With Canada in the midst of a labour crunch, the Government of Canada has unveiled new targets to keep one-quarter of the the country’s labour force filled by immigrants.
The figure is contained in a new departmental plan released last Friday by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
The European Union has experienced quite a few shocks over the past two decades. The most significant one was not Covid, or Brexit, or the Ukraine war. It was the sovereign debt crisis. The fairytale story is that Mario Draghi single-handedly ended the crisis when he told the world that he would do “whatever it takes” to save the euro. He was the president of the European Central Bank when he announced a backstop. It is a convenient explanation because it assumes that the crisis is over.
I am going to put my head on the block to predict that this crisis could come back sooner than we think. Last time, it was the southern Europeans who triggered it. This time, it is the northern Europeans with their relentless push for an increase in defence spending to 5% of GDP.
Canadian border authorities say they are investigating or taking enforcement action in 66 cases involving suspected senior Iranian officials who may have been allowed into Canada, despite a law that bars them from entering the country or remaining in it.
Of the 66, the Canada Border Services Agency has so far identified 20 people as inadmissible because they are believed to be senior Iranian officials, according to figures the agency provided to The Globe and Mail.
This burger was made in a lab from cow cells… Should it really be served in restaurants?
Inside an anonymous building in Oxford, Riley Jackson is frying a steak. The perfectly red fillet cut sizzles in the pan, its juices releasing a meaty aroma. But this is no ordinary steak. It was grown in the lab next door.
What’s strangest of all is just how real it looks. The texture, when cut, is indistinguishable from the real thing.
“That’s our goal,” says Ms Jackson of Ivy Farm Technologies, the food tech start-up that created it. “We want it to be as close to a normal steak as possible.”
U.S. President Donald Trump finally acts like the leader of the free world he is supposed to be by bombing Iran’s nuclear sites, and his critics in the media are giving themselves a concussion trying to spin it as a bad thing.
There has been the usual chorus of complaints from left-wing and some conservative (ugh) commentators, along with Democrats. The arguments are largely recycled from the opposition to former president George W. Bush’s 2003 invasion of Iraq, or any argument marshalled against the U.S. doing anything useful in the world whatsoever: Trump was acting unilaterally; the strikes were unlawful or unconstitutional; the consequences are unpredictable; there was not enough time for diplomacy; Israel is just as bad as Iran; or my personal favourite, Trump did the right thing, but it is now the wrong thing because Trump did it.
The NATPO has its own roster of the TDS afflicted, Ivison, McParland, Selley to name just 3 couldn’t put together a column on watching grass grow without an anti-Trump rant.
THE HAGUE — President Donald Trump fell short Tuesday of fully endorsing Washington’s promise to defend its allies, saying of NATO nations that “I’m committed to being their friends” but that whether he is committed to their mutual defense “depends on your definition.”
…Rutte also sent Trump a highly conciliatory direct message on the Signal messaging app, saying: “Congratulations and thank you for your decisive action in Iran, that was truly extraordinary, and something no one else dared to do. It makes us all safer.”
…Rutte’s comments were intended for Trump alone, a senior European diplomat said, noting that his language about the U.S. strike on Iran was likely to be divisive inside NATO, since some countries have condemned the attack as a violation of international law.
Imagine that, NATO Euroweenies siding with Iran. Walking away from NATO makes more sense all the time.
LMAO! The NATO Chief just called President Trump “Daddy” following his f-bomb drop
47 runs this show pic.twitter.com/WRv2HYBOh9
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) June 25, 2025
WTF? I hate using the TTC now. @fancypants_s https://t.co/0NqC6BcJsm
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) June 25, 2025
Shithole city.
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada and its NATO allies have all agreed to hike their defence-spending target to five per cent of annual GDP by 2035.
Carney says Canada can no longer rely on its geography to protect it as new weapons and threats emerge on the wold stage.
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte put forward a plan that says allies will invest 3.5 per cent in core defence needs — such as jets and weapons — and 1.5 per cent in defence-adjacent areas, such as infrastructure and cybersecurity.
