Statistics Canada is seeking feedback from various groups on options for releasing data collected during the last census, but not publicly shared, on transgender and nonbinary children from toddlers and pre-schoolers to young teens.
In a consultation guide, the federal agency said it “may be breaking new ground” as the first national statistics office in the world to disseminate gender information for children and youth under 15.
Groomers.
One of the survivors of the terror attack at a Bondi Beach Hanukkah celebration said four police officers just “froze” during the 20-minute rampage on Sunday that killed 11.
Eyewitness Shmulik Scuri said he was with his family when the two suspects began firing at the crowd of worshippers from a nearby bridge.
“For 20 minutes. They shoot, shoot. Change magazines. And just shoot,” the witness told reporters
@fancypants_s
Just like Uvalde, as I said in your comments…. https://t.co/XLpVS78wjI— Allen 🐟 (@arlasko) December 14, 2025
BREAKING – Newly released images confirm eyewitness claims that four officers were close to the attackers during the Bondi Beach massacre but failed to engage, with photos showing three female officers fleeing or hiding instead of attempting to respond to the threat. pic.twitter.com/3CZmWgUjOn
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) December 14, 2025
H/T AL and Canuknucklehead
Wanna know if someone is more likely to win an election?
A monkey can tell you — which is kind of bananas.
A study presented photos of US gubernatorial and senatorial election candidates to rhesus macaques, a type of monkey, who were able to predict the winners and losers of each election.
(Incognito)
Stanford Medicine investigators have unearthed the biological process by which mRNA-based vaccines for COVID-19 can cause heart damage in some young men and adolescents — and they’ve shown a possible route to reducing its likelihood.
Using advanced but now common lab technologies, along with published data from vaccinated individuals, the researchers identified a two-step sequence in which these vaccines activate a certain type of immune cell, in turn riling up another type of immune cell. The resulting inflammatory activity directly injures heart muscle cells, while triggering further inflammatory damage.
h/t Mauser
How does the US see its role in global politics, at least for the remainder of President Donald Trump’s tenure at the White House?
That is the question that, following a procedure adopted by all presidents since the 1970s, the just published National Security Strategy wishes to address.
The new paper is the second such document bearing Trump’s name.
Issued during Trump’s first term as president, the initial one was in fact produced by the foreign policy and military establishment of the time, inherited from previous administrations, and didn’t reflect Trump’s unorthodox views. It was three times longer, laden with clichés, politically correct in tone and designed to dance around difficult issues.
The Chinese Communist Party is threatening Canadian democracy by influencing politicians, business leaders, and community influencers, and suppressing those who speak out against China, says a former national director of the RCMP’s proceeds-of-crime program.
“The PRC government, Chinese Communist Party, is the biggest transnational organized crime group ever seen in the world today, bar none,” former RCMP investigator and chief anti-money laundering officer Garry Clement said during a Dec. 6 forum event at Toronto City Hall. Clement was joined by a panel of experts who spoke about foreign interference and transnational repression in Canada by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Barbarism has come to Bondi. Waking up to news this morning that at least 16 people have been killed, and at least 29 have been injured, following an anti-Semitic terror attack at the iconic beach in Australia, prompted that familiar mix of sickness, horror and grim inevitability.
As it stands, we know there were at least two (alleged) gunmen. One, Naveed Akram, was killed at the scene. The other, whose identity hasn’t been released, is in critical condition. The scum opened fire with rifles at a Hanukkah party. The authorities are thus treating it as an anti-Semitic terror attack, although it took some media outlets an oddly long time to put two and two together. Police are probing reports of a third attacker, and have found an improvised explosive device in a car.
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
Gunmen killed at least 11 people at a Jewish holiday event at Sydney's Bondi Beach. The shootings, described by police as a terrorist attack, follows a string of antisemitic incidents since the start of the Gaza war https://t.co/n1GdMzYqvR pic.twitter.com/Uq0NMjgghu— Reuters (@Reuters) December 14, 2025
🇦🇺 A guy curb stomped the head of a shooter one of Bondi Beach, Australia gunmen.
“F**king bastard” pic.twitter.com/MCmQKBcseK
— Nucleus (@nucleusnewss) December 14, 2025
A Hollywood animation of Animal Farm has sparked outrage for turning George Orwell’s classic story into a critique of capitalism and corporate corruption with a billionaire villain and a happy ending.
First trailer for Andy Serkis’ animated adaptation of ‘ANIMAL FARM’
Starring Seth Rogen, Gaten Matarazzo, Steve Buscemi, Glenn Close, Laverne Cox, Kieran Culkin, Woody Harrelson, Jim Parsons, Kathleen Turner and Iman Vellani.
