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Trump asks Supreme Court to delay TikTok ban so he can weigh in after he takes officeCade Lucas This story was one of the top stories from 2024 and was originally published in May. Wyndham council has moved to allay fears that its decision to stop providing aged care services will signal the end for many social groups and activities for elderly residents. Last week Wyndham council announced that in response to the federal government’s upcoming reforms to the way aged care services are funded and delivered, that council run programs would be shut down by the end of this year and replaced by private and community providers. Social activities and council provided transport that helps elderly residents attend them, are among the services set to go, raising concerns about a loss of friendships and increased loneliness and isolation as a result. Among those concerned are Tarneit’s Lorraine and Tony Chisholm who’ve been attending weekly lunches at Penrose Community Centre for the past year. While her 80 year-old husband is wheelchair bound with Parkinson’s disease, Lorraine Chisholm said they are still able to get out and about, but it’s the social interaction they’ll miss. “I can take Tony to the (Pacific Werribee) plaza, I can take him to Williams Landing, I can take him to Altona, but you don’t meet people,” she said. “Whereas with (Penrose) we all talk and we meet people and you look forward to the next meeting and seeing them again.” For 96 year old Maurice Wilkinson of Hoppers Crossing, meetings of the ‘The Vintage’, a weekly social group of elderly men at the Central Park Community Centre, are the only time he leaves the house. Mr Wilkinson said he and many other group members relied on council transport to attend and going from one service provider to one of many will make it impossible to keep The Vintage together. “We can’t get anyone else to support say 14 or 15 of us from one area to go to one area. They just won’t be available,” said Mr Wilkinson who already has a home care package with aged care provider Kincare, but that extending this to cover social gatherings like The Vintage was impractical. “To do that. I’ve got to get all my members to go to Kincare. You can’t do that.” In response Wyndham council said it had deliberately delayed the reforms until the end of 2024 to give residents and service providers time to address these issues. “In working with the federal government to transition clients to new provider/s, where there is the opportunity, we will provide the information to groups so that those who wish to retain relationships may discuss with each other and choose the same provider,” said spokesperson for Wyndham council. “ Should there be the opportunity to move an entire program/service to a new provider, we will support this to happen.” While living alone, Maurice Wilkinson’s son Peter and wife Marion live nearby and provide regular support. They take issue with council’s claim that its aged care reforms were the result of community feedback. “Who did they survey and how many elderly did they survey and how many people were contacted who didn’t have access to the internet?” asked Peter Wilkinson. “There’s no wifi in his house,“ added Marion Wilkinson referring to Maurice’s home “We’re not talking about people that are 50 years old, we’re talking about people that were in the Second World War.” Wyndham council said community consultation on the aged care reforms involved personalised letters, brochures and direct engagement with age care care providers and that an overwhelming majority of respondents supported the move to an assisted service model. Council said community connector team is available to meet with residents and assist them on (03) 8734 4514 or .

Two senior members of the federal cabinet were in Florida Friday pushing Canada’s new $1.3 billion border plan with members of Donald Trump’s transition team, a day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau himself appeared to finally push back at the president-elect over his social media posts about turning Canada into the 51st state. Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Foreign Affair Minister Melanie Joly shared few details of their meetings in Palm Beach, simply saying in a statement the U.S. officials they met with took notes and agreed to relay messages to Trump. “Minister LeBlanc and Minister Joly had a positive, productive meeting at Mar-a-Lago with Howard Lutnick and Doug Burgum, as a followup to the dinner between the prime minister and President Trump last month,” wrote Jean-Sebastien Comeau, a spokesman for LeBlanc. Lutnick is Trump’s nominee for commerce secretary, and Burgum is the former governor of North Dakota and current nominee for secretary of the interior. When announcing Lutnick as his commerce pick Trump said the chief executive of the financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald would be in charge of the Trump “tariff and trade agenda.” “Both Ministers outlined the measures in Canada’s Border Plan and reiterated the shared commitment to strengthen border security as well as combat the harm caused by fentanyl to save Canadian and American lives.” He added the ministers agreed to continue the discussions in the coming weeks. Joly is also expected to meet in Florida with senator Lindsay Graham Friday evening. This trip comes less than four weeks before Trump is sworn in again as president. He has threatened to impose a new 25 per cent import tariff on Canada and Mexico the same day over concerns about a trade imbalance, as well as illegal drugs and migration issues at the borders. The broad strokes of Canada’s new border plan were made public Dec. 17, including a new aerial intelligence task force to provide round-the-clock surveillance of the border, and improved efforts using technology and canine teams to seek out drugs in shipments leaving Canada. Comeau said earlier Friday morning the ministers would