An Alberta judge has ordered two Edmonton women captured in Syria during the defeat of the Islamic State to take part in a deradicalization program.
At a court appearance on Friday, Helena Carson and Dina Kalouti were told they must undergo counselling with the Organization for the Prevention of Violence.
Justice Suzanne Polkosnik approved an RCMP request to impose a terrorism peace bond on the sisters-in-law, who acknowledged living in ISIS territory for four years.
That’ll cure em.
The gates to the Izaguirre Ranch look much like any others you might find in the state of Jalisco. Two prancing horses on the front perhaps a nod to the surrounding cattle-grazing and sugarcane fields.
Yet what lies behind the black iron doors is allegedly evidence of some of Mexico’s worst drug cartel violence of recent times.
Following a tip-off about the possible location of a mass grave, an activist group of relatives of some of Mexico’s thousands of disappeared people went to the ranch, hoping to find some sign of their missing loved ones.
Friday morning in Ottawa, long-Liberal-wooed Mark Carney was finally sworn in as prime minister. Before the ceremony began, his X account posted: “Today, we’re building a government that meets the moment. Canadians expect action — and that’s what this team will deliver. A smaller, experienced cabinet that moves faster, secures our economy, and protects Canada’s future.”
Elon Musk likes to boast that his Cybertrucks can withstand almost any impact. One night on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon, someone decided to put that claim to the test.
The seven bullets that were fired through the window of a Tesla showroom this month hit three of Musk’s cars and made headlines across America. The authorities would later say that this was just the latest in a series of acts of vandalism against Teslas. There have been shootings at dealerships “targeted across Oregon and the nation for political reasons”, officials said.
Faced with tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump, some countries have, so far, responded by turning the other cheek, and not retaliating with their own duties.
Canada, however, continues to hit back in the trade war with its neighbour to the south. But it also raises the question of whether Canada absorbing the blows from U.S. tariffs, while painful, might be preferable to the overall economic damage from a full-scale trade conflict.
It’s an issue, perhaps unsurprisingly, on which economists have varying views. Some say Canada has no choice but to retaliate, even if imposing tariffs on U.S. goods will increase prices for Canadians. But others suggest those moves may have little impact on the U.S.
The people who flooded Canada with cheap foreign labour to undercut worker wages are the same people who shipped your job overseas at the first opportunity under free trade agreements.
Now these same folks, who only ever have your best interests at heart, want you to believe that all tariffs anytime not just Trump’s are Satan’s handiwork.
This is why I regard our current annexation hysteria with its accompanying ready-to-assemble Ikea flat pack patriotism loyalty oath kits with a jaundiced eye.
We need a Trump.
Why Tariffs Are Good
The claim that tariffs are inherently misguided and inevitably harmful does not stand up to scrutiny, especially when it comes to U.S. trade with China
and …
Trump Is Right About Our Trading Partners Imposing Excessive Tariffs
h/t patthedog
Police in Northern Ireland are investigating a potential Islamist terrorist link to a stabbing in Belfast earlier this month.
Religious ideology is one of a number of potential motives being investigated, the PA news agency understands.
If it is confirmed, it would be Northern Ireland’s first Islamist terrorist incident.
Detectives are also probing whether a mental health episode or hate were motivating factors.
Islam is violence.
OTTAWA — With the swipe of a sharpie, Prime Minister Mark Carney reduced the price of the consumer carbon tax rate to zero, meaning Canadians will no longer be paying it on fuels. In doing so, he also neutralized one of the Liberals’ most unpopular policies before a widely expected election call.
A Waitrose supermarket worker claims to have been suspended for sharing Right-wing political views on X, including a Telegraph cartoon.
Ben Woods, from Henley-on-Thames in Buckinghamshire, said he is facing disciplinary proceedings over around 30 posts on the social media site.
Over 10 years ago, experts with most tribunes were assuring the world that combustion engines were on the way out and electric vehicles would soon dominate markets. Despite this optimism, Canadians didn’t embrace EVs widely, thus the call for subsidies for manufacturers and purchasers went out. The federal government answered the call and billions in tax dollars were dedicated to rebate programs, subsidies, and loan guarantees for EVs.
In 2018, I sat on a regulatory panel to assess the plans of Manitoba Hydro to build an interconnecting high tension power line into Minnesota to replace electricity from coal powered plants in the US Midwest.
The evidence presented to the panel was valuable as a fascinating lesson in Canadian history but it also identified the significant, idled power generating capabilities of the United States. This was, in fact, the business case that George Soros used to justify the purchase of a majority position in Peabody Coal, one of the largest owners of idled, coal-fired, electricity generation. I assume that, seven years later, things have not changed very much.
Gender ideology is unraveling. It’s fraud all the way down. There is no good evidence that “transitioning” helps anyone, especially children. And people are realizing that the entire premise — that a boy can somehow be born into a female body, or vice versa — is superstitious nonsense. Indeed, transgender ideology is so insane that the coalition against it ranges from conservative Christians to lesbian feminists.
I am afraid that the Danes are in danger of losing their good old-fashioned judgment, especially when it comes to the U.S.A. and its people.
I am in Denmark, and the other day, I listened to a podcast from a popular Danish radio station where the guest host claimed that Donald Trump was the worst thing that could happen to the world and that Denmark should end its alliance with what he called “Trump’s U.S.A.”
OTTAWA — The office of Canada’s independent Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) took the unusual step of putting out a factual update on Thursday, after critics, including Liberal Energy Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, questioned the findings of a PBO analysis linking the proposed federal emissions cap to deep job losses.
Foreign nationals are being convicted of sex crimes at a scarily high rate.
Foreign nationals have been convicted of nearly a quarter of recent sex crimes in Britain, the Telegraph revealed earlier this week.
Data from the Ministry of Justice, obtained by the Centre for Migration Control through a freedom-of-information request, show that 15 per cent of sexual offences were accounted for by foreign nationals between 2021 and 2023. A further eight per cent of convictions were recorded as being committed by ‘unknown nationalities’, which is likely to also be mostly non-Brits. In any case, this means that foreign nationals – who represent around one in 10 people in the wider population – are vastly overrepresented among sex offenders.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced Friday that she is cracking down on leaks coming from inside the intelligence community to left-wing media organizations.
Gabbard declared on X that “politically motivated” leaks by intelligence officials will come to an end and listed several examples of unauthorized leaks to news outlets.
