Eleven years ago, the Swedish employment minister visited Canada for advice on how best to integrate immigrants and refugees into the workforce. With Sweden now implementing some of the toughest immigration policies in Europe, Canada might want to return the favour to find out how it all went wrong for the country that prided itself on being the ultimate “humanitarian powerhouse.”
Sweden’s Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard recently announced that the Swedish government would be dropping not just the word but the entire concept of “Islamophobia,” out of a preference for freedom of speech.
“We are pushing for the term ‘Islamophobia’ to be replaced with what is called ‘anti-Muslim racism’ or ‘anti-Muslim hatred’ in English,” Stenergard said in response to a question from the Sweden Democrats party. Charges of “racist” or “Islamophobe” are being used worldwide to shut down anyone who questions or criticizes Islam or Islamist doctrines.
Sweden’s decision is long overdue.
Twenty-three innocent bystanders have been killed and 30 others wounded in gang-related shootings in Sweden over the past three years, according to police statistics released on Monday that have laid bare the Nordic country’s struggle to rein in a wave of violent crime rooted in failed migration policy.
The figures have come as Sweden continues to grapple with the legacy of decades of large-scale migration, with the country having received the highest per capita intake of migrants in Europe during the 2015 migration crisis. Swedish police have estimated that around 30,000 people in the country are directly involved with or have ties to gang networks, with newer assessments putting the figure of those connected to organised crime at more than 60,000.
22-year-old Syrian home care worker has been charged with multiple counts of assault, harassment, and unlawful recording involving elderly patients in the city of Örebro, Sweden, according to a report by Swedish outlet Samnytt.
The suspect, identified as Abdulrahman Al Khleef Almasalmeh, is accused of abusing at least 13 elderly individuals while employed in municipal home care services. The case, based on a prosecutor’s indictment, reportedly stems from an investigation involving a total of 15 complainants, including a 99-year-old woman. Two of the victims have since died.
There is a way the U.S. could play hardball with Canada, if the Liberal government of Prime Minister Mark Carney decides it wants to limit its purchase of F-35s in favour of the Gripen.
Critics who favour the Lockheed-Martin stealth fighter have long argued that the Swedish-built Gripen would not be interoperable with American aircraft and the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD).
That’s not what you see at the NATO air policing mission in Iceland, where Danish-owned F-35s have been training and operating alongside Swedish JAS-39 Gripens-Cs.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is inching closer to a possible decision to end Canada’s F-35 procurement plans and accept an offer from Sweden’s Saab, instead, with news this week revealing that the Swedish manufacturer is now providing Ottawa with detailed, technical information on what a JAS 39 Gripen fighter deal would actually look like in practice.
Among the topics currently being discussed in Ottawa are timelines for technology transfers, the speed at which a Canadian production line could be established, and how Canada could participate in future export sales of the aircraft.
Sweden is moving forward with plans to lower the age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 13 in serious cases as it grapples with a growing number of children recruited into gangs to carry out violent crimes without facing serious legal repercussions.
Justice Minister Gunnar Strommer said the country was in an “emergency situation” and stopping the use of children in criminal networks was a “crucial task” for the government.
But several authorities, including police, prison officials and prosecutors, have opposed the plan, with some worried that it may lead to even younger children becoming offenders.
Not so long ago, Sweden used to be leftists’ favorite example of effective government: It had a generous welfare system, boasted a highly educated population, and just seemed a little classier and cleaner than most parts of the United States. True, it then had a small, homogenous population of law-abiding, productive citizens, but most admirers conveniently ignored this key detail.
SWEDEN has long been regarded by the liberal elite as a socialist utopia. The truth is that, behind the facade, the Swedish deep state is as unpleasant and brutal as some other Western countries.
My Swedish wife and I discovered this to our cost when we tried to secure residency for me, her retired British husband. What followed has shocked even the most patriotic of Swedes and has given the lie to any kind of notion that modern ‘liberal democracies’ have either heart or moral conscience.
Sweden is in the midst of battling a migrant care worker sexual assault crisis, making elderly women vulnerable to traumatic violence.
An Iraqi citizen raped an 100-year-old woman in Stockholm in October, but was not deported on the basis that he has strong ties to the country.
An elderly woman died a week after being sexually assaulted by a Syrian care worker – who visited her house on the pretense of assisting her, and instead entered her bed without consent.
The Liberals set up a PSW migrant path, rape is what they had in mind for Granny.
As the Canadian government reviews its commitment to purchase American-made Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets, a new poll shows what Canadians think should be prioritized in procuring replacements to the aging CF-18s.
The CTV News and Nanos Research survey gauged Canadian’s views on what matters the most to them in terms of defence cooperation, in light of ongoing trade tensions with the U.S. and a pitch from Swedish manufacturer of the Gripen fighter jet, SAAB, to bring up to 10,000 manufacturing and research jobs to Canada if Ottawa adds the aircraft to its military fleet.
OTTAWA – Critics are questioning the solidity of Saab’s pitch to deliver 10,000 jobs in Canada if it decides to set up shop here to assemble Gripen fighter jets.
The Swedish company has said little about how it came to that number, making it hard to evaluate the offer.
Saab spokesperson Jenny Gerdes said the estimate reflects the “scale of work” the company anticipates bringing to the country, “should the Gripen be selected.”
“The figure is based on projected global demand for Gripen and the corresponding production, sustainment and R&D activities Canada would undertake,” Gerdes said in an email.
Lots of If’s.
Swedish taxpayers have been funding organisations tied to extremism, a leading political scientist warns, including a mosque that Sweden’s security service says has been used as an intelligence hub for the Iranian regime.
The Imam Ali Islamic Centre in Järfälla received 3.2 million kronor (€292,000) in 2023 from the Swedish Agency for Support for Religious Communities (SST). The money was channelled via the Islamic Shia Associations in Sweden (ISS), which shares the mosque’s address and has taken in 28.5 million kronor (€2.6 million) in subsidies since 2006. In total, SST handed out 80 million kronor (€7.3 million) to religious groups last year.
How decades of declining birthrates, rapid migration, and cultural misalignment helped transform one of the world’s safest societies into the West’s epicenter of sexual violence.
Sweden has spent the past month debating a court ruling that has unsettled even a nation accustomed to difficult conversations about immigration. In October 2025, the Court of Appeal for Upper Norrland upheld the conviction of Yazied Mohamed, an eighteen-year-old Eritrean refugee who raped 16-year-old Meya Åberg in a pedestrian underpass. The details were clear, the evidence immediate, the conviction uncontested. What stunned the country — and was reported across Aftonbladet, Expressen, SVT, and internationally by GB News — was the court’s conclusion that Mohamed could not be deported. The rape, the judges wrote, “did not last long enough” to qualify as “exceptionally serious,” the threshold required to override his protected refugee status.
The competition focused on each fighter jet’s capabilities in defending the North American continent and the likelihood of success in various missions against modern military forces.
The F-35 got a score of 95 per cent on military capabilities, with a total of 57.1 points out of 60.
By contrast, the Gripen-E finished with a score of 33 per cent, netting 19.8 points out of 60, according to the Department of National Defence (DND) ranking obtained by Radio-Canada.
Elbow People hardest hit.
