Justin Trudeau invests 9 million on Edible Crickets

Justin Trudeau's bizarre plan to spend $9 million on edible crickets backfires

Justin Trudeau's bizarre plan to invest nearly $9 million in an edible cricket factory has backfired after the company laid off two-thirds of its staff. 

The Canadian Prime Minister, 52, invested $8.5 million of state funds into Aspire Food Group in June 2022 to help 'develop innovative ways to meet the demand for more sustainably grown food,' a press release said at the time. 

Last year, the London, Ontario, factory opened up its 150,000-square-foot space that was supposed to hold 4 billion crickets at a time and create 13 million kilograms of edible cricket protein per year, according to The National Post. 

However, the company laid off 100 of its 150 staff members, according to its CEO David Rosenberg. 

Rosenberg said the company will be 'hiring back up in July' and will be cutting its production lines down to 'four times a week instead of two shifts a day every day,' he told AgFunderNews (AFN). 

'The company reduced its employee base, mainly in production, while these changes - an updated design of how the crickets live in their habitat - are incorporated,' he told AFN. 

'We had crickets everywhere,' he told The London Free Press.  

Workers told AFN that they were 'handed termination letters after our shift' in a 'shocking' move. 

Justin Trudeau's bizarre plan to invest nearly $9million in an edible cricket factory backfired as it lays off two-thirds of its staff. The Canadian Prime Minister, 52, invested $8.5million of state funds into Aspire Food Group in June 2022

Last year, the London , Ontario, factory opened up its 150,000-square-foot space that was supposed to hold 4 billion crickets at a time and create 13 million kilograms of edible cricket protein per year

'It is devastating, honestly. Most of us have families, we have rent to pay,' one worker told The London Free Press. 'Production has been up and down.' 

Another worker told The Free Press that they were not offered severance pay and some workers are considering legal action. 

'They told us they had run out of funding and we’re not getting anything,' they added to the outlet. 

However, Rosenberg said 'everyone will be treated well by us' and they would receive severance.

'We are running out of funding. The economics of keeping people until July did not work. It is tough but it has to be done.'  

Roughly 25 percent of the company's funding came from the Canadian government, while 30 percent came from a loan, according to AFN. The rest came from equity. 

Aspire's product is largely being used in pet food supplied in North America, but they were working on deals to get it into human food as well, the then-CEO Mohammed Ashour told AFN in March 2023. 

The company was supposed to be at 100 percent capacity by early 2024 and would have enough orders to maintain production.  

The company laid off 100 of its 150 staff members, according to its CEO David Rosenberg. Rosenberg said the company will be 'hiring back up in July' and will be cutting its production lines down to 'four times a week instead of two shifts a day every day' 

'We are running out of funding. The economics of keeping people until July did not work. It is tough but it has to be done,' the CEO (pictured) said 

Roughly 25 percent of the company's funding came from the Canadian government, while 30 percent came from a loan

The company - started by five McGill University students - drew government attraction due to its sustainability as crickets have a lower environmental footprint than meat and dairy, according to The National Post. 

The company - started by five McGill University students - drew government attraction due to its sustainability as crickets have a lower environmental footprint than meat and dairy

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An LGB Alliance conference held in Westminster was thrown into chaos after trans activists released cockroaches, meal worms and crickets inside

Trans right activists dumped two bags of the insects

Hundreds of the bugs crawled over the purple chairs at the hall

Protestors outside the Elizabeth II Conference Centre in central London, during the LGB Alliance annual conference

Elmira, 26, says she's always been curious and excited by the prospect of eating insects

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Muslim official who leaked info on Israel's attack plans to Iran arrested by FBI

  

CIA official charged with leaking Israel's plans to retaliate against Iran

A CIA official has been charged with leaking Israel's plans to retaliate against Iran for a missile attack last year.

Asif W. Rahman was indicted last week in Virginia and was arrested by the FBI on Tuesday in Cambodia, as reported by The New York Times.

He was taken to Guam to face federal charges under the Espionage Act - two counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information - and is expected to appear in court there Thursday.

Rahman is accused of leaking documents that included highly classified information and detailed interpretations of satellite imagery that gave insight into a possible Israeli strike in Iran. 

