Canadians distrust refugees more than other new arrivals, poll shows

More Canadian residents distrust refugees than trust them, with the lowest levels of trust in refugees expressed by immigrants and non-whites, according to a new national public opinion poll.

The polling data comes as recent changes in the federal government’s immigration policies designed to reduce new arrivals in Canada seems to be hitting refugee claimants the hardest.

Understandable. Rumour has it the war in upstate New York is not nearly as bad as described.

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Huntingdon train knife rampage suspect is charged with string of new alleged offences including attempted murder and GBH

A man accused of stabbing 10 people on a train has been charged with further offences linked to the incident, police have announced.

Anthony Williams is due in court this afternoon to face a further seven offences following the mass stabbing on a train which saw it diverted to Huntingdon station in Cambridgeshire earlier this month.

Williams, 32, of Langford Road, Peterborough, has been further charged with the attempted murder of a 14-year-old boy in Peterborough city centre on October 31 and attempted grievous bodily harm of a 28-year-old man in the city on the same day.

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Who is Deepak Paradkar, the Brampton lawyer accused of advising Ryan Wedding to kill FBI witness?

High-profile Brampton defence lawyer Deepak Paradkar has been arrested after being charged with helping a massive illegal drug organization murder witnesses, enlist corrupt lawyers and streamline drug routes.

Paradkar, who’s nicknamed “Napoleon” by GTA colleagues for his tough courtroom tactics, was charged Tuesday with plotting murders with fugitive drug kingpin Ryan Wedding, who’s accused of running a billion-dollar-a-year drug enterprise.

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Ukraine forced to cut army under Trump-Russia peace deal

White House tells Volodymyr Zelensky he must accept terms of US president’s 28-point proposal

Ukraine will be forced to cut the size of its army under a peace deal agreed between Donald Trump and Russia.

The US president has been working with Moscow on a secret 28-point proposal inspired by the ceasefire agreement in Gaza.

The White House has told Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, that he must accept the terms of the plan, which will require his country to cede territory, give up some weapons and trim its armed forces, sources have said.

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Today in Singh Transport News

Cocaine express

Brampton trucking company owners charged in Blue Water Bridge smuggling case

Lovedeep Singh, 32, and Khushdeep Singh, 29, who live at the same address in Brampton, are charged with conspiracy and possessing property obtained by crime. One of the conspiracy charges alleges between March 1 and March 6, in Point Edward, they conspired to import cocaine into Canada from the U.S. by organizing and directing Ravinderbir Singh, court records say.


I’m betting that last Sikh sungh like a Canary.

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Trump signs bill ordering justice department to release Epstein files

US President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he signed a bill ordering the release of all files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The bill requires the justice department to release all information from its Epstein investigation “in a searchable and downloadable format” within 30 days.

Trump previously opposed releasing the files, but he changed course last week after facing pushback from Epstein’s victims and members of his own Republican Party.

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Future of trade talks depends on Canada’s purchase of American fighter jets, U.S. ambassador says

Pete Hoekstra – I’m crushing your head

OTTAWA — The future of Canada-U.S. trade talks depends on how Canada’s review of its decision to buy U.S.-made F-35 fighter jets turns out, says President Donald Trump’s ambassador to Canada.

Pete Hoekstra told a conference hosted by the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters on Wednesday that it will not be easy to restart the now-stalled trade talks, and urged Canada to “harmonize” as much as possible with the U.S. on a range of economic and military co-operation issues.

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BERNARDO: Carney cooking NATO’s books with a fantasy army of paper-pushers

Mark Carney stands up in front of NATO and vows that Canada will finally hit the magic 2% defence target, even accelerate the timeline, and then keep going toward the new 5% “defence and security” goal. On paper, that sounds bold and committed.

But then you see the trick. Instead of building a serious fighting force, the plan leans on relabeling existing agencies under armed forces control.

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Crowborough on the march – thousands protest over asylum camp

‘WE WUN’T be druv’, or ‘we won’t told what to do’, is the unofficial motto of the county of Sussex and encapsulates perfectly the mounting defiance of the East Sussex town of Crowborough. The town is engaged in a battle to prevent 600 male asylum seekers (the equivalent of two battalions) being placed in an army training camp next to the town. Until now the camp has been in constant use by air and army cadets.

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