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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The territorial gains made this week by Ukrainian forces in the hotly contested eastern city of Bakhmut have secured an important logistics hub, Ukrainian military commanders said this week.
Their appraisal came as Russia’s Defense Ministry said Kyiv had stepped up attacks north of the region, in a statement on Friday.
The 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) of territory retaken by Ukrainian forces south of Bakhmut earlier this week represent a significant gain for Kyiv and will protect an important supply chain, according to the commanders of Ukraine’s 3rd Separate Assault Brigade, a special forces unit that led the attack.
The battle for Bakhmut, once a salt-mining town, has been grinding on for eight months, making it the longest of the war so far.
In a statement on Telegram on Friday, Hanna Maliar confirmed that Ukrainian forces gained ground around the city, reiterating statements from Ukrainian military commanders earlier this week.
Героям слава!
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4 minutes ago, BomberBall said:
Classic move by the NHL to even up the suspensions. Because what Nurse did should be punished the same as what Pietrangelo did. Good grief, they just keep getting it wrong.
Embarrassing. That was a slimy move by Pietrangelo the other night and should've warranted a few games.
It's been obvious for years the league doesn't actually give a **** about the safety and wellbeing of players, though.
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https://apnews.com/article/russia-poland-war-kaliningrad-map-811eb734576cc567051558372daa51cd
QuoteWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland is reverting to using its historical name for Kaliningrad, the Russian city and administrative region that sits on its border.
From now on, it will be designated on Polish maps as Krolewiec, based on the recommendation of the government commission for geographic names abroad.
The Kremlin has reacted angrily: spokesperson Dmitry Peskov called it a “process bordering on insanity,” going beyond Russophobia.
The city, formerly known as Koenigsberg, was ceded from Germany to the Soviet Union after World War II. In 1946, it was renamed Kaliningrad, after Mikhail Kalinin, one of the leaders of the Bolshevik Revolution.
The Polish authorities point out that Kalinin was one of six Soviet officials who ordered the execution of more than 21,000 Polish prisoners of war at Katyn and elsewhere in 1940.
They said the current name was artificial, lacking any connection to the city or the region, but the centuries-old name of Krolewiec was part of Poland’s cultural heritage.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65536392
QuoteOusted Fox News host Tucker Carlson has announced he is launching a new show on Twitter.
The announcement came in a video on the social media site two weeks after his sudden exit from Fox News.
Carlson said: "You can't have a free society if people aren't allowed to say what they think is true."
Elon Musk said Twitter had not signed a deal with the host, who would be subject to the same rules as other "content creators".
On Tuesday, Carlson said he would be bringing a "new version" of his show to Twitter soon in a message captioned "we're back".
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Just now, FrostyWinnipeg said:
I knew Matt Damon wasn't his real name!
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-new-passport-more-nature-fewer-history-1.6838308
QuoteCanada's passport is getting a makeover with a new design that will feature more natural landscapes and wildlife and fewer Canadian historical moments and monuments.
Speaking at a news conference on Wednesday, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development Karina Gould and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Sean Fraser said the new design is the product of 10 years of consultation.
"We tried to take the feedback about what represents Canada," Fraser said.
"One of the things that I heard was we want to celebrate our diversity and inclusion, we want to celebrate our natural environment ... and [we] tried to bake those elements into the design."
Fraser said a complete change in theme was important to improve the passport's security.
"It makes it much harder to counterfeit," Fraser said.
"It does make it easier when you maintain the same images for a significant period of time for counterfeiters to abuse the document and to produce fakes."
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17 hours ago, JCon said:
Eat all the ****, Russia. You get what you deserve.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-wildfires-rapattack-team-cuts-1.6837064
QuoteFormer members of an elite Alberta wildfire-fighting crew say government budget cuts have left the province battling its current blazes short-handed.
firefighters were trained to rappel from helicopters to get at wildfires while they still only covered a few hectares. When one storm sparked several fires, they could extinguish them before they merged. They also cleared landing spaces for other helicopters to bring in crews and gear.
That program once had 63 firefighters stationed around the province, including at Edson, Fox Creek and Lac La Biche — communities now threatened by one of the busiest early fire seasons in provincial history.
But that program was cut in 2019 by the United Conservative government.
