Police raid homes of 18 of the usual suspects over New Year’s Eve sexual assaults in Milan

Police said the 18 suspects are aged between 15 and 21 and are foreign or Italian of north African origin.

Italian police have raided the homes of 15 young men and three boys who are suspected of involvement in a series of sexual assaults during New Year’s Eve celebrations in Milan.

Nine women have so far reported that they were assaulted during celebrations in front of Milan’s Cathedral on Piazza del Duomo.

The case has prompted comparisons with the mass sexual attacks and muggings that took place in the German city of Cologne on New Year’s Eve in 2015-16.

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Diane Francis: Canada’s immigration policy needs to focus on what’s best for the economy

The South China Morning Post published a disturbing story recently about an immigration to Canada scheme involving bogus credentials.

“Hongkongers keen to move to Canada offered MBAs for cash, without classes or homework,” read the headline to a January 8 story. “For the tidy sum of up to HK$250,000 (US$32,000) emigration firms offer no-show degrees and experts to write dissertations for ‘postgraduate students’,” it said.

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Fauci shut down lab leak theory despite scientists lending it credence, emails show

Scientists consulting with the U.S. government early in the pandemic believed COVID-19 originating from a lab in Wuhan, China, was possible or even likely, but Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins worked to shut the hypothesis down, according to several emails.

The emails were revealed Tuesday in a letter from Republican Rep. Jim Jordan, the ranking member on House Judiciary Committee, and GOP Rep. James Comer, the ranking member on House Oversight Committee. Some of the emails included notes from a Feb. 1, 2020, conference call in which at least 11 scientists theorized about the virus’s origin, with many leaning toward the lab leak theory.

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Justice Dept. creating unit focused on domestic terrorism

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is establishing a specialized unit focused on domestic terrorism, the department’s top national security official told lawmakers Tuesday as he described an “elevated” threat from violent extremists in the United States.

Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen, testifying just days after the nation observed the one-year anniversary of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, said the number of FBI investigations into suspected domestic violent extremists has more than doubled since the spring of 2020.

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Alberta willing to go to court to oppose handgun ban as feds weigh options for gun control

Alberta won’t sign on to any handgun ban options Ottawa may offer, and says it’s willing to take the fight to court if provincial firearms jurisdiction is disregarded.

The federal Liberal government planned to give municipalities the ability to implement a ban but has adjusted since the last election to focus on working with provinces.

Alberta’s United Conservative government has long opposed many of the firearm measures proposed by the federal government, saying banning handguns would disproportionately punish law abiding gun owners and fail to adequately tackle the illegal use of firearms.

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Canada’s spy agency warns MPs to beware of influence operations from Communist China … and other foreign bodies like the Liberal Party

Canada’s spy agency for the first time is warning individual MPs and senators from all major parties about influence operations being carried out by China and other adversarial states.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) has become increasingly alarmed about efforts by China and its agents of influence to covertly cultivate relations with elected officials to gain sway over parliamentary debates and government decision-making.

John Townsend, a spokesperson for CSIS, told The Globe and Mail agency officials are briefing parliamentarians, telling them to beware of foreign influence and interference operations.

Justin has been talkin semi-tough about China of late. This isn’t a belated awakening to the inherent evil of the ChiCom regime rather I suspect Junior was read the riot act by formerly staunch allies.

I bet ChiCom infiltration of Canada by fellow travelers and useful idiots like Trudeau is in fact far worse than we know and we are now considered a security risk. We see the greed motivated subservience to their ChiCom masters by our Captains of Industry & Academics. You can bet a lot of palms have been greased by Beijing and their proxies in Canada’s China Class.

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Ontario reports meaningless number of new Covid cases … and while a slim majority support Lockdowns Canucks remain Gung Ho for restricting the un-vaxxed

Over 3,200 COVID-19 hospitalizations in Ontario; record number of single-day ICU admissions


Slim majority support government lockdowns, restrictions in response to Omicron

OTTAWA — A new poll suggests a slim majority of Canadians support the latest round of lockdowns and other government-imposed restrictions as the Omicron variant continue to fuel an explosion in new COVID-19 infections.

Fifty-six per cent of respondents in the poll conducted by Leger and the Association of Canadian Studies agreed governments are making the right decisions to limit the spread of Omicron and keep the health system from being overrun.

According to Leger Canucks say Die Un-Vaxxed Die!

  • More than six-in-ten Canadians support implementing measures specifically related to vaccination status, including:
    • Only allowing those who have proof of vaccination to shop in person at malls and retail outlets (excluding grocery stores), government-run liquor and cannabis stores and use public transit
    • Creating separate areas in hospitals and clinics specifically for unvaccinated patients

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Mass Formation: Deployed on You After Over 200 Years of Study

Today in “factchecking the factcheckers”, junior academics cited by Forbes, Associated Press, Reuters and The Independent have just not done their homework concerning the work of Professor Dr. Mattias Desmet of the University of Ghent in Belgum. All I can say about this is that I hope that their naïve, ignorant, grandstanding statements to the press are brought up during their future Academic Tenure and Advancement reviews.

But there has been an amazingly coordinated effort to shoot the messenger and actively character assassinate (or “defenestrate”) me as a surrogate while avoiding any reference to the highly credentialed academic Professor Dr. Mattias Desmet who actually developed the theory and has documented the extensive evidence in an upcoming academic book. So, what can we learn from this in the short term?

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