German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday that aspects of the Trump administration’s National Security Strategy paper are “unacceptable” to Europeans.
Last week, the White House released its formal National Security Strategy paper, which criticised European Union nations for engaging in mass migration and censorship, which Washington warned would lead the continent towards “civilizational erasure”.
Pro-Palestinian activist Yves Engler barred from running for NDP leadership
OTTAWA – Self-described “agitator” Yves Engler says he has been denied entry into the NDP leadership race.
Engler says in a statement this morning he wants the party’s federal council to overturn a decision from the leadership vote committee to disqualify his candidacy.
NDP leadership rules say this committee will approve or reject candidates based on their ability to meet eligibility rules and demonstrate integrity and honesty.
When the woman’s phone began to ring one morning in June, she did not know that the news she would receive would hurtle her and her teenage daughter into a “tunnel” of medical appointments, tests — and fear.
On the other end of the line, she said, was the head of the fertility department at a Belgian clinic she had visited in 2011 to undergo fertility treatment, which at the time was not available to would-be single mothers in France. After her daughter was successfully conceived, she said, she had never heard from the clinic again.
Liberal MPs on the House justice committee backed a Bloc Québécois proposal to remove a religious exemption from Canada’s hate speech laws — after the suggestion initially appeared to halt the government’s anti-hate legislation.
The Criminal Code currently includes an exemption for hate speech, “if, in good faith, the person expressed or attempted to establish by an argument an opinion on a religious subject or an opinion based on a belief in a religious text.”
On Tuesday evening, the justice committee added a Bloc amendment to the Liberals’ Bill C-9 — dubbed the Combatting Hate Act — that would remove the religious exemption.
Start counting the number of attacks against Christians as opposed to Islam.
Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine will soon enter its fifth year. Mysterious incidents of so-called “hybrid warfare” are mounting in Europe, increasing tensions. And in the UK, military chiefs have warned we must prepare for war if we want to avoid it. But if the unthinkable happened, and war with Russia broke out, could the UK fight for more than just a few weeks?
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s last-minute trip to October’s Gaza peace summit in Egypt cost Canadian taxpayers more than $736,466 — more than three times higher than it would have been if the Royal Canadian Air Force had been able to supply a plane.
While the government chartered a Bombardier Global 5000 jet from the Chartright Air Group, in an answer tabled in the House of Commons, the Department of National Defence estimates using a government-owned Challenger aircraft would have cost $198,800.
It is hard now even for Democrats to defend illegal immigration, given that the Biden administration allowed in more than 10 million entrants. Among them were an estimated 500,000 criminals. No one believes that was wise or should ever be repeated.
Worse, the message went out that there would be few, if any, deportations and no real ICE kinetic activity beyond the border.
The world’s poor, sick, both law-abiding and criminal, young and old, understood that anyone could now enter the US at will. Deterrence and legality were lost.
Trump on Ilhan Omar: "She comes with that little turban and does nothing but b*tch" pic.twitter.com/9QF6VgWYk1
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 10, 2025
The Department of National Defence is scrambling to figure out how it will clothe, equip and train hundreds of thousands of new reservists envisioned under an ambitious mobilization proposal that Canada’s top military commander describes as a work in progress.
Similarly, in what may be an ominous sign of the times, the department has established a key position dedicated solely to growing the military in the event of a major crisis.
Internal documents obtained by CBC News show the military buildup will, at the moment, proceed slowly because the defence industry is either overwhelmed — or not equipped for the ramp-up.
I suspect the real reason for Ottawa arming it’s loyal Elbow People is the anticipated need to put down a citizen revolt.
People are fed up with seeing Canada destroyed by 3rd World immigration and DEI never mind the blatant corruption of the carpet-bagging Carney government.
As soldiers face endless Russian pressure, the prospect of dying to defend land that could be given away at the peace table is damaging morale
The explosion reverberated through the city streets as another drone hit, drowning out staccato bursts of anti-aircraft fire. The Ukrainian troops defending Kramatorsk barely batted an eyelid.
The largest Ukrainian-held city in the Donbas, Kramatorsk is at the heart of the country’s “fortress belt” — probably its strongest defensive line. A series of heavy fortifications run 30 miles down the H20 highway and around four large cities, Slovyansk, Kramatorsk, Druzhkivka and Kostyantynivka, as well as several smaller towns.
For 11 years, President Putin has tried and failed to take these cities by force. First through hybrid warfare in 2014, then the full-scale invasion of 2022. The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based military think tank, estimates it would still take Russian troops another “several years” to do so. Yet now President Trump wants to hand it to him as part of a US-brokered peace deal that would force Ukraine to surrender all its unoccupied territory in the Donbas.
Don't do drugs kids. pic.twitter.com/e27IHymrnW
— The Disrespected Trucker (@DisrespectedThe) December 8, 2025
Just days after Toronto’s newest transit line opened, the mayor and the TTC are both stepping in to try to speed up the $3.5-billion light-rail line.
Chow told reporters Tuesday morning that she plans to introduce a motion at council next week to implement signal priority on the Finch West LRT line in a bid to hurry trains along the new transit corridor after riders’ complaints.
“The train is not as fast as it can be, absolutely,” Chow said. “So, I’m hearing the feedback … I am bringing an item to council asking for transit signal priority, removing speed caps where possible and increasing service frequency.”
🚨NEW —
Toronto's brand new Finch West LRT goes SLOWER than a human on foot.
It took 55 minutes to complete its 10.5km maiden voyage….a pathetic pace of just 11.35 km/h
this is half the speed of a bicycle, and also slower than a human jogger.pic.twitter.com/HwdiG2MKxi
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) December 9, 2025
I’m calling another Chow fail. h/t Patti Jo
"Somalians belong to Somalia." https://t.co/2JDEWbQW5l pic.twitter.com/OeM4zofHeW
— Le Crapaud (@Le_Crapaud47) December 8, 2025
The banning of a UKIP protest in a Muslim community while pro-Palestine marches were allowed to take place in the wake of the Manchester synagogue attack has laid bare allegations of two-tiered policing by the Met.
A damning report by the think tank Policy Exchange today claimed that the widely held perception the force treats protest groups differently was in fact a ‘reality’.
In one example cited, the force applied for ‘very stringent conditions’ on a UKIP march in Tower Hamlets on the grounds it had caused ‘significant concern’ among the Muslim community.
Some of the Somalians have been here almost 30 years and still not have assimilated.
They purposely choose not to learn the English language.
100,000 Somalians live in Minnesota and they call it little Mogadishu. pic.twitter.com/TJMUu0Ge4F
— Molly Pitcher (@AmericanMama) December 8, 2025
