Plans to house 70 asylum seekers next to a medical centre in the heart of a Welsh village have sparked uproar.
Police officers kept watch and patrolled Rhosllanerchrugog, near Wrexham, today as around 500 locals queued for the packed public meeting.
In the end so many people arrived that the event had to be held outdoors.
Enduring countries have common interests and value systems, and feature strong institutions. During the English debate in the 2025 federal election, Yves Blanchet, the leader of the Bloc, said, “Canada is an artificial country.” He may be right.
Strong countries also have shared objectives.
Hard to be a viable nation when governed by a criminal conspiracy.
Anti-ICE rioters plunged Minneapolis into chaos once again in the early hours of today. That followed Wednesday night’s assault on a pair of FBI vehicles that saw rioters — including a member of the Latin Kings gang, per government sources — seizing documents and weapons. Protests had intensified in the wake of two ICE shootings in the city in the space of a week — one fatal, the other injuring a man in the leg after he attacked agents with a shovel.
🚨 BREAKING: National Guard humvees have just been spotted in Minneapolis ahead of a mass “protest” by Soros-backed Indivisible today
IT’S ABOUT TIME!
Quell these riots NOW, @Tim_Walz. pic.twitter.com/I4z7eY2JmI
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 17, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s press conference on Friday after his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping was chock-full of news, a strange surprise given that the PM had been spinning everyone toward low expectations before the trip began.
The two countries had struck a deal in which Canada would dramatically lower its tariff rate on Chinese-made electric vehicles and China would slash its levies on canola seed, along with removing tariffs on certain other agriculture and food products, Mr. Carney announced in Beijing.
A sympathetic piece from Carney’s corporate cronies at the Globe but it’s not entirely without merit.
Sigh … Carney made a security deal with our fentanyl dealer.
HOLY 💩
Mark Carney is opening the FLOODGATES to information-sharing with CHINA.
China the #1 GLOBAL SECURITY THREAT to Canada.
We’re now sharing CRUCIAL SECURITY INFORMATION with them.
This is INSANITY. pic.twitter.com/swnfCRVemZ
— Marc Nixon (@MarcNixon24) January 16, 2026
The federal government has been making recommendations on what we should eat since 1980. Since 1992, those recommendations have been visually summarized in the form of a pyramid.
The problem: Ever since the Food Pyramid was published, Americans have been getting progressively fatter. Trump administration officials think they know why: We have been getting bad advice. So, the administration has produced an “inverted pyramid,” making recommendations that in many cases are the exact opposite of the previous ones.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is selling out to China, and Chinese dictator Xi Jinping is loving it.
Over the past few days, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has been in China in an open attempt to pivot to China and spurn Canada’s relationship with the United States. In a jubilant press release on Friday, the prime minister’s office declared that Carney is “forg[ing] [a] new strategic partnership with the People’s Republic of China.” The government went on to repeatedly tout this “new strategic partnership,” framing the relationship as entirely overhauled.
Further, Carney announced that Canada is dropping tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles from 100 percent to 6.1 percent, opening the door to importing cheap Chinese cars (heavily subsidized by the communist government) that promise to sink the Canadian car industry. That decision signals a major break from Canada’s previously united stance with the U.S. against such vehicles.
NEW: @PropelSchools has reportedly sent emails informing families that the two teachers caught on video CELEBRATING ass*ssination threats against President Trump have been placed ON LEAVE. https://t.co/R9LgMP2sEf pic.twitter.com/8nRQOnsgNS
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 16, 2026
This outspoken student-teacher doesn't care that she told Wayfair to fuck off. She stood up for her right to hate ICE.
She loves humanity. pic.twitter.com/3D92dtQvDW
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) January 17, 2026
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has directed relentless purges to assert a degree of autocratic control unseen in China in decades, with Communist Party enforcers punishing nearly a million people last year. But when it comes to getting things done, he still wants more commitment to his agenda.
