Canada’s police union president says policing protests is complicated. So where are his solutions?

Hamas supporters – Avenue Road

Tom Stamatakis is president of the Canadian Police Association. He represents more than 60,000 front-line officers. He has decades of experience in public-order policing. He has personally navigated riots, international summits, and the full chaotic repertoire of crowd dynamics. He is, by any reasonable measure, exactly the sort of person whose voice ought to count for something when Canadians ask why their streets have become a theatre of tolerated intimidation.

And what does Mr. Stamatakis have to say for himself?

That it’s complicated.

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The DSA Is Following the Soros Playbook

The Democratic Socialists of America is prioritizing local elections to advance radical policies.

Americans pay too little attention to local politics. A decade ago, progressive billionaire George Soros took advantage of this fact, pouring millions into local races to get progressive district attorneys elected across the country.

Now, the increasingly radical Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has adopted the Soros strategy. Rather than supporting candidates at the national level, the organization increasingly focuses on small, local elections. Races for city councils, state assemblies, and state senates often get scarce media attention but represent real opportunities for power that the DSA is increasingly seizing.

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GOLDSTEIN: Carney’s two-faced policy on China exposes his Davos speech as nonsense

Based on what Prime Minister Mark Carney, a Liberal cabinet minister, and a Liberal MP said publicly about China’s use of forced labour, the idea they are fiercely criticizing Chinese President Xi Jinping about it in private is laughable.

Indeed, watching the performance of Carney, Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson, and former Conservative, now Liberal, MP Michael Ma on the issue over the past week, would have been hilarious if their milquetoast responses weren’t so alarming.

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Egypt’s Dangerous Muslim Brotherhood Organization

Carney speaks at a Muslim Brotherhood function

Many Westerners, it seems, still choose to believe a lie: that the Muslim Brotherhood organization is a political and social movement that can be engaged, moderated, and safely accommodated within democratic systems.

This belief is both mistaken and dangerous.

Recent developments in Egypt expose an alarming reality that should shake not only the Egyptians, but also the US and other Western countries.

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Ryan Wedding’s alleged Ontario ‘cocaine lawyer’ got bail. The Court of Appeal is set to decide whether that was a mistake

Federal prosecutors are set argue Wednesday why bail should be revoked for a Toronto-area lawyer accused of abusing his professional status and network to help alleged drug kingpin Ryan Wedding run a billion-dollar trafficking empire.

The Attorney General of Canada, representing U.S. prosecutors, contends that a Superior Court of Justice made several “serious reviewable errors of law” and “materially misapprehended” evidence in granting Deepak Paradkar bail last December, according to a notice of application.

h/t MW

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CNN Sugar: Trans Woman T.S. Madison Does Talking Points on the ‘Erasure’ of Trans People

On Saturday morning, CNN’s First of All with Victor Blackwell featured a gushy talking-points interview with trans activist T.S. Madison. The two discussed the “erasure of trans people” and the potential impact of the Save America Act. Madison warned parents that they need to be “protecting” their kids from the “people making these laws.”

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Iranian facing deportation for sanctions evasion tries to sponsor mother to immigrate

A Toronto man facing deportation for violating sanctions against Iran has filed a court case against the Canadian government for rejecting his attempt to sponsor his mother to immigrate.

Amin Yousefijam, an Iranian citizen who also goes by Ameen Cohen, filed his case in Federal Court after Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada turned down his sponsorship application.

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Dems’ Ballroom Hate Is the Saddest Proof Yet of Their State of TDS Mental Unwellness

There was a time not so long ago when the Democrats were formidable and — I’m not kidding here — occasionally enjoyable political foes. During the Tea Party years, we would often encounter Dem activists and hang out with them for a while. Sometimes we would even socialize. The Democrats of recent yesteryear bore no resemblance to the feral, frothing rage mob that the No Kings/Resist Dems are today.

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WSJ: ‘Hollywood Will Soon Resemble Detroit’ After Auto Industry‘s Decline, ‘Nightmare Scenario Is Playing out’

Hollywood is locked in a death spiral that it may never be able to reverse, a report claims.

The days of La La Land may be numbered with the pressures of how people consume entertainment continuing to undergo massive shifts. And the legacy studio system is struggling to respond and reinvent itself accordingly, especially in the U.S. as productions of movies and TV shows flee California in droves and even increasingly head to other countries looking for far cheaper costs.

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Scores of asylum claimants warned they may face deportation after immigration law passes

Scores of asylum claimants waiting for their cases to be assessed have in the past few days been warned by the Immigration Department they may imminently face deportation, with many letters sent the day after a bill tightening up asylum rules became law.

Immigration lawyers said the letters have caused panic among clients waiting for their cases to be assessed by the independent Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) and who now face removal from Canada.

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Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general

President Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday in a major shakeup to his cabinet.

“We love Pam, and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future, and our Deputy Attorney General, and a very talented and respected Legal Mind, Todd Blanche, will step in to serve as Acting Attorney General,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

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