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title: U.S. Measles Outbreak Grows: Nearly 500 Cases in 19 States, with 70 Hospitalized
author: ;Steven Carr
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<p>March 29, 2025 (EIRNS)—According to a March 28 <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html">CDC report</a> there are now 483 confirmed cases of measles in 19 states, with 70 people hospitalized. There has been one confirmed death in the outbreak and another death is under investigation. The reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicated that 97% of these cases involve people who were not vaccinated or whose vaccine status was unknown. Measles had been virtually eradicated in the United States, but the number of cases has been rising in recent years. In 2024 the U.S. had 285 cases.</p>
<p><a href="https://dshs.texas.gov/measles">Texas health officials report</a> 400 cases with the highest concentration in Gaines County and the “South Plains” area along the border with New Mexico. The population of Gaines County is only 22,500, but it has one of the highest immunization exemption rates in the state. Vaccination for school attendance is mandatory in many counties, but in Gaines County fully 18% of students have opted out. A high percentage of those unvaccinated are of the Mennonite denomination of Christianity. There are also 44 cases in New Mexico, where the highest concentration is in Lea County, which neighbors Gaines County, Texas, according to the <a href="https://www.nmhealth.org/about/erd/ideb/mog/">health department of New Mexico</a>.</p>
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guid: 67e8022f8d1545000199cc95
title: Federal Judge Stops Deportation of Turkish Fulbright Scholar
author: ;Steven Carr
link: https://eir.news/2025/03/news/federal-judge-stops-deportation-of-turkish-fulbright-scholar/
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<p>March 29, 2025 (EIRNS)—On March 28 the U.S. District Judge Denise Casper issued a brief order stipulating that Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts University doctoral student arrested by masked ICE agents on March 25, “shall not be removed from the United States until further order of this court.” Öztürk is currently being held at ICE detention facilities in Louisiana known as the “Black Hole.” For nearly 24 hours after her arrest, she was not able to speak to her lawyers, family, or friends. Öztürk has never been charged with any crime or violations of school policy. According to members of her legal team <a href="https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/in-new-filing-rumeysa-ozturk-urges-court-to-protect-her-rights-release-her">Öztürk was arrested</a> apparently in retaliation for a <a href="https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03/4ftk27sm6jkj"><em>Tufts Daily</em> op-ed</a> she co-authored last year.</p>
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guid: 67e802fb8d1545000199cc9f
title: SignalGate: Shades of Russiagate
author: ;Dave Christie
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<p>March 29, 2025 (EIRNS)—SignalGate, as Russiagate before it, appears to have a British hand in sabotaging Trump’s stated commitments to peace. A March 27 article in Britain’s <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/us-signal-intelligence-sharing-five-eyes-b2722663.html"><em>The Independent</em></a> indicates that the British are targeting Steven Witkoff and Tulsi Gabbard for their intelligence blunder, saying they can’t be trusted in the Five Eyes intelligence sharing—which for decades has put the U.K. in the driver’s seat of Western intelligence sharing. <em>The Independent</em> article concludes: “Gabbard is in charge of the National Intelligence Service that hoovers up signals intelligence for the U.S. and liaises directly with GCHQ in the U.K. Risk-averse Five Eyes intelligence agencies will draw only one conclusion from her evasion of the question. She can’t be trusted.”</p>
<p>The question of how the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg—a onetime Israel Defense Forces prison guard—ever got on the highly-restricted Signal chat group is a central, unanswered question. But it is also important to look at the Signal app itself.</p>
<p>One feature which <em>The Independent</em> fails to mention is that Signal itself was recommended for use by the Biden Administration’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in a <a href="https://wwwcisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/guidance-mobile-communications-best-practices.pdf">guidance</a> published one month before Trump’s inauguration. The Signal application was part of the color revolution toolkit used during operations under Hillary Clinton’s State Department during the Obama administration, promoting its encrypted system for use by on-the-ground activists and agents—particularly during the “Arab Spring.”</p>
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title: Another Major China-Hawk in Trump&amp;#039;s National Security Council
author: ;Michael O. Billington
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<p>March 29, 2025 (EIRNS)—Ivan Kanapathy, now the Senior Director for Asia at the National Security Council under Mike Waltz, is a leading China hawk. As Senior NSC Director he is responsible for crafting the Trump administration’s approach to China and Taiwan. A report by Laura Loomer, a far-right activist who ran for Congress in Florida and is reported to have connections with Donald Trump, complains about Kanapathy being allowed into the Trump team without being vetted and excluded.</p>
<p>Kanapathy previously worked with former CIA officials and Democratic Trump-haters Mike Morrell and Leon Panetta at Beacon Global Strategies where Kanapathy was the Senior Vice President, Loomer reports. The firm is close to Hillary Clinton and prides itself on being “bipartisan,” with war hawks from both parties. Morrell and Panetta were signers of the intelligence letter claiming that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian fake news, a scam which prompted Tulsi Gabbard to recently lift the security clearance of all 51 signers. Morrell was the ringleader of the letter, which he said was to give Joe Biden a “talking point” ahead of a 2020 Presidential debate against then-President Donald Trump. Biden did, in fact, say this in the debate.</p>
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author: ;David Cherry
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&amp;#039;Yes, Nuclear for Small African Countries!&amp;#039; by EIR’s David Cherry Published in South Africa

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<p>March 29, 2025 (EIRNS)—"Yes, Nuclear for Small African Countries!” by <em>EIR</em> staff member David Cherry is the lead article in the digital magazine <a href="https://stratekglobal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/8th-Edition-March25-Nuclear-network-africa-mag.pdf"><em>Nuclear Network Africa</em></a> in its March 25 issue. The title is a reference to small modular reactors (SMRs) and micro-reactors. The magazine is part of Dr. Kelvin Kemm’s international campaign for nuclear power.</p>
<p>The article includes a presentation of LaRouche’s concept of energy-flux density. Its final paragraph then puts nuclear power in perspective:</p>
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guid: 67e81b218d1545000199cd29
title: Israel Renewed Bombing of Lebanon After Four Months of Ceasefire
author: ;Michael O. Billington
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<div><img src="https://eir.news/content/images/size/w1200/2025/03/Screen-Shot-2025-03-29-at-7.55.45-PM.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>March 29, 2025 (EIRNS)—Israel launched a strike on a suburb of the Lebanese capital on March 28, the first such attack on Beirut since late last year, when Hezbollah and Israel agreed to a ceasefire that ended months of deadly fighting. Israel also conducted strikes on more than 10 Lebanese towns and villages in the country’s south and east March 28, attacks that continued into the night, according to Lebanese state media, reported the <em>Washington Post</em>. Lebanon’s health ministry said 5 people were killed and 20 injured by the strikes. No toll was given for Beirut, where rescue teams continued to search the rubble.</p>
<p>Israel claimed the bombing was in retaliation for rockets fired by Hezbollah (which denies the claim) into Israel on Friday, March 28. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warned the attacks would continue. “I send a clear message from here to the Lebanese government: If you do not enforce the ceasefire agreement—we will,” he said.</p>
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title: Ron Paul Institute Urges U.S. To Steer Clear of Neo-Con Demand To Attack Iran
author: ;David Shavin
link: https://eir.news/2025/03/news/neo-cons-push-trump-to-hit-iran-but-citizens-voted-for-him-not-to/
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<div><img src="https://eir.news/content/images/size/w1200/2025/03/Screen-Shot-2025-03-29-at-7.44.45-PM.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>March 29, 2025 (EIRNS)—Daniel McAdams of the Ron Paul Institute usefully counterposed Donald Trump’s campaigning against the neo-con wars with the present neo-con drive, centered upon hitting Iran, to inveigle him into out-of-control religious warfare and a new strategic confrontation with Russia.</p>
<p>After noting that this week several B-2 strategic bombers reportedly arrived in Diego Garcia, <a href="https://ronpaulinstitute.org/diego-garcia-smells-like-war/">McAdams wrote for the Ron Paul Institute</a> on March 28:</p>
<p>“In addition, flight trackers are showing increased activity by at least nine KC-135R refueling aircraft in the region. Several C-17 cargo planes have also been spotted by satellites on the Island.</p>
<p>“The U.S. President has ordered U.S. Carrier Strike Group Carl Vinson to the Mideast….</p>
<p>“President Trump today warned although his ‘big preference is we work it out with Iran … if we don’t work it out, bad bad things are gonna happen with Iran.’</p>
<p>“So is the U.S. President elected with the promise to end wars rather than start them ready to launch a war against the modern, technologically-advanced nation of 90 million with an extremely complicated terrain, advanced military capabilities, and a newly-signed strategic partnership treaty with Russia?</p>
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guid: 67e82f158d1545000199cd75
title: Russia Details Their Discussion with the U.S. over the Black Sea
author: ;David Shavin
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<p>March 29, 2025 (EIRNS)—At the March 24 meeting of U.S. and Russian representatives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the Russians presented detailed proposals for reopening agricultural exports and other shipping in the Black Sea. On March 27, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the U.S. team would evaluate Russia’s conditions for the Black Sea deal—one agreed to “in principle” by the two heads of state—“and then we’ll present that to the President (Trump) and make a decision about the next step.”</p>
<p>Asked at her March 27 press conference about the Russian-American talks, Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova provided <a href="https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/2005860/">a useful summary overview</a> on the actual issue. Responding to a reporter’s question, she remarked:</p>
<p>“On March 24, 2025, in Riyadh, a meeting of experts from Russia and the United States took place as part of the ongoing implementation of an agreement between the presidents of both nations. The discussions centered on resolving the Ukrainian crisis. Leading the Russian delegation were Grigory Karasin, Chair of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Sergey Beseda, Advisor to the Director of the Russian Federal Security Service. Key topics included navigation safety in the Black Sea and the unblocking of Russian agricultural exports.</p>
<p>“A key outcome of the meeting was the United States’ commitment to facilitating the restoration of access for Russian agricultural and fertilizer exports to global markets. This includes lowering insurance costs for maritime transportation, improving access for Russian vessels to foreign ports, and ensuring the functionality of payment systems for transactions. We appreciate this commitment and anticipate the lifting of sanctions imposed on Rosselkhozbank and other financial institutions involved in international trade, food, and fertilizer transactions, as well as the expected reconnection to the SWIFT system….</p>
<p>“Once these measures are implemented, work will begin on enforcing agreements related to security in the Black Sea. These agreements include ensuring safe navigation, refraining from the use of force, and preventing commercial vessels from being used for military purposes. The Russian side emphasized the need to inspect such vessels for weapons and military equipment. It is also essential to extend security guarantees to facilities in Crimea, including the Kerch Strait and the Crimean Bridge.</p>
<p>“The experts also explored measures to implement the agreement between the presidents of Russia and the United States on a 30-day ban on strikes against energy facilities in Russia and Ukraine, effective from March 18. Discussions addressed the potential extension of the moratorium and the conditions for withdrawal if either party failed to comply….</p>
<p>“We expect all agreements reached to be fully implemented and, with U.S. assistance, for Russian agricultural exports to be unblocked. Additionally, we anticipate that the Kiev regime will cease its violations of the 30-day ban on strikes against energy facilities.</p>
<p>“I can also confirm that consultations between experts from the Russian and U.S. delegations will continue.”</p>
<p>Asked: “Who can give Russia any guarantees about the Black Sea Initiative? … What kind of guarantees do we need to trust Ukraine?” Zakharova replied: “Again, I would like to refer you to [Foreign Minister] Sergey Lavrov’s explanations. Among other things, he said that their handlers in Washington should do their part to curb the monster that the previous administration has nurtured.”</p>


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International Peace Coalition: Stop the &amp;#039;Remilitarization&amp;#039; of Europe, Build a World Peace Movement

