Chicago Tribune warns NYC about electing a socialist: ‘What sounded good in theory has translated into dysfunction’

Looking forward to Looting Season.

In one of the most ironic editorials I’ve ever read, the editors at the Chicago Tribune are warning the residents of New York City not to elect Zohran Mamdani because as they say, they’ve “seen this movie before” and “the ending isn’t pretty.”

The “no s**t Sherlock” expression comes to mind.


Toronto will have learned this lesson by next year’s election, I hope.

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Andrew Tate and Bonnie Blue: monsters of online culture

You might be thinking, given the current geopolitical tensions, that the greatest threat to humanity is Israel, Iran and the US dropping bombs on one another. I regret to inform you that another humanity-destroying event occurred recently: the Bonnie Blue / Andrew Tate debate on the Disruptors podcast, which dropped on Friday. By Monday evening, it had racked up over two million views on YouTube. Okay, it won’t actually kill anyone to watch it, but it might just kill your faith in your fellow man.

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Tasha Kheiriddin: Carney puts Poilievre between a rock and a hard place

What a difference six months make. In December, Canada’s Conservatives were in the catbird seat with 48 per cent support, while the Liberals dropped to 19. Practically everyone pegged Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre as Canada’s next prime minister.

Then Justin Trudeau stepped down, Donald Trump took office and Mark Carney got elected Liberal leader. One federal election later, the Liberals have a minority and would likely have a majority if a vote were held today. It’s a reversal of fortunes worthy of a Shakespearean play (or, for the gen Z crowd, a Netflix drama).

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Revealed: British paedophile who ‘married’ nine-year-old girl at Disneyland

Jacky Jhaj

A British national arrested over a pretend wedding with a nine-year-old in Disneyland Paris is a convicted sex offender who has staged fake funerals and film shoots with young girls in the UK, The Telegraph can reveal.

Jacky Jhaj was detained in the French capital on Saturday after attempting to conduct a fake ceremony in the popular theme park.

The 39 year-old has a history of conducting bizarre stunts, often involving young women in the UK, and has been convicted of sexual offences against children.

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The War at Home That Europe Cannot Dodge

It is bad enough that Europe’s spineless leaders have done all they can to avoid taking sides with democratic Israel against Islamist Iran. But it will be even worse if they refuse to fight the intensifying political war on the home front, against the anti-Western alliance that has come out in support of Iran and its terrorist satellites.

Even when the likes of German chancellor Friedrich Merz confessed that little Israel is “doing the dirty work” for Western democracy by fighting the Islamic Republic, and some other EU leaders begrudgingly conceded it was in Europe’s interests to stop Iran acquiring an Islamist Bomb, they were still all squealing about “de-escalation” and pleading with the Ayatollahs to play nice. Europe’s equivocation was exemplified by the UK’s useless Labour foreign secretary, David Lammy, who told parliament that the issue of whether Britain supported the U.S. bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities was not a “binary question.” Just as these people don’t know if a woman can have a penis, they don’t know which side to take in a war between civilisation and barbarism.

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HANNAFORD: The Conservatives need to start acting like conservatives

There’s a message for the Conservatives in recent polling that shows the Liberals surging ahead in public confidence.

If you don’t do conservative things, and instead do vote with the Liberals on things people expect you to vote against them on, they will shrug you off as irrelevant or worse, as idiots. And although Eastern Canada has a distinguished ten-year history of voting for idiots, you as Conservatives do not have idiot privilege: The idiot has to be a Liberal.

You know this.

So, stop it.

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No Matter How Degenerate You Think They Are…

A school in British Columbia–and God knows how many other schools in North America–distributed cards to 6th graders instructing them on how to use illegal drugs if they want to enjoy them safely.

The distribution took place at a school “Pride” event, because of course it did, and it instructed kids on the safest ways to use date rape drugs, narcotics, hallucinogens, and alcohol most enjoyably without getting dead.

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Ten Iranian Questions

1. What are we to make of Saturday night’s destruction of the three Iranian nuclear sites at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan?

