Donald Trump hints at mass pardons for Jan. 6 defendants, vows to overhaul ‘Democrat-controlled DOJ’ after Biden pardons son Hunter

President-elect Donald Trump hinted at mass pardons for defendants tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot – and vowed to overhaul the “Democrat-controlled” Department of Justice after President Biden pardoned his son Hunter Sunday night.

“Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years? Such an abuse and miscarriage of Justice!” Trump posted on Truth Social.

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PM Trudeau ‘surprised’ provinces unanimous on accelerated defence spending: Ford

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says his fellow provincial leaders are united in pushing for Canada to meet its NATO defence spending targets ahead of schedule, and that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was “surprised” to hear it.

Ford — currently chair of the Council of the Federation of Canada’s Premiers — told CTV Question Period host Vassy Kapelos in an exclusive Canadian broadcast interview airing Sunday that the premiers are making the ask amid U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s threats of new tariffs, and conveyed it to the prime minister in his meeting with the premiers last week.

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Lazy assumptions about the benefits of mass migration have been torn to shreds

It has become increasingly difficult to argue that migrant-driven population growth is leaving Britain better off

Nowhere is the policy failure that seems to have engulfed virtually everything the Government touches more apparent than immigration.

I don’t know why anyone was surprised by last month’s revised data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). As a source of information on the economy, the ONS has become about as reliable as a number 16 bus – so much so that the Bank of England has come to prefer the reports of its own agents in the field to the official ONS data when assessing the economy’s true state of affairs.

In any case, it has been obvious for a long time now that the ONS has been wildly understating the extent of the surge in net migration. You only need to look around you to see the transformation that has occurred in the size and mix of the population.

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WTF?

Policing in the new Canada is sure gonna be tons of DEI fun. The TPS has made themselves complicit regardless if they are just following orders.

As for the flag the TPS always told us it was matter of free speech so they never intervened when Muslims waved Hezbollah flags etc.

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Trudeau’s people don’t want to say how much they overspent

Last week, Yves Giroux, the Parliamentary Budget Officer, raised a rarely-talked-about issue with the federal government — that is, the release of important fiscal documents is being delayed further and further each year. While at first glance this may not seem like a big deal, it’s a sign of declining transparency — an issue all Canadians should care about.

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Ireland’s political establishment avoids populist revolt

On Saturday following Ireland’s general election, count centres were full of volunteers tallying votes on their clipboards. In Donegal, supporters of venerable candidate Pat “the Cope” Gallagher wore high-vis vests bearing the legends “Vote Cope” and even “Team Cope“. It was a welcome reminder that even in an election where the results seem to have changed so little, someone is always coping and someone seething. So who is who?

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Why Canada’s Christmas presents may not be delivered on time this year

It’s one of the biggest shopping weekends of the year, but for many Canadians, this year’s Black Friday deals may not arrive before Christmas – and that could be a death knell for already hard-hit small businesses.

Two weeks into a national postal service strike at Canada Post, and many businesses say they’ve suffered steep financial losses as customers have had to wait for their orders. Inventory sits in warehouses across the country and shipping costs have increased.

Lorne James, who owns Otter Valley Railway, a model train company in London, Ontario, estimates he’s lost C$120,000 ($85,600; £67,200) in sales since the strike began.

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Government job-growth rate in Canada outstripping private sector

Across Canada, government employment has exploded, dwarfing job-growth numbers in the private sector and raising serious questions about the affordability of this government hiring spree.

Specifically, according to our new study, from 2019 to 2023 employment in the government sector (which includes federal, provincial and local governments nationwide) increased by 13.3% compared to just 3.6% in the private sector (including self-employment).

Guess which way public service unions lean politically.

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Britain Is Killing Its Auto Industry

This week’s net-zero carnage in Europe—these stories pop up weekly now—has happened in Britain, where the no-carbon energy transition is killing another country’s auto industry. How much longer can the insanity last?

Stellantis announced it will shut a plant in Luton, north of London, in the spring. The move imperils up to 1,100 jobs. The factory had been slated to produce electric vans under the storied British Vauxhall make, but the consumer demand isn’t there.

Stellantis may shift some jobs to a plant at Ellesmere Port in northwest England, which has been overhauled with the help of taxpayer subsidies to produce electric vehicles. But there’s spare capacity there, too.

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Netflix’s ‘Joy’ Shows Early Fears About The Moral Fallout Of IVF Were Justified

French IVF Lesbian protest

When Louise Joy Brown became the first “test tube” baby to survive pregnancy and birth on July 25, 1978, the world had mixed feelings. On one hand, Brown’s entry into the world via in vitro fertilization proved those with infertility diagnoses were not immediately limited to a life without biological children. On the other hand, Brown’s conception and birth introduced a whole host of moral and ethical dilemmas that are still relevant today.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates, the DEIty

Ten years in an America enslaved to race recrimination

Adecade ago, in June 2014, the Atlantic published a cover story with a simple declarative title: “The Case for Reparations,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates. The piece had taken him two years to write, and the work paid off — with praise sweeping through the ranks of media, prizes from the most prominent elite institutions. The piece was named the “Top Work of Journalism of the Decade” by New York University’s journalism institute. It was hailed as a rare piece of writing which pushed open a cultural dialogue about a controversial subject.

This conversation had been taking place among liberal elites and in all the high places they command — at the Kennedy School and in the New Yorker and National Public Radio — but in August that year it exploded into something more when the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri became a flashpoint in America’s racial reckoning. Coates’s examination of America’s incapacity to truly deal with its history of sin, slavery and persecution went from being the stuff of ethical and intellectual debate to creating the basis for an entire movement — bridging the gap between the high and the low.

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WAPO Laments – A shadow Trump foreign policy haunts Biden’s final acts

While the White House attempts to lock in policy priorities with international partners, Mar-a-Lago is becoming a magnet for foreign leaders eager to win Trump’s good graces.

President-elect Donald Trump’s threat Monday to impose a 25 percent tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico — one of a barrage of shots fired daily from Mar-a-Lago since his election victory — landed like a bombshell in Ottawa.

On Friday, after days of angst and an emergency “Team Canada” meeting with all 10 provincial premiers, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau jumped on a plane and flew to Palm Beach, Florida. He spent three hours at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and golf club, one of 11 others crowded around Trump at a table in the middle of the busy members dining room.

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