According to testimony in Parliament, the Canadian government has spent more than $750 million so far this year to accommodate immigrants. Meanwhile, the Biden administration told Congress that an average of 5,000 illegal immigrants are released into the USA every day.
In other news, a rare tornado struck County Leitrim in Ireland, causing serious damage to buildings, vehicles, and boats.
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Canada: Family of Four Will Spend $16,297 on Groceries Next Year: Report
The average Canadian family of four will have to dig a little deeper next year to afford groceries, as the impact of food inflation continues to cripple household finances.
According to the national Food Price Report, groceries on average will cost Canadian families $16,297 in 2024 — up from $16,288.41 this year and $15,232.81 in 2022.
Canada’s Food Price Report 2023 predicted a 5% to 7% food price increase in 2023 following 10% hikes last year. Vegetables, dairy and meat all became more expensive.
“In 2024 it is probable Canadians will continue to experience the strain of food inflation compounded by increasing costs of housing, energy and various other expenditures,” the report read.
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“Sticker Shock”: Washington Governor Inslee’s $100 Million Gamble to Address Homelessness Crisis
Washington Governor Jay Inslee is doubling down on the state’s efforts to address its out-of-control homelessness epidemic. Inslee’s latest maneuver involves a staggering $100 million proposal, aimed at bolstering the Rapid Capital Housing Acquisition (RCHA) fund, a critical arm of the state’s program to clear encampments and provide housing for the unhoused along state highways.
This proposal comes on the heels of $149 million in funds focused primarily on counties west of the Cascade Mountains. Inslee’s announcement during Thursday’s press conference underscored his commitment to this initiative, originally dubbed the Rights of Way Safety Initiative and now rebranded as the Encampment Resolution Program.
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Al Gore Likens Social Media Algorithms to AR-15s, Calls for a Ban
Despite several jokes about Al Gore inventing the internet, it’s clear that the former Vice President has revealed that he knows little about how the internet works — or the First Amendment, for that matter.
Gore called for the banning of social media algorithms at the Bloomberg Green Summit at COP28.
Underscoring his argument with a comparison to signature firearms, Gore stated that algorithms that condition the course of social media, similar to AR-15’s, represent a threat and “ought to be banned.”
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President Biden has invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to visit the White House to show solidarity with the wartorn country, it was announced Sunday.
Zelensky is invited to the White House for a meeting Tuesday to “underscore the United States’ unshakeable commitment to supporting the people of Ukraine as they defend themselves against Russia’s brutal invasion,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.
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Biden Does Creepy Impersonation of Little Girl
Democrat President Joe Biden bizarrely started impersonating a little girl during a White House event.
The strange impersonation has been referred to as Biden’s “creepiest moment yet.”
The incident, according to the Daily Caller, came during Biden’s recent speech at the Tribal Nations Summit.
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Breaking: Tucker Carlson Launches New Streaming Service
Journalist Tucker Carlson is launching his own video subscription streaming service after being fired from Fox News earlier this year.
Carlson, who was Fox News’ most popular primetime host, made the announcement in a post on X on Saturday.
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Breaking: Trump Reveals He Will Not Testify in Civil Fraud Trial on Monday
On Sunday, former President Donald Trump reversed course and announced that he would not be testifying at his New York civil fraud case on Monday.
The announcement came in a series of posts on Truth Social in which Donald Trump stated that he has “already testified to everything” and has nothing more to say about the “corrupt” case, calling it “election interference” at the hands of President Biden’s “weaponized” Justice Department.
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The people of X have spoken, voting overwhelmingly to bring controversial journalist Alex Jones back to the platform after he was permanently banned in 2018. Musk ran a poll on X and had users decide whether or not to bring Jones back, which was a vote for freedom of speech or censorship.
Once the votes were in, Musk confirmed that Alex Jones would be reinstated.
