Defense News: TORONTO — Canada has selected Lockheed Martin’s F-35 as the preferred offering in the country’s competition to buy a new fighter jet, government officials said Monday. Canada plans to buy 88 new fighter jets to replace its CF-18s. The government…

CTV: Canada’s first emissions reduction roadmap relies heavily on the oil and gas sector to help Ottawa reach its 2030 climate goal, but there is a still a big gap between what industry and government say are achievable cuts. Oil and gas is Canada’s highest…

Observers France: A video shared widely online as early as March 27 purports to show, according to its caption on YouTube, Ukrainian soldiers shooting Russian prisoners of war (POW) in their legs. The FRANCE 24 Observers team analysed the video and was able…

Russia Today: Moscow will convene an extraordinary meeting of the UN Security Council over an incident in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, Russia’s deputy permanent representative to the organization, Dmitry Polyansky, said on Sunday. Ukraine has accused Russia…

The Gray Zone: On March 9th, shocking news of a deliberate Russian airstrike on a maternity hospital in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, began spreading widely via social media and news outlets.  Fiery condemnation from Western officials, pundits, and journalists…

It’s such a shame that Hungary isn’t a Democracy, and as a result, the people occasionally get what they want. Star Observer: Hungary’s right-wing and homophobic Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was re-elected on Sunday, You love to see it. winning a fifth term…

I wrote earlier this morning a bit of a parody article on Bucha, ending by making sure everyone knew that I don’t really know what happened in Bucha. Having said that, this article does accidentally shine some light on the issue, and adds more detail to our…

CBC: McDonald’s has pulled out of downtown Kamloops following a series of violent incidents, prompting a conversation about public safety in the Interior B.C. city. On Sunday, March 27, video was posted to YouTube in which a man could be seen yelling obscenities…

PBS: Tesla CEO Elon Musk acquired a 9 percent stake in Twitter to become its largest shareholder at a time when he is questioning the social media platform’s dedication to free speech and the First Amendment. The ultimate aim of Musk’s 73.5 million share…

Times of Israel: Elena Bunina, a Russian-Jew who in recent years headed top Russian tech company Yandex, has stepped down as the firm’s CEO and has moved to Israel due to the ongoing war in Ukraine, according to media reports. The malicious double standard…

This one is going to be much shorter than usual, since it can be summed up in two words, “saturation attack.” Nevertheless, I’m going to once again confront some Contradictory Bullshit of the Military Industrial Complex. We’ve got all these precision GPS…

Haaretz: Ukraine will become a “‘big Israel’ with its own face,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared on Tuesday, indicating that his country intends to emulate the Israeli security state in the wake of Russia’s invasion. “Ukraine will definitely…

As a followup to my previous piece, someone in the telegram comments asked about the Iron Yarmaluke, Israel’s missile and artillery defense system. To put it bluntly, it doesn’t work either. Algemeiner: Of the 86 rockets that were launched from Gaza into…

Russia Today: Slovakia will pay for Russian natural gas in rubles if that’s what it takes to keep the commodity flowing, Slovak Economy Minister Richard Sulik has said on national television. “If there is a condition to pay in rubles, then we will pay in…

Last night I received an email just after I went to bed. I live on the west coast, so receiving an email at 12:59 AM is just weird, and implies that this was sent from some bot farm somewhere around the world, since I highly doubt that YouTube employees in…

CBC: The federal budget is expected to pour up to $8 billion in new money into the Department of National Defence (DND), CBC News has learned — an investment that will lean heavily on improving the military’s ability to defend North America. I’ve been predicting…

No really, that’s basically all there is to say. CBC: The Ontario Hockey League (OHL) has indefinitely suspended the general manager and the head coach of the Niagara IceDogs, following an investigation into comments it found violated the league’s policy…

Ron DeSantis’ bill isn’t even all that good, but apparently it’s triggered the pervert brigade. NBC: Walt Disney Co. employees at corporate locations across the U.S. got up from their desks and headed to the exits Tuesday to protest CEO Bob Chapek’s response…