๐จ๐ฆ Canadian Jews have lost their sense of belonging in a country they no longer recognize
Antisemitic incidents jumped from 2,769 in 2022 to 6,800 in 2025, synagogues firebombed, Jews beaten in the streets, and two-thirds of charges against anti-Israel protesters dropped or stayed. This isn't a justice system failureโit's a policy choice. Mass immigration from communities where majorities hold openly antisemitic views has collided with a political class too craven to name the problem. The NDP trades Jewish voters for Muslim ones without shame, while police and prosecutors let mobs walk free.
The golden age is over. Rabbis who once left synagogue doors unlocked now hire guards and hide event locations. A former cabinet minister finds Jewish celebrations by spotting police cars, not balloons. Canada imported the European disease wholesale and the blob pretends it's all just organic social tension. It was a deliberate demographic experiment, and Canadian Jews are the lab rats.
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Antisemitic incidents jumped from 2,769 in 2022 to 6,800 in 2025, synagogues firebombed, Jews beaten in the streets, and two-thirds of charges against anti-Israel protesters dropped or stayed. This isn't a justice system failureโit's a policy choice. Mass immigration from communities where majorities hold openly antisemitic views has collided with a political class too craven to name the problem. The NDP trades Jewish voters for Muslim ones without shame, while police and prosecutors let mobs walk free.
The golden age is over. Rabbis who once left synagogue doors unlocked now hire guards and hide event locations. A former cabinet minister finds Jewish celebrations by spotting police cars, not balloons. Canada imported the European disease wholesale and the blob pretends it's all just organic social tension. It was a deliberate demographic experiment, and Canadian Jews are the lab rats.
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National Post
Present tense: Many Canadian Jews have lost their sense of belonging in a country they no longer recognize
Talia Klein Leighton compares being a Canadian Jew since October 7 to a frog in a pot of boiling water.
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๐จ๐ฆ Gad Saad deconstructs Suicidal Empathy
A Lebanese-born refugee who watched his homeland collapse into sectarian chaos is now leaving Canada for the United States โ because the country that saved him has become paralyzed by the same ideological rot. Saad's diagnosis cuts deep: empathy stripped of limits, trade-offs, and self-protection becomes a slow-acting poison. When Guatemalan gang members matter more than veterans, when homeless encampments trump taxpaying families, when rape victims fear reporting attackers to avoid spreading Islamophobia โ you're no longer governed by reason. You're governed by performative virtue that prioritizes feeling good over doing good.
Saad spent 32 years at Concordia watching this unfold. Postmodernism, cultural relativism, identity politics โ parasitic ideas that destroyed the ability to judge, to discriminate, to say no. The West built something miraculous, but it turns out all it takes is a generation of midwits terrified of being called intolerant to dismantle it from within. Canada didn't just lose a public intellectual this week. It lost the argument.
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A Lebanese-born refugee who watched his homeland collapse into sectarian chaos is now leaving Canada for the United States โ because the country that saved him has become paralyzed by the same ideological rot. Saad's diagnosis cuts deep: empathy stripped of limits, trade-offs, and self-protection becomes a slow-acting poison. When Guatemalan gang members matter more than veterans, when homeless encampments trump taxpaying families, when rape victims fear reporting attackers to avoid spreading Islamophobia โ you're no longer governed by reason. You're governed by performative virtue that prioritizes feeling good over doing good.
Saad spent 32 years at Concordia watching this unfold. Postmodernism, cultural relativism, identity politics โ parasitic ideas that destroyed the ability to judge, to discriminate, to say no. The West built something miraculous, but it turns out all it takes is a generation of midwits terrified of being called intolerant to dismantle it from within. Canada didn't just lose a public intellectual this week. It lost the argument.
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National Post
'The West is really a miracle': Gad Saad deconstructs Suicidal Empathy
According to Gad Saad, when empathy is stripped of limits, trade-offs and self-protection, it stops being humane and starts being suicidal.
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๐จ๐ฆ Canadians Now Shopping for Dented Cans Like It's a Third World Country
Liquidation grocery stores are booming across Canada as families hunt through damaged packaging and near-expiry products just to afford basic food. This is the direct result of Trudeau's inflation storm: carbon taxes driving up transport costs, reckless money printing, and a population explosion through mass immigration that strained supply chains while wages stagnated. You built that, Justin.
The media frames this as savvy consumer behaviour. Call it what it is: economic degradation. A G7 nation where the middle class digs through liquidation bins because government policy made groceries unaffordable. Meanwhile Ottawa lectures us about climate commitments and diversity quotas while families can't buy fresh vegetables at regular stores. This is managed decline wearing a progressive mask.
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Liquidation grocery stores are booming across Canada as families hunt through damaged packaging and near-expiry products just to afford basic food. This is the direct result of Trudeau's inflation storm: carbon taxes driving up transport costs, reckless money printing, and a population explosion through mass immigration that strained supply chains while wages stagnated. You built that, Justin.
