Canada has far too few soldiers. Here’s a radical fix — mandatory service

Back in the disco era, long before he became one of Canada’s top soldiers, Michel Maisonneuve was an exchange officer with a French regiment, based in Sedan, in the Ardennes.

The sister to his Valcartier-based armoured regiment, it was known, in French, as the 12th Hunters.

In those days — the late ’70s — the French had conscription: citizens were expected to serve a year.

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Why villagers in town that will have more asylum seekers than residents have been SILENCED

It’s Britain’s biggest and most controversial camp for asylum seekers whose 800 mostly male migrants will soon outnumber the residents of the village it abuts.

But while the Wethersfield centre has been criticised by everyone from refugee charities to anti immigration politicians like Priti Patel, the one group who have been conspicuously silent have been those residents themselves.

And MailOnline has found that the likely reason for the curious hesitancy of locals to discuss their plight is the fear of being condemned in a ‘woke backlash’ by outsiders as intolerant or – worse – even racists.

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Second Muslim Nurse in Australia Charged with Claiming to Have Killed Jews

In early February, Ahmed Rashid Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh, two Muslim nurses working at Bankstown Hospital in Sydney, Australia, were having an online conversation with Max Veifer, an Israeli. Here is some of what was said, captured on videotape. “Nurses’ full anti-Semitic rant revealed,” by Clareese Packer, NewsWire, February 14, 2025

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Conrad Black: We must throw Carney out of office at first chance

I recently received the following series of rhetorical exhortations from a friend who, like many Canadians, is unable to discuss President Donald Trump rationally. He wrote: “Imagine America deporting an academic from Columbia University for criticizing Israel. Imagine a President who repeats every morning that he is at war with Canada with the intent to achieve Anschluss. Imagine an American population that stands meekly by as its president acts as a dictator, internally and globally, no check, no balance, no accountability. Compare the quality of leadership in America with that of Russia and China these days.”

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How a Hamas supporting Columbia Student Fled to Canada After ICE Came Looking for Her

Ranjani Srinivasan Hamas Supporting Illegal Alien Invader

The first knock at the door came eight days ago, on a Friday morning.

Three federal immigration agents showed up at a Columbia University apartment searching for Ranjani Srinivasan, who had recently learned her student visa had been revoked. Ms. Srinivasan, an international student from India, did not open the door.

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What’s Trump’s endgame with global tariffs? Canadian officials say they have a clearer idea

After a lengthy meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump’s top trade officials on Thursday, Canadian representatives say they have a clearer understanding of the rationale behind Trump’s insistence on tariffs — not just on Canada but on the whole world.

“Tariffs are now a global policy of the United States,” said David Paterson, Ontario’s representative in Washington. “And this is a historic change to global trading patterns, and [the Americans are] very aware of that.”

This says commitment to tariffs as the new normal.

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Bay Street insiders question Carney’s ‘placebo’ blind trust as Brookfield ties come under scrutiny

OTTAWA — During his leadership-race victory speech on Sunday, now Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney went off-script to take a shot at Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.

“I know the leader of the Opposition is into full disclosure,” he quipped, gesticulating with his hands and raising his eyebrows, an apparent retort to Poilievre and the Conservatives’ criticism of Brookfield Asset Management’s decision to move its head office from Toronto to New York, last year, when Carney was still its chair.

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Wife of Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell reveals husband’s untold encounters with UFOs that convinced him we’re not alone

Is there anyone more qualified than an astronaut to shed light on the existence of UFOs?

Now, in an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail, the wife of one Apollo astronaut has revealed the secrets her husband shared before he died.

Anita Mitchell, who was married to the late NASA pilot Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon in 1971, said: ‘He always felt that there were UFOs out there, because so many of the pilots and astronauts had seen something.’

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How Europe’s electric battery dream ran out of power

Setting ourselves stringent net zero targets will help us get ahead of other countries in the race to develop green technologies of the future. We know this must be true because Ed Miliband, and many others, keep telling us so. It is just that things don’t seem to be working out quite this way in the real world.

The collapse this week of the Swedish electric vehicle (EV) battery-maker Northvolt has once again shown how the countries most committed to net zero seem to be the ones which keep missing out on the spoils – while their industries drain away abroad, quite often to China.

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Canada reconsidering F-35 purchase amid tensions with Washington, says minister

Payment for first 16 aircraft already made

Canada is actively looking at potential alternatives to the U.S.-built F-35 stealth fighter and will hold conversations with rival aircraft makers, Defence Minister Bill Blair said late Friday, just hours after being reappointed to the post as part of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new cabinet.

The remarks came one day after Portugal signalled it was planning to ditch its acquisition of the high-tech warplane.

The re-examination in this country is taking place amid the bruising political fight with the Trump administration over tariffs and threats from the American president to annex Canada by economic force.

h/t Mauser

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