In theaters on May 1, 2026 pic.twitter.com/2nP2G07Hrm
— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) December 12, 2025
Here’s the Telegraph Link – Outrage as Animal Farm film blames capitalism… and has a happy ending
Sometimes policy change is necessitated by reality. The welcome new entente cordiale between Ottawa and Alberta, fast tracking new energy developments, marks a pleasant example.
This is all the more remarkable since Prime Minister Mark Carney, was once a leading voice against fossil fuels; as head of the Bank of England, he led the charge for banks to bankroll the much-ballyhooed transition to renewables. Yet a decade later, he appears to have shifted from a “net-zero” crusader to seeking to become “an energy superpower.”
I doubt Carney has had a road to Damascus moment.
The hero who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach attackers by grabbing his gun is a father-of-two fruit shop owner.
The death toll has risen to 16 after two gunmen opened fire at the popular tourist beach in Sydney on Sunday evening where a Jewish Hanukkah celebration was underway.
Ahmed al Ahmed, 43, has been named by relatives as the man fighting one of the terrorists in a video shared widely on social media.
The civilian who tackled and disarmed one of the gunmen during the mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach has been identified as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed, a local fruit shop owner and father of two. Witnesses and video footage show Ahmed advancing on… pic.twitter.com/dPjoNARZtG
— ILTV Israel News (@ILTVNews) December 14, 2025
He may be a Maronite Christian and not a Muslim.
He is a Christian Maronite!
The hero that stopped one of the terrorists in Australia is called Ahmad Al Ahmad.
The Anti-Israel mobs celebrated him being a Muslim, as if that made the terror attack less terrible.
But he is not a Muslim!
He is a Christian Maronite! pic.twitter.com/aV7lZBnIFC— Hamas Atrocities (@HamasAtrocities) December 14, 2025
When I was a child, I once, after being told off by my mother, conspicuously gathered together some treasured toys into a tea towel, and wrapped them onto the end of a broom handle, as I had seen tramps do in cartoons. Declaring that I was running away, I made it as far as the garden gate, where I lingered for some long minutes, waiting for my mother to rush out and usher me back into the warm security of home, torn between the certainty that she would — and a dread anxiety that I was, as I had declared I wanted, now truly on my own. So it is today with Europe’s political elites, endlessly declaring that this time everything has changed, and the continent must now stand on its own in a harsh and frightening world, while secretly anticipating, with mounting dread, to be ushered back into America’s stifling if protective embrace. Yet in this instance, our rulers must be careful what they wish for.
The seventeenth annual Halifax International Security Forum (HISF) took place from November 21 to 23, 2025. It was co-hosted by the Canadian Minister of National Defence, David McGuinty, and the forum’s theme was, perhaps ironically, on “democracy.” The choice in theme isn’t a generic catchphrase; it’s meant as a direct sidelining of the USA. There was not much discussion, however, about whether the fanatical Liberal Party of Canada’s “elbows up” hysteria could get Canadians or our allies killed in World War 3.
Why Canada Built a Billion $ Warship That Can’t Fight
Uhm OK. (Incognito)
We were standing before the gate to a favorite hangout for polar bears in Churchill, Manitoba: the town dump. Our photographer, Renaud Philippe, had used a drone to track a mother and her two cubs across the tundra, and it was now flying back — we had no doubt — with amazing, intimate photos and video of the family.
LOS ANGELES — Two people have been found dead inside the Brentwood home of director Rob Reiner, the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to The Post.
Officers were called to the home Sunday afternoon. It’s currently unclear who the victims are, but a spokesperson for the department noted that detectives from LAPD’s Robbery-Homicide Division were also at the scene.
The Los Angeles Fire Department told NBC Los Angeles that a 78-year-old man and a 68-year-old woman were found dead inside the home.
Update: Rob Reiner and His Wife Michele Were Killed by Their Son
h/t Canuknucklehead
Australia died tonight.
An obscene number of people were shot down in cold blood celebrating a Jewish holiday on the iconic and wonderful Bondi Beach. Murdered, most likely, by religious fanatics. Murdered, possibly, by people who came, or whose parents came, to this country and imported a toxic, deadly, and poisonous ideology.
Nobody thought to stop them entering this country. Nobody thought to question their fitness to be new Australian citizens.
BREAKING:
An ISIS flag was found in the vehicle of the Bondi Beach terrorists
– Australian ABC pic.twitter.com/kgsKQORrSq
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) December 15, 2025
h/t Patti Jo and patthedog