The media frames this as savvy consumer behaviour. Call it what it is: economic degradation. A G7 nation where the middle class digs through liquidation bins because government policy made groceries unaffordable. Meanwhile Ottawa lectures us about climate commitments and diversity quotas while families can't buy fresh vegetables at regular stores. This is managed decline wearing a progressive mask.
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The Globe and Mail
Liquidation grocery stores are booming as high food costs drive demand for discounts
Consumersโ attitude toward imperfect produce and products has also shifted, shop owner says, as Canadians prioritize lower-cost items
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๐จ๐ฆ What's the beef? Why prices for everything from sirloins to ground beef won't likely come down anytime soon
Beef at $311 per hundredweight in Alberta โ up from $194 two years ago โ while Ottawa floods the country with record numbers of permanent residents, temporary workers, and foreign students. Demand soars, supply shrinks, and Canadian families get priced out of their own grocery stores. The Cattle Association admits herd sizes collapsed over a decade while crop insurance schemes made it more profitable to abandon livestock altogether. Meanwhile, they're fighting South American imports that would actually lower prices, citing food security โ as if importing millions of people while strangling domestic production was ever about security.
This is the mass immigration model laid bare: explode the population, let infrastructure and food supply rot, then lecture Canadians about sustainability while they can't afford ground beef. The gestation cycle takes two years, but the Liberal population ponzi runs on autopilot. Ranchers get squeezed, families go hungry, and the experts shrug about droughts and global trends.
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Beef at $311 per hundredweight in Alberta โ up from $194 two years ago โ while Ottawa floods the country with record numbers of permanent residents, temporary workers, and foreign students. Demand soars, supply shrinks, and Canadian families get priced out of their own grocery stores. The Cattle Association admits herd sizes collapsed over a decade while crop insurance schemes made it more profitable to abandon livestock altogether. Meanwhile, they're fighting South American imports that would actually lower prices, citing food security โ as if importing millions of people while strangling domestic production was ever about security.
This is the mass immigration model laid bare: explode the population, let infrastructure and food supply rot, then lecture Canadians about sustainability while they can't afford ground beef. The gestation cycle takes two years, but the Liberal population ponzi runs on autopilot. Ranchers get squeezed, families go hungry, and the experts shrug about droughts and global trends.
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National Post
What's the beef? Why prices for everything from sirloins to ground beef won't likely come down anytime soon
With summer around the corner, Canadian consumers are being asked to fork out a small fortune for every slab of beef they throw on the grill.
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๐จ๐ฆ Carney promises Alberta a pipeline by 2027 โ in exchange for a $130/tonne carbon tax by 2040
Mark Carney just bought Danielle Smith's silence with a timeline. Alberta gets federal approval for a million-barrel-a-day West Coast pipeline by September 2027, and in return Smith agreed to quintuple Alberta's industrial carbon tax to $130 per tonne over the next 14 years. That's not a deal, that's a hostage negotiation where the kidnapper sets the ransom and the release date.
Carney's Major Projects Office will evaluate Alberta's proposal and grant it national interest status by October 2026 โ as if energy sovereignty ever needed Liberal cabinet permission to be in Canada's interest. Smith calls it a good day for Alberta. What she signed is a generational tax hike that makes energy extraction uncompetitive while Beijing builds coal plants weekly. Carney gets his ESG credentials, Alberta gets a maybe-pipeline in 18 months, and the oil sector gets structurally kneecapped by 2040. Nation-building or managed decline.
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Mark Carney just bought Danielle Smith's silence with a timeline. Alberta gets federal approval for a million-barrel-a-day West Coast pipeline by September 2027, and in return Smith agreed to quintuple Alberta's industrial carbon tax to $130 per tonne over the next 14 years. That's not a deal, that's a hostage negotiation where the kidnapper sets the ransom and the release date.
Carney's Major Projects Office will evaluate Alberta's proposal and grant it national interest status by October 2026 โ as if energy sovereignty ever needed Liberal cabinet permission to be in Canada's interest. Smith calls it a good day for Alberta. What she signed is a generational tax hike that makes energy extraction uncompetitive while Beijing builds coal plants weekly. Carney gets his ESG credentials, Alberta gets a maybe-pipeline in 18 months, and the oil sector gets structurally kneecapped by 2040. Nation-building or managed decline.
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National Post
Ottawa, Alberta agree to path on approving new oil pipeline by September 2027
OTTAWA โ Prime Minister Mark Carneyโs government committed Friday to designating a proposal by Alberta to build a new pipeline to the West Coast to be in the national interest by October, with the target to grant approvals for construction by September 2027.
