The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) hit back at Billie Eilish Friday, saying the pop singer was spreading “garbage rhetoric” with Instagram reposts that labeled Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) a “federally funded terrorist group” that has “done nothing to make our streets safer.”
Author: Blazingcatfur
RCAF wants more than 1,200 security personnel to protect F-35s, other planes
OTTAWA — The Royal Canadian Air Force wants to hire more than a thousand new security personnel over the next five years at bases across the country — just as it brings its new F-35 stealth fighter jets into service.
Internal documents from spring 2025, obtained by The Canadian Press through the Access-to-Information law, show the Air Force drafted a plan to first hire 199 new security personnel by 2028, then expand that security force to 747 in 2029 and 1,227 by 2030.
The information comes from a presentation on the RCAF’s submission to the future structure plan — basically the Canadian Armed Forces’ personnel planning document — and outlines a scenario for staff growth that was drafted when Lt.-Gen. Eric Kenny commanded the Air Force.
Rightwing bloggers and Maga minions: meet the Trump-loving Pentagon press corps
After US troops swarmed into Venezuela, seizing the country’s president and his wife, there was little to be heard from the Pentagon.
Typically, it would be a time for defense officials to talk to the Pentagon press corps: a group of journalists made up of some of the most talented reporters in the US. The Pentagon could have been expected to be held to account over what has been criticized as a violation of international law.
Under the Trump administration, that didn’t happen.
The TDS infested MSM are a cut and paste crew who literally lie to the American public.
The NDP leadership race is a nail-biter. But is anyone paying attention?
The NDP leadership race could be turning into a nail-biter with no clear winner in sight. But it’s unclear if Canadians are tuning in.
The field of candidates now has three front-runners, several NDP strategists and analysts tell CBC News.
Weeks before the critical membership sign-up deadline of Jan. 28, the outcome remains unpredictable, with no particular candidate having a sure path to victory and all showing signs of momentum.
Nothing to see here just CBC working to prop up a reliable LPC stooge bloc.
Nicaraguan authorities arrest dozens for reportedly supporting Maduro capture
Authorities in Nicaragua have arrested at least 60 people for reportedly celebrating or expressing support for the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, a human rights watchdog group and local media outlets said Friday.
Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega and his wife, vice president Rosario Murillo, are staunch allies of Maduro, who was captured by US military personnel in Caracas last Saturday and taken to New York to face trial on drug and weapons charges.
GOLDSTEIN: Liberals’ tough talk on Iran today follows years of inaction
While Canada’s condemnation of the Iranian regime’s brutal attempts to quell the latest popular uprising against its corrupt and insane leadership is welcome, it flies in the face of the actual Liberal record in dealing with Iran.
On Friday, Canada joined with Australia and the European Union calling for Iran to “immediately end the use of excessive and lethal force by its security forces, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) … against protestors. Too many lives – over 40 to date – have already been lost.”
Khamenei’s Moscow Escape Plan Would, If Followed, Put Him in Company With Array of Despots
If Iran’s widely despised supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, flees into exile in Moscow in the face of a collapsing Iranian regime as has been suggested, he will join a small circle of toppled despots living in relative comfort in the Russian capital.
That prospect gained traction this week following a report in the Times of London which, quoting intelligence sources, said the Iranian leader has prepared a backup plan to flee to the Russian capital with about 20 family and close associates if his regime continues to crumble.
This is what dissent looks like when the stakes are life and death.
In the West, we’re used to protest as performance.
In Iran, it can be a death sentence.Do not underestimate the courage it takes for an uncovered woman, on camera, to do this. pic.twitter.com/L9YOyOYVwI
— Gerald Posner (@geraldposner) January 10, 2026
Iran protesters defy crackdown as videos show violent clashes
Protesters in Iran defied a deadly government crackdown on Saturday night, taking to the streets despite reports suggesting hundreds of people have been killed or wounded by security forces in the past three days.
Verified videos and eyewitness accounts seen by the BBC appeared to show the government was ramping up its response, as it continues an overarching internet blackout.
