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    bbc/Heavy fighting reported around Kyiv - live updates:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-60517447

    reuters/Putin's police state cracks down on protests in 50+ cities at home as Russia's troops invade Ukraine:

    https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...ne-2022-02-24/

    theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/25/EU announces sanctions targeting Vladimir Putin and Sergei Lavrov (US, UK and Canada also have):

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-sergei-lavrov

    Trudeau says Canada will prioritize Ukrainian immigration, launches phone line for urgent questions:

    https://nationalpost.com/news/canada...gent-questions

    Turkish ship hit by bomb off coast of Ukraine, adding to concerns NATO could be drawn into conflict, against the Russians:

    https://metro.co.uk/2022/02/24/russi...aine-16168531/
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    Wokeness makes America appear weak to our adversaries [America's elevation of direct falsehoods and allowing them to masquerade as facts has given our nation the appearance of weakness.]:

    https://thepostmillennial.com/wokene...ur-adversaries
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    John Ivison: Are we ready to confront the malignant narcissist Putin? [Past experience suggests that Canada only takes the military seriously when its soldiers are engaged in combat. That time may be fast approaching]:

    https://nationalpost.com/opinion/joh...rcissist-putin
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    Randall Denley: Ontario disability program designed to keep the vulnerable poor and weak [Ontario could find the $5.9B needed to raise the income of recipients above the poverty line simply by cancelling the stupidest waste of money in the provincial budget - the subsidizing of power bills]:

    https://nationalpost.com/opinion/ran...-poor-and-weak
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    thestar/Today’s coronavirus news: Ontario reporting 1,003 people hospitalized, 297 in ICU...:

    https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/...bruary-25.html
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    I generally prefer to offer up the more plausible conspiracy stuff for viewers, but the following wiki about a certain major conspiracy theory personality includes mention of what I'd call a lot of crapola:
    wiki/Alex Jones:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones
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    Rex Murphy: 'Greenism' has helped Putin fuel his war machine [Will the horror of what is occurring in Ukraine wake up the environmentally 'woke' governments of the world to their folly?]:

    https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex...is-war-machine
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    Jill Biden’s guest for SOTU is an advocate for Critical Race Theory:

    https://nypost.com/2022/03/01/jill-b...eory-advocate/
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    Biden’s building bust: Inflation, foolish priorities will zap infrastructure investments:

    https://nypost.com/2022/03/01/bidens...e-investments/
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    theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/01/China rattled by calls for Japan to host US nuclear weapons:

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...uclear-weapons
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