A longtime Manitoba construction business owner is sounding the alarm about a growing financial crisis that could eliminate small and mid-sized builders across Canada. The warning comes after more than 30 discussions with banks, credit unions, and private investors, all of whom have significantly reduced their construction lending. Despite strong demand for housing and infrastructure, industry insiders state that most builders can no longer access credit to keep projects moving.
The long rows of tiny Victorian terraced houses are like hundreds of others around the Midlands, the North and any of the towns and cities whose occupants powered Britain’s industrial past.
But Mornington Street, in St Matthew’s, Leicester, can ‘boast’ something the others cannot.
It is, according to official statistics, the road with the lowest proportion of English speakers in the UK. It’s hardly a surprise to find that dubious title is claimed by a street in Leicester.
Over the past 19 months, on several occasions, Toronto Police Service has published figures showing an alarming surge in antisemitic hate crimes in our city. Just this month, the TPS released data showing a historic high in reported hate crime incidents in 2024, with Jews the most targeted.
While the Jewish community represents less than 4 per cent of Toronto’s population, anti-Jewish hate crimes accounted for 40 per cent of all reported incidents.
Remarkably, even in the face of incontrovertible, well-documented facts, some people seek to diminish or rationalize this sobering situation. They insist it’s not about Jews, it’s about Israel. But the reality on the ground tells a very different story, as Jewish individuals and institutions continue to face an onslaught of hate, as documented by the recent police statistics.
The author ends with a plea for non-Jews to take action especially our public officials.
Beyond lip service nothing will happen.
Our public officials are part of the problem. It was they who imported the Islamists.
Years of conditioning Canadians as racist settler Islamophobes has paid off thanks to DEI and CRT.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke for more than two hours Monday, after the White House said the U.S. leader has grown “frustrated” with the conflict and planned a separate call with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy in hopes of making progress toward a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine.
Moscow is ready to work toward ending fighting in Ukraine, Putin said following the call. He said Russia was in favor of a “peaceful settlement” and that compromises would need to be found to suit both parties. He also described the conversation with Trump as “frank and meaningful.”
The new Ontario budget foresees a slow pace for housing construction over the next three years, making it increasingly unlikely that Premier Doug Ford’s government will achieve its target of 1.5 million new homes by 2031.
The budget forecasts 71,800 housing starts in 2025, followed by 74,800 next year and 82,500 in 2027.
There have been 260,000 actual housing starts in the three years since the target was set. So if you add in the projections for 2025 and 2026, the province would only be about one-quarter of the way toward its goal at the end of next year, the halfway point of the target timeline.
JD Vance on migrants and housing …
JD Vance shuts down reporter and shows them why he was the best choice for VP. pic.twitter.com/AEwq78uE2q
— SonnyBoy (@gotrice2024) May 18, 2025
Researchers: Extremism in Germany’s military remains threat
An internal survey about extremist attitudes in the German military now found that it does not have “systemic” extremism in the ranks. But some researchers are skeptical of the safeguards in place.
… Despite these safeguards, Hoffstadt does not believe that the Bundeswehr is doing enough to keep extremist attitudes out of the military, especially in the context of a wider society where right-wing attitudes have become increasingly normalized — as shown by the success of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).
“There have been too many ‘isolated cases’ in the military to trust in the power of this gatekeeping,” she said. “They have a lot of seminars and meetings and political education, but in the bases, there is not a very close awareness of the complexity of the modern right-wing mindset.”
These are the same jackasses that tried to have the AfD banned because they criticized Islam, Globalists and immigrant crime.
I expect the Carney Liberals will attempt a similar assault on freedom soon.
It invites adversaries to believe that Canada’s leadership can be pressured or swayed by asymmetric warfare and media optics
Practically the first words out of Anita Anand’s mouth after she became Canada’s new foreign affairs minister were not about reaffirming alliances, protecting Canadian citizens abroad or defending democratic norms. Instead, she chose to cast immediate blame on Israel for the devastating conditions in Gaza — without acknowledging, let alone condemning, Hamas’s horrific October 7 massacre, which precipitated this war.
It’s not a blunder.
It’s just a reflection of our modern political landscape which now resembles a map of Middle Earth with Mordor menacing in the distance.