‘The answer cannot be nothing’: The battle over Canada’s mystery brain disease
Five hundred people in a small Canadian province were diagnosed with a mystery brain disease. What would it mean for the patients if the disease was never real?
In early 2019, officials at a hospital in the small Canadian province of New Brunswick noticed that two patients had contracted an extremely rare brain condition known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, or CJD.
CJD is both fatal and potentially contagious, so a group of experts was quickly assembled to investigate. Fortunately for New Brunswick, the disease didn’t spread. But the story didn’t end there. In fact, it was just beginning.
Among the experts was Alier Marrero, a soft-spoken, Cuban-born neurologist who had been working in the province for about six years. Marrero would share some worrying information with the other members of the group. He had been seeing patients with unexplained CJD-like symptoms for several years, he said, including young people who showed signs of a rapidly progressing dementia. The number of cases was already more than 20, Marrero said, and several patients had already died.
Starmer rallies international support to take on Musk
Ministers are rallying international support for a crackdown on Elon Musk’s social media site X amid outrage over its use to create fake photos of naked women and children.
Downing Street has held talks with like-minded governments about a coordinated response to the controversy, which threatens to erupt into a diplomatic row with the White House.
Australia and Canada are both said to share Sir Keir Starmer’s concerns over the use of Grok, X’s artificial intelligence tool, to generate explicit “deepfake” images.
If it’s stupid Carney is in.
🚨 NEW: The Government is working with Canada and Australia to launch a coordinated ban on X over Grok
Ministers believe it will send a “powerful message” to Elon Musk if countries do it together
— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) January 10, 2026
Update: Canada may have come to its senses
h/t Mauser
The Former ‘Minister of Everything’ Quits Office Amid One Last Political Storm
In 2013 Chrystia Freeland quit journalism and ran for Parliament as a Liberal in what was then seen as a significant endorsement of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s takeover of the party’s leadership. Once he was in power, Ms. Freeland became what Mr. Trudeau called his “minister of everything.” Then just over a year ago, she began the end of Mr. Trudeau’s career in politics with a resignation letter as finance minister that contained a stinging rebuke of his policies.
On Friday, Ms. Freeland’s political career came to its slow end as she officially stepped down from the House of Commons to take on an unpaid, part-time role as an adviser to Ukraine on economic development.
Is it time to get alarmed about how Trump is kicking off 2026?
It has been an alarming start to 2026, thanks to Donald Trump.
In just seven days, Trump’s America has plucked a leader out of Venezuela and hauled him to the U.S. to face justice and seriously revved up its intents to acquire Greenland. At home, Trump’s decision to install federal immigration agents in U.S. cities has escalated into violence — deadly in one case — in Minnesota and Portland, Oregon.
If that wasn’t enough, Trump’s White House has also withdrawn support for more than 60 international organizations, agencies and commissions.
Who thinks they’re on the right side of history supporting a murderous narco state dictator’s imaginary protections under “international law”?
Or cries over the deportation of illegal alien invaders many of whom are vicious murderers?
And why is it a bad thing for a government to protect tax payers by cutting off rent seekers like the Star?
WTF?
AAAAHAHAHAHA! 😆😸@fancypants_s https://t.co/eoCj53Ijt4
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) January 10, 2026
h/t Auntie Polly
‘I feel free’: Australia’s social media ban, one month on
For the first time in years, Amy feels free.
One month since Australia’s teen social media ban kicked in, she says she is “disconnected from my phone” and her daily routine has changed.
The 14-year-old first felt the pangs of online addiction in the days after the ban started.
“I knew that I was still unable to access Snapchat – however, from instinct, I still reached to open the app in the morning,” she wrote on day two of the ban in a diary she kept for the first week afterwards.
WTF?
Mark Carney arrives in Beijing with Michael Ma, saying to Xi, "Look, I'm really into Chinese culture; I even have a Chinese friend." pic.twitter.com/KR1m6sl5Hc
— RPN Entertainment (@rpnenter) January 9, 2026