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Finding more and more stuff on Ukraine, its not getting any better for them.

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Ukrainian fighters: Russian forces storming Mariupol plant

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Russian forces Tuesday began storming the steel mill that represented the last pocket of resistance in Mariupol, Ukrainian defenders said, just as a convoy carrying scores of civilians evacuated from the plant over the weekend reached the relative safety of a Ukrainian-controlled city.

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Peter Chirico says he's running for mayor of North Bay

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Peter Chirico says he's running for mayor of North Bay

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North Bay mayor Al McDonald says he's not running for re-election this fall, and so today a former deputy-mayor, Peter Chirico announced he intends to fill the vacant seat.

Chirico filed his nomination papers this afternoon and becomes the only person so far, indicating that he will take a shot at the top spot.

“I wanted to file my nomination papers on the first available day,” said Chirico. “With a provincial election literally right around the corner, I don’t plan on campaigning until the provincial election is over.”

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Anti-abortion activists and abortion rights supporters took to the streets of Washington, D.C. after news that the U.S. Supreme Court may overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion.

A leaked initial draft majority opinion suggests the court has voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, Politico reported on Monday.

Within hours of the news, anti-abortion activists chanting "hey, hey, ho, ho, Roe v. Wade has got to go" and abortion rights supporters shouting "abortion is health care" were facing off outside the court.

Abortion is one of the most divisive issues in U.S. politics and has been for nearly a half century. The news broke a little more than six months before midterm elections that will determine if Democrats hold their razor-thin majorities in the U.S. Congress for the next two years of President Joe Biden's term.

A 2021 poll by the Pew Research Center found that 59 per cent of U.S. adults believed it should be legal in all or most cases, while 39 per cent thought it should be illegal in most or all cases.

"Roe was egregiously wrong from the start," conservative Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the draft opinion, which is dated Feb. 10, according to Politico, which posted a copy.

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Based on Alito's opinion, the court would find that the Roe v. Wade decision that allowed abortions performed before a fetus would be viable outside the womb - between 24 and 28 weeks of pregnancy - was wrongly decided because the U.S. Constitution makes no specific mention of abortion rights.

"Abortion presents a profound moral question. The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each state from regulating or prohibiting abortion," Alito said, according to the leaked document.

Supreme Court justices can - and sometimes do - change their votes after the initial vote. A ruling is only final when it is published by the court.

Biden, while not offering an opinion on the legitimacy of the leaked opinion, said in a statement provided by the White House early Tuesday that his administration "will be ready when any ruling is issued."

"If the Court does overturn Roe, it will be on our nation's elected officials at all levels of government to protect a women's right to choose. And it will fall on voters to elect pro-choice officials this November," he said.

"At the federal level, we will need more pro-choice senators and a pro-choice majority in the House to adopt legislation that codifies Roe, which I will work to pass and sign into law."

Would have 'tragic consequences': Democrat

Protester Annie McDonnell, 19, a student at George Washington University, said, "The first line in the draft is that this is a moral issue. If it's a moral issue, you shouldn't be depriving us of our choice."

"Justices get out of my vagina," said one protest sign.

I can't reiterate this enough: this decision-if true-will result in very real and tragic consequences for people from all walks of life. And it sends a horrible signal for the future of our country.
&mdash; @SenGaryPeters

The unprecedented leak sent shock waves through the United States.

Michigan Democratic Sen. Gary Peters echoed that sentiment, arguing it "will result in very real and tragic consequences for people from all walks of life."

Many Republican members of Congress seemed more engaged by the leak.
WATCH | Draft opinion suggests U.S. Supreme Court set to overturn Roe v. Wade:
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called it a "stunning breach" in a statement.

"The Chief Justice must get to the bottom of it and the Department of Justice must pursue criminal charges if applicable," he said.

Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley argued that if a law clerk leaked it, they should be disbarred. Hawley added that, if true, the leaked opinion was "voluminously researched, tightly argued and morally powerful."

The left continues its assault on the Supreme Court with an unprecedented breach of confidentiality, clearly meant to intimidate. The Justices mustn't give in to this attempt to corrupt the process. Stay strong <a href="https://t.co/1Ibbe0t2I3">https://t.co/1Ibbe0t2I3</a>
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Several states have 'trigger' laws

The ruling would be the court's most sweeping since former president Donald Trump succeeded in naming three justices to the court, cementing a 6-3 conservative majority.

