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Putin lauds ‘heroism’ of North Koreans in liberating Kursk, Pyongyang says Call between the two leaders comes days ahead of US President Donald Trump’s summit with Putin in Alaska.

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"... the call suggests there’s a role for Russia, similar to the role South Korea played in 2018, in helping create an opening for US-DPRK relations,” Jenny Town, the director of the Korea programme at the Stimson Center in Washington, DC"

#Russia #Ukraine #DPRK

In The Wire they call this “juking the stats.”

Israel in talks with South Sudan about relocating Palestinians from Gaza Palestinians, rights groups have rejected resettlement as a blueprint for forcible expulsion in violation of international law

Gift link:

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#Israel #Palestine #SouthSudan

#Gaza

Ford also voiced support for Windsor's stance against allowing fourplexes in existing single-family neighbourhoods -a position that cost the city tens of millions of dollars in federal housing funding. The Trudeau government made the legalization of fourplexes a condition for receiving money from the federal Housing Accelerator Fund, and Windsor's refusal to amend its zoning led Ottawa to reject the city's application last year. "Stay strong with that,' Ford told Dilkens. "People do not want that in their neighbourhoods."

Doug Ford, not the premier Ontario needs. The premier we keep electing.

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New federal entity to prioritize Canadian-made, affordable housing projects Build Canada Homes is also intended to accelerate the speed at which federal lands are converted to housing, according to Canada's housing ministry.

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After Gregor Robertson's insistence that homes must retain their value, and the several weeks it took to send a warning letter to #Toronto re: HAF, I've little confidence this gov't will do my generation justice.

I hope Build Canada Homes delivers.

#cdnpoli

Thanks for your service. Seriously, I respect it, and appreciate your work. I don't think I could do it, I'd get so frustrated and give in to my more base instincts and rage quit.

Bingo!

It's basically DEI, but for stupid, morally corrupt, incompetent, mediocre people.

See: Danielle Smith. She platforms the biggest morons in the room. If you've not done your homework, yet sanctimoniously lay claim to a hurtful position, Smith has a mic for you.

#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

Ugandan court denies bail to veteran opposition leader in treason case A Ugandan judge refused to grant bail on Friday to veteran opposition figure Kizza Besigye, who has been in jail for nearly nine months on treason charges.

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I've known many Ugandans, and have learned a lot from them. I've a soft spot for #Uganda, and only want it to succeed.

But Museveni will never let go, at least not until he dies.

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Learn here about the African Continental Free Trade Area.

#Africa

Nigeria's non-oil exports jump nearly 20% in first half on cocoa, urea demand Nigeria's non-oil exports rose 19.6% to $3.225 billion in the first half of 2025, its export promotion agency said on Monday, citing global demand for products such as cocoa and urea, as well as government trade initiatives and regional trade deals.

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Result of economic liberalism & the African Continental Free Trade Area.

"... non-oil exports increased to 4.04 million metric tons from 3.83 million tons in the first half of 2024."

"The Netherlands, United States, and India were the top export destinations..."

#Nigeria

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"The armed groups often hold captives for months and demand ransoms for their release."

#Nigeria

Nigeria arraigns five accused in 2022 Catholic church massacre in Abuja court Nigerian prosecutors on Monday arraigned five men accused of carrying out a deadly Islamist militant attack on a Catholic church in Owo, in the southwestern Ondo state, that killed at least 50 worshippers in 2022 and wounded over 100 others.

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Solidarity with #Nigeria.

The new head of US labor statistics recorded a podcast promoting Project 2025.

I don't understand how this isn't a bigger story.

#cdnpoli

I don’t think I have ever publicly criticized any Presidential nominee before.

But E.J. Antoni is completely unqualified to be BLS Commissioner. He is an extreme partisan and does not have any relevant expertise.

He would be a break from decades of nonpartisan technocrats.

Norway wealth fund terminates Israel asset management contracts Norway's $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund said on Monday it is terminating contracts with asset managers handling its Israeli investments and has divested parts of its portfolio in the country over the situation in Gaza and the West Bank.

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Incremental, but positive. The fund has only divested from 11 of 61 Israeli companies. Also:

"Norway's parliament in June rejected a proposal for the fund to divest from all companies with activities in the occupied Palestinian territories."

#Norway #Israel #Palestine

Remember this guy the next time the supposed meritocrats rail against DEI.

Australia's Albanese says Netanyahu 'in denial' over suffering in Gaza Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu was "in denial" about the humanitarian situation in Gaza, a day after announcing Australia would recognise a Palestinian state for the first time.

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C'mon #NewZealand.

#Israel #Gaza #Palestine

Zelensky

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

6 days after Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, a Prague paper published these “10 Commandments”:
‘When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU:
1. Don’t know
2. Don’t care
3. Don’t tell
4. Don’t have
5. Don’t know how to
6. Don’t give
7. Can’t do
8. Don’t sell
9. Don’t show
10. Do nothing’

Sanders was downright, terrifyingly reasonable in his interview with Dana Bash yesterday.

And how far the Conservative Party of Canada has fallen. 10 years ago Harper told #Putin to leave #Ukraine. At least ostensibly, the party was for the liberal rules based order.

I cannot imagine a Poilievre PMO backing Zelensky consistently, having played footsies with anti-globalists.

#cdnpoli

Carney, Zelenskyy talk as world leaders prepare for Trump-Putin summit on Ukraine war U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are preparing to meet in person in Alaska on Friday.

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As Barkha Dutt said to Fareed Zakaria yesterday, Indians have learned not to trust the US nor consider them a reliable ally. Most of the rest of the world rightfully feel the same.

#Russia should get out of #Ukraine, and Ukraine should become a #NATO member. Full stop.

#cdnpoli

in need. And one day, *your kid, sister, mom or dad* may be the ones needing these services. We live in a society where the word "junkie" is used liberally. Consider your own prejudices - we all have them, me included. Be compassionate, be kind.

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d) supporting interventions that supplement these services and attend to their negative externalities (e.g. Casey House's increased site hours, increasing security, increasing needle sweeps, and considering police presence)

e) and lastly, being conpassionate. These are people...

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#topoli

b) acknowledging the cost of *not* having these services (e.g. increased rates of death & disease, and healthcare spending)

c) acknowledging that shutting down these services won't fix the problem, but will instead just cause it to manifest differently, both worse & less predictably

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either downplay and/or dismiss concerns, and even demonize good faith actors (not reactionary columnists) who express legitimate concerns.

Civic maturity entails the following:

a) acknowledging the value & benefits of these services (e.g. reduced rates of death & disease)

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#topoli