The Star Is Sad! – Deportations surge as regularization stalls for ̷t̷h̷e̷ ̷u̷n̷d̷o̷c̷u̷m̷e̷n̷t̷e̷d̷ ̷ illegal alien benefit shoppers

Ottawa has stepped up its effort to deport foreign nationals while stalling the rollout of a promised plan to grant permanent residence to those who have lost legal status in Canada, advocates charge.

According to government data, the Canada Border Services Agency removed 7,232 people from the country in the first six months of this year, at a rate averaging 39 people a day.

It compared to the total 7,635 deportations, or 21 cases a day, that the agency enforced in the entire year of 2021, when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged to legalize the status of undocumented migrants in Canada, a population estimated in the hundreds of thousands.

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Actors Recorded Videos for ‘Vladimir.’ It Turned Into Russian Propaganda.

Internet propagandists aligned with Russia have duped at least seven Western celebrities, including Elijah Wood and Priscilla Presley, into recording short videos to support its online information war against Ukraine, according to new security research by Microsoft.

The celebrities look like they were asked to offer words of encouragement—apparently via the Cameo app—to someone named “Vladimir” who appears to be struggling with substance abuse, Microsoft said. Instead, these messages were edited, sometimes dressed up with emojis, links and the logos of media outlets and then shared online by the Russia-aligned trolls, the company said.

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Not Even Woke College Students Want To Hear Dylan Mulvaney Give Lecture

Dylan Mulvaney, the notorious man-child who pretends to be a girl, gave a guest lecture at Penn State last week–and it was a bigger bust than “The Marvels” because the auditorium it took place in was at least half empty.

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CBC’s president inadvertently makes the case for scrapping the public broadcaster

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Quebec Minister of the French Language Jean-François Roberge offered a provocative historical comparison to emphasize the inherent unfairness of CBC/Radio-Canada’s decision to split just-announced job cuts equally between the public broadcaster’s French and English networks.

“It’s as if they are making Radio-Canada pay for CBC’s difficulties,” Mr. Roberge said of the broadcaster’s plan to cut expenses by $125-million to offset higher programming costs and slumping advertising revenues. “It seems to me the last time that happened was in 1840, with the Act of Union, when Upper Canada’s debts were sent to Lower Canada.”

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Fight for Gaza’s Khan Younis Puts Israel, U.S. on Collision Course

TEL AVIV—The southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis is a critical target for Israel’s military—strategically and symbolically. The centuries-old market town is the suspected hiding place of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and the militant group’s most significant remaining military stronghold.

But the fight to capture it risks putting Israel on a collision course with the Biden administration, which has called on Israel to minimize civilian casualties and ease humanitarian deprivation in Gaza, and to hew to a more limited war aim of expelling Hamas from power.

h/t Mauser

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Harassed, isolated and abandoned: Jewish teachers ‘scared for life’ at Ontario school board

In a closed Facebook discussion group open only to educators with southern Ontario’s Peel District School Board, teachers were discussing how best to talk to students after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.

“Jews are the problem,” one teacher wrote.

Wow I never knew we had so many “far right white supremacist” teachers.

h/t MP

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UNLV shooting: Former college professor kills three on Las Vegas campus

Three people were killed in a shooting at the Las Vegas campus of the University of Nevada (UNLV) on Wednesday morning.

The gunman, described as a white former college professor in his 60s, was killed in a shootout with police.

One other victim is in stable condition at a local hospital, police said.

The campus, about two miles from the world-famous Las Vegas Strip, will remain closed on Thursday and Friday.

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People are moving to Canada dreaming of a utopia with free healthcare and more tolerance. But the reality is Canada has its own set of problems.

Born and raised in the South, Mahlena-Rae Johnson moved to Los Angeles after graduating from high school. She spent decades in the city working as a writer, eventually finding a partner and a community of people who made California feel like home.

Johnson, a 42-year-old Black woman, said she felt a turning point when Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 US presidential election. She said she felt it laid bare profound political and ideological divisions within the nation, which resulted in a growing intolerance toward non-cisgendered Americans.

In 2018, she and her partner relocated to Canada, seeking what they perceived to be a more politically progressive and secure environment to raise their children.

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Jewish woman kicked out of cafe after complaining about antisemitic graffiti scrawled all over bathroom, berated with hate by workers

California coffee shop workers were filmed denying a Jewish customer access to the restroom after she complained it was filled with antisemitic graffiti — telling her “Free Palestine” and accusing her of wanting to use the facilities because “Israel loves taking private property and saying it’s their own.”

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Trudeau’s Canada: Refugees and newcomers changing face of homelessness according to Calgary front-line workers

Calgary outreach worker Chaz Smith and his team of volunteers have been distributing food, clothes and referrals for services to the city’s unhoused for nine years.

The founder of BeTheChangeYYC says most of those facing homelessness during that time have been Caucasian or Indigenous.

But these days, he’s noticing more newcomer faces.

Keep those immigrant floodgates open.

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EVs Aren’t The Edsel Of The 21st Century — They’re Far Worse

Economist Steve Moore recently compared EVs to the ill-fated Edsel, “one of the textbook marketing flops of all time.”

“All the automotive experts and Ford executives said it was a can’t-miss. Henry Ford (the car was named after his son) guaranteed hundreds of thousands of sales. But one big thing went wrong: Nobody ever bothered to ask car buyers what they thought of the new car,” he wrote.

“Given the all-in approach to electric vehicles at Ford and General Motors, it’s clear that Detroit never got the message.”

h/t YP

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Net Zero Sperm Count: CBC plugs nut who had himself made sterile over climate grief

I got a vasectomy due to climate grief. Now, I’m compelled to let go of my backup plan

“Darryl,” my then-partner called out from a few rows back on a crowded flight. We’d originally been seated together, but I’d relocated so a mom could sit with her kids. When I looked back over the packed seats, amidst the roar of burning engines, she smiled at me and mimed a scissor-cut with two fingers. “Yes,” she finally said, in a gesture understandable only to me.

For about a year and a half, I’d been offering to get a vasectomy, to do more than just talk about how the world didn’t need any more humans. In and around our old Nova Scotia house, I’d periodically make that horizontal scissor mime to reiterate my offer. News of rising temperatures on the kitchen radio? Finger snip. Atlantic Ocean looking more and more disturbed? Finger snip. Even back then in 2007, the North Atlantic hurricane season was intensifying due to climate change. Snip-snip.

h/t BVC

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