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๐จ๐ฆ Alberta separatism terrifies Ottawa so much they're calling it a distraction
Danielle Smith's UCP wrapped a spring session dominated by sovereignty talk, and the NDP is panicking. Naheed Nenshiโfresh off inheriting a party that spent a decade driving resource wealth out of the provinceโcalls citizen-initiated referendums exceptional garbage. Translation: how dare Albertans get a say in their own future. The UCP facilitated a legal process for direct democracy and the establishment is losing its mind because it can't control the outcome.
Meanwhile Ottawa keeps choking Alberta's energy sector, redistributing its wealth eastward, and lecturing the province on emissions. Smith isn't leading separatism, she's responding to decades of federal contempt. When a government house leader has to clarify they're focused on jobs and affordability while the opposition fixates on thought-policing sovereignty discourse, you know who the real radicals are.
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Danielle Smith's UCP wrapped a spring session dominated by sovereignty talk, and the NDP is panicking. Naheed Nenshiโfresh off inheriting a party that spent a decade driving resource wealth out of the provinceโcalls citizen-initiated referendums exceptional garbage. Translation: how dare Albertans get a say in their own future. The UCP facilitated a legal process for direct democracy and the establishment is losing its mind because it can't control the outcome.
Meanwhile Ottawa keeps choking Alberta's energy sector, redistributing its wealth eastward, and lecturing the province on emissions. Smith isn't leading separatism, she's responding to decades of federal contempt. When a government house leader has to clarify they're focused on jobs and affordability while the opposition fixates on thought-policing sovereignty discourse, you know who the real radicals are.
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The Globe and Mail
Alberta lawmakers wrap up a spring sitting overshadowed by separatist movement
Danielle Smithโs UCP passed 18 pieces of legislation since February, including on public libraries and medical assistance in dying, but the issue of secession dominated debate
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๐จ๐ฆ Supreme Court invents new tort, expands state reach into family disputes
Six judges just decided that existing assault and battery laws weren't enough, so they created an entirely new civil tort for intimate partner violence based on coercive control. This isn't about protecting victims โ assault charges already exist. This is about expanding subjective, hard-to-prove claims into family law, where vague accusations of financial control or preventing recreational opportunities can now trigger six-figure lawsuits. Justice Kasirer's reasoning that someone is an unfree spouse opens the door to weaponizing normal relationship conflicts through the courts.
The Ontario Court of Appeal already said existing torts covered this case and reduced damages to $100,000. The Supreme Court overruled them anyway, inventing law from the bench and setting a framework for future judicial activism. Expect divorce lawyers to feast while men navigate a new minefield where controlling the household budget or discouraging a bad friend could be reframed as coercive abuse. Another institution captured, another tool for post-separation litigation warfare.
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Six judges just decided that existing assault and battery laws weren't enough, so they created an entirely new civil tort for intimate partner violence based on coercive control. This isn't about protecting victims โ assault charges already exist. This is about expanding subjective, hard-to-prove claims into family law, where vague accusations of financial control or preventing recreational opportunities can now trigger six-figure lawsuits. Justice Kasirer's reasoning that someone is an unfree spouse opens the door to weaponizing normal relationship conflicts through the courts.
The Ontario Court of Appeal already said existing torts covered this case and reduced damages to $100,000. The Supreme Court overruled them anyway, inventing law from the bench and setting a framework for future judicial activism. Expect divorce lawyers to feast while men navigate a new minefield where controlling the household budget or discouraging a bad friend could be reframed as coercive abuse. Another institution captured, another tool for post-separation litigation warfare.
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National Post
Supreme Court rules that victims can sue coercive and controlling abusive partners for damages
OTTAWA โ In a landmark decision, a majority on the Supreme Court ruled that victims of intimate partner violence can sue an abusive former spouse who coercively controlled them for damages.
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๐จ๐ฆ Danielle Smith just agreed to triple Alberta's carbon tax and send Ottawa $600 million for the privilege
In exchange for vague pipeline promises from Mark Carney โ the former Goldman Sachs banker now playing prime minister โ Smith locked Alberta into $130/tonne industrial carbon taxes by 2040 and committed $600 million in provincial cash to subsidize the oil sector she claims to defend. The deal forces large emitters to pay Carney's climate shakedown while Alberta taxpayers cover the blowback with handouts. This is capitulation dressed as negotiation.
Smith traded sovereignty for a handshake and a maybe-pipeline. Carney gets his globalist carbon regime embedded in Alberta law, permanent revenue extraction, and Smith's signature legitimizing the scam. Meanwhile Alberta gets a photo op and the bill. This isn't defending the province โ it's financing its own managed decline under WEF-approved terms.
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In exchange for vague pipeline promises from Mark Carney โ the former Goldman Sachs banker now playing prime minister โ Smith locked Alberta into $130/tonne industrial carbon taxes by 2040 and committed $600 million in provincial cash to subsidize the oil sector she claims to defend. The deal forces large emitters to pay Carney's climate shakedown while Alberta taxpayers cover the blowback with handouts. This is capitulation dressed as negotiation.
