When the Zohran Mamdani campaign promised to “shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods”, there was little response and even less outrage in the media.
Had any politician campaigning to run a major city promised to punitively target any other racial group, it would have been a major national story and a future civil rights investigation.
Canada is offering to contribute military assets to a multilateral force being proposed by Germany and Britain to boost NATO’s presence in Greenland, government sources said.
One official said that Prime Minister Mark Carney raised with allies the issue of reinforcing the Arctic, including Greenland, when he was in Europe last week. “We welcome the German and British plan and are actively involved in talks with NATO and our allies,” the official said.
Bloomberg reported on Sunday that European countries, led by Germany, are preparing a plan aimed at showing President Donald Trump that the continent is serious about Arctic security.
The Fawlty Towers stage show has been slapped with a woke warning for ‘adult themes and controversial topics’, including the use of bad language and violence.
The Leeds Heritage Theatre issued a trigger alert for the comedy show, which previously ran on London’s West End and is heading on tour across the UK.
Fans were warned to expect ‘adult themes’ from the stage show, and put in place an age limit for audience members to be over 14 years old to see it, even though tour bosses previously said it was not recommended for theatre-goers under five.
Canadians are increasingly concerned about rising crime in their communities, according to a new Angus Reid Institute poll.
“New data from Angus Reid,” says Shachi Kurl, president of the institute, “shows that three-in-five (62 per cent) Canadians believe crime has been rising in their communities over the last five years. That’s a lot more than the number of Canadians who say there’s been no change (24 per cent) or a decrease (five per cent).”
The raising of national flags in a quiet English village shows just how serious things are.
Not much tends to happen down my way. A rural community, with pubs older than the United States, we have traditionally slept the deep, deep sleep of England. Aside from the ubiquitous war memorial—currently dusted with snow—it bears little mark of the wider world, save for the names of those who left here and never returned.
OTTAWA — Canadian negotiators are in “active discussions” with China about lowering or dropping tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles in exchange for easing punitive Chinese counter-tariffs on Canadian canola and seafood, but government officials declined to say how it might affect Canada’s trade tensions with a U.S. administration that is hawkish on blocking China’s EVs from North America.
On the eve of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trip to Beijing, the talks are considered so politically sensitive as the U.S. and Canada navigate the upcoming negotiation to renew the North American free trade pact that Canadian officials would say very little about the tariff dispute that is jamming Ottawa between China and the U.S. and opened a double trade war for this country.
It appears Ford was not asked for comment.
Much has been written in recent years, and even recent days, about the threat posed to the mental wellbeing of children by malign external forces, whether it be X generating nude images of women, the misogyny spread by influencers such as Andrew Tate, or the welter of ‘misinformation’ available online. But a story at the weekend reminds us of one of the most formidable actors in this department, one that continues to warp and taint young minds: our education system.
A state-funded computer game, developed with government backing by councils in East Yorkshire, reminds teenagers they risk being referred to a counter-terrorism programme if they question mass migration. In Pathways, an interactive game designed for 11- to 18-year-old pupils and funded by Prevent, the Home Office programme designed for tackling extremism, players are directed to help their in-game characters – a white teenage boy or girl – on how to avoid being reported for ‘extreme Right-wing ideology’. Players discover the consequences of ‘engaging directly’ with posts which talk about ‘the need to take back control of our country’ and ‘the erosion of British values.’ The game also comes with material for teachers, who are urged to use the resource to ‘demonstrate the local threat picture of extreme Right-wing activities specifically.’
Pathways is an interactive game designed for 11- to 18-year-old pupils and funded by Prevent, a Home Office programme for tackling extremism.
Young players are directed to help their in-game characters – a white teenage boy and girl – to avoid being reported for “extreme… pic.twitter.com/fUkUdYRr4P
— Sick Of It Media…..🇬🇧🇺🇸 (@SickOfItteo) January 9, 2026
Donald Trump’s assault on the United Nations continues. Last Wednesday, he signed an executive order pulling the United States out of 31 UN bodies or agreements, in addition to another 35 that work closely with it.
These 66 entities do crucial work promoting world order and global well-being. They include the Framework Convention on Climate Change – the only truly global effort to prevent catastrophic overheating of the planet – as well as the International Law Commission, the Peacebuilding Commission, the UN Conference on Trade and Development, offices dedicated to fighting child soldiery, violence against children, sexual violence in conflict, and so on.
Man pretending to be a woman wants to get "six big mother f*ckers" to kidnap ICE agents, throw them in a minivan, and "ventilate their thoughts."
Trans violence strikes again. This is an epidemic.pic.twitter.com/7LoACgsTCb
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 12, 2026
Sporting tensions between the USA and Canada have erupted once again, this time in skeleton as next month’s Winter Olympics approach.
The USA’s Katie Uhlaender, a five-time Winter Olympian in skeleton, has accused the Canadian team of depriving her of a place at the Milan-Cortina Games by manipulating a qualifying event over the weekend.
Uhlaender says that Canada deliberately pulled four of its six athletes from the race in the North American Cup in Lake Placid, New York. That meant the field was reduced to under 21 athletes and fewer qualifying points were on offer due to the lack of competition. Uhlaender believes the Canadian team did so to prevent American athletes from catching them in the standings for Olympic qualifying.
When you push MAGA to the breaking point🤣😂 pic.twitter.com/mWL91Eakxh
— Brandon (@LibOrNormal) January 12, 2026
Canadians are losing trust in major institutions, including Parliament and the school system. Good — because our institutions need an overhaul. Perhaps this country isn’t a lost cause, after all.
Statistics Canada released the “confidence in institutions” results from the Canadian Social Survey for the fourth quarter of 2024 earlier this month. Survey respondents were asked to rate their confidence in police, the justice system and courts, the school system, Parliament and Canadian media. Each institution was rated on a scale of one to five.
Years of anti-ICE propaganda helped lead to a deadly confrontation in Minneapolis.
Last Thursday Vice President JD Vance joined a White House press briefing to discuss initiatives the Trump administration is taking to investigate the pervasive welfare fraud that has been discovered in Minnesota. He was inevitably asked questions about the death of Renee Good after she attempted to drive her SUV over an ICE agent in Minneapolis. Vance described the media coverage of the death as “disgraceful,” and followed up with this question: “You guys are meant to report the truth. How have you let yourselves become agents of propaganda?” The collective response of the “reporters” was to disregard the question, but the answer is vital to the future of the republic.
If it wasn’t for the quick reactions and analyses of citizen journalists on X to correctly identify all aspects of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis, which was entirely justified, you’d be looking at George Floyd 2.0. Here is a slowed down video. pic.twitter.com/Hpy04lrLWL
— Ian Miles Cheong (@ianmiles) January 7, 2026
There’s been a subtle but significant shift in what NORAD has been seeing over the last year when it comes to mostly Russian — but also Chinese — activity in the Arctic, says the top commander of the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD).
U.S. Gen. Gregory Guillot tells CBC News that air and sea incursions into the zones just outside North America have not only become more frequent, but also more co-ordinated.
“I’d say the most consequential difference in 2025 has been the volume, the simultaneous volume,” Guillot said in an exclusive interview.
Al-Qaeda’s branch in Africa’s Sahel region has been laying siege to Mali’s capital city, as well as other areas of the country. The Algerian-based Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and its affiliated Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (Support Group for Islam and Muslims, JNIM) are cutting a wide swath of terrorist operations across West Africa’s Sahel region. This coalition of Jihadist groups now threatens the sovereignty of Mali and several other Sahelian states.
