Like so many Toronto transit efforts the second entrance to Museum Station was a project that seemed forever under construction. Open now, commuters can exit the station directly into Queen’s Park. A subway-to-city transfer this elegant and unique, into the city’s premier park, with trees that have existed more than a century and before the subway was tunnelled underneath, is rare.
Bondi hero Ahmed Al Ahmed has been labelled a “traitor” in the Arab world for tackling a terrorist gunman and saving the lives of Jews at Bondi.
When the Facebook page for the Palestinian news source Ramallah News posted Mr Ahmed’s story, most of the hundreds of comments were hostile towards his lifesaving actions.
“Treason comes to you from the closest people” and “he sold himself and his life for the safety of the Jews” were among the comments.
“I wish it (the bullet) hit your heart,” one commentator said, while another said “May Allah not heal you”.
[Ottawa – December 17, 2025] As the debate over Canada’s next-generation fighter jet continues, Canadians are leaning decisively away from an all-F-35 future.
When asked which option is best for Canada – the Lockheed Martin F-35 or the Saab Gripen – seven in ten Canadians (72 per cent) support incorporating the Gripen into Canada’s fighter fleet, either by switching to the aircraft for all future purchases (43 per cent) or by maintaining a mixed fleet of both Gripens and F-35s (29 per cent). Just one in eight (13 per cent) say Canada should continue with the F-35 as its primary fighter jet.
A new paper in a highly regarded British Medical Journal publication has sparked outrage for attempting to launch a debate on the so-called “harms of the current global anti-female genital mutilation (FGM) campaign.”
It says coverage of the practice, where the female genitals are deliberately cut, injured or changed, often relies on “titillating sensationalism,” and complains that this “leads to vilification of migrants, infantilisation of people and their cultures, and failure to recognise the agency of the women concerned and their communities.”
Whitby school replaced Christmas with a winter theme but had kids do a dance video for Islamic Eid, celebrate Diwali, and learn about Kwanzaa. pic.twitter.com/D0Td5Hn83E
— Jim McMurtry (@JimMcMurtry01) December 18, 2025
Meanwhile, in Maine:
"I'm from Africa… I'm the mayor now." pic.twitter.com/ycuJ5nQcEV
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) December 18, 2025
Nato countries’ pledge to spend 5% of their economic output on defence is Donald Trump’s “biggest foreign policy success,” the alliance’s chief has said.
In an interview with the BBC, Mark Rutte said it was thanks to Donald Trump that Nato was “stronger than it ever was”, adding that Trump “is good news for collective defence, for Nato and for Ukraine”.
The US leader has harshly criticised European allies for spending very little on defence – even threatening to withdraw US protection if they fail to do so.
🇫🇷 Migrant fight at Paris Gare du Nord causes major rail delays
A fight involving migrants at Paris’ Gare du Nord today led to widespread delays across the entire rail network.
The incidents took place inside train carriages, prompting police to intervene and clear the tracks. pic.twitter.com/T9p6CrSYeh
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) December 18, 2025
Births in Canada to foreign visitors and other non-residents have risen in the past year, an expert in immigration statistics has found after analyzing hospital data.
The research, published in a report on Wednesday, shows a small increase in births at Canadian hospitals to temporary residents, such as international students and people here on work permits.
Jeffrey Epstein kept photos of Bill Gates posing alongside women, newly published images show.
Democrats published 68 new photographs from Epstein’s estate showing Mr Gates as well as a host of the paedophile’s powerful associates, including Woody Allen, Noam Chomsky and Steve Bannon.
The Microsoft founder was pictured standing arm in arm with a woman with dark hair and a navy dress. A further photo showed him standing alongside a woman dressed in a white shirt in a hallway. Both had their faces obscured.
The arrest of a Canadian Armed Forces intelligence operator on espionage charges appears to have its origins in another murky episode that has vexed the country’s military establishment for more than a year.
The operator, Master Warrant Officer Matthew Shawn Robar, was arrested and charged Dec. 10 with multiple offences related to passing highly sensitive government secrets to what court documents released this week refer to as a “foreign entity.” He was released from custody Monday under strict conditions.
Accusations of espionage on behalf of both Ukraine and Russia.
I wonder if Freeland is involved in some way!
On December 14, two Islamic terrorists attacked a Chanukah celebration in Australia and murdered 15 people, including a 10-year-old girl, before their rampage was eventually halted by the Bondi police.
Unfortunately, the recent antisemitic attack in Australia has vividly underscored the sad reality that the shaky ceasefire between Israel and Hamas does not entail any peace for the international Jewish community or an end to the antisemitic violence that has become a consistent aspect of Jewish life in the wake of October 7.
(Incognito)
In the annals of urban history, few cities embody the tragic interplay of aesthetic aspiration, ideological fanaticism, and moral decay as fully as Berlin. Hailed as the pulsating heart of European cosmopolitanism in the 1920s—a metropolis where artists, intellectuals, and bohemians converged in a symphony of experimentation—it now awaits the course of history, evidently broken. Its trajectory through the twentieth century reads as a somber elegy for lost grandeur. Gone is the magic. The echo of the interwar Berlin that Christopher Isherwood (author of the 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin) conveyed so elegantly has long since fallen silent.
