How Sweden defied liberal outrage to crush the gang violence epidemic

Famed for its openness and slower pace of life, Sweden is one of the last places you might expect to see children being pulled off the streets and searched without a warrant, or having their phones spied on by detectives.

But after four years of gang violence that has seen children as young as 12 recruited on social media to carry out hit jobs against rival gangsters, police say it has become a grim but necessary reality.

In April 2024, Swedish police were handed sweeping new powers to tackle the rise of Middle Eastern drug syndicates who groom boys and girls into being “foot soldiers” by offering them up to 150,000 kroner (£12,500) per job.

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Trump Admin Set to Repeal Key Obama-Era Climate-Change Finding

And suddenly, millions of voices cried out in unison: I voted for this.

Seventeen years ago, the EPA under Barack Obama issued an endangerment finding citing greenhouse gases as pollutants that posed significant harms on Americans. In the years since, that finding has served as the foundation for massive regulation on energy production, auto manufacturing, and a host of other industries. One of the first acts Donald Trump took on his second Inauguration Day was to order the EPA to review that finding and determine whether and how to reverse it.  By July, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin began the process of repealing it, calling the effort “driving a dagger into the heart of the climate-change religion.”


Meanwhile in Climate Cult Canada

Inflated climate change data to be adopted by 250 Canadian financial institutions

A climate change study that was retracted for inflating data is still being used as evidence for climate change risk assessments (CCRAs) at Canadian financial institutions — and 250 more institutions are planning to use it. 

(Incognito)

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Don’t tell the Elbow People! … Canada discreetly puts money down on 14 additional F-35s

Ottawa has started to make payments for key components for 14 additional U.S.-built F-35s, even as the Carney government has been reviewing future fighter-jet purchases in the context of trade tensions with Washington, sources have told CBC News.

The money for these 14 aircraft is in addition to the contract for a first order of 16 F-35s, which will start being delivered to the Canadian Armed Forces at the end of the year.

According to sources, the new expenses are related to the purchase of so-called “long-lead items,” which are parts that must be ordered well in advance of the delivery of a fully assembled aircraft.

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ICE List: the small European website exposing US immigration agents

ICE Agents Hunt For Illegal Alien Invaders In Minneapolis

It started as a cheeky response on social media to the US secretary for homeland security. Months later, however, a Europe-based project to unmask US immigration and custom enforcement (ICE) agents has racked up millions of views and mobilised hundreds of volunteers.

“What we’re doing is a reaction to a problematic regime,” said Dominick Skinner, the Netherlands-based Irish national behind the website ICE List, of its mission to remove the anonymity that many of the armed federal agents operate under while deployed to US cities.

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Ontario to examine 45 police departments in response to Toronto corruption probe

Ontario’s inspector general of policing is launching a province-wide inspection into 45 police departments in response to the corruption probe that saw Toronto officers facing a slew of criminal charges.

Ryan Teschner — a lawyer who was the executive director and chief of staff on the Toronto Police Service Board — said his office will hire an “outside” individual with knowledge of policing to bring “expertise singular focus and rigorous methodology that this important work requires.”

Teschner did not say who the individual might be nor did he say when his inspection would be finished.


That can’t be good.

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Europe’s ‘painful’ realisation it must be bolder with US set out in security report

Europe has come to the painful realisation that it needs to be more assertive and more militarily independent from an authoritarian US administration that no longer shares a commitment to liberal democratic norms and values, a report prepared by the Munich Security Conference asserts.

The report sets the scene for an all-out ideological confrontation with the Trump White House at the high-level annual meeting of security policy specialists, which starts on Friday.

In a now infamous speech to last year’s MSC, the US vice-president, JD Vance, claimed European elites were suppressing free speech and “opening the floodgates” to mass migration. The address marked the moment Europe realised the Trump administration would no longer be a reliable trading and security partner.


Whatever is in the water at the Guardian calls for quarantine.

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Ottawa Police Detective Helen Grus will be sentenced for Discreditable Conduct – May 19, 2026

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Warning raised as youth unemployment threatens students’ lifetime earnings

Canada’s top budget watchdog is sounding the alarm over soaring youth unemployment, warning that postsecondary students shut out of early work experience risk lower lifetime earnings and weaker attachment to the labour force.

Blacklock’s Reporter says Interim Parliamentary Budget Officer Jason Jacques told the Senate national finance committee that failing to land a first job — especially one tied to a student’s field of study — can have lasting economic consequences.

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Cuba says airlines can no longer refuel on the island as US blockade deepens energy crisis

HAVANA (AP) — Cuban aviation officials have warned airlines that there isn’t enough fuel for airplanes to refuel on the island, the latest step in its moves to ration energy as the Trump administration cuts the Caribbean nation off from its fuel resources.

The government of Cuba published the notices to airlines and pilots on Sunday night, warning that jet fuel won’t be available at nine airports across the island, including José Martí International Airport in Havana, starting Tuesday and continuing until March 11.

Political pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump on Latin America has effectively severed Cuba’s access to its primary petroleum sources in Venezuela and Mexico.

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Matthew Lau: Carney government should scrap all damaging EV policies

As the iron door of reality slams onto the toe of even the most fervent advocates of climate change action, the Carney government has walked back its electric vehicle (EV) mandate, which would have banned the sale of new conventionally powered vehicles in Canada by 2035.

However, the government will not abandon its push to switch Canadians to EVs. It’s bringing back rebates of $5,000 for EVs under $50,000 (for vehicles made in Canada or in countries where we have free-trade agreements) and plans to offer billions in subsidies to automakers. The continued push for EVs highlights the significant discrepancy between how individual Canadians want to spend their money and how the federal government thinks they ought to spend it.

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Widespread Naturalization Test Fraud in Germany Uncovered

German police have uncovered a large-scale fraud network that enabled migrants to obtain language certificates and naturalization documents without meeting the required standards.

Authorities in Nuremberg said several suspects organised German-speaking deputies to sit language and naturalization tests on behalf of applicants who were unable to pass the exams themselves. The forged certificates were sold for between €2,500 and €6,000 and later used to secure residence permits or German citizenship.

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Any new online harms bill must stick to protecting kids – not policing speech

If regulating social media to protect children from online harms was a simple matter, the nation’s Culture and Identity Minister, Marc Miller, wouldn’t be vowing to “act swiftly” almost five years after the Liberals tabled their first effort at an online harms bill.

That initial legislation, titled Bill C-36, came two years after then-public safety minister Ralph Goodale first raised the issue. That triggered a year of public consultations before the government rolled out legislation that died when the 2021 election was called.

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