also emphasize the negative impacts of Trump’s threatened tariffs on both Canada and the U.S. Comeau said the ministers were to build on the discussions that took place last month when Trudeau and LeBlanc met Trump at Mar-a-Lago just days after Trump first made his tariff threat. It was at that dinner on Nov. 29 when Trump first raised the notion of Canada becoming the 51st state, a comment LeBlanc has repeatedly since insisted was just a joke. But Trump has continued the quip repeatedly in various social media posts, including in his Christmas Day message when he said Canadians would pay lower taxes and have better military protection if they became Americans. He has taken to calling Trudeau “governor” instead of prime minister. It isn’t clear if LeBlanc raised the issue with Trump’s team in Palm Beach Friday. Trudeau had not directly responded to any of the jabs, but on Thursday posted a link to a six-minute long video on YouTube from 2010 in which American journalist Tom Brokaw “explains Canada to Americans.” “Some information about Canada for Americans” was all he wrote in the post. Some information about Canada for Americans: https://t.co/EnI8CrF4cB — Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) December 26, 2024 The video, which originally aired during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, explains similarities between the two countries, including their founding based on immigration, their trading relationship and the actions of the Canadian Army in World War 2 and other modern conflicts. “In the long history of sovereign neighbours there has never been a relationship as close, productive and peaceful as the U.S. and Canada,” Brokaw says in the video. Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney, who is at the centre of some of Trudeau’s recent domestic political troubles, also called out Trump’s antics on X Thursday, calling it “casual disrespect” and “carrying the ‘joke’ too far.” “Time to call it out, stand up for Canada, and build a true North American partnership,” said Carney, who Trudeau was courting to join his cabinet before Chrystia Freeland resigned as finance minister last week. This is carrying the ‘joke’ too far: the casual disrespect, the poor tax math, and ignoring that workers on both sides of our border will be better off if we work together. Time to call it out, stand up for Canada, and build a true North American partnership 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 https://t.co/BO4zEMrk0B — Mark Carney (@MarkJCarney) December 26, 2024 Freeland’s sudden departure, three days after Trudeau informed her he would be firing her as finance minister in favour of Carney, left Trudeau’s leadership even more bruised than it already was. Despite the expectation Carney would assume the role, he did not and has not made any statements about it. LeBlanc was sworn in as finance minister instead the same day Freeland quit. More than two dozen Liberal MPs have publicly called on Trudeau to resign as leader, and Trudeau is said to be taking the holidays to think about his next steps. He is currently vacationing in British Columbia. He did not make a public statement about the meeting as of publication.Brazil’s federal police last Thursday formally accused Mr Bolsonaro and 36 other people of attempting a coup. They sent their 884-page report to the Supreme Court, which lifted the seal. “The evidence collected throughout the investigation shows unequivocally that then-president Jair Messias Bolsonaro planned, acted and was directly and effectively aware of the actions of the criminal organisation aiming to launch a coup d’etat and eliminate the democratic rule of law, which did not take place due to reasons unrelated to his desire,” the document said. At another point, it says: “Bolsonaro had full awareness and active participation.” Mr Bolsonaro, who had repeatedly alleged without evidence that the country’s electronic voting system was prone to fraud, called a meeting in December 2022, during which he presented a draft decree to the commanders of the three divisions of the armed forces, according to the police report, signed by four investigators. The decree would have launched an investigation into suspicions of fraud and crimes related to the October 2022 vote, and suspended the powers of the nation’s electoral court. The navy’s commander stood ready to comply, but those from the army and air force objected to any plan that prevented Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s inauguration, the report said. Those refusals are why the plan did not go ahead, according to witnesses who spoke to investigators. Mr Bolsonaro never signed the decree to set the final stage of the alleged plan into action. Mr Bolsonaro has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing or awareness of any plot to keep him in power or oust his leftist rival and successor. “No one is going to do a coup with a reserve general and half a dozen other officers. What is being said is absurd. For my part, there has never been any discussion of a coup,” Mr Bolsonaro told journalists in the capital Brasilia on Monday. “If someone came to discuss a coup with me, I’d say, that’s fine, but the day after, how does the world view us?” he added. “The word ‘coup’ has never been in my dictionary.” The top court has passed the report on to prosecutor-general Paulo Gonet. He will decide whether to formally charge Mr Bolsonaro. Rodrigo Rios, a law professor at the PUC university in the city of Curitiba, said Mr Bolsonaro could face up to a minimum of 11 years in prison if convicted on all charges. “A woman involved in the January 8 attack on the Supreme Court received a 17-year prison sentence,” Mr Rios told the Associated Press, noting that the former president is more likely to receive 15 years or more if convicted. “Bolsonaro’s future looks dark.” Ahead of the 2022 election, Mr Bolsonaro repeatedly alleged that the election system, which does not use paper