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<p>March 29, 2025 (EIRNS)—The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eboSp6sjAxA">95th consecutive weekly meeting</a> of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) was held on March 28, with speakers from Germany, France, Iran, Argentina and Mexico. People from 32 countries participated in the online event. Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute and initiator of the IPC, opened the meeting by warning that the effort to restore relations between Russia and the United States by U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and to end the war in Ukraine, was endangered by attempts to draw the U.S. into a war on Iran, and by the mass remilitarization policy being pushed by the British and EU leadership under the false claim that Russia is a military threat to Europe. She said that a war on Iran would provoke chaos—economically, militarily and politically—and could lead to world war.</p>
<p>The “Coalition of the Willing,” promoted by French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and other European leaders, held a meeting of 30 countries this week, trying (unsuccessfully) to get a united European policy of deploying NATO troops into Ukraine, a policy certain to provoke full scale war with Russia. The German population, she said, is horrified at the billions of euros being proposed for a military build-up, even while the economies across Europe are in a state of collapse. She noted that within the U.S., even within the Republican Party, there is division over the bombing of Yemen and a threatened war against Iran, since Trump had campaigned to stop the perpetual wars.</p>
<p><a href="https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2025/03/01/conference-invitation/"><em>Two Trumps</em></a><a href="https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2025/03/01/conference-invitation/">}</a></p>
<p><a href="https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2025/03/01/conference-invitation/">The first guest speaker was former Iranian Ambassador to Germany Seyed Hossein Mousavian. The Ambassador said that in regard to U.S. policy toward Iran, there were two Trumps: The first Trump, before the U.S. presidential election, wanted peace with Iran, and said that the only requirement was that Iran not build a nuclear weapon. He promoted a new agreement between the nations, to which Iran responded positively. But the second Trump, after the election and the inauguration, turned more to the Zionist lobby, announcing a return to the “maximum pressure” policy from his first term, which was announced while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was with him in Washington. Trump expanded the demands to include a general dismantling of the nuclear program, announced by National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, which is impossible according to the Ambassador.Trump’s letter to Iran’s leadership, the Ambassador said, had all the major points from the anti-Iran policy from Trump’s first term. He said both Trump and Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei were opposed to a war, but Trump’s problem is that his Administration is not united. Several U.S. policies indicate a preparation for war, including the bombing of Yemen, more weapons to Israel, aircraft carriers deployed to the Persian Gulf, B-2 bombers sent to the Diego Garcia military base, and Israel breaking the ceasefire in Gaza with U.S. approval. To prevent war and to build peace, he said there must be “mutual respect” which follows international law, and which includes economic cooperation and people-to-people relationships. The U.S. and Iran have never been enemies, he asserted, and should be friends.Col. (ret.) Alain Corvez, a consultant in international affairs and former advisor to the French Ministry of the Interior, who has addressed the IPC several times, said he considers the accusation by certain U.S. leaders that Iran is developing a nuclear weapons capability to be “propaganda.” The real issue is that it does have an advanced missile capability, representing a powerful deterrence capacity, which was demonstrated by its successful breach of Israeli defenses in the April 2024 military exchange between the two countries<strong>Disdain for the EU</strong>The recent Iran-Russia-China joint naval drills in the Gulf of Oman show that any attack against Iran will likely see Iranian support from both Russia and China. He concurred with Ambassador Mousavian that the Trump Administration is divided, and that the so-called “Signalgate” leak of Yemen war plans by <em>The Atlantic</em> Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg was run by the Deep State to undermine Trump. He praised U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s show of disdain for the European Union, adding that “I share this disdain.” The British Empire has been weakened, but the British retain their power over the world’s monetary system, while the financial oligarchy controls the media, feeding the population with anti-Russia, anti-China and anti-Iran lies.</a></p>
<p><a href="https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2025/03/01/conference-invitation/">Carolina Domínguez, a long-time leader of the LaRouche Youth Movement in Mexico, reported on three forums held on campuses in Mexico, with over 400 students and professors, addressing the issue of participation in an international peace movement. She said the meetings demonstrated that “youth do not want war.” According to Dominguez, there was a strong response to the call for youth to join the IPC, to participate in an April 22 online international youth conference with Helga Zepp-LaRouche, and in the May 24-25 [international conference of the Schiller Institute</a>.</p>
<p>Cliff Kiracofe, a former senior professional staff member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and author of the book <em>Dark Crusade: Christian Zionism and U.S. Foreign Policy</em>, concurred with Zepp-LaRouche that there is a divide in the Republican Party, including within the Trump team. Vice President JD Vance, DNI Tulsi Gabbard, FBI chief Kash Patel, and CIA Chief John Ratcliff are firmly in Trump’s camp, but National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, and his assistant Alex Wong, Kiricofe said, are not.</p>
<p>Wong allegedly included Jeffrey Goldberg of <em>The Atlantic</em> magazine in the Signal chat group used by top-Trump officials to discuss plans for bombing Yemen. Both Waltz and Wong were part of Sen. Mitt Romney’s 2012 U.S. presidential campaign, which was part of the neoconservative movement against Trump. Wong has also worked as an aide to arch-neocon Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR). Jeffey Goldberg, who leaked the contents of the Signal chat to the press, Kiricofe said, is an avid Zionist who once served in the Israel Defense Forces as a prison guard.</p>
<p>Alberto Portugheis, an Argentine pianist who has performed as a soloist in leading concert halls worldwide while also promoting peace, asserted that as long as the military-industrial complex exists, there will be no end to war. He praised U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt for saying that “no war is an accident.” The military-industrial complex destroys nations as well as the environment, and must be eliminated.</p>
<p>Zepp-LaRouche closed the meeting by encouraging everyone to subscribe to the <a href="https://eir.news/">EIR Daily Alert</a> service, in order to keep informed on the rapidly changing political crises around the world and the necessary solutions. She said we must stop the “remilitarization” insanity in Europe, which is wasting trillions of euros on the false claim that Russia is preparing to invade Europe. She said that <em>EIR</em> is preparing a report on this.</p>

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title: Russia To Help Delhi Build Five Small Modular Reactors with Indian Technology
author: ;Michael O. Billington
link: https://eir.news/2025/03/news/russia-to-help-india-build-five-smrs-with-indian-technology/
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<p>March 29, 2025 (EIRNS)—RT wrote today: “<a href="https://www.rt.com/india/614911-atomic-alignment-how-russia-powers/">New Delhi has announced</a> that it is planning to build five indigenously-manufactured small modular reactors (SMRs)—named Bharat nuclear reactors—in the next few years with the help of private participation. The ambitious plan to generate 100 gigawatts (GW) by 2047 is functional with a 170% increase in the nuclear energy budget in the last decade. The country’s federal budget for the 2025 financial year has laid the groundwork for a nuclear renaissance. This includes a substantial 200 billion rupees ($2.3 billion) allocation for SMR development—India aims to operationalize at least five indigenous SMRs by 2033, the document states. The budget also proposed reforms to attract private investments, signaling India’s decisive shift towards energy independence.”</p>
<p>Russia built the 2,000 MW Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) in the 1980s, with four more reactors under construction, reinforcing Russia’s reputation as a reliable partner.</p>
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<p>March 29, 2025 (EIRNS)—Secretary of State Marco Rubio yesterday threatened to use military force against the Maduro government of Venezuela, should it attack ExxonMobil oil facilities operating in neighboring Guyana’s territorial waters. Against a backdrop of escalating tensions between Venezuela and Guyana in the dispute over Guyana’s oil- and gas-rich Essequibo region, including its offshore area, which Venezuela claims as its own, Rubio’s warning means that the U.S. Southern Command would deploy to “protect” Guyana, in what is really a long-standing British-directed geopolitical dispute that London is manipulating to further its own interests. A military conflict between these two countries, with U.S. involvement, would destabilize the whole region, which is why Brazilian President Lula da Silva and other like-minded leaders have attempted to mediate to prevent the situation from getting out of hand.</p>
<p>Driven by ideology, Rubio will just exacerbate an already tense situation and be no help to President Donald Trump. In his March 27 visit to Guyana, the Secretary signed an MOU placing Guyana under the U.S. “security umbrella,” by which the U.S. commits to safeguarding the country’s “territorial integrity and sovereignty,” as Rubio and Guyanese President Irfaan Ali reported in their March 27 <a href="https://www.state.gov/secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-and-guyanese-president-irfaan-ali-at-a-joint-press-availability/">press conference</a>. Having discussed the Venezuelan issue privately with Ali, Rubio charged publicly that “regional threats are based on illegitimate territorial claims by a narco-trafficking regime,” referring to Venezuela’s Maduro government.</p>
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title: Financial Chaos and Uncertainty Grip Argentina
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<p>March 29, 2025 (EIRNS)—This past week was another bad one for Argentine Finance Minister Luis Caputo, who frantically continued to sell scarce dollars to try to calm down the volatile financial and currency markets and keep the peso/dollar exchange rate from spiraling out of control. The “parallel” or black market exchange rate is equally unstable. Foreign reserves continue to drop—yesterday by $477 million; in the month of March by $1.4 billion, and so far this year $3.8 billion. Reserves now stand at $25. 8 billion, the lowest level since Jan. 2024.</p>
<p>In a March 27 speech to the 23rd annual conference on Regulation and Supervision of Securities in Latin America, according to <a href="https://www.infobae.com/economia/2025/03/27/luis-caputo-revelo-que-el-acuerdo-con-el-fmi-sera-de-usd-20000-millones/"><em>Infobae</em></a>, Caputo reported the IMF is definitely giving the country $20 billion and insisted that, despite the fact that no agreement has been signed, he felt compelled to reveal the amount, given extreme market pressures and rumors that “cause uncertainty.” He also insisted there would be no devaluation as part of any agreement. All this, he said, he’d discussed the day before with IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva.</p>
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title: Republican Senator Visits Beijing as White House Emissary
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<p>March 29, 2025 (EIRNS)—Senator Steve Daines of Montana, a Republican and strong supporter of President Donald Trump, visited Beijing over March 20-23, a trip his Senate office told Associated Press had been “closely” coordinated with the White House. He met with at least three high-level Chinese officials: Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu, Vice Prime Minister He Lifeng, and on his last day, on the sidelines of the China Development Forum, with Prime Minister Li Qiang.</p>
<p>The Senator knows China well, having lived there in the 1990s when he was a Procter &amp; Gamble executive, and served as an emissary to China for Trump in his first administration. Daines told Vice Prime Minister He Lifeng that he has “always believed in having constructive dialogue and that has been the nature of all my visits to China over the course of many years.”</p>
<p>A potential Trump-Xi summit was discussed. <a href="https://www.daines.senate.gov/2025/03/24/senator-daines-meets-with-chinese-vice-premier-he-lifeng/">Daines’ office reported</a> after his meeting with Vice Premier He Lifeng, that Senator Daines “expressed hope that further high-level talks between the United States and China will take place in the near future.” On the last day of his trip, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-23/china-must-fix-fentanyl-flow-before-us-trade-talks-senator-says">Daines told Bloomberg</a> that “there’s a desire from both sides to have the high-level meeting. There just isn’t a date yet.” Bloomberg added (but gave no quotes) that Daines had said “he hopes a leadership meeting will take place before the end of the year.”</p>
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<p>March 29, 2025 (EIRNS)—In a press conference in Hanoi, Vietnam today, before heading back to Brazil, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva praised U.S. President Donald Trump for trying to negotiate a peace in Ukraine, unlike his predecessor Joe Biden, who should have, but did not, <a href="https://www.brasil247.com/brasil/trump-esta-fazendo-a-coisa-certa-na-guerra-da-ucrania-diz-lula">Brasil 247 reports</a>.</p>
<p>“Insofar as Trump takes the decision to discuss peace between Russia and Ukraine, which Joe Biden should have taken, I am obliged to say that, in this respect, Trump is on the right track,” Lula stated. Given the sharp attacks which Trump has leveled against Brazil in the past, Lula’s approach was that of the statesman looking for points of agreement, not further conflict.</p>
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title: MI6 &amp;#039;Russiagate&amp;#039; Architect Presses U.S. To Join Israel in Strike on Iran
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<div><img src="https://eir.news/content/images/2025/03/dearlove_richard_mi6-1.JPG" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>March 29, 2025 (EIRNS)—It took just 22 days after Donald Trump’s inauguration during his first presidency for the British and their allies in the U.S. “permanent bureaucracy” to score a direct hit to try to sink his administration, by fabricating a scandal to force the retirement of his National Security Adviser Gen. Michael Flynn.</p>
<p>In the second Trump presidency, it took a little over two months for the same apparatus to launch a similar political torpedo, in the form of the “SignalGate” scandal. Again, the British and their American allies want to “blind” Trump by destroying his chosen intelligence team: Tulsi Gabbard at ODNI; Kash Patel at FBI; John Ratcliffe at CIA; and others.</p>
<p>What is the issue? The British Empire is alarmed at signs that President Trump is breaking the U.S.-U.K. “special relationship,” and has instead initiated a sovereign political relationship with Russian President Putin—and could soon do the same with China’s Xi Jinping—which threatens their control over the global architecture.</p>
<p>We provide the following critical intelligence report to help readers locate the answer to that question.</p>
<p>Americans need to ask themselves: Why would former MI6 Chief Sir Richard Dearlove insist that the U.S. and Israel can together overthrow the Iranian government and bomb its nuclear facilities, no problem?</p>
<p>Dearlove is a known liar, an enemy of the United States and of President Trump, in particular. Remember Dearlove’s role in orchestrating the lying Steele Dossier used to set off “Russiagate?” His documented assurance in July 2002 that no one need worry that the evidence being cited to justify the invasion of Iraq was “thin,” because “the intelligence and facts are being fixed around the policy?”</p>
<p><em>EIR</em> issued an all-points bulletin three days ago, on March 26, that the “decapitate Iran” strategy currently popular in Washington, D.C., is a British strategy to “decapitate” the Trump administration. Sir Dearlove’s March 21 interview with the U.K.’s <em>Jewish Chronicle</em> confirms <em>EIR</em>’s warning in spades.</p>
<p>Dearlove reminds us that Great Britain has “always had a closer relationship with Israel than people might realize.” He describes Iran as “the primary destabilizing force in the Middle East.… If we see the end of the theocracy in Iran, one way or another, the Middle East will look rather different and will be less of a geopolitical problem and less of an existential threat to Israel,” he promises.</p>
<p>Dearlove retailed two key lies being used to sell the “strike Iran” package in Washington:</p>
<p>• That Israel had “very, very seriously disrupted and taken down” Iran’s capabilities in the region with its own decapitation strategy applied elsewhere. For example, he praised Israel’s booby-trapped pagers operation as having succeeded in a “near-demolition” of Hezbollah. (Did he play a personal role in that “very cleverly conceived” operation? He revealed to the <em>Jewish Chronicle</em> that “shortly after he retired from MI6, he was invited to Israel as part of security discussions following the aftermath of the 2006 Lebanon war. He insisted with a smile that he ‘couldn’t go into detail’ about why he was there, but said that the Israelis ‘really got their act together’ after that war in confronting the threat posed by Hezbollah.")</p>
<p>• That the Sunni Arab leadership “have realized … that the Middle East’s best hope of controlling Iran and maybe getting a reasonable regime in Iran in the future is the alliance between the U.S. and Israel,” and the Arab nations are just waiting to sign onto the Abraham Accords once the Iranian government is taken out.</p>
<p>He forecasts: “Trump and Israel together are not going to allow Iran to develop a nuclear capability.… I link the existence of Iran’s continuing pursuit of a nuclear capability with the survival of the theocratic regime.… If there eventually is an Israeli-American move against this capability … I think that there is a crunch point.”</p>
<p>Dearlove is not shy about “making the intelligence and the facts fit the policy.” The U.K. government must issue a total ban on pro-Palestinian demonstrations in the U.K., he angrily demands, adding “I haven’t got clear-cut evidence” that Iran and the Shi’a clerics in the U.K. are organizing the demonstrations, but hey, “there is the possibility” they may be.</p>

