Iranian national with alleged terrorism ties deported from U.S. to Canada

A fugitive with ties to terrorism has been deported from New York back to Canada, where he is wanted on assault charges.

The Iranian national, who is also a permanent resident of Canada, was deported on Dec. 21. The fugitive, who was not named in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) release, is described as a “national security priority,” a designation often used for individuals who are believed to be involved in activities that could endanger national security.

I’m sure Justin will write him a nice big cheque soon as he’s back from Vacay. Whatever his name is.

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Get ready for the 2024 Great Election Freak-Out

“If Trump wasn’t running,” said Joe Biden last week, “I’m not sure I’d be running.” That’s a curiously uninspiring remark for an American leader seeking to win an election to make. Yet ever since 2019, Biden’s pitch for the presidency has been essentially negative: if you don’t support me, you’ll get him.

The trouble for Joe is that, as we approach the start of another election year, it’s beginning to look as if he can’t stop Trump. Brace yourselves, then, for the Great Election Freak-Out of 2024.

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GUNTER: Immigration a key issue for Canada in 2024

I predict immigration is going to be one of the biggest issues of 2024 because so many other issues – housing, employment, per capita GDP, health care and school crowding – are affected by it.

That means we will have to have an intelligent public debate about just how much immigration is the right amount. And that won’t be easy, because anyone who dares say there is too much immigration can count on being labelled a racist or a xenophobe. You neither have to be a bigot nor fearful of foreigners to understand the math, though.

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Tesla Cybertruck involved in first reported crash – demolishes Toyota Corolla’s front end in head-on collision

Tesla’s stainless steel Cybertruck was involved in its first reported accident after finally hitting the road last month — and it wasn’t pretty for the other car.

A Toyota Corolla was left crumpled after appearing to collide head-on with the fully electric, bomber-like vehicle on Thursday, according to a Reddit post that showed photos of the accident.

The Toyota’s front end was completely demolished, with the sedan’s side airbags deployed as it rested on the side of the road with its hood popped open and a headlight dangling, one photo shows.

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Heritage minister says she’d like CBC’s mandate updated to include more stuff no one will watch

Heritage minister says she’d like CBC’s mandate updated to include strong online presence, fill info gaps

Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge says she wants the role of public broadcaster CBC/Radio-Canada redefined before the next federal election.

In a year-end interview with The Canadian Press, St-Onge said now is the time to update its mandate, to hedge against a possible change in government.

She said the Liberal government believes a strong public broadcaster strengthens democracy and promises to keep supporting it, adding she believes a Conservative government would destroy it.

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US military robot spaceplane blasts off on secret mission aboard Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket

The US military’s X-37B robot spaceplane blasted off from Florida on Thursday night on a secretive seventh mission.

The mission marks the first time the uncrewed, autonomous craft has been launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, capable of delivering it to unprecedented altitudes and a higher orbit than ever before.

Composed of three liquid-fueled rocket cores strapped together, the Falcon Heavy roared off its launch pad from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral in a spectacular liftoff carried live on a SpaceX webcast.

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David Staples: Economic pain will wash away Trudeau’s agenda of aggressive social change in 2024

Three gigantic waves will roll over Alberta in 2024, political tsunamis that will disrupt our politics and help wash away the momentum for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s agenda of aggressive social change.

The first wave? For the first time in many years, fears about immigration will become a major issue even in welcoming Alberta.

The mass of new immigrants allowed in by the Trudeau Liberals is already a fierce preoccupation in Toronto, Trudeau’s former electoral stronghold. Folks there shudder and fret about the unprecedented number of newcomers competing for already scarce resources, such as apartments, homes and jobs.

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Toronto’s shameful renaming debacles

Another stupid idea from our stupid city government.

Not that we would ever make up the news, but this is the kind of news you could not make up. This month, Toronto City Council voted to rename Yonge-Dundas Square. This was done to rid the place of any association with the 18th Century Scottish politician Henry Dundas, due to his role in the transatlantic slave trade.

The next day, as part of the same meeting, Toronto Council voted to name a stadium after former mayor Rob Ford. Mr. Ford, who died in 2016, was not a slavery advocate, I’ll give him that, but nor was he worthy of being immortalized in bricks and mortar – or bleachers and turf.

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How Does One-Third the CO2 Emissions Cause Three Times the Climate Damage?

Don’t ask the EPA because they won’t tell.

This month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published revised estimates of the social cost of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide — the three main greenhouse gases emitted by industrial civilization. The EPA’s new estimates of the social cost of carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) are not only higher than those published by the U.S. government less than three years ago, but also weirder.

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50 Years Ago, Gulag Archipelago Unveiled A Haunted World

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn dedicated his book about the end state of communism ‘to all those who did not live to tell it.’

Just after Christmas 50 years ago, the original Russian edition of the first two parts of The Gulag Archipelago was published, followed by French and English translations the next year. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn dedicated his book “to all those who did not live to tell it.”

This was followed by second and third volumes in 1975 (parts three and four) and 1976 (parts five through seven), with corresponding translations in 1976 and 1978. Harper Collins publishes an authorized abridged edition.

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In these chaotic times, a brief AR-15 primer

The Seventh Circuit has recently ruled AR-15 pattern rifles are not protected by the Second Amendment. The lawless ruling ignores the Heller and Bruen decisions.

Leading the list of long guns sold, the ubiquitous AR-15 is the most popular sporting rifle in America. Circa 2023, Americans own more than 23 million. The AR-15 is also the rifle type democrats/Socialists/Communists are most desperate to ban, that and so-called “high capacity magazines,” which have been standard capacity magazines since the Vietnam War.

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What does Putin’s latest attack mean for the Russia-Ukraine war?

Western air defences saved many Ukrainians from the Kremlin’s missiles but with 18 dead and support from its allies wavering, Kyiv is in no mood to celebrate

President Putin once boasted that Russia’s hypersonic Kinzhal missiles, which were among the 158 fired at targets across Ukraine on Friday, were “indestructible”.

Russia launched a wave of hypersonic, ballistic and cruise missiles as well as kamikaze drones at cities including Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro and Odesa.

The ease with which Ukraine was able to swat them away is testament to the power of its western air defences.

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The year America became a banana republic

Joe Biden’s Democrats have weaponised the security state to attack their enemies and protect their friends.

Joe Biden and the Democrats have ruthlessly weaponised the American justice system to go after their enemies and protect their friends. In 2023, their abuses of power became impossible to ignore. The US is now starting to look more like a backward banana republic than a modern constitutional democracy.

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