Ontario and Quebec police probing cyber network that hacked millions of household devices

Ontario and Quebec police probing cyber network that hacked millions of household devices

Police have seized tens of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency as part of an investigation into a global cybercrime operation allegedly run from Canada that harnessed household electronic devices to launch some of the most powerful online attacks ever seen.

The Ontario Provincial Police and Sûreté du Québec both confirmed to the Star they are conducting probes after the recent dismantling of computer networks made up of millions of hacked household digital devices such as webcams, television boxes, routers and digital video recorders.


I blame cats.

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Church magazine poet sacked after writing verses about migrants

Church magazine poet sacked after writing verses about migrants

A poet was dropped by a parish church magazine after she sparked anger for writing about migrants and overweight benefit claimants.

Diana Hunt, a regular contributor to the Uplyme Parish News, penned two poems on the state of modern Britain, taking aim at “benefits scroungers”, “boat loads of illegals” and fat people who say they cannot afford to eat.

But a number of residents in the small village of Uplyme, on the Devon-Dorset border, took objection to what they felt were her less than charitable tones.

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Carney Liberals will seek nationwide culture change to erase backward Western stigma associated with slave labour practices of ChiCom EV Maker BYD

Carney Liberals will seek nationwide culture change to erase backward Western stigma associated with slave labour practices of ChiCom EV Maker BYD

BYD to open 20 car dealerships in Canada this year

BYD Co. is opening some 20 sales locations with partners in Canada this year as the country’s government is considering Chinese auto-industry investments to reduce dependence on the United States.

“The overture of Canada is a very important one,” Alfredo Altavilla, a former Fiat Chrysler Automobiles manager who now advises BYD in Europe, said in an interview in Paris. “We immediately took action to establish a sales network there.”

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Trump has handed JD Vance his most difficult mission yet

Trump has handed JD Vance his most difficult mission yet

In the middle of an Easter lunch at the White House, President Donald Trump went off script to address speculation about JD Vance’s role in securing a deal to end the war in Iran.

“If it doesn’t happen, I’m blaming JD Vance,” Trump joked, drawing laughter at last week’s East Room event attended by senior administration officials including the vice-president, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth. And “if it does happen,” Trump added, “I’m taking full credit.”

The remarks perfectly captured Vance’s predicament as he leads a US delegation holding talks with Iran in Pakistan. It is the most challenging assignment of Vance’s vice-presidency so far – one with a limited upside and plenty to lose if negotiations fail.

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Toronto police’s new counterterrorism unit aims to tackle increase in hate crimes

Toronto police’s new counterterrorism unit aims to tackle increase in hate crimes

The head of the Toronto Police Service’s new counterterrorism squad says that local police forces have a crucial role to play in pre-empting, investigating and enhancing prosecutions around crimes hatched by extremists.

While terrorism investigations typically fall under the RCMP’s federal policing mandate, Toronto Police last month announced the new unit as part of its response to violence linked to the Middle East conflict. Canada’s largest city is grappling with an increase in alleged hate crimes and extremist violence, which include shootings targeting Jewish schools, synagogues sites and businesses, as well as bullets fired last month at the U.S. consulate.

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Kamala Harris says she’s ‘thinking about’ running for president again in 2028

Kamala Harris says she’s ‘thinking about’ running for president again in 2028

Kamala Harris said she is “thinking about” running in the 2028 presidential election.

“I might, I might. I’m thinking about it,” the former vice-president and 2024 candidate told the crowd at a gathering of the National Action Network (NAN), a civil rights organization founded by Al Sharpton, on Friday in New York City.

Expanding on her response to Sharpton’s question about a potential presidential bid, she added: “I served for four years being a heartbeat away from the presidency of the United States … I know what the job is and I know what it requires.”


She should pick Hunter Biden as her running mate.

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Ontario town could become home to ‘human body farm’

Ontario town could become home to ‘human body farm’

A town in Ontario is planning to open an “outdoor research facility,” commonly termed a “human body farm,” where the process of decaying bodies will be observed.

Kingsville has been eyed as the location for a facility proposed by the University of Windsor’s forensic professor and taphonomist researcher Shari Forbes.


Gotta team these guys up with the MAiD fiends.

(Incognito)

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Is this America’s Suez Crisis? It could turn out to be worse

Is this America’s Suez Crisis? It could turn out to be worse

For more than five weeks, President Trump bombarded Iran with missiles and bombs — and the American public with contradictory messaging about the aims and duration of this conflict. On Tuesday, having previously threatened to destroy “a whole civilisation”, he agreed instead to a two-week ceasefire.

