Disgraced actor said he is millions of dollars in debt from legal bills for sexual misconduct allegations
Liberal Housing Minister ‘wining and dining’ B.C.’s biggest real estate CEOs
>The Liberal government has promised to “solve” the country’s housing woes. But critics say it continues to offer major incentives to for-profit developers, including tax breaks and cheap financing, while steering clear of regulating the housing market. > >Ricardo Tranjan, a political economist and senior researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, said it “isn’t surprising” to see developers gain this level of access. > >“It’s power politics, and the industry has more influence,” Tranjan said. “While the minister has never bothered to sit down with and listen to the many tenants on rent strikes, he is winning and dining with corporate landlords.”
>In fact, a new bill introduced by the Liberal government will end the public disclosure of such events before they happen, and afterward will only name their city and province and not their venue name and postal code—thus ending media exposés of such “cash for access” fundraisers.
Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—On the last day of Venezuela’s presidential campaign and just three days before the presidential elections, scheduled for this Sunday, incumbent candidate and cur…
Secretary general said wealthiest countries are ‘signing away our future’ with more production and called for phase-out of fossil fuels
Labour government says it will not pursue questions on court’s jurisdiction over Netanyahu and Gallant
They are asking product manufacturers to provide the tools, parts, repair manuals and other information they need to repair
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Rheinmetall's profit doubles as defence spending surges
>The company said this was mainly due to orders from the German army using funds from a 100-billion-euro special fund created after the invasion of Ukraine to bolster the country's armed forces. > >The German company also said it had received an order from the Ukrainian government for the construction of an ammunition factory in Ukraine.
Officials from PTI, which the government says it wants to disband, are reported to have been detained.
>The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan called the government’s move “an enormous blow to democratic norms” and one that “reeks of political desperation”. > >“If pushed through, it will achieve nothing more than deeper polarisation and the strong likelihood of political chaos and violence,” Chairman Asad Iqbal Butt said in a statement. > >A United Nations panel of experts found this month that Imran Khan’s detention “had no legal basis and appears to have been intended to disqualify him from running for political office”.
Law allowing committee to fire staff for ‘supporting terror’ backed by education minister and national student union
>The legislation, currently being debated in the Knesset, would give a government-appointed committee the power to order the firing of academic staff that it decides have expressed “support for terror”. If the universities refuse, their funding would be cut.
>One of the academics targeted, Anat Matar from the philosophy department at Tel Aviv University, said the role of students in drafting and promoting a law to silence their lecturers was particularly disturbing. > >“Whether or not it passes, a significant damage has already been done,” she said. “The mere fact that it is supported by the national student union and by many local student unions, and that there is hardly any protest among students against, it manifests another step down the ladder towards full-blown fascism.”
The escalation in raids comes amid increases in settler attacks and calls for annexation of occupied Palestinian territory by Israeli ministers
Germany working on defence modernisation strategy
>Handelsblatt reported that the strategy paper would include clauses that would allow an accelerated approval of the construction of arms factories in Germany, including the shortening of deadlines and limiting the possibility of objections by citizens' initiatives.
German police have used excessive force against protesters, with the latest developments including children being arrested and women facing sexual violence
A case between two of Jeffrey Epstein's accusers is being held up by X fighting a crucial subpoena.
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National Defence is continuing to ignore requests to release government records as required under law and in the process is undermining a watchdog agency that reports to parliament, members of Parliament have heard.
The House of Commons Committee on National Defence is conducting hearings into the lack of openness and transparency within the department and the Canadian military. So far it has heard that National Defence violates the law in almost 40 per cent of the requests it receives to produce records under the Access to Information Act.
In an increasing number of cases, the department is claiming that records don’t exist, the committee heard.
At times such responses strain credibility. For instance, National Defence claimed not a single document or any information whatsoever was sent to Anita Anand, then the defence minister, throughout the four-month period covering the selection and announcement of the F-35 fighter jet in a $19-billion procurement deal.