The UK’s Metropolitan Police is facing fierce criticism after a damning review revealed it allowed highly problematic and serious dangerous criminals to enter its ranks due to a combination of extremely poor vetting and diversity goals.
More than 130 officers and staff within the London force, including two convicted serial rapists, were taken on when they should not have been.
h/t kiki9
“Thucydides warned that “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” Carney’s tragedy is that he quotes the rules‑based order while presiding over a country whose economic structure is colonial and whose security ultimately depends on the very power he is theatrically chastising. Posturing without power is not prudence. It is provocation without a plan. And yes it’s dangerous.”
Mark Carney’s and Canada’s Dangerous Refusal to Face Reality.
Mark Carney and most Canadians are behaving as if Canada is an independent pole in a multipolar order, when the world he actually inhabits is a hierarchy being brutally clarified by Washington. Trump’s revamped… pic.twitter.com/2WahDg5rCf
— James E. Thorne (@DrJStrategy) January 7, 2026
The China Class sent Chretien in advance of Carney’s arrival. The Liberal Party should have to register as foreign agents.
Canada's Mark Carney will travel to China next week. It's the first visit by a Canadian PM since 2017, and the next step in a multi-year attempt to recalibrate relations between Canada and China that requires trying to heal some deep rifts, I told @CBCNews. The reality is that… pic.twitter.com/5yqCihDLTY
— Michael Kovrig (@MichaelKovrig) January 7, 2026
Carney may not be working with Trump but he certainly isn’t working for us.
Iran’s army chief threatened military action against the United States after President Donald Trump warned the regime against using lethal force against protesters amid widespread demonstrations.
Tens of thousands of Iranians took to the streets about a week ago, expressing their anger over inflation and the devaluation of their currency. But the movement quickly morphed into calls for the end of the Islamic regime.
No one doubts the enmity of Trump and Netanyahu toward the Iranian nation — Iranian Army commander-in-chief Amir Hatami
‘They dare to interfere in our internal affairs’
‘Just in the past 6–7 months, they have killed over a thousand of this nation’s children’ pic.twitter.com/IFxzVjDbEy
— RT (@RT_com) January 7, 2026
Iranian security forces are shooting at prosters in Neyriz, #Iran. #IranProtests pic.twitter.com/omgzidgCut
— Kayıtbay #News (@wanderlustt_3) January 6, 2026
Canada never had an equivalent of Uncle Sam, sternly exhorting its citizens to sign up to fight for their country. That is changing. Jennie Carignan, Canada’s top soldier, is looking for Canadians—whether they are 16 or 65—who will come to their country’s aid in the event of a military attack or calamitous natural disaster. “We’re going to need heavy-equipment operators,” says General Carignan. “We’re going to need drone operators. We’re going to potentially need cyber operators as well.” Call her Aunt Jennie.
There is no direct line between her plan for a 400,000-strong civilian-defence force and Donald Trump plucking Venezuela’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro, from his safe house in Caracas, Venezuela’s capital, on January 3rd. But nor is the timing entirely coincidental. In the past year Mr Trump has repeatedly asserted that it would be in Canada’s interest to become America’s 51st state. No one in a position of responsibility really believes the United States would ever invade. Even Mr Trump himself, when asked whether he would use military force to annex Canada, has said “no”, or that it is “very unlikely”.
WASHINGTON — President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to pull the US out of a UN coalition that State Department officials claim has been pushing unconstitutional and racist policies — including a push for global reparations.
The UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent promoted racial grievances and “victim based social policies” within the world’s governing body that ran afoul of the US Constitution’s 14th Amendment and Equal Protection clause, according to Trump administration officials.
He's not fooling around. @fancypants_s https://t.co/gy5nN1UlxZ
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) January 7, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
OTTAWA — Referendum talk is heating up in both Quebec and Alberta to start the year, but the pro-independence talk is coming from opposite sides of the political spectrum.
While the (mostly) centre-left Parti Québécois and democratic socialist Québec Solidaire have long fronted Quebec’s separatist movement, Alberta separatism is an almost entirely right-wing phenomenon.
Adorbs! 😍😊🐿️🥜@fancypants_s https://t.co/bON7tqMKKy
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) January 7, 2026
h/t Auntie Polly
Danish soldiers will be required to shoot first and ask questions later if the United States invades Greenland, under the army’s rules of engagement.
On Wednesday, the Danish defence ministry confirmed the existence of a 1952 rule requiring soldiers to “immediately” counter-attack invading forces without awaiting orders.
The defence ministry also said that the rule “remains in force” when asked about its status by Berlingske, a centre-Right Danish newspaper.
A man in Brampton had his house sh*t at and later received a video of the sh*oting along with a text demanding $500,000 within 1 day, or the suspects would k*ll his family pic.twitter.com/KvcGUOOPcb
— 6ixBuzzTV (@6ixbuzztv) January 8, 2026
After nearly three years of freewheeling spending, Mayor Olivia Chow wants to head into Toronto’s fall election with a low-tax budget. That’s after bringing in two of the biggest tax hikes in living memory – 9.5% in 2024 and 6.9% in 2025.
On Thursday morning, Chow will introduce her budget with a proposed 0.7% property tax hike combined with the annual 1.5% city building fund for a combined tax increase of 2.2%.
I do not see hope for recovery. All things considered Toronto’s permanent state of decline was sealed with Chow’s election.
New disability test in the small claims court 😜 pic.twitter.com/T5vdKpaoOZ
— June Slater (@juneslater17) January 7, 2026
The Minneapolis woman shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent during a deadly confrontation Wednesday likely committed a serious felony offense — even if she did not intend to ram the federal officer with her vehicle, according to a former federal prosecutor and legal scholar.
Andrew C. McCarthy, the former chief assistant United States attorney in the Southern District of New York, noted that to him, video footage of the events leading up to the shooting does not appear to show Renee Nicole Good, 37, trying to intentionally run over the ICE agent who fired the fatal shots.
Show this to anyone who says she didn’t hit the agent
— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld) January 7, 2026
Elect The Chow adjacent at your peril.
Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit." pic.twitter.com/zpvi69CNji
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 7, 2026
The ususal suspects
Leftists in Minneapolis are now burning the American Flag.
This should tell you everything you need to know. pic.twitter.com/04buBXWvU9
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 7, 2026
Our high-trust society was nice while it lasted. @fancypants_s https://t.co/kPkmYiheMW
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) January 8, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
Ex-finance minister faced growing backlash over Ukraine advisory role before announcing Friday departure
Former Liberal finance minister Chrystia Freeland said she plans to vacate her seat in the House of Commons by week’s end after facing heat from the opposition to do so immediately over an advisory role with the Ukrainian government.
The suspect in the shootings that killed two Brown University students and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor left behind videos that provide some new insight into what might have driven him, according to a transcript of video footage released by federal law enforcement officials on Tuesday.
The suspect, Claudio Neves Valente, made the videos before taking his own life in a storage facility in Salem, N.H., and investigators found them on Mr. Neves Valente’s devices.
They were recorded in Portuguese, and the authorities had the videos translated to English.
