Muslim “student” accused of terror plot in New York welcomed with open arms into Trudeau’s Canada, records show

A foreign student in Canada accused of plotting an Islamic State-inspired attack against Jews living in New York entered this country last year without raising any red flags that triggered additional screening by federal security agencies, according to records tabled Thursday at a parliamentary inquiry.

Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, a 20-year-old Pakistani national residing in the Toronto area for the past year, was arrested in Quebec earlier this month. He now faces extradition to the United States on charges that he was lending material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization.

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What’s happening to Toronto’s commemorative plaques?

City staff are trying to unravel the mystery of the missing hardware.

At least 18 bronze commemorative plaques — worth thousands of dollars each — have vanished from bridges and parks in the midtown core, according to a count by CBC Toronto.

Staff are reluctant to speculate about what may have happened to them.

What a city. You can feel the decay.

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Inside Canada’s ‘exploitative’ clinical trial industry, where study participants say they’re incentivized to lie — even about medications’ side effects

Seized with anxiety after days of painful cramps and bloody stool, Franco answered a call from the research company that had been dosing him with an experimental medication in exchange for money.

A staffer told him their tests showed one of his organs was inflamed and that a doctor needed to examine him.

“Is this something, like, permanent?” Franco asked.

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Rebel News not eligible for journalism tax credits, Federal Court rules

A Federal Court judge has upheld the government’s decision that far-right media outlet Rebel News doesn’t qualify for journalism tax credits because it doesn’t produce enough original content.

Rebel News applied in May 2021 to be designated as a qualified Canadian journalism organization, but was rejected by the Canada Revenue Agency, which found that less than one per cent of its content was original news.

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Feds and State AG Investigate an Alleged Human Trafficking Empire Run in Springfield, Ohio, for Years by ‘King George’

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio – Last Saturday evening, I arrived at the Haitian Community Help and Support Center here on S. Yellow Springs Street, drawn by former President Donald Trump’s explosive claim in the presidential debate days earlier that migrants from Haiti are “eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats, they’re eating the pets of the people who live there.”

But in just 72 hours, I uncovered something sinister that is the real story in this town of about 58,000 locals and an estimated 15,000 migrant workers—a long-standing, hidden human trafficking network that has upended the lives of both the Haitian migrants and local residents. According to sources, with whistleblowers coming forward, FBI anti-trafficking agents and Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost are investigating the allegations of human trafficking in Springfield.

h/t DS

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How construction costs of Royal Canadian Navy Joint Support Ships soared to $3.4B

The difficulties encountered in building Canada’s new supply ships is behind much of the almost billion dollar jump in price for the two vessels, federal statistics show.

The actual construction of the two Joint Support Ships for the Royal Canadian Navy was supposed to cost taxpayers around $2.5 billion but last month the federal government revealed that cost had now jumped to $3.4 billion.

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