🚨BREAKING: In Australia, heavily armed tactical police swooped on a group of men believed to be heading to Bondi Beach. Acting on intelligence that a violent act may have been planned.pic.twitter.com/HzJKYxDS2C
— Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) (@TheMilkBarTV) December 18, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
OTTAWA — Most Canadians think it’s nothing but hot air.
That’s what the results of a recent Leger poll on the industrial carbon tax reveal, suggesting most Canadians believe the costs of the levy aren’t absorbed by emitters but instead passed onto them.
Statistics Canada plans to publish data on minors’ gender identity.
On December 8, members of the Toronto chapter of Pflag—a volunteer group dedicated to “creating a caring, just, and affirming world for LGBTQ+ people and those who love them”—received an unusual email. The organization said that while it rarely shares survey requests from third parties, it was making an exception for a “trusted partner”: Statistics Canada.
The federal statistical agency published “gender-identity” data for people 15 and older in 2022. But many Canadians may not know that it has also collected this information for children aged 0 to 14. Now, the agency wants input on how to present this data publicly. The email sent to Pflag solicited parental feedback on how to “produc[e] and releas[e] information on transgender and non-binary children and youth.”
The world must think Canada a very degenerate nation.
Next we will offer MAID to children who seek to de-transition.
In the waning days of 2025, the once-celebrated ideal of multiculturalism lies in tatters, exposed by a cascade of violent incidents and societal fractures across Europe, the U.K., and beyond.
The brutal attack at Bondi Beach in Sydney on Dec. 14, 2025, where a gunman targeted a Hanukkah celebration, killing several and injuring dozens, serves as a grim emblem of this failure.
Described by witnesses as an act of Islamic terror, the incident — perpetrated by a 24-year-old Australian-born son of a long-term migrant — has ignited furious debates about unchecked immigration and cultural integration.
‘TIS the week before Christmas and Crowborough awaits with bated breath a sign, an announcement, a star in the East.
Will some wise men appear or, more likely, will Crowborough only learn its fate when coaches are sighted rolling into its training camp? A camp which only two weeks ago hosted 114 eager cadets for a highly successful training weekend. Such an event will not happen in that location for the foreseeable. Poignant therefore to see some of those cadets marching at the head of the last two Sunday protests in Crowborough.
To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, for the Conservative leader to lose one MP can be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness.
December is becoming a cruel month for some of Canada’s opposition leaders, from Quebec to B.C. Now, with the second floor crossing from the federal Conservatives to the Liberals in under a month, Pierre Poilievre must consider his own future.
Having lost the April federal election in spectacular fashion — including losing his own seat — the hits keep coming for Poilievre as Mark Carney’s Liberals steal not only his ideas, but also his team, leaving the opposition leader denuded and adrift.
Well that’s an unsettling thought. I mean the denuded part.
The knives are out? Or is someone just testing the water?
Every year huge crowds gather in Paris at the Champs-Élysées to ring in the new year with fireworks and concerts. Much like the New Year’s Eve parties in Times Square in New York City, the joyous festivities are a key link in the chain of worldwide celebrations of the year to come.
A massive ‘lawfare’ claim backed by Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth has been filed in the UK’s Royal Courts of Justice claiming that Shell Oil played a part in a devastating typhoon in the Philippines in 2021. At the centre of the case is a Green Blob-funded weather ‘attribution’ study that claims Typhoon Rai, also known as Odette, was made significantly worse due to human caused climate change. The study has been recently published and is heavily linked to academic institutions funded by the green billionaire investor Jeremy Grantham.
As a youngster in Quebec, she dreamt of becoming a dancer. Instead, Jennie Carignan soared to become Canada’s first female Chief of the Defence Staff, the highest-ranking military position in the Canadian Armed Forces.
Appointed to the rank and position in July 2024, Gen. Carignan was educated as an engineer, has served in the Canadian military for more than 35 years, and has held leadership roles with missions to Afghanistan, Bosnia, Iraq and Syria. In 2013, she became the first woman commandant of the Royal Military College in Saint-Jean, Que.
The man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk bragged about his successes playing an online word game less than an hour before the conservative star was shot dead.
Tyler Robinson successfully completed a Wordle puzzle on September 10, the same day he allegedly killed Kirk, a friend told the Washington Post.
Wordle is popular daily puzzle game in which users try to guess a five-letter word in six attempts or less.
The Trump administration’s statement of the strategic goals of the United States, published last week in accordance with recent custom, is much more original than the general press response would indicate. It declares the objective of maintaining America as the “strongest, richest, most powerful, and successful” country in the world.
This is a reasonable ambition that does not imply hostility or disrespect to any other country. The statement replaces what is represented as having been the “laundry lists of wishes or desired end-states and vague platitudes about what we should want,” of previous administrations.
Artworks, including indigenous art, have vanished from a multi-million-dollar federal collection, Blacklock’s Reporter states.
The most disconcerting part of this revelation from the Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations is that jewelry disappeared from an unnamed regional office 30 years ago, only to be made public now. The department, in an Inquiry of Ministry tabled in the House of Commons, would not disclose the total value of items it says are deemed “unaccounted for.”
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U.S. President Donald Trump’s point-person on trade laid out a series of conditions Wednesday that Canada must meet in order to extend the Canada-U.S.-Mexico agreement (CUSMA) when it comes up for a review next year — revealing publicly for the first time what the administration expects Prime Minister Mark Carney to do to keep the pact for the long term.
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told the U.S. Congress that CUSMA has been “successful to a certain degree” but there need to be changes before Trump agrees to extend it for another 16 years or revert to yearly reviews, something Canada is eager to avoid given the resulting annual uncertainty.
“I don’t think we can say that USMCA is an unqualified success,” Greer said in his remarks, which were shared publicly after his closed-door meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
What exactly is the ‘platinum security guarantee’ that Donald Trump is pushing Volodimir Zelensky to accept? While the full details remain confidential, the deal is described as an ‘Article 5 style’ guarantee after the clause in Nato’s charter that states that ‘an armed attack against one Nato member shall be considered an attack against all members’ and triggers ‘an obligation for each member to come to its assistance.’
Sounds reassuring. Except that little weasel word ‘style’ covers an abyss of real-world back-pedalling and caveats. For a start, Nato’s charter does not oblige members to actually take military action if one is attacked but instead leaves that decision to individual states. The ‘assistance’ required by Article Five ‘may or may not involve the use of armed force’ and can include instead ‘any action that Allies deem necessary to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.’ Whatever Trump’s ‘platinum’ guarantee may be, it will be less binding even than that.
