A new report on Syrian refugees in Austria has ignited political controversy after suggesting that some migrants are deliberately failing the exam after completing German courses to avoid low-paying jobs.
The findings, published in daily Kronen Zeitung and based on the Austrian Labour Market Service’s (AMS) study, have prompted sharp criticism from opposition politicians, particularly the right-wing Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ).
When Parliament returns this fall, one bill should be at the top of the priority list: Ending the practice of giving lighter sentences to criminals who aren’t Canadian citizens. Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner has made it clear her party will bring forward legislation to close this loophole, and every Canadian who believes in fairness should be demanding that it pass.
Afternoon @CitImmCanada office party this Thursday includes “sexy drag rock star”, “pride potluck” and “drag bingo”. Public service pride week party notice did not include estimate of cost to taxpayers. https://t.co/pO1WR2D573@LenaMetlegeDiab #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/JWcjcwtkkJ
— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) August 18, 2025
h/t Mauser
This Isn’t Compassion. It’s State-Sponsored Danger.
You can’t claim to protect women while placing unvetted illegal migrant men, whose criminal histories are completely unknown, into our towns and villages.
These aren’t refugees or tourists. They are men of fighting age, arriving without documentation, placed in communities at taxpayer expense, while British families struggle under soaring taxes.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! @poopjeets @fancypants_s https://t.co/uJ3gQVGiN1
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) August 18, 2025
h/t Auntie Polly
My friend Tom Mautner is the chair of the board of governors at a school in North London. This week, with students out for the summer, he took me for a tour. For a visitor from Toronto, where schools are run from the top down by a vast bureaucracy – a.k.a. the Toronto District School Board – it was an eye-opener.
Laurel Park is a public secondary school with around 600 students. It was built in the 1960s in what is now an area of mixed incomes and backgrounds. Until just a couple of years ago, it was faring poorly. School inspectors gave it low ratings. Ambitious families shunned it. Disciplinary problems were rife.
Given the state of Canadian education we could learn from anybody including chimps.
Donald Trump has said the Ukrainian president can end Russia’s war “if he wants to”, but there will be “no going into Nato by Ukraine” as part of a peace deal.
Hours before he was due to host Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House, Trump also said there would be “no getting back” the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow illegally annexed in 2014, eight years before launching its full-scale invasion.
Trump’s remarks follow his summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska that resulted in the US president dropping a demand for a ceasefire and calling instead for a permanent peace deal.
John Slipp took over his father’s duty-free store in 1994, which had been started more than a decade earlier.
This month, he closed the Woodstock Duty Free Shop Inc. as lower traffic at the U.S.-Canada border dealt the final blow to a business already weakened by the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, at 59, Slipp says he will have to find another source of income and is advocating for more government support for stores like his.
Originally meant to provide all Canadians with a simple way to protect their fundamental rights, Canada’s human rights commissions and tribunals have degenerated into a dangerous farce. Based on recent evidence, their main job appears to be offering easily offended people a low-cost way to seek vengeance on anyone who has ever hurt their feelings. When they aren’t doing that, the entire human rights industry is actively undermining our most important fundamental rights, including freedom of speech and religion.
The point of reform has long passed. It’s time to shut them all down.
Science denying cry-babies in the US have toddled over to the Federal court in Massachusetts to seek an injunction against the recent Department of Energy (DoE) working party report about greenhouse gas emissions. The report’s main finding, produced after examining much of the literature from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), was that computer models offered “little guidance” on how much of the climate responds to warming gases such as carbon dioxide. This observation is regularly ignored in mainstream media but it is hardly a new opinion. The available data leads to that inevitable conclusion despite all the political nonsense claims of ‘settled’ science. To go to court to seek to ban the report is a new low in the increasingly desperate attempt to keep the Net Zero fantasy alive using science scares that are increasingly being debunked.
One of the main forces behind leftism, in addition to its powerful hatred for the West, is profound historical ignorance. Leftist education across the West means that people know the wrong thing or know just a sliver of the right thing, with that sliver managing to be a complete perversion of the whole picture. If you want a visual, check out the classic meme that seemingly shows a despairing child held down by a booted foot on the head, only for the wide-angle to show the child doing it to himself.
British Columbia, and much of the country, is confronting the consequences of an economic model that was never built to last. For years, we have been told a comforting story about growth — that as long as cranes dot the skyline and property values climb, prosperity will follow. But beneath that veneer lies a stark truth: our economy is not driven by value-added manufacturing, groundbreaking technology, innovation, or by unlocking our vast natural resource potential. It is built almost entirely on real estate and relentless population growth driven by mass immigration. And it relies on the building and selling of homes to the next wave of newcomers.
This is not diversification. This is dependency. And like all dependencies, it eventually demands a price.
It was a frost-bitten day in late January this year. On the Interstate 91 in Vermont, some 15 kilometres from the Canadian border, US border agents pulled over a blue Toyota Prius.
Law enforcement had been tracking the Prius’s two occupants, 21-year-old Teresa ‘Milo’ Youngblut and 26-year-old Felix ‘Ophelia’ Bauckholt for a couple of days. A hotel employee had raised suspicions about the pair after seeing them both wearing black combat clothes and seeing Youngblut carrying a gun. But beyond that, the agents knew little more about them.
As dusk approaches in Bournemouth, nine men and one woman are gathered in a town centre car park. All are dressed in black, wearing dark blue tabards with the words “Safeguard Force”. They are about to set off on their evening patrol in an area where, the group says, “our streets are not safe” and “our women walk in fear”. Tonight’s volunteers are a mixed bunch, but there’s a preponderance of tattoos, powerful frames and bulging muscles.
“We don’t like the word ‘vigilantes’, don’t like it at all,” says Gary Bartlett, the group’s founder. It’s a word some in the town are using to describe the group, but others appear to be welcoming them with open arms. There is, many believe, something rotten at the heart of Bournemouth, and the hope is that Bartlett and his friends can help to fix it.
Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre is among the dozens of MPs who own rental property even as he blasts the unfairness of Canada’s housing market for young Canadians, Global News has learned.
Poilievre, the perceived frontrunner in the party’s leadership race, has made housing unaffordability a central part of his campaign so far, and has frequently criticized what he calls the “gatekeepers” keeping homes out of reach for home-buying hopefuls.
Two condos owned by Poilievre and his wife? That’s nothing compared to others.
No idea why Poilievre was singled out for headline treatment unless God forbid our media are nothing more than paid propagandists for the LPC!