Weeks before Beijing is set to launch a new economic blueprint for the next five years, Xi ordered the party’s discipline inspectors to flex their supervisory powers even more forcefully and ensure his policies are executed as intended.
“Corruption is a major obstacle and a stumbling block in the advancement of the party and the nation’s causes,” Xi said this week at a conclave of the party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. This year, he said, party inspectors must help enforce the top leadership’s decisions more resolutely, and ensure Beijing achieves its goals in the new five-year plan.
Pretty sure Carney will be dropping a dime on all of us.
Carney and Xi ink MOU on “Cooperation in Combating Crimes Between the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Ministry of Public Security of the People’s Republic of China.” Wanna bet Ottawa will honor this MOU, unlike the BS one it inked with Alberta?https://t.co/4S2BGrsxHO
— Perilous Times (@_periloustimes_) January 17, 2026
Anti-white invective was mainstream and pervasive not long ago.
Earlier this month, Mayor Zohran Mamdani faced controversy for his appointment of advisor Cea Weaver to run the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants. Weaver, X users and the media soon discovered, had made several social-media posts asserting that homeownership was “racist” and “a weapon of white supremacy,” and calling for policies to “impoverish the white middle class.”
I dislike the attitudes expressed in these posts. I even think they’re racist. But it’s easy to treat them as aberrant. In fact, at the time they were made—the late 2010s—those attitudes were culturally dominant.
They are still culturally dominant in Canada.
This week a judge of the B.C. Supreme Court (reminder: that’s a superior trial court, not an appellate court) heard a case that has the potential to further expand the Canadian empire of assisted suicide. The new battleground is “institutional religious objections,” or IROs, which is what the pro-euthanasia forces call them because they love acronyms so much. Most Catholic hospitals (and some hospices) have rules against administering euthanasia on the premises, which sometimes leads to very sick people undergoing what Dying with Dignity calls “forced transfers” to other facilities at the eleventh hour. The parents of one such patient are now suing B.C.’s Providence Health Care, the umbrella agency that operates the province’s legacy Catholic health institutions.
The United Nations, prominent NGOs, liberal politicians, and left-leaning activist networks seemingly love to frame themselves as some kind of elevated moral conscience for the international system. They speak the language of “justice,” “dignity,” and “universal human rights,” and insist — sometimes with threats and violence — that silence in the face of oppression is “complicity.”
When it comes to Iran, however, where ordinary, unarmed people demanding freedom are being beaten, tortured, imprisoned, and gunned down in the streets by their own leaders, this high-minded moral chorus has all but disappeared.
IRAN: Where are the student protests at Columbia? Harvard? Yale? Thousands of students are being killed daily by the regime in Iran and yet silence from the left. Why? pic.twitter.com/gtzJFCSfAS
— @amuse (@amuse) January 16, 2026
In Toronto, Mac Bauer races streetcars on foot – and he hasn’t lost yet.
Mr. Bauer isn’t interested in proving how fast he can run. His point is that Toronto’s streetcars are too slow. “I don’t like winning. I really don’t. I really, really wish these streetcars were faster than me,” he told the Guardian. “But they’re not. And this is the problem.”
The Jan. 7 shooting death of Renee Good has become a political Rorschach test. A Quinnipiac poll released on Tuesday finds that a majority of American voters, 53%, believe ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who shot Good on a Minneapolis street last Wednesday, was not justified in doing so. Thirty-five percent believe the shooting was justified, while 12% have no opinion. But the poll results vary widely when the respondents’ political affiliations are examined. Seventy-seven percent of Republicans believe the shooting was justified, while 28% of independents and only four percent of Democrats hold the same opinion.
🚨 BREAKING: ICE agents are making early-morning ARRESTS in Minneapolis, working unobstructed because the Left was still asleep
BOOM! That’s how it’s done!
Show up at the crack of dawn, they didn’t expect that! 🔥🇺🇸pic.twitter.com/DqfVUx3IMK
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 17, 2026
