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So, why does the U.S. give Israel $4 billion a year for “infrastructure” when remote locations on the Navajo Nation Reservation have no access to electricity or basic running water?
Furthermore, what does the U.S. get in return?
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This is what leadership, compassion, and doing the right thing look like.
Investing in shelter, medical care, and protecting people experiencing homelessness instead of punishing them.
It's easy to see why Mamdani's approach is resonating with so many people.
Compassion isn't weakness, it's leadership.
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BERNIE SANDERS estalla y dice:
"La guerra de Vietnam se basó en una mentira, la guerra de IRAK se basó en una mentira y en mi opinió, la guerra contra IRÁN también se basa en una mentira"
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Canadians are only now realizing the potential of liquefied natural gas exports after the global supply disruptions experienced this year, says Daniel Yergin, vice chairman of S&P Global bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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“There’s no way this thing should be able to fly.”
That's what Jeffery Omorodion thought as a kid as he watched airplanes fly over his backyard, directly under a YYZ flight path.
“Figuring out the answer to that question is what led my journey from being an interested kid in an aircraft to actually having a career in simulation and aerospace.”
Now a Simulation Engineer at Dominion, Jeffery is supporting the development of Dominion Scout, where he models and tests concepts in simulation before an aircraft ever leaves the ground.
ALT An individual sitting inside a flight simulator cockpit, holding the control stick, with a neutral expression.
ALT A person is seated in a flight simulator cockpit, holding the control stick. The screens display navigation maps and flight data, with a visible digital map and cockpit interface.
ALT A person wearing a virtual reality headset sits in what appears to be a simulator. The environment looks like a modern tech setting with computer equipment in the background.
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The Court of Arbitration for Sport has ruled that Russia’s ice hockey team must be allowed to compete at the @IIHFHockey World Junior Championship in Alberta.
The Canadian government insists that the team will not set foot in #Canada, while #Russia continues its war in #Ukraine.
And the Russian government is threatening to retaliate, by asking the IOC to exclude Canada from the @Olympics.
I spoke with @AntonyRobart of @GlobalNews, about this collision of sport and politics.
Annie Siddiqui and @ValerieRHelm produced our discussion.
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Thanks for taking an interest in what we're doing, @WithMargie!
🚨 NEW EPISODE PREMIERES TODAY AT 12 PM EST! 🇨🇦
$139M CAD raised in Series A — the largest Series A in Canadian defence history.
A bold vision for Canada's defence future. And a company building technologies for the next generation of autonomous warfare.
On this episode of The Original & Unconventional Podcast @oaupod, I sit down with @EliotPence , Founder & CEO of @DominionDynamic, for an exclusive conversation recorded inside their factory in Kanata, Ontario.🇨🇦
We got a firsthand look at what Eliot and his team are building, including a physical subscale model of Dominion Scout — Canada's first Autonomous Collaborative Platform (ACP), designed to extend the reach of crewed fighters and uncrewed systems in the Canadian Arctic.
We discuss:
• Why Eliot left the US to build in Canada.
• His experience at Anduril Industries.
• The future of autonomous warfare and Canada's defence capabilities.
• What it takes to build a defence technology company from the ground up.
• His mindset as a founder, advice for aspiring entrepreneurs, and why now is an exciting time to build in Canada.
🎬 Watch the trailer below for a sneak peek!
🎙️ FULL EPISODE PREMIERES TODAY
📅 November 12
🕛 12 PM EST
📍 YouTube youtu.be/20Y3-mgZ930?si=pJV-…
Join us for this one. It's a conversation about technology, entrepreneurship, national security, and Canada's future.
#defence #defencetech #deeptech #drone #war #canada #jet #arctic #cdnpoli #ottawa #future #dominion #sovereignty #Entrepreneur #founder #buildcanada #seriesA
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Strong but reasonable message sent to Alberta Premier on behalf of landowners that host oil & gas.
Landowners have had enough.
How will it be received?
@ABDanielleSmith
@BrianJeanAB
@GrantHunterUCP3
@DaleNally_AB
@Vitormarciano
reuters.com/legal/litigation…
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Here's the deal.
I walk into supervised consumption sites, and they're often empty. I walk outside, and people are smoking drugs everywhere.
Why? Because you can't smoke drugs in an injection-only facility.
Times have changed. In BC, smoking is now the leading mode of consumption in toxic drug deaths. Our services need to adapt.
Here's my suggestion:
Take a parking lot. Fence it off. Install a canopy, heat lamps, picnic tables, and portable washrooms. Add a portable building with mental health and addiction teams to connect people to detox, treatment, housing, and other supports. Make sure trained staff are there to respond to overdoses.
Give people a safer, supervised place to go instead of leaving them to consume on sidewalks and in alleyways.
This could save lives AND reduce public drug consumption.
We can't keep using yesterday's solutions for today's drug crisis.
It's not rocket science.
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We are proud to announce that NordSpace has been awarded a $1 million contribution from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to develop Zephyr-EP, the first commercial sovereign Canadian electric propulsion system for small satellites to manoeuvre with precision in space. Zephyr-EP will be developed in partnership with the Royal Military College of Canada.
