Muslim “student” accused of terror plot in New York welcomed with open arms into Trudeau’s Canada, records show

A foreign student in Canada accused of plotting an Islamic State-inspired attack against Jews living in New York entered this country last year without raising any red flags that triggered additional screening by federal security agencies, according to records tabled Thursday at a parliamentary inquiry.

Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, a 20-year-old Pakistani national residing in the Toronto area for the past year, was arrested in Quebec earlier this month. He now faces extradition to the United States on charges that he was lending material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization.

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Police Towers and Brick Pallets in Springfield, Ohio

The little town of Springfield, Ohio, is certainly not the town I remember from my youth. It has been transformed into not just a hotspot for the issues of immigration and a governmental autocracy but a national symbol for such things. It has become a lightning rod and a case study for the core issues of the upcoming election, and the Left, as per its usual modus operandi, has carefully avoided the crisis there to fan the flames of anti-conservative animus. It is a safe bet to say that the influence and connections of those who wish to consolidate and increase Progressive power are deep and diverse. Which makes this social media post from a Springfield resident concerning.

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What’s happening to Toronto’s commemorative plaques?

City staff are trying to unravel the mystery of the missing hardware.

At least 18 bronze commemorative plaques — worth thousands of dollars each — have vanished from bridges and parks in the midtown core, according to a count by CBC Toronto.

Staff are reluctant to speculate about what may have happened to them.

What a city. You can feel the decay.

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Biden’s Long Shadow

The latest New York Times/Siena College poll has some cautionary data for Kamala Harris and the KHive. The Times found Harris winning Pennsylvania by 4 points, just outside the margin of error, but deadlocked with Donald Trump nationwide. While Harris beats Trump by 13 points on who best will handle abortion, Trump beats Harris by 13 points on the economy, 12 points on the border, and 8 points on Ukraine.

Among independents, Trump leads by 4 points. Asked if Harris represents change or more of the same, 52 percent of voters said more of the same. By contrast, 59 percent said Trump represents change. He’s the disrupter in a year when, according to RealClearPolitics, 61 percent of voters say the country is on the wrong track.

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Inside Canada’s ‘exploitative’ clinical trial industry, where study participants say they’re incentivized to lie — even about medications’ side effects

Seized with anxiety after days of painful cramps and bloody stool, Franco answered a call from the research company that had been dosing him with an experimental medication in exchange for money.

A staffer told him their tests showed one of his organs was inflamed and that a doctor needed to examine him.

“Is this something, like, permanent?” Franco asked.

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Trump told a group of Jewish Americans that Jews who vote Democrat should ‘have their head examined.’

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump, in remarks about antisemitism on Thursday that centered around his past support for Israel, decried what he called a Democratic “hold or curse” on Jewish voters and promised that, if he is elected, he would purge the “toxic poison of antisemitism” from spreading.

Seeking to sway Jewish voters — a group that historically backs Democrats — Trump said he thinks Israel would “cease to exist” under a Harris-Walz administration, but promised that he would “make Israel great again” and be a “defender” of Jewish Americans.

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Ontario eyes barring new bike lanes where car lanes would be cut

The Ontario government is considering bringing forward legislation that could prohibit the installation of bike lanes when lanes for motor vehicles are removed as a result, sources say.

CBC News has obtained internal government draft documents indicating such a proposal has been under consideration, which several sources with knowledge of the proposed bill confirmed. It is not, however, clear if the measure has been formally brought before cabinet.

The provincial government declined to comment to CBC News on the measures outlined in the documents.

Nothing ever gets better in Toronto anymore.

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Muslim assault on Mali’s capital killed scores of people, say security sources

Scores of people reportedly died in a jihadist attack in the Malian capital on Tuesday, again raising questions about the junta’s capacity to tackle a 12-year insurgency.

Islamic militants attacked a number of locations in Bamako, including an elite police training academy. The violence, which the al-Qaida affiliate Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM) claimed to have carried out, led to the closure of the city’s airport for the day.

The authorities said the insurrection had been quelled and acknowledged on state television that there had been fatalities but did not disclose the number.

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Federal firearm buyback program has cost $67M, still not collecting guns after 4 years

The federal firearm buyback program has cost taxpayers nearly $67.2 million since it was announced in 2020, but it still hasn’t collected a single gun.

The program is designed to compensate owners of assault-style firearms that were banned by the Liberal government in 2020. Although many details of the program still haven’t been revealed after four years, businesses and gun owners only have until the end of October 2025 to turn in, deactivate or dispose of outlawed weapons. The government estimates there are 150,000 prohibited assault-style firearms in the country.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Gun Control, Gun Rights

Officials fear no Israel-Hamas peace deal during Biden’s term

US officials now believe that a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas is unlikely before President Biden leaves office in January, according to a report.

The Wall Street Journal said top-level officials in the White House, State Department and the Pentagon are not expecting a breakthrough in talks between the two sides, who have been fighting a bitter war in Gaza since Hamas’s terror attack against Israel on October 7.

Officials have for months said that a ceasefire and deal to release Israeli hostages taken by Hamas were close.

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Cost of driving electric car up to twice the price of petrol or diesel

Motorists without space at home to charge their cars are facing prohibitively high costs at public facilities

Britain’s public charging network is so expensive that the cost of driving an electric car is now up to twice the price of running a petrol or diesel vehicle.

The UK has more than 12,500 rapid or ultra-rapid charging stations — a 40 per cent increase on a year ago — but data shared with The Times shows they cost an average of 80p per kilowatt hour (kWh), making the switch to electric cars prohibitively expensive for motorists who do not have access to cheaper at-home charging.

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Government Data Confirms Increase in Arson Attacks on Churches, Synagogues Since 2021

Justin Trudeau started and anti-Christian pogrom based on false claims of Aboriginal mass graves at Residential schools. Nearly 100 churches have been burned down or vandalized. No graves have been found.

The federal government has confirmed an uptick in arson attacks on churches and other religious institutions following claims of mass graves being discovered at a former residential school site located in Kamloops, B.C., in 2021.

According to data provided by cabinet in an Inquiry of Ministry tabled in the House of Commons on Sept. 16, there were an average of 43 police-reported arson attacks on places of worship from 2015 to 2020. The numbers went up significantly in 2021 when there were 90 arson attacks, followed by 74 attacks in 2022, the last year cited in the document.

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‘Now we’re afraid of phones and laptops’: Beirut on edge after attacks

At his electronics shop, Kevor says there is little demand for pagers. Everyone wants mobile phones these days, he adds.

He is not likely to sell any soon, though, reflecting the fact that in the Lebanese capital this week, holding some electrical devices is akin to holding a bomb. “I’m Lebanese, I’m used to this,” he says. “What happened yesterday was extraordinary.”

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