History provides a useful point of comparison here. Consider an interview given by Vice-President Vance to UnHerd on April 15, 2025. “Just going back through history, I think — frankly — the British and the French were certainly right in their disagreements with Eisenhower about the Suez Canal,” he said.

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Poilievre urges Carney to address private property rights amid concerns over Cowichan decision

Poilievre urges Carney to address private property rights amid concerns over Cowichan decision

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling for an emergency parliamentary committee to study all possible steps to protect private land ownership – known as fee simple title – in Canada.

His is the latest in a long list of voices expressing concern about the Cowichan decision, a B.C. Supreme Court ruling from August, 2025, that declared Aboriginal title is a senior interest above fee simple.

Mr. Poilievre spoke to reporters Thursday at a dusty crossroads between farmers’ fields in Richmond, B.C., the city where the courts have recognized that the Cowichan Tribes have Aboriginal title to about 300 hectares of developed land.

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Three Attacks a Day: Violence Against Teachers Surges in Germany

Three Attacks a Day: Violence Against Teachers Surges in Germany

Violence against teachers in Germany has hit a record high, with more than three attacks reported every day last year, according to police crime statistics.

In 2024, authorities recorded 1,283 cases of intentional simple bodily harm against teachers—the highest level in at least a decade. The figures, drawn from the Police Crime Statistics (PKS), point to a sustained rise in school-related violence.

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Immigration Department informing some 30,000 applicants they may be ineligible for refugee hearings

Immigration Department informing some 30,000 applicants they may be ineligible for refugee hearings

Canada’s Immigration Department is sending tens of thousands of refugee claimants letters that they may not be eligible for asylum — and is telling some of them that they should leave immediately.

The move comes after Ottawa passed a law last month that tightened how and when claimants can apply.

“These are not deportation letters,” Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) told CBC News in a statement confirming that the letters have started going out to some 30,000 applicants.

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Albertans who declared banned guns under Ottawa’s buyback still can’t get compensation

Albertans who declared banned guns under Ottawa’s buyback still can’t get compensation

More than 7,000 banned guns have been declared in Alberta under the federal government’s gun buyback program, but owners in the province can’t collect compensation because of an ongoing dispute between Alberta and Ottawa over how the program is meant to operate.

That’s left firearms owners like James Bachynsky, president of the Calgary Shooting Centre, frustrated and out of pocket.

“It’ll impact me personally; it’ll impact my business partners, my family,” he said.

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‘Practicing Muslims Can’t Disavow Sharia Even If They Wanted To’

‘Practicing Muslims Can’t Disavow Sharia Even If They Wanted To’

As a professor at Georgetown University and Washington Post columnist, Shadi Hamid is a made guy in today’s leftist establishment, and it is from those positions of oracular authority that he has delivered a sobering message to the growing movement to ban Sharia in the United States. In the WaPo on Wednesday, he declared that Muslims should not have to assimilate into American society and should not be expected to do so, and that efforts to ban Sharia were not only bigoted and “Islamophobic,” but also futile, as Muslims simply weren’t going to give Sharia up. And he’s right about that part, albeit in the midst of being wildly disingenuous about the nature of Sharia itself.

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Beijing’s Long Game Is Engulfing Canada—and Mark Carney Is in the Frame

Beijing’s Long Game Is Engulfing Canada—and Mark Carney Is in the Frame

OTTAWA — In policing — particularly in national security and organized crime — we are trained to recognize a simple truth: the most serious threats rarely arrive with warning. They emerge gradually, through relationships, dependencies, and decisions that appear rational in isolation but carry strategic consequences in aggregate.

What concerns me today is not a single incident or headline. It is a pattern.

Consider the sequence.

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Antifa Are the Real KKK: Proscribing Antifa and Their Supporters

Antifa Are the Real KKK: Proscribing Antifa and Their Supporters

A series of prosecutions and a landmark trial signal a shift toward treating Antifa as a terrorist threat, testing whether the rule of law can restrain political violence.

Donald Trump is not our Caesar. Yet could he be our Sulla? Given the American Right’s inability (or refusal) to build a mass movement capable of matching the Left when it comes to protests, fundraising, campaigns, and political organization, state action from the top is the last card to play. Recently, the Trump administration won a major legal victory that could provide a way forward if we are serious about ending the seditionist groups that have plagued nationalists for so many decades. More importantly, another case could end the threat altogether.

It’s tragic and pathetic that the Trump administration has received so much criticism for “doing nothing,” given what the online Right has done in the months since Charlie Kirk’s murder.

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