Gangs, anger over migration and the worst shooting in its history have turned a land of harmony into a tinderbox
Students scattered and found cover. Classrooms were barricaded and corridors became instant crime scenes. One woman used her shawl to try to stop a man next to her from bleeding to death. Another witness told a newspaper that he saw a “bloodbath … the sickest thing I’ve ever seen”.
On Tuesday, one police chief described the scene at Campus Risbergska, an adult education campus in Orebro in central Sweden, as resembling an “inferno”.
Nearly 20,000 Indian students have failed to enrol at their designated colleges and universities after arriving in Canada. This has raised significant concerns about immigration fraud and the misuse of the student visa system.
A variety of factors play into this mystery. The first involves many Indian students being lured by fake colleges. And some have used their student visas to enter Canada and work rather than study. Some of those students seem to have been misled by unregulated agents promising easy access to jobs or permanent residency.
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the architect of the European migration crisis, has once again criticised the leader of the centre-right CDU party, Friedrich Merz for allowing the right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party to support his proposals on toughening asylum laws.
Her criticism comes as a new poll shows that the majority of Germans disagree with her, with almost two-thirds of the country’s citizens wanting illegal and undocumented migrants turned back at the border.
The federal government’s dramatic immigration U-turn will mean an equally dramatic population growth U-turn. Though it will involve challenges, this course correction is likely to result in significant benefits for Canadians.
In October, the Trudeau government acknowledged growing opposition to high immigration and slashed the number of permanent residents to be admitted annually by 21 per cent — from a planned 500,000 in 2025, down to 395,000. The 2025–27 Immigration Levels Plan also, for the first time, includes formal caps on the numbers of international students and foreign workers — part of Ottawa’s effort to reduce temporary residents to five per cent of the population.
International study permit data an ‘earthquake’ for Canadian university finances
A dramatic decline in international study permits issued last year is quickly becoming an existential threat to the finances of Canadian postsecondary schools, say organizations representing the institutions.
“The drop in international students is like an earthquake hitting an education system that’s already structurally weakened by years of underinvestment,” said Gabriel Miller, president and CEO of Universities Canada.
Background, Foreign Student Scam Origin – Canada’s International Student Boom Was A $148M Government Campaign
Canada’s international student boom went from success to liability over just a few years. Policymakers that promoted the growth are now suddenly passing blame, presenting it as an overwhelming surprise. It turns out the growth was the intended outcome of a $148 million plan, including a new brand jointly owned and operated by the Federal, Provincial, and Territorial Governments. Policymakers are now presenting new limits as a response to public outcry, coincidentally in the same year the strategy ended. What timing!
Nestled in an expansive commercial park in Mississauga not far from Pearson airport, this converted office building is going to be the first stop for many asylum seekers once they set foot in Canada.
The long-anticipated Peel Reception Centre, near Dixie Road and Eglinton Avenue, will offer what municipal and federal officials hope is a sustainable solution to the refugee housing crisis that has seen claimants overwhelming local homeless shelters, sleeping on the streets and setting up tents in Greater Toronto over the last two years.
Their second stop should be the airport and rapid deportation. No more Benefit shoppers.
The man at the centre of a multimillion-dollar crime ring that stole items from Shoppers Drug Mart and resold them on Amazon won’t serve any jail time, as long as he follows a list of court-appointed rules.
Satnampal Chawla pleaded guilty to trafficking stolen property, after Halton Police orchestrated the biggest police takedown ever at Shoppers Drug Mart, dismantling an organization that had been stealing from 148 locations across Ontario in 2022.
… Chawla also forfeited nearly $2 million in cash and property that had been seized in police raids, Virk said last week. “He is extremely remorseful.”