Socialist Zohran Mamdani’s stunning victory over three-term ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in Tuesday’s mayoral primary is a “political earthquake” that will pressure the national Democratic Party to move further left, political analysts told The Post.
Dems who got trounced by President Trump and the GOP last year will have to pay more attention to the views of progressive, younger voters who propelled Mamdani’s candidacy — as well as struggling working-class voters — as they prepare for midterm congressional elections, strategists, pollsters and union leaders said.
What Have You Done, NYC? India Tried Warning YOU!
You just handed the Democratic mayoral nomination to a Communist Muslim radical, and no one said a word.
In 2020, Zohran Mamdani told New Yorkers exactly the kind of mayor he planned to be.
He posted a photo of Arya… pic.twitter.com/0kvnZEkVkd
— Amy Mek (@AmyMek) June 25, 2025
My guess is that people have not lost their disdain for Cuomo’s corruption and that NYC’s demographic is now 3rd world.
h/t Patti Jo
The way my friend Al Guart saw it, the theft itself was a little thing.
For years, Al covered the Mafia for the New York Post, where I worked with him. A job that was not without some level of danger. You would think that would have inoculated him to the petty crime that had creeped into every crevice of the Big Apple.
Once again, Brussels has shown that it doesn’t know—or prefers not to know—where Europeans’ money is going. A recent report by the French Ministry of the Interior has raised serious concerns about organisations allegedly linked to the Muslim Brotherhood having received funds from the European Union budget.
The revelation not only calls into question the control mechanisms of the EU’s subsidy system but also raises doubts about the naivety—or complicity—of certain members of the European elite.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has a bad habit of evasion when asked direct questions about building pipelines. During his first Question Period in Parliament, his response on the issue was deliberately ambiguous. A June 3, 2025, video posted by The Canadian Press showed the prime minister discussing pipelines — but not committing to approving any.
He merely suggested the possibility, quickly pivoted to a vague discussion of Canada’s long-term goal of becoming an energy superpower, and left it at that.
A leaked intelligence assessment claiming Donald Trump’s strikes on Iran did not destroy Tehran’s nuclear program is ‘flat-out wrong’, the White House has claimed.
The report, conducted by the Defense Intelligence Agency and leaked by CNN, claims Saturday’s airstrike on three Iranian nuclear sites only set the country’s program back by months instead of completely destroying it.
Trump claimed the strikes ‘completely and totally obliterated’, a statement echoed by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt who dismissed the assessment as a ‘clear attempt to demean President Trump’.
This CNN story was written by the same “reporter” who wrote the very first FAKE NEWS story claiming the Hunter Biden laptop was disinformation.
How did that work out for you, @NatashaBertrand? pic.twitter.com/x2CVhlhB1b
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) June 24, 2025
US strikes on Iran nuke facilities caused more damage than first thought — as watchdog reveals possible contamination
Israel: Campaign against Iran not over
Israel’s war with Iran is “not over”, its military chief has warned, despite the newly-announced ceasefire.
The fragile truce between the two countries was announced on Tuesday morning following Israel’s intense 12-day bombing campaign that targeted Tehran’s nuclear facilities, military commanders and atomic scientists.
Eyal Zamir, Israel’s military chief of staff, said that Israel had set back Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programme “by years”, concluding a “significant chapter”.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has pledged to meet Canada’s NATO obligation to invest two per cent of GDP in defence by the end of the year. But at a time of growing political instability, it’s important to remember that soldiers are not the only ones protecting Canada.
Working in the shadows, Canada has a civilian army of more than 6,400 intelligence practitioners in the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the Canadian Security Establishment (CSE) — both with headquarters in Ottawa, where most of their staff are — working around the clock to keep us safe. Unfortunately, according to a Public Safety Canada survey in 2021, 54 per cent of Canadians don’t know what they do. Also, despite the vital role they play in Canada’s defence, their budgets are not included in NATO’s calculation of Canada’s defence spending.
