Spawn of Iran’s ruling elite living large in US — and fed-up Iranian-Americans want them deported

The pampered offspring of Iran’s ruling elite are living the American Dream as the country’s brutal regime kills protesters by the thousands — and fed-up Iranians in California and across the US want them out.

Two explosive online petitions have been gaining steam as they call on the US government to immediately deport Eissa Hashemi and Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani — the children of current and onetime prominent Iranian government figures enjoying the comforts of the “Great Satan’’ as opposed to the oppressive streets of Tehran.

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Update: Federal government loses Emergencies Act appeal, court says use during convoy protest was unreasonable

The Liberal government unreasonably invoked the Emergencies Act to clear the convoy protests that gridlocked the capital city and border points nearly four years ago, the Federal Court of Appeal ruled on Friday.

The court dismissed the government’s appeal of a 2024 ruling which deemed former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to use the legislation unlawful and infringed on protesters’ Charter rights.

“As disturbing and disruptive the blockades and the convoy protests in Ottawa could be, they fell well short of a threat to national security,” wrote the three judges on the appeal court.

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Police commissioner in Israeli fan row offered mosque ‘blank cheque’

The elected police chief at the centre of the Israeli football ban row has been accused of offering to give a controversial mosque the equivalent of a “blank cheque” to apply for public funding.

Simon Foster, the West Midlands police and crime commissioner, wrote that he would be “very happy” to provide Green Lane mosque with a generic letter of support that would allow it to apply for future, unspecified public grants.

Internal documents reveal that in January 2023 Foster also praised the “impressive range of work” at Green Lane, which has a history of antisemitic and misogynistic speakers. Last night he said he supported the charity for a specific grant but ultimately did not issue the wider letter.

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ChiCom EV’s On The Way! A Victory For Carney’s New World Order!

Of course … Canada and China reach tariff deal on electric vehicles, canola

BEIJING — Canada will lower its U.S.-aligned tariffs against Chinese electric vehicles in exchange for China reducing tit-for-tat tariffs against Canadian canola and seafood, a deal that has the potential to anger U.S. President Donald Trump.

Under the agreement, Canada will allow a small toehold for up to 49,000 Chinese EVs to enter the Canadian market at a tariff rate of 6.1 percent, down from the current tariff rate of 100 per cent that Ottawa applied on Chinese-made EVs in fall 2024.

Prime Minister Mark Carney said it simply returns to a rate that Canada once had with China in 2023 prior to its “recent trade frictions.”

He underscored Chinese manufacturers — who churn out electric cars far more cheaply than North American-made EVs — will invest in auto production in Canada.


WARMINGTON: Mark Carney tells China, Canada ready for ‘New World Order’

When you have Prime Minister Mark Carney talking to leaders in China about the “new world order,” one has to wonder what could be coming next.

Social credit scores? Digital ID? More carbon taxes? More net zero talk? Fifteen minute cities?

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Toronto lawyer suspended while facing weapons charges involving machete, box cutter and hammer

A Toronto lawyer charged last year with a string of criminal offences, including allegedly driving with a suspended licence with a machete in his car and threatening people at a store with a box cutter, has seen his licence to practice law in Ontario suspended temporarily.

The Law Society of Ontario learned last August that Behrouz Shafiei-Sararoodi, who goes by Shafiei, was facing criminal charges that he hadn’t told them about.

ISIS Lawyer?

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How ‘day zero’ water shortages in Iran are fuelling protests

The Amir-Kabir dam running at low capacity. By putting major dams on rivers too small to sustain them, Iran’s authorities brought short-term relief at the cost of longer-term water loss.

Gripped by a terrible drought now entering its sixth year, Iran’s cities are on the brink of what its meteorological organisation calls “water day zero”: the boundary beyond which supply systems no longer function. This was crossed by Chennai in India in summer 2019 and is now threatening Mashhad, Tabriz and Tehran, where taps in the city’s southern districts had already run dry by early December.

Nightly “pressure cuts”, in which the water supply is halted to whole districts in the capital, have become the norm. Protesters demanding “Water, electricity, life – our basic right” over the summer were already risking a clampdown.

According to the Middle East expert Juan Cole, the head of the regional water company reported in early November that the five main water supply dams to Tehran, the capital, were only 11% full, and criticised the government for its inaction.

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BARBER: US doesn’t need Canada anymore and that changes everything

In October 2025, President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met in Busan, South Korea. Both leaders were in Busan for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. Although they reached a temporary agreement, considerable tension had built up before the meeting. President Trump had imposed very high tariffs on Chinese goods, while President Xi had placed export restrictions on some goods destined for the US as well as the EU. Most importantly, President Xi restricted rare earths; China believed it held a strong bargaining position because it dominates the rare earth market.

h/t Malcolm-Y (Incognito)

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British Columbia Ends Program That Aimed to Curb Arrests of Drug Users

A program in British Columbia to decriminalize drug use and allow users access to public health services rather than be charged by the police with narcotics possession is ending after three years of intense political backlash.

The experimental pilot began in January 2023, after British Columbia, the center of Canada’s opioid crisis, received a legal exemption from the federal authorities that enabled drug users to carry minuscule amounts of cocaine, opioids, methamphetamines and MDMA, also known as Ecstasy.

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Trump ‘talked out of Iran strike at last minute’

Donald Trump was persuaded not to strike Iran on Wednesday night by the last-minute diplomatic efforts of Persian Gulf states.

Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Oman made urgent calls to Washington to persuade the US president to delay military action and allow Tehran to demonstrate “good intentions”.

Late on Wednesday, Mr Trump appeared to step back from imminent action, saying he had been assured that “the killing in Iran is stopping”.

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