Tuesday, October 22, 2019

The Canadian Election And Other Stories

In Canada's election, the Liberal Party, led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, have won a plurality of seats in their House of Commons, but not enough to have a majority.  Starting with news from our neighbors to the north, here are some things going on:

From CBC News, the hard part now begins for Canada's new minority government.

From Global News, Canadian NDP leader Jagmeet Singh calls for electoral reform.  (When you don't get the result you want, change the rules, eh?  Sounds like some Americans I can think of.)

From CTV News, Canadian opposition leaders take asses last night's results.

From Canada Free Press, the "arrogant" Justin Trudeau is "reduced to minority status".

From National Review, will outrage ensue because Trudeau lost the popular vote?

From FrontpageMag, some hypocrisy about terrorism from Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY).

From Townhall, some hypocrisy about about racism from Democrats, and maybe also from Canadian liberals.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Seattle's largest public school district considers putting social justice elements into math.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump knows what he's doing by Tweeting about "lynching", and the media is unwittingly helping him.

From The Federalist, the health violations at these abortion clinics in Illinois will make you sick.

From American Thinker, the leftist heroes of the week are congresscritter Schiff, (D-Cal), Hillary Clinton, and Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT).

From CNS News, in a cabinet meeting, Trump rejects the idea of congresscritter Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) of being a Russian agent.

From LifeZette, how could congresscritter AOC (D-NY) support an "old white guy" like Senator Bernie Sanders (I/VT)?

From NewsBusters, according to TV host Joe Scarborough, Trump's base "secretly supports impeachment".

From TeleSUR, state violence in Chile results in 1,420 arrests and 11 deaths.

From Morocco World News, a Frenchman on a TV show claims that kebabs and couscous "maghrebize" people who eat them.

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, Turkish troops in Syria have killed 300 ISIS members and detained 200 more of them.

From Turkish Minute, Turkish authorities order the detention of over 60 more people for alleged Gülen links.

From Rûdaw, Syrian President Assad calls Turkish President Erdoğan a "thief" as Turkish-backed fighters loot grain silos.

From In-Cyprus, Cypriot students make their own symbolic gesture against Turkey's operation in Syria.

From The Syrian Observer, about 200 Syrian families reach Iraq.

From Arutz Sheva, Israeli President Rivlin will give Blue and White leader Gantz a mandate to form a government tomorrow night.

From The Times Of Israel, according to a poll, most Israelis think that Prime Minister Netanyahu should resign as leader of the Likud party due to his legal troubles.

From The Jerusalem Post, Netanyahu lost, but Gantz hasn't yet won.

From YNetNews, U.S. President Trump wishes Netanyahu a happy 70th birthday.

From the Egypt Independent, Egyptian authorities arrest 20 illegal migrants in the town of Kom Ombo.

From Egypt Today, Egyptian authorities arrest 22 people affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood for allegedly planning to commit vandalism and obstruct a road.

From StepFeed, due to the ongoing protests, Saudi Arabia evacuates hundreds of its citizens from Lebanon.

From Radio Farda, Iranian authorities arrest three followers of the Baha'i faith in the city of Shiraz.

From IranWire, according to Iranian President Rouhani, everything's OK except for poverty and the economy being bankrupt.

From Dawn, Pakistani opposition party leaders decline to stage a sit-in in Islamabad.

From The Express Tribune, on a tour near the Line of Control in Kashmir, diplomats allegedly find "no evidence of terror launch pads" which India claimed to destroy.

From Pakistan Today, according to the leader of the Pakistan People's Party, most of Pakistan's problems can be solved if Prime Minister Imran Khan resigns.

From Khaama Press, Afghan Special Forces foil a suicide attack in the city of Mazar-e Sharif.

From The Hans India, Indian railways plan to implement a project that will bring 160-mph trains to Delhi.

From the Hindustan Times, Indian officials claim that 18 terrorists were killed by strikes into the Pakistan-controlled part of Kashmir.

From ANI, India's Air Force successfully test-fires two BrahMos missiles.

From India Today, in the Pulwama area of Kashmir, Indian security forces send three terrorists to their virgins.

From the Daily Mirror, a suit filed in the U.S. against former Sri Lankan defense secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa is dismissed.

From the Colombo Page, trade between Sri Lanka and Canada surges.

From Gatestone Institute, why Hamas supports Turkey's operation in Syria.

From The Jakarta Post, a group planned to disrupt Indonesian President Joko Widodo's inauguration with slingshot bombs and monkeys.

From The Straits Times, Singapore issues an advisory against non-essential travel to Lebanon.

From the Borneo Post, Malaysia loses about 5 billion ringgit each year to foreign fishermen.

From Free Malaysia Today, an environmental group sounds the alarm about heavy metals found in sludge in Sungai Petani, Malaysia.

From The Mainichi, photos from Japanese Emperor Naruhito's enthronement ceremony.

From The Stream, a pro-choice M.D. saw what abortion on demand would lead to - in 1970.

From Reason, Senator Elizabeth Warren's (D-MA) wealth tax doesn't add up.

From the Daily Caller, a federal court in Ohio dismisses a suit against gun makers.

From Twitchy, some people remind Montana Governor Steve Bullock that the Second Amendment is not about hunting.

From the New York Post, a Brazilian man trying to keep cockroaches out of his garden blows up both.

And from Decider, no, the Russian empress Catherine the Great did not die from horsing around.

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