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"Reimagine New Jersey": Newark Mayor Ras Baraka Shown in Video Supporting Farrakhan’s Racist, Violent Views

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<p><a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2025/03/29/reimagine-new-jersey-newark-mayor-ras-baraka-shown-in-video-supporting-farrakhans-racist-violent-views/"><em>Authored by Jonathan Turley,</em></a></p>
<p><strong>Across the country, Democratic leaders are resorting to what I have called “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1668047047?tag=simonsayscom">rage rhetoric</a>” as supporters are turning to actual violence, including arson and other crimes</strong> directed against Tesla. </p>
<p>In Hawaii, Gov. Josh Green (D) even reacted to Novak Djokovic playing tennis with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. by hoping that he is hit in the head. However, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, currently one of the top Democratic candidates for New Jersey governor, appears to have gotten an early lead in this race to the bottom. In a video that has now attracted interest in his run for governor, Baraka gives a full-throated endorsement of the violent and racist rhetoric of Nation of Islam leader (and raging anti-Semite) Louis Farrakhan.</p>
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<p><strong>In a newly released video from 2004, Baraka is shown applauding and embracing Farrakhan as he calls for violence and denounces White people as “demons.” </strong></p>
<p>Those “demons” compose roughly 52% of the state that Baraka wants to lead.</p>
<p><strong>The video from a Newark church shows Baraka introducing Farrakhan as “the leader of every Black person.”</strong></p>
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<p>“I don’t think that there’s any man today, present today, that has the kind of moral authority or spiritual strength. Not president, not community leader, not political international activist, nowhere that has the moral authority, the historical and political framework, that the Minister Farrakhan has, that. Who can stand where he stands and truly say that he is the leader of black people anywhere and everywhere.”</p>
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<p>The New York Post uncovered the video showing Baraka giving Farrakhan a standing ovation as he denounces non-violence:  “We didn’t believe in no non-violence. The cracker hit you on your jaw, you break his neck. That’s the way we think.”</p>
<p><strong>He also gives him a standing ovation in denouncing all white people as the “enemy.”</strong></p>

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<p>“Now the enemy comes in. You, the Crips, and the Bloods, they’ll send people in to give you rumors about your brother over there. These demons will even kill a policeman and then blame it on you. You dealing with a devil, man. You’re not dealing with righteous people. This cracker is the real devil. And you better wake up and realize that.”</p>
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<p>Once again, this is the mayor of a major city and a leading Democratic candidate for governor of New Jersey.</p>
<p><strong>Baraka later arranged for Farrakhan to give a speech to over 1,000 high school students at Central High School in Newark, where he was principal.</strong></p>
<p>Many on the far left shrug off such connections to racist or violent groups. It is <a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2024/12/06/the-naughty-list-former-obama-aides-and-liberal-influencers-sell-antifa-line-of-holiday-gifts/">reminiscent</a> of former Democratic National Committee deputy chair Keith Ellison, now the Minnesota attorney general, who once said Antifa would “strike fear in the heart” of Trump. This was after Antifa had been involved in numerous acts of violence, and its website was banned in Germany. Ellison’s son, Minneapolis City Council member Jeremiah Ellison, declared his allegiance to Antifa in the heat of the protests this summer.</p>
<p>With violence on the left increasing around the country, Democratic leaders continue to try to appease the most radical elements in their party. That was <a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2025/03/27/rep-goldman-the-fbi-investigation-of-tesla-attacks-is-political-weaponization/">evident last week</a> when Rep. Dan Goldman (D., N.Y.) denounced the investigation into the attacks on Tesla dealerships and owners as “political weaponization.”</p>
<p><strong>This is a long history of downplaying or shrugging off such violence, including some who seem to fuel the violence.</strong></p>
<p>Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., told George Floyd protesters in Minnesota to “<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/04/20/gop-effort-censure-maxine-waters-chauvin-trial-comments-fails/7304833002/">get more confrontational</a>” if a jury found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin not guilty. And when Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, was threatened in 2018 because she had not opposed Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., mocked the concern over her safety with “<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/09/20/brett-kavanaugh-eric-swalwell-susan-collins-threats/1367422002/">boo hoo hoo</a>.”</p>

<p>For her part, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declined to condemn left-wing mobs <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/demonstrators-topple-statues-in-san-franciscos-golden-gate-park/2312839/#:~:text=The%20statues%20of%20St.,the%20legacies%20of%20historical%20figures">destroying statues</a> and historic displays in her home city of San Francisco. Pelosi shrugged and said, “<a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/deroy-murdock-reacts-pelosi-refusing-132752303.html">People will do what they do</a>.”</p>
<p>In the case of Baraka, he appears to have a long history of associating with such violent and racist speech. In 2017, he organized another speech for Farrakhan titled “Separation or Death,” reportedly calling for a separate black state.</p>
<p><strong>With the release of the videos, Baraka is standing firm in support of his association with Farrakhan, bizarrely defending his record of supporting “peace, equality, and equity.” He is blaming the “political establishment” for “false” claims based on these videos.</strong></p>
<p>In his campaign for governor, Baraka is calling for voters to “reimagine New Jersey” and promising to “deconstruct the state budget and reassemble with equity as our north star; judging every decision as either a step towards equity or a step towards inequity.”</p>
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<p><em>Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “</em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1668047047?tag=simonsayscom"><em>The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage</em></a><em>.”</em></p>
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NBC Has Film Proving Oswald &amp;#039;Couldn&amp;#039;t Have Been The Shooter,&amp;#039; GOP Rep Claims

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<p>The Republican congresswoman who's leading a task force on the declassification of JFK and other assassination files made a sensational claim on Friday evening, stating that <strong><em>NBC News</em> possesses film evidence proving that Lee Harvey Oswald could <em>not</em> have shot Kennedy</strong> -- and that she's now working to obtain it. </p>
<p><strong>Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna</strong> made the jarring allegation in an interview with Jesse Watters on <em>Fox News</em>. Luna is chairwoman of the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, a <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/subcommittee/task-force-on-the-declassification-of-federal-secrets/">subcommittee</a> of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. She told Watters that <strong>the task force will be holding an April 1 hearing</strong> on the tens of thousands of documents that have been declassified pursuant to President Trump's executive order and a 1992 act of Congress. </p>
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<p>Then she dropped her bombshell: </p>

