Canada’s crypto tax crackdown reaps millions. So why no criminal charges?

VANCOUVER – A team of Canada Revenue Agency “cryptoasset auditors” has been mining a rich seam of unpaid taxes, working on more than 200 files and reaping more $100 million in the last three years.

While the agency says up to 40 per cent of taxpayers who use cryptoasset platforms either haven’t filed their taxes or are at high risk of non-compliance, no criminal charges have been laid since 2020.

Court filings involving a Vancouver-based crypto firm suggest the federal government’s efforts to rein in crypto-based tax evasion and illicit financing are hampered by limited resources for enforcement in a space hallmarked by its borderless anonymity.

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Trump Offers Europe Tough Love: Defend Yourself Within Two Years

‘The days of the United States propping up the entire world order like Atlas are over,’ the president’s new Security Strategy says.

Europe should have the soldiers and equipment to defend itself two years from now, by the end of 2027. That is the gist of President Trump’s Security Strategy, released yesterday.

“The days of the United States propping up the entire world order like Atlas are over,” reads the strategy document that sets the parameters for the second Trump term. Earlier this year, in face of Trump Administration impatience with Europe, the European Union set a target of making the continent ready to defend itself by 2030. With major shortfalls in air defense, cyber warfare, intelligence and drones, many analysts warned  the goal was over ambitious.

h/t Mauser

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Trump forced Canada to scrap its digital services tax — but did he save Carney from bad policy?

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Prime Minister Mark Carney rescinded Canada’s digital services tax (DST), a three per cent levy on digital services revenue from large domestic and foreign businesses, in June after President Donald Trump threatened to halt trade talks if the tax took effect. The repeal was a strategic move to restart stalled negotiations with the United States, which soon resumed after Carney’s announcement but were again disrupted later … by a Ronald Reagan ad. Despite removing the DST to ease tensions, Carney has little to show for it.

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Canadians face confusion over new U.S. border crossing rules

Angela and Leigh Faubert have been going to the U.S. for many years, travelling months on end throughout the winter.

On Nov. 6, they crossed the border between Aldergrove, B.C. and Washington.

This border crossing, however, was unlike any other they’d done before.

“We crossed the border, and they asked me to pull up on the other side of the border and told to walk into this little building,” said Leigh. “I had to get fingerprinted, show my passport. I think it was $30 that we had to pay, and I had to get my photo taken.”


I am expecting an onslaught of Muslims refused entry at US border stories.

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Christmas returns to Bethlehem with tree-lighting ceremony — for first time since outset of war in Gaza

From missiles to mistletoe.

Christmas celebrations publicly returned to Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, for the first time since the outset of the war in Gaza.

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Liberals look to criminalize faith, while allowing hate to fester

In their attempt to protect vulnerable Canadians from hate crimes, the Liberals are planning to criminalize faith.

This is the compromise they have reportedly made to pass Bill C-9, which would ban the public display of swastikas and terrorist symbols to incite hate against an identifiable group, and create new offences for “hate crime” and religious obstruction.

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Swiss man jailed after saying women and men have different skeletons

A Swiss musician claims to have been imprisoned for a post on social media in which he said that skeletons can only be male or female.

Emanuel Brünisholz was convicted of hate speech and fined by a court in the Swiss canton of Bern over the Facebook post, which also suggested that trans people were mentally ill.

When he refused to pay the fine, Brünisholz was instead sentenced to ten days in prison and began his sentence on Tuesday.

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TTC employee and customer charged after allegedly stabbing each other at subway station

A TTC employee and a customer have been charged after they allegedly stabbed each other at a downtown subway station last week.

Toronto police said a call came in for a stabbing at TMU Station, formerly named Dundas Station, on the afternoon of Nov. 26.

Police initially told reporters that only a TTC employee was stabbed and that a male was subsequently arrested.

h/t Patti Jo

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Iran arrests marathon organisers over women not wearing hijab

The Iranian judiciary says two organisers of a marathon have been arrested for allowing women who were not wearing hijabs to take part.

The move comes after images appeared online of unveiled women competing in the race on Friday.

Around 2,000 women and 3,000 men took part separately in the marathon on Kish Island off the southern coast of Iran.

Dressed in red t-shirts, some of the female competitors were clearly not wearing the hijab or any other head covering.

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GOLDSTEIN: Guilbeault playing separatist card to oppose Alberta pipeline

Steven Guilbeault Enjoys Kissing Xi Jinpings Ass

Steven Guilbeault’s claim the federal government’s memorandum of understanding with Alberta to build an oil pipeline to B.C. is fuelling Quebec separatism is nonsense.

In interviews with Bloomberg News and the CBC last week after he quit the federal cabinet, Guilbeault attempted to toss a grenade into Canadian unity by arguing that by signing the MOU with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, Prime Minister Mark Carney is fuelling Quebec separatism.

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Like Trump, Benjamin Franklin Sought to Annex Canada

After Madelaine Drohan left a long and distinguished career in journalism for graduate studies in history, she took on a largely forgotten aspect of the relationship between Canada and the United States. The result was her recently published book, “He Did Not Conquer: Benjamin Franklin’s Failure to Annex Canada.”

My conversation with Madelaine, who is now a senior fellow at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, has been edited for length and clarity.

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