The documents reportedly began circulating last month on Telegram. 

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting in Tehran, October 23

Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets fired by the Islamic Republic, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel, on October 1 

A general view of Tehran after several explosions were heard in Tehran on October 26, 2024. Israel announced the launch of 'precise strikes' on military targets in Iran

US officials had previously said they did not know the source of the leak and were looking into it. 

Rahman held a top secret security clearance and had access to sensitive compartmentalized information.

The documents are attributed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency and were sharable within the 'Five Eyes,' which are the US, Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

One of the two documents resembled the style of other material from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency leaked by Jack Teixeira, an Air National Guardsman who pleaded guilty in March to leaking highly classified military documents about Russia’s war on Ukraine and other national security secrets.

The Telegram channel involved in the leak identifies itself as being based in Tehran, Iran’s capital. It previously published memes featuring Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and material in support of Tehran’s self-described 'Axis of Resistance,' which includes Middle East militant groups armed by the Islamic Republic.

Netanyahu promised to exact retribution on Iran following a ballistic missile strike on Israel by the Islamic Republic on October 1

Last month Israel attacked several military targets in Iran in retaliation for the barrage of ballistic missiles the Islamic Republic fired on Israel weeks earlier.

It was the first time Israel’s military has openly attacked Iran. 

Iran had earlier fired a wave of missiles and drones at Israel, causing minimal damage, after two Iranian generals were killed in an apparent Israeli airstrike on an Iranian diplomatic post in Syria.

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Retired Israel Defense Forces Brigadier General Amir Avivi warned that the leak could have repercussions on Israel-US relations, as the Jewish state places great trust in America when it shares its plans.  

“I think it’s crucial that Israel knows that when they give information or the transformation, it’s not leaked, and there must be strong trust [that intel is going] to be treated the way it should be treated,” Avivi told The Post. “It’s a very serious event.”

Retired Gen. Jack Keane, a former US Army vice chief of staff and chairman of the Institute for the Study of War, said it was “outrageous” that a government employee with high clearance was behind the leak.

In the wake of his arrest, Mick Mulroy — the former deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East — stressed that safeguarding such materials should be the “highest priority” for an intelligence agency or employee.

“It is very troubling to know that a CIA officer may have been involved in leaking this highly classified information.” 

'This is a serious security breach and there is no excuse for it.”

“This protection is critical to protecting the sources and methods of our intelligence collection and covert operations rely,” he added. 

A big revelation in the documents was about Israel having nuclear weapons, something the country has never confirmed.

Kammy gave half-a-million to Al Sharpton in exchange for a softball interview

Kamala Harris gave $500,000 to MSNBC anchor's nonprofit before network's fawning interview

•  MSNBC blames Kamala Harris loss on 'racist Hispanics' and 'sexist black men'

Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign delivered $500,000 in donations to Al Sharpton's non-profit organization, just prior to a glowing interview with the candidate on MSNBC.

Harris’s campaign gave two payments of $250,000 to National Action Network on September 5 and October 1, according to campaign finance records first reported by the Washington Free Beacon and confirmed by DailyMail.com.

Sharpton publicly backed Harris after Biden endorsed her to succeed him in his reelection campaign. After Sharpton's organization received donations from Harris, he got a coveted sit-down interview with her just two weeks before the election

Harris appeared on Sharpton's MSNBC Politics Nation show on October 20, exclusively aired on the cable network.

Reverend Al Sharpton's nonprofit organization received payments from the Kamala Harris campaign before an exclusive interview with the vice president. 

Neither MSNBC nor Al Sharpton disclosed the donations to Sharpton's organization during the interview where Harris spoke about issues pertaining to black communities. The National Action Network did not respond to a DailyMail.com request for comment. 

During the interview, Sharpton asked Harris to react to the narrative that black men were not supporting her due to the misogyny in the community. 

Al Sharpton speaks during the Democratic National Convention Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024, in Chicago.

Sharpton pushed back against critics of Harris for branding her as 'Kamala the Cop,' defending her record as a progressive prosecutor, despite her record of prosecuting crimes related to marijuana in San Francisco and threatening to imprison parents of truant children. 

'You used to be attacked for being too progressive as an attorney,' he said to Harris during the interview.