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<p><em>"It was made aware to me this evening that <strong>NBC actually has a video that’s never been seen before</strong>. We’re actually going to be sending a letter requesting that from NBC because <strong>it allegedly shows Oswald near the vehicle when the assassination took place</strong>, which means that he couldn’t have been the shooter."</em></p>
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<p>Luna also said Oliver Stone, who directed the 1991 thriller <a href="https://youtu.be/w16bYZ-4nmE?si=VLIANjl2kRE5PFOX"><em>JFK</em></a>, says he's seen a "secondary copy" of the film, and that <em>NBC</em> has been sitting on it: </p>
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<p><em>"Director Stone actually told us that he was shown this tape, that it was a secondary copy, and that <strong>he said that this could blow open the entire JFK investigation.</strong> What I will also tell you though, Jesse, is <strong>he said the NBC’s been very, very much so guarding this tape</strong>. And so I believe that that tape belongs to the American people. We are going to be sending a letter asking for that tape. And I would encourage everyone to ask NBC to release that tape to the public." </em></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">🚨BREAKING: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna claims NBC allegedly has been withholding a video that shows Lee Harvey Oswald near John F. Kennedy’s limo at the time of the shooting, seeming to conclude he was not the assassin.</p><p><a href="https://t.co/olHumMfzmc">pic.twitter.com/olHumMfzmc</a></p>
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1905784229448827120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Luna's task force was created in February as a Congressional complement to Trump's <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/01/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-orders-declassification-of-jfk-rfk-and-mlk-assassination-files/">executive order</a> calling for the release of files relating to the assassinations of JRK, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. The committee is <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jfk-epstein-files-task-force-declassification-federal-secrets-b2717273.html">also working to unearth documents relating to the origin of Covid-19, extra-terrestrial life, UFOs, 9/11, the prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein</a> and <a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v37/n10/seymour-m.-hersh/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden">the mission to kill Osama bin Laden</a>. </p>
<p>In February, Luna said she was on a mission to <a href="https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/anna-paulina-luna-jfk-files-released-epstein-list-b2717270.html">take a fresh look at investigations that have been “rinsed and repeated by the media to push a certain narrative</a> that we don’t agree with.” She also shared her own preliminary hunch about the JFK assassination: <strong>"I believe there were two shooters.”</strong></p>

<p>We'll have to wait and see if a film emerges and substantiates Oswald's claims of innocence:</p>
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<p>For now, though, <strong>Luna is raising eyebrows across the country</strong>...something she's previously demonstrated a knack for doing, in a variety of ways: </p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Anna Paulina Luna is being shamed by the liberal left for modeling a swimsuit and being hot.</p><p>If she performed in drag in front of children, they would celebrate her bravery and courage.</p><p>Anna responded on X and said... "I’m confirming that I have indeed worn swimsuits and you… <a href="https://t.co/tZEzpTMGGV">pic.twitter.com/tZEzpTMGGV</a></p>
— Bruce Snyder (@realBruceSnyder) <a href="https://twitter.com/realBruceSnyder/status/1823815581369557323?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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title: China&amp;#039;s Tech Triple Play Threatens US National Security
author: ;Tyler Durden
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<p><em>Authored by Craig Singleton via <a href="https://realclearwire.com/articles/2025/03/25/chinas_tech_triple_play_threatens_us_national_security_1099692.html">RealClearWire</a>,</em></p>
<p>Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping has defiantly declared that <strong>technological innovation is the “main battlefield” in China’s quest for global preeminence.</strong> But, Beijing’s bold bid to transform itself into a global science superpower is not merely an economic imperative—it is a means to strengthen China’s military might and cyber capabilities, with grave implications for the United States.</p>
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<p>At the center of Xi’s vision are what he <a href="https://www.china-briefing.com/news/chinas-new-quality-productive-forces-an-explainer/">calls</a> China’s “new productive forces”—breakthroughs in advanced batteries, biotech, LiDAR, drones, and other emerging technologies that promise to redefine the next industrial revolution. By dominating these sectors, Beijing aims to ensure Chinese technology is deeply embedded within critical American supply chains—everything from power grids and ports to communications networks —thereby converting China’s commercial success into a powerful geopolitical tool of leverage.</p>

<p><strong>Here at home, Beijing’s strategy is unfolding in three interlocking phases—penetrating, prepositioning, and profiting—which together form an insidious framework that both erodes America’s technological edge and undermines homeland security.</strong></p>
<p>Recently <a href="https://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF16/20240215/116856/HMTG-118-IF16-Wstate-SingletonC-20240215.pdf">exposed</a> Chinese state-sponsored hacking campaigns—Salt, Volt, and Flax Typhoon—exemplify Beijing’s systematic approach to penetrating U.S. networks and critical infrastructure. The Salt campaign exploited vulnerabilities in telecommunications systems, allowing attackers to intercept voice and text communications and thereby compromise both civilian privacy and government operations. The Volt operation targeted industrial control systems, breaching energy and manufacturing networks to gain remote control over essential infrastructure. Meanwhile, Flax Typhoon focused on defense and government networks, exfiltrating sensitive data and installing persistent backdoors to facilitate future sabotage.</p>
<p><strong>Collectively, these campaigns reveal how Chinese hackers methodically exploit software and hardware weaknesses to harvest critical intelligence and maintain enduring access to sensitive U.S networks, often with next-to-no consequences.</strong> Yet infiltration is not an end in itself. Once inside, Beijing systematically prepositions latent capabilities throughout our physical and digital supply chains, setting the stage for future coercion.</p>
<p>Today, Chinese-made LiDAR devices <a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/12/02/laser-focus-countering-chinas-lidar-threat-to-u-s-critical-infrastructure-and-military-systems/">underpin</a> smart city systems, autonomous vehicles, and certain aerial reconnaissance platforms. Similarly, Chinese-produced surveillance cameras and drones are integrated throughout our transportation network, including at major U.S. airports. Even critical infrastructure components like <a href="https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/media/press-releases/investigation-select-committee-ccp-house-homeland-finds-potential-threats-us">cranes</a> in U.S. ports and batteries <a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/10/23/beijings-power-play/">connected</a> to our grids have morphed into strategic choke points, according to Congressional investigations.</p>
<p>In a conflict—or even a severe diplomatic crisis—these systemic dependencies could confer a decisive advantage to China. By withholding critical parts or inflating prices at a pivotal moment, Beijing can exploit these supply chain choke points to hamper U.S. readiness.</p>
<p>Prepositioned exploits could degrade or disable U.S. command-and-control systems, sabotage energy grids, or paralyze transportation networks—potentially stalling America’s response before a single shot is fired. Even if such disruptions remain hypothetical, the mere suspicion of sabotage can erode policymaker confidence and delay military mobilization efforts, effectively handing Beijing a silent veto over our crisis decision-making.</p>

<p>The final phase of Beijing’s strategy is profiting from these dependencies, turning commercial dominance into a revenue stream that reinforces its military-civil fusion. Chinese high-tech exports, ranging from advanced sensors and biotech innovations to drones and surveillance cameras, generate billions in revenue every year for Beijing. These profits are not reinvested merely for commercial growth; they are often funneled directly into programs bolstering People’s Liberation Army’s R&amp;D efforts.</p>
<p><strong>The stakes could hardly be higher.</strong> The House Homeland Security Committee, along with other congressional panels, has <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/hearing/countering-threats-posed-by-the-chinese-communist-party-to-u-s-national-security/">convened</a> hearings spotlighting how Chinese hackers sit in vital infrastructure systems and how Beijing’s infiltration extends into our supply chains. The bipartisan consensus emerging from these discussions is clear: we must move swiftly from passive defense of American networks to proactive deterrence.</p>
<p>Policymakers can begin by tightening <strong>outbound investment screening</strong> and <strong>export controls</strong>. That means scrutinizing U.S. capital and technology flows into Chinese firms linked to China’s military-industrial base, ensuring that American money and know-how no longer subsidize Beijing’s military modernization. Simultaneously, federal agencies should adopt <strong>“clean network”</strong> standards for software, hardware, and data, effectively establishing <strong>cyber quarantines</strong> for critical infrastructure. This would bar high-risk Chinese devices from power grids, ports, and telecommunications systems—treating them as inherently untrusted until proven otherwise.</p>
<p>Equally important is imposing <strong>meaningful consequences</strong> on Beijing’s cyber intrusions. Diplomatic protests and token indictments of mid-level hackers have failed to alter China’s calculus. Instead, Washington should consider <strong>stronger penalties</strong>—including financial blacklisting of major Chinese firms or banks—to send an unmistakable message that continued infiltration carries real costs.</p>
<p>Finally, we must commit to robust innovation at home. America can’t meet the Chinese challenge simply by playing defense. Expanding federal R&amp;D, incentivizing private-sector breakthroughs, and aligning workforce development with future technology needs will ensure that the United States remains a leader in the very fields—biotech, AI, quantum computing, energy storage—where China seeks supremacy.</p>
<p><strong>Xi’s “main battlefield” is already upon us, and America can no longer afford complacency.</strong> China’s triple threat—penetrating, prepositioning, and profiting—targets the core of our national resilience. If we fail to respond decisively, we risk losing our technological edge and compromising our security. By fortifying our networks, enforcing meaningful consequences on malicious actors, and investing in American innovation, we can ensure Xi’s ambitions do not come at the expense of our prosperity and safety.</p>

