This homeless man was put in a taxi to London. Here’s who paid the $241 fare

A Huron County man who often uses shelters to avoid sleeping outside says the Huron Perth Health Care Alliance paid his $241.42 taxi fare to London, Ont., to free up space in a shelter where he’d been staying in Clinton.

The man told CBC News he was sent to London on the promise there would be shelter space for him, which upon arrival turned out to not be the case.

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How Silicon Valley built AI: Buying, scanning and discarding millions of books

In early 2024, executives at artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic ramped up an ambitious project they sought to keep quiet. “Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world,” an internal planning document unsealed in legal filings last week said. “We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.”

Within about a year, according to the filings, the company had spent tens of millions of dollars to acquire and slice the spines off millions of books, before scanning their pages to feed more knowledge into the AI models behind products such as its popular chatbot Claude.

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Eglinton Crosstown LRT line to open on Feb. 8, source confirms

At long last, it seems to be all systems go for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT system.

The beleaguered transit line is opening on Feb. 8, something Premier Doug Ford let slip Monday at an unrelated news conference at Queen’s Park, where he told reporters he was advised of the opening date “goal” by TTC officials.

Another sh&tshow?

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WIRED Writer on CNN: Only Violence in Minnesota Is From ICE and CBP

On Monday’s CNN This Morning, CNN Guest and WIRED contributor Garrett Graff praised Minnesota protestors for supposedly being non-violent and said viral videos only showed federal law enforcement being violent. In reality, many other videos have shown protesters being violent, including a riot outside a hotel where federal law enforcement was staying on Sunday night into Monday morning.

The segment was a part of CNN ‘Breaking News’ coverage pertaining to the shooting of Alex Pretti and the following unrest.

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Nexus applications have plummeted in another sign Canadians are avoiding Trump’s America

The number of Canadian applications for the Nexus trusted-traveller program has fallen off a cliff since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to the White House last year.

Applications had been steadily increasing following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data from the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).

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West Virginia librarian busted for allegedly trying to recruit people on TikTok to kill Trump

A West Virginia librarian has been arrested for allegedly trying to recruit people on social media to assassinate President Trump.

Morgan L. Morrow, 39, of Ripley, was busted over a TikTok video saying, “Surely a sn!per with a terminal illness can’t be a big ask out of 343 million,” according to a criminal complaint obtained by WOWK.

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Canada’s icebreaker pact looked great until Trump started threatening the Arctic

U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to Greenland, and the claims of continental hegemony contained in the new U.S. national security strategy, have awoken Canadians to the threat to their own Arctic sovereignty.

But Canada is still assisting the Americans in developing the very technology that could enable them to one day seize control of all or part of Canada’s Arctic archipelago.

Canadian co-operation and design is central to the construction of a new fleet of ships that the U.S. intends to use to strengthen its presence in the regions surrounding the North Pole.

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Andy Ngo: Here’s What I Saw When I Got Inside the Signal Chats Used by Extremists in Minnesota

… Andy Ngo, a citizen journalist known for his unmasking of Antifa activists and their violent tactics, infiltrated some radical left Signal groups in Minnesota and discovered the rampant paranoia among the activists who didn’t trust anyone, especially other activists.

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Canada’s “Islamophobia” Day: The State-Backed Campaign to Protect Sharia, Criminalize Criticism, and Silence a Nation

Canada has declared January 29 a national day to combat “Islamophobia.” The event is promoted by NCCM – originally CAIR-Canada, the Canadian arm of a U.S. based lobby group with a history of foreign funding – now rebranded and federally funded in Canada. It is also authorized by the Canadian Council of Imams to collect zakat ‘in the cause of Allah’ (fi sabilillah), a doctrinal category that includes jihad.

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Top Gun Expert: Kyle Rittenhouse‘s Situation ‘Completely Different Animal‘ Than Alex Pretti Shooting

On Monday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” Breitbart News 2nd Amendment columnist AWR Hawkins talked about Kyle Rittenhouse and Minnesota.

Hawkins said, “It’s not a good place to walk in carrying a gun, particularly if you’re going to walk right at police officers or federal law enforcement officers. It just doesn’t make sense. Completely different animal than what Kyle was in, completely different.”

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Man who sexually abused kids blocked from becoming Ontario lawyer. Court of Appeal rejects ‘good character’ decision

Ontario’s top court has blocked a man who sexually abused children from being called to the bar, granting a victory to Ontario’s legal regulator after years of unsuccessfully trying to deny the man a licence.

A 2023 decision by the independent Law Society Tribunal finding that the man was of good character to be licensed was “unreasonable,” the Court of Appeal ruled Monday. The man is identified only as AA due to a publication ban.


Why was this under consideration to begin with?

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The complex far-left network that helped put Alex Pretti in harm’s way — including encrypted chats, street alerts

The skirmish that led to Saturday’s fatal shooting of an agitator by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis and the response that followed were driven by a complex network of far-left organizations with a wide range of causes, a Fox News Digital investigation found.

A coordinated web of encrypted chats, street alerts and tracking of ICE “Abductors” in a sophisticated database reviewed by Fox News Digital shows that agitators were already mobilized at the scene where 37-year-old Alex Pretti was killed minutes before any shots were fired.

h/t Mauser

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Barry Appleton: Canada faces the most serious trade threat in a generation — and Carney’s to blame

On Saturday, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Canada with 100 per cent tariffs on all goods if Prime Minister Mark Carney proceeds with his China trade deal. The president’s language was characteristically blunt: Canada would become a “drop off port” for Chinese goods, and “China will eat Canada alive, completely devour it.” This is the predictable consequence of Carney’s reckless foreign policy.


It is alleged Carney is an intelligent man so he had to understand the consequences of his comments.

Which leads me to believe he acted to ensure China and not the US is our partner.

Trump isn’t working for Canada but neither is Carney.

Carney a two-faced Liberal? Talking Big for the Elbow People?

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Europe can’t defend itself without the US, NATO’s Rutte warns

BRUSSELS — Europe is incapable of defending itself without America, NATO chief Mark Rutte said on Monday, speaking just days after Donald Trump’s repeated threats to seize Greenland pushed the alliance to the brink of collapse.

“If anyone thinks here … that the European Union or Europe as a whole can defend itself without the U.S., keep on dreaming,” he told lawmakers on the European Parliament’s defense and foreign affairs committees. “You can’t.”

A “European pillar [of NATO] is a bit of an empty word,” Rutte said, arguing a European army would create “a lot of duplication” with the alliance. Moreover, Russian President Vladimir “Putin will love it,” he added.

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