Geoff Russ: Canada’s purpose must be deeper than diverse takeout menus

Better food is no reason to support multiculturalism

A nation’s highest purpose is not improving takeout menus, but you might be fooled by listening to the talk in the English-speaking world.

British television host Piers Morgan boasts there are “a lot of white English people I would happily trade for chicken tikka masala.” South Australia’s state premier has warned that “the food would be all the same” without multiculturalism, and that he “couldn’t think of anything worse.” When did exotic food become the social contract?

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Welcome to the West’s self-cannibalization

“Decolonized” Xmas is one where the Nativity is a Eurocentric narrative that hides the “real” Jesus who, if he were here today, would join a “from the river to the sea” demonstration.

Berlin, the city where Mohammed is the most common name among newborns and Islam has already overtaken Christianity.

A taxpayer-funded event in Charlottenburg. Title: “Decolonizing Christmas.” The organizers, Muslims and Christians, “unmask the colonial and discriminatory imaginary” in the history of Christmas, paid for by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion of Berlin. We are at the Friedenskirche, a stronghold of the Lutheran Church that seems to have mistaken its pulpit for a postcolonial and pro-Hamas seminar room at Columbia University.

“A stark prospect of civilizational erasure,” according to Trump’s White House.

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Devout Catholics Support Mass Deportations

The Incredulity of Saint Thomas – Guercino

A new poll reveals what mass attendance actually predicts about virtue and deportation policy.

America’s Catholic bishops may incessantly complain about President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda, but American Catholics actually support such measures as mass deportations. EWTN News and RealClear Opinion Research published a poll late last week which found that a majority (54 percent) of American Catholics favor mass deportations, including 27.5 percent (the largest share recorded in the poll) who “strongly favor” the policy, while only 30 percent oppose it and less than 17 percent expressed indifference. Support for the “detention and deportation of unauthorized immigrants on a broad scale” increased to 60 percent among white Catholics and opposition fell to 26 percent.

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Vivian Bercovici: Bondi Beach massacre is what globalizing the intifada looks likes

More than 1,000 Jewish people congregated on Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach on Sunday to celebrate the first night of Chanukah, a festival of light and miracles.

What unfolded was disturbingly reminiscent of October 7. Two gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons targeting the gathering of Jews. Shouts of “Allahu Akhbar” were reportedly heard. One of the gunmen is captured on video warning people who were not Jewish to run away. The event was unguarded, but the nearest police station was a mere 150 metres away. Eyewitnesses say it took what seemed like an eternity for police to arrive and respond, between five and 10 minutes.

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Selling F-35s to Turkey Guarantees a New War against Israel

US President Donald Trump may believe that selling F-35 stealth warplanes to Turkey will help the country forge closer ties with the US at the expense of Russia. The reality, though, is that by providing such sophisticated fighter jets to a country that supports Hamas terrorists — and whose president recently said that “Israel will have no choice but to kneel in front of Turkey” — Trump is merely stoking the flames of a future war aimed at destroying Israel.

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What are your rights as a Canadian if asked by a U.S. border agent to see your social media?

The news that some travellers visiting the U.S. might soon be asked to share personal things like social media and email accounts has left many Canadians unsettled about what could happen at the border.

A notice published Wednesday in the U.S. Federal Register said U.S. Customs and Border Protection advises collecting five years’ worth of social media information from travellers from some countries that don’t need to get visas to come to the U.S. It’s the latest move by the Trump administration when it comes to monitoring international travellers and immigrants.

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Meghan has no plans to see her father Thomas Markle again

The Duchess of Sussex has no plans to see her father, who is recovering in hospital from a leg amputation, and has given up hope of ever reconciling with him.

On Wednesday, Meghan, 44, who has not seen Thomas Markle for many years, “reached out” to the 81-year-old with a letter hand-delivered to him in a hospital in the Philippines, where he now lives.

She has not attempted to ring him at the hospital, fearing a phone call could be overheard.

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Benjamin Erickson of Wisconsin named as Brown University shooter

Benjamin Erickson and sibling

The person of interest in the deadly mass shooting at Brown University has been ID’d as a 24-year-old man from Wisconsin with possible long-standing mental-health issues, law-enforcement sources told The Post.

Benjamin Erickson was nabbed at a local hotel room after a gunman opened fire at the Ivy League institution’s Providence, RI, campus during a final-exam study session Saturday.


h/t NeoCon

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Expert warns of ‘unintended consequences’ if Canada implements youth social media ban

Australia’s first-of-its-kind legislation that restricts young people from using popular social media sites came into effect Wednesday, and other countries are considering following suit, but an expert says a similar blanket ban for youth isn’t likely to work in Canada.

Australians under the age of 16 are no longer legally permitted to have accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X, YouTube, Snapchat, Reddit, Kick, Twitch or TikTok.

As of Wednesday, those platforms were expected to have removed any accounts in violation of the new law and to have measures put in place to prevent those teens from making new ones.

Start with the kids finish with the adults.

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Bondi Beach terrorists were father and son who legally owned 6 guns — despite tough firearms laws

The two gunmen who opened fire on Australia’s Bondi Beach where thousands of Jews were celebrating Hanukkah are believed to be a father-son duo who had a trove of legally-owned guns.

Naveed Akram, 24, and his 50-year-old accomplice are believed to be father and son, authorities said on Monday.

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New York is the 8th state found to have improperly issued commercial driver’s licenses to Illegal alien invaders

New York is the eighth state found to routinely issue commercial driver’s licenses to immigrants that are valid long after they are no longer legally authorized to be in the country, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Friday, and he threatened to withhold $73 million in highway funds unless the system is fixed and any flawed licenses are revoked.

New York was the fourth state run by a Democratic governor called out publicly by Duffy in his effort to make sure truck and bus drivers are qualified to either haul passengers or 80,000 pounds of cargo down the highway. He previously questioned similar practices in California, Pennsylvania and Minnesota.

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GUNTER: Floor-crossers to Liberals go against voters’ wishes

I’m sorry, Mr. Ma, but it makes you look a little flaky to be elected to the House of Commons for the first time in April, then in December to switch parties from the Conservatives to the Liberals.

Yet that’s exactly what Ontario MP Michael Ma did on Thursday. After being elected as a rookie Conservative in the riding of Markham-Unionville not quite eight months ago, Ma decided to flip allegiances.

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