The Democrats’ sweep of Congress is a Canadian battle waged and won

The Democrats’ sweep of Congress is a Canadian battle waged and won

For Canada, the Democratic Party’s sweep in the U.S. midterm elections Tuesday is a key battle, waged and won.

Don’t call it a successful case of election interference, as the U.S. has alleged. Think of it as an information campaign from north of the border whose message clearly resonated.

The Republican Party’s loss of control over the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives will see the arrival of Democratic lawmakers who won their seats by railing against President Donald Trump’s tariffs and trade policies, among a host of other issues.


Why that sounds like election interference!.

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Ontario won’t make career college OSAP fraud audit public, minister says

Ontario won’t make career college OSAP fraud audit public, minister says

Ontario’s colleges and universities minister said Tuesday he will not be releasing a government-commissioned audit into student financial aid usage at career colleges.

Nolan Quinn announced last month that he had engaged KPMG to audit the sector following concerns about rising usage in the Ontario Student Assistance Program. Preliminary findings from that audit alarmed the government enough to refer the matter to the Ontario Provincial Police.

But Quinn does not intend to make those findings public, he said.


Ford has to go.

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Alexander Graham Bell’s family fury as Canada rewrites telephone inventor’s legacy over eugenics claims

Alexander Graham Bell’s family fury as Canada rewrites telephone inventor’s legacy over eugenics claims

He is one of Scotland’s most famous inventors having revolutionised the world with his creation of the telephone.

However, Alexander Graham Bell’s descendants are up in arms after the Canadian government rewrote his legacy amid claims over his views on deaf people and selective breeding.

The eminent scientist’s designation as a National Historic Person in his adopted homeland of Canada has been reviewed and edited while a commemorative plaque at the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site in Baddeck, Nova Scotia will have its wording changed.

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WHAT? Abdul El-Sayed Wins Michigan Senate Race, and He Won the Jewish Vote

WHAT? Abdul El-Sayed Wins Michigan Senate Race, and He Won the Jewish Vote

It’s a horrific night: Abdul El-Sayed won the Michigan Senate race. The race was contentious and, at times, nasty; El-Sayed beat Republican Mike Rogers. This was Rogers’ second attempt to win a U.S. Senate seat. He narrowly lost to Elissa Slotkin in 2024. It might be time to call it. One thing that stood out in the exits was that El-Sayed won the Jewish vote.

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Celebrity who threatened to kill himself if sex abuse allegations were made public LOSES High Court bid to gag the media

Celebrity who threatened to kill himself if sex abuse allegations were made public LOSES High Court bid to gag the media

A celebrity has lost his High Court bid to block reporting of sex abuse allegations.

The well-known individual made the ‘unprecedented’ argument that he would kill himself if the claims went public.

It is claimed that the man, named only as PPT, ‘abused his status’ to conduct ‘inappropriate and exploitative sexual activities’ with ‘a large number’ of women and girls over a number of years.

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Judge orders Iowa to permit Satanic Temple holiday event at state capitol

Judge orders Iowa to permit Satanic Temple holiday event at state capitol

A federal judge ordered state officials in Iowa on Monday to permit a local Satanic Temple organization to hold a holiday event in the rotunda of the state capitol after years of denying the group’s application.

The religious organization and Iowa Republican state officials have been in a legal battle over the group’s applications to hold a holiday event at the state capitol in recent years.

Republicans in Iowa, who currently control the governorship and majorities in the state house and senate, have cited the capitol building’s policies prohibiting gratuitous violence and obscene displays as justification for denying the applications.

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Man caught in car with £14k of drugs as a lamb ate chips in the back seat avoids jail

Man caught in car with £14k of drugs as a lamb ate chips in the back seat avoids jail

A man who was caught in a car with £14,000 of drugs, while a lamb ate from a bag of chips in the back seat, has avoided jail.

John McNeil, 56, was a passenger in Lindsey Sangster’s vehicle which was stopped by police on the M74 in Glasgow on 22 April 2023.

Bags of heroin and cocaine were later recovered by a police dog underneath the front passenger seat of the Volkswagen Golf.

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Remigration! – Hundreds of food delivery drivers protest downtown to demand dignity, fair pay from employers

Remigration! – Hundreds of food delivery drivers protest downtown to demand dignity, fair pay from employers

Hundreds of delivery drivers gathered at a protest in downtown Toronto on Monday to demand that their employers provide fair pay, safe working conditions and dignity at work.

A newly formed group, called Delivery Drivers United, organized the protest in Nathan Phillips Square. The group is made up of more than 900 workers who work for such platforms as Uber Eats, Skip and DoorDash.

Here’s their web site. Apparently Door Dash and Uber Eats drivers are the economic engine of commerce in Canada.

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