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19 Sep 21:04

How Ginsburg's death could reshape the U.S. presidential campaign

by The Associated Press
Metalgod2099

Metalgod2099
Trump cares more about getting a conservative judge on the supreme Court than he does helping the American people , there won't be no stimulus package to help people with covid if all the focus is on a new judge.

A U.S. presidential campaign that was already tugging at the nation's most searing divides has been jolted by the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, potentially reshaping the election at a moment when some Americans were beginning to cast ballots.
19 Sep 20:34

Trump says Canada wants to reopen the border. But do we, really?

by Peter Zimonjic,Katie Simpson,Alexander Panetta
Metalgod2099

Last thing we want is the trump flu coming here

Election 2020 Trump

U.S. President Donald Trump's comments on Friday suggesting Canada is keen to reopen the border with his country stand in direct contrast to statements made by Canadian officials supporting the continued border restrictions. 

19 Sep 00:50

U.S. attorney general Barr likens stay-at-home orders to slavery, as Trump derides focus on Black history

by The Associated Press
Metalgod2099

What a racist f***

Barr Phoenix

U.S. Attorney General William Barr drew sharp condemnation Thursday for likening lockdown orders during the coronavirus pandemic to slavery.

17 Sep 03:34

Diet and prior training show no impact on cognitive decline in aging pet dogs

Metalgod2099

Bullshit

A new study of older pet dogs found that problem solving, sociability, boldness and dependency decline with age, and reported no associations between an enriched diet, lifelong training experiences, and measures of behavior and cognition after a one-year diet period. A team of researchers at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria, and University of Liverpool, UK present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on September 16, 2020.
15 Sep 12:16

Trump presides as Israel, 2 Arab states sign historic pacts

by The Associated Press
Metalgod2099

F*** Trump f*** Israel and f*** the Arabs

Declaring 'the dawn of a new Middle East,' U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday presided over the signing of historic diplomatic pacts between Israel and two Gulf Arab nations that he hopes will lead to a new order in the Mideast and cast him as a peacemaker at the height of his reelection campaign.
22 Aug 20:39

Will success of Conservative leadership vote lead to a bump in the polls?

by John Paul Tasker
Metalgod2099

Not bloody likely

Conservative Leadership 20200207

The next Conservative leader will inherit a party that's flying high: a record number of campaign donations, a dues-paying base that is nearing 270,000 members and an opponent who is bogged down in controversy. But it doesn't appear to be translating into a bump in the polls.

14 Aug 15:49

Mail-in ballots sent to Trump in Florida despite repeated criticism of practice

by The Associated Press
Metalgod2099

What a narcissistic hypocrite

Virus Outbreak Trump

U.S. President Donald Trump has requested a mail-in ballot for Florida's Tuesday primary election, despite weeks of criticizing the practice.

07 Jul 02:56

Man arrested near Rideau Hall had several weapons, threatened PM Trudeau: RCMP

by The Canadian Press
Metalgod2099

this guy is not very bright now he's going to spend the rest of his life in jail cuz I highly doubt they're going to let him get away with any of this.

The man charged with ramming a truck through a gate at Rideau Hall last week was armed with two shotguns, a rifle and a revolver, and threatened Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, police say.
07 Jul 02:54

Trump-connected lobbyists reap $10B windfall in COVID-19 boom, report says

by The Associated Press
Metalgod2099

Sounds about right Trump is a crook and his friends are crooks

Forty lobbyists with ties to U.S. President Donald Trump helped clients secure more than US$10 billion in federal coronavirus aid, among them five former administration officials whose work potentially violates Trump's own ethics policy, according to a report.
07 Jul 02:49

China warns its citizens to exercise caution in travelling to Canada

by Reuters
Metalgod2099

As to be locked up and put in jail accused of spying like China does. Or trying to force reeducate people by putting them in camps.

Cda China 20191223

China warned its citizens on Monday to exercise caution in travelling to Canada, citing "frequent violent actions" by law enforcement, amid ongoing tensions between Beijing and Ottawa.

03 Jul 01:28

Trump says he looks like Lone Ranger in a mask and likes it

by The Associated Press
Metalgod2099

Only Trump would think this, and he thinks he's going to look like The lone ranger I don't think he has seen the show.

After long resisting wearing a mask in public, U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday he thinks it makes him look like the Lone Ranger -- and he likes it.
02 Jul 02:42

Trump says he thinks coronavirus is 'going to sort of just disappear, I hope'

by The Associated Press
Metalgod2099

Idiot and a moron

California closed bars, theatres and indoor restaurant dining all over again across most of the state Wednesday, and Arizona's outbreak grew more severe by nearly every measure as the surging coronavirus crisis across the South and West sent a shudder through the country.
01 Jul 14:20

Trade experts urge heads-up approach for businesses as USMCA comes into force

by The Canadian Press
Experts and ambassadors across the continent are urging North American businesses to keep their heads up and their eyes open for both growth opportunities and perils in the fine print as the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement comes into force.
30 Jun 14:22

Undercover FBI employee on the Dark Web nabs Winnipeg woman trying to buy chemical weapon

by Jeff Keele
Metalgod2099

The the Canadian government should investigate what she planned on doing with it she plan on killing somebody. She's sounds like a terrorist.

