‘Suspicious object’ is discovered beneath Nord Stream 2 pipeline – with Putin claiming it could be an explosive device and pointing the finger at the US

A ‘suspicious object’ has been discovered beneath the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in the Black Sea, Danish investigators have said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said a ship rented by Russian energy company Gazprom had found an antenna-like object about 19 miles from where the Nord Stream pipelines exploded last year.

He claimed that the object could be an explosive device as he warned that a new explosion could occur on the pipelines.

Planted or sloppy or untraceable?

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Terry Glavin: Pliant Liberals have helped China embed itself in Canada

Something rotten has spread through this country’s corporate sector, universities and political class

With all their filibustering and obstructionist “rapporteur” manoeuvres to draw attention away from the interference operations Beijing ran on their behalf during the 2019 and 2021 elections, the Trudeau Liberals might think they’re being clever. But they’re being too clever by half.

The longer this drags out, the more light gets shed on the squalid and intimate relationship between the Liberals’ political base in this country’s wealthy and well-connected Mandarin-bloc hierarchy and the Ferrari-driving consiglieri of Beijing’s strong-arming and influence-peddling network in Canada. It’s the same circle of power.

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NDP standing by candidate who claimed Hamilton police ‘protect Nazism’

Checks all NDP DEI boxes, Black, Muslim female, disabled, hates Jews

New Democrat Leader Marit Stiles is standing by her candidate in Thursday’s Hamilton Centre byelection after video emerged of Sarah Jama accusing the city’s police force of protecting “Nazism” and targeting “Black Muslim Palestinians.”

Ms. Jama is a real piece of work.

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SVB was more interested in virtue-signaling than sound banking

Its collapse shows that the way bank deposits are insured needs to be rethought

Even by the standards of bank runs, the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank was remarkable. In February, Forbes magazine had put it on its Best 100 Banks list. Yet on Thursday, depositors withdrew $48 billion. That’s $14 million a second. Lines formed outside the bank’s various branches, reminiscent of the Great Depression. California banking authorities shut it down and turned it over to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) for sale or liquidation.

So what happened?

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Major General Dany Fortin, military officer acquitted of sexual assault, sues government, Justin Trudeau for $6M

OTTAWA – Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin, a senior military officer who was acquitted of a sexual assault charge late last year, has filed a $6 million lawsuit against the Canadian government.

Fortin is also suing 16 high-ranking officials, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and chief of the defence staff Gen. Wayne Eyre, alleging defamation, misfeasance in public office, negligent investigation, public disclosure of private facts, breach of confidence and conspiracy to cause damages.

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US drone downing: Russia will try to retrieve remnants of drone

Russia said on Wednesday that it would try to retrieve the remnants of a US drone that crashed into the Black Sea.

The large MQ-9 Reaper drone plunged into the water on Tuesday.

The US said it brought down the damaged drone after it became “unflyable” when a Russian jet clipped its propeller – but Moscow has denied these claims.

Speaking on state television, Russian security council secretary Nikolai Patrushev confirmed Moscow was attempting to find the aircraft.

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Massive Abuses of Government Power: Urgent Reform Needed of Data Privacy and Collection

“The NSA’s surveillance network “has the capacity to reach roughly 75% of all U.S. Internet traffic”… the NSA, working with the FBI, engaged in the bulk collection of phone records of U.S. citizens’ phone records. Other programs may allow for data collection from Google, Facebook, YouTube and other platforms. These are the alleged capabilities that have been leaked to the media and government watchdog groups. One can only imagine what the federal government’s more secretive and advanced programs might be capable of collecting.”

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Beware the Advocates of ‘Building an Antiracist Newsroom’

No one today who is a consumer of journalism can claim our national media are strictly, soullessly objective and nonpartisan. But the Left is still on a long march through the media, insisting that any shred of adherence to a notion of objectivity is an embrace of white supremacy.

Take a panel discussion at the trendy leftist South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference in Austin titled “Building an Antiracist Newsroom.” Their website summarized: “In a time of great racial reckoning in this country, traditional news media have largely failed to meet the moment.” It doesn’t matter how much leftist agitation we witnessed after George Floyd’s death. It’s never enough.

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‘Freedom Convoy’ lawsuit expands to include more Ottawa residents, new defendants

A proposed class-action lawsuit over the ‘Freedom Convoy’ has expanded to include more potential downtown Ottawa plaintiffs and added more defendants.

In a decision Monday, an Ontario court judge rejected an attempt by Freedom Convoy organizers to quash an updated version of the lawsuit against them and will allow the potential class-action claim to proceed.

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