Canadian Military’s Immigrant Experiment Serves as Warning to Europe

Canadian Military’s Immigrant Experiment Serves as Warning to Europe

While Western leaders push to bolster defense capabilities amid perceived rising threats, public willingness to enlist has lagged behind, forcing several countries to explore unconventional recruitment solutions.

Canada’s government last year changed its requirements for enlisting in the armed forces, accepting recruits with some medical conditions that would previously have been disqualifying, dropping aptitude test requirements, and implementing a program for immigrants with legal residency to join the country’s military.

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Is German troop withdrawal start of US uncoupling from Europe?

Is German troop withdrawal start of US uncoupling from Europe?

Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s assertion that the US is being “humiliated” in its war against Iran has triggered a new confrontation between Europe and President Trump. Four days after the comments were made, the Pentagon announced plans to withdraw 5,000 troops from its bases in Germany.

Many experts see it as a waypoint in the American military’s continuing uncoupling from the Continent. There are more than 38,000 active US troops in the Federal Republic and on Saturday the defence minister, Boris Pistorius, implied the move was expected, saying: “We Europeans must take on more responsibility for our own security.”


Payback to the base for the Iran conflict?

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So called “Regina Man” Abdulkader Ali sentenced for falsification of immigration documents

So called “Regina Man” Abdulkader Ali sentenced for falsification of immigration documents

A Regina man has been sentenced and fined $75,000 for falsifying federal immigration documents.

Abdulkader Ali pleaded guilty to submitting false immigration sponsorships to Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) and counselling a refugee to provide false information on their IRCC application and counselling someone to sign as a sponsor without their knowledge.

Ali had been working as a refugee field worker with a local sponsorship organization at the time.


This should be treated as an act of demographic warfare by Islamists.

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US threatens shipping firms with sanctions if they pay Iran tolls

US threatens shipping firms with sanctions if they pay Iran tolls

The US has warned shipping companies they could face sanctions if they pay Iran for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz.

An alert on Friday by the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) warned US persons and companies were generally banned from paying Iranian government entities, and non-US persons may risk exposure to sanctions if they pay.

“Maritime industry participants involved with vessels calling at Iranian ports face significant sanctions risk under multiple sanctions authorities targeting Iran’s shipping sector and ports”, OFAC said.

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Suspect in vehicle fired at 3 Jewish members with replica gun: Toronto police

Suspect in vehicle fired at 3 Jewish members with replica gun: Toronto police

Toronto police are looking for a suspect who allegedly fired a replica firearm at three members of the Jewish community in North York on Thursday.

Police said the assault, which is being investigated as a hate-motivated incident, occurred in the area of Bathurst Street and Lawrence Avenue West.

Three people, who police say were visibly Jewish, were walking in the area when a suspect in a blue SUV allegedly discharged an Orbeez-type gun at them.

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Whisper it, but Trump’s blockade is working

Whisper it, but Trump’s blockade is working

Foreigners who commit evil belong in the depths of the water, apparently. That’s according to Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s new supreme leader, who is badly wounded, living like a rat underground and reduced to handwriting his words of wisdom, or having them handwritten for him.

Did nobody point out that when his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, posted on X that an American warship was less dangerous than “the weapon that can send that warship to the bottom of the sea”, it heralded his death 11 days later?

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Mark Carney has forgotten who helped get him elected

Mark Carney has forgotten who helped get him elected

If one thing is clear from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s economic update this week, it’s that he’s taking progressive voters for granted.

Headlines like “A Canada for All” sound nice. As do statements like: “the government is protecting the essential social programs that give Canadians a fair chance to get ahead — child care, dental care, and pharmacare.”

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Sometimes you have to fight to be a man

Sometimes you have to fight to be a man

SO FAR, so good for the two Met police officers who gave a suspect a dose of boot leather to the head, after he (allegedly) stabbed two men in Golders Green, while already being pursued for an alleged knife attack earlier in the day.

I say this mindful of the ongoing trial after the clash between Muslim brothers and police officers at Manchester Airport, where there was an outbreak of mass hysteria after one officer also applied footwear to the cranium of his attacker and was promptly suspended. So far as I’ve seen, Met chief Mark Rowley hasn’t – yet – hung his Golders Green officers out to dry. Fingers crossed.

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Canada’s youth unemployment ‘a crisis’ as numbers rise

Canada’s youth unemployment ‘a crisis’ as numbers rise

In the wake of the federal government’s spring mini-budget boasting about the resilience of the economy, a new study finds youth unemployment in Canada increased from 10% in 2022 to 13.8% in 2025, the largest three-year increase on record when the economy was not in a recession.

The report by the Fraser Institute says that last year, 437,000 young people between 15 and 24 years of age looked for a job but could not find one, up 57% from 290,000 in 2022.

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WTF?

WTF?

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Canadian Military Faces Rise in Mental Health Cases Under New Recruiting Model

Canadian Military Faces Rise in Mental Health Cases Under New Recruiting Model

The Canadian military is grappling with a range of challenges linked to an easing of recruitment standards, including new members who lack proficiency in English or French or who face significant mental health issues.

The concerns appear in a leaked report written by the commander of a core military training school in Quebec, first covered by Juno News earlier this week. The report says the changes are hurting completion rates of basic training.


Good idea to give them guns?

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Two New Indictments Illuminate China’s Unconventional War Against The U.S.

Two New Indictments Illuminate China’s Unconventional War Against The U.S.

Two federal indictments unsealed this week provide fresh evidence that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is waging an unconventional war against the United States, one that targets American lives, security, and scientific edge through hacking and industrial-scale drug trafficking.

On April 27, Chinese national Xu Zewei appeared in a federal court in Houston after being extradited from Italy. He faces a nine-count indictment for hacking campaigns between 2020 and 2021. According to prosecutors, officials of China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) and Shanghai State Security Bureau (SSSB) recruited Xu and co-conspirator Zhang Yu in early 2020 and instructed the pair to break into U.S. universities and steal research on vaccines, treatments, and testing from leading immunologists and virologists.

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The world today resembles my grandmother’s much more than my parents’

The world today resembles my grandmother’s much more than my parents’

I was, in an intellectual sense, as prepared as I could be for the end of my grandmother’s life – a life that began in the suburbs of Budapest, in 1935, and ended in Toronto, just over 80 years later.

In that time, she had lived through the piece-by-piece destruction of her world, first by fascists, then Nazis, then communists – the original incarnations of these still undefeated movements. She had seen her mother and father dispossessed of their belongings and their home – legally, at the time. She witnessed the sudden (equally legal) disappearance of her father, then the sudden and permanent disappearance of her aunts and uncles. When she returned to her small and mostly Jewish neighbourhood after the war, she found almost every other child she used to know was no longer there, leaving behind grieving parents.

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Britain Needs a Bastard

Britain Needs a Bastard

Keir Starmer entered Downing Street promising the political equivalent of a monastery. He was silent on matters of substance, except to say that his administration would be founded on integrity, service, and an end to scandal—a government ‘whiter than white’ with the adults, finally, back in the room. No more circus. No more rogues. Just a decent, serious man restoring trust after the bacchanal of Boris Johnson and a Tory party that went through leaders like others are rumoured to go through Ukrainian rent boys. Exhausted by 14 years of Tory chaos, the nation acquiesced to the Ming vase strategy.

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