Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says Canada has no means of evacuating citizens from Sudan, where violence has drastically escalated between the country’s army and its rival paramilitary force. The streets of the capital of Khartoum were generally calm a week ago, but a skirmish over a planned transition to democratic rule escalated into raging…
Mobile Manners
April 20, 2023
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Regardless of the reason for traveling by air, be it business or pleasure, spending time in close proximity to throngs of strangers calls for a specific set of manners. Show Appreciation When the agent at the counter has to deal with rude customers ahead of you in line, treating them to a warm smile and…
IN-DEPTH: The Real Reason Behind China’s $10 Billion Offer to Taliban for Lithium
April 20, 2023
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A Chinese company has offered the Taliban $10 billion and a proposal to build key strategic infrastructure connecting north-south Afghanistan in exchange for access to the country’s lithium reserves. Some experts raised concerns that the offer would allow the Chinese regime to expand its influence in the region. The proposal was discussed between a representative…
IN-DEPTH: Chinese Firm Offers Taliban $10 Billion for Access to Lithium
April 20, 2023
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A Chinese company has offered the Taliban $10 billion and a proposal to build key strategic infrastructure connecting north-south Afghanistan in exchange for access to the country’s lithium reserves. Some experts raised concerns that the offer would allow the Chinese regime to expand its influence in the region. The proposal was discussed between a representative…
IN-DEPTH: First Smart Gun With Fingerprint Unlocking Hits the Market
The first so-called “smart gun” that uses biometrics to unlock for shooting will hit the market at the end of the year. Biofire Technologies announced this month that it is taking pre-orders for its home defense gun that is intended to prevent unwanted access to children and criminals. This is either a big step forward…
Debate on the Need to Reduce Vehicle Emissions ‘Is Over,’ Transport Minister Tells MPs
Transport Minister Omar Alghabra told a parliamentary committee on April 20 that the debate on the need to reduce vehicle emissions “is over” as the federal government looks to implement a number of incentives to encourage Canadians to purchase electric vehicles. Alghabra made the comments during an appearance before the Commons Standing Committee on Transport…
Big Banks, Corporations Getting 90 Percent of Biden’s Green Energy Credits: Congressional Study
April 20, 2023
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Most of the green energy tax benefits provided by President Joe Biden’s $750 billion Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 are going into the coffers of big banks and billion-dollar corporations, according to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.). “While President Biden’s supercharged IRS is warming up to target working Americans, his…
IRS Agent Comes Forward as Whistleblower in Hunter Biden Case
An Internal Revenue Service (IRS) criminal supervisory agent is seeking whistleblower status, saying they have information that the Biden administration mishandled the investigation into first son Hunter Biden’s business dealings. In an April 19 letter, attorney Mark D. Lytle of the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Nixon Peabody LLP addressed members of the House of Representatives…
IRS Criminal Agent Comes Forward as Whistleblower in Hunter Biden Case
An Internal Revenue Service (IRS) criminal supervisory agent is seeking whistleblower status, saying they have information that the Biden administration mishandled the investigation into first son Hunter Biden’s business dealings. In an April 19 letter, attorney Mark D. Lytle of the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Nixon Peabody LLP addressed members of the House of Representatives…
Oklahoma Court Upholds Richard Glossip’s Murder Conviction
OKLAHOMA CITY—An Oklahoma appeals court on Thursday upheld the murder conviction of death row inmate Richard Glossip, paving the way for Glossip to be executed on May 18, despite the state attorney general’s concerns about some testimony and evidence. Glossip can still plead his case for clemency to the five-member Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board,…
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