The draft decision appeared to be based on an oral argument in December on Mississippi's bid to revive its ban on abortion starting at 15 weeks of pregnancy, a law blocked by lower courts.

The Politico report said a court majority was inclined to uphold Mississippi's abortion ban and that there could be five votes to overturn Roe. An official ruling is expected before the end of June.

Four of the other Republican-appointed justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett - voted with Alito in the conference held among the justices, it added.

After an initial vote among the justices following an oral argument, one is assigned the majority opinion and writes a draft. It is then circulated among the justices.

At times, in between the initial vote and the ruling being released, the vote alignment can change.

Numerous Republican-led states have passed various abortion restrictions in defiance of the Roe precedent in recent years, as well as so-called trigger laws, which would kick in and automatically ban abortions if the Supreme Court sides with abortion opponents.

If Roe is overturned, abortion is likely to remain legal in liberal states. More than a dozen states have laws protecting abortion rights.

California has previously said it would look to find more ways to accommodate out-of-state individuals seeking an abortion if the law is overturned.

"We can't trust SCOTUS to protect the right to abortion, so we'll do it ourselves," California Gov. Gavin Newsom said on Twitter, referring to the Supreme Court.

Against global trend

The Roe v. Wade decision recognized that the right to personal privacy under the U.S. Constitution protects a woman's ability to terminate her pregnancy.

The 1973 ruling helped mobilize Christian leaders angered by the ruling, leading to the formation of politically active organizations such as the Family Research Council and Focus on the Family.

The Guttmacher Institute, a pro-choice research group, has estimated that about half of all U.S. states would ban abortion if they had the legal backing to do so. In 2019, the group said abortions were at their lowest level since Roe v. Wade, due to a declining birth rate, expanded insurance coverage for contraception and the increased use of medications that can terminate pregnancies.

Should the top court offer an opinion consistent with the Politico report, the U.S. would be bucking a global trend. In a report in late 2019, the Council of Foreign Relations documented about 30 examples of countries this century that have expanded access to abortion services, with just the U.S. and a handful of others tightening restrictions.

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Protesters gather at Supreme Court over potentially seismic abortion ruling | CBC News

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Anti-abortion activists and abortion rights supporters took to the streets of Washington, D.C. after news that the U.S. Supreme Court may overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion. A leaked initial draft majority opinion suggests the court has voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, Politico reported on Monday.

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Large fires break out at Russian military installation in Belgorod

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Large fires break out at Russian military installation in Belgorod

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Social media video shows fires and columns of black smoke rising from a site near Belgorod in Russia not far from the Ukrainian border. Other video shows police in the area redirecting traffic away from the area and helicopters circling above the city.

The governor of the Belgorod region, Vyascheslav Gladkov, said on Telegram that a fire had broken out at a facility belonging to the Ministry of Defense.

"On the border of three municipalities - Borisov and Belgorod districts and Yakovlevsky urban district - a fire occurred on the territory of one of the facilities of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation," he wrote.

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Elon has now bought twitter for $44 billion

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The world's richest person could soon add another title to his name - America's most leveraged CEO.

Two-thirds of Elon Musk's financing for the $44 billion deal to take Twitter private will have to come out of his own pocket. That pocket is deep. He has a net worth of about $250 billion.

Yet because his wealth is tied up in Tesla stock, along with equity in his SpaceX and The Boring Co., Musk will have to sell millions of his shares and pledge millions more to raise the necessary cash.

According to his SEC filings, Musk's financing plan includes $13 billion in bank loans and $21 billion in cash, likely from selling Tesla shares. It also includes a $12.5 billion margin loan, using his Tesla stock as collateral. Because banks require more of a cushion for high-beta stocks like Tesla, Musk will need to pledge about $65 billion in Tesla shares, or about a quarter of his current total, for the loan, according to the documents.

Even before the Twitter bid, Musk had pledged 88 million shares of the electric auto maker for margin loans, although it's unclear how much cash he's already borrowed from the facility.

According to research firm Audit Analytics, Musk has more than $90 billion of shares pledged for loans. The total makes Musk the largest stock-debtor in dollar terms among executives and directors, far surpassing second-ranked Larry Ellison, Oracle's chairman and chief technology officer, with $24 billion, according to ISS Corporate Solutions, the Rockville, Maryland-based provider of ESG data and analytics.

