This will be Ricarda Louk’s first Christmas without her beloved daughter Shani, the 23-year-old whose death at the hands of Hamas reverberated around the world.
Every year, the pair would visit Ravensburg in southern Germany, where Mrs Louk grew up, so they could spend time with Shani’s grandparents and stay in touch with their German heritage.
But this year there will be an empty seat at the table. “It’s strange…everything is difficult without her,” Mrs Louk told The Telegraph.
A church nativity scene featuring two mothers of the Baby Jesus instead of the conventional Mary and Joseph has sparked anger in Italy.
Nativity scenes are popular in the largely Catholic country, but in recent years they have been increasingly mired in culture wars as its society becomes more secular and multi-cultural.
The country’s public colleges and universities increasingly rely on international students, especially from India, even as tensions between the two nations have flared.
On a college campus in northern Canada, eight hours by car from Toronto, most of the students who fill the classrooms are from a country half a world away: India.
The young men and women stretching on mats in the gymnasium are more likely to be from Punjab or Gujarat, two Indian states, rather than rural Ontario. Hindi and Punjabi drowned out English in the cafeteria’s lunchtime cacophony.
In the surrounding city of Timmins, the waiters at two new Indian restaurants do not ask customers how spicy they want their dishes. A shuttered bar named Gibby’s has been reopened as a Sikh temple, or gurdwara, where students from the school, Northern College, gathered on a recent evening.
Just another facet of the mass immigration scam, similar to the ‘Temporary Foreign Workers” con. Whether captains of industry or college administrations it’s all done for monetary gain by a few at your expense.
A 19-year-old man is charged with murder in what Winnipeg police call the “senseless” and unprovoked stabbing of a recent immigrant from Ukraine.
Ivan Rubanik, 46, died in hospital after he was stabbed at Watt Street and Talbot Avenue on Wednesday morning, police said. He was taken to hospital in unstable condition, where he was pronounced dead.
h/t MW
The downtown riding of Toronto-St. Paul’s has been a safe Liberal seat for more than three decades, with the Conservatives coming in second and the NDP usually a distant third. Nonetheless, the New Democrat vote will bear close watching in a by-election there that must be called now that incumbent MP Carolyn Bennett has retired.
The results in Toronto-St. Paul’s could tell us much about the political future of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals and Jagmeet Singh’s NDP. It could even signal whether there is any realistic prospect of the New Democrats one day overtaking the Liberals as the dominant progressive party.
I have no doubt this guy gets off on pretending to be a fearful vulnerable woman. pic.twitter.com/35X8l35VRH
— Men Posting F’s (@troonytoons) December 23, 2023
There she is. Once again.
Pontificating, on the CBC political panel.
Chantal What’s-her-name?
They drag her out of somewhere, God knows where, when they need a Laurentian elite to say stuff. Even if she doesn’t have a single clue what she’s talking about. Even if she hasn’t talked to the principals involved, such as Western experts or politicians.
h/t Mauser
This is terrifying. Dozens of college students agree to give money to help fund the k*lling of Jews. They agreed that synagogues, Jewish schools, and Jewish owned businesses should be targeted and b*mbed. pic.twitter.com/briysFsgCd
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 22, 2023
Asked in an interview recently to name my favorite Christmas movie, I went through the usual routine of naming several candidates — new and old, mostly black and white — before inevitably getting to the point, the undeniable, the obvious: Frank Capra’s 1946 masterpiece, It’s a Wonderful Life.
In a Thursday interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored, the Young Turks host Cenk Uygur melted down in a debate with British political commentator Douglas Murray over their personal views on the Israel–Hamas war and the rise of civilian casualties in Gaza.
Dec 23rd and excitement mounts.
Welcome back folks our friends have another fine selection of carols for your listening pleasure.
Enjoy!
From Osumashi – Vince Guaraldi Trio – O Tannenbaum
From PA Cat – Do You Hear What I Hear – Martina McBride
From DavidInNorthBurnaby – Nothing But A Child
From Kiki9 – Paul Harvey ~ A Christmas Story: The Man And The Birds
From Surele Surele – The First Noel – Claire Crosby and Family
From X — Formerly IB_Joe – Good King Wenselas
From Osumashi – Good King Wenceslas
From Dana Garcia – Yo-Yo Ma, Alison Krauss – The Wexford Carol
From Norman in New York – Leonard Bernstein – Mozart Schlittenfahrt (Sleigh Ride) 1967
And also … The Skaters Waltz – André Rieu
#BREAKING pro-Palestinian protesters stage sit in at the Eaton Centre @CityNewsTO pic.twitter.com/dAcxjiAkCh
— Michelle Mackey (@michellemackey) December 23, 2023
Pro Hamas supporters shut down the main entrance to the Toronto Eaton Centre today. No police action pic.twitter.com/IfRfj9XTct
— neveragainlivepodcast@gmail.com (@neveragainlive1) December 23, 2023
Be skeptical about media reports that rates of lawlessness are declining in cities.
Crime rates are falling, the mainstream press reports. Despite what it calls the “widespread national perception that law-breaking and violence are on the rise,” NBC News maintains that the opposite is true: “Americans believe crime rates are worsening, but they are mistaken.” A Washington Post column by Philip Bump echoes that assertion and opines, “This is not the narrative that has dominated on the right.” Bump adds, “Fox News coverage has consistently focused on crime in urban areas,” in part because the network’s “audience (understandably) associates cities with Democratic leadership, because cities are more heavily non-White.”
The Biden administration’s policies of placating the ruling mullahs of Iran and their proxy, Yemen’s Houthis, have clearly failed. If the Biden administration thought that by rescuing Iran’s economy, which had hit bottom, and removing the Houthis from the list of Foreign Terror Organizations would make both Iran into an ally, the generosity appears to have backfired. Iran’s regime financed and helped plan the invasion of the invasion of Israel by Hamas, which is another Iranian proxy. Iran has been arming the Houthis to target US and its allies in the region, and disrupt the shipping in the Red Sea, and Iran’s militias in Syria and Iraq have fired on US troops more than 100 times just since October 17.
A British businessman recently pointed out an obvious truth that climate change activists do not want to hear: There are no readily available replacements for the replacements for the resources that feed the earth.
