Photo: The Canadian Press The Rev. Brent Hawkes, the pastor who performed the first legally recognized same-sex marriages in Canada, drives a car during the Toronto Pride Parade on Sunday, June 28, 2015. Russia today imposed sanctions on a number of Canadian public figures, including of Lt. Gen. Michael Wright, Chief of the Canadian Forces Intelligence Command and the well-known Toronto pastor. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young Russia imposed sanctions on a number of Canadian public figures on Friday, including Lt....

Defense Ministry spokesman Lt. Gen. Igor Konasenkov reported the successful strikes during a press briefing on Saturday. “As part of the battle against the batteries, two US M777 howitzers were destroyed in the Stepnogorsk region of the Zaporizhia region,” he said, according to the state-run TASS news agency. In May, the US gave 90 of the field artillery pieces, which are used by the US Army and Marine Corps, to Ukraine....

On what Ukraine’s troops are focusing on, he adds: Ukrainian forces are targeting bridges, ammunition depots and rail links with increasing frequency in the southern regions of Ukraine. Including the strategically important rail thrust linking Kherson to Russian-held Crimea, almost certainly using a combination of blockade, damage, degradation, denial, destruction and disruption effects to try to affect Russia’s ability to resupply itself logistically. The Foreign Office then adds that it believes the war is about to enter a “new phase”....

A spokesman for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in southern Ukraine said Russian missile strikes in the south on Thursday night were in retaliation for the sinking of a Russian cruiser in Moscow. Natalia Humeniuk said the attack “did not only affect [Russia’s] ships, but also the imperial ambitions of the enemy “. He told the media on Friday that after the attack in Moscow, “we all realize that they will not forgive us....

Both the towns of Bakhmut and Avdiivka have been seen as key targets in Russia’s ongoing offensive in eastern Ukraine, with analysts saying Moscow must take Bakhmut if it is to advance on the regional hubs of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk. “In the direction of Donetsk, the enemy is conducting an offensive operation, concentrating its main efforts in the directions of Bakhmut and Avdiivka. It is using ground attack and military aviation,” the Ukrainian General Staff said on Facebook....

Il y a pénurie d’or bleu partout en France. La France fait face à une sécheresse extrême depuis plusieurs semaines. Juillet 2022 est le mois le plus sec jamais enregistré depuis le début des relevés météorologiques. Seulement 9,7 mm de pluie sont tombés. Juillet historiquement sec « Le déficit pluviométrique par rapport à la normale dépasse 80 % en juillet dernier, après un printemps déjà globalement sec. Cela a aggravé la sécheresse des sols », explique Frédéric Long de Météo France, selon France Info....

One UI 5 builds on Android 13’s theme options, offering up to 16 preset color themes based on your wallpaper and 12 additional color options for the home screen, icons, and quick panels. It also introduces a way of stacking similarly sized widgets on top of each other which is supposed to help create a less cluttered look. One UI 5 beta lets you stack widgets on top of each other....

Comment Parents who lost their 6-year-old son in the Sandy Hook massacre confronted right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in court Tuesday, saying his claims that the deadliest elementary school shooting in U.S. history was a “gigantic hoax” created a “vibrant hell’ for them. Scarlett Lewis and Neil Heslin, parents of Jesse Lewis, who was killed in the 2012 shooting in Newtown, Conn., are seeking $150 million in damages from the Infowars radio show and its webcast host and media company in a lawsuit for defamation....

Matt King and Christopher Watson from the University of Tasmania wrote: “But despite this record, since 2020 this steady acceleration has curiously turned into a slowdown – the days are getting longer again and the reason is so far a mystery.” The Earth doesn’t take exactly 24 hours to spin on its axis, it usually varies ever so slightly, with even events like earthquakes affecting this time. Professors King and Watson said: “Over millions of years, the Earth’s rotation slows due to frictional effects associated with the tides driven by the Moon....