Musk's stock debt is outsized relative to the entire stock market. His shares pledged before the Twitter deal account for more than a third of the $240 billion of all shares pledged at all companies listed on the NYSE and Nasdaq, according to Audit Analytics. With the Twitter borrowing, that debt could soar even higher.

Of course, Musk has plenty of cushion, especially since he continues to receive new stock options as part of his 2018 compensation plan. His 170 million in fully owned Tesla shares, combined with 73 million in options, give him a potential stake in Tesla of 23%, at a value of over $214 billion. The rest of his net worth comes from his more than 50% stake in SpaceX and his other ventures.

He received another 25 million options as part of the plan this month as Tesla continued to meet its performance targets. While Musk can't sell the newly received options for five years, he can borrow against them.

Yet Musk's 11-figure share loans represent an entirely new level of CEO leverage and risk. The risks were highlighted this week as Tesla's share price slid 12% on Tuesday, chopping more than $20 billion from Musk's net worth. Shares of Tesla were down less than 1% on Thursday afternoon.

Musk's bet also come as other companies are sharply cutting back or restricting share borrowing by executives. More than two-thirds of S&P 500 companies now have strict anti-pledging policies, prohibiting all executives and directors from pledging company shares for loans, according to data from ISS Corporate Solutions. Most other companies have anti-pledging policies but grant exceptions or waivers, like Oracle. Only 3% of companies in the S&P are similar to Tesla and allow share pledging by executives, according to ISS.

Corporate concerns about excess stock leverage follow several high-profile blowups in which executives had to dump shares after margin calls from their lenders. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters in 2012 demoted its founder and chairman, Robert Stiller, and its lead director, William Davis, after the two men were forced to sell to meet margin calls. In 2015, Valeant CEO Michael Pearson was forced to sell shares held by Goldman Sachs as collateral when it called his $100 million loan.

Jun Frank, managing director at ICS Advisory, ISS Corporate Solutions, said companies are now more aware of the risks of executive pledging, and face greater pressure from investors to limit executive borrowing.

"Pledging of shares by executives is considered a significant corporate governance risk," Frank said. "If an executive with significant pledged ownership position fails to meet the margin call, it could lead to sales of those shares, which can trigger a sharp share drop in stock price."

In its SEC filings, Tesla states that allowing executives and directors to borrow against their shares is key to the company's compensation structure.

"The ability of our directors and executive officers to pledge Tesla stock for personal loans and investments is inherently related to their compensation due to our use of equity awards and promotion of long-termism and an ownership culture," Tesla said in its filings. "Moreover, providing these individuals flexibility in financial planning without having to rely on the sale of shares aligns their interests with those of our stockholders."

The exact amount that Musk has borrowing against his shares remains a mystery. Tesla's SEC filings show his pledge of 88 million shares, but not how much cash he's actually borrowed against them. If he pledged the shares in 2020 when Tesla stock was trading at $90, he would have been able to borrow about $2 billion at the time. Today, the borrowing power of those shares has increased tenfold, so he could have room to borrow an additional $20 billion or more against the 88 million shares already pledged. In that case, only about a third of his Tesla stake would be pledged after the Twitter deal.

Yet if he's increased his borrowing as Tesla shares have risen in value, he may have to pledge additional shares. Analysts say that if Musk has maxed out his borrowing on the 88 million shares (which is highly unlikely) and he has to pledge an additional 60 million shares to fund the Twitter deal, more than 80% of his Tesla fully owned shares would be pledged as collateral.

That would leave him with about $25 billion in Tesla shares unpledged. If he also has to sell $21 billion of Tesla shares to pay the cash portion of the Twitter deal, as well as the accompanying capital gains taxes, virtually all of his remaining fully owned stock would be pledged.

According to SEC filings, Musk sold about $8.4 billion worth of Tesla shares this week. He tweeted Thursday, "No Further TSLA sales planned after today." Yet his plans for raising the rest of the $21 billion in cash needed for the deal remain unclear.

Either way, Musk will be putting a large share of his Tesla wealth at risk, which could make for a bumpy ride ahead for Tesla shareholders.

Borrowing against shares, Frank said, "exposes shareholders to significant stock price risk due to an executive's personal financing decisions."

