The Spanish parishioner who made headlines around the world for her botched restoration of a prized Jesus Christ fresco has died aged 94.
Cecilia Giménez, an elderly woman from Borja, northeast Spain, became famous 13 years ago after she attempted to restore the century-old painting titled Ecce Homo that was held in her local church.
Giménez’s restoration went viral and earned the nickname “Monkey Christ”, because of Christ’s head resembling a hairy monkey.
Newcomers seeking permanent residency face uncertainty, frustration over Ontario immigration changes
Following changes to immigration in Ontario, some with hopes of becoming Canadian permanent residents are navigating a system that’s in flux — and they’re concerned they’ll be left behind.
Seeing it first hand, Muhammad Haseeb Ahmad is anxiously awaiting word on whether he can obtain permanent residency.
“It’s like just waiting and waiting — frustration at its pinnacle,” he said.
Great work Ford. Just what we need more Muslims.
MINNEAPOLIS — ICE agents swooped down on Minnesota day cares and other sites suspected in the state’s sprawling, multibillion-dollar fraud scheme as the feds ramped up pressure on Gov. Tim Walz and the local Somali community.
Authorities are investigating whether as much as $9 billion may have been stolen in a mind-boggling social-services scam they say was predominantly orchestrated by Somali immigrants.
BREAKING: DHS and ICE agents are on the ground in Minneapolis conducting investigations into Somali daycare and healthcare fraud
Let’s goooo
SWARM MINNEAPOLIS WITH AGENTS
We need to see mass arrests, indictments, denaturalizations, and deportations! pic.twitter.com/RWTrTmi7Ad
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 29, 2025
Minneapolis City Councilman Kali Mohamed just went full warlord on DHS agents: Harassing them in the street, then unleashing a blood-curdling Somali battle scream at the end thinking he won. This is an elected official. Minneapolis isn’t America; it’s Mogadishu with snowplows. pic.twitter.com/EWDeZ8b6C2
— Kim "Katie" USA (@KimKatieUSA) December 11, 2025
We’re never going to get an apology from the Liberals for their failed single-use plastics ban — but on Dec. 20, we got the next best thing: an admission that it was all a costly mistake.
It’s buried in the government’s proposal to cancel the export ban on plastic straws, cutlery, grocery bags, ring carriers, stir sticks and other food packaging, which took effect earlier this month. A draft amendment to the federal plastics regulations to that effect is open for public comment until Feb. 28, and will likely become law soon afterward.
Asylum seekers should be required to wear electronic tags so their movements can be tracked, a policing chief has proposed.
Katy Bourne, Sussex’s police and crime commissioner (PCC), said the move would act as a deterrent to any potential criminal activity. It could also give migrants “greater freedom” to travel further from holding centres and help them get temporary jobs.
Government plans to house 540 asylum seekers temporarily at Crowborough training camp, an Army barracks in Sussex, has caused concern in the community. The first people to be be transferred there are expected in the new year.
VICTORIA – A British Columbia government report foresees more than 3,400 fatalities and more than 10,000 injuries if an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 strikes off Vancouver Island.
The scenario of such a “megathrust” quake also describes costs of $128 billion, the destruction of 18,000 buildings and extensive damage to 10,000.
The analysis is part of the B.C. disaster and climate risk assessment, dated October 2025, and says such a quake is “one of the more likely earthquake scenarios in B.C.”
Binyamin Netanyahu knows how to speak to President Trump. To assuage him away from pursuing peace talks in his previous term, the Israeli prime minister used golf metaphors and maps of Trump’s beloved New York to show him why it would not work.
On his fifth trip to meet the president since Trump was inaugurated in January, a record for any foreign leader, Netanyahu may have to do more than beguile him with the 300-acre golf course near Tel Aviv he is building and naming in his honour.
This is ridiculous. As usual, authorities are going after the low-hanging fruit & ignoring the real problem. Muslims murder a bunch of Jews & suddenly we're bombarded with photos & names of individual white racists & idiots as if to balance out the score sheet. @fancypants_s https://t.co/3EfPHcasHV
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) December 29, 2025
Members of a Canadian delegation that was denied entry to the West Bank earlier this month are calling on Ottawa to tighten sanctions targeting new Israeli settlements in occupied territory.
A group that included six Canadian MPs on a mission to meet with displaced Palestinians was turned away at the Allenby border crossing into the West Bank on Dec. 16.
Multiple witnesses from the group said Ontario MP Iqra Khalid was shoved by an Israeli border guard during the confrontation.
Oh No!!!!
Nearly 12 years after the world’s most baffling aviation riddle began with the disappearance of an airliner and its passengers, seabed explorers are to resume their search for MH370.
State-of-the-art underwater robots will in the coming days begin mapping the abyss of the Indian Ocean, hunting a lost Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 and all 239 on board.
The expedition by a private company called Ocean Infinity is the latest chapter in an on-off search that has already become the most expensive hunt in aviation history, but after more than a decade, has little to show for it.
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TORONTO — Canadian media outlets confirmed Tuesday they would not be covering a major… pic.twitter.com/I2gSefaSA5
— SatireSquadHQ (@SatireSquadHQ) December 29, 2025
h/t Auntie Polley
OTTAWA — If emotions over U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs and his comments about coveting Canada as a “51st state” defined the posture of political leaders towards the cross-border relationship in 2025, business leaders are urging that cool heads prevail in the new year.
With Canada set to begin formal talks with the U.S. over its trilateral agreement with Mexico in January, National Post asked different leaders in business and labour about their hopes for how Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government approaches the deal’s joint review and what lessons elected officials could learn from the past year.
The Right has, understandably, been in a joyous mood as of late. Populism is on the rise almost everywhere across the West; Trump’s return to power, almost a year ago, put an end to the notion that wokery had come to stay, that it could not be reverted, and that conservatives would sooner or later have to come to terms with it. We now know that collective neurosis can, indeed, be led to collapse under the weight of its own absurdities—if only those of us who are sensible and patient enough have the energy for the fight. But triumphalism is a dangerous false friend, as the events surrounding the quiet cancellation of Christmas in Portugal have come to show.