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<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*i0pHZlHA1MXmlY7_T1XW3A.png"></figure><h4><strong>Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix</strong></h4><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uG-bb6bamw"><em>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</em></a>:</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2F-uG-bb6bamw%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D-uG-bb6bamw&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F-uG-bb6bamw%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" width="854" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/e801e88b8962d1b401b791176fe22842/href">https://medium.com/media/e801e88b8962d1b401b791176fe22842/href</a></iframe><p>❖</p><p>The US launched <a href="https://www.newarab.com/news/us-launches-65-airstrikes-across-northern-yemen-24-hours">65 airstrikes in 24 hours</a> in Yemen, and then Trump’s intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard <a href="https://x.com/DNIGabbard/status/1905968207061492064">tweeted</a>, “President Trump IS the President of Peace. He is ending bloodshed across the world and will deliver lasting peace in the Middle East.”</p><p>These freaks have no connection with reality.</p><p>❖</p><p>I saw a video the other day of a father cradling the decapitated head of his son from an airstrike in Gaza, and I’m told I’m a terrorist supporter if I criticize the people who decapitated him.</p><p>❖</p><p>The word “terrorist” is a meaningless tool of imperial narrative control.</p><p>Want to bomb some people? Designate them as terrorists.</p><p>Want to silence protesters and dissidents? Say they’re supporting terrorists.</p><p>Want sweeping surveillance powers? Say you need them to fight terrorism.</p><p>❖</p><p>The list of people the Trump administration is working to deport for speech crimes against Israel is <a href="https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1905869907129979144">getting longer and longer</a>, and includes a doctoral student whose sole offense <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-canary-mission.html">was writing an op-ed</a> critical of the Gaza holocaust.</p><p>Republicans spent years whining that government is too big and free speech is dying and everyone’s too weak and sensitive, only to turn around and applaud the government for stomping out free speech to protect their delicate little ears from hearing wrongthink about Israel.</p><p>❖</p><p>Two recent headlines:</p><p>“<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/29/israel-admits-firing-at-ambulances-in-gaza-after-palestinians-say-rescuers-missing-in-rafah">Israel admits firing at ambulances in Gaza</a>,” from The Guardian,</p><p>and</p><p>“<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israeli-soldier-palestinians-human-shields-gaza/">Israeli soldier tells CBS News he was ordered to use Palestinians as human shields in Gaza</a>.”</p><p>The western press are only allowed to report on Israeli crimes when the Israelis admit to it themselves.</p><p>Half of the evidence of Israeli atrocities in Gaza comes from Palestinians filming their own genocide. The other half comes from Israelis telling the press what they’ve been up to.</p><p>❖</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?type=text%2Fhtml&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;schema=twitter&amp;url=https%3A//x.com/caitoz/status/1906079379379400759&amp;image=" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/6fb88789556e8a072679774f4d7fce45/href">https://medium.com/media/6fb88789556e8a072679774f4d7fce45/href</a></iframe><p>❖</p><p>The Democrats committed genocide. Now the Republicans are committing genocide. There you have it. Neither party is acceptable. Case closed. End of debate.</p><p>❖</p><p>Trump is as evil as Biden. Biden was as evil as Trump. If you can’t see this by looking at the raw data of the behavior of their administrations, it’s either because you’re looking at incomplete data or because you’re letting your political biases do your thinking for you.</p><p>Both presidents are guilty of extreme evils, and you can’t separate the evils of one from the evils of the other. Biden spent the latter part of his term incinerating Gaza, and then Trump began working to clear it of Palestinians. Trump managed to secure the Gaza ceasefire that Biden spent 15 months avoiding, but then he immediately began sabotaging that very ceasefire as soon as he took office. Biden has been waging a dangerous proxy war in Ukraine that Trump helped provoke in his first term, and now that he’s back in office Trump is tasked with winding that war down to focus on new wars.</p><p>The crimes of the Republican and Democratic parties are inseparably intertwined with each other. It’s not that they’re the same — there are some differences — it’s that they work in conjunction to advance the same evil agendas. Saying the Democrats are better than Republicans or vice versa is like saying the top teeth of the shark are nicer than the bottom teeth; they might look and function a bit differently, but they’re used toward the same deadly end.</p><p>❖</p><p>There are no anti-war Trump supporters. If you’re still supporting Trump after all his insane warmongering, you’re not anti-war.</p><p>❖</p><p>Trump supporters get so mad at me for listing facts about what a warmongering Israel cuck their president is. That big uncomfortable feeling you’re experiencing is called cognitive dissonance, fellas. It’s what being wrong feels like.</p><p>❖</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?type=text%2Fhtml&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;schema=twitter&amp;url=https%3A//x.com/caitoz/status/1904686251489583134&amp;image=" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/1f932db0e1367c6135b07ce7f7612e9e/href">https://medium.com/media/1f932db0e1367c6135b07ce7f7612e9e/href</a></iframe><p>❖</p><p>The single most bat shit insane conspiracy theory I’ve ever encountered on the internet is that all the death and destruction we’re seeing in the live-streamed genocide in Gaza is actually an extremely high-budget film studio hoax known as “Pallywood”. Flat earthers make more sense.</p><p>❖</p><p>If Israel doesn’t want westerners voicing their opinions about it then maybe it should stop making itself such a central character in the story of 21st century western imperial warmongering.</p><p>❖</p><p>Democrats pretended to support justice and oppose racism, then Biden exposed them all as frauds in Gaza. Republicans pretended to support free speech and oppose war, then Trump exposed them as frauds with his Israel policy. US politics is just empty noise draped over an empire.</p><p>That’s all it is. The pundits and politicians could all be speaking in baby talk gibberish and it wouldn’t matter. Presidential candidates could have their debates speaking Esperanto and it wouldn’t change anything. The only reason they bother using coherent English words at all is so people don’t get suspicious and start noticing that the politics of the United States are just empty noises fed to the public to let them feel like they’ve got some control while the tank treads of the empire roll onward.</p><p>It’s like this in all western “democracies”. The public is split into two equal factions who are then pitted against each other on issues that are guaranteed not to inconvenience the powerful in any way, and then the state just does what’s in the interests of the empire without regard for any of the noises being made in the political sphere. And the brainwashed masses just keep babbling on about their politics, completely unaffected by the fact that the things their government is doing run squarely counter to the values they purport to hold. 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content: <p>Le premier prix de la soirée a été remis à Elisapie pour son album <em>Inuktitut</em>.</p>
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<p><strong>The country’s pro-Western government has extended the arrest of the Moldovan autonomous region’s leader by 20 days</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Moldovan opposition MP Marina Tauber has criticized the EU for abandoning the principles of democracy and the rule of law by ignoring the crackdown on Governor Evgenia Gutsul, who leads the autonomous region of Gagauzia.</p>
<p data-start="226" data-end="561">A vocal opponent of the country’s pro-Western leadership, Gutsul was detained on Tuesday evening at Chisinau Airport. Prosecutors allege financial irregularities during her 2023 campaign and claim she is involved in a Russian-backed operation to derail Moldova’s EU aspirations. Gutsul has denied any wrongdoing, accusing President Maia Sandu’s administration of using lawfare to erode Gagauzia’s autonomy.</p>
<p data-start="1215" data-end="1475">In an interview with RT on Saturday, Tauber – a former deputy leader of the now-banned SOR party – condemned Gutsul’s arrest as politically motivated, saying: <em>“This decision will remain in the history of our country – but only from the negative point of view.”</em></p>

             
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<p data-start="1477" data-end="1689">The lawmaker accused the Sandu government of disregarding national interests and acting under foreign influence, pointing to Brussels and Washington’s primary funding channel for political projects abroad, USAID.</p>
<p data-start="1691" data-end="2049"><em>“They are taking the decisions for us. What was done within the USAID organization and the other funds from the European Union – they are not for the reforms. They are paying for the decision that the European Union wants to see in Moldova,”</em> Tauber told RT, expressing skepticism that Brussels will intervene, even given Moldova’s status as an EU candidate.</p>
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<p data-start="2051" data-end="2319"><strong><em>Democracy, the rule of law, and all the values that the European Union was promoting… We cannot even talk about democracy or the rule of law in our country. I don’t know what they are doing – maybe some experiments. They are spending a lot of money just to rule.</em></strong></p>
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<p data-start="2321" data-end="2666">Located in southern Moldova, Gagauzia is home to a Turkic-speaking Orthodox Christian minority and enjoys broad self-rule under national law. Sandu has disputed Gutsul’s legitimacy and denounced her party, the SOR, as a <em>“criminal organization.”</em> In 2023, a court in Chisinau declared the party <em>“unconstitutional,”</em> despite its six seats in parliament.</p>
<p data-start="2668" data-end="2874">Earlier this week, Gutsul appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to help defend Gagauzia’s autonomy, saying the region looks <em>“with hope and faith to Russia.”</em></p>
<p data-start="2876" data-end="3158">The SOR party has called the case against Gutsul politically motivated.</p>
<p data-start="2876" data-end="3158">Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov condemned the arrest, stating that Chisinau shows <em>“no regard for democratic principles or political pluralism”</em> and is openly working to <em>“suppress political opponents.”</em></p>

    
                    
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<p><span>The US launched</span> <a href="https://www.newarab.com/news/us-launches-65-airstrikes-across-northern-yemen-24-hours" rel>65 airstrikes in 24 hours</a> <span>in Yemen, and then Trump’s intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard</span> <a href="https://x.com/DNIGabbard/status/1905968207061492064" rel>tweeted</a><span>, “President Trump IS the President of Peace. He is ending bloodshed across the world and will deliver lasting peace in the Middle East.”</span></p>
<p>These freaks have no connection with reality.</p>
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<p>I saw a video the other day of a father cradling the decapitated head of his son from an airstrike in Gaza, and I’m told I’m a terrorist supporter if I criticize the people who decapitated him.</p>
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<p>The word “terrorist” is a meaningless tool of imperial narrative control.</p>
<p>Want to bomb some people? Designate them as terrorists.</p>
<p>Want to silence protesters and dissidents? Say they’re supporting terrorists.</p>
<p>Want sweeping surveillance powers? Say you need them to fight terrorism.</p>
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<p><span>The list of people the Trump administration is working to deport for speech crimes against Israel is</span> <a href="https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1905869907129979144" rel>getting longer and longer</a><span>, and includes a doctoral student whose sole offense</span> <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-canary-mission.html" rel>was writing an op-ed</a> <span>critical of the Gaza holocaust.</span></p>
<p>Republicans spent years whining that government is too big and free speech is dying and everyone’s too weak and sensitive, only to turn around and applaud the government for stomping out free speech to protect their delicate little ears from hearing wrongthink about Israel.</p>
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<p>Two recent headlines:</p>
<p><span>“</span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/29/israel-admits-firing-at-ambulances-in-gaza-after-palestinians-say-rescuers-missing-in-rafah" rel>Israel admits firing at ambulances in Gaza</a><span>,” from The Guardian,</span></p>
<p>and</p>
<p><span>“</span><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israeli-soldier-palestinians-human-shields-gaza/" rel>Israeli soldier tells CBS News he was ordered to use Palestinians as human shields in Gaza</a><span>.”</span></p>
<p>The western press are only allowed to report on Israeli crimes when the Israelis admit to it themselves.</p>
<p>Half of the evidence of Israeli atrocities in Gaza comes from Palestinians filming their own genocide. The other half comes from Israelis telling the press what they’ve been up to.</p>
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<p>The Democrats committed genocide. Now the Republicans are committing genocide. There you have it. Neither party is acceptable. Case closed. End of debate.</p>
<p>❖</p>
<p>Trump is as evil as Biden. Biden was as evil as Trump. If you can’t see this by looking at the raw data of the behavior of their administrations, it’s either because you’re looking at incomplete data or because you’re letting your political biases do your thinking for you.</p>
<p>Both presidents are guilty of extreme evils, and you can’t separate the evils of one from the evils of the other. Biden spent the latter part of his term incinerating Gaza, and then Trump began working to clear it of Palestinians. Trump managed to secure the Gaza ceasefire that Biden spent 15 months avoiding, but then he immediately began sabotaging that very ceasefire as soon as he took office. Biden has been waging a dangerous proxy war in Ukraine that Trump helped provoke in his first term, and now that he’s back in office Trump is tasked with winding that war down to focus on new wars.</p>
<p>The crimes of the Republican and Democratic parties are inseparably intertwined with each other. It’s not that they’re the same — there are some differences — it’s that they work in conjunction to advance the same evil agendas. Saying the Democrats are better than Republicans or vice versa is like saying the top teeth of the shark are nicer than the bottom teeth; they might look and function a bit differently, but they’re used toward the same deadly end.</p>
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<p>There are no anti-war Trump supporters. If you’re still supporting Trump after all his insane warmongering, you’re not anti-war.</p>
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<p>Trump supporters get so mad at me for listing facts about what a warmongering Israel cuck their president is. That big uncomfortable feeling you’re experiencing is called cognitive dissonance, fellas. It’s what being wrong feels like.</p>
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<p>The single most bat shit insane conspiracy theory I’ve ever encountered on the internet is that all the death and destruction we’re seeing in the live-streamed genocide in Gaza is actually an extremely high-budget film studio hoax known as “Pallywood”. Flat earthers make more sense.</p>
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<p>If Israel doesn’t want westerners voicing their opinions about it then maybe it should stop making itself such a central character in the story of 21st century western imperial warmongering.</p>
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<p>Democrats pretended to support justice and oppose racism, then Biden exposed them all as frauds in Gaza. Republicans pretended to support free speech and oppose war, then Trump exposed them as frauds with his Israel policy. US politics is just empty noise draped over an empire.</p>
<p>That’s all it is. The pundits and politicians could all be speaking in baby talk gibberish and it wouldn’t matter. Presidential candidates could have their debates speaking Esperanto and it wouldn’t change anything. The only reason they bother using coherent English words at all is so people don’t get suspicious and start noticing that the politics of the United States are just empty noises fed to the public to let them feel like they’ve got some control while the tank treads of the empire roll onward.</p>
<p>It’s like this in all western “democracies”. The public is split into two equal factions who are then pitted against each other on issues that are guaranteed not to inconvenience the powerful in any way, and then the state just does what’s in the interests of the empire without regard for any of the noises being made in the political sphere. And the brainwashed masses just keep babbling on about their politics, completely unaffected by the fact that the things their government is doing run squarely counter to the values they purport to hold. There’s no real connection between the two.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Les artistes autochtones ont occupé une place centrale, tant par leurs victoires que par leurs discours, lors de cette première de deux soirées de célébration de la musique canadienne.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">L’artiste inuk Elisapie a été la première à remporter un prix pour l’album alternatif adulte de l’année avec <em>Inuktitut</em>, un disque qui revisite en inuktitut des chansons marquantes de son enfance. Il s'agit du premier album en langue autochtone à gagner dans cette catégorie depuis 2005.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Les Snotty Nose Rez Kids, un duo hip-hop de Kitimat, en Colombie-Britannique, ont décroché le prix de l’album rap de l’année avec une œuvre qui affirme leur identité et leur culture.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk"><q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">Nous avons créé cet album pour donner une voix aux peuples autochtones pour l’avenir. Nous avons imaginé une vision pour nous-mêmes, un avenir où nous pouvons nous voir et où l’excellence autochtone s’exprime pleinement. Notre peuple est issu d’une tradition orale où le conte et la transmission occupent une place importante. Nos voix sont importantes</span></q>, a lancé le chanteur Yung Trybez.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">C’est l’artiste Klô Pelgag qui a remporté le Juno de l’album francophone de l’année, son tout premier Juno en carrière. Surprise et heureuse, elle a remercié son équipe <q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">toujours derrière elle</span></q> et a invité le public à écouter de la musique en français.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk"><q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">ll y a beaucoup de musique en français dans votre vie. Vous devriez l’écouter sans arrêt jusqu’à la fin de vos jours. [...] Vive le Québec, vive la musique québécoise!</span></q></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Les Québécoises NOBRO ont quant à elle remporté le prix de l’album rock de l’année.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Le Québécois André Leroux, saxophoniste, clarinettiste et flûtiste, a pour sa part remporté le prix de l'album jazz solo de l’année pour son album <em>Montreal Jazz Series 1 (Échanges synaptiques)</em>.</p>