Smith traded sovereignty for a handshake and a maybe-pipeline. Carney gets his globalist carbon regime embedded in Alberta law, permanent revenue extraction, and Smith's signature legitimizing the scam. Meanwhile Alberta gets a photo op and the bill. This isn't defending the province โ it's financing its own managed decline under WEF-approved terms.
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National Post
The $600M cost of Danielle Smithโs carbon deal with Ottawa
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith on Friday was quick to tout the potential economic benefits of her latest pipeline deal with Prime Minister Mark Carney. Beneath those headline claims, however, is a much less visible $600-million cost.
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๐จ๐ฆ Stabbed a Kid at Tim Hortons, Walked Free
Kashane Daley ambushed a 16-year-old stranger at a Toronto drive-through, put him in a headlock, stabbed him repeatedly in the neck and chest, stole his iPad, then fled to hospital pretending he was the victim. The teen needed emergency surgery for liver and diaphragm lacerations. Daley, diagnosed with schizophrenia, was found not criminally responsible and just received an absolute discharge โ meaning zero supervision, zero conditions, total freedom. The hospital, the Crown, and his own lawyer all agreed he poses no threat.
This is the third near-identical case in recent weeks: stab someone, plead mental disorder, walk. The NCR system has become a revolving door where violent offenders are therapeutic projects and victims are footnotes. Public safety isn't even part of the equation anymore โ just bureaucratic compassion for people who left teenagers bleeding out on restaurant floors. Canada's justice system is a joke, and you're the punchline.
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Kashane Daley ambushed a 16-year-old stranger at a Toronto drive-through, put him in a headlock, stabbed him repeatedly in the neck and chest, stole his iPad, then fled to hospital pretending he was the victim. The teen needed emergency surgery for liver and diaphragm lacerations. Daley, diagnosed with schizophrenia, was found not criminally responsible and just received an absolute discharge โ meaning zero supervision, zero conditions, total freedom. The hospital, the Crown, and his own lawyer all agreed he poses no threat.
This is the third near-identical case in recent weeks: stab someone, plead mental disorder, walk. The NCR system has become a revolving door where violent offenders are therapeutic projects and victims are footnotes. Public safety isn't even part of the equation anymore โ just bureaucratic compassion for people who left teenagers bleeding out on restaurant floors. Canada's justice system is a joke, and you're the punchline.
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National Post
Schizophrenic man who stabbed stranger at Toronto Tim Hortons gets absolute discharge
A man found not criminally responsible for repeatedly stabbing a teenager he did not know at a Toronto Tim Hortons has been granted an absolute discharge.
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๐จ๐ฆ Sluggish deportations of Iranian regime officials reveal the true priorities
While ordinary Canadians wait years for family reunification and skilled workers get tangled in bureaucratic red tape, senior Iranian officials apparently enjoy the luxury of a glacially slow deportation process. The same government that rubber-stamped 1.3 million temporary residents in two years suddenly discovers procedural caution when dealing with representatives of a theocratic regime. Documents show the process drags on while these individuals remain on Canadian soil.
This is the Trudeau doctrine in action: rapid mass intake with zero scrutiny on the front end, then performative hand-wringing when the consequences arrive. Speed and efficiency are reserved for importing votes and cheap labor, not for protecting sovereignty or enforcing consequences. The message is clearโif you're connected to a hostile foreign regime, Canada's immigration system will treat you with more deference than it shows its own citizens.
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While ordinary Canadians wait years for family reunification and skilled workers get tangled in bureaucratic red tape, senior Iranian officials apparently enjoy the luxury of a glacially slow deportation process. The same government that rubber-stamped 1.3 million temporary residents in two years suddenly discovers procedural caution when dealing with representatives of a theocratic regime. Documents show the process drags on while these individuals remain on Canadian soil.
This is the Trudeau doctrine in action: rapid mass intake with zero scrutiny on the front end, then performative hand-wringing when the consequences arrive. Speed and efficiency are reserved for importing votes and cheap labor, not for protecting sovereignty or enforcing consequences. The message is clearโif you're connected to a hostile foreign regime, Canada's immigration system will treat you with more deference than it shows its own citizens.
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The Globe and Mail
Inside Canadaโs sluggish process for deporting senior Iranian officials
Determining whether an Iranian public servantโs position qualifies as โseniorโ is a Kafkaesque process
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๐จ๐ฆ Two First Nations Declare Emergency Over Drug Trafficking While Ottawa Ships Fentanyl From Coast to Coast
Ginoogaming and Long Lake #58 just issued a joint state of emergency over gang violence and drug trafficking ravaging their communities of under 800 people combined. Thunder Bay district now has an opioid death rate five times the provincial average, as reported this week. Meanwhile, Trudeau's government continues funding so-called safe supply programs that flood the black market with taxpayer-bought hydromorphone while pretending harm reduction isn't fueling organized crime.
