A Jamaican man who raped a sleeping woman cannot be deported from the UK after release from prison because he is bisexual, judges have ruled.
The Home Office said on Monday that they made “no apology” for having attempted to deport the offender after he served a seven-year sentence for what an immigration tribunal accepted was a “serious offence”.
From Obama to Justin Trudeau, how the liberal world order crumbled
In May 2016, when Justin Trudeau made his first appearance at a G7 summit, it was still possible to believe in a rules-based liberal international order. Taking his seat at the leaders’ table for a working lunch inside the Shima Kanko hotel, on Japan’s Kashiko Island, Trudeau, buttressed by winning a large majority in Canada’s general election the year before, must have felt secure.
That security was both tangible and intangible. It took shape outside the luxury resort in the form of the hulking Izumo-class helicopter destroyers of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force, deployed around the tranquil waters of Ago Bay to guard the global leadership of the West.
WTF?
German humor isn’t for everyone. pic.twitter.com/IjC2CtcUOH
— Dr. Simon Goddek (@goddeketal) January 12, 2025
h/t XC
Hundreds of Navy SEALs, Veterans to March in D.C. to Support Pete Hegseth
Five hundred Navy SEALs, veterans, and other supporters are planning to march in support of Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth as he appears before senators for his confirmation hearing on Tuesday.
WTF?
I love how “Landman” is just Billy Bob Thornton giving based lectures to a left-wing white woman.
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) January 13, 2025
h/t Mauser
Don’t let the door hit ya on your way out …
Immigrating to Canada, once a goal for many, is now seen as a costly and often futile endeavour
Before coming to Canada from Iran in 2020, Hamed Heydarzadeh and his wife Mansooreh Fereidooni sold off their car as well as most of their assets, and paid a private tutor for a year to boost their English proficiency.
Heydarzadeh, 40, and Fereidooni, 35, had decided to leave their country because they opposed the regime.
“We were looking for peace in our life. We had many problems there, especially for my wife in Iran around hijab and other super strict rules,” Heydarzadeh told CBC News.
“We wanted to move to somewhere that we don’t have … to think about these issues that we have in our life.”
Five years and $50,000 later, they are considering leaving, as getting permanent residency (PR) is an uphill battle. If it doesn’t come through, they’ll have to go home, or start from scratch — again — in another country.
Blame Trudeau, he made Canada a shithole for everyone.
Weather service issues its most severe fire warning for L.A. as winds pick up
The most serious red flag fire weather warning has been issued by the National Weather Service for swaths of Los Angeles and Ventura counties starting before dawn Tuesday, underlining the continuing threat in a region weary after nearly a week of firestorms.
The ominous “particularly dangerous situation” warning was first issued by the local National Weather Service office in October 2020, and then in December 2020 — and then not again until 2024.
Issuing this warning “is one of the loudest ways that we can shout,” said Rose Schoenfeld, a National Weather Service meteorologist.
When the fires were first starting Biden landed in LA for a monument ceremony. Here’s a news report covering the fires saying the airspace is closed because of Biden’s visit. Did Biden’s visit hinder critical air fire response?? pic.twitter.com/wXJ6aPJwRE
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 13, 2025
Fire victims compete to find new homes as real estate market rages in Pacific Palisades, Altadena
Thousands of families were displaced on Tuesday when fires torched homes throughout Pacific Palisades and Altadena, kicking off a regionwide house hunt as victims scoured a tight market looking for homes to rent — or even buy.
People are desperate, local agents said. Their homes are in ashes, and they’re looking for stability — somewhere for their family to go that’s not a shelter, a friend’s house or a hotel room.
Some landlords are now sharply raising rent, even beyond what temporary price gouging protections allow. And some would-be renters are offering a year’s rent upfront in cash and engaging in bidding wars.
Cory Morgan: Canada Needs to Foster National Pride and Identity
Those revelling in undermining Canada over the past several years in the name of progressiveness have suddenly discovered the value of national patriotism. Now, after over a decade of efforts to diminish national pride, they are discovering that if they insist Canada has no heritage or deep-rooted identity, they find themselves in a predicament when challenges to Canada’s sovereignty emerge.
