For more than 36 years, Tim Rees has been considered the most heinous of criminals — a child killer.
The 62-year-old emerged Thursday from the downtown Toronto courthouse into the wintry sunshine, that yoke of shame finally lifted after the Crown withdrew the murder charge against him.
Good God.
In holistic communities and midwifery deserts, women are turning to the Free Birth Society for information and unlicensed providers
When the holistic practitioner Emma Cardinal, 32, became pregnant in May 2023, she planned to have a home birth with midwives. Cardinal lives in a town in British Columbia with strong counter-cultural roots. “The community that I live in, home birth is something a lot of women prioritise,” she explains.
Then Cardinal stumbled across a podcast from the Free Birth Society (FBS). One episode in particular, she says, made an impact: “Unpacking Ultrasound With Yolande Clark.” In it, the Canadian ex-doula Yolande Norris-Clark falsely links ultrasounds to autism and ADHD and states that “ultrasound damages and modifies and destroys cells”.
Two weeks ago Carlos Portugal Gouvea, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. The event went unnoticed in Canada and left barely a ripple in U.S. media. But two months prior Gouvea, a noted Brazilian gun-control activist and head of the University of São Paulo’s “diversity and inclusion committee”, had been observed wielding what looked like a rifle close by Temple Beth Zion, a synagogue in the Boston suburb of Brookline, during Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
After fleeing security guards, Gouvea was arrested with what turned out to be a pellet gun. He told local police he had been out “hunting rats”; one of his shots had shattered a car window. Within days, Gouvea was charged with four offences, his visa was revoked and a U.S. Department of Homeland Security official denounced “brazen, violent acts of anti-Semitism like this.” In November Gouvea struck a plea deal over his illegal use of the air rifle. Early this month he was re-arrested by ICE and, to avoid the humiliation of deportation, agreed to leave the U.S. “voluntarily”.
It’s cause we’re being taxed into oblivion here
To pay for programs like these
Make it make sense pic.twitter.com/SSLKCDk70s
— Creet.sol (@ConcreteXCrypto) December 19, 2025
The Globe insults Canucks. Canucks insult them right back, that’s some Ratio…
Article link – Canada has become a nation of charity grinches
‘Tis the season for giving, but for Canadians that increasingly entails foregoing gifts to charities.
The share of tax-filers in Canada who reported that they donated to charity sat at just 16.8 per cent in 2023, according to the latest numbers from Statistics Canada, down from nearly 22 per cent a decade earlier.
Police in Toronto and Peel Region have charged three men in connection with a string of crimes linked to an alleged Toronto-area ISIS terror cell, targeting Toronto’s Jewish community.
In a joint video statement released Friday, Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw, Peel Regional Police Chief Nishan Duraiappah and RCMP Assistant Commissioner Matt Peggs announced the results of Project Neopolitan — a probe into terror allegations that stemmed from an investigation into two violent attacks over the summer, uncovering an Islamic State-linked terror plot targeting women and members of the GTA Jewish community.
@fancypants_s https://t.co/SfRIgINYZB
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) December 19, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
[Ottawa – December 17, 2025] As the debate over Canada’s next-generation fighter jet continues, Canadians are leaning decisively away from an all-F-35 future.
When asked which option is best for Canada – the Lockheed Martin F-35 or the Saab Gripen – seven in ten Canadians (72 per cent) support incorporating the Gripen into Canada’s fighter fleet, either by switching to the aircraft for all future purchases (43 per cent) or by maintaining a mixed fleet of both Gripens and F-35s (29 per cent). Just one in eight (13 per cent) say Canada should continue with the F-35 as its primary fighter jet.
Births in Canada to foreign visitors and other non-residents have risen in the past year, an expert in immigration statistics has found after analyzing hospital data.
The research, published in a report on Wednesday, shows a small increase in births at Canadian hospitals to temporary residents, such as international students and people here on work permits.
The arrest of a Canadian Armed Forces intelligence operator on espionage charges appears to have its origins in another murky episode that has vexed the country’s military establishment for more than a year.
The operator, Master Warrant Officer Matthew Shawn Robar, was arrested and charged Dec. 10 with multiple offences related to passing highly sensitive government secrets to what court documents released this week refer to as a “foreign entity.” He was released from custody Monday under strict conditions.
Accusations of espionage on behalf of both Ukraine and Russia.
I wonder if Freeland is involved in some way!
MONTREAL — Montreal for Palestine stopped by the city’s downtown Christmas market on Sunday to harass and intimidate its patrons — on the same day that an antisemitic terrorist attack took place in Australia.
On Sunday, Montrealers woke to news of a mass shooting that targeted a Hanukkah event on Australia’s Bondi Beach. Two men — a father and son — opened fire on the crowd, killing 15 and injuring about 40. Those killed ranged in age from 10 to 87 and included two rabbis, a 10-year-old girl and a Holocaust survivor.
This …
@fancypants_s https://t.co/JlB4naUEHM
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) December 17, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
As an Egyptian-Canadian journalist of the Muslim faith and human rights defender, I strongly urge the Canadian government to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.
The story of this malicious transnational Sunni Islamist organization starts in Egypt in 1928. The ideas of its founder, Hassan al-Banna, spread globally, influencing charitable organizations, political parties and violent Islamist groups, such as Hamas.
Look, we get it, we really do.
Our federal government constantly vilifying Israel makes it clear what it’s going to be like for Jews in Canada for the foreseeable future. That what stretches before us are years of antisemitic attacks, far beyond the norm, simply because we’re Jews, which security experts warn will inevitably escalate into a major terrorist attack, even if there’s no immediate threat today.
From AB – the contrast between Calgary’s mayor and Chow is night and day.
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In a world gone digital, Canadians aren’t quite ready to give up on cash. Let’s keep it that way.
According to a recent Bank of Canada survey, paper money accounted for just 20 per cent of all transactions last year, down from 54 per cent in 2009. One-fifth of Canadians say they no longer carry any cash on a daily basis.
Canada’s healthcare system used to be a source of pride for my country. It was regarded as one of the world’s best examples of a publicly-funded insurance system, free at the point of use, ranking highly for accessibility, care, compassion and the treatment of major and minor illnesses.
No longer. In 2024, the influential Commonwealth Fund survey placed Canada in seventh place out of ten developed countries, with a particularly poor score for access to care. In January, the Canada-based CD Howe Institute gave the country’s healthcare system an even gloomier diagnosis: it was placed ninth out of 10 countries, with all provinces and territories falling below the international average for overall healthcare performance.
OTTAWA — U.S. President Donald Trump wants the relationship with Canada to be one of “dependence” on the United States, and is not talking about ripping up the trilateral free trade pact but renegotiating it, says Prime Minister Mark Carney.
In a pair of French-language interviews marking the year’s end, Carney revealed for the first time details of his private conversation earlier this month with Trump and Mexican President Claudia
Sheinbaum on the sidelines of the World Cup soccer draw in Washington — which came following a stormy six-week hiatus after Trump cut off bilateral trade talks on sectoral tariffs.
Canada’s population dropped by about 76,000 from July to October, according to federal estimates, in a decrease largely attributed to immigration policy.
Statistics Canada published its preliminary Q3 report Wednesday morning, which estimated Canada’s population to be 41,575,585 as of Oct. 1.
The main factor was a sharp reduction in non-permanent residents, whose numbers dropped by 176,479 – the largest drop since comparable records began, wrote the agency.
Cripes Liberal media is playing this up like the country will be empty next week.
