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George Galloway sealed a shock return to front line British politics on Thursday night as he stormed to victory in the Rochdale by-election.
The Workers Party leader claimed his fourth Parliamentary seat and will return to Westminster after almost a decade in the wilderness.
He secured a comfortable 5,697 majority with Azhar Ali, the candidate who Labour ditched over an anti-Semitism row, pushed into fourth place.
An IT firm run by a defence department employee has been awarded millions of dollars in government contracts since 2015.
Dalian Enterprise has come in for scrutiny recently over its involvement in the development of the ArriveCan app. The company had received $7.9 million for its work on the project as of last March, according to a recent report from Canada’s auditor general.
The company has received more than $200 million in government contracts since 2015, according to a CBC News analysis of documents tabled in the House of Commons in January.
US airman Aaron Bushnell, a man so clearly deranged and mentally unwell, burnt himself to death this weekend outside the Israeli embassy in DC in an apparent ‘protest’ against the war in Gaza.
Terrifying footage – that Bushnell livestreamed – shows him dousing his Air Force uniform in lighter fluid before igniting himself and screaming ‘Free Palestine’ as his flesh literally melts away.
Surrey public school educators have pulled four classic books from the recommended reading curriculum over concerns about racist content.
The Surrey school district quietly decided to remove Harper Lee’s 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill A Mockingbird, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, John Ball’s In the Heat of the Night, and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck from the list of books recommended for students Grade 10 and older.
… “We did a comprehensive review of these resources that determined that the merits of these novels do not outweigh the potential trauma and harm they may cause to some students,” she said.
They’re not “banned” but a teacher must have permission to use them in the classroom.
I was reading about WW I, WW II and the Holocaust in elementary school. Are kids that fragile today?
OTTAWA—Canada is open to sending a limited number of military personnel to train Ukrainian troops within Ukraine, so long as such an operation took place far from the front lines of the war with Russia in a clear, noncombat role, Defence Minister Bill Blair says.
In an interview with the Star, Blair said the idea was discussed earlier this week in Paris, where he attended a security summit alongside Canada’s NATO allies and fellow supporters of Ukraine. After the meeting, French President Emmanuel Macron floated the prospect of sending troops into Ukraine, prompting a series of statements from Western allies — including Canada — who shot down the idea of sending combat soldiers into the war-torn country.
On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned of “tragic” consequences for countries that deploy troops to support Ukraine, including the risk of global nuclear war.
h/t Mauser
This is what gender ideology does to people. Incredibly sad. pic.twitter.com/UF3bmR2Pbq
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 29, 2024
I don't know how you say…beautiful? in Ukrainian. No matter what you think of her, she doesn't care. pic.twitter.com/6hiIbpFhCq
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) February 29, 2024
More than 110,000 federal employees—approximately one-third of the total workforce—took home six-figure salaries in 2023, according to an advocacy group focused on taxpayers’ interests.
The number of federal workers reached 357,247 in 2023, marking a roughly 37 percent increase compared to the 262,817 workers reported in 2013, according to government data.
Ottawa adds funding to CBC; broadcaster will get $1.4B budget
OTTAWA – Canada’s public broadcaster is getting an increase in funding, despite executives insisting that a request to cut CBC/Radio-Canada’s budget for the next fiscal year was one reason they announced layoffs for 10 per cent of staff.
Documents Canadian Heritage released on Thursday show CBC will get a $1.4-billion budget in 2024-25, an increase from the $1.3 billion it spent in the previous fiscal year.
It’s about a $90-million increase, documents say.
h/t Mauser
A former British Airways employee has allegedly fled to India after being arrested for allegedly helping Indian citizens get around immigration laws so they could claim asylum in Canada.
As initially reported in The Times of London on Tuesday, the employee who worked at Heathrow airport in London, U.K., is said to have enabled people without proper documentation to get on flights to Canada so that they could claim asylum upon entering the country. He allegedly charged £25,000 per person or about $43,000. The alleged scam is estimated to have made 3 million pounds or over $5.1 million.
A massive vigil was held for Laken Riley. If not for X, you would've never even known about this.pic.twitter.com/Lg0AH3adDC
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 29, 2024
h/t Mauser
How did Ashleigh Merchant find evidence of Fani Willis’ personal involvement with Nathan Wade and the conflict of interest and personal benefit it created for her? For the last few weeks, most assumed that it mainly came from Joycelyn Wade, the soon-to-be ex-wife of the RICO special prosecutor in the Georgia v Donald Trump et al case — and some of it did, especially the travel receipts that emerged to force the two to admit to their involvement.
Around the time Bashar Murad was four, Sir Terry Wogan was greeting the onset of another Eurovision. “It’s supposed to be bad,” mused Wogan. “And the worse it is, the more fun it is.”
This year, against the backdrop of the war in Gaza, the song contest threatens to be very bad indeed.
Canada is taking in more immigrants than it ever has. But new data suggests that fewer and fewer of them are becoming citizens.
The proportion of eligible permanent residents acquiring citizenship has dropped significantly, especially during the last census period. A study released by Statistics Canada on Wednesday shows the proportion of permanent residents who acquired Canadian citizenship after they met the residency requirement has decreased from 75 per cent in 1996 to just 46 per cent in 2021.
While the rate of newcomers acquiring citizenship has declined consistently during the past six censuses, the drop was steep in the latest national survey, particularly among recent immigrants with lower levels of education, lower family income and lower language skills.
Another Trudeau legacy – Migrants with ZERO loyalty or concern for Canada.