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California Teen Passes State Bar Exam, Sworn in as an Attorney
A county prosecutor’s office says one of its law clerks passed the State Bar of California exam at age 17.
The Tulare County District Attorney’s Office said this week that, according to research, Peter Park is the youngest person to pass the exam.
The State Bar said Friday in an email to The Associated Press that it could not confirm that Park is the youngest, but it hailed his achievement.
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California Coffee Shop Fires Employees Involved in Antisemitic Behavior Towards Jewish Customer
After issuing an apology on Friday after video surfaced showing employees at an Oakland coffee shop blocking a Jewish woman from a bathroom while making anti-Israel comments, the owners have now fired the employees allegedly involved in the altercation.
“On Sunday, we fell short of this vision. What began as a civil dialogue between our staff and a Jewish customer escalated into a situation that was shocking and unacceptable. Events like these strike fear in the Jewish community and perpetuate the rise of anti-Semitism in our community and around the world,” Amy and Chris Hillyard, the owners of Farley’s posted on social media.
The owners continued by saying that acts of hate would not be tolerated in their business.
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Catholic Priest Fatally Stabbed After Suspect Breaks Into Nebraska Church Rectory
A Catholic priest from a small Nebraska city was fatally knifed by a suspect who broke into the church’s rectory early Sunday morning, according to authorities and church officials.
Sheriff deputies found Father Stephen Gutgsell with stab wounds around 5 a.m. after he was allegedly attacked by Kierre Williams inside St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office said.
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Several Democrat members of Congress have a long history of public support for an organization whose leader recently ignited a firestorm over controversial comments regarding Hamas’ deadly attacks on Israeli citizens.
Nihad Awad, the executive director and co-founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), recently said that he was “happy to see” the October 7 Hamas invasion of Israel and that the Jewish state did not have a right to self-defense because it is an “occupying power.”
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Democrat Says Charges Against ‘Very Troubled’ Hunter Biden Are ‘Legally Justified’
Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy defended the latest charges slapped against Hunter Biden on Sunday, calling them “legally justified” while slamming the first son as “very troubled.”
Murphy (D-Ct.) ripped into the scandal-plagued first son’s behavior, while simultaneously pushing back on Republicans for using it as a cudgel against President Biden.
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Father of American Citizen Journalist Jailed in Ukraine Accuses Biden Administration of ‘Complicity’
The father of American citizen journalist Gonzalo Lira has accused the Biden administration of “complicity” in his son’s imprisonment in Ukraine and refuted claims made by the State Department to Breitbart News that they were “assisting” Mr Lira.
In an interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson on X, Gonzalo Lira Sr laid the blame on President Biden and the U.S. State Department for his son languishing in a Ukrainian prison after criticising the Zelensky government in Kyiv, the West’s response to the Russian invasion, and President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
His son, Gonzalo Lira, 56, a dual citizen of Chile and the United States, was living in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv at the time of the invasion last year. The former ‘red pill’ YouTube dating coach began to post videos online giving his on-the-ground perspective of the war, which he attributed to Western antagonism towards Moscow and attempts to expand NATO into Ukraine.
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Fauci Should Go Down in History as One of the Worst People to Ever Hold Public Office: Rand Paul
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said the Senate fights the Biden administration “every day” to get unclassified information on COVID-19’s origins. He told ‘Sunday Morning Futures’ he believes that the administration is withholding documents, possibly because relations with China are important enough to “obscure” the truth.
During his interview with host Maria Bartiromo, Paul also slammed former medical adviser to the President Anthony Fauci for saying the knowledge from pathogen experiments “outweighs the risk” of a possible pandemic in 2012.
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Florida Teen Accused of Threatening Mass Shooting in New York City Subway
A Florida teen is facing federal charges after investigators say he threatened a mass shooting in New York City on Thanksgiving.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Robert Trout III, 19, allegedly posted a video on Instagram making threats to go to New York City and “cause havoc on the subway” by shooting “anybody” that he sees on Thanksgiving.