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Elon Musk will be the most indebted CEO in America if the Twitter deal goes through

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The world's richest person could soon add another title to his name - America's most leveraged CEO. Two-thirds of Elon Musk's financing for the $44 billion deal to take Twitter private will have to come out of his own pocket. That pocket is deep. He has a net worth of about $250 billion.

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Ukraine is still the same as it was a month or two ago

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Ukrainian forces fought village by village on Saturday to hold back a Russian advance through the country's east, while the United Nations worked to broker a civilian evacuation from the last Ukrainian stronghold in the bombed-out ruins of the port city of Mariupol.

An estimated 100,000 civilians remain in the city, and up to 1,000 are living beneath a sprawling Soviet-era steel plant, according to Ukrainian officials. Ukraine has not said how many fighters are also in the plant, the only part of Mariupol not occupied by Russian forces, but the Russians put the number at about 2,000.

Ukraine's military said on Saturday that Russian planes had continued to launch strikes on Mariupol, focusing on the Azovstal steelworks.

Meanwhile, Russian state news outlets reported that 25 civilians had been evacuated from the steel plant, although there was no confirmation from the UN. Russia's RIA Novosti news agency said 19 adults and six children were brought out of the plant, but it gave no further details.

A top official with the Azov Regiment, the Ukrainian unit defending the plant, said 20 civilians were evacuated during a ceasefire, although it was not clear if he was referring to the same group as the Russian news reports.

"These are women and children," Sviatoslav Palamar said in a video posted on the regiment's Telegram channel. He also called for the evacuation of the wounded: "We don't know why they are not taken away and their evacuation to the territory controlled by Ukraine is not being discussed."

Video and images from inside the plant, shared with The Associated Press by two Ukrainian women who said their husbands are among the fighters refusing to surrender there, showed unidentified wounded men with stained bandages in need of changing; others had open wounds or amputated limbs.

Treating injured at steel plant

A skeleton medical staff was treating at least 600 wounded people, said the women, who identified their husbands as members of the Azov Regiment of Ukraine's National Guard. The regiment is a far-right armed group that was folded into the country's national guard after Russia's first invasion in 2014.

In the video shared by the women, the wounded men tell the camera they eat once a day and share as little as 1.5 litres of water a day among four people. Supplies inside the surrounded facility are depleted, they said.

One shirtless man spoke in obvious pain as he described his wounds: two broken ribs, a punctured lung and a dislocated arm that "was hanging on the flesh."

"I want to tell everyone who sees this: If you will not stop this here, in Ukraine, it will go further, to Europe," he said.

The AP could not independently verify the date and location of the footage, which the women said was taken in the last week in the warren of passageways beneath the steel mill.

The women urged that Ukrainian fighters also be evacuated alongside civilians, warning they could be tortured and executed if captured. "The lives of soldiers matter, too," Yuliia Fedusiuk told the AP in Rome.

The Soviet-era steel plant has a vast underground network of bunkers able to withstand airstrikes. But the situation has grown more dire after the Russians dropped "bunker busters" and other bombs.

City officials in Mariupol have described dire shortages of food, water and medicine. UN humanitarian spokesperson Saviano Abreu said the world organization was negotiating with authorities in Moscow and Kyiv but that he could not provide details of the ongoing evacuation effort "because of the complexity and fluidity of the operation."

"There is, right now, ongoing, high-level engagements with all the governments, Russia and Ukraine, to make sure that you can save civilians and support the evacuation of civilians from the plant," Abreu told The Associated Press. He would not confirm video posted on social media that claimed to show UN-marked vehicles in Mariupol.

PHOTO GALLERY | What's happening in Ukraine on Day 66 of invasion:

Ukraine has blamed the failure of numerous previous evacuation attempts on continued Russian shelling.

Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov told Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya TV that the real problem is that "humanitarian corridors are being ignored by Ukrainian ultra-nationals." Moscow has repeatedly claimed right-wing Ukrainians are thwarting evacuation efforts and using civilians as human shields.

Odesa airport runway destroyed, Ukraine says

To the west in Odesa, which has so far been relatively unscathed in the war, a Russian missile launched from Crimea destroyed the runway at the main airport, said Maksym Marchenko, Odesda's regional governor. No one was hurt, he added.