… In another case, Mahmoud Mohammad Issa Mohammad v. Canada, a convicted terrorist managed to drag out his deportation battle 26 years. Mohammad – a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) convicted of taking part in a deadly attack on an Israeli plane at Athens airport in the 1960s – lied about his identity, his criminal past, as well as his ties to terrorist organizations. Kenney told reporters at the time “This case is almost a comedy of errors, with delays, with a system that was so bogged down in redundant process and endless appeals that it seemed to some that we would never be able to enforce the integrity of Canada’s immigration system and deport this terrorist killer.” Authorities cited Mohammad for misrepresentation on multiple grounds, yet he still managed to remain in Canada for decades. The threat of misrepresentation is a significant security concern. Thorough screening is crucial to ensure that those admitted do not pose security risks, given their possible affiliation with groups involved in violence or other activities that threaten national safety.
Ross McCredie’s parents immigrated from Ireland to London, Ont., established professions, bought a farm, became deeply involved in their community, and along the way paid their fair share of taxes.
They created a good southern Ontario life for young McCredie, who is now the CEO of Sutton Group, one of the largest real estate firms in the country. Still, at age 15, when McCredie saw the West Coast mountains for the first time, he thought he had discovered one of the most amazing places on Earth.
Of all the people you’d consult about U.S. immigration policy, the bishop of Rome is pretty far down the list.
Although he has more of a right to pontificate than most, the pope, like everyone else these days, has opinions on things he knows nothing about, and feels compelled to share them publicly.
According to an Abacus poll released in October, 72% of Canadians want lower immigration — a statistical supermajority that includes a majority of voters in all four major political parties and all age groups. A Leger poll released this September found that 66% of white Canadians — and 61% of non-white Canadians — feel this way.
Talk about a consensus! Woke academics and mainstream media pundits portray immigration as a divisive issue; in fact, there are few issues on which the Canadian public is as remarkably unified as this one.
Survey says more young Canadians believe the history of the Holocaust is exaggerated
OTTAWA – On Monday the world will mark eight decades since the liberation of Auschwitz, the notorious Nazi extermination camps where more than a million people, most of them Jews, were murdered during the Second World War.
But as world leaders and Auschwitz survivors prepare to gather at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in southern Poland, a new survey suggests a growing number of Canadians believe the history of the Holocaust has been exaggerated.
A panel survey commissioned by the Association of Canadian Studies and conducted by the polling firm Leger last spring found 18 per cent of Canadians between 18 and 24 years old agreed with the statement “I think the Holocaust was exaggerated.”
I wonder who these young “Canadians” are.
What is their ethnicity? Are they native born or of migrant background?
1st, 2nd, 3rd generation?
What is their religious upbringing if any? Mohammedan? Christian? Hindu?
Mass immigration has imported mass antisemitism, mass cultural incompatibility and mass cultural indifference to Canadian norms and values.
The 3rd world has little knowledge of or care for the holocaust having their own messy histories to sort.
Are pollsters able to sift this data?
Probably, but at the risk of being smeared as racist or phobic.
Do they choose to promote someone’s preferred narrative which rules out a deep dive?
Canada’s international student boom changed Brampton forever. As the program scales back dramatically, a strained community tries to adapt
Several times a week, Sukhman Kaur takes two buses from her basement apartment in Brampton through Mississauga to get to Toronto, where she attends George Brown College.
The 22-year-old, who is studying culinary management, says when she moved to Canada from India in December 2023 as an international student, she already knew that despite studying in Toronto, she would likely end up living in Brampton.
“The main reason I live here is because rent is lower than Toronto, but also lots of our community members live here, too,” said Kaur, speaking from the site in Brampton where former international students were protesting federal policy changes that have left them at risk of deportation. After several months, the protest ended last week. “There are also lots of industrial areas, and more part-time jobs for us who need to work to manage our expenses.”
This says stay away from Canada’s urban centres.
Spent the morning in Brampton with supporters and Members of Parliament who've joined our campaign. We have a lot of work to do and a great team behind us.
Reports this week point to new figures showing that “up to” 585,000 illegal migrants live in London, which is equivalent to one in 12 of the UK capital’s population. One migration expert told europeanconservative.com that the true number is likely to be “even higher.”
Migration Watch chairman Alp Mehmet said that the think tank “estimates the overall number of illegal migrants in the UK to be around 1.5-2 million, the bulk (circa 60%) of whom will be in the capital.”
In other words, there could be between 900,000 and 1.2 million illegal migrants in London.
