Heroes and Zeroes of 2025

Martyrdom, moral clarity, and the unmasking of the American Left.

To nobody’s surprise, 2025 was a tumultuous year. Reversing a half-century of cultural, domestic, and geopolitical rot had to take a heavy toll, which it did in the blood of one crusader. Yet while the denizens of Leftist Hell increased their demonic shrieking, fearless conservative leaders began to expose them as the denuded maniacs they are. This, despite dissension on the Right — though not the true spiritual Right, led by the man shot dead in Utah last September. Whether common sense will be in ascent or descent next Christmas depends on who will follow in his footsteps over the next few months.

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Do they get 2 donuts or just one? Toronto officers not getting clear direction on policing pro-Palestinian protests, union says

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The union for Toronto’s police service says its officers aren’t getting clear direction from senior leaders on how to handle pro-Palestinian protests, including a Boxing Day demonstration at one of the city’s busiest shopping malls.

The Toronto Police Association, which represents around 8,000 uniformed and civilian members of the Toronto Police Service, was responding after Ontario’s Solicitor-General publicly criticized the force for what he called a lack of action on anti-Israel protests.

h/t Patti Jo

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Spy watchdog reviewing Canadian security agencies’ use of artificial intelligence

OTTAWA – Canada’s spy watchdog is examining the use and governance of artificial intelligence in national security activities.

The National Security and Intelligence Review Agency has informed key federal ministers and organizations of the study, which will look at how the security community defines, uses and oversees aspects of AI technologies.

Canadian security agencies have used AI for tasks ranging from translation of documents to detection of malware threats.


AI is everywhere.

At the clinic I attended a sign indicated that the Doctor’s notes would be created from the recorded conversation between the physician and myself.

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Oldham child gang-rape suspect later attempted to murder wife

A grooming gang suspect who had escaped investigation because of a string of police failings went on to attempt to murder his wife, a Guardian investigation can reveal.

The man, named only as Offender J in paperwork seen by the Guardian, is alleged to have taken part in the gang–rape of 12-year-old Samantha Walker-Roberts in Oldham, Greater Manchester, in 2006.

Offender J tried to kill his wife in 2009. Two years earlier, he had been named by the ringleader, Shakil Chowdhury, as an alleged accomplice in Walker-Roberts’s abuse but Greater Manchester police failed to follow up on this and closed the case.

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Driver charged after vehicle hit by train at Toronto GO station

Toronto police have charged a driver after her vehicle ended up on the tracks of a GO station and was hit by a train.

Police say it happened shortly after 10 p.m. Wednesday at the Etobicoke North GO station. A female suspect was arrested for impaired driving. The driver, who was not identified by police, sustained non-life-threatening injuries after the vehicle was struck.


Practically my back yard.

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Trump says he is withdrawing National Guard troops from some US cities

US President Donald Trump has said he is withdrawing National Guard troops from several US cities, including Chicago and Los Angeles, after a Supreme Court ruling last week undermined his authority to use troops for policing.

“We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on New Year’s Eve.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Trump administration withdrew its legal attempts to keep control of troops deployed in LA. Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that Trump could not use troops in Chicago for domestic law enforcement.

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Gatineau couple found dead while vacationing in Dominican Republic

Family of Alain Noël and Christine Sauvé working to bring bodies back home.

A Gatineau, Que., family is in mourning this holiday season after a couple was found dead while vacationing in the Dominican Republic.

The son of Alain Noël and Christine Sauvé found their bodies inside the couple’s vacation home on Boxing Day, the family told Radio-Canada.

h/t Mauser

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The Backdoor: How Fiction Techniques Hijacked the News

In college, I was given an assignment that permanently changed how I read and write.

The premise was almost absurd in its simplicity. There was a man and a woman in a kitchen. The woman was his wife. The man brought her her slippers. That was it. No plot. No backstory. Just that action. We were instructed to write the scene twice, using the same facts and the same sequence of events, but to convey two entirely different emotional realities using nothing but word choice, pacing, and detail.

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Female Streamer Out To Prove It’s Safe For Single Women To Stroll In Multicultural Cologne Is Attacked on NYE

A violent New Year’s Eve across Germany was capped off with an attack on a female live streamer, who was assaulted on camera as she was filming on the multicultural streets of Cologne.

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President Trump Tells Mar-a-Lago Guests Daycare Fraud Totals $18 Billion, Scandal Extends Beyond Minnesota to Multiple States

President Trump didn’t let New Year’s festivities stop him from taking aim at Minnesota’s daycare fraud scandal, telling Mar-a-Lago partygoers the problem extends far beyond one state.

“Can you imagine they stole $18 billion,” the president said during remarks made at his annual New Year’s Eve celebration. “That’s just what we’re learning about. That’s peanuts. And California is worse, Illinois is worse and sadly New York is worse.”

“We’re going to get to the bottom of all those. It was a giant scam.”

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Some snowbirds want out of Florida. A bad housing market makes it hard to leave

As the era of bilateral bad blood between Canada and the U.S. drags on, some snowbirds are facing a choice this January: Go south to warmer climes, or boycott a country that has gone from friend to somewhat of a foe.

That decision is more difficult for the hundreds of thousands of Canadians who collectively own an estimated $60 billion worth of property in Florida, the favoured refuge for generations of the winter-weary.

Donna Lockhart, a snowbird from Ennismore, Ont., decided the recent anti-Canadian sentiment was too much to bear and it was time to put her condo near Punta Gorda, Fla., up for sale and get out of U.S. President Donald Trump’s America.

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German 18-year-olds asked: Are you ready for war?

Germany sounding out next generation of soldiers with mandatory survey on fitness and attitude amid fears of war with Russia

German teenagers will be greeted with a survey from the army about their readiness for war as they turn 18, when the country’s new military service scheme comes into force.

As of Thursday, all German males turning 18 will be legally required to fill in surveys sent out by the armed forces, or Bundeswehr, about their fitness for service. Those who refuse face a fine of up to €1,000 (£800).

The survey is part of Germany’s new military service scheme, which has been significantly watered down from an original proposal to bring back conscription.

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The Idiots Teaching Your Kids At The TDSB!

The Toronto District School Board was duped into sending $1 million to fraudster who ‘can barely spell’

The Toronto District School Board is trying to recoup more than $1 million in public funds it lost in a cyberscam that experts say was “highly preventable.”

The public school board says a fraudster represented themselves as a long-time contractor for school renewal projects and tricked the TDSB into wiring $1.08 million to a Toronto-Dominion Bank account.

The TDSB has not publicly disclosed the 2024 fraud, which the Star discovered in reviewing court records.

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