Canadian parliamentarians are taking a crack at squeezing out more government revenue from tax havens, and we wish them all the luck and stamina.
Tucked away from the Conservative-to-Liberal floor-crossings and the nail-biting confidence-vote drama that have dominated this Parliament, MPs on the House of Commons finance committee were contemplating all the places where corporations put their profits.
The United States’s highest-ranking military officer on Saturday briefed the country on the lightning attack Washington carried out on Venezuela overnight.
General Dan Caine, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, revealed details about the elite operation that successfully captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro during a press conference alongside President Donald Trump.
I’M WRITING this on Boxing Day 2025, an official holiday in the United Kingdom and many other countries, especially those such as Canada and Australia which once formed the British Empire, but it is not always called Boxing Day. In European countries, and those unfortunate parts of the world that remained untouched by the civilising hand of British imperialism, it is often known as ‘Second Christmas Day’, ‘Zweiter Weihnachtsfeiertag’ in German, or in French the more mellifluous ‘Le lendemain de Noël’.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier was one of Canada’s most successful political operators and served as the national Liberal leader from 1887 to 1919 (32 years), and about half that time as prime minister. He eventually took up the old Cartier-Macdonald mantle of Confederation, adding two new provinces, and even managed to play the imperial statesman, attending Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897, where he was knighted. In 1899, he reluctantly sent volunteers to participate in Canada’s first overseas expeditionary force, winning our first overseas military victory at Paardeberg in the Boer War in February 1900.
CNN isn’t a real news network, but on New Year’s Eve it can be pleasant to have it on while you’re doing other things – so that every hour, on the hour, you can look at the screen for a couple of minutes and see the arrival of the midnight hour celebrated with fireworks in one world capital after another.
To be sure, when the new year arrives in the Middle East, things on CNN start to get – well – a bit curious. This year, CNN’s coverage from the Gulf region was based in Abu Dhabi and hosted by CNN veteran Becky Anderson, who, during the several years she’s been living in that city, has been promoting it, and the United Arab Emirates generally, with a consistently fervid intensity. Her conduct on New Year’s Eve was no exception to the rule: even more than celebrating the New Year, Anderson’s assigned job for the evening seemed to be to celebrate the Gulf autocracies, especially the UAE.
This year’s New Year’s Eve ‘celebrations’ in London were a reminder of just how boring the city is becoming under its mayor, Sadiq Khan.
The first blow was the decision by Royal Parks to close Primrose Hill, from Tuesday evening (30 December) to Thursday morning (1 January). The small park in north London has always been the best place in the city to watch the annual firework display. Over the years, it has become more and more popular, particularly for young people.
A stunning U.S. raid to capture Venezuela’s president came after a group of amateur intelligence analysts argued that satellite images reveal a Venezuelan launch site that could send ballistic missiles as far north as Washington, D.C.
There was no indication that the American attack had anything to do with the subject of the group’s claims, which the U.S. military dismissed earlier as “speculative” and one top expert rated as plausible but unproven by the evidence.
Sounds a bit like Canada …
— Jd (@JdeJ555) January 3, 2026
h/t Clink9
A hero banker saved ten youngsters from the Swiss ski resort inferno by forcing open an emergency door after his teenage daughter rang him pleading for help.
Paolo Campolo, 55, raced from his home in Crans-Montana to Le Constellation bar, where he prised open a side door to allow panicked revellers to run for their lives as the building filled with roaring flames and smoke in seconds.
At least 40 clubbers were killed and another 119 injured, 80 of them critically, when a devastating blaze ripped through the basement of the packed club as it hosted New Year’s Eve celebrations.
The solutions proposed are dramatic, but not compared to possible alternatives: social collapse, ethnic strife, or, if Professor David Betz’s warnings prove true, civil war.
Reading The Betrayal of Britain, a collection of essays just published by the New Culture Forum (NCF), a line from Machiavelli kept coming to mind: “Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.” The twelve essays by different authors crackle with anger and frustration at what a once-great Britain has become. This book has the power to red pill readers—if it doesn’t black pill them first.
In a TikTok video shared with her followers last year, Tiffany Kay described how the antidepressant Lexapro was, “poof,” like magic, making life much better, “which I did not think was possible.”
That cinder block of anxiety no longer weighs on her chest, Kay, 29, recently told National Post. She’s able to sleep at night, less emotional and not overthinking things the way she used to, or getting caught up in the “what-ifs.”
Most Canadians disagree strongly with the concept of euthanasia for babies. We know this because every time the topic comes up, the public’s response is one of instant horror. So why does it keep coming up?
Many world leaders whined Saturday over the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife, claiming the clandestine US mission was an unnecessary use of force — despite a legal precedent for it.
Allies Russia, Iran, China and Colombia were among the nations lining up Saturday to demand the Trump administration release Maduro and first lady Cilia Flores, who were headed to New York City to face federal charges of narcoterrorism.
NEW: Woman whose older brother was k*lled in Venezuela starts bawling, thanks President Trump for capturing Nicolás Maduro.
“So many years waiting for this,” she said in Miami, Florida.
“We’ve been here eight years now because they k*lled our older brother… they kidnapped my… pic.twitter.com/ABOpyxCPEr
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 3, 2026
Trump’s toppling of Maduro is fraught with risk – what happens next is unclear
The US may want many of its foes gone from power. It doesn’t usually send in the military and physically remove them.
Venezuela’s abrupt awakening took two forms.
Its residents were woken abruptly to the sound of deafening booms: the sound of its capital Caracas under attack from US strikes targeting military infrastructure.
Which world leaders have been captured by US previously
The reported capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has placed him among a small and controversial group of world leaders seized by the United States, reviving memories of past U.S. intervention that reshaped entire regions.
With his capture, Maduro would join figures such as Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and Panama’s Manuel Noriega, whose arrests marked defining moments in US foreign policy.
It can’t be a coincidence that Trump captured Maduro while a Chinese delegation was still in Venezuela to meet with him.
Trump is making a clear statement.
He’s going after the cabal’s controlled puppets, the “paper tigers”.
Imagine all the military ops we never hear about. pic.twitter.com/fsmg4diZmk
— Kab (@Kabamur_Taygeta) January 3, 2026
Maduro Perp Walk
Maduro perp walk. pic.twitter.com/e1Maaun5EK
— Paul Mauro (@PaulDMauro) January 4, 2026
h/t Mauser
The City of Toronto racked up roughly $3.6 million in costs related to 2024’s concert series by Taylor Swift, including nearly $2 million by police, more than $1 million by the TTC and six-figure totals by a handful of departments at City Hall.
CCTV footage of the African gang machete attack in Carlton, Melbourne, last night.
Two men are in hospital, seven are on the run.
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— The Noticer (@NoticerNews) January 1, 2026
Consensus analysis of the 2025 election results includes this thesis: centre-left ‘progressive’ voters abandoned the NDP and voted for the Liberals under Prime Minister Carney and gave him his victory.
Why? Two broad reasons: 1) to unite against Donald Trump and 2) to unite against the possibility that Pierre Poilievre could be prime minister.
Of course, there is more to it than that, but there’s no question that the worst showing for the NDP in history was accretive to the Liberals and that ‘progressive’ voters gave Mark Carney his victory against Pierre Poilievre despite Pierre’s strong showing – the best vote percentage for a Conservative campaign since 1988.