"They told us the program had been eliminated," said former member Adam Clyne. "They just said budget."
The saving was $1.4 million. The province's wildfire budget for 2019 was about $117 million.
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OTTAWA, May 8 (Reuters) - Canada on Monday expelled Toronto-based Chinese diplomat Zhao Wei after an intelligence report accused him of trying to target a Canadian lawmaker critical of China's treatment of its Uyghur Muslim minority.
"Canada has decided to declare persona non grata Mr. Zhao Wei," Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said in a statement.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-expelling-chinese-diplomat-1.6836336
QuoteThe federal government is expelling a diplomat accused of targeting Conservative MP Michael Chong's family.
The government has been under intense pressure to sanction Zhao Wei, who reportedly played a role in attempts to gather information on Chong's family in Hong Kong in 2021 following the MP's condemnation of Beijing's conduct in the Xinjiang region as genocide.
"We will not tolerate any form of foreign interference in our internal affairs," Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said in a statement posted on Twitter.
"Diplomats in Canada have been warned that if they engage in this type of behaviour, they will be sent home."
The Globe and Mail, citing a top secret document from 2021, reported last week that the Chinese government was targeting a Canadian MP. An unnamed security source reportedly told The Globe that Zhao was allegedly working on efforts to target Chong's family in China.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-65433284.amp
QuoteBrazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has decreed six new indigenous reserves, banning mining and restricting commercial farming there.
The lands - including a vast area of Amazon rainforest - cover about 620,000 hectares (1.5m acres).
Indigenous leaders welcomed the move, but said more areas needed protection.
Recent years have seen an alarming rise in deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, a crucial buffer in the global fight against climate change.
The new reserves are in central Brazil, as well as the country's north-east and south.
The presidential decree grants indigenous people exclusive use of natural resources on the reserves. All mining is banned, and there are tighter rules for commercial farming and logging.
While hailing Lula's decision, some indigenous leaders pointed out that his government had vowed to recognise 14 new territories.
One step of hopefully many more in the right direction.
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46 minutes ago, HardCoreBlue said:
In specific cases, it's not about denouncing people who aren't progressive enough.
It's about what we can tolerate (each will have their list) and what we can't tolerate (each will have their list). That's education in itself.
The Paradox of Tolerance.
Quote...the seemingly counterintuitive idea that “in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance.”
Essentially, if a so-called tolerant society permits the existence of intolerant philosophies, it is no longer tolerant.
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White Picket Fence is awesome. I love the assortment of seasonings and hot sauces. Maritime Madness makes some killer hot sauces (Mustard Pickle is unbelievably good).
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GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization said Friday that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, marking a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies and killed millions of people worldwide.
The announcement, made more than three years after WHO declared the coronavirus an international crisis, offers a coda to a pandemic that stirred fear and suspicion, hand-wringing and finger-pointing across the globe.
The U.N. health agency’s officials said that even though the emergency phase was over, the pandemic hasn’t ended, noting recent spikes in cases in Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
WHO says thousands of people are still dying from the virus every week, and millions of others are suffering from debilitating, long-term effects.
When the U.N. health agency first declared the coronavirus to be an international crisis on Jan. 30, 2020, it hadn’t yet been named COVID-19 and there were no major outbreaks beyond China.
More than three years later, the virus has caused an estimated 764 million cases globally and about 5 billion people have received at least one dose of vaccine.
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https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-wagner-bakhmut-40eea0f86be16a77830c369acd0a9d9f
QuoteKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The owner of Russia’s Wagner military contractor threatened Friday to withdraw his troops next week from the protracted battle for the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, accusing Moscow’s military command of starving his forces of ammunition.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, a wealthy entrepreneur with longtime links to Russian President Vladimir Putin, claimed that Wagner had planned to capture Bakhmut by May 9, Russia’s major Victory Day holiday celebrating the defeat of Nazi Germany. But he said they were undersupplied and suffering heavy losses, and would hand over operations to Russia’s regular army on May 10.
It is not the first time Prigozhin has raged about ammunition shortages and blamed Russia’s military, with which he has long been in conflict. Known for his bluster, he has previously made unverifiable claims and threats he hasn’t carried out.
