In case you were still wondering whether the federal government’s attitude has changed under its new leadership — well, it hasn’t.
In a House of Commons debate earlier this week, the new Liberal immigration minister, Lena Diab, evaded questions, defended her government’s record of over-immigration and finger-wagged the Opposition for drawing a connection between housing shortages and steep population growth.
Despite Carney’s vow to scale back immigration, the numbers keep going up — not counting those living here illegally
After several days of riots and rabble-rousing in response to the Trump administration’s ham-fisted determination to round up illegal immigrants, downtown Los Angeles was placed under curfew on Tuesday. The disorder has spread to more than a dozen American cities. There have been scores of arrests.
It has all made for great television and amusing political theatre, with Democrats shouting righteously about the rule of law and due process while ignoring their own support for “sanctuary” laws that undermine their own government’s capacity to enforce federal immigration legislation. Not to be outdone, Donald Trump’s Republicans have invoked the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act to back their plans for mass deportations. The 1798 law was about pirates.
Five years on from the COVID-19 pandemic, wait times for key surgeries have yet to bounce back, new data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) shows.
Released Thursday, the data set tracks wait times for “priority procedures” such as hip and knee replacements, cataract surgeries, cancer treatments including radiation therapy, and diagnostic imaging like MRI and CT scans.
While the total count of scheduled procedures has risen for some since 2019, the numbers show, Canadian patients are often still waiting longer to get them than before the pandemic began.
Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab faced questioning this week from Tory MPs who voiced concern about temporary immigrants remaining in Canada after their visas have expired.
Diab told the House of Commons on June 9 the expectation is they will leave on their own and that removals are not within the purview of her department.
Canadians have to learn how to Riot.
Families are fleeing their homes in Ballymena after masked rioters began to single out properties belonging to foreign nationals during a second night of race-related disorder in the Northern Irish town.
Witnesses described how gangs wearing black clothing and balaclavas shouted “where are the foreigners” as they marauded the streets, smashing windows and torching houses.
"Ireland is not the same little country it once was, that shift in the air, that fear that wasn't there before.
We will not sit quietly while safety becomes a luxury!" pic.twitter.com/2ZgABKDp2i
— MichaeloKeeffe (@Mick_O_Keeffe) June 11, 2025
Meanwhile in Northern Ireland
“Immigrants homes came under siege & people had to flee – a leisure centre was set on fire”
Riots & unrest spread out from Ballymena to other parts of Northern Ireland.
People are at breaking point – they don’t know what to do – but violence… pic.twitter.com/eVok55GX0J
— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) June 12, 2025
Ballymena Riots remind me of when Plymouth had enough…..
I actually had my head split open on this video. pic.twitter.com/7tMJEttk4Z
— DJE MEDIA (@DJEMEDIA_) June 9, 2025
Canada has moved up one spot to become the fourth largest recipient country of asylum seekers, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency.
Last year, Canada received a record 174,000 new refugee claims, of the 3.1 million new claims reported worldwide, said the agency’s 2024 global trends report released on Thursday. Canada was behind the U.S. (729,100), Egypt (433,900), Germany (229,800). In fifth was Spain at 167,400.
This country was also the second-largest resettlement country globally, welcoming 49,300 refugees in 2024, and led the world in granting permanent residence to 27,400 refugees.
The Great Replacement is a lie you know.
Canadian policymakers are helicoptering money to stimulate building, but it doesn’t appear to be working. Statistics Canada (Stat Can) data shows the total value of building permits fell sharply in April, dropping to the lowest monthly volume in nearly a year. The annual decline was so large it was amongst the largest since 2020.
Foreign-born heads of households in London cost Britain around £3.6 billion a year in discounted rent, Telegraph analysis suggests.
Nearly half of all social housing in the capital, 48 per cent, is occupied by foreign-born heads of household, data from the 2021 census shows. This is well over the national average of 19 per cent.
These households benefit from cheap rents which, when compared to private rent in London, average out at a discount of around £11,600 per year per household.