The chiefs want policing, intelligence support, and mental health resources. What they'll get is a press release about reconciliation, a consultant hired to study lived experience, and maybe another cheque with no accountability. Ottawa has mastered the art of performative concern while the border stays wide open and criminal networks operate with near impunity. Remote communities become dumping grounds for chaos the Laurentian elite never have to witness.
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Ginoogaming and Long Lake #58 just issued a joint state of emergency over gang violence and drug trafficking ravaging their communities of under 800 people combined. Thunder Bay district now has an opioid death rate five times the provincial average, as reported this week. Meanwhile, Trudeau's government continues funding so-called safe supply programs that flood the black market with taxpayer-bought hydromorphone while pretending harm reduction isn't fueling organized crime.
The chiefs want policing, intelligence support, and mental health resources. What they'll get is a press release about reconciliation, a consultant hired to study lived experience, and maybe another cheque with no accountability. Ottawa has mastered the art of performative concern while the border stays wide open and criminal networks operate with near impunity. Remote communities become dumping grounds for chaos the Laurentian elite never have to witness.
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CBC
Pair of First Nations in northwestern Ontario declare joint state of emergency over drug trafficking | CBC News
Two neighbouring First Nations in northwestern Ontario have declared a joint state of emergency โdue to the rising crime and violence trespassing into their communities.โ Long Lake #58 First Nation and Ginoogaming First Nation, located about 300 kilometresโฆ
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๐จ๐ฆ ServiceOntario Employee Charged in Vehicle Theft Ring
Ontario Provincial Police have charged a ServiceOntario employee connected to the stolen vehicle epidemic that's turned the GTA into a chop-shop paradise. This is what institutional rot looks like: someone with direct access to vehicle registration data, working from inside the system, feeding intelligence to organized crime networks that have been stripping driveways bare for years. Not a lone wolf, not a glitchโa feature of a corrupted pipeline.
While Doug Ford's government was busy reassuring suburbanites that they're tough on crime, the bureaucracy was bleeding sensitive data straight into criminal hands. This isn't incompetenceโit's infiltration. And when your institutions can be so easily exploited from within, you don't have a car theft problem. You have a state capacity problem.
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Ontario Provincial Police have charged a ServiceOntario employee connected to the stolen vehicle epidemic that's turned the GTA into a chop-shop paradise. This is what institutional rot looks like: someone with direct access to vehicle registration data, working from inside the system, feeding intelligence to organized crime networks that have been stripping driveways bare for years. Not a lone wolf, not a glitchโa feature of a corrupted pipeline.
While Doug Ford's government was busy reassuring suburbanites that they're tough on crime, the bureaucracy was bleeding sensitive data straight into criminal hands. This isn't incompetenceโit's infiltration. And when your institutions can be so easily exploited from within, you don't have a car theft problem. You have a state capacity problem.
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The Globe and Mail
OPP charge ServiceOntario employee as part of probe into stolen vehicles
At least eight ServiceOntario employees have faced breach of trust charges in the last five years, according to records
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๐จ๐ฆ Canada spent $6.4 billion building a bridge for Trump to hold hostage
The Gordie Howe bridge sits finished but closed while the White House cites longstanding unfair trade practices and Ottawa mumbles about complicated negotiations. Canadian taxpayers funded the entire project connecting Windsor to Detroit, and now a foreign president gets to decide when we're allowed to use it. Minister Evan Solomon admits negotiations are underway with the U.S. on all issues including the opening, contradicting months of technical delay excuses. Meanwhile the Moroun family, which owns the competing Ambassador Bridge, conveniently donated $1 million to a Trump super PAC before this leverage play began.
This is what sovereignty looks like under Carney: we build the infrastructure, pay the bill, then beg permission to turn the lights on. Every cabinet minister becomes a hostage negotiator and every national project becomes a concession chip. The bridge opens when Washington says so, not when Canadian engineers finish their work.
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The Gordie Howe bridge sits finished but closed while the White House cites longstanding unfair trade practices and Ottawa mumbles about complicated negotiations. Canadian taxpayers funded the entire project connecting Windsor to Detroit, and now a foreign president gets to decide when we're allowed to use it. Minister Evan Solomon admits negotiations are underway with the U.S. on all issues including the opening, contradicting months of technical delay excuses. Meanwhile the Moroun family, which owns the competing Ambassador Bridge, conveniently donated $1 million to a Trump super PAC before this leverage play began.
This is what sovereignty looks like under Carney: we build the infrastructure, pay the bill, then beg permission to turn the lights on. Every cabinet minister becomes a hostage negotiator and every national project becomes a concession chip. The bridge opens when Washington says so, not when Canadian engineers finish their work.
