Amy Hamm: Avi Lewis is no everyman. He looks more like Jagmeet Singh every day
“Confession: I get shredded cheese,” said Avi Lewis, feigning sheepishness, to a Zoom audience of approximately 500 people on Wednesday. The event, titled “Emergency Austerity Budget Town Hall,” held in response to the Liberal government’s newly-released 2025 budget, was half NDP buzzword salad, half leadership campaign.
Court rules asylum seekers can stay at Epping hotel
Asylum seekers can continue living at an Essex hotel after a council lost a landmark legal battle at the High Court to remove them.
Epping Forest District Council sought to block migrants lodging at The Bell Hotel in Epping by arguing its owner had flouted planning rules.
Mr Justice Mould dismissed the claim on Tuesday, ruling an injunction was “not an appropriate means of enforcing planning control”.
WTF?
this person raised 30 cats in the mountains ⛰️ pic.twitter.com/aDnYNem4dG
— cats with powerful impression (@catshealdeprsn) November 3, 2025
More Canadians trust the military than the federal government: poll
In the lead up to Remembrance Day, Canada’s military remains one of the most trusted institutions in the country.
A new poll by Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies suggests that trust in Canada’s military sits at 75 per cent. Trust in police, meanwhile, remains close behind, at 71 per cent. Only 13 per cent of Canadians distrust the armed forces and police.
Made in China …
WATCH
A 758-meter Hongqi Bridge in southwest China has just collapsed months after it was inaugurated. pic.twitter.com/eq5rYn5KFz
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) November 11, 2025
h/t Mauser
Senate Passes Bill to Reopen Government Amid Democratic Rift
The Senate passed legislation on Monday night to end the nation’s longest government shutdown, after a critical splinter group of Democrats joined with Republicans and backed a spending package that omitted the chief concession their party had spent weeks demanding.
The 60-to-40 vote, on Day 41 of the shutdown, signaled a break in the gridlock that has shuttered the government for weeks, leaving hundreds of thousands of federal workers furloughed, millions of Americans at risk of losing food assistance and millions more facing air-travel disruptions.
The measure goes next to the House, which is expected to take it up no sooner than Wednesday and where the small Republican margin of control and intense Democratic opposition could make for a close vote. President Trump has indicated that he will sign it.
WTF?
You're a sensible, responsible adult, right?
So you know better than to share this as widely as you possibly can, yeah? https://t.co/Q6DExdfWXW
— latsot (@latsot) November 10, 2025
h/t Auntie Polly
Anti-Jewish hate in Toronto reaching breaking point, advocate says
Toronto’s institutional tolerance of anti-Israel activism is putting the city’s Jewish population at risk, according to a prominent international advocate.
And it’s just a matter of time before somebody loses their life in this wave of hatred, said Aviva Klompas, founder and CEO of pro-Israel think tank Boundless.
“If any other house of worship was vandalized 10 times, it would be a national emergency — it would be front-page news, and the question that every Canadian, every person of conscience should be asking is why isn’t anyone doing anything to stop it?”
No. Over 100 churches have been burned or otherwise vandalized and barely a finger was lifted by law enforcement or our politicians instead they doubled down on the fake graves lie.
WTF?
Cowichan Tribes releases long-awaited statement on the giant illegal garbage dump on its reserve.
Blames Ottawa.
"The authority for enforcement… of the land where the dumping has occurred has always been under Canada & the Indian Act."
Via @lpynn #bcpolihttps://t.co/JwplKJTCsB— DouglasTodd (@DouglasTodd) November 11, 2025
Hamas Presence in Europe Reveals Open Borders “Disaster”
European citizens keep on learning about more and more Hamas affiliates living in their own towns and cities. And who knows how many others are going unnoticed?
Dutch media reported on Monday morning on the appearance of “a Gazan who cheered on the October 7th attacks in Israel” at a pro-Palestine sit-in at Amsterdam Central Station. De Telegraaf notes that while Mohaned al-Khatib, the Gazan in question, “describes himself as a journalist … in his comments, however, he openly reveals himself to be a Hamas supporter. He is pictured arm in arm with then-Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh.”
WTF?
Intelligence agents showed up at my door late last year. I told them to leave.
They proceeded to call me from anonymous numbers repeatedly. Contacted my gym. Told me they wouldn’t go away unless I “built a relationship with them” as an asset.
“Your audience will never know”… pic.twitter.com/LO9ol7LXGB
— Lauren Southern (@Lauren_Southern) November 10, 2025
Toronto city hall agrees to fly Palestinian flag this month for the first time
Toronto city hall will fly the Palestinian flag for the first time next Monday to commemorate State of Palestine Independence Day, a gesture long sought by advocates that the city says it has now agreed to because Canada recognized Palestine in September.
City hall hoists several dozen flags a year. In 2024, it raised more than 60. Most were national flags but about a third were for sports teams or various causes, including the End Polio Now Flag, the Black Liberation Flag and the Period Purse Flag on Menstrual Health Day in May.
One Term Chow.
The future of the BBC is now in doubt
It always hurts when a Tim gets disgraced, but if the scalp fits the hat, wear it. Tim Davie had to resign as Director General of the BBC, as did CEO of News Deborah Turness, because the litany of errors on their watch was so great as to indicate a cultural rot from the head down. That rot has put the very future of the corporation in doubt. The BBC’s whole business model was to stake its survival on being a paragon of honesty. If it is caught lying – this brazenly, this often – consumers will revolt.
The Corporation was already in the soup for protecting vast egos accused of very different things – Gregg Wallace, Gary Lineker, Huw Edwards – and for offering a platform for anti-Semitism, but the dossier of biases that recently fell into the Telegraph’s lap took things up a notch.
Ekos poll finds Canadians most concerned about ‘growing political and ideological polarization’
While the focus last week was on how Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne’s budget will affect Canadians’ pocketbooks, the top issues “keeping them up at night” involve deep concerns about the country’s future, according to Frank Graves, founder and president of Ekos Research Associates Inc., based on the results of a recent Ekos poll.
In the late October survey involving 1,581 respondents presented with a set of 10 choices, 70 per cent identified “growing political and ideological polarization” as their top issue of concern. Next, at 67 per cent, was the “acute decline of our democratic and public institutions.” The poll results were released on Oct. 29.