Media Optics? Canada’s government paid media are too often just typists serving up Liberal Party positions as news.
Thanks to a demographic tainted by criminally bad immigration policy the Liberal Party has chosen to side with the Islamists a vote bloc considerably larger than Canada’s Jewish community.
LPC lip service to the Zionist bloc will continue as required.
Among the cactuses in the desert of Arizona, just outside Phoenix, an extraordinary collection of buildings is emerging that will shape the future of the global economy and the world.
The hum of further construction is creating not just a factory for the world’s most advanced semiconductors. Eventually, it will mass produce the most advanced chips in the world. This work is being done in the US for the first time, with the Taiwanese company behind it pledging to spend billions more here in a move aimed at heading off the threat of tariffs on imported chips.
It is, in my view, the most important factory in the world, and it’s being built by a company you may not have heard of: TSMC, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. It makes 90% of the world’s advanced semiconductors. Until now they were all made on the island of Taiwan, which is 100 miles east of the Chinese mainland. The Apple chip in your iPhone, the Nvidia chips powering your ChatGPT queries, the chips in your laptop or computer network, all are made by TSMC.
The contradiction referred to is just the writers need to find something anything to disparage President Trump.
WASHINGTON — In an explosive Sunday interview that will place tremendous pressure on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new Liberal government, FBI Director Kash Patel alleged that Mexican cartels, Chinese Communist Party operatives, and Iranian threat actors have forged a new axis of criminal cooperation, using Canada’s porous northern border and the Port of Vancouver—not the southern Mexican border—as their preferred entry point to flood fentanyl and terror suspects into the United States.
.@FBIDirectorKash: “In the first two, three months that we’ve been in the seat under Donald Trump’s administration, he has sealed the border… Where is the fentanyl coming from still?… The northern border.” pic.twitter.com/JPrQSXJvxD
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 18, 2025
Police hunting for Syrian national, 35, after five football fans were stabbed outside a German bar in ‘planned’ attack
Police are searching for a Syrian national who attacked and injured at least five people in Germany on Sunday.
Named in local reports as Mahmoud Mhemed, 35, the suspect is alleged to have stabbed the football fans with a knife in front of the Cuties bar in the western city of Bielefeld.
Four men, aged between 22 and 27, and a woman, aged 26, were reportedly attacked by Mhemed as they stood in front of the bar in the early hours.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s fledgling Liberal government is already drawing fierce criticism, with the National Citizens Coalition (NCC) accusing it of repeating the “failed Trudeau-era policies” that have left many Canadians disillusioned.
In a blistering statement, the NCC slammed the government’s early moves on housing, justice, energy, and fiscal policy as tone-deaf, ideologically driven, and damaging to national unity.
A convicted criminal who arrived on a small boat was given a taxpayer-funded flat — and used it to orchestrate the transport of thousands more
When officers from the National Crime Agency raided the suburban London apartment of Ahmed Ebid, they discovered two notebooks. One appeared to be a ledger of payments, while the other was stuffed with longitude and latitude co-ordinates in the Mediterranean. The discovery in June 2023 would help the NCA to unmask Ebid as one of Britain’s most prolific and ruthless people smugglers.
On Monday, he is expected to receive a long prison sentence at Southwark crown court in south London, after becoming the first person in Britain to be convicted of smuggling migrants across the Mediterranean.
In a historic flip in trends, gen-Z voters overtook baby boomers in Conservative support this election, according to multiple voter intention surveys and early exit polls. Boomers, who typically vote blue, flocked to the Liberals in response to the ballot-box question of tackling United States President Donald Trump, whereas voters under the age of 30—specifically males—shifted to the Conservatives, pointing to an emerging generational and gender divide among Canada’s youngest voting demographic.
This trend is not unique to Canada. Young men are increasingly backing right-wing parties in developed nations across the globe. One of the most notable—and close—examples of this is in the U.S: in the 2024 presidential election, 51 per cent of male voters under the age of 30 voted for Republican candidate Donald Trump. That number represents an increase of 15 per cent from the 2020 U.S. election, and is 15 points higher than among young women of the same age.
A 25-year-old self-described “pro-mortalist” has been identified as the attacker who detonated a car bomb outside a fertility clinic in Palm Springs Saturday — killing himself and injuring four other people, according to sources.
