OTTAWA – After six years of costly indecision, the federal government will spend more than $400,000 to dispose of a Canadian Coast Guard vessel that spent more years as a “dead” ship than a seaworthy vessel.
Built in 2013, CCGS Corporal McLaren M.M.V. will have the unfortunate honour of having spent the majority of its 10 years of service as a boat-shaped hunk of metal more accustomed to dry land than swelling seas.
The New Year began in America with news that a Ford F-150 Lightning pick-up truck had been driven into crowds on Bourbon Street, in New Orleans’ French Quarter, killing 15 and injuring 35 more. The suspect then exited the vehicle and opened fire, wounding two police officers, before being shot dead. The assailant has been identified as 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a US army veteran born in Texas. While this had all the hallmarks of an Islamist attack, the FBI were quick to have a barely-literate confirm “it is not a terrorist event”. This was then recanted, when it was revealed that Jabbar was flying an ISIS flag from the trailer hitch of the truck, and that two improvised explosive devices were found near the scene. Now, the FBI suspects Jabbar did not work alone.
While the FBI hunts Canadian fugitive Ryan Wedding, U.S. authorities are warning he remains a threat and likely still has a team of contract killers at the ready.
Wedding, who competed for Canada as a snowboarder at the 2002 Olympic Games, is accused of running a violent, $1-billion US transnational criminal enterprise. He remains on the lam while facing murder and drug trafficking charges in California.
Between them, Wedding and his top lieutenant, fellow Canadian Andrew Clark, are accused of orchestrating at least four killings in southern Ontario, including the mistaken-identity shootings of the Sidhu family in November 2023.
Well I hope they’re sustainable hitmen!
Toronto Police are now investigating after troubling flag emblazoned with two M4 carbine guns that represents a known Middle East terror group was displayed at a downtown rally on New Years Eve.
“The Hate Crime Unit is investigating this incident,” Toronto Police spokesperson Nadine Ramadan said Thursday.
Is it Chairman Chow calling the shots or that Muslim she appointed deputy mayor?
A Toronto-area teen has been arrested on suspicion he was planning to travel abroad to join ISIS, CBC News has learned.
Court records show the RCMP applied last month for a terrorism peace bond in the case, which would restrict the movements of the 18-year-old from Newmarket, Ont. The accused can’t be named due to his age.
“Although the defendant is an adult now, much of the allegations occurred while he was a young person,” said Nathalie Houle, a spokesperson for the Public Prosecution Service of Canada.
If only we had been less Islamophobic!
Thirteen percent of the Canadian population expects aliens to visit earth in 2025 while 30 percent are convinced life will be discovered on other planets, a recently released survey suggests.
Those beliefs are even more prevalent globally. A global survey conducted by Ipsos found that 18 percent of respondents across 33 countries believe this year will mark the arrival of aliens on earth while 34 percent expect life to be discovered on other planets in 2025.
Interesting chat.
Businessman and TV personality Kevin O’Leary has become a travelling salesman for the Great White North as of late. His one-man crusade to promote a stronger Canada-U.S. economic union would have been fine on its own. But alas, he couldn’t help himself (again) and made it all about himself (again) by attempting to get directly involved in a discussion he wasn’t asked to join.
Kathy Paquette had been following the Facebook posts about the vessels in Ontario’s cottage country for about a year when she and husband Wayne decided to pack up, sell their century-old house in Midland, Ont., and sink their savings into a home that floats on the water.
It’s a simple formula: Tequila > Maple Syrup.
Imagine you’re a single guy with a pretty good job. Your buddy offers to set you up with one of his two female friends. But the catch is, you have to choose which one.
Canadian military leaders cancelled a proposed combat action badge in 2008 because they were worried soldiers in Afghanistan would risk their lives to attain the coveted honour, according to newly declassified records.
In addition, there were concerns that navy and air force personnel would find it difficult to qualify as the Combat Action Badge or CAB favoured those involved in ground fighting.
In an era where global security threats are evolving in unexpected ways, a chilling new frontier has emerged: the battle beneath the waves.
Undersea communication cables—the hidden arteries that carry more than 95 per cent of the world’s data—have become prime targets in geopolitical competition. These cables underpin everything from financial transactions to government communications and military operations, making them critical to modern society’s function. But, as recent attacks have demonstrated, they are alarmingly vulnerable.
Comedian Mark Critch landed a year-end interview with Justin Trudeau, touching on the prime minister’s political struggles, divorce and Donald Trump.
This is better than the stale Critch interview gimmick.
Trudeau finds himself, yet again, as an easy target of international ridicule.
As @DouglasKMurray so eloquently puts it:
"Other than going back to drama teaching, and I really pity his students even on that, I don't know what Trudeau's good for.
He's a narcissistic little… pic.twitter.com/Lh02QSgQXU
— Bret (@Bret_Sears) December 5, 2024
Let’s stipulate for the record: U.S. president-elect Donald Trump is a jerk with a serious lack of self-control. So when he mocked Canada as a potential “51st state,” he did the one thing no Canadian politician has managed to do: unify a deeply divided country. Talk like this, and his threatened tariffs, has created a wide reaction against Trump, not only from the predictable progressive types, but even conservative figures like Ontario Premier Doug Ford.
The year 2025 will be a good one for Canadians.
Our dysfunctional Liberal government signed off for their Christmas vacation with their house in shambles: a disappearing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who may or may not resign when he returns to Parliament in the new year; a defiant former deputy prime minister and finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, whose resignation delivered a near-fatal blow to Trudeau’s leadership; a liberal caucus on the verge of revolt; and Trudeau’s self-serving New Democratic lapdog, Jagmeet Singh, finally within finger’s reach of the coveted pension that has held Canada hostage to his avarice for far too long.