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CBC
White House points to 'longstanding unfair trade practices' when asked about Gordie Howe bridge opening | CBC News
For months, Canadian officials have said that the long-awaited opening of the $6.4 billion Gordie Howe International Bridge is dependent on various testing and commissioning tasks. But fresh comments from a Canadian cabinet member as well as two top U.S.โฆ
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๐จ๐ฆ Smith negotiates while separatists fumble the ball
Alberta's independence movement just handed Ottawa a gift: a petition drive marred by scandal after one separatist group allegedly leaked the province's entire elector list. Meanwhile, Danielle Smith is cutting deals with the feds, hoping to make the whole conversation irrelevant. The timing couldn't be worse for sovereigntistsโinfighting and incompetence exactly when momentum matters.
This is the pattern: Alberta gets squeezed, anger builds, separatist energy rises, then the premier strikes a federal bargain that releases just enough pressure to keep the province in line. Carney's Liberals know the playbook. Give Smith a symbolic win, she quiets the base, and the wealth transfer continues. The separatists aren't wrong about the grievanceโthey're just bad at politics. And Ottawa is counting on it.
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Alberta's independence movement just handed Ottawa a gift: a petition drive marred by scandal after one separatist group allegedly leaked the province's entire elector list. Meanwhile, Danielle Smith is cutting deals with the feds, hoping to make the whole conversation irrelevant. The timing couldn't be worse for sovereigntistsโinfighting and incompetence exactly when momentum matters.
This is the pattern: Alberta gets squeezed, anger builds, separatist energy rises, then the premier strikes a federal bargain that releases just enough pressure to keep the province in line. Carney's Liberals know the playbook. Give Smith a symbolic win, she quiets the base, and the wealth transfer continues. The separatists aren't wrong about the grievanceโthey're just bad at politics. And Ottawa is counting on it.
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National Post
10/3 podcast: Could Alberta actually separate? Breaking down the movement and the politics
Talk of Alberta separatism is reaching a simmer as supporters of independence brought forward what they say is a successful petition drive to get a question put to voters.
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๐จ๐ฆ Six-hour wait, one dead Canadian, zero accountability
A man died after waiting six hours in an Edmonton ER, and Alberta Health Services is now investigating what everyone already knows: the system is collapsing under the weight of demand it was never scaled to handle. But don't worry, they'll form a committee, issue a statement, and remind you healthcare is a human right while you bleed out in the waiting room.
Meanwhile, Ottawa keeps the floodgates open and provinces absorb record population growth with the same infrastructure, same staffing, same beds. You're told to celebrate diversity while your grandmother waits nine hours for a CT scan. The math was never going to work, but questioning it makes you a bigot. This is what managed decline looks like: quiet, bureaucratic, fatal.
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A man died after waiting six hours in an Edmonton ER, and Alberta Health Services is now investigating what everyone already knows: the system is collapsing under the weight of demand it was never scaled to handle. But don't worry, they'll form a committee, issue a statement, and remind you healthcare is a human right while you bleed out in the waiting room.
Meanwhile, Ottawa keeps the floodgates open and provinces absorb record population growth with the same infrastructure, same staffing, same beds. You're told to celebrate diversity while your grandmother waits nine hours for a CT scan. The math was never going to work, but questioning it makes you a bigot. This is what managed decline looks like: quiet, bureaucratic, fatal.
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The Globe and Mail
Alberta investigating death of man who waited six hours in Edmonton ER
Patient was brought to Royal Alexandra Hospital by ambulance on May 8 evening, medical association says
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๐จ๐ฆ Rideau Hall finally revokes honours from child rapist and SNC-Lavalin corruption architect
Peter Dalglish convicted in Nepal in 2019 for sexually assaulting boys aged 11 and 14 kept his Order of Canada until this week. Jacques Lamarre, former SNC-Lavalin CEO who funneled millions to Gadhafi's son and was found guilty of collusion and corruption, also enjoyed his medal for years after the facts emerged. Dalglish was convicted seven years ago. Lamarre's crimes were public knowledge for over a decade. Yet both men wore Canada's highest civilian honour while their records rotted.
Rideau Hall calls revocation an extraordinary measure taken when someone acts inconsistent with expected conduct. Apparently child rape and paying off dictators barely qualify. The real scandal is not that these parasites finally lost their medals but that our vaunted honours system gave them out in the first place and waited this long to clean house. Excellence in humanitarian work and corporate engineering used to mean something other than access and cover for predators.
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Peter Dalglish convicted in Nepal in 2019 for sexually assaulting boys aged 11 and 14 kept his Order of Canada until this week. Jacques Lamarre, former SNC-Lavalin CEO who funneled millions to Gadhafi's son and was found guilty of collusion and corruption, also enjoyed his medal for years after the facts emerged. Dalglish was convicted seven years ago. Lamarre's crimes were public knowledge for over a decade. Yet both men wore Canada's highest civilian honour while their records rotted.