The award arrives on the heels of the successful inaugural launch of Terra Nova, our first of several satellites built using our Athena bus, which carried systems designed to test and de-risk critical aspects of our vertically integrated launch and spacecraft program, and continues to operate successfully in orbit. The CSA contribution anchors a broader NordSpace investment to advance critical enabling technologies for Canadian satellite constellations that we will build, launch, and operate.
Electric propulsion is one of the most critical onboard systems for modern satellites to:
🛰️ Maintain orbits against atmospheric drag, and perform collision avoidance in an increasingly crowded LEO environment
🛡️ Perform proximity operations in space for commercial and defence missions
⬆️ Raise satellites from launch insertion orbits to their operational altitudes, and transition between constellation layers
♻️ Safely deorbit satellites at end-of-life to limit orbital debris and protect space
As LEO constellations have scaled from tens to thousands of satellites, electric propulsion has become standard across major commercial observation, communications, and defence missions. Yet Canada has no commercial manufacturer of electric propulsion, forcing operators to depend on export-restricted foreign suppliers for one of the most strategically important components of modern satellites. Zephyr-EP is designed to close that gap.
Zephyr-EP is a Hall effect thruster built around propellant flexibility between xenon and krypton, long operational life for extended missions, interplanetary transfers, and constellations. The thruster is clusterable, so the same core unit can be grouped to serve larger platforms. Zephyr-EP is the lead product in a broader Zephyr in-space propulsion family that includes the Zephyr-CH chemical thruster variant that has been in development since 2025.
Zephyr-EP is being developed at our Space Systems Lab (SSL) in Markham, Ontario, and draws directly on the propulsion talent and test discipline we have built across our launch systems program, including the Hadfield-150 orbital-class liquid rocket engine. Combined with our Athena and Aquila spacecraft buses, our Tundra and Tempest launch vehicles, and the Atlantic Spaceport Complex in Newfoundland and Labrador, we are putting in place every ingredient of a real Canadian space economy, where Canadian satellites launch on Canadian rockets from Canadian soil.
@csa_asc @ISED_CA @NationalDefence
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Stop wasting time with these charades and focus on the only thing that will end the war: kicking Russia out of Ukraine.
Once again proving that yet another round of fake negotiations was only meant to serve as theatrical background for the Trump family to remove Russia sanctions while blaming Ukraine, Putin's chief negotiator Medinsky in Abu Dhabi confirms that Putin still intends on occupying Ukraine.
"We will return every inch of OUR land".
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🇨🇦 CANADIAN COMPANIES MAKING WAVES — #3
Ever heard of @KrakenRobotics ?
Most Canadians haven’t.
The world’s navies certainly have.
Founded in Newfoundland, this Canadian company develops remarkable technology for exploring and protecting the world’s oceans.
Its specialty? Seeing what others can’t.
Kraken’s advanced sonar can produce images of the ocean floor with resolution as fine as 2 CENTIMETRES.
That technology helps navies locate underwater mines, inspect critical infrastructure and identify objects hidden beneath the waves.
And that’s only half the story.
Kraken also develops specialized batteries that can withstand the crushing pressure found 6,000 METRES beneath the ocean’s surface.
Think autonomous underwater vehicles searching vast stretches of seabed, powered by Canadian technology.
On November 5, Kraken announced another $102 MILLION in orders, including its largest-ever single sonar order from an undisclosed navy.
The company and its recently acquired businesses have now announced approximately $457 MILLION in orders during 2026.
From the ocean floor to naval defence, Canadian engineering is making waves around the world.
Not bad for a company that started in Newfoundland. 🇨🇦
Canada has some extraordinary companies hiding in plain sight.
Let’s celebrate them.
This series highlights Canadian innovation and achievement, not investment opportunities.
📸 Photo: Kraken Robotics / SEFINE Shipyard — KATFISH sonar system aboard the RD-22 unmanned vessel, Türkiye.
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I fully share Prince Harry’s message today at the European Parliament. Every child deserves to grow up safe, including online. Platforms must take responsibility, and Europe must make children’s safety a political priority. Every day, this becomes more urgent.
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Ayer recibimos en el Parlamento Europeo a los duques de Sussex para inaugurar #LostScreenMemorial.
Gracias por su compromiso con una causa que nos interpela a todos, a la presidenta @RobertaMetsola por su apoyo y a las familias que transforman su dolor en esperanza.
Proteger a nuestros niños en el mundo digital es una responsabilidad de todos.
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We need to stop selling weaponry to foreign governments that use it to do the worst things, including genocide and apartheid and war. npr.org/2026/11/04/nx-s1-602…
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Well the post about buying Lucy Beaumont’s book Drinking Custard to fill your gaps made by chucking out David Walliams stuff has only been online for an hour and you lot have managed to not only SELL IT OUT in paperback and hardback (keep buying it though as they’ll just print more and more of them, or go for the Kindle version), but you’ve also managed to get it to NUMBER TWO in ‘Parenting and Family Humour’ and it’s climbing the other charts as well. This is naturally both hilarious and heartwarming.
Keep it up 😉 rebrand.ly/drinkingcustard
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