Corruption scandal weakens Ukraine

Given that Canada has committed $22 billion in aid to Ukraine, the growing corruption scandal now reaching into President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office raises legitimate questions for taxpayers.

Why do we need to fund foreign aid? Because the swells like to virtue signal and feel important.

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Over 5K Afghan migrants flagged on ‘national security’ grounds since 2021, document reveals

More than 5,000 Afghans brought to the US after American forces withdrew from the country got flagged for “national security” issues, Department of Homeland Security data obtained by The Post reveals.

In all, the feds uncovered “potential derogatory information” on a total of 6,868 people who came from Afghanistan as part of President Biden’s Operation Allies Welcome in 2021.

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More than 16,000 Canadians died by MAID in 2024 — 5% of all deaths in Canada: report

As Canada approaches the ten-year mark of legalized doctor-assisted death, the number of annual deaths appears to be plateauing, according to the federal government’s latest report on medical assistance in dying (MAID).

A total of 16,499 people died by MAID in Canada in 2024. However, the year-over-year annual growth rate in deaths has been shrinking, from 36.8 per cent between 2019 and 2020, to 6.9 per cent between 2023 and 2024, according to Health Canada’s sixth annual report on MAID.

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Will Trump invade Venezuela — and what comes after?

This month, as President Trump travelled to his Mar-a-Lago estate, he told reporters aboard Air Force One that he had “sort of” made up his mind about whether to launch US military strikes on Venezuela. “I can’t tell you what it would be,” he added.

Publicly the president has been keeping his options open. But behind the scenes, some of the most powerful people around him have been trying to persuade him to attack Venezuela — and remove its president, Nicolás Maduro — in what would be an extraordinary escalation of months-long military build-up in the Caribbean.

Those in favour of the strikes say they could bring democracy and prosperity to Venezuela and provide a way for the eight million people who have fled the country in the past ten years to return. These include hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who came to the US and who the Trump administration would like to deport from the country.

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Labour pains: Why Canada’s reliance on temporary foreign workers may be hurting growth

When University of Waterloo economist Mikal Skuterud ponders the triangular relationship between immigration, technology and productivity, he finds himself thinking about Norway, where his family is from. It’s a place that doesn’t import low-skilled workers to do jobs Norwegians don’t want to do. That kind of work is mainly done by technology. The country’s fish processing industry is famously and thoroughly automated, as are places like supermarkets. “Low-wage jobs like you see in Canada literally don’t exist,” he says. “Even cashiers. The grocery store is completely self-checkout. It’s almost like there’s no employees in a lot of the stores.”

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Afghan charged with sexual assault and entering Britain illegally

A 30-year-old Afghan man has been charged with sexual assaults on three women in Southampton as well as with illegally entering the UK.

Sohail Amiri, of Highfield Lane, Southampton, is accused of approaching a woman and attempting to kiss her in Upper Shaftesbury Avenue on Tuesday, and two incidents involving other women in Westwood Road on Sept 23.

A Hampshire Constabulary spokesman said: “Officers investigating three reports of sexual assaults on women in Portswood and Bevois have charged a man.

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Terry Newman: Shopify CEO calls out Liberals’ ‘toxic’ foreign tech subsidies

Tobias Lutke, the CEO of Canadian tech giant Shopify, says the federal government should stop bribing foreign companies with taxpayer money to create jobs in Canada.

He was responding to Industry Minister Mélanie Joly’s X post celebrating foreign tech giant Nokia’s heavily government-funded Ottawa campus, which is now under construction.

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Far-Left Mob Tries To Shut Down AfD Youth Launch

The German city of Giessen saw huge disruption on Saturday as thousands of far-left protesters tried to block the AfD from launching its new youth wing—forcing the meeting to be delayed and triggering a major police operation across the city.

Extreme left-wing groups began arriving early in the morning, with police warning of coordinated attempts to obstruct access to the venue. One group, “Resist,” openly boasted that it had blocked several routes and claimed to have gathered 15,000 supporters. In total, 23 separate rallies had been registered, and authorities expected around 50,000 protesters to descend on the city.

Tweet Translation: “If this is anti-fascism, I prefer those who are defamed and attacked by this left-radical mob…”

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