There’s a growing call across the US, loud, unapologetic, and long overdue: End all third-world immigration. Legal or illegal. Just shut it down.
h/t patthedog
Petrol bombs, fireworks, glass bottles and pieces of metal were thrown at police during a second night of “serious disorder” in Ballymena, Co Antrim.
Hundreds of people gathered and riot police were deployed around the Clonavon Terrace area. A police spokesperson said 17 officers were injured as they came under “sustained attack over a number of hours with multiple petrol bombs, heavy masonry, bricks and fireworks in their direction”.
Police fired less-than-lethal rounds and used a water cannon to disperse the crowd. Five people were arrested on suspicion of riotous behaviour.
Things are heating up in Ballymena.
This community has had enough of migrants attacking their children. pic.twitter.com/xX30KP73wu
— MichaeloKeeffe (@Mick_O_Keeffe) June 10, 2025
Ballymena
A second night of protest is underway after migrants attacked locals.
Police have brought out the water cannons but locals are not fazed. pic.twitter.com/Ax96DkqEGb
— MichaeloKeeffe (@Mick_O_Keeffe) June 10, 2025
I used to dismiss fears Britain was headed for open sectarian conflict, possibly even civil war, as overblown. Those expressing such unease were, I suspected, succumbing to their own subconscious cognitive bias and exaggerating the scale of the problem.
After all, does the UK really have the ingredients for such internal strife? We live in an inefficient and messed up society, but not a “failed” one. Taxes are paid, people who want to be are employed, we have abundant food, clothing and energy – at least until Ed Miliband’s climate fanaticism catches up with us. We don’t have America’s gun problem, even if gang violence has become a feature of British life. We have, relative to other developed nations, successfully integrated migrants in large numbers.
The West has committed a grave philosophical error: we have come to view countries not as civilizations but as corporations, and citizenship not as a sacred bond but as a kind of customer loyalty program.
Nowhere is this more evident than in Canada, where national identity has been hollowed out and replaced with an abstract collection of economic indicators and talking points: growth is good, immigration is GDP, diversity is strength. The country, we are told, is “open for business,” but rarely do we hear what that business is for.
Fifteen police officers were injured and four houses set alight in anti-migrant riots after two teenagers, thought to be Romanian, were charged with the sexual assault of a girl in Northern Ireland.
Two 14-year-old boys appeared at a local court by video link on Monday, charged with attempted rape. The charges were read to them by a Romanian interpreter.
Violence erupted in Ballymena, County Antrim, on Monday night after a peaceful vigil by hundreds of people had been held in the town centre.
Ballymena Riots
Two Roma boys 14 who required a Romanian interpreter in court have been charged with attempted rape. The victim is aged 13.
Angry locals broke the windows of their parent's houses & later set fire to a house after setting aflame the barricades.
A follower… pic.twitter.com/xi7eypEqee
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) June 10, 2025
Ballymena
What looks to be thousands of locals out protesting the two rapes in as many weeks by foreigners.
— Real News Éire (@real_eire) June 9, 2025
There have been a lot of changes since Cathy Gyles and her husband Julian Serra moved into their modest Victorian terraced house more than four decades ago.
Since then, the couple have dedicated their lives to others as NHS workers looking after their community in the Highfields suburb of Leicester and beyond.
They have taken it for granted that those they have cared for and worked alongside have come from a variety of backgrounds.
The 2021 census revealed Leicester had become one of the first cities in the UK where white people are no longer the majority – with 59 per cent of its population coming from minority ethnic backgrounds.
Yet the data reveals a more startling statistic. Cathy, 64, and Julian, 60, are living in a neighbourhood where there are just three white Britons.
It already is an island of strangers.
In the Ontario village of Schomberg, the local stone masonry shop is known for holding the Guinness world record for the tallest freestanding inukshuk sculpture.
Since last year, the company, which crafts marble columns and limestone windowsills out of stone from its quarries, has cultivated another cause for renown: rescuing Syrian refugees.
Peter Melo, general manager of Allstone Quarry Products, has helped two refugees establish new lives in Canada with their families, and he is in the process of hiring one more.
I bet he’s as Big Hearted as the wage subsidy he gets for giving jobs to foreigners. Just what we need – more Muslims.