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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">La grande gagnante de la soirée a été Tate McRae, qui a remporté le prix de l'album de l’année pour <em>Think Later</em> ainsi que les prix de l'artiste de l’année et du single de l’année. Absente en raison de sa tournée à São Paulo, elle a fait parvenir un message aux coanimateurs pour remercier ses admirateurs.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Une des grandes nouveautés de cette année a été l’introduction du prix Juno pour la musique sud-asiatique, une première dans l’histoire de la cérémonie.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Ce prix a été remporté par AP Dhillon pour son album <em>Brown Print</em>, qui se distingue par son mélange unique de sons modernes et traditionnels ainsi que par ses paroles captivantes. Ce prix souligne la croissance et la contribution des artistes sud-asiatiques à la scène musicale canadienne.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">La soirée a par ailleurs été marquée par la présence du militant écologiste David Suzuki, venu remettre le Prix humanitaire des Junos à l’autrice-compositrice-interprète Sarah Harmer.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Dans son discours, il a souligné le rôle essentiel de la musique dans les mouvements sociaux et environnementaux. <q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">La musique nous unit, elle nous élève et elle peut renforcer notre engagement pour des causes essentielles comme l’environnement</span></q> , a-t-il affirmé.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Lauréate du prix, Sarah Harmer a rappelé l’importance de la mobilisation collective et a tenu à souligner le rôle fondamental des femmes et des communautés autochtones dans la défense du territoire.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk"><q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">Nous devons défendre le monde vivant, qui soutient notre existence. Nous ne sommes rien sans la terre et l’eau</span></q>, a-t-elle déclaré en recevant son prix.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Avec plus de 40 prix remis, la cérémonie a permis de souligner la richesse et la diversité de la musique canadienne, mettant en avant tant les talents émergents que les figures incontournables de l’industrie.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">La grande cérémonie et le spectacle des 54e prix Juno auront lieu dimanche soir. D'autres prix seront remis, dont le TikTok Juno du choix du public et le prix de l'album country de l'année.</p>

