Counterfeit Chinese Air-Bag Parts Tied to Five Deaths

Two recent fatal accidents involving Chinese-made air bag parts are renewing warnings from regulators over counterfeit components that can explode during a crash.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it is looking into seven incidents, including five fatalities, involving aftermarket air-bag parts that failed and ruptured during collisions.

Carney’s big on the China pivot.

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Usual cranks protest that Carney is not yet the Crank they desire him to be

Thousands rally in Toronto to ‘draw the line’ against PM Carney agenda

A large crowd of close to 2,000 people marched through downtown Toronto Saturday afternoon as part of Canada-wide protests calling on the new Liberal government to prioritize the climate, Indigenous rights, migrants and workers ahead of the fall budget.

Protesters’ concerns included Prime Minister Mark Carney’s support for new fossil fuel projects, potential public service cuts as well as other issues like Indigenous rights, anti-war activism and more.

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California bans most law enforcement including ICE from wearing masks

California’s governor has signed a bill to ban local and federal law enforcement officers, including with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), from wearing face masks while on duty.

The ban, which comes into effect on 1 January 2026, is part of a series of bills that aims to protect residents from what Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom has called “secret police” roaming the streets.

US Attorney Bill Essayli, a Trump appointee, said California “has no jurisdiction over the federal government”, adding the law has “no effect on our operations” and agents “will continue to protect their identities”.

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Canadian politicians, experts push back against U.S. ambassador’s anti-Americanism concerns

Canadian politicians and experts are pushing back against U.S. ambassador Pete Hoekstra’s frustration over the anti-American sentiment he’s seen in Canada after U.S. President Donald Trump hit the world with tariffs.

“When you kick the dog, you can’t blame it for snarling back,” said Flavio Volpe, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association and member of the prime minister’s Canada-U.S. relations council.

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Nato: Don’t say airmen… it’s not inclusive

Using the term “airmen” is offensive and should be avoided, Nato has said.

The organisation said the word should be replaced by “air force personnel” in its gender-inclusive language manual, which offers several recommendations to “challenge unconscious bias” and “raise awareness of how language affects our behaviours and attitudes”.

The manual suggests that “gender-inclusive language is becoming the new norm” and that there is a “set of techniques to avoid the generic masculine form”.

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That’s A Good Thing: Number of asylum seekers turned back by Canada grows despite U.S. threat of third-country deportation

Canada – Camp of The Saints Doormat

Canada’s government is sending more asylum-seekers hoping to file claims in Canada back to the U.S. under a bilateral pact, even as the U.S. says it may deport them to third countries.

Some of the people Canada is turning back should be eligible to file refugee claims in Canada, lawyers say, under exemptions to the Safe Third Country Agreement. The agreement broadly requires asylum-seekers at the Canada-U.S. border to be sent back to the first of the two countries they entered but allows some people – for example those with close family in Canada or stateless persons – to file claims.

Not our problem.

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Dutch police clash with anti-immigration protesters

Dutch police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse violent anti-immigration protesters in The Hague on Saturday.

Thirty people were arrested and two officers injured as large groups of people clashed with police, with some throwing rocks and bottles.

Around 1,500 people blocked a highway crossing the city, while a police car was set on fire, the Netherlands news agency ANP reported, citing police figures.

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Carney Secures Islamist Vote Bloc: Canada recognizes State of Palestine, offers help to build peaceful future with Israel

Canada now officially recognizes the State of Palestine and is doing so with international partners to preserve the prospect of a two-state solution, according to a statement from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s office released Sunday morning.

“Over many decades, Canada’s commitment to [a two-state solution] was premised on the expectation that this outcome would eventually be achieved as part of a negotiated settlement,” the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said.

However, that possibility “has been steadily and gravely eroded” by several developments, including the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel, the Israeli parliament’s resolution supporting annexation of the occupied West Bank and the Israeli government’s restrictions on humanitarian aid.


Carney and the LPC will do anything for the Muslim vote.

I wonder how the Trump administration will take this?

More … UK, Canada and Australia recognize Palestinian state

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Crazed gunman shouted ‘Free Palestine’ before opening fire and killing guest at New Hampshire wedding

A crazed gunman shouted ‘Free Palestine’ before he opened fire on a Nashua, New Hampshire, wedding reception and killed one guest — just as the bride and groom were about to start their first dance, according to witnesses.

Police have charged Hunter Nadeau, 23, with murder after arresting him on Saturday night following the deadly shooting at Sky Meadow Country Club about 40 miles north of Boston.

The victim has been identified as Robert Steven DeCesare, 59.

h/t kiki9

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Liberals push bill to let Canada Post open mail without a warrant

Conservatives are warning that a new Liberal bill giving postal inspectors the power to open Canadians’ mail without a warrant is unconstitutional and an attack on civil rights.

Bill C-2, An Act Respecting Certain Measures Relating To The Security Of The Border, would let inspectors open ordinary letters they consider suspicious.

That sounds like a very bad idea.

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Info anarchy comes for the Left – Fake news is too popular to resist

On Sept. 14, the Substack writer Heather Cox Richardson claimed in her daily missive that “the radical Right is working to distort the country’s understanding” of Charlie Kirk’s murder. The alleged assassin, Tyler Robinson, wasn’t on the Left, she wrote. Rather, he was “a young white man from a Republican, gun-enthusiast family, who appears to have embraced the far Right.”

It seems that Richardson bought into the theory circulating on the Left that Robinson was a Groyper — that is, a devotee of the far-Right provocateur Nick Fuentes — who killed Kirk for the sin of insufficient reactionary radicalism. Even in the fog of speculation and conjecture that necessarily follows such a shocking event, informed observers recognized that this theory was, generously, bereft of evidence. At the same time, evidence was already accumulating that Robinson had Left-wing motivations.

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