Discreet, determined and unafraid of a fight, Lise Bacon entered politics to change the world. She loved Quebec first and foremost, believed in a united Canada and worked hard throughout her career to ensure that people were protected, be they consumers, children or the unemployed.

No matter if it was as a young political activist, a provincial Liberal minister in the cabinet of premier Robert Bourassa, Quebec’s first-ever female deputy premier or during her long stint as a federal senator, Ms. Bacon, who died on Oct. 29 in Montreal at the age of 91, mastered each file she was in charge of so she could defend it on the fly.

L'attaquant de 23 ans a inscrit 9 buts en 13 matchs dans la Ligue américaine (AHL) cette saison.

Le ministère public doit divulguer la valeur cible, mais il n'a pas à la prouver, selon la majorité des juges.

Le retour à la normale va survenir juste avant les grands départs pour les festivités de Thanksgiving.

Un vaccin payant ne peut pas être légalement utilisé à la place d’un vaccin gratuit, explique un pharmacien.

Exclusives

One long-term strategy could stop Russia’s glide bombs—but demands a painful choice. As many as 5,000 Russian glide bombs rain down on Ukraine every month. How can the Ukrainians slow the lethal rain?

Ukraine’s quick fix for Energoatom scandal may gut critical reforms. How the government responds will determine if this scandal only affects Energoatom or every other state company, destroying years of hard-won reforms.

Ukraine’s blackouts were avoidable. Energoatom corruption and political vendetta made them inevitable.. The blueprint existed. The funding existed. What happened instead reveals an institutional collapse more damaging than Russian missiles alone.

Taiwanese, South Korean companies supply industrial tools for Russia’s war.

Military

2,000+ Russian drones, 150+ missiles hit Ukraine's energy grid as repair workers operate "like ants" between emergencies Rolling blackouts affect multiple regions as workers coordinate rapid repairs on generation sites, transmission lines, and gas infrastructure damaged in the October-November assault.

Ukraine's Long Neptune missile, drones hit Russian oil terminal and air defenses in Novorossiysk Observers tracking open-source footage linked some of the strikes to a military unit housing S-300 or S-400 systems. NASA FIRMS confirmed fires across Novorossiysk.

Ukrainian drone swarm strikes occupied Donetsk, triggering fires and power outages (VIDEO) Residents reported intense anti-aircraft fire as drones circled the city for hours.

Frontline report: Ukraine executes textbook deception maneuver to reinforce embattled Myrnohrad Massive Ukrainian counterattacks along the Dobropillia frontline forced Russian forces to shift from offense to defense, creating a critical window for Ukrainian troops to rotate forces and deliver vital supplies to defenders in Myrnohrad.

ISW: Russia masses nine brigades on a 41‑kilometer strip — Huliaipole axis in Zaporizhzhia Oblast faces major pressure (MAP) Russian forces are pushing deeper toward Zaporizhzhia's Huliaipole and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast's Velykomykhailivka, using airstrikes and bad weather to blind Ukrainian drones.

Intelligence and Technology

Ukraine's homegrown 'Octopus' anti-Shahed interceptor drone enters mass production Combat-proven system operates at night, under electronic jamming, and at low altitude to counter conditions that strain standard air defenses.

Ukrainian intelligence derails Trans-Siberian Railway 6,600 km from Ukraine, hits North Korean weapons route (VIDEO) HUR released video showing explosive placement and detonation near Sosnovka in Khabarovsk Krai, disrupting a key corridor for weapons from North Korea.

International

"Ukraine's security is directly connected to ours" – 8 Nordic-Baltic countries pool $500M weapons package Package includes HIMARS rockets, air defense systems, and precision weapons sourced through NATO's PURL initiative to counter intensifying Russian strikes.

Reuters: US firm Carlyle seeks to buy Russia's Lukoil foreign assets Reuters reveals the US Treasury killed the Swiss trader's bid, paving the way for an American takeover.

Humanitarian and Social Impact

Russia trains drone operators by hunting Ukrainians in Kherson streets – Zelenskyy President vows "special solutions" as Russian forces use frontline cities as live-fire training grounds.

Russia launches massive air attack on Kyiv, killing 6 and wounding 36 civilians across the capital—children and pregnant woman among the injured (UPDATED) The Air Force says Moscow launched 430 drones and 19 missiles. More were killed in Odesa Oblast, while damage to power and other infrastructure facilities is reported across several regions.

The Russian air force is lobbing as many as 5,000 glide bombs at Ukrainian positions every month, including some bombs weighing 3,000 kg. Just one of those aerial monsters is powerful enough to flatten a high-rise building.

The glide bombs blast holes in Ukrainian defenses, disrupt military logistics, and terrorize everyday Ukrainians living near the front line, leveling entire apartment buildings in one go.

In the battle for Pokrovsk, Russian forces drop up to 450 glide bombs per week on a single sector, destroying fortified strongpoints that Ukrainian forces spent months building—and allowing Russian infiltration. One FAB-3000 bomb can completely obliterate a fortified position, turning Ukrainian defensive networks into rubble and forcing troops into open fields where they become easier targets.

There are measures Ukrainian forces can take to blunt the relentless bombardment—but none are cheap. And some could take months if not years to have any meaningful effect.

Recent footage from the front line in Myrnohrad, in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast, dramatically illustrates the power of Russia's glide bombs, which range as far as 65 km on pop-out wings and satellite guidance. Russian industry developed the glide bomb kits in early 2023 in response to heavy Russian air force losses during close bombing sorties.

The recent footage depicts a 1,500-kg or 3,000-kg glide bomb striking a multi-story building—and demolishing it.