Prigozhin’s spokespeople also published a video of him Friday standing in front of about 30 uniformed bodies lying on the ground and saying they are Wagner fighters who died on Thursday alone. He angrily demands ammunition from Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and General Staff Chief Valery Gerasimov.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-chong-csis-1.6833343
QuotePrime Minister Justin Trudeau says he shared the "best information" he had when he told Canadians a report about a Chinese government plot to target MPs was never shared outside of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, despite information to the contrary.
But in a news conference Friday, the prime minister refused to answer questions about where the communication failure in his government rests.
"I shared the best information I had at the time," he said.
Trudeau said Friday that Canada's intelligence agencies are made up of professionals who make evaluations on whether a threat is serious or credible and what actions need to be taken.
"They proceeded to go through their processes in the way that they felt was the right thing to do," he said.
"It's also clear that information never made it up to the political level in my office, to me, or even to the minister of Public Safety at the time."
CSIS has not responded to CBC's request for comment.
Such a mess.
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Castillo was clutch in 2021 after the Bombers got him.
If they can get him back and it works for the SMS, I'm all for it.
More competition with a proven veteran in the mix seems is a win-win, IMO.
1 minute ago, JCon said:How about no kicker? Just Lieggs for kickoffs and we don't kick a single FG or EP?
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/3d-printed-guns-seized-winnipeg-home-1.6832028
QuoteAn 18-year-old man is facing numerous weapons charges after Winnipeg police seized 20 3D-printed Glock-style parts, an AR-15-style firearm resembling a toy and various other items used to manufacture 3D-printed guns from a home on Boyd Avenue.
Police were initially tipped off by the Canada Border Services Agency in January about parts used to complete 3D-printed guns being shipped from China and the United States into Canada to addresses in Winnipeg.
The shipments were disguised as tools and manufacturing equipment, said Insp. Elton Hall of the organized crime division.
Police said they searched the house on March 31 and seized parts and devices used to make functioning 3D-printed firearms, including:
- 20 3D-printed Glock-style parts, some of which had a Gucci label on them.
- A 3D-printed AR-15-style firearm that looked similar to a toy Nerf gun.
- Close to 100 auto-sears/switches, which are used to convert handguns into fully automatic firearms.
- Three 3D-printed magazines.
- A 3D printer and numerous spools of filament.
- A Type 81 rifle.
- Numerous loose firearm components, including trigger mechanisms, rails and springs.
An 18-year-old man was arrested and charged with numerous weapons and drug offences, including weapons trafficking, unauthorized possession of a firearm, and possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.
This ghost gun **** is pretty unsettling.
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https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/czech-hockey-star-petr-klima-dead-at-age-of-58-1.1956126
QuoteEDMONTON — Petr Klima, whose triple-overtime goal against Boston in Game 1 of the 1990 NHL final ended the longest game in Stanley Cup final history, has died at 58.
In 786 games across 13 seasons in the NHL, the right-winger scored 313 regular season goals and added 260 assists.
He played for the Detroit Red Wings, Oilers, Tampa Bay Lightning, Los Angeles Kings and Pittsburgh Penguins.
“The NHL mourns the passing of Czech legend Petr Klima," the league said in a statement. “Klima helped the Oilers win the 1990 Stanley Cup while scoring a memorable triple-overtime winner in Game 1 of the Final. Our sympathies are with his family, friends and many fans.”
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1 hour ago, Wideleft said:
You best take a timeout before someone gives you one.
The trash will take itself out if you don't engage.
1 hour ago, JCon said:Truly folks, blocking is easy and, in many ways, more respectful. I don't engage with that poster because I blocked them ages ago. Nothing to offer, nothing to contribute. So, rather than going back and forth, I just block them and only see their posts when they are quoted.
It also allows the blocked poster to continue with whatever they want to post without someone, in this case me, responding to them all the time. They post in peace, I post in peace.
Trolls love attention. You feed a troll and it will come back, again and again.
Starve the troll the same way they starve their brains of oxygen.
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Yes. It's called conservatism. How any rational person equate a revised passport to genocide is simply embarrassing.
Of course she posts that whiny garbage on Twitter without even the slightest grasp of irony as it relates either the man she's quoting or of the history on this part of the continent since the imperial colonial era. More ghoulish rage-baiting.
Remember: she supported the Kovidiot Klown Konvoy last year. So, this behaviour tracks.