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<p>At the same time, as the daughter of an outdoorsy dad and a nurse mom, I was fascinated. Beyond the taxidermied critters and the anatomical artifacts, my eyes landed on a myriad of other items from previous decades. There was no shortage of things to look at: Globes, owls, shells, butterflies, planes, maps, carvings, fish, artwork, vintage pennants and more were on display, artfully arranged in antique showcases or on high shelves.</p>
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<p>For my companion and I, it felt like we had discovered a secret hideaway. There’s no website for Natural History and no way to reserve a table. It’s been open a few weeks, but the only digital presence is an Instagram account and its official-sounding name makes for a frustrating Google quest.</p>
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<p>Still, the buzz is gaining momentum at a pace owner Max Anisman hadn’t predicted, but figures it must have something to do with the many months of renovations that were evident to passers-by. “They knew something was going on,” he said, and you can imagine the raised eyebrows as the menagerie of taxidermy went in.</p>
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<p>Turns out that Natural History’s museum-like vibe is a key part of the vision for Anisman, who’s also an owner of Ward 14, the quirky Preston Street establishment down the hill and around the corner from Natural History.</p>
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<p>Now for a bit of family history: Anisman is the son of Maida Anisman, the Ottawa woman who owned the long-running toy store chain, Mrs. Tiggy Winkles, which closed its last store during the COVID-19 pandemic. His brother, Simon, now runs Hokum, a vintage and gift shop in the toy shop space. Their maternal grandparents, the late Ann and Ralph Silverstone, resided in Montreal, where Ann ran an antique shop, and they had a rural property north of the city. That was where Max’s grandfather built a series of structures he called “museums” for his collections, a passion project chronicled in a 2002 issue of Cottage Life magazine.</p>
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<p>Anisman, who’s 38 and has clearly inherited the pack-rat tendency, recalled exploring those wilderness museums as a child, captivated by the cabins the Cottage Life writer described as an “overstuffed archive of every whim and curiosity that ever crossed a young cottage summer.”</p>
<p>“The word ‘museum’ is really loose because they were literally just cabins filled with stuff,” Anisman said. “My grandmother was bringing my grandfather all sorts of stuff from the shop, and he built this crazy kind of wonderland in the woods. I kept a mishmash of things from the museums.”</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the plan for Natural History is evolving and could include DJ nights, music events and daytime hours for families to check out the premises. Anisman is also contemplating the appeal of spelling bees as an alternative to trivia nights or karaoke, which, as a kick-ass speller, is an idea I fully endorse.</p>
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<p>Another part of the mission is to provide a more robust menu than Ward 14’s limited hotdog options, although we found it’s still a work in progress. On the night of my visit, we sampled the potato latkes and a smoked salmon plate. The smoked salmon served with Ritz crackers, capers, cream cheese and beet horseradish, was fresh and tasty.</p>
<p>Less enjoyable were the overly salty, dry latkes, which needed the sour cream and applesauce they came with to add flavour and texture. A server told us the latke recipe was being tweaked to be gluten-free and apologized if they hadn’t quite nailed it yet. Anisman promised a better dish the next time I stop by.</p>
<p>We had no quibbles with the drink offerings. I savoured every drop of the El Burro cocktail of spiced rum and ginger beer, served cold in a copper mug adorned with fresh mint leaves and a wedge of lime, while my friend was impressed at the selection of O-town beer, including brews from his three favourite local brewers: Beyond the Pale, Tooth and Nail and Bicycle. A good selection of non-alcoholic drinks was also available.</p>
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<p>On our weeknight excursion, patrons sat at each table, most of them representing the millennial demographic, with women outnumbering men, and a tasteful soundtrack of ’70s soft rock on the stereo. The defining feature of the room is a bar built to showcase dozens of National Geographic magazine covers embedded in its surface, and one of the seats in the spacious room is a high-backed loveseat, perfect for couple selfies.</p>
<p>As for the potential of this west edge of Centretown, its population density expands with every new, high-rise condominium project, generating hundreds of residents who need places to hang out. Natural History joins a clump of newish businesses popping up in the area, including the <span>bistro Corner Peach, the vegan wine bar St. Elsewhere, and Ten Toes coffeehouse and laundromat. </span></p>
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<p>Plus, with Ward 14 and Pubwell’s located a stone’s throw away, it makes for a hip and walkable zone of establishments that <span>are open later, serve food and offer things to do, such as trivia and karaoke, on a random weeknight. Mind you, as a non-singer with little patience for trivia, the thing I’m most looking forward to is a good spelling challenge. </span></p>
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<p>They are rare cancers with few treatment options and low survival rates. But new molecular testing, available in Ottawa and across Canada, is offering patients some hope.</p>
<p>Every year about 800 Canadians are diagnosed with biliary tract cancers, which start in cells of the gallbladder or bile duct. Patients typically have late stage cancer by the time they are diagnosed.</p>
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<p>Until recently, Quebec was the only province to cover the high cost of molecular testing for patients with biliary tract cancers. Patients in the rest of the country now also have free access to the testing, thanks to the Canadian Cholangiocarcinoma Collaborative (C3), a national research network that aims to change how patients with biliary tract cancer receive and access integrated research and care in Canada.</p>
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<p>Auer is a co-founder of C3, which is based at the Ottawa Hospital. C3 was awarded a grant from the Canadian Cancer Society and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, part of which goes toward molecular testing for patients outside of Quebec. The hope is that provinces and territories will eventually cover the cost of the testing.</p>
<p>The C3 network also offers expert advice to physicians who may be less familiar with the rare cancers to interpret the molecular tests and to make the best treatment decisions for their patients.</p>
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<p>Having that information could help a patient with biliary tract cancer get access to the drug or take part in a clinical trial.</p>
<p data-async>There are drugs that could benefit biliary tract cancer patients that have been approved by <a data-evt-val='{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "Health Canada", "target_url": "https://ottawacitizen.com/tag/health-canada/", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}' rel="noopener noreferrer" data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://ottawacitizen.com/tag/health-canada/" target="_blank">Health Canada</a> for other uses. Auer has proposed a program that gives Canadian patients with rare cancers a right to try drugs that could be beneficial. So far, that proposal has not been taken up.</p>
<p>She said the research funding to make molecular testing available is an important start to learning more about the rare cancers and potentially helping patients and their doctors find possible clinical trials or other ways to access potential therapies.</p>
<p>There is no guarantee, though, that getting a molecular test will ultimately help patients.</p>
<p>“Many oncologists will say having the opportunity to offer patients everything they can is important,” Auer said.</p>
<p><span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">The new molecular testing initiative is a partnership with Calgary-based OncoHelix Inc. and Toronto’s University Health Network.</span></p>
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<details readability="8"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>John Napier Turner. Sworn-in as the 17th prime minister on June 30, 1984, Turner made a 24-hour whirlwind visit to England a week later to ask Her Majesty the Queen personally to delay her tour of Canada, set to begin September 20, so he could seek a mandate from Canadians.</p>
</details><p><strong>Though he only served 17 months as prime minister, he still led his party to more than 40 by-election victories in that short period.</strong></p>
<details readability="3"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Sir John Abbott. He chalked up this impressive string of victories while serving as prime minister between June of 1891 and his resignation in November of 1892.</p>
</details><p><strong>What makes Howie Meeker and Red Kelly the most unique MPs in Canadian history?</strong></p>
<details readability="8"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Both played for the Toronto Leafs while simultaneously serving as MPs. Kelly, a Liberal, was elected to the Commons in 1962 and 1963. Meeker, a Tory, was sent to the House by Waterloo North voters in a 1951 by-election.</p>
</details><p><strong>He was the first person of First Nations’ status to be elected to the House of Commons.</strong></p>
<details readability="6"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Leonard Marchand. This British Columbia Liberal, a member of the Okanagan Indian Band, was elected to the House in 1968. He also made history when he was appointed by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to the federal cabinet. Marchand was appointed to the Senate in 1984.</p>
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<details readability="6"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Jimmy Carter. On January 31, 1980, Carter telephoned Prime Minister Joe Clark to thank Canada for sheltering six American diplomats and then helping spirit them to safety and out of revolutionary Iran.</p>
</details><p><strong>This pair of prime ministers, one former and one future, faced off directly against one another in a riding in a by-election.</strong></p>
<details readability="4"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>William Lyon Mackenzie King and John Diefenbaker. In 1926 they ran against each other in the Saskatchewan riding of Prince Albert, with King the eventual victor.</p>
</details><p><strong>This prime minister died only three months after receiving a majority mandate from Canadians.</strong></p>
<details readability="6"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Sir John A. Macdonald. The Father of Confederation won his sixth general election on March 5, 1891, but passed into history on June 6, 1891.</p>
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<details readability="2"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Brian Mulroney. His 1984 and 1988 election victories earned him this proud bragging right.</p>
</details><p><strong>This pair of prime ministers represented Calgary ridings in the House of Commons.</strong></p>
<details readability="8"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Stephen Harper and R.B. Bennett. Harper held a Calgary seat from 1993 to 1997, and then again from 2002 until his retirement from elected politics in 2016. Previously, R.B. Bennett had represented the city in the Commons from 1911 to 1917, and then again from 1925 until he retired from Canadian politics in 1939.</p>
</details><p><strong>Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Sir John A. Macdonald faced each other as party leaders in only one national campaign. Which one was it?</strong></p>
<details readability="2"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>1891. Macdonald defeated Laurier that year.</p>
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<details readability="5"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Lincoln Alexander. Elected as a Tory in 1968, he made history again when he was appointed to Prime Minister Joe Clark’s cabinet in 1979, becoming the first Black cabinet minister.</p>
</details><p><strong>This prime minister slapped the face of an opponent and attempted to grab the man’s throat during an election debate held in his riding.</strong></p>
<details readability="7"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Sir John A. Macdonald. Enraged at being called a liar by his Liberal opponent in his Kingston constituency in the 1872 election, Macdonald physically attacked candidate John Carruthers. The incident became famous, and British Foreign Secretary Lord Kimberly even called the story “delicious” in a private letter to Governor General Lord Dufferin.</p>
</details><p><strong>He became Canada’s first openly-gay MP.</strong></p>
<details readability="4"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Svend Robinson. A British Columbia New Democrat, Robinson was elected to the House in 1979 and served there until 2004. He came out in 1988.</p>
</details><p><strong>This future prime minister landed in jail after leading fellow university students protesting outside a party leader’s Toronto campaign rally.</strong></p>
<details readability="8"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Paul Martin. Then a University of Toronto student, he was jailed after protesting outside a John Diefenbaker rally at Massey Hall in the midst of the 1958 election. The next day, Martin’s very angry (and embarrassed) MP father, Paul Martin Sr., bailed his son out.</p>
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<details readability="6"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Sir Wilfrid Laurier. Canadians elected Canada’s first French-Canadian prime minister and his Liberals in 1896, 1900, 1904, and 1908.</p>
</details><p><strong>This prime minister refused to resign, continuing in office even though he had won fewer seats than his main opponent’s party in a general election.</strong></p>
<details readability="7"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>William Lyon Mackenzie King. Even though he and his party only won 101 seats to Tory Arthur Meighen’s 116 in the 1925 election, King exercised his constitutional right to meet the House. He governed with the support of the Progressive party before his government fell, precipitating the King-Byng constitutional crisis.</p>
</details><p><strong>It was the longest election campaign in Canadian history.</strong></p>
<details readability="2"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>2015. It lasted 78 days and saw Justin Trudeau earn a majority mandate from Canadians.</p>
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<details readability="3"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Alexander Mackenzie. He took office upon Macdonald’s resignation due to the infamous Pacific Scandal in early November of 1873 and won the 1874 election.</p>
</details><p><strong>Sir Charles Tupper was the shortest-serving, at 69 days, prime minister in Canadian history. Who was the second shortest-serving prime minister?</strong></p>
<details readability="2"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>John Napier Turner. He served 79 days as prime minister in 1984.</p>
</details><p><strong>Canada’s 7th Parliament, which lasted from 1891 to 1896, was very unique for this reason.</strong></p>
<details readability="7"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>It saw five different prime ministers: Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir John Abbott, Sir John Thompson, Sir Mackenzie Bowell, and Sir Charles Tupper.</p>
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<details readability="3"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Ethel Blondin-Andrew. Northwest Territories voters elected her in the 1988 general election. She later served in the cabinets of Jean Chretien and Paul Martin.</p>
</details><p><strong>It was the shortest election campaign in Canadian history.</strong></p>
<details readability="5"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>1874. Parliament was dissolved on January 2 and the election held 20 days later, on January 22, 1874.</p>
</details><p><strong>These prime ministers returned to power after being defeated.</strong></p>
<details readability="4"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Sir John A. Macdonald, William Lyon Mackenzie King, and Pierre Trudeau each came back from defeat.</p>
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<details readability="7"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Edward Blake and R.B. Bennett. Blake, a past Liberal leader, served in the British House of Commons from 1892 to 1907. Bennett, a former prime minister, was appointed to the House of Lords in 1941.</p>
</details><p><strong>This prime minister, widely considered one of the greatest 20th-century Canadian leaders, never earned a majority mandate from Canadians.</strong></p>
<details readability="2"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Lester B. Pearson. He was a minority prime minister from 1963 to 1968.</p>
</details><p><strong>This pair of prime ministers led Canada from the Senate.</strong></p>
<details readability="2"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Sir John Abbott and Sir Mackenzie Bowell.</p>
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<details readability="3"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Maureen McTeer. Wife of Joe Clark, she ran for office in 1988 but was defeated.</p>
</details><p><strong>Both these prime ministers represented ridings from three different provinces during their political careers.</strong></p>
<details readability="7"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Mackenzie King and John Napier Turner. King represented ridings in Ontario, Prince Edward Island, and Saskatchewan; Turner represented ridings in Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia.</p>
</details><p><strong>This veteran retiring MP, respected on all sides of the Commons, was made an Honorary Table Officer of the House, entitling him to watch debates from the Clerk’s table the rest of his life.</strong></p>
<details readability="3"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Stanley Knowles. He left elected politics in 1984 after serving from 1962 and was named to the honorary position by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.</p>
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<details readability="4"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Sir John A. Macdonald. His 1885 Franchise Bill extended voting rights, though later governments reversed this. Full Indigenous voting rights were secured in 1960 under John Diefenbaker.</p>
</details><p><strong>This future MP was so confident they’d be defeated in a general election that they spent part of the campaign in Las Vegas.</strong></p>
<details readability="2"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Ruth Ellen Brosseau. She did so before her surprise election as an NDP candidate in 2011.</p>
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<details readability="4"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Ed Schreyer. After serving as Governor General from 1979 to 1984, he ran for a seat in the House in 2006 but was defeated.</p>
</details><p><strong>This national party leader’s grandfather served in the Quebec cabinet of Maurice Duplessis.</strong></p>
<details readability="7"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Jack Layton. His grandfather, Gilbert Layton, served in Duplessis’ cabinet. His father, Robert Layton, was a Mulroney-era cabinet minister.</p>
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<details readability="4"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Sir Wilfrid Laurier. He served 44 years, 11 months, and five days in the House of Commons.</p>
</details><p><strong>This prime minister’s grandfather was an MP under prime ministers William Lyon Mackenzie King and Louis St.-Laurent.</strong></p>
<details readability="5"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Justin Trudeau. His maternal grandfather, James Sinclair, was a Liberal MP from 1940 to 1958 and served as Minister of Fisheries.</p>
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<details readability="2"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Leona Aglukkaq. She made history in 2008 as Minister of Health under Stephen Harper.</p>
</details><p><strong>This Quebec riding was represented for almost 60 years by two MPs who would both serve as prime minister.</strong></p>
<details readability="3"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Quebec East. Wilfrid Laurier held the riding from 1877 to 1919; Louis St.-Laurent from 1942 to 1958.</p>
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<details readability="6"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Wilfrid Laurier. In 1896, Ontario’s Sir Oliver Mowat, New Brunswick’s Andrew Blair, and Nova Scotia’s William Fielding joined his cabinet.</p>
</details><p><strong>Both these prime ministers made their first foreign trips to Japan within days of taking office.</strong></p>
<details readability="3"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Joe Clark and Kim Campbell. Clark attended the Tokyo G7 Summit in June 1979; Campbell did the same in July 1993.</p>
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<details readability="4"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Roland Michener served as Speaker from 1957 to 1962 before becoming Governor General in 1967. Jeanne Sauvé was Speaker of the House from 1980 to late 1983. She was Governor General from 1984 to 1990.</p>
</details><p><strong>This general election was the first to feature a nationally televised leaders’ debate.</strong></p>
<details readability="6"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>1968. On June 9 of that year Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Progressive Conservative leader Robert Stanfield, NDP leader Tommy Douglas and Réal Caouette of the Ralliement créditiste all participated in this inaugural debate.</p>
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<details readability="2"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Douglas Jung. He represented a Vancouver riding from 1957 to 1962.</p>
</details><p><strong>In 1921, Agnes Macphail made history when she became Canada’s first female MP. Who became the second female MP in Canadian history?</strong></p>
<details readability="2"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Martha Black. She was elected to represent Yukon in the House in 1935.</p>
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<details readability="2"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>Thomas D’Arcy McGee in 1868.</p>
</details><p><strong>Which general election had the highest voter turnout?</strong></p>
<details readability="4"><summary>Show Answer</summary><p>1958. Voter turnout hit 79.4%. John Diefenbaker’s Tories won 208 seats. The 2021 turnout was 62.6%, and 2008 was even lower at 58.8%.</p>
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<p>“Every year we have some students from our board that choose to leave our board and register at another school for a variety of reasons. We also welcome students from other boards that move to the OCSB for their own reasons,” Hunter said.</p>
<p>A sweeping elementary school review at the OCDSB that includes changing boundaries for some schools has outraged parents. If OCDSB trustees approve the proposals next month — likely with some modifications — the changes will be in place in the fall of 2026.</p>
<p>In an ordinary year, between 6,000 and 8,000 students change schools. If the OCDSB proposal is approved, 11,000 students will change schools in September 2026.</p>
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<p>The Catholic board anticipates that some families will choose to remain registered in the OCDSB while also registering for an OCSB school in case of boundary changes, Hunter said. However, when families are registered at two school boards, it makes staffing and projections a challenge, Hunter said.</p>
<p>“We will work co-operatively with the OCDSB to try and minimize the number of families that register for multiple schools so that both boards can have accurate projections.”</p>
<p>Where needed due to space constraints, the Catholic board will establish waiting lists for families interested in registering, Hunter said. There must be proof that the student has been de-registered from their existing school and are not registering for multiple schools in different boards in case of changes to their home school boundary, she said.</p>
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<p>Woodroffe Avenue Public School parent Elizabeth MacDonald registered her daughter at Our Lady of Fatima, a Catholic elementary school about 200 metres from her home, on Feb. 28 as soon as the proposed boundaries were released and finalized the paperwork the following week.</p>
<p>Under the proposed boundary changes, MacDonald’s daughter would be attending Regina Street School, which is currently home to an alternative program.</p>
<p>“Our priority is walkability, so this was the key to our decision,” MacDonald said.</p>
<p>“I can’t walk a six-kilometre round trip to Regina every day, while somehow also picking up my son on foot from Woodroffe Avenue Public School. So it felt like Our Lady of Fatima was our only option when we saw the new OCDSB boundaries.”</p>
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<p>Her daughter would transfer to our Lady of Fatima next fall, offering her time to integrate into the school community and get a jump on the extended day program wait list, MacDonald said.</p>
<p>She said she asked if she needed to de-register at Woodroffe, but said she was told it wouldn’t be necessary.</p>
<p>“I can appreciate that could change,” MacDonald said.</p>
<p>In the past, families had to provide a baptismal certificate to register in a Catholic school. That’s no longer the case.</p>
<p>“Children of all religions are welcome to join the Ottawa Catholic School Board. Our approach to educating your child is inclusive, honouring the dignity of every child and respecting all beliefs, in keeping with our Catholic social teachings,” the Catholic board says.</p>
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<p>Provincial funding is tied to student numbers and projected enrolment is based on factors such as immigration, new housing, and a school board’s “market share” compared to other boards.</p>
<p>Ottawa’s four school boards are locked in a perennial battle for market share, and the threat of switching school boards may give boundary change opponents some leverage in the dispute.</p>
<p>In December, the OCDSB reported a total enrolment of 77,522 students compared to 77,313 a year earlier, an increase of 209 students, but less than the 78,518 students board planners had expected would enrol.</p>
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<p>The region’s French-language boards cover a larger geographic area than the English boards. They also reported significant gains for this school year.</p>
<p>The French Catholic board, Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est (CECCE), enrolled 1,375 more students.</p>
<p>The French public board, Conseil des écoles publiques de l’Est de l’Ontario (CEPEO), increased its enrolment by about 1,000 students.</p>
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<p><span data-sanitized-class="published-date__since">Published Mar 25, 2025</span>  •  <span data-sanitized-class="updated-date__since">Last updated 4 days ago</span>  •  <span data-sanitized-class="published-date__word-count">3 minute read</span></p>