Trump and the U.S. military took a great risk and succeeded in astounding fashion. Operationally, the destruction of the nuclear sites seems to have gone perfectly, in contrast to a long history of America’s Middle East debacles from the failed 1980 Carter rescue mission to the 2021 flight from Kabul.

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Michael Taube: Carney goes about meeting our NATO target in the most Liberal way possible

Prime Minister Mark Carney recently announced that Canada will finally meet NATO’s defence-spending target of two per cent of GDP. But, as the man wouldn’t know austerity if it hit him over the head, it will come at a significant cost to Canadian taxpayers.

The defence spending target has been a long-standing bone of contention between Canada and NATO. “Allies currently meeting the NATO guideline to spend a minimum of two per cent of their (GDP) on defence will aim to continue to do so,” the members agreed in a declaration following a meeting of the North Atlantic Council in 2014. Any allies below this level would “aim to move towards the two per cent guideline within a decade with a view to meeting their NATO capability targets and filling NATO’s capability shortfalls.”


The 5% of GDP spending target is just a sham, NATO countries have until 2035 to reach the “goal” giving loads of time for freeloaders like Canada to promise the sun, moon and the stars while contributing little.

Once adopted, all member nations except Spain will have until 2035 to reach the goal of 5%.

The agreement calls for at least 3.5% of national GDP to be spent on core military needs, while an additional 1.5% can be allocated for related expenditures.

Maybe it’s all an EU plot to rid themselves of NATO and US dominance. Carney would go big on that grift.

I advise against ever taking Carney at his word. He wants us out of NATO and with the EU yoke round our neck.


NATO’s 5% benchmark would cost Canada $150B a year, Carney says

Signing on to NATO’s new defence spending target could cost the federal treasury up to $150 billion a year, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday in advance of the Western military alliance’s annual summit.

The prime minister made the comments in an interview with CNN International.

“It is a lot of money,” Carney said.

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Canada’s youngest adults more likely to trust Iran and its current regime: poll

As tensions returned to a simmer between Israel and Iran amidst a ceasefire agreement, a new poll conducted before the shaky armistice found that far more Canadians are distrustful of Iran than those who have faith in the Islamic Republic.

But data from a Leger Marketing poll for the Association for Canadian Studies poll showed that younger generations are more apt to trust Iran and think it wouldn’t be good for the regime of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to collapse and be replaced by new leadership.

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Chinese association accused of mixing crime and patriotism as it serves Beijing

In December, a man considered by U.S. officials to be among Asia’s most powerful crime bosses gathered friends and allies in the Chinese casino city of Macao. Videos from the event show Wan Kuok Koi belting out Cantonese songs and smiling broadly for the cameras, seemingly unbothered by investigations across multiple countries into his alleged role in large-scale scams, fraud and money laundering.

The 69-year-old Wan — widely known by his nickname, “Broken Tooth” — presided over the celebration as chairman of the World Hongmen History and Culture Association, which describes itself as an ethnic Chinese fraternal organization devoted to promoting Chinese culture abroad. According to the U.S. Treasury, however, the association serves as a front for the 14K triad, one of China’s largest organized crime groups with involvement in “drug trafficking, illegal gambling, racketeering, human trafficking, and a range of other criminal activities.”

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What the Burning of Waymos Tells us About Immigration

Robotaxis have become a potent symbol of the rise of artificial intelligence. To techno-optimists, robotaxis are an unalloyed good, a harbinger of a more productive and prosperous future. To anti-capitalists, they represent the supposed hubris of Silicon Valley technologists, who are said to be indifferent to the labor-displacing impact of automation. Less discussed is what they might mean for the politics of immigration.

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School councillor objected to one of those stupid land acknowledgements and got suspended by the usual Little Hitlers

Terry Newman: She objected to land acknowledgments. Now she’s paying the price for her heresy

An elected Ontario school board councillor has been suspended by her board for expressing an opinion about land acknowledgements. It was not explained to her the exact offence she had committed, or who complained, only that the opinion she expressed apparently caused harm.

Catherine Kronas was first elected to Ancaster High Secondary School as chair in 2023 and then re-elected as a council member in 2024.

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