We’re thankful that this New Year’s Eve passed in relative peace. It’s a welcome change from last year, when 2025 started with a terrorist attack in New Orleans.
Texas native Shamsud Din-Jabbar, 42, drove his truck through a crowd celebrating the New Year on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing fourteen and injuring at least 30 more. He was inspired by ISIS, and IEDs were found at the scene, along with an ISIS flag.
My friend Neil Gabriel, a self-employed, successful tradesman and Mohawk warrior from the Kanesatake Reserve in Oka, Quebec, is humorously skeptical of the claims and exemptions abundantly supplied by our Native populations. Many of these indigenous tribes are committed to challenging national jurisdictions and dismantling the historical structure of the country in a torrent of land-claims and legal negotiations.
Neil is having none of it and puts the matter to rest with a joke that is solidly anchored in reality. “If we want to know what kind of winter we can expect, we look at the white man’s woodpile.”
Top Biden State Dept advisor who’s from Somalia raised the Somali flag at the Ohio State House
Do you see what’s happening?
Ohio has been conquered. pic.twitter.com/sKqz3Q67kN
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 2, 2026
The pollsters are trying to tell us something.
For much of the past year, the dominant strain of Canadian political coverage has focused on the struggles of Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre, especially as contrasted with the brilliant successes of his opponent, Mark Carney.
How could it not? Mr. Poilievre saw a 25-point lead evaporate in the space of two months. Much of this could be attributed to the rapid-fire sequence of events with which the year began: Donald Trump’s return to office, Justin Trudeau’s resignation, and Mr. Carney’s election as Liberal Leader.
(Coyne Alert)
Ummmm WHAT
NYPD recruit submitted a request to be exempt from saluting the American Flag because he can only praise Allah https://t.co/6lQmfZnto9
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 2, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
’Tis the season for year for the media to look back and write about old news. The lists tell more about the compiler than the stories themselves.
Oslo’s Deichman Bjørvika differs from downtown libraries in America by its near-total absence of homelessness.
Deichman Bjørvika, the main library in Oslo, occupies a prominent site next to the opera house and the Munch Museum. Whereas many American downtown libraries favor classical design, Oslo’s is strikingly postmodern, its asymmetrical layout featuring almost no right angles. Inside, the building blends Brutalist monumentality—massive, exposed concrete slabs—with an airiness created by natural light and a soaring central atrium. The collection of more than 450,000 volumes is excellent by my preferred standard: a wealth of older, rebound books that likely haven’t circulated in years. It’s ideal for browsing. The library organizes most of its books and private study spaces around three multistory columns rising through its center, ensuring functionality while preserving unobstructed views of the Oslo Fjord.
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Mark Carney will travel to France next week to meet with Ukraine’s allies as talks aimed at ending Russia’s war intensify.
The Prime Minister’s Office says Carney will be in Paris on Monday and Tuesday to meet with the “coalition of the willing” in an effort to push forward a peace deal for Ukraine.
In a media statement issued Friday, Carney said his focus remains on fortifying Ukraine and deterring future Russian aggression as Ukraine seeks security guarantees from the United States and other nations.
President Donald Trump slammed George Clooney as an “average guy who complained, constantly, about common sense in politics,” adding that the actor “wasn’t a movie star at all” and has garnered “more publicity for politics than he did for his very few, and totally mediocre, movies.”
In a scathing New Year’s Eve Truth Social post, Trump called the “Jay Kelly” star and his wife, human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, “two of the worst political prognosticators of all time” following the couple’s recent announcement that they’ve been granted French citizenship.
Parishioners at a church in Fredericton say they’re heartbroken and bewildered after someone stole a large, brass church bell from the church yard earlier this week.
“It’s a sad situation, what’s happening in the world today,” said Sharon Vickers, the churchwarden at St. Peter’s Anglican Church along Woodstock Road in Fredericton.
“To think that somebody has to be driving around looking for something to take that has a meaning to it and it’s not a concern to those people is so unfortunate,” Vickers added.
Socialist Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is much richer than when she entered Congress, and it’s more than just the $174,000-a-year congressional salary. She married her campaign strategist Tim Mynett after her campaign dumped an eye-popping $2.9 million into his consulting business during the 2020 election cycle.
When the “independent fact checkers” get involved, they sound like they’re defending the Democrats. An X post by Snopes.com declared: “A rumor circulating on social media claims Rep. Ilhan Omar’s net worth skyrocketed after she took office in 2019. We reviewed her financial disclosure reports to check the facts.”
JUST IN: A reporter FOUND a building in Minnesota that has 60 Somali businesses, in ONE warehouse
EVERYTHING IS GETTING EXPOSED
— MAGA Voice (@MAGAVoice) January 1, 2026
A lesser known feature of the planet Earth’s magnetic field has recently gained a special Canadian connection that is often overlooked in the better known science story about the magnetic north pole drifting away from Canada toward Russia.
The wandering north pole typically gets a round of media attention every five years when there is a new update to the World Magnetic Model, basically a map of the local variations in the planet’s magnetic field that is used for precise calculation in navigation systems. The 2025 version, released a year ago by British and American national scientific organizations, showed that the magnetic north pole is still drifting across the Arctic Ocean toward Russian territory, though at a slower rate than in recent years.
Over 1,000 women were sexually assaulted and raped across Germany’s major cities exactly ten years ago today, in an enormous and apparently coordinated act of violence by recently arrived migrant men, the nature and causes of which are still the subject of attempted obfuscation to this day.
Not surprising. The RCMP/TPS lied to us about the Danforth Shooter being a devout Muslim who singled out female victims.
The gap between average worker wages and Canada’s top-paid CEOs widened to a record in 2024, according to a new report that pushes for higher taxes on the wealthiest.
Average compensation for the 100 best-paid chief executives hit $16.2 million in the year, surpassing the previous record of $14.9 million in 2022, said the report out Friday from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Canada under the Liberal Party is all about giving your money to their corporate pals. They hate you. Why else would they swamp Canada with cheap foreign labour?
Hey Grok – How much was paid in corporate welfare to Canadian firms in 2025
Federal business subsidies (often termed corporate welfare) in Canada reached approximately $40 billion in the 2023–24 fiscal year, with continued high levels in 2025 due to ongoing programs like clean technology incentives and EV battery production subsidies.
A University of Calgary School of Public Policy report indicates federal subsidies grew 140% from 2014–15 to 2023–24, hitting $40.1 billion in 2023–24. Projections suggest they could approach $50 billion annually by 2027–28 without policy changes, driven by investment tax credits and major industrial supports. For 2025 (covering parts of fiscal years 2024–25 and 2025–26), the total likely remains in the $40–45 billion range federally, including ramped-up EV incentives.
California has delayed its cancellation of thousands of commercial driver’s licenses held by migrants, setting it up for another showdown with Washington.
The Department of Motor Vehicles announced on Tuesday that the 17,000 migrant truck drivers whose licenses had been revoked can now keep them for 60 more days, which could enable the drivers to retake tests and do whatever is necessary to remain legal.