Just Stop Oil spray paint Charles Darwin’s grave at Westminster Abbey
Two Just Stop Oil protesters have sprayed paint on Charles Darwin’s grave at Westminster Abbey.
Alyson Lee, 66, and Di Bligh, 77, covered the memorial using orange paint with a message that said “1.5 is dead!” at around 10am on Monday morning.
It is a reference to reports last week that 2024 was the hottest year on record and the first to breach a key global warming threshold of 1.5C above pre-industrial temperatures.
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Climate change activists DESECRATE Charles Darwin’s grave in Westminster Abbey. ⛪️
Activists from Just Stop Oil spray painted the grave of the famed biologist with ‘1.5 is Dead.’ pic.twitter.com/KLX4qwwZdS
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) January 13, 2025
Justin Trudeau, l’incarnation of a modern progressivism
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is the perfect 21st-century progressive politician: illiberal and smug, antagonistic toward Judeo-Christian faith and values, and a self-styled technocrat whose best-laid plans failed.
Like so many other North American and European heirs of the radical ’60s, Trudeau had more neo-liberal economics than his Marxist forebears, but he had the same zeal for culture war. More importantly, he showed the Marxists’ top-down intolerance of dissent and antipathy toward rival sources of cultural, political, and economic power.
Germany investigating suspected Russian drones over airbase
Authorities in Germany’s southern state of Bavaria confirmed on Monday that up to 10 mysterious drones had recently been spotted above an air base.
Investigators have not ruled out espionage as a motive behind the drone flights, floating the possibility that they are connected to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Bavaria’s State Criminal Police Office (LKA) said that officer had been able to detect at least ten drones flying above Manching Air Base near the city of Ingolstadt on Sunday evening.
Chairman Chow launches 2025 Toronto budget with 6.9 per cent property tax hike
Toronto’s proposed 2025 budget includes a 6.9 per cent property tax hike, with Mayor Olivia Chow promising the revenue it raises will enable critical investments in libraries, police, transit, housing and other vital services.
The budget will deliver “change in Torontonians’ lives today,” Chow told reporters inside city hall Monday morning alongside budget chief Coun. Shelley Carroll to launch this year’s budget process.
The 6.9 per cent figure includes a new 5.4 per cent hike, plus a 1.5 per cent increase to the city building fund dedicated to capital expenditures for transit and housing.
One Term Chow.
Pakistanis up to four times more likely to be behind grooming, figures reveal
Pakistanis are up to four times more likely to be responsible for child sex grooming offences reported to police than the general population, previously unreleased data suggest.
Figures from all 43 forces in England and Wales show 13.7 per cent of child sexual exploitation “grooming” offences in the first nine months of last year involved Pakistanis. In 2023, they accounted for 6.9 per cent of the grooming crimes reported to police.
This is proportionately between two and four times higher than their representation in the general population where Pakistanis account for 2.7 per cent, according to the 2021 census.
With Conservatives promising to ‘defund,’ could the next election kill the CBC?
In late 2023, Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge said it was time for the federal government to redefine what the CBC does and how it does it.
A year later – and with a federal election expected some time this spring – her office is promising the minister will unveil the planned changes to the public broadcaster’s mandate in “due course.” But with Parliamentary business on hold until late March due to prorogation, and opposition parties champing at the bit to trigger an election, getting any legislative changes to the CBC’s mandate passed may be a long shot.
EU Globalist Explicitly Threatens To Cancel German Election Result If Right Wing AfD Wins
Former French European Commissioner Thierry Breton has essentially openly confessed that the West stole the Romanian election and stands ready to do it again in Germany if deemed necessary.
“We did it in Romania, and we will do it in Germany if necessary,” a translation from the French of Breton’s recent appearance in European media said. Early last month a top Romanian court simply annulled the first round of the country’s presidential election in order to create what amounted to a ‘do over’ election.