A Winnipeg woman has been sentenced to six years in prison for attempting to pick up a toxin in North Dakota.
30 Jun 14:17

Streaming platform Twitch suspends Trump's campaign account

by Brian Fung
Metalgod2099

About time now if the rest would just do it

Twitch, the video streaming service popular with online gamers, has suspended an account belonging to the Trump campaign, becoming the latest tech platform to take action against U.S. President Donald Trump.
30 Jun 14:16

As the new NAFTA comes into effect, here's what it means for Canada

by Rachel Aiello
Metalgod2099

Canada steel industry better hang on to their shorts cuz come July 1st the Americans are going to be putting on tariffs. since there's no independent body to regulate the sort of thing Americans are going to be like the wild wild West

On July 1 the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement comes into effect, three years after talks first began to rework the trilateral trade agreement between Canada, the United States, and Mexico. The new trade pact brings with it a series of changes to several sectors.
30 Jun 14:14

GOP lawmakers urge action after briefing on Russian-bounty allegations

by The Associated Press
Metalgod2099

the idiot in the White House, a national security risk.

Eight Republican lawmakers attended a White House briefing about explosive allegations that Russia secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing American troops in Afghanistan -- intelligence the White House insisted the president himself had not been fully read in on.
30 Jun 13:59

Putin allies accuse Canada of interfering with Russia's gay marriage vote

by Chris Brown
Metalgod2099

Putin's just trying to change the story,, from the Russian bounty story on soldiers

LeClaire TV

On the eve of a Russian referendum that could increase President Vladimir Putin's power and ban gay marriage, Russian pundits are accusing Canada's ambassador to Russia of trying to influence the vote.

29 Jun 14:57

Trump denies briefing on reported bounties against U.S. troops in Afghanistan

by The Associated Press
Metalgod2099

What this guy nobody tells him nothing? Could it be that he would scream like a child. Nothing bad can happen to his buddy Putin. Sunbelievable we've got a president of the United States that likes dictators and foreign countries better than flipping NATO.

USA-TRUMP/SUICIDE-PREVENTION

U.S. President Donald Trump has denied that he had been briefed on reported U.S. intelligence that a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing American troops in Afghanistan.

29 Jun 14:54

Repatriate Canadian former ISIS fighters and family members, Human Rights Watch urges

by Ryan Patrick Jones
Metalgod2099

Let them rot in a foreign prison nobody wants them there terrorists

Islamic State Foreign Fighters

The Canadian government is flouting its international human rights obligations by failing to repatriate and provide adequate consular assistance to 47 citizens who are currently detained in northeast Syria because of alleged ties to the Islamic State, a new report from U.S.-based Human Rights Watch alleges.

29 Jun 04:59

China accuses Canada of 'megaphone diplomacy' for criticism of prosecution of Kovrig and Spavor

by Reuters
Metalgod2099

Fuck china

Canadians detained

China lashed out at Canada on Saturday over criticism about Chinese prosecution of two Canadians, saying the matter is based on evidence and urging Ottawa to cease "megaphone diplomacy."

26 Jun 08:49

Chinese tabloid blasts Canada over lobster dispute

by Paul Withers
Metalgod2099

Fuck china

Global Times image Canadian lobster complaints

Communist Party media in China rebuked and threatened Nova Scotia lobster shippers this week for expressing concerns over new roadblocks to getting products into China.

16 Feb 15:46

Why Coastal GasLink says it rejected a pipeline route endorsed by Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs

by Andrew Kurjata
Metalgod2099

The truth comes out, it gas company that's cause all of this. They had a approved route and they would not accept it? It's time the land owners deside we're these projects are built on there land. Then these pipelines would be approved and built.

Gidimt'en checkpoint Jan 7

Before construction of the controversial Coastal GasLink pipeline started, hereditary chiefs with the Office of the Wet'suwet'en proposed an alternate route through their territory. The company behind the project said the path wasn't feasible and moved forward without the chiefs' support.

16 Feb 15:35

Trial shines light on closed Hasidic community on outskirts of Montreal

by Benjamin Shingler
Que Education Court Challenge 2020210

A civil case in Quebec court has offered a rare glimpse into an ultra-orthodox Hasidic community in an off-island Montreal suburb, raising questions about the government's role in ensuring children receive a secular education.

04 Jul 00:38

Top Supreme Court candidates' views on abortion under scrutiny

NEW YORK (Reuters) - From the moment Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court last week, speculation has centered on whether his replacement would vote to overturn a woman's right to abortion.
08 Apr 00:44

Fourteen killed in Canadian youth hockey team bus crash

HUMBOLDT, Saskatchewan (Reuters) - Fourteen people were killed when a bus carrying a Canadian junior hockey team collided with a truck in Saskatchewan province, police said, in one of the worst disasters to strike Canada's sporting community.
15 Dec 07:11

Sixties Scoop survivor not eligible for settlement says more victims 'need to be involved'

by Matt Prokopchuk
William Campbell

A survivor the Sixties Scoop who now lives in Thunder Bay, Ont., says more victims of the forced relocation of Indigenous children need to be compensated and have their stories heard.

31 Oct 06:36

Tokyo police arrest man after reportedly finding 9 bodies in apartment

by The Associated Press
Japan Bodies Found

Tokyo police have arrested a man after finding "multiple" dismembered bodies in coolers in his apartment in a city southwest of the capital.

23 Sep 04:29

What the Graham-Cassidy health care bill will do

Senate Republicans continue to push forward on a plan to hold a vote sometime next week on legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. The bill, which is sponsored by Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, and Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, still lacks the 50 votes it needs -- although Graham this week expressed confidence that they would get there.