All but 3 of 6,069 refugees taken in by Trump are White South Africans

All but 3 of 6,069 refugees taken in by Trump are White South Africans

All but three of the 6,069 refugees taken in by the United States since October are White South Africans, according to state department statistics.

At the beginning of Donald Trump’s second presidency, he restricted general refugee admissions to the US, but carved out highly specific, large-scale exceptions for Afrikaner refugees.

The US president accused Pretoria of carrying out a “genocide” against white Afrikaner farmers, claims strongly rejected by the South African government.

During a White House visit in May last year, Mr Trump ambushed Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa, with videos apparently showing the persecution of white South Africans within the country.

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Danielle Smith tries to blame 700,000 illusory Albertans for her separatism gambit

Danielle Smith tries to blame 700,000 illusory Albertans for her separatism gambit

Let’s say you live in a house with your family of four, and one day, three angry-looking characters bang on your front door and tell you they’re going to burn down your house. Everyone in your family is horrified and incensed, of course, and you yell at the trio of arsonists to get off your porch while your spouse calls the police.

Now, some math: In this scenario, do you have three people who want to burn down a house? Or do you have seven people demanding a robust debate about whether it should be burned to the ground?

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Connecticut community college graduation spirals out of control after 2 families erupt in vicious brawl

Connecticut community college graduation spirals out of control after 2 families erupt in vicious brawl

Three people were arrested, including two from New York, during a wild brawl that broke out at a community college graduation in Connecticut — after lax arena security failed to stomp it out.

The commencement ended in chaos when two families allegedly started throwing punches that ignited a melee during the Gateway Community College graduation ceremony at the Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater on Thursday.

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Trump says Iran deal ‘largely negotiated’ including reopening Strait of Hormuz

Trump says Iran deal ‘largely negotiated’ including reopening Strait of Hormuz

US President Donald Trump says an agreement with Iran has been “largely negotiated” and details will be announced soon.

The deal would include the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, he said on Saturday, without giving further details.

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei earlier told state television that US and Iranian positions had been converging in the last week, but warned that did not mean agreements would be reached on key issues and accused the Americans of “contradictory statements”.


And shots were fired near the White House … but the situation is said to be under control

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President Trump: Please Do Not Leave the Iranian Regime in Place

President Trump: Please Do Not Leave the Iranian Regime in Place

The Iranian regime is playing its game again: drag everything out to stay in power until the American public grows tired of high gasoline prices; or until the November midterm elections, when the Democrats might win; or until 2029 when President Donald J. Trump’s term finally ends and he is replaced, with luck, by an invertebrate.

Iran’s regime has been using two tactics. It says: “We need time. We are, because of the strikes, fractured and our leadership divided.” Or, as Vice President J.D. Vance naively noted on its behalf: it says it does not know what it wants. “The Iranians aren’t themselves quite clear in what direction they want to go,” Vance, with a straight face, told reporters at the White House; “they are also just a fractured country.”

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Ford slams encampment ruling affecting Kitchener transit expansion: ‘It’s a joke’

Ford slams encampment ruling affecting Kitchener transit expansion: ‘It’s a joke’

Premier Doug Ford isn’t too pleased with an Ontario judge’s ruling about a homeless encampment in Kitchener, which has stalled a planned transit expansion.

Ontario Court Justice Michael R. Gibson said Waterloo Region would not be allowed to remove residents living at the encampment as part of a court ruling that came down Thursday.

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Brampton homeowners bet big on large houses. Now, forced sales are on the rise

Brampton homeowners bet big on large houses. Now, forced sales are on the rise

In one home for sale, giant photos of the Toronto skyline at dusk paper the walls of what might have been a rental apartment.

Another house is missing a fridge, but there’s furniture piled in the basement, including a mattress and bed frame.

Some other places have two-car garages; many have large secondary suites. All are mostly empty. On the doors, official notices warn against entry.


You can’t hate the Liberal Party enough.

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A New Wave of Domestic Terrorism Coming?

It’s no longer in the public consciousness, but domestic terrorism was very much a thing in the United States and Europe during the 1960s and 1970s.

There is no one hard count, but in those two decades, about 20,000 bombings happened in the United States, with actual revolutionary groups trying to overthrow the United States government.

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Toronto man who killed off-duty firefighter at a café now out of hospital despite ‘significant threat’

Toronto man who killed off-duty firefighter at a café now out of hospital despite ‘significant threat’

A Toronto man found not criminally responsible for the unprovoked killing of an off-duty firefighter at a café in 2013 who “continues to represent a significant threat to the safety of the public” has moved out of hospital, only has to check in with his handlers every two weeks, and is now living in a residential facility that’s a quick walk or bus ride from the city’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

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What Iranian Leaders Are Saying — or Threatening — as Trump Administration Seeks War’s End

What Iranian Leaders Are Saying — or Threatening — as Trump Administration Seeks War’s End

As the American public waits for President Donald Trump to decide whether to attack the Iranian regime again or not, the Iranian regime has made its warlike intentions clear.

Trump seemed to be more in favor of striking Iran again as of Saturday morning, since he had canceled all his weekend plans and posted a map showing an American flag over Iran with the comment, “United States of the Middle East?”

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Can a province just decide to leave Canada? Here’s what the law says

Can a province just decide to leave Canada? Here’s what the law says

With the possibility of two separation referendums on the horizon, Canadians could be forgiven for wondering what would happen if voters in one province or another decide they no longer want to be a part of Canada.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has pledged that her province would hold a referendum in the fall essentially asking if voters want a second binding referendum on separation at a later date.

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