Rideau Hall calls revocation an extraordinary measure taken when someone acts inconsistent with expected conduct. Apparently child rape and paying off dictators barely qualify. The real scandal is not that these parasites finally lost their medals but that our vaunted honours system gave them out in the first place and waited this long to clean house. Excellence in humanitarian work and corporate engineering used to mean something other than access and cover for predators.
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CBC
Governor general strips 2 Order of Canada appointees of their honours | CBC News
Gov. Gen. Mary Simon has approved the termination of appointment to the Order of Canada for two former honourees who have been found guilty of wrongdoing.
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๐จ๐ฆ Federally-Funded Indigenous Tourism Org Implodes Over Mismanagement Claims
Three provincial Indigenous tourism boards just torched the Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada over financial mismanagement and opacity, with Ontario, B.C., and Nova Scotia formally separating to build a rival national body. CEO Keith Henry laid off his entire staff, blames Ottawa for cutting funds, yet somehow expected $35 million yearly from a U.K. charity that never materialized. Small business owners still haven't received promised federal dollars that vanished through ITAC's pipeline. One founder called the collapse a great disappointment after watching the organization crumble since 2012.
This is what happens when accountability evaporates in the grant-industrial complex. Taxpayer money flows in, transparency flows out, and when the house of cards falls, the CEO stays on unpaid begging for letters of support while Indigenous entrepreneurs get stiffed. No audit trail, no consequences, just another Ottawa-funded body eating itself while real businesses starve.
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Three provincial Indigenous tourism boards just torched the Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada over financial mismanagement and opacity, with Ontario, B.C., and Nova Scotia formally separating to build a rival national body. CEO Keith Henry laid off his entire staff, blames Ottawa for cutting funds, yet somehow expected $35 million yearly from a U.K. charity that never materialized. Small business owners still haven't received promised federal dollars that vanished through ITAC's pipeline. One founder called the collapse a great disappointment after watching the organization crumble since 2012.
This is what happens when accountability evaporates in the grant-industrial complex. Taxpayer money flows in, transparency flows out, and when the house of cards falls, the CEO stays on unpaid begging for letters of support while Indigenous entrepreneurs get stiffed. No audit trail, no consequences, just another Ottawa-funded body eating itself while real businesses starve.
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CBC
3 regional Indigenous tourism boards formally separate from ITAC amid ongoing financial concerns | CBC News
Three Indigenous tourism organizations say they are formally withdrawing support from the Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada over concerns about "financial mismanagement and lack of transparency in fund allocation" over several years.
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๐จ๐ฆ U.S. applications for Canadian citizenship surge, causing delays
So we've opened the floodgates to millions of Americans who can now claim Canadian citizenship based on ancestry stretching back over a century, and we're shocked that 14,000 immediately jumped the queue. New Englanders with a great-great-grandparent from Quebec can now waltz in, grab a passport, and access our healthcare and pensions without ever having contributed a dime or lived a day under our system. Meanwhile, actual applicants who've been here for years get shoved to the back of a year-long line.
This isn't immigration policy, it's ancestry tourism with full benefits attached. Trudeau-era citizenship giveaways continue to treat Canadian identity like a loyalty card anyone can dig out of the attic. Sovereignty sold for paperwork.
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So we've opened the floodgates to millions of Americans who can now claim Canadian citizenship based on ancestry stretching back over a century, and we're shocked that 14,000 immediately jumped the queue. New Englanders with a great-great-grandparent from Quebec can now waltz in, grab a passport, and access our healthcare and pensions without ever having contributed a dime or lived a day under our system. Meanwhile, actual applicants who've been here for years get shoved to the back of a year-long line.
This isn't immigration policy, it's ancestry tourism with full benefits attached. Trudeau-era citizenship giveaways continue to treat Canadian identity like a loyalty card anyone can dig out of the attic. Sovereignty sold for paperwork.
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National Post
U.S. applications for Canadian citizenship surge, causing delays
Applicants for Canadian citizenship certificates now have to wait a year because of a surge of interest from Americans interested in taking advantage of new Canadian citizenship rules, according to the Canadian governmentโs processing-time estimator.
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๐จ๐ฆ Absolute discharge for Tim Hortons stabbing โ because he's mentally ill and the system is compassionate
Kashane Daley walked into a Toronto Tim Hortons in 2018, grabbed a random 16-year-old in a headlock, and repeatedly stabbed him in the neck, chest, and arm. The kid needed surgery for lacerations to his liver and diaphragm. Eight days in hospital. Daley stole his iPad, fled, and left his wallet at the scene like a criminal parody. Now he's been granted an absolute discharge โ no supervision, no conditions, free to go. Not criminally responsible, they said. Schizophrenia, they said.
Daley immigrated from Jamaica at nine or ten, diagnosed with learning disabilities, expelled repeatedly, and had a criminal record before this attack. But the Ontario Review Board, the hospital, and the Crown all agreed: not a threat. Meanwhile the victim carries scars for life and the public gets another lesson in how our justice system prioritizes the accused over the innocent. This is what broken borders and broken institutions look like when mixed together.
