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Want to see how small the gene pool of Tory talent is? I give you Andrew Griffith as shadow chancellor. Also this week: Starmer’s Fomo, and telly wars
It’s the end of summer and Kemi Badenoch chose to mark the occasion with a reshuffle of her shadow cabinet. Her aim is apparently to get the Tories match fit in case Andy Burnham calls an early general election, but the vibes are much more rearranging the deckchairs on a sinking ship. After all, when the gene pool of talent is that small, there’s not much you can do. James Cleverly got the ball rolling by announcing he was planning to be the Conservative candidate for London mayor in two years’ time. He may have his work cut out. London is a liberal, multicultural city and unlikely to be won over by a party giving up on net zero and the European convention on human rights.
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Republican oversight chair James Comer has also weighed in on Leon Black not sitting for a deposition about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. The billionaire financier, who has denied wrongdoing, filed suit against the oversight committee Thursday alleging the subpoenas were improper.
“It’s a shame Leon Black is hiding behind litigation rather than provide answers to the American people. Our investigation is examining how the federal government for decades failed survivors of Jeffery Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes and how Mr. Epstein sought to curry favor with influential individuals to avoid scrutiny,” Comer said in a statement. “Mr. Black’s testimony is crucial to our investigation as he was one of Mr. Epstein’s fee paying clients and has several nondisclosure agreements.”
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Les derniers bélugas du parc d’attractions Marineland de Niagara Falls, en Ontario, ont quitté le Canada lundi.
Au total, le parc a transféré à l’étranger 30 bélugas et 4 dauphins.
Ils ont été répartis entre plusieurs aquariums et parcs aquatiques en Espagne et aux États-Unis.
Ottawa avait approuvé ce plan en juin.
[L'article Il n’y a plus aucun cétacé en captivité au pays a d'abord été publié dans InfoBref.]
Tech company submits to controversial Trump order to rename body of water amid US trade spat with Canada
Apple has renamed Lake Ontario as “Lake America” for US users of its Maps app, after an executive order from Donald Trump to change the name of the Great Lake amid his trade spat with Canada.
The Apple Maps app now displays the controversial new name for the lake, which sits between New York state and the Canadian province of Ontario, for users in the US. Apple users outside the country will still see the Lake Ontario name.
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© Composite: The Washington Post/ABACA/Shutterstock, Apple Maps
US defense secretary faces backlash for attempting to mock Canada’s armed forces amid trade war
A social media post by Pete Hegseth, the US secretary of defense, body-shaming female members of a Canadian youth development program remained online on Wednesday despite a furious backlash on both sides of the border.
On Monday night, Hegseth posted on X a photograph of two people in uniform with a Canadian flag and the caption “this is real”, an apparent attempt at mocking the country’s armed forces amid the Trump administration’s trade spat with its northern neighbor.
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The US president’s need to assert dominance is igniting patriotism abroad and a backlash at home
What do bullies do when someone stands up to their bullying and punches them in the face? They look for someone weaker to bully who won’t punch back.
Presumably that’s why Donald Trump has now taken on Canada, after Iran punched back so hard in the cage match the US president began more than six months ago as to leave him humiliated and baffled.
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Selon le New York Times, Interpol, l’organisation internationale de police criminelle, a reçu depuis février 2024 le signalement de presque 5000 véhicules volés au Canada et retrouvés ensuite en Russie.
Les sanctions internationales actuellement en vigueur contre la Russie interdisent d’exporter des biens vers le territoire russe.
Une de leurs conséquences est que, en Russie, des consommateurs cherchent à se procurer des véhicules sur le marché noir.
Cette demande alimenterait les vols de voiture au Canada et dans d’autres pays.
[L'article La Russie serait la principale destination étrangère des voitures volées au Canada a d'abord été publié dans InfoBref.]
Paul St-Pierre Plamondon s’est engagé hier à supprimer la taxe de vente du Québec sur les biens usagés.
Cette taxe de près de 10% s’applique:
Le Parti conservateur avait déjà proposé cette mesure en 2022 et l’a réitérée dimanche.
Québec solidaire retirerait la taxe de vente sur certains produits d’épicerie et sur des vêtements d’occasion pour enfants.
La Caq et le Parti libéral ne supprimeraient pas la TVQ sur les biens usagés.
[L'article Le Parti Québécois propose, comme les conservateurs, de détaxer les biens usagés a d'abord été publié dans InfoBref.]
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Canadian PM is set to retaliate against tariffs levied by Donald Trump and criticized US officials over insults
Mark Carney has rebuked Donald Trump’s administration and urged officials in Washington to “start being serious” amid escalating trade tensions between the US and Canada.
Days before Canada is due to retaliate against Trump’s sweeping tariffs with its own duties on US goods, the Canadian prime minister criticized US officials for insulting his country. “It is beneath their office,” he said.
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Navigating app surpasses Google and Apple Maps on top-downloaded US chart after posting ‘we’re not changing it’
A pioneering online mapping app that defied Donald Trump by refusing to rename Lake Ontario has become the most in-demand navigation tool in the US.
MapQuest, which was openly dismissive of the president’s 27 August executive order directing federal agencies to refer to the smallest of the Great Lakes as “Lake America” amid a trade spat with Canada, leapfrogged rivals Google Maps and Apple Maps to top the most-downloaded list, as first reported by TechCrunch.
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Daniel Gobeil, ancien président des Producteurs de lait du Québec, deviendra député libéral de la circonscription Chicoutimi—Le Fjord.
Il est arrivé en tête hier devant ses adversaires du Bloc québécois et du Parti conservateur.
Après les trois élections partielles qui se déroulaient hier, le gouvernement fédéral devra bientôt en organiser six autres à la suite du départ de députés, dont trois au Québec:
Steven Guilbeault a officiellement démissionné vendredi de son siège de député de Laurier – Sainte-Marie, à Montréal.
Alexandre Boulerice, député du NPD, se présente aux élections provinciales au Québec pour Québec solidaire à Montréal.
Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay, député du Bloc québécois, se présente aux élections provinciales pour le Parti québécois en Montérégie.
[L'article Élections fédérales partielles: au Saguenay, le candidat libéral l’a emporté a d'abord été publié dans InfoBref.]
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Chris Hippensteel
We’re watching today as Scott Bessent, the US treasury secretary, and Kevin Warsh, the chair of the Federal Reserve, deliver their opening remarks at the G20 meetings in Asheville, North Carolina.
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US trade representative Jamieson Greer has a level-headed reputation but commerce secretary Howard Lutnick and White House adviser Peter Navarro also have key roles
Having reportedly read Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, in French, during a military tour of duty in Iraq, Jamieson Greer considered himself an unlikely target for accusations of francophobia.
But Donald Trump’s US trade representative, hitherto one of the president’s less high-profile cabinet members, found himself in that uncomfortable position amid the acrimonious collapse of bilateral trade talks with Canada that now threatens to degenerate into an all-out trade war between the two close trading partners whose economies are tightly intertwined.
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Meanwhile, Trump posts video of himself kicking over a Lake Ontario sign and replacing it with Lake America sign
Donald Trump and Canada continued a verbal duel on Saturday over the US government’s administrative renaming of Lake Ontario, with the Ontario premier erecting a giant sign saying “Lake Ontario. Now and Always” – and the American president posting a video of him tearing down an avatar of that sign, erecting a replacement saying Lake America, and dancing to YMCA.
Rhetoric over the naming of Lake Ontario is the public face of an escalating trade dispute between the US and its northern neighbor involving a 50% US tariff on Canadian steel and retaliatory tariffs from Ottawa.
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