester jumps on table at World Snooker Championship
The World Snooker Championship has been interrupted by a protestor who climbed on a table at The Crucible and covered it in an orange powder.
The protestor, who appeared to be wearing a ‘Just Stop Oil’ t-shirt, did so during a game between Robert Milkins and Joe Perry.
Just Stop Oil climate activists ruined the World Snooker Championship 2023.
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 18, 2023
They were supposed to come home from Syria. Instead two Canadian women, three teen girls have gone missing
Two Canadian women and three teenage girls are missing somewhere in northeast Syria, after an attempt by the Canadian government to repatriate them earlier this month failed.
In an audio recording obtained by the Star, a Global Affairs Canada consular official tells the mother of one of the women that she is “devastated” by their disappearance.
“This has happened to other countries, and they tried to warn us, and when it did actually happen … we’re kind of shocked by it,” the senior consular official said in the April 11 call.
Single-sex schools will be allowed to reject transgender applicants of the opposite biological sex, government guidelines are expected to say.
It would protect girls’ schools if they refused a place to a boy identifying as female and the same would apply for girls identifying as male wanting to join boys’ schools.
One city-owned charging station was used just 65 times in 2022
A full year after they were installed, Ottawans appear slow to embrace the city’s new fleet of public electric vehicle (EV) charging stations — but usage is trending upward.
The City of Ottawa installed a total of 24 EV charging stations across 16 sites spread throughout the city (some sites have two chargers). It currently bills $2 an hour for the service, a price point it says is in line with other cities.
As of last Friday, each of the city-owned charging stations had been in place for at least one year. In that time, a clearer picture of how Ottawans are using the technology has emerged.
The 300-page report into Covid origins finds leak was likely ‘unintentional resulting from failures of biosafety containment’
The pandemic was probably the result of a “research-related incident” at a laboratory in Wuhan, China, a lengthy US Senate report concluded.
It said the theory that Covid-19 jumped from animals to humans in a market no longer deserved the “presumption of accuracy”.
The 300-page report, released to Axios, was the full version of a 35-page summary published in October by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
Pierre Poilievre’s solution for a ‘broken’ Canada is to break more things — including the CBC
Pierre Poilievre appears to have divided this country into two nations. There’s the Canada that Justin Trudeau broke, and then there is the Canada that the Conservative leader himself wants to break.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation definitely falls into the want-to-break category. As Trudeau put it on Monday, Poilievre despises the CBC so much that he’s willing to join forces with Twitter’s mercurial new owner, Elon Musk.
“The fact that he has to run to American billionaires for support to attack Canadians says a lot about Mr. Poilievre and his values,” Trudeau said at a morning press conference.
Spoken by a tone deaf idiot whose circle line their pockets courtesy Communist China’s “Billionaires.”
A massive mob ransacked a Los Angeles gas station and stole thousands of dollars worth of alcohol, condoms and snacks during an illegal street takeover – as cops said they were unable to intervene due to being outnumbered.
Footage from Sunday around 2am showed a group stopping traffic in the Compton intersection of Alondra Boulevard and Central Avenue to drift their cars before charging toward a nearby Arco.
Deputies said they couldn’t intervene as a mob of about 100 people broke the windows of a mini-mart and wiped it clean because they worried about their safety, according to ABC 7.
Compton, California thugs breaking into a gas station convenience store, stealing everything in sight, after first blocking off an intersection.
Sickening parents, raising these hoodlums! pic.twitter.com/70u1w9E3gY— 🇺🇸ProudArmyBrat (@leslibless) April 17, 2023
Report @GovCanHealth identifies capitalism as a root cause of #ClimateChange. Also, ‘If we don’t address colonialism we’re going to tread water & eventually drown.’ https://t.co/LzXC2gqLss #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/cgEojbCY88
— Blacklock’s Reporter (@mindingottawa) April 18, 2023
One of two men arrested for allegedly operating a secret police station for China in Manhattan had photographic evidence on his phone of the opening of a similar covert station in Canada, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation says.
Lu Jianwang, 61, and Chen Jinping, 59, were arrested Monday on charges of conspiring to act as agents of China’s government without informing U.S. authorities, and obstruction of justice.
Democratic Chicago Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson defended a large group of teenage rioters that ransacked much of the city on Saturday, saying it “wasn’t constructive” to “demonize” them.
A recent proposal by the Treasury Board of Canada would delegate lawmaking from Parliament and cabinet to the whims of public servants. If you care about democracy — the idea that you should be able to choose the people who make the rules, instead of giving that power to some functionally-anonymous civil servant — the proposal should concern you.
