Nearly two-thirds of Britons want to reduce immigration, with around half calling for it to be cut “significantly” and a majority agreeing with the prime minister’s assertion that migration damages the fabric of society, polling shows.
Author: Blazingcatfur
Dundas Station to be renamed after confidential deal with TMU approved
The board of the Toronto Transit Commission approved a new name for Dundas Station in a meeting with more tension than the unanimous vote might suggest.
The renaming, from Dundas to TMU Station, was packaged Wednesday morning as part of a sweeping partnership with Toronto Metropolitan University, which is outside of the subway stop.
Orwell’s 1984 is now! Don’t dare to criticize Islam in the UK
Besides the growing number of UK residents who are Muslim to begin with, there are the others for whom the fear of a violent Muslim backlash dictates the limits of free speech. This in the land of the Magna Carta, no less.
We live in strange times, when the Pulitzer Prize is awarded to the Palestinian Arab poet who attacks Israeli hostages and denies that the Bibas children were strangled and mutilated in Gaza.
Strange times, given that the “thoughtcrime” prophesied by George Orwell’s pen – those committed by those who dare to think things that the “Ministry of Truth” has decided should not be thought – is now a reality in the country of the author of “1984.” Orwell’s book was written in 1948 when the Soviets had swallowed up half of Europe and were eager for more.
CBC eliminates bonuses for executives and staff, but will boost salaries to compensate
OTTAWA — CBC/Radio-Canada says it will stop paying its executives and employees millions of dollars in controversial “performance pay” bonuses but will compensate by increasing their salaries instead.
The public broadcaster made the announcement in an unattributed statement Wednesday alongside a four-page memo summarizing a compensation review report conducted by a human resources consulting firm.
Shithole City
7-Eleven employee in Toronto defends his store from alleged thief and threatens to take his life pic.twitter.com/ulJ2HQulU2
— 6ixBuzzTV (@6ixbuzztv) May 14, 2025
Putin won’t meet Zelensky for peace talks in Istanbul
President Putin has declined to meet President Zelensky in Istanbul for talks on ending the war in Ukraine, sending instead a low-level delegation headed by a former culture minister in a move that will quash hopes of a breakthrough.
Zelensky had challenged Putin to meet face-to-face in Turkey for the first direct negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow since the early weeks of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
President Trump also said that he could join the talks if there were indications that a deal could be agreed to end the war. However, after it emerged that Putin would not be attending, a US official said that Trump would not be travelling to Turkey.
We wasted 60 years indulging secessionist fantasies in Quebec. Must we make the same mistake in Alberta?
Yes, it’s absurd that a minority of malcontents in the richest province in the most blessed country on Earth could be so marinated in self-pity as to persuade themselves that an adverse election result is sufficient cause to pitch the province and the country into the madness of secession.
Yes, it’s odious that the Premier of Alberta, Danielle Smith, should now be attempting to use that same minority of malcontents as a weapon to extract concessions from the rest of Canada – even as she pretends to disavow their cause.
Coyne Alert!
The Guardian ‘forced Afghan into hiding after wrongly stating he was gay’
A man suing for libel claims he was forced to go into hiding from the Taliban after a Guardian article created the “perception he is a gay man”, the High Court has been told.
Safiullah Ahmadi is claiming more than £100,000 in damages over an article published on The Guardian’s website in October 2022, headlined: “Gay Afghan student ‘murdered by Taliban’ as anti-LGBTQ+ violence rises”.
The article concerned the killing of Hamed Sabouri, a gay medical student, in Kabul, Afghanistan, in August 2022, but Mr Ahmadi claims the image originally posted with the story was of him.
Anthony Koch: The U.K. is ending open-borders immigration. Canada should do the same
In Canada, Liberal reaction has been too piecemeal, too little and too late to undo the damage caused by uncontrolled population growth
“We risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together.”
These are not the words of a populist firebrand or a conservative hardliner. They were spoken by Sir Keir Starmer, leader of the Britain’s Labour Party and, since July 2024, prime minister of the United Kingdom.
Footage released of IDF strike targeting Hamas leader in Khan Yunis
Dramatic footage from a rare IDF airstrike in Khan Yunis was released Wednesday, showing Gaza residents walking through an open area before sudden explosions and fire erupt at the site.
The strike targeted an underground command-and-control complex located beneath the European Hospital in southern Gaza.
The moment of the underground #explosion of the #Hamasbunker, where the commander of all Hamas forces in the #GazaStrip, Mohammad Sinwar, was at the time of the #Israelistrike pic.twitter.com/2S5og5Tx5A
— Tesla Dogs (@TeslaDogs) May 14, 2025
H/T MP
Election campaign has made crime ‘top of mind’ for Carney government
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is placing a heavy emphasis on cracking down on crime after some Liberals say the issue cost them GTA seats to the Conservatives in last month’s election.
Carney has named tackling crime as a top priority, as his Liberal government is expected to continue pushing a strict gun-control agenda while increasing investments in border security.
Prince Harry’s popularity sinks after BBC interview attacking King
The Duke of Sussex’s popularity in the UK has plunged after a BBC interview in which he claimed the King refused to speak to him.
A new YouGov poll revealed Prince Harry’s favourability rating had dropped to 27 per cent, its lowest for more than two years.
The Duchess of Sussex has also seen her popularity drop to 20 per cent, its lowest since YouGov began tracking it in 2017, the year before she married into the Royal family.
Police receive more than 180 tips about missing Nova Scotia siblings Lily, 6, and Jack, 4
Mounties have fielded more than 180 tips from the public about two young children reported missing 11 days ago from their home in rural northeastern Nova Scotia.
The disappearance of Lilly and Jack Sullivan from their trailer home in Lansdowne Station, Pictou County, that they shared with their mother, stepfather and the couple’s baby prompted a massive search in the wooded area around Gairloch Road.
God forbid.
Document Against AfD Leaked: Intelligence Services Lied
Keeping the report secret was not intended to protect the domestic spy agency from external threats, but to conceal the investigation’s weak foundation from public scrutiny.
First, the German government pushed out an unvetted report to brand the largest opposition party as ‘right-wing extremist.’ Then, they claimed it had to stay secret to protect sensitive sources. Now it turns out they lied: The entire report is based on public information.
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, BfV), Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, placed the political party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) at the center of national political debate after it, on May 2nd, officially classified the party as a “proven right-wing extremist organization” (gesichert rechtsextrem). This designation, announced with the backing of outgoing Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD), is based on a report exceeding 1,100 pages, which was initially kept classified. The institutional rationale was clear: to protect sensitive sources and preserve the agency’s operational methods. However, the official narrative began to unravel when media outlets accessed the full content of the document and published it. Their conclusions are unequivocal: the report contains no classified sources, nor does it include any information that would compromise state security. Rather, the document is an extensive compilation of public statements, social media posts, policy papers, and speeches by party representatives.
We wagged our finger in vigorous fashion!
Canada Has Raised ‘Strong Concerns’ With Beijing for Targeting of Tory Candidate Joe Tay: Global Affairs
Ottawa says it has reached out to Chinese and Hong Kong authorities to express concerns over the targeting of Conservative candidate and Hong Kong pro-democracy advocate Joe Tay, and that it is monitoring the situation closely after Tay’s relatives were taken in for questioning last week.