ballots, could be tampered with. The top electoral court later ruled that he had abused his power to cast unfounded doubt on the voting system, and ruled him ineligible for office until 2030. Still, he has maintained that he will stand as a candidate in the 2026 race. Since Mr Bolsonaro left office, he has been targeted by several investigations, all of which he has chalked up to political persecution. Federal police have accused him of smuggling diamond jewellery into Brazil without properly declaring them and directing a subordinate to falsify his and others’ Covid-19 vaccination statuses. Authorities are also investigating whether he incited the riot on January 8 2022 in which his followers ransacked the Supreme Court and presidential palace in Brasilia, seeking to prompt intervention by the army that would oust Mr Lula from power. Mr Bolsonaro had left for the United States days before Mr Lula’s inauguration on January 1 2023 and stayed there for three months, keeping a low profile. The police report unsealed on Tuesday alleges he was seeking to avoid possible imprisonment related to the coup plot, and also await the uprising that took place a week later.Entergy Stock Jumps On Partnership To Power Meta’s Largest Data Centre: Retail Lights Up

SHAREHOLDER ALERT: Pomerantz Law Firm Investigates Claims On Behalf of Investors of Codere Online Luxembourg, S.A. - CDROFrench Prime Minister Michel Barnier on Thursday was meeting Emmanuel Macron to submit his resignation after losing a vote of no confidence in parliament, with the president urgently seeking ways to halt growing political and financial chaos. Poised to be contemporary France’s shortest-serving premier, Barnier arrived at the Elysee Palace just after 0900 GMT for the resignation formality, with the outgoing premier and government constitutionally obliged to step down after the defeat in parliament. A majority of lawmakers on Wednesday supported the no-confidence vote proposed by the hard left and backed by the far right headed by Marine Le Pen. Barnier’s record-quick ejection comes after snap parliamentary elections this summer, which resulted in a hung parliament with no political force able to form an overall majority and the far right holding the key to the government’s survival. The trigger for Barnier’s ouster was his 2025 budget plan including austerity measures that were unacceptable to a majority in parliament, but that he argued were necessary to stabilise France’s finances. On Monday he had forced through a social security financing bill without a vote. The successful no-confidence motion cancelled the government’s entire financing plan, leading to an automatic renewal of the current budget into next year, unless any new government can somehow rush through approval of a new budget by Christmas — an unlikely scenario. “France probably won’t have a 2025 budget,” said ING Economics in a note, predicting that the country “is entering a new era of political instability”. Moody’s, a ratings agency, warned that Barnier’s fall “deepens the country’s political stalemate” and “reduces the probability of a consolidation of public finances”. The Paris stock exchange fell at the opening on Thursday before recovering to show small gains, while the yields on French government bonds were again under upward pressure in debt markets. Macron now has the unenviable task of picking a viable successor. The president will address the nation at 8:00 pm (1900 GMT), his office said. Macron has more than two years of his presidential term left, but some opponents are calling on him to resign. National Assembly Speaker Yael Braun-Pivet on Thursday urged Macron to waste no time in choosing a new premier, saying that France could not be allowed to “drift” for any length of time. There was no indication early on Thursday of how quickly Macron would appoint Barnier’s successor, nor what their political leanings might be. Loyalist Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu and Macron’s centrist ally Francois Bayrou have been touted as possible contenders, as has former Socialist premier and interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve. With the support of the far right, a majority of 331 MPs in the 577-member chamber voted to oust the government on Wednesday night. It was the first successful no-confidence vote since a defeat for Georges Pompidou’s government in 1962, when Charles de Gaulle was president. Macron flew back into Paris just ahead of the vote after wrapping up a three-day state visit to Saudi Arabia, an apparent world away from the domestic crisis. “We are now calling on Macron to go,” Mathilde Panot, head of the parliamentary faction of the hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) party, told reporters. She urged “early presidential elections” to solve the deepening political crisis. But taking care not to crow over the government’s fall, Le Pen said in a television interview that her party — once a new premier is appointed — “would let them work” and help create a “budget that is acceptable for everyone”. Laurent Wauquiez, the head of right-wing deputies in parliament, said the far right and hard left bore the responsibility for a no-confidence vote. Barnier is the fifth prime minister to serve under Macron since he came to power in 2017, with every premier serving a successively shorter period. Given the composition of the National Assembly, there is no guarantee that Barnier’s successor would last any longer. Strike calls across transport, education and other public sector services were kept in place on Thursday despite the disappearance of the austerity budget that has prompted anger. The plunge into more uncertainty comes ahead of the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral on Saturday after a 2019 fire, a major international event hosted by Macron. Guests include Donald Trump on his first foreign trip since he was elected US president.EJ Sablan named to All-Northwest Conference 2nd team