The Clarets parted ways with their nine-and-a-half-year-old manager on Good Friday with U23 captain Jackson, now a member of the squad that also includes captain Ben Mee, Academy director Paul Jenkins and U23 goalkeeping coach Connor King . Burnley face West Ham on Sunday for the Premier League in a key game. The Clarets are four points away from safety and Norwich lost to last place in the standings last time out....

Publié à 17h16 Clara DescurningesLa Presse Canadienne En effet, bien que les fuites de données puissent compromettre les renseignements personnels des clients, comme cela s’est produit avec Desjardins en 2019, elles ont souvent tendance à augmenter les factures des consommateurs. Le dernier rapport annuel d’IBM sur le coût d’une violation de données, publié en juillet dernier, montre qu’une seule attaque entraîne un coût total moyen de 5,62 millions de dollars dans le monde et de 7,29 millions de dollars au Canada....

The estimated $740 billion package heads next door to the House, where lawmakers are poised to uphold Biden’s priorities, a stunning reversal of what seemed like a lost and doomed effort that has suddenly roared back into political life. Democrats held together, 51-50, with Vice Speaker Kamala Harris giving the tiebreaker. “It’s been a long, hard and difficult road, but we’re finally, finally here,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N....

Finley Downer suffered flesh wounds after being bitten on both legs and had to be taken to a local health clinic by golf cart. He was pulled to safety after he was reportedly attacked by about three nurse sharks while swimming in a lagoon last week. Finley was later flown to the capital, Nassau, for surgery and further treatment for his injuries. The family are now back home in Kettering, Northamptonshire, where Finley is recovering and uses a wheelchair....

01.08.2022, 08:35 Uhr Vor mehr als einer Woche gerät ein junges Paar auf einem Baggersee in Nordrhein-Westfalen in Not – und geht unter. Zwei Zeugen, die zur Hilfe eilen, können sie nicht mehr entdecken. Nach tagelanger Suche findet die Polizei mithilfe eines Sonarboots die Leichen. Die seit Tagen andauernde Suche nach einem vermissten Pärchen in einem Baggersee bei Porta Westfalica endet mit trauriger Gewissheit: Am Sonntag werden die Leichen einer 26-Jährigen und eines 27-Jährigen gefunden und geborgen, teilte die Polizei mit....

Fotoserie mit 56 Bildern Der ehemalige Außenminister Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) hat der Ukraine und ihrem Botschafter Andriy Melnyk vorgeworfen, Bundespräsident Frank-Walter Steinmeier mit “Verschwörungstheorien” zu diskreditieren. Dass Melnik behauptete, Steinmeier habe einst ein „Spinnennetz“ von Kontakten zu Russland aufgebaut, ist eine Fehlbezeichnung, die es zu widerlegen gilt. „Spinnennetze werden bekanntlich dazu verwendet, Beute zu fangen und dann zu nutzen“, schrieb Gabriel in einem Gastbeitrag im Spiegel. “Kurz gesagt, dieser Vergleich legt nahe, dass der ehemalige Bundeskanzler und Außenminister die Interessenvertretung Russlands in Deutschland mitorganisiert hat....

The Labor leader apologized to Parliamentary Standards Commissioner Catherine Stone for what the party said was an “inadvertent error”. Ms Stone opened an inquiry into the Labor leader in June over allegations of late declaration of profits and gifts, benefits or hospitality from British sources, prompting Sir Keir to insist at the time he was “absolutely confident” he had not breached the code . , saying, “There is no problem here....

Unlike some other processes, all information provided to the Brazilian regulator must be made public, which has allowed some eagle-eyed users on Resetera to reveal Sony’s thoughts. The answers he provides run a wide range of contexts, but some particularly juicy sections are about the importance of Call of Duty specifically and how it affects the console market. In particular, Sony is essentially growing the franchise massively, accurately describing it as the single biggest gaming franchise out there, one that has massive resources behind it and routinely sells in huge volumes....