Diversity Crime: Authorities feared man arrested in smuggling scheme that led to deaths at border would flee

Authorities allege a man recently arrested in Ontario in connection with a human smuggling scheme dropped a family of four off near the Manitoba-U.S. border and told them to walk through blizzard conditions when their van got stuck in a remote, snow-covered area on the January 2022 night they froze to death.

Fenil Patel, who was living in Brampton, Ont., was arrested on Sept. 5 following an extradition request from the United States. The charges he’s expected to face there include conspiracy to bring aliens to the U.S. resulting in death, court documents obtained by CBC News say.

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Ghoulish Luigi Mangione fans camp outside NYC court, hoot and holler celebrating tossed terror charges

Luigi Mangione Idolatry

They’re fanning the flames.

Ghoulish fans of Luigi Mangione hooped and hollered in celebration Tuesday as the accused CEO killer’s terrorism charges were dropped – and not even a week after conservative influencer Charlie Kirk’s assassination put a spotlight on US political violence.

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John Ivison: Politics have become too serious for Chrystia Freeland

Chrystia Freeland’s exit from cabinet, while not expected, is no great surprise.

The job of transport minister is unglamorous, dominated by regulation of railway rolling stock and of passenger bills of rights. The minister’s path is potholed with potentially career-limiting port, railway or airline strikes.

Former Conservative transport minister John Crosbie expressed his frustration in 1986 when he said no one understands how air fares work. “Why I should be expected to understand them is beyond me,” he said.

For someone with Freeland’s vaulting ambition, being parked in the backwater of transport, albeit with the additional nominal responsibility for internal trade, must have felt like those aspirations were being thwarted.

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How the British Flag Became a Flashpoint in a New Culture War

RUGBY, England—Stuart Field raised his first flags in July: the English red cross of St. George and also a smattering of the British red, white and blue, hanging them from his hometown’s streetlights.

His daughter had just been sent home from her school’s annual cultural celebration day for wearing a sparkly dress designed around the Union Jack. Field was infuriated. A flyer from the school had described the event as a way to recognize the diverse cultures represented among the students. “Wear your traditional cultural dress to school instead of your usual school uniform,” it said.

“Your attire must reflect your nationality or family heritage.”
Field’s daughter, 13-year-old Courtney Wright, had prepared a speech about what British culture meant to her, focusing on everything from afternoon tea to the royal family to the British sense of humor. But she never got a chance to deliver it: When she arrived at the school, she was isolated from the other students and then told to go home.

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The Ontario Liberals need a new leader. Doug Ford would be perfect

In the seven years since the Ontario Liberals got their proverbial backside handed to them in the 2018 election, the party has yet to develop a real ethos, focus, or intention. The party’s sell to the people of Ontario during the last two elections was simply that it will make things better, and also get rid of the current guy.

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Jerry of Ben & Jerry’s steps down after being ‘silenced’

Jerry Greenfield resigned from his position at Ben & Jerry’s ice cream company, “with a broken heart,” according to a social media post by co-founder Ben Cohen on Wednesday.

The announcement follows years of friction between the co-founders and the company’s owner, Unilever, over social and political issues.

It also comes ahead of a planned stock market float of Unilever’s ice cream unit, The Magnum Ice Cream Company.

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‘Elbows Down’? Canada’s Leader Struggles to Find the Answer to Trump.

“Elbows Up,” a hockey phrase, became the campaign rallying cry of Canada’s Liberal Party this spring, whipping up a swell of patriotism in the face of President Trump’s menacing posture toward America’s neighbor.

In April, the sentiment lifted Mark Carney, a prominent economist but neophyte politician, to one of the most stunning electoral victories in Canada’s history. He promised to fight back against American tariffs and stand up for Canadian sovereignty.

But, after just a few months on the job, Mr. Carney is facing early signs of trouble as he discovers that being elected on an anti-Trump message does not mean you can govern on one, too.


The pivot to Charlie Kirk derangement is not working and the elbow people are adrift.

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Revealed: The text messages where Charlie Kirk suspect ‘confessed’

Prosecutors in the assassination of Charlie Kirk have revealed text messages that they say prove the suspect admitted to the killing.

Tyler Robinson, 22, has been charged with murder over the fatal shooting of Kirk, the popular conservative activist, at a university in Utah last week.

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Michael Higgins: Toppling Trudeau was Freeland’s greatest act of service

The KGB once lauded Chrystia Freeland as someone who was “inventive” in achieving her goals.

The ex-Soviet spy agency’s insightful analysis is in need of an update to include the fact that she never achieved her ultimate goal of becoming prime minister despite an artful public letter that slipped a stiletto between the shoulder blades of Justin Trudeau.


She was an accomplice not a victim and deserves no praise.

She wanted to succeed Junior as leader.

In pursuing that wish dream she robbed Canada of a unifying moment.

Voting the Trudeau gov’t out of office was what virtually all Canadians dreamed of.

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White House announces crackdown on ‘terrorist’ Left

The White House is cracking down on Left-wing “terrorist” organisations following the killing of Charlie Kirk.

Donald Trump said he would consider designating Antifa as a terror group, while one of the US president’s senior strategists said the administration would “destroy” Left-wing organisations.

Last week’s killing of Mr Kirk by a gunman accused of radicalised views has prompted many Republicans to warn of rising Left-wing extremism in the US.

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Man, 23, charged after alleged threats to Ottawa school over teacher’s hateful Charlie Kirk posts

A 23-year-old man faces threatening communications charges after police executed a search warrant in Orléans in relation to threats against St. Mark Catholic High School in Manotick.

Ottawa police say the search warrant was executed at about 8:28 a.m. Sunday at a home in the 300 block of River Ridge Crescent, where a suspect was arrested without incident.

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