The most important thing to learn from the December 2025 Bondi Beach attack is how to better anticipate and mitigate the next attack. There is probably going to be another attack, somewhere, sometime. The auguries are plain.
As Australian authorities try to retrace the steps and understand the motivations of the Bondi Beach gunmen who killed 15 people on Sunday, one key focus has emerged: their travel to the Philippines last month, shortly before the attack.
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The most basic job of government, at all levels, is to keep citizens safe. That is twice as true when it comes to government-operated transit systems. Unfortunately, the latest national investigation into transit violence paints a troubling picture that reflects what riders in Toronto and across the country experience every single day. According to new data released in a CBC feature story, the number of reported assaults on Toronto-area transit has risen by 160 per cent since 2015. Overall, violent incidents are up 127 per cent.
He promises to close Riker’s Island, but even the pro-criminal Zohrah Mamdani had better keep a few jail cells available, so that his fellow liberals have a place to throw people like 67-year-old Charles Foehner, soon to begin serving a 4-year sentence.
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Police in Toronto and Peel Region have charged three men in connection with a string of crimes linked to an alleged Toronto-area ISIS terror cell, targeting Toronto’s Jewish community.
In a joint video statement released Friday, Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw, Peel Regional Police Chief Nishan Duraiappah and RCMP Assistant Commissioner Matt Peggs announced the results of Project Neopolitan — a probe into terror allegations that stemmed from an investigation into two violent attacks over the summer, uncovering an Islamic State-linked terror plot targeting women and members of the GTA Jewish community.
@fancypants_s https://t.co/SfRIgINYZB
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) December 19, 2025
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The head of the U.S. agency for enforcing workplace civil rights posted a social media call-out urging white men to come forward if they have experienced race or sex discrimination at work.
“Are you a white male who has experienced discrimination at work based on your race or sex? You may have a claim to recover money under federal civil rights laws,” U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair Andrea Lucas, a vocal critic of DEI, wrote on X Wednesday evening. The post urged eligible workers to reach out to the agency “as soon as possible” and referred users to the agency’s fact sheet on “DEI-related discrimination” for more information.
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I’m just so disgusted that the painfully obvious truth, has to be said out loud. @fancypants_s https://t.co/Q9pKks2iHt
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) December 18, 2025
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Canada’s government-run euthanasia program increased its death toll again last year, taking more than 16,000 lives, and placing medically assisted suicide as the fourth leading cause of death in the country.
According to an annual report published by the Canadian government, 16,499 people were killed through the Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program in 2024, increasing 6.9 percent from the previous year. Close to 75 percent of the 22,535 people who applied for the program were approved.
We’re world famous.
A cat doesn’t count as a passenger to allow you to use the High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes on Highway 417 in Ottawa, according to police.
Ontario Provincial Police say an officer stopped a driver in the HOV lane on Highway 417 near Terry Fox Drive, “after they were seen driving alone in the HOV lane.”
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Like so many Toronto transit efforts the second entrance to Museum Station was a project that seemed forever under construction. Open now, commuters can exit the station directly into Queen’s Park. A subway-to-city transfer this elegant and unique, into the city’s premier park, with trees that have existed more than a century and before the subway was tunnelled underneath, is rare.
Bondi hero Ahmed Al Ahmed has been labelled a “traitor” in the Arab world for tackling a terrorist gunman and saving the lives of Jews at Bondi.
When the Facebook page for the Palestinian news source Ramallah News posted Mr Ahmed’s story, most of the hundreds of comments were hostile towards his lifesaving actions.
“Treason comes to you from the closest people” and “he sold himself and his life for the safety of the Jews” were among the comments.
“I wish it (the bullet) hit your heart,” one commentator said, while another said “May Allah not heal you”.
[Ottawa – December 17, 2025] As the debate over Canada’s next-generation fighter jet continues, Canadians are leaning decisively away from an all-F-35 future.
When asked which option is best for Canada – the Lockheed Martin F-35 or the Saab Gripen – seven in ten Canadians (72 per cent) support incorporating the Gripen into Canada’s fighter fleet, either by switching to the aircraft for all future purchases (43 per cent) or by maintaining a mixed fleet of both Gripens and F-35s (29 per cent). Just one in eight (13 per cent) say Canada should continue with the F-35 as its primary fighter jet.
A new paper in a highly regarded British Medical Journal publication has sparked outrage for attempting to launch a debate on the so-called “harms of the current global anti-female genital mutilation (FGM) campaign.”
It says coverage of the practice, where the female genitals are deliberately cut, injured or changed, often relies on “titillating sensationalism,” and complains that this “leads to vilification of migrants, infantilisation of people and their cultures, and failure to recognise the agency of the women concerned and their communities.”
Whitby school replaced Christmas with a winter theme but had kids do a dance video for Islamic Eid, celebrate Diwali, and learn about Kwanzaa. pic.twitter.com/D0Td5Hn83E
— Jim McMurtry (@JimMcMurtry01) December 18, 2025
Meanwhile, in Maine:
"I'm from Africa… I'm the mayor now." pic.twitter.com/ycuJ5nQcEV
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) December 18, 2025
