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Pandemic of Stupidity: Liberals hope bribing you with your own money if Trump imposes tariffs will improve electoral fortunes

Relief plan in works for Canadians, businesses in response to Trump tariff threat: sources

The federal government is planning a stimulus package to help businesses and Canadians if U.S. President Donald Trump imposes tariffs on Canadian goods, but the scale of the relief will depend on the scope of the tariffs, sources tell CTV News.

The sources also say that the aid could reach pandemic-level relief, but the response will be contingent on how big Trump’s tariffs are. Specific programs also have yet to be designed, according to sources.

UPDATE – White House says Trump plans to follow through on vow to slap tariffs on Canada, Mexico on Feb. 1

h/t Mauser

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Nutjob Party Rejects Nutjob’s Bid To Rejoin Fellow Nutjobs

Ontario NDP rejects Sarah Jama’s bid to rejoin caucus

OTTAWA — It’ll be a party of one for a contentious Ontario MPP.

Ousted by the Ontario NDP caucus just months after winning a byelection, Hamilton Centre MPP Sarah Jama found on Monday that she’ll be running as an independent in the upcoming provincial election after the party rejected her bid to rejoin.

h/t MP

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Woman in wheelchair evades police in blue light car chase

Police officers twice failed to catch a shoplifter in a wheelchair as she evaded them during a blue light car chase.

Footage showed a South Yorkshire Police car sounding its siren as the suspect fled on a three-wheeled motorised wheelchair on Sunday.

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Was There an Islamic Connection to National Socialist Plot Against Synagogues?

The New York Post ran a story on Wednesday, “Whacko accused of plotting attacks on NYC synagogues sobs to mom as he’s sent to prison: ‘Let them down,’” about a man named Matthew Mahrer, who just got sentenced to prison for his role in a plot to attack two New York City synagogues. The Post describes Mahrer as “a Jewish man and the grandson of a Holocaust survivor,” and so he appears to be a deeply confused man. Photographs of the would-be synagogue attacker were revealing: from the looks of his weedy man bun and weak facial hair, he seems to be a typical leftist who believes that the Israelis are the “oppressor” and the “Palestinians” are the poor “indigenous people” of the land.

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Who took the napalm girl photo? A new film reveals bitter dispute

The photograph of Phan Thi Kim Phuc running from her burning village won Nick Ut a Pulitzer prize, but some contend a local freelancer was robbed of his credit

The image of a young Vietnamese girl, fleeing burnt and naked from an incendiary attack on her village outside Saigon on June 8, 1972, has become one of the defining photographs of the horrors of war.

Now, more than half a century later, the “napalm girl” photograph is the focus of a bitter dispute among some of the biggest personalities and institutions in photojournalism.

On one side are the many friends and supporters of Nick Ut, the Vietnamese-American photographer credited with taking the unforgettable image for the US news agency the Associated Press (AP).

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Latvia: Undersea cable likely damaged by external influence

An undersea fiber optic cable between Latvia and Sweden belonging to Latvia State Radio and Television Center (LVRTC) was damaged in the Baltic Sea on Sunday. The cable linked the Latvian town of Ventspils with Sweden’s Gotland island.

“We have determined that there is most likely external damage and that it is significant,” Latvian Prime Minister Evika Silina told reporters following an extraordinary government meeting.

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