"Glide bombs are a truly terrifying weapon," Canadian journalist Neil Hauer explained. He recalled a story about 3,000-kg glide bombs striking an apartment building in Kostiantynivka, in eastern Ukraine. "Leveled it to the ground in one go," Hauer wrote.

The inexpensive glide bombs, each costing just a few tens of thousands of dollars, dramatically reduce Russian warplanes' exposure to the most dangerous Ukrainian air defenses. Instead of attacking from directly overhead, planes could attack from 40 km (with the first generation of glide bombs) or from 65 km (with a newer generation that debuted this year).

Why glide bombs work—and how Russia protects its bombers

It's no coincidence that, as Russia's hundreds of Sukhoi Su-30 and Su-34 fighter-bombers switched to glide bombing since 2023, the rate of loss for both types has declined. Since Russia widened its war on Ukraine in February 2022, the Russian air force has written off around 15 Su-30s and around 40 Su-34s.

More than 250 of the jets remain in service—and Sukhoi continues to deliver replacement airframes at a rate of a couple of dozen a year.

Ukrainian forces aren't defenseless. They can:

• jam the glide bombs with electronic warfare systems;
• shoot down the glide-bombing Sukhois with their best long-range air defenses;
• and suppress the rate at which Russian industry completes replacement jets.

But jamming requires constant adaptation as the Russians add more and more satellite navigation receivers to successive generations of glide bombs. Long-range air defenses are in short supply as the Ukrainian air force prioritizes the defense of major cities and power plants against the most damaging Russian cruise missiles and ballistic missiles.

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Russian jets accumulate dangerous flight hours

Disrupting the Russian aerospace industry is a long-term solution to the glide-bomb threat.

Flying nearly daily glide-bombing sorties, the Russian Su-30s and Su-34s have "built up significant fatigue hours" on their metal airframes, analysts Nikolay Staykov and Jack Watling wrote in a new study for the Royal United Services Institute in London. Warplanes are built tough, but they can become unreliable and unsafe after a few thousand flight hours.

More and more Russian jets are reaching that dangerous threshold. The recent crash of an Su-30 may underscore that risk.

Strangling Sukhoi—sanctions and drone strikes

Ukraine and its allies can accelerate the decline of the Russian fighter fleet and slow the pace of glide bombings—by strangling Sukhoi and its suppliers with sanctions, and directly attacking the most critical production facilities with long-range attack drones.

The aerospace industry in Russia is uniquely vulnerable.

"Because of the number of precision subcomponents necessary to assemble fighter aircraft, even minor delays and disruption to production have a significant knock-on impact in suppressing the acceleration of aircraft production," Staykov and Watling wrote.

If Ukraine's allies can close gaps in sanctions on Russia's aerospace industry to cover all tiers of suppliers and, equally importantly, properly enforce the sanctions, it could "reduce the threat" from the Kremlin's glide bombers by reducing the number of flyable planes.

It wouldn't happen quickly, of course. It could take years before fatigue grounds a significant portion of the Su-30 and Su-34 fleet. Drone strikes on the factories could speed up the degradation by driving the production rate of new jets closer to zero.

But an intensive effort to drone Russian aerospace plants might have the unintended consequence of taking the pressure off the oil industry—and boosting Russia's wider economy.

At present, Kyiv aims most of its long-range drones at Russia's oil industry. The oil campaign has disabled 20% of Russia's oil refining, forced a VAT hike, and driven Moscow's National Wealth Fund toward exhaustion by 2026—"the most efficient thing Ukraine can do" to hurt Russia's war machine, as one economist says.

But every drone aimed at an oil refinery is a drone not aimed at aircraft factories building the bombers that drop 5,000 glide bombs monthly. Pivoting to strikes on airplane factories focus might reduce bombardment in two or three years, if it works. Every month of delay means 5,000 more bombs.

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Selon l'opposition, plus de 1000 personnes ont été tuées lors des manifestations.

Russian forces are using civilians in Kherson and other frontline cities as live targets to train drone operators, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on 15 November, referring to the systematic killings of Russia’s "human safari" terror tactic.

The attacks serve a dual purpose for Russia: terrorizing Ukrainian civilians who resist their forces while providing real-world training for drone operators, transforming Kherson and other cities into live-fire training grounds.

Russian "human safari" terror doubles as drone operator training

"They are essentially conducting a 'human safari' and training drone operators through the killing of Ukrainians on the streets, on the roads," Zelenskyy said in his evening address. "We need more protection and more of our own active operations."

The president singled out Russian units targeting Kherson, Nikopol, and other cities within easy reach of occupied territory. 

"They are tormenting our cities, tormenting our people," he said. "We are preparing special solutions that can strengthen our defenses, particularly in those regions and inflict greater losses on the occupier - especially on those Russian units" conducting the attacks.

Systematic attacks kill over 130 civilians in four months

Since summer 2024, Russian forces have conducted what Kherson residents call "human safari" - using small FPV drones equipped with cameras to track individual pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers, then drop explosives directly on them.

The UN confirmed in October 2025 that these attacks constitute crimes against humanity. Russian forces deliberately target civilians, ambulances, and first responders across over 300 kilometers of territory along the Dnipro River.

Kherson experiences thousands of drone strikes monthly, with Russian military social media channels openly posting videos of the attacks and referring to them as a "hunt."

Ukraine expands drone forces and evacuation systems

Zelenskyy announced expanded deployment of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces, including the elite Magyar's Birds unit, with additional resources allocated to counter the threat.

Starting 1 December, Ukraine will launch an electronic points system for evacuating wounded soldiers using ground robotic complexes. "We are also fully ensuring direct financing for brigades for their needs - for drones, for procuring components," the president said.

The announcement came after Zelenskyy's recent visit to Kherson, where he met with military leaders and drone units to review defense measures for the city three years after its liberation from Russian occupation.