He has your nudes.
She got the message by text from a girl she barely knew: Your friend, he has your photos on his phone.
How could that be, the 16-year-old Toronto high school student remembers thinking. The boy with the photos was a close friend, someone she trusted. And besides, she thought, she had never sent a nude to anyone.
This year, thanks to the relentless — and often maliciously vilified — efforts of Israel standing alone, like David against Goliath, to save the West from an autocratic tyranny, the Iranian regime has at last been facing significant setbacks. Israel, unthanked, has weakened Iran and its proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas, diminished their influence and destabilized their plan to wipe Israel — and after that Western civilization — off the map.
David Fine has voted for the Liberal Party in every federal election of his entire adult life. He says he’ll break that pattern in next year’s election.
“This time, I don’t think I can do that.”
The Vancouver resident is not sure where he’ll land: “None of the above” is the most appealing choice at the moment.
… except Toronto which prides itself on voting stupid
Europe must stop relying on America for defence and rebuild its own capabilities, a senior executive at aerospace giant Airbus has warned.
Ben Bridge, chairman of the company’s defence and space business in the UK, said Donald Trump’s demands that the Continent pay more towards its own security were both reasonable and “the right thing to do”.
The US president-elect is reportedly pushing for Nato’s defence spending target, which covers the alliance of countries across Europe and North America, to be increased from 2pc of GDP to as much as 5pc when he returns to the White House in January.
“An extreme national security vulnerability” is how the incoming border tsar, Tom Homan, describes the American-Canadian border, foreshadowing what is sure to be a focal point of the incoming Trump administration.
Canada’s border with America — the longest in the world, spanning more than 5,500 miles — has recently seen an explosion of illegal crossings. The Border Patrol tracked nearly 24,000 migrant encounters in fiscal year 2024 — more than double the roughly 10,000 encounters in the previous year and more than ten times the number from two years ago.
Ford, for five decades the bestselling car brand in the UK, could be the one of the biggest losers from Britain’s attempt to make manufacturers sell more electric cars.
This week the government began a review of the zero emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate brought in by the previous Tory administration.
Unless there is a substantial revision of the targets, however, Ford could be facing an uphill battle to avoid tens of millions of pounds in penalties in future years for failing to deliver enough electric cars.
A Canadian criminologist who once worked on inland immigration enforcement for the Canada Border Services Agency said Canada needs to better track foreign nationals who arrive in the country on student visas.
Kelly Sundberg, a professor at Mount Royal University, said he was not shocked to hear that Indian law enforcement agencies are investigating links between Canadian colleges and a scheme to ferry international students across the Canada-U. S. border.
“I’m not surprised that our ridiculous honour-based immigration program is being gamed by transnational criminals. That doesn’t surprise me at all,” Sundberg said.
WASHINGTON — President Biden has for years flatly denied interacting with his relatives’ foreign business associates — a contention further debunked this week as newly released photos show him meeting two of first son Hunter Biden’s business associates in China while he was vice president.
Biden, 82, was the focus of a rare House impeachment inquiry into whether he inappropriately enriched his family in countries where he held sway as vice president — with that probe ending shortly after he abandoned his re-election bid this summer with an August report concluding he abused his power.
h/t Dana G
An audit of the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) has found that its vessels are aging, with some surpassing their expected lifespans, costing the agency nearly one-third of a billion dollars to maintain them in the 2022–23 fiscal year.
“The CCG fleet is aging as vessels approach and exceed their intended end of service life,” said auditors in a July report, “Evaluation of Fleet Procurement and Maintenance,” released to the public on Dec. 18.
The audit spanned across 124 active vessels. It was conducted by the evaluation division at Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the CCG from April to November 2023.
Elon Musk has said he will “go to war” with Maga Republicans over visas for skilled migrants.
The Tesla billionaire, chosen by Donald Trump to be co-head of his new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has infuriated anti-immigration elements of the Republican Party by defending the H-1B visa, which permits highly educated foreigners to work in the US for up to six years.
Mr Musk responded to the backlash from the Make America Great Again (Maga) faction by vowing to kick out “hateful, unrepentant racists” from the Republican Party.
That was fast.
OTTAWA — Will he, or won’t he?
As the Liberals prepare for what’ll undoubtedly be a tumultuous new year, indications are growing stronger that the PM may hit the pause button on parliament.
Andrew Perez, a Liberal Party strategist and principal of Perez Strategies, said that prorogation is almost certainly fait accompli.
Proroguing parliament won’t help Justin but may benefit a new LPC leader to a limited degree but no matter as they’ll still be wiped out come an election.
At first glance, the story seemed distressingly familiar: back in June 2023, a Syrian asylum seeker went on a stabbing spree at a playground in the French city of Annecy, stabbing four toddlers and two adults. There have been numerous incidents in recent years of Muslim migrants in France stabbing people in random attacks, often while screaming “Allahu akbar.”
Eventually, every woman must learn that being nice to an egomaniacal bulls—t artist won’t long protect her from him. It’s too bad Chrystia Freeland had to learn this lesson twice.
Last week, Trump learned that he wouldn’t be able to insult Freeland at the negotiating table anymore, so he insulted her online. Amateur. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insulted her in her own ministry. No: he got leakers to insult her. He betrayed her, then demanded she betray herself, passing a bad idea of a budget off as her own so as not to embarrass the man he wanted to take her place. Trump’s treatment of women — of the many women who have accused him of sexual assault, of his wives, of Freeland — is hideous, but at least it’s honest in its hideousness. Trudeau’s sexism can feel worse because he pretends to be better.
The author sounds like a fun date. This is the latest effort to whitewash Homolka, I mean Freeland as a saint.
Americans — especially Republicans — do not want to hear political opinions from athletes and celebrities, an AP-NORC poll reveals.
The survey, a collaboration between the Associated Press and the University of Chicago’s nonpartisan National Opinion Research Center, was published Thursday.
Industry Minister signals shift in Canada’s EV strategy, as era of chasing big new battery plants comes to an end
The era of Canada putting down big bets on massive new electric-vehicle battery plants is coming to end.
As Industry Minister, François-Philippe Champagne has led the strategy that’s seen Stellantis N.V., Volkswagen Group and Honda Motor Co. commit to new factories in Ontario that represent some of the biggest investments in the history of Canada’s auto sector.
A few months ago, Mr. Champagne was still talking up the possibility of landing one or two more such commitments from global automakers.