Ukraine's military said the airport could no longer be used. Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine's president, vowed in a late-night video address to rebuild the airport. "Odesa will never forget Russia's behaviour towards it," he said.

There was no comment on the strike from Moscow, whose forces have sporadically targeted Odesa, Ukraine's third-most populous city and a key Black Sea port. Eight people were killed in a Russian strike on the city last week, Ukrainian officials said.

In other developments:

Actor Angelina Jolie paid a private visit to the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Saturday, where she was spotted in a café and speaking with people at the city's central train station. Jolie is a special envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, but a spokesperson for the agency denied she was in the city on official UN business.

The bodies of three men were found buried in a forest not far from the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, the head of Kyiv's regional police force said. The men, whose bodies were found on Friday, had been tortured before they were shot in the head, Andriy Nebytov wrote on Facebook. Ukrainian officials have alleged that retreating Russian troops carried out mass killings of civilians in Bucha.

Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview that Russian and Ukrainian negotiators talk "almost every day." However, he told Chinese state news agency Xinhua that "progress has not been easy."

Two buses that went to evacuate residents from the town of Popasna in Eastern Ukraine were fired upon, and contact with the organizers was lost, Mayor Nikolai Khanatov said.

Russian forces have stolen "several hundred thousand tonnes" of grain in the areas of Ukraine they occupy, Ukraine's deputy agriculture minister, Taras Vysotskiy, said on Saturday.

Ukraine carried out a prisoner exchange with Russia on Saturday, with seven soldiers and seven civilians coming home, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said in an online posting. One of the soldiers was a woman who is five months' pregnant, she added. She did not say how many Russians had been transferred.

Only minor gains for Russia

Getting a full picture of the unfolding battle in the east has been difficult because airstrikes and artillery barrages have made it extremely dangerous for reporters to move around. Both Ukraine and the Moscow-backed rebels fighting in the east have introduced tight restrictions on reporting from the combat zone.

But Western military analysts suggested that Moscow's offensive in the eastern Donbas region, which includes Mariupol, was going much slower than planned. So far, Russia's troops and Moscow-backed separatist forces appeared to have made only minor gains in the month since Moscow said it would focus its military strength in Eastern Ukraine.

WATCH | Russian missile strikes rock Kyiv, fighting intensifies in Eastern Ukraine:

Numerically, Russia's military manpower vastly exceeds Ukraine's. In the days before the war began, Western intelligence estimated Russia had positioned near the border as many as 190,000 troops; Ukraine's standing military is about 200,000, spread throughout the country.

In part because of the strength of Ukrainian resistance, the United States believes the Russians are "at least several days behind where they wanted to be" as they try to encircle Ukrainian troops in the east, said the senior U.S. defence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the American military's assessment.

With plenty of firepower still in reserve, Russia's promised offensive still could intensify and overrun the Ukrainians. Overall, the Russian army has an estimated 900,000 active-duty personnel. Russia also has a much larger air force and navy than Ukraine.

Hundreds of millions of dollars in military assistance has flowed into Ukraine since the war began, but Russia's vast armouries mean Ukraine's needs are nearly inexhaustible.

"We need an unlimited number of weapons," Ukrainian Defence Ministry spokesperson Col. Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said.

WATCH | What happened in Week 10 of Russia's attack on Ukraine:

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Ukrainians grow desperate for rescue in Mariupol as Russian advance held off | CBC News

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Ukrainian forces fought village by village on Saturday to hold back a Russian advance through the country's east, while the United Nations worked to broker a civilian evacuation from the last Ukrainian stronghold in the bombed-out ruins of the port city of Mariupol.

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Who knows this might change throughout the next couple weeks.

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Misinformation is “false information that is spread, regardless of intent to mislead.” There’s a quick definition of misinformation and here’s one on disinformation. Disinformation means “false information, as about a country’s military strength or plans, disseminated by a government or intelligence agency in a hostile act of tactical political subversion.”

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Misinformation is “false information that is spread, regardless of intent to mislead.” There’s a quick definition of misinformation and here’s one on disinformation. Disinformation means “false information, as about a country’s military strength or plans, disseminated by a government or intelligence agency in a hostile act of tactical political subversion.”

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A YouTube Video explaining misinformation and disinformation.

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A small news letter on Chrystia Freeland.

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A small news letter on Chrystia Freeland.