Munich and the Fate of the West

Marco Rubio’s warning against civilizational suicide.

If you live long enough, you can trace the river of history apart from the smaller tributaries and streams. You’ve watched it rise or fall according to the acts of men. You’ve seen great leaders bend it where it wasn’t going, and bad leaders redirect it into the shoals. And you can tell what will lead to greatness and what will end in disaster. Which is how I know Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech last Saturday at the Munich Security Conference was not only the finest of this century, but the most potentially consequential.

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At least 20 combatants from Canada have been killed in action on the front lines of Ukraine

The Canadian soldier’s cries are anguished, made all the more poignant by the fact he’s recording the sounds with his own Go-Pro camera.

“My foot is f—ed. Help me,” he shouts into the darkening Ukrainian forest, no-man’s land between friendly and Russian lines, before groaning in agony. “Hey, someone, come help me.”

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Germany: Have Certain Terrorists Been Getting a Pass?

In the early morning hours of January 3, 2026, a reportedly leftist radical network, “Volcano Group” (Vulkangruppe), committed an arson attack against the power grid in Berlin, Germany, causing an electricity blackout that left 45,000 households and 2,000 businesses – approximately 100,000 people – without heat and light during freezing winter temperatures for up to five days. It was reportedly the longest blackout in Germany since World War II.

The radicals in Volcano Group claimed responsibility for the attack. In a statement, they said that the network had aimed to “cut the juice to the ruling class” and claimed that the attack was about action to protect the climate from fossil fuels, artificial intelligence and a “greed for energy.”

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Ontario Camps Association denounces anti-Israel campaign targeting Canadian Jewish summer camps

The Ontario Camps Association is pushing back against a campaign targeting it, its executive director, employees and over a dozen Jewish camps throughout Canada for supporting Israel.

In a statement issued Friday, the OCA board of directors said it will not tolerate “harassment, intimidation, antisemitism or discrimination.”

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New York Times Front Page ‘Analysis’ Condemns Trump’s ‘Cult of Personality’: Obama Who?

A 3,000-word “news analysis” by New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker on Trump’s supposed cult of personality was headlined cheekily: A Superman, Jedi and Pope — Trump’s Relentless Bid to Mythologize Himself.

The online version was more insulting: “Trump’s Relentless Self-Promotion Fosters an American Cult of Personality– President Trump has engaged in a spree of self-aggrandizement unlike any of his predecessors, fostering a mythologized superhuman persona and making himself the inescapable force at home and around the world.”

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How Ryan Wedding’s ‘right-hand man’ turned on him and helped take him down

A year ago, Ryan Wedding was on the run and riding high.

According to investigators, he celebrated the January 2025 shooting of an FBI witness in Colombia by sending around a picture of the man’s lifeless body and bragging about how he killed the “rat.”

A lawyer in Ontario had allegedly assured Wedding that eliminating the informant would thwart the prosecution against him.

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Democrats Call to Censure Rep. Randy Fine for Saying America Will Choose Pet Dogs over Muslim Supremacy

Democratic politicians have found themselves indirectly defending Islam’s 7th-century hatred of man’s best friend, dogs.

Several Democrats have instinctively accused Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) of racism after he reacted to a New York-based Muslim advocate, Nerdeen Kiswani — who said house pet dogs will not be welcome in a non-secular, Islamic New York.


Remigration looks better every day.

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Toronto used unlicensed private ‘security guards’ to patrol homeless shelters for years

Olivia Chow with fake security guards

For the past six years, people in neon vests patrolled Toronto homeless shelters, respite sites and encampments, acting as bouncers and security guards on behalf of the city — sensitive work that requires accreditation and training under provincial law.

But the company the city hired for this is not a licensed security agency, the Star has learned, a revelation that raises significant safety and accountability concerns, according to legal and industry experts.

One Community Solutions is privately held.

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UK: Burning the Quran is disorder, Crown Prosecution Service insists in Trump ‘asylum’ case

Hamit Coskun’s conviction for a religiously aggravated offence was quashed on appeal but is back in the High Court. The United States is taking an interest

Burning books in central London is not an “intrinsic” public disorder, the High Court was told during an appeal for a man who burnt a Quran outside the Turkish embassy.

Hamit Coskun was found guilty of a religiously aggravated public order offence last June, after shouting “f*** Islam” and holding the flaming Islamic text aloft during a protest in Knightsbridge, on February 13 last year.

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Feds quietly tested drone vulnerabilities at major Canadian airports, simulated crashes with planes: document

FIBRE OPTIC DRONE

In 2024, the federal government conducted counter-drone testing at several major airports around the country, including Ottawa, Montreal-Trudeau, Calgary, Toronto Billy Bishop, Halifax and Moncton, according to a report obtained by the IJF.

The assessments, a collaborative effort between Transport Canada and the RCMP, were designed to assess risks, inform policy and determine “how to procedurally mitigate drone incursions,” including the “tactical operations required to respond to a drone incident,” a 2025 review document says.


I doubt any of our airports will be able to act against a determined enemy.

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FBI won’t share Alex Pretti shooting evidence, Minnesota authorities say

Minnesota law enforcement authorities have said the FBI is refusing to share any evidence on its investigation into the death of Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal immigration authorities in late January.

Pretti was shot on 24 January by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials in Minneapolis during the Trump administration’s surge of immigration enforcement operations in the city. His killing came just two weeks after an immigration official shot and killed Renee Good and 10 days after the shooting of Julio C Sosa-Celis.

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Canadians now spending $1 billion per year to cover health-care costs of refugee claimants

Paying the health-care premiums of refugee claimants will cost Canadians a record $1 billion this year, with some of the beneficiaries continuing to receive free health care despite their claims having already been rejected.

That’s according to a new analysis by the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, and it’s just one of several ballooning costs wrought by the unprecedented number of foreign nationals currently living in Canada by virtue of a claim of refugee status.

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What is happening to Syria’s IS camps and their former residents?

Humanitarians warned for years that the camps in north-east Syria holding tens of thousands of family members of suspected Islamic State (IS) fighters would have to be dealt with. Calling them a “ticking time bomb”, relief groups said the women and children could not just be left to rot in squalid desert camps indefinitely, because eventually they would come home.

Despite the warnings, most states ignored the problem, refusing to repatriate their citizens. At least 8,000 women and children from more than 40 countries have been stranded in the camps of north-east Syria since 2019.

This week, they started to come home. Belgian authorities reported a woman charged in absentia for IS membership had made her way from Turkey to Belgium. An Albanian woman, kidnapped as a child by her father and taken to Syria, managed to smuggle herself to Turkey, where she requested travel documents.

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