This was one heavyweight fight.
A morbidly-obese, married Long Island lawyer once accused of tormenting his much younger lover made waves at his Florida country club on New Year’s Eve — grabbing a man’s phone and tossing it in a pool in an ugly confrontation over poolside lounge chairs.
Poolside lounge chairs are dangerous.
The man accused of what appears to be the random killing of a University of Toronto student should never have been out on the street.
But, once again, the Parole Board of Canada rolled the dice with our safety.
In the final weeks of the 2020 presidential election, bumbling Joe Biden was struggling. He was unpopular, uninspiring, and clearly not firing on all cylinders. Then the Hunter Biden laptop from hell made an appearance, and suddenly the election was at real risk of slipping out of his shaky hands. The laptop wasn’t rumor or speculation. It was real and verifiable, and it contained information that any sane voter would want to know before casting a ballot for president.
h/t patthedog
An arbitrator has ordered the reinstatement of an Ontario postman fired for hoarding at least 6,000 pieces of mail during the summer of 2022 because Canada Post wasn’t aware of his post-traumatic stress disorder.
Hyun Min Jang was terminated from his job as a rural and suburban mail carrier in King City, Ont., “for misdirection and delay of mail, as a result of the discovery of thousands of pieces of undelivered mail in his personal vehicle,” according to a recent decision from Kathleen G. O’Neil, the arbitrator.
Washington, D.C. (AFP) – Sean “Diddy” Combs, who is serving a four-year prison sentence for prostitution-related crimes, has asked Donald Trump for a pardon, but the US president said he does not plan to grant clemency to the hip-hop star.
An Alberta judge has dismissed a lawsuit involving one child suing another after a disagreement over a toy dinosaur led to a finger injury.
In a decision released earlier this month, Justice Brian Hougestol said the lawsuit involving the boys in Grande Prairie, Alta., was “quite rare” and raised “numerous legal issues related to capacity.”
The boys were enrolled in a summer daycare program operated by a non-governmental organization in 2022, when they got into a fight over the toy the judge described as being “the size of a 500-ml bottle of water.”
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey dismissed a newly released video showing the moments before anti-ICE activist Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot, saying the federal agent “walked away with a hop in his step.”
The 44-year-old Democrat was shown the video — which was filmed by ICE agent Jonathan Ross and first shared by Alpha News — in a report that aired during “ABC World News Tonight” on Friday.
Interesting take …
Okay, I’ll just say it. I’ve seen enough videos of the faces of liberal white women in conflict with @ICE, to know what is up. Liberal men at this point (sorry) are disproportionately estrogenized, physically passive, submissive due to woke gender hectoring, or porn-addicted.…
— Dr. Naomi Wolf. 8 NYT Bestsellers. DPhil, Poetry. (@naomirwolf) January 9, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
Two accused killers, one of them from Toronto, beat murder charges Friday after a judge in Ottawa found it took too long for them to go on trial. For the Ottawa defendant, it was the second time a murder case against him has collapsed over issues with the prosecution.
“It is most unfortunate that this double homicide and attempt murder case will not be tried on its merits,” Superior Court Justice Ian Carter said, reading his reasons for halting the prosecution. “The law is clear, however. The court has no choice. A stay of proceedings is the only remedy that can be granted.”
It was meant to be a testament to Venezuela’s promising future as an oil-rich nation on the rise, an architectural wonder called the Helicoide spiraling around a massive rock in the center of Caracas.
Today, it is a notorious prison where the United Nations says political prisoners have been held for years and tortured under the regime of strongman Nicolás Maduro, who was captured in a U.S. raid last weekend and renditioned to New York to face trial.
🚨This account from a Venezuelan security guard loyal to Nicolás Maduro is absolutely chilling—and it explains a lot about why the tone across Latin America suddenly changed.
Security Guard: On the day of the operation, we didn't hear anything coming. We were on guard, but… pic.twitter.com/392mQuakYV
— Mike Netter (@nettermike) January 10, 2026
h/t Mauser
In 2013, Toronto lawyer Avvy Yao-Yao Go described herself as a “loudmouth activist for politicians to contend with.” She was an advocate of chain migration, a former member of the Ontario law society’s equity committee, a vocal critic of journalists and politicians, and once, she even tried to force the government to pay reparations to descendants of Chinese-Canadians impacted by the head tax (after losing one appeal in this process, her organization accused an appeal judge of racism; the complaint was tossed out).
Call this what it is: Anti-white racism. Ethno-terrorism is imbedded in Canada’s “diverse” institutions.
Donald Trump’s desire to acquire Greenland has raised questions about the US’s commitment to NATO. The US maintains a major military presence in Germany — a vital part of its post-World War II national defense strategy.
Germany has been a vital part of the United States’ defense strategy in Europe since Allied forces occupied the country for 10 years following the end of World War II.
Though troop numbers have, of course, fallen significantly since those days, the US military still maintains a major presence in Germany, and over the intervening decades, American military communities have formed around a handful of German towns.
The total number of US military personnel has also risen significantly in the past few years, from fewer than 39,000 in 2019 to over 50,000 in 2024. The only other country where the US keeps a comparable number of overseas troops is Japan.
GOOGLE AI – Does the German public wish that America would close it’s military bases in Germany?
Desire for Withdrawal: Recent data indicates that approximately 47% of Germans support reducing the number of U.S. soldiers, and roughly 25% (one in four) would prefer a complete withdrawal of all American forces.
Geopolitical Shifts: The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has created a paradoxical situation where many Germans feel “unprotected” and “abandoned” by U.S. policy shifts, yet 58% oppose Germany taking a leading military role to replace the U.S..
Wake up, Canada. The Trump Doctrine is aimed at us
In the spring of 1944, George Klein, an 18-year-old Jewish-Hungarian, was shown a copy of a report prepared by two escapees from Auschwitz. In minute detail, it described the operation of the secret death camp.
The Nazis were at that moment in the midst of deporting the Jews of Hungary. Hundreds of thousands had already been taken and were already dead. Yet that The Final Solution was the policy of one of the world’s most advanced societies was still almost beyond comprehension, even to many of those about to become its targets.
Should someone tell the Globe that Trump removes Hitlers?
Like many young people across Switzerland, Kenzo Ronnow, a university student in Lausanne, slept in on 1 January after celebrating the new year.
But as he scrolled through his phone soon after waking, he saw the lead story of a foreign news website was about Switzerland.
A fire had ripped through Le Constellation, a bar in Crans-Montana, an Alpine ski resort in Switzerland’s Valais canton and a customary haunt for New Year’s Eve revellers.
One of the two bar owners was on Friday taken into custody.
The United Arab Emirates has dropped British universities from a list of schools their citizens can study at under government scholarship. The reason according to the Financial Times in London, which broke the story, is over concerns that students will become radicalized in Britain due to the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Elon Musk has said that critics of his social media site X are looking for “any excuse for censorship”, amid reports that X’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok was creating non-consensual sexualised images of people, including children.
Ofcom says it is conducting an urgent assessment of X in response, which has been backed by Technology Secretary Liz Kendall.
She described the sexual manipulation of images of women and children as “despicable and abhorrent”, adding that she would expect to see an update from Ofcom in “days”.
