The view from here. I ran a quick errand to the grocery store at about 1 PM, this photo was taken about 1:45 PM it is the heaviest fall so far.
Will we get 40 50 cm? Who knows.
Update: Winter storm set to dump up to 50 cm of snow across Toronto, GTA
The threat has shifted. While Europeans breathed a sigh of relief at US President Donald Trump’s recent retreat on Greenland, Canada has now become the target. The US administration has set its sights on the province of Alberta, an energy hub in western Canada that accounts for 90% of national oil production. “Alberta is a natural partner for the US,” declared Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on January 22 during his visit to Davos, Switzerland, as if referring to a fully sovereign state. Notably, he was responding to MAGA influencer Jack Posobiec, a prominent Christian nationalist. “People are talking. People want sovereignty. They want what the US has got,” Bessent noted.
President Donald J. Trump delivered a forceful rebuke Saturday to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, accusing both leaders of “inciting insurrection” through their handling of the Border Patrol agent‑involved shooting and the violent unrest that followed. In a sharply worded statement, Trump said state and local officials abandoned law enforcement, misled the public about the circumstances of the shooting, and are now attempting to shift blame onto federal agents as chaos engulfs the city.
The Narrative™ Is Being Set on Minneapolis Shooting; Trump: INSURRECTION; Sheriff: National Guard
Few people really know what exactly happened this morning in Minneapolis, and that certainly includes the governor and Mayor of Minneapolis.
Yet both of them started making statements blaming ICE for the shooting of an armed man who was resisting arrest, and seemed to be encouraging the citizens of Minneapolis to attack ICE because they are part of an “invasion” of the state.
#Minneapolis #ice #Shooting so i Have watched this several times and it appears that green pulled out the subjects handgun and red fired as green was backing away, my thoughts are that Red didnt identify green and thought it was the Subject and not an Agent. See this video by… pic.twitter.com/Oh3LshU9ya
— USA Incident Tracker (@incidnt_tracker) January 24, 2026
WTF?
The Minnesota Antifa dude who called to take up arms against ICE is a crossdressing lgbtq queer activist who wears dresses, wigs, and heels https://t.co/20Y5TCtnuw pic.twitter.com/0KdRcSj6PO
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 25, 2026
The University of Toronto’s Investigative Journalism Bureau (IJB) wants you to think our criminal justice system cares less about victims when they are Indigenous women than when they are white or other non-Indigenous races.
The IJB wants to reinforce the frequently made “progressive” assertion that Canada’s justice system is systemically racist.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has placed his most senior general under investigation, extending a relentless crackdown on military corruption and disloyalty that is hollowing out the top ranks of one of the world’s most powerful armed forces.
Gen. Zhang Youxia, the senior of two vice chairmen on the Communist Party’s top military decision-making body and China’s No. 1 general, is being probed for allegedly committing severe violations of party discipline and state laws, a spokesman for China’s Defense Ministry said Saturday.
Can’t wait till Carney is summoned.
As Donald Trump rampaged about in his first term, leadership of the free world was transferred, by general liberal acclamation, to Angela Merkel of Germany. She was cast as the embodiment of internationalist virtue: prudent, broad-minded, diplomatic, multilateralist and expertise-driven above all.
Then Trump left office, Merkel left office, and suddenly it was possible to notice that her leadership of Germany had been well-nigh disastrous.
The mismanaged eurozone crises that followed the crash of 2008 and her open door to Middle Eastern migrants both contributed mightily to the collapse of the very firewall against far-right parties she was supposedly maintaining. Much worse, she accepted, for enlightened environmentalist reasons, her country’s deindustrialization and an ever-increasing reliance on Russian oil and gas. And when Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, it suddenly became clear that Merkel’s legacy wasn’t a strong alternative to Trump’s America; it was a weak European core threatened by and dependent upon an authoritarian rival to its east.
German police have arrested a Lebanese national on suspicion of being a member of Hamas and planning attacks in Europe.
The man, named as “Mohammad S”, was stopped at Berlin’s Brandenburg Airport after arriving from Beirut on Friday evening.
Federal prosecutors said that in August 2025 he helped procure 300 rounds of ammunition and was involved in an alleged plot to attack Jewish and Israeli institutions.
In an attempt to figuratively poke Donald Trump and the United States in the eye, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney just announced that Canada is cozying up to China by slashing tariffs on imported Chinese EVs. The new tariff rate will be just 6.1 percent, opening up his country to 49,000 Chinese vehicles initially, and increasing to 70,000 in the coming years. China “reciprocated” by dropping the tariff on Canadian canola oil to 15 percent. Carney’s determination to strike a deal with China clearly put the Chinese in a very favorable negotiating position. It would behoove Mr. Carney to have a talk with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum about the perils of economic surrender to China, especially as it relates to Chinese auto imports.
A secret weapon called “The Discombobulator” was essential to the US raid that captured Nicolas Maduro, Donald Trump said.
The US president appeared to confirm the existence of a mysterious sonic device that may be behind reports of Mr Maduro’s henchmen being knocked off their feet by a wave of sound.
Experts have questioned the details from a witness account, which claimed the weapon left Mr Maduro’s guards bleeding from the nose and vomiting blood.
The phrase “rules-based international order” became popular among Canadian leaders starting in 2017.
It is not exactly poetry, but it was meant to mean something — shorthand for the web of multilateral acronyms (the UN, the WTO, the IMF, NATO, the G7, the G20, NAFTA, among others) that arose in the wake of the Second World War, all of it backstopped by American power. This was the stuff of relative peace and stability, at least for many (but far from all) of the nations of the world, at least as compared to the destruction of the Second World War.
The phrase “rules-based international order” has come to mean the US picks up the tab in blood and treasure.
The Carney’s of the world are reluctant to give up this sweet deal having enriched themselves.
Cats don’t hold grudges… they just plan. pic.twitter.com/ofqjAMo4en
— ViralRush ⚡ (@tweetciiiim) December 31, 2025
Three in four people in the UK are “unwilling or hesitant” to trust someone who has different values or is from a different cultural background, according to a survey.
Distrust “is the new default instinct” in UK society, according to the Edelman Trust Barometer, which examines the trust that people have in business, government, media and non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
Its report revealed a deepening erosion of trust as “grievance has devolved into insularity” across the developed world.
This funny clip is cut from the "Feed the Kitty" in (1952). pic.twitter.com/5l9tTlonOW
— Cartoon Fun Club (@cartunfunn) January 24, 2026
When Trevor Melanson arrived in Reykjavik, Iceland, last July to pick up his rental car, he was “pleasantly surprised” to be handed the keys to an electric vehicle that most North Americans could only dream of driving — a Chinese BYD.
Melanson, from Vancouver, B.C., was curious to try out a car he had heard so much about — in this case a silver hatchback — but had never seen. When he got behind the wheel of this “efficient car that checks all the boxes,” he realized it was a vehicle that many Canadians would like.
Carney’s propaganda rag the Toronto Star published this article on the same day Trump threatened 100% tariffs over Ottawa’s merger with China’s godless communists and a week after running a piece saying China was unlikely to invest in Canadian EV manufacturing plants.