Sharpton has sided with the Democratic party throughout his activist career but at one time he frequently spent time with Trump as a prominent New York celebrity. 

Donald Trump and Al Sharpton attend "The Art of the Deal" Book Party on December 12, 1987

In July 2019, Trump famously reacted to attacks from Sharpton by describing him as a 'con man.'

'I have known Al for 25 years. Went to fights with him & Don King, always got along well. He loved Trump!' Trump wrote on social media. 'He would ask me for favors often. Al is a con man, a troublemaker, always looking for a score. Just doing his thing.'

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Diana Ross, Pimp Daddy, and Reverend Al Sharpton at a Pimp Daddy event

Sharpton, a civil rights leader, spoke of the misogyny he has seen among black men

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough claimed 'racist Hispanics' and 'sexist black men' are to blame for Kamala Harris' electoral loss

Reverend Al Sharpton protested campaign to oust Harvard's president Claudine Gay. 'This is an attack on every Black woman in this country'

     Claudine Gay

Former ESPN host Sage Steele (left) slammed activist Al Sharpton for saying that former Harvard president Claudine Gay's resignation was the result of 'an attack on all black women'

'I don't feel like I need to stand up for her because of the color of her skin,' Steele said

 New York City Mayor Eric Adams, second from right, laying back, participates in a baptism ceremony with Rev. Al Sharpton, right, while visiting the notorious Rikers Island jail complex

Adams, top left, in a baptism ceremony with Rev. Al Sharpton, center

 Adams, center left, participates in a baptism ceremony with Rev. Al Sharpton, center

Adams and the civil rights leader have a long association, often hosting events together at City Hall

President Biden interviewed with the Rev. Al Sharpton on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Al Sharpton boarding a private jet to travel to Minnesota for Derek Chauvin's murder trial

Sharpton with members of George Floyd's family in Minneapolis, after jetting in for the trial 

Sharpton has made several trips to Minneapolis since Floyd's death

NYC Mayor David Dinkins marches during the 29th annual African American Day Parade with Al Sharpton in 1997

The Rev. Al Sharpton and his wife, Kathy, leave the Canaan Baptist Church after renewing their marriage vows, Sunday, August 26, 2001, in New York. They separated in 2004 and Rev Sharpton filed for divorce on February 11, 2021

Rev Al Sharpton and girlfriend Aisha McShaw, 23-years his junior. The filing for divorce sparked rumors they may be about to wed

Aisha McShaw and Reverend Al Sharpton

The Rev. Al Sharpton and champion boxer Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay)

Rev Al Sharpton in 1987 at a Tina Turner concert

Rev. Al Sharpton nearly doubled his pay packet to $650,000 through his non-profit, the National Action Network, in 2021, compared to 2020, when he only earned $347,183

The 68-year-old's charity forked out $1million on lavish transport, including on private jets

US President Joe Biden greets Rev. Al Sharpton

Rev. Sharpton's youngest daughter, Ashley, was compensated $59,950 by NAN in 2021 for her consulting and social media duties

Rev. Sharpton's eldest daughter, Dominique (second from left), was paid $78,670 for her 'membership duties' within NAN

Sharpton and Elizabeth Warren, who has called for a 'national, full-blown conversation' on the issue of reparations.

Dominique Sharpton, left, the eldest daughter of civil rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton, right, sued the city of New York for $ 5 million after she fell in the street and sprained her ankle

Sharpton, right, was invited to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for meetings with President Barack Obama at least 73 times 

Racial tensions: Rev Al Sharpton catapulted the case of Tawana Brawley, which turned out to be a hoax, onto the main stage and made him a household name across the country

Historic case: Reverend Al Sharpton, pictured in 1988, picketed outside the hotel of New York governor Mario Cuomo

Focused on their image: Reverends Jesse Jackson (left) and Al Sharpton (right) were subjects of withering criticism from RFK jr as he said that they were in it for themselves and gave him the creeps

'Creepy': RFK Jr was in jail with Rev. Al Sharpton (left) and the wife of Rev. Jesse Jackson (right), and he wrote disparagingly about the two black civil rights leaders

Sharpton made 73 visits to Obama in the White House