FBI director nominee Kash Patel has often joked that on day one in office he would shut down FBI Headquarters and reopen it the next day as a Museum of the Deep State. Rueful joke aside, he may not know how close to the truth he really is. The FBI has a sneaky little secret that has probably escaped the attention of its most ardent fans at DOJ. It’s even possible that the cloistered and suited gangsters on the 7th Floor don’t even know how easy it could be to topple the entire enterprise.
Multiple people injured in Delta Airlines plane crash at Toronto Pearson, paramedics say
Multiple people have sustained injuries after a plane crash at Toronto Pearson International Airport, paramedics say.
Paramedics confirmed to CP24 that up to eight people were injured, adding they are unsure of the extent of injuries.
BREAKING: Delta Air Lines plane crash landed at Toronto Pearson International Airport; no word on casualties. pic.twitter.com/7AwV4HQr2f
— YEGWAVE (@yegwave) February 17, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
An expert committee formed to help Indigenous communities find unmarked graves at former residential schools in Canada says the federal government has discontinued its funding.
“It’s a betrayal,” said founding member Crystal Gail Fraser, who is Gwich’in and grew up in Inuvik, N.W.T. “We are losing sight of our values around truth and reconciliation.”
The committee will be forced to cease operations when its current funding agreement expires on March 31, Fraser said.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is investigating potential Social Security fraud, and its head Elon Musk posted startling information from its database.
“Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!” Musk began, posting an image of a chart with age brackets going all the way up to 369 years old.
Listening to Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of England and frontrunner to replace Justin Trudeau as Liberal party leader, can be a dizzying experience. His mind brims with slogans — often sugary, often illogical — which he fires off like a tennis ball machine.
A former Canadian intelligence official is warning recent cuts by the new U.S. administration to its intelligence agencies could position the country for “another 9/11.”
Dan Stanton, a former executive manager for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), said in an interview with The West Block’s Mercedes Stephenson that cuts are “degrading the efficiency” of the U.S. intelligence community, which could have a much bigger impact than just America’s borders.
The Deep State had such a surplus of staff that 5000 FBI agents were assigned to hunt down the Jan 6 protesters.
How many others across the multiple US intelligence services were hard at work on undermining President Trump?
The borders were wide open under President Dementia’s tenure.
The barbarians are not only inside the gates they occupied the White House the last 4 years.
Whaaaa? @fancypants_s https://t.co/GUQZ6J9BVo
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) February 17, 2025
H/T Auntie Polly
Alarmed that a Trump-Putin deal could be cut without input from Europe or Ukraine, President Macron is gathering today leaders of Europe’s largest nations for an emergency meeting at Paris. Their parley will coincide with the arrival of President Trump’s negotiating team in Saudi Arabia to jump-start talks with their Russian counterparts ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, starting in ten days.
To build on these preliminary talks, President Trump predicted to reporters yesterday that he could meet “very soon” with President Putin. The goals of the parley at Paris include forging a common negotiating position on Ukraine, selecting a European envoy to participate in peace talks, advancing a military aid package for Ukraine, and rethinking European defense in the event that, after 75 years, Washington goes wobbly.
If Mark Carney is the next prime minister who has to deal with Donald Trump, the U.S. president may need to change up his game on the insults he’s been tossing in Canada’s direction.
Calling Carney “governor” won’t exactly have the same sting, given that the man increasingly seen as the front-running Liberal leadership contender has actually been a governor of two national banks — Canada and the Bank of England.
A Jamaican drug dealer avoided deportation after he promised to only smoke cannabis and not sell it.
Jamaican Shawn Rickford McLeod, 40, who came to Britain in 2000 was issued with a deportation order after being jailed for three years and four months for three counts of supplying class A drugs.
He appealed the order on the grounds that it would breach his rights to a family life under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) as he had three young children in the UK with his wife.
Ontario voters clueing in to the fact they are in the middle of a quick, unexpected election could be forgiven for thinking their choices on the Feb. 27 provincial ballot will be Donald Trump, tariffs or Mark Carney.
Political observers and some door-knocking candidates say that international and national headlines blasting Ontarians like a fire hose, stoking dire financial fears and debate over who best to lead Canada, are almost erasing the provincial election — likely to the benefit of the Progressive Conservatives.
America’s sweetheart Tom Hanks was crucified by conservatives over his “disgusting” portrayal of a simple, Trump-supporting racist on the “Saturday Night Live” 50th anniversary special.
The two-time Academy Award winner returned to the stage Sunday night as “Doug” — a dumb, MAGA hat-wearing contestant on the recurring bit “Black Jeopardy,” where the butt of the joke is Hanks’ character and the black contestants discovering their similarities.
I bet a lot of people are looking forward to the day when AI replaces “Hollywood Actors”
OTTAWA — As Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre vows to carry his crusade against the carbon tax into the next election, Canadians still need to hear more from him, say some of his supporters.
Standing outside the Ottawa convention centre, National Post spoke with nearly 20 of his supporters and others who stood in line to waiting to see Poilievre speak at his “Canada First” rally Saturday, some of whom were unable to get inside and told the event was at capacity.
I’ve always liked Jerry Seinfeld, but now I like him even more.
pic.twitter.com/IjvSlTzjjp— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) February 16, 2025
Speaking at the Munich Security Conference yesterday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for the creation of an “army of Europe” to challenge Vladimir Putin. Presumably, this would resemble a Europeanised Nato, to which Zelensky would expect an invitation. Later in the day, Poland’s Foreign Minister swatted away the idea.
