Welcome Everyone! Christmas is just round the corner and we’re back with the annual Reader Fave Carols – 2025 edition.
Post your faves in the comments and our elves will gather them up for posting every evening through the Big Day.
I’ll start us off, enjoy!
Boney M. – Mary’s Boy Child
Angels We Have Heard On High – Foxes and Fossils
Chris Rea – Driving Home For Christmas
Wizzard – I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
On December 14, on the holiday of Hanukkah — a time of celebration — a slaughter of innocent Jewish families took place at Australia’s famous Bondi Beach, in Sydney. Fifteen victims were murdered and 40 more wounded. One of the attackers, a Muslim immigrant named Sajid Akram, was killed by police; his son Naveed, the second attacker, was shot by police before being arrested.
The situation could have been worse but for the actions of Sydney’s police force and the quick work of a very brave unarmed bystander, Ahmed El-Ahmed, a Muslim man who tackled and disarmed one of the terrorists.
Umm, why did @BrownUniversity just scrub its entire website of Mustapha Kharbouch (Free Palestine, LGBTQ activist)? pic.twitter.com/GjnJ9vxmjS
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 16, 2025
h/t XC
Canadians spend between 35 and 50 per cent of their monthly income on housing and utilities, according to the government of Canada. For many, keeping up with the bills is not easy.
Ali Jafri’s rent is due on Monday, and he’s not sure he will be able to pay it.
“(The) 15th of the month is just a few days away and I am in a difficult spot right now,” the Toronto father told CTV News. Jafri has a job, a child and lives in a tight-knit community in downtown Toronto, but with the cost of living stubbornly high, he says he’s being squeezed.
Ali is part of the problem but our media love to add insult to injury.
Federal law enforcement quickly and expeditiously dismantled an ongoing terror plot that would have wreaked chaos and destruction across Southern California, had it been allowed to go undetected. Viewers of ABC’s World News Tonight might have been left wondering whether there was even a plot to begin with, based on a complete lack of reporting as to motive.
The cost of living is worse than it’s ever been: That’s the view of 67% of Canadians, according to an Abacus Data poll.
The news from Statistics Canada on Monday morning won’t help with that feeling as grocery prices spiked yet again just before Christmas.
The latest inflation report from StatsCan shows core inflation rose 2.2% in November; food inflation, though, rose 4.7% for what we pay stores as opposed to restaurants.
Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino is reportedly mulling his future at the bureau and could make his decision within the next few weeks, according to two people familiar with his thinking. Sources say reports that his office at FBI headquarters is empty are inaccurate, but his departure remains very much on the table.
A growing number of Canadians, including several young children, have been arrested or detained by U.S. immigration authorities over the past two years, according to newly released government data obtained through a U.S. federal court case.
The figures, analyzed by CTVNews.ca using data tools developed by the Deportation Data Project, were released as part of a lawsuit the project filed against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The data show that more than 200 Canadians have spent time in ICE custody at some point since January, compared with 137 detained in 2024. While the increase accelerated this year, the records show Canadian detentions dating back to before U.S. President Donald Trump began his second term.
Cops release very grainy new video of suspected Brown shooter — as they hunt for new leads
“If you recognize this individual” pic.twitter.com/L3FmnUE235
— Lyss💙💛Аліса (@lyssafella) December 15, 2025
Less than one week after the Conservatives lost another MP to the Liberals, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre won’t explicitly rule out whether more of his caucus members will cross the floor.
“I think Canadians have a reasonable expectation that when you run on a platform to bring down the cost of living, to control spending, to lock up criminals, that you shouldn’t then go and join the party. That’s doing precisely the opposite,” Poilievre said in a year-end interview with CTV News Chief Political Correspondent Vassy Kapelos, when asked directly about that possibility.
On December 12th, the Department of State said it is offering a reward of up to $10 million “for information leading to the disruption of the financial mechanisms of four European-based groups designated by the U.S. government as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs).”
The press release announcing the move was issued in Hungarian and English by the American embassy in Budapest. Not coincidentally, Thomas G. DiNanno, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, was in Hungary that day for what was his first official visit abroad since he took office in October.
Atrocities in Sudan, Gaza and Ukraine raise a question: do Canadians have a role in addressing the suffering of others?
While these wars can appear to affect only distant strangers, their horrors increase the chances that victims – and perpetrators – will seek to enter Canada. It’s unsurprising, then, that Canadian authorities are busier than ever in identifying suspected perpetrators of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Yet Canada continues to deport perpetrators without any guarantee they’ll be subsequently held accountable.
A Christmas ham has been sent to the Bonnyrigg home of the alleged Bondi terrorists.
The half-leg of ham was among numerous Woolworths bags of items sent to the south-west Sydney home.
Pork and pork products are considered “haram” in Islam and expressly forbidden for Muslims to consume.
h/t Patti Jo
OTTAWA – The Canadian Security Intelligence Service says it sees no indication of a specific threat in Canada following the mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration in Australia.
However an intelligence brief prepared by the Integrated Threat Assessment Centre of CSIS says there is a “realistic” possibility of a violent extremist attack taking place in Canada — including one targeting the Jewish community.
It also says it can’t discount the possibility of violence from a lone actor or small group, which could happen with little or no warning.
In other words diversity generates so many possible attacks it makes predictions impossible.
Google AI: What was the official Australian terrorism threat level a day before the Dec 14th 2025 Bondi Beach attack?
On December 13, 2025, the day before the Bondi Beach attack, the official Australian National Terrorism Threat Level was PROBABLE.
Definition: A “Probable” level indicates that authorities believe there is a greater than 50% chance of an onshore terrorist attack or attack planning within the next 12 months.
Good for her! @fancypants_s https://t.co/Eh24cmhcwg
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) December 16, 2025
Killing is central to the Muslim cult whether throwing gays off rooftops, stoning adulterers to death, beheading infidels etc. a willingness to commit extreme violence is expected and in fact celebrated by Mohammedans as we have witnessed on the streets of cities worldwide.
It’s just not possible to prevent all of the Muslims all of the time from carrying out their religious obligation to murder.
Remigration is the answer.
h/t Patti Jo
Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky revealed alleged details about the suspect arrested for the Jan. 6 pipe bomb plantings in Washington, D.C., that might undermine the official narrative of the incident.
The mystery of the pipe bombs seemed to be solved on Dec. 4, nearly five years after they were found, when Justice Department officials announced that they had arrested 30-year-old Brian Cole Jr. of Woodbridge, Virginia.
h/t SC