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Kashane Daley walked into a Toronto Tim Hortons in 2018, grabbed a random 16-year-old in a headlock, and repeatedly stabbed him in the neck, chest, and arm. The kid needed surgery for lacerations to his liver and diaphragm. Eight days in hospital. Daley stole his iPad, fled, and left his wallet at the scene like a criminal parody. Now he's been granted an absolute discharge โ no supervision, no conditions, free to go. Not criminally responsible, they said. Schizophrenia, they said.
Daley immigrated from Jamaica at nine or ten, diagnosed with learning disabilities, expelled repeatedly, and had a criminal record before this attack. But the Ontario Review Board, the hospital, and the Crown all agreed: not a threat. Meanwhile the victim carries scars for life and the public gets another lesson in how our justice system prioritizes the accused over the innocent. This is what broken borders and broken institutions look like when mixed together.
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National Post
Schizophrenic man who stabbed stranger at Toronto Tim Hortons gets absolute discharge
A man found not criminally responsible for repeatedly stabbing a teenager he did not know at a Toronto Tim Hortons has been granted an absolute discharge.
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๐จ๐ฆ Ottawa Can't Deport Iranian Regime Officials Fast Enough โ Or At All
Canada's deportation system is so broken that senior Iranian officials linked to a theocratic regime remain here for years while bureaucrats shuffle papers. The same government that told international students to leave in 90 days somehow can't manage to remove representatives of a hostile state. No rush when it's national security, but lightning speed when it's optics.
This isn't incompetence โ it's ideological paralysis. Trudeau's Canada will virtue-signal about human rights abroad while rolling out the red tape for regime cronies at home. Meanwhile, ordinary Canadians who overstay a visa get hounded. Two-tier justice isn't a bug, it's the feature. Sovereignty is for countries that enforce their own borders.
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Canada's deportation system is so broken that senior Iranian officials linked to a theocratic regime remain here for years while bureaucrats shuffle papers. The same government that told international students to leave in 90 days somehow can't manage to remove representatives of a hostile state. No rush when it's national security, but lightning speed when it's optics.
This isn't incompetence โ it's ideological paralysis. Trudeau's Canada will virtue-signal about human rights abroad while rolling out the red tape for regime cronies at home. Meanwhile, ordinary Canadians who overstay a visa get hounded. Two-tier justice isn't a bug, it's the feature. Sovereignty is for countries that enforce their own borders.
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The Globe and Mail
Inside Canadaโs sluggish process for deporting senior Iranian officials
Determining whether an Iranian public servantโs position qualifies as โseniorโ is a Kafkaesque process
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๐จ๐ฆ Two Ontario First Nations declare emergency over drug trafficking while Trudeau's border remains a sieve
Ginoogaming and Long Lake #58 First Nations are begging Ottawa for help after gang violence and fentanyl dealers overran their communities. A fatal shooting in October. A major drug bust last week. Thunder Bay district now has five times Ontario's average opioid death rate. These remote communities of 750 people combined are drowning in cartel poison while the federal government virtue-signals about reconciliation and writes cheques with no accountability. Where's the emergency response team? Where's the RCMP surge?
Meanwhile, Trudeau spent years dismantling border enforcement, waving through illegal crossings, and prioritizing feel-good rhetoric over sovereignty. Now the fallout reaches 300 kilometres into the bush. First Nations leaders are forced to issue joint declarations while Ottawa tweets land acknowledgments. This is what managed decline looks like when globalist immigration chaos meets deliberate state neglect. Treaty partners demand action, but the regime only delivers progressive slogans and body counts.
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Ginoogaming and Long Lake #58 First Nations are begging Ottawa for help after gang violence and fentanyl dealers overran their communities. A fatal shooting in October. A major drug bust last week. Thunder Bay district now has five times Ontario's average opioid death rate. These remote communities of 750 people combined are drowning in cartel poison while the federal government virtue-signals about reconciliation and writes cheques with no accountability. Where's the emergency response team? Where's the RCMP surge?
Meanwhile, Trudeau spent years dismantling border enforcement, waving through illegal crossings, and prioritizing feel-good rhetoric over sovereignty. Now the fallout reaches 300 kilometres into the bush. First Nations leaders are forced to issue joint declarations while Ottawa tweets land acknowledgments. This is what managed decline looks like when globalist immigration chaos meets deliberate state neglect. Treaty partners demand action, but the regime only delivers progressive slogans and body counts.
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CBC
Pair of First Nations in northwestern Ontario declare joint state of emergency over drug trafficking | CBC News
Two neighbouring First Nations in northwestern Ontario have declared a joint state of emergency โdue to the rising crime and violence trespassing into their communities.โ Long Lake #58 First Nation and Ginoogaming First Nation, located about 300 kilometresโฆ
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