San Francisco is ringing in the New Year by pushing for reparations for the city’s black residents, to the tune of $5 million per person.
How will they pay for it? Well, the ordinance creates a fund of both private and public monies to cover the payments. Mayor Daniel Lurie signed the ordinance into law on December 23. The bill was unanimously passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in early December.
Canada is approaching a defining economic moment.
U.S. President Donald Trump has made greater access to Canada’s dairy market one of his stated expectations for a CUSMA renewal.
Ottawa’s response has been swift and defensive.
Prime Minister Mark Carney said this week that supply management would remain untouched.
I'm titling this video compilation, Delusions of War.
Enjoy! pic.twitter.com/wYlufNrFdt— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) January 4, 2026
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called for a “Venezuelan-led transition process” away from what he called the criminal regime of President Nicolás Maduro in a Saturday post on X.
It was just one of his requests following the U.S. incursion into Venezuela to remove Maduro from power early Saturday Morning. He also called on “all parties” to respect international law, mirroring a previous statement from Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand. Neither response mentioned the United States directly.
Two observers who spoke with CTV News Channel said the prime minister’s response should have gone further.
Not insulting enough.
Apparently this is going around. It’s called the “STFU challenge.”
Who did it better? pic.twitter.com/z9ylnNBy67
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) January 4, 2026
Rising anti-Christian hostility, desecration, and attacks mark a grim start to the new year.
The new year is off to a grim start already for Catholics around the world as anti-Christian hostility proliferates across the West. New Year’s Day saw a 150-year-old former Catholic church in Amsterdam destroyed by fire, leaving behind nothing but rubble and scorched walls. According to Catholic News Agency, it is unclear whether or not arson was the cause of the fire.
I suspect that Somalis around the country – especially, but not exclusively, in Minneapolis – wish about now that they had spent more time studying the wit and wisdom of Gertrude Stein.
Stein, had she lived in our own day, might well have become commissioner of New York City’s Fire Department. She had the one qualification that Zohran Mamdani seems to deem essential to the post.
Sadly, that was not to be. But there is no denying that, on certain matters, Stein was a font of practical wisdom that remains as pertinent today as it was when she was pontificating in Paris a century ago. It is important, Stein warned those aspiring to be part of the avant garde, “to know how far to go when going too far.” This is true of all the arts. It is just as true of fraud as of painting, poetry, dance or music.
The Dionne quintuplets were a global sensation during the Great Depression. The last of the five sisters, Annette, died in December.
Although they came from a small town in northern Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets were among the first global celebrities and multimedia stars. But their story — they were the first known quintuplets to survive infancy — did not have happy endings like the three films based on their lives.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, is speaking out for the first time about the violent unrest spreading across his country with a defiant rejection of theats from America.
Street protests that started almost a week ago are growing and numerous deaths have been reported.
In remarks aired on Iranian television on Saturday, Mr. Khamanei said rioters should be “put in their place” and pledged that the Islamic Republic “will not yield to the enemy.”
Young women in Iran are DEFYING the regime’s morality police, forced hijab, and are singing in the streets.
THIS is what true resistance looks like. Where are the western leftists now who supported HAMAS and Gaza?? Why are they all silent?!?
FREE THE PEOPLE OF IRAN! pic.twitter.com/mQvZ0P7mZx
— Jaimee Michell (@JaimeeUSA) January 3, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney has correctly admitted that the federal government will not achieve its 2030 and 2035 industrial greenhouse gas emission targets under the climate strategy of his predecessor, Justin Trudeau.
“We have too much regulation, not enough action,” Carney told CBC in a year-end interview commenting on Trudeau’s plan.
German leftwing militants protesting over the climate crisis and AI have claimed responsibility for an arson attack that cut power to tens of thousands of households in Berlin.
The fire that broke out on a bridge across the Teltow canal in the south-west of the capital early on Saturday could deprive up to 35,000 homes and 1,900 businesses of electricity – and in many cases heat – until 8 January, the grid company Stromnetz Berlin said.
OTTAWA — While the Doug Ford PCs would easily win if an election were held today, support for the provincial Tories are waning throughout the GTA.
That’s according to a new Liaison Strategies poll, which shows 44% of decided voters opting to re-elect the Progressive Conservatives, just nine points ahead of the second-place Liberals at 35%.
American leftists, who never met an anti-American dictator they didn’t like, are protesting the U.S. capture of Venezuelan dictator and narcoterrorist Nicolás Maduro. Part of their noisy hysteria includes highly deceptive claims about the drug war Venezuelan cartels wage on America.
Vice President JD Vance wrote on X Sunday, “You see a lot [of] claims that Venezuela has nothing to do with drugs because most of the fentanyl comes from elsewhere. I want to address this.” He not only explained the reality of Venezuelan drug trafficking that was backed by Maduro, he also took on false claims about the Venezuelan oil industry and its new American takeover.
Verónica Gutiérrez woke up what seemed like “a million WhatsApp messages” from her family in Venezuela after the U.S. launched a strike on the capital of the country that led to the capture of President Nicolás Maduro on Saturday.
In the early hours of Saturday, the U.S. launched a “large-scale strike” in Caracas and took Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, out of their home within the Fort Tiuna military installation.
Gutiérrez, who left Venezuela in 2015, describes feeling a mix of optimism and confusion at the news.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio didn’t divulge details on what the future holds for Cuba after the United States captured former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, only saying the Trump administration isn’t “big fans” of Cuba’s regime.
Rubio dismissed the idea of the U.S. being at war with Venezuela, suggesting the U.S. is actually at war against drug trafficking organizations. In the wake of Maduro’s capture and detention in New York City, Rubio said Cuba’s government has been “a huge problem” for the U.S. when asked if the Trump administration would go after its government next.
Poor Justin will cry forever!