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<p>Federal departments and agencies spent more than $1 million advertising on TikTok last fiscal year despite the government’s ban on public servants using the social media app on their work phones.</p>
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<p>Although the total spend by departments and agencies on TikTok ads only increased to $1.13 million from $1.11 million, the share of budget for the Chinese app was up from eight per cent in the previous fiscal year.</p>
<p>TikTok’s increased share of the government’s total ad spend came even after the application had been banned on all government devices in February 2023.</p>
<p>“<span>Following a review of TikTok, the Chief Information Officer of Canada determined that it presents an unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security,” Mona Fortier, the then-Treasury Board president, said in a statement at the time. </span></p>
<p>She added that the government would let the general public decide for themselves if they wanted to use the platform. “<span>However, the Communications Security Establishment’s Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber Centre) </span>guidance<span> strongly recommends that Canadians understand the risks and make an informed choice on their own before deciding what tools to use,” Fortier said.</span></p>
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<p data-async>The government then reportedly launched a national security review of TikTok in September 2023, <a data-evt-val='{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "according to the Canadian Press,", "target_url": "https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ottawa-secret-review-of-tiktok", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}' rel="noopener noreferrer" data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ottawa-secret-review-of-tiktok" target="_blank">according to the Canadian Press,</a> and later ordered the company to shutter its Canadian operations in November, 2024, forcing the closure of its offices in Toronto and Vancouver. The <a data-evt-val='{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "government cited \u201cnational security risks\u201d", "target_url": "https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/tiktok-canada-ordered-to-shut-down", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}' rel="noopener noreferrer" data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/tiktok-canada-ordered-to-shut-down" target="_blank">government cited “national security risks”</a> associated with parent company ByteDance.</p>
<p>In a statement to the Ottawa Citizen, Daniel Savoie, a spokesperson for the Privy Council Office, said federal departments advertise on TikTok to reach key audiences not on other platforms. The advertising includes important and credible information on health, public safety and information on recruitment, he added.</p>
<p><span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">“While the Government of Canada has banned the use of TikTok on all government devices, the placement of Government of Canada ads is coordinated through the Agency of Record, ensuring that Government of Canada devices are not exposed to potential security risks,” Savoie said. </span></p>
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<p><span>“As an individual, I would say that I would absolutely not recommend someone have TikTok,” he said.</span></p>
<p>While the amount the government spent on TikTok in 2023-2024 grew, it significantly shrunk its advertising budgets on Elon Musk’s X and Meta products Facebook and Instagram. In that fiscal, year the federal government spent just $476,271 on advertising on Facebook and Instagram, down from almost $6.9 million in 2022-2023. And the government spent just $207,464 on X ads in 2023-2024, a decrease from $1.2 million the previous fiscal year.</p>
<p data-async>The decrease in spending on Facebook and Instagram coincided with a ban on government advertising that came into effect in July 2023. The government has since rescinded that ban so that it could buy ads on Meta platforms about the Liberal government’s GST tax holiday, <a data-evt-val='{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "according to CTV News", "target_url": "https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/canadian-government-ends-meta-advertising-ban-launches-up-to-100k-gst-break-ad-buy/", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}' rel="noopener noreferrer" data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/canadian-government-ends-meta-advertising-ban-launches-up-to-100k-gst-break-ad-buy/" target="_blank">according to CTV News</a>.</p>
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<p>The ban on advertising was a response to when Meta blocked Canadian news sites from its platforms in retaliation to the Online News Act, which forces tech companies to compensate Canadian journalism outlets for declining revenue.</p>
<p>The social media platform with the largest ad spend from the government in 2023-2024 was LinkedIn. The government spent almost $2.7 million on advertising on the business-oriented social media platform. This was 41 per cent of its ad spend on social media that fiscal year.</p>
<p>Savoie also confirmed that advertising on Meta platforms resumed on Jan. 23, 2025.</p>
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<p>A 26-year-old is facing charges after police said a panhandler got a little too aggressive on the Vanier Parkway off-ramp of Highway 417, kicking a car and causing damage.</p>
<p>Officers from the Ottawa detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police detachment were called to the scene Sunday after the incident, which occurred when the driver of a car refused to give a panhandler money, police said in a news release. A second call to 911 came in from another driver who was also concerned about the person’s behaviour, police said.</p>
<p>Sandro Audige of Ottawa was charged with mischief under $5,000, soliciting in an aggressive manner and soliciting a person in a vehicle on a roadway.</p>
<p>Police remind the public that it is illegal to walk along any 400-series highway, including off-ramps, in Ontario.</p>
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<p>A routine traffic stop on Highway 417 near Hawkesbury led to the seizure of about 160,000 suspected methamphetamine pills, the Ontario Provincial Police said.</p>
<p>An officer with the Hawkesbury detachment was patrolling on the 417 westbound just before 10:30 a.m. on March 19 when he noticed a vehicle being driven erratically.</p>
<p>Upon stopping the car, the officer noticed “suspicious material” inside it, the OPP said in a news release. An investigation, in conjunction with the OPP East Region Community Street Crime Unit, resulted in a search warrant being issued and the discovery of the suspected meth pills, police said.</p>
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<p>Emmanuel Lallier, 30, of Rawdon, Que., is facing charges of possession of a Schedule 1 substance for the purpose of trafficking; operation of a vehicle while prohibited under the Criminal Code; failure to comply with a probation order; unsafe move — lane or shoulder; driving with window coated — view obstructed; and possession of unmarked cigarettes.</p>
<p>Keven Manno, 31, of Montreal, is charged with possession of a Schedule 1 substance for the purpose of trafficking and three counts of failure to comply with a probation order.</p>
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title: Man charged over fake firearm incident at CHEO
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<p>An Ottawa man in his 30s is facing more than a half-dozen criminal charges after an incident in which a replica firearm led to a lockdown at CHEO on Saturday.</p>
<p>In a news release, the Ottawa Police Service said the man had been causing a disturbance when he was asked to leave the property. Upon being escorted to the parking lot, the man confronted CHEO security staff with what appeared to be a weapon — later determined to be a replica — before fleeing on foot.</p>
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<p>Police located the man a short distance away and arrested him.</p>
<p>The media release said the man had been charged with three counts of harassment by threatening conduct and one count each of carrying a concealed weapon, possession of a weapon dangerous to public peace, failure to comply with an undertaking and failure to comply with a release order.</p>
<p>His name was withheld to protect the identity of the child he had accompanied to the children’s hospital. The child ended up in the care of another guardian, police said.</p>
<p>The investigation was ongoing this week and further charges could be laid, police said.</p>
<p>A spokesperson for CHEO said Saturday that a “Code Silver” had been called according to established protocols and a lockdown was initiated.</p>
<p>The lockdown was lifted shortly after it began and the hospital resumed normal operations, the spokesperson added.</p>
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title: Ottawa detective found guilty of discreditable conduct over unauthorized child-death investigations
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<p>A disciplinary process that began more than two and a half years ago has resulted in a guilty verdict on a charge of discreditable conduct for an Ottawa police detective who performed an unauthorized investigation into the deaths of nine children or infants and contacted the father of one deceased baby to inquire about the mother’s COVID-19 vaccination status.</p>
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<p>The ruling in the case against Det. Helen Grus by hearing officer and retired superintendent Chris Renwick was posted online Tuesday.</p>
<p>It did not specify a penalty.</p>
<p>The disciplinary process had played out over 30 days of hearings between August 2022 and January 2025 and with testimony from 14 witnesses, including Grus.</p>
<p>“In their totality, the actions of Det. Grus set out in the Notice of Hearing would be concerning to the community as it introduced an element of a personally held bias into serious investigations involving the death of infants. There were no checks and balances, no consultation with the coroner or medical community, and the criminal inquiries were undertaken without the knowledge or authorization of the Service,” Renwick’s decision said.</p>
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<p>“A reasonable person would understand the community’s collective response of concern should they have learnt that such unauthorized criminal negligence inquiries on public officials were being undertaken by a criminal investigator within (the Ottawa Police Service’s Sexual Assault and Child Abuse unit). The public would expect their police service to exercise proper and effective oversight and authority over their employees to ensure a bias free approach when conducting criminal investigations.”</p>
<p>The charge laid under the Police Service Act alleged that between June 2020 and January 2022 Grus had initiated an unauthorized project in which she accessed nine child or infant death cases in which she had no investigative role and failed to record her involvement or finding in the files. Further, in January 2022, she interfered in the investigation of an infant death without the knowledge or authorization of the case’s lead detective by contacting the father about the mother’s vaccination status.</p>
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<p>“No one’s calling to book, so we don’t foresee that any trips to the U.S. we’ve planned to date will go ahead,” she said.</p>
<p>U.S. tours that were already booked for March went ahead, Tobin said, but the company isn’t even planning any tours for the country anymore. Roughly 30 U.S. trips it had already planned are likely to be shelved.</p>
<p>“By the response from our clients, we’re thinking that there won’t be any U.S. tours in the foreseeable future.”</p>
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<p>However, Tobin said there’s no shortage of clients wanting to take a vacation — just not in the U.S. “We’ll just keep on adding even more European, more international, more Canadian tours,” she said. She estimated European tours already made up roughly 60 per cent of Travac’s business, with destinations including Portugal, Spain, Malta and the Canary Islands.</p>
<p>Tobin said “the demand is there for Canadian and European tours,” and the company was reacting to the current political climate similarly to how it handled the COVID-19 pandemic: focus on Canada.</p>
<p>“During COVID, we added so many Canadian tours, and they all were really successful,” she said. “If that’s any indication, we just keep on adding more Canadian tours. Those will all be successful and we’ll be fine.”</p>
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<p>Frédéric Dimanche, director of Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, said he saw a “lasting trend” taking effect.</p>
<p>“Canadians love to travel abroad and I think they will continue to do so at the expense of the United States,” he said.</p>
<p>Dimanche also said a low Canadian dollar could encourage more domestic vacationing. Travac’s main clientele is well-spending seniors, but Tobin says it’s moving to book more trips to popular family destinations including Niagara Falls, Quebec City and Atlantic Canada for the summer.</p>
<p>“We typically have those tours, but we’re adding more dates because the families and even the seniors who aren’t travelling to the U.S. will look for other destinations within Canada.</p>
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<p>“We already have clients coming in the last month or so who have said to us, ‘We travelled to the U.S. last winter, but we’re not going next winter.’”</p>
<p>The agency is also doubling down on its COVID-era additions of rail trips to Halifax and to the Okanagan Valley in B.C. to meet higher domestic travel demand.</p>
<p>“I really feel like that’s what people are looking for now,” she said. “They were looking for that during COVID — stay in Canada, you’re safer — and now I think it’s stay in Canada for financial reasons and for obviously what’s happened with U.S. and Canada relations.”</p>
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