“If you’re from New York City, do not take the train on Thursday evening, bro,” Trout said in the video.
In a press release, federal officials said during Trout’s rant on Instagram, he displayed “multiple firearms” including two semiautomatic guns with extended clips containing a total of 60 bullets, while stating, “that’s 60 shots — that’s sixty people dead.”
According to investigators, they were able to identify Trout as the person of interest thanks to witness statements, along with several recent posts on Trout’s Instagram account, that have since been taken down.
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Harvard Swarmed by Truck Billboards Calling for President to Resign in Wake of UPenn Fallout
Billboard trucks demanding Harvard’s President Claudine Gay be fired were deployed to the New England campus on Sunday, Fox News Digital learned, just days after her controversial remarks to Congress regarding whether calls for the genocide of Jews breaks the school’s code of conduct.
“FIRE GAY,” the privately-funded trucks read, accompanied by photos of Gay while she appeared before Congress last Tuesday.
One of the trucks is circling the campus, while the other is positioned at the school’s main gate and blaring Gay’s exchange with Republican New York Rep. Elise Stefanik on Tuesday. The private funder running the billboard box truck campaign will also deploy a plane over campus this week with a banner reading, “HARVARD — STOP JEW HATRED,” Fox News Digital learned.
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Jewish Students at UPenn Say Magill’s Resignation Isn’t Enough: ‘A Lot Still Needs to Change’
Jewish students at the University of Pennsylvania said the resignation of President Liz Magill and Chairman Scott Bok was not enough to make them feel safe following a series of antisemitic incidents, arguing that further “change” at the school was necessary.
“There’s a realization that one step is over,” junior Akiva Berkowitz told USA Today outside of Steinhardt Hall, home to the school’s Hillel club. “But the process is not and I don’t want people to think this is the end.”
The student was reacting to Magill and Bok’s resignation on Saturday, adding: “Many things still need to happen. A lot still needs to change.”
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Liz Cheney Outraged After Ramaswamy Declares Jan 6 an ‘Inside Job’
Former Congresswoman Liz Cheney has expressed outrage after Republican 2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy declared Jan. 6 to be an “inside job” on national television.
The former Republican House leader blasted Ramaswamy for making comments during Wednesday’s GOP 2024 debate.
Cheney, who was a key member of the Democrats’ anti-Trump Jan. 6 House Committee tried to twist Ramaswamy’s comments into an attack against her nemesis.
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Mitt Romney Opposes Biden Impeachment Probe While Ripping Hunter as ‘Unsavory Person’
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Ut.) on Sunday came out in opposition to the House GOP-led impeachment inquiry into President Biden — while blasting first son Hunter Biden’s behavior and ripping him as an “unsavory person.”
Romney, who voted to convict then-President Donald Trump during both of his impeachments, argued that there isn’t evidence to go after Joe Biden.
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Congressional Republicans and Democrats remain at loggerheads over how to tackle border security and a supplemental aid package for Ukraine, with just one week to go till their holiday recess.
Top negotiators Sens. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and James Lankford (R-Okla.) laid into each side’s position in dueling Sunday morning-show appearances.
“Right now, Republican demands are unreasonable,” Murphy told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
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A progressive district attorney in Austin, Texas dropped indictments against 17 police officers involved in quelling Black Lives Matter riots in 2020 in a move Austin cops past and present tell Fox News Digital was a political smear from the beginning by a top prosecutor determined to demonize police regardless of the effect on the lives of law enforcement.
Travis County District Attorney José Garza announced Monday his office dismissed 17 indictments against police officers after a grand jury indicted 19 of them in February 2022 on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after non-lethal rounds were fired into the crowd.
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Pro-Palestinian Radicals Target Symbols of Christianity
Radical pro-Palestinian demonstrations appear to have developed a new tactic: they are targeting Christmas tree lightings across the country, and other Christian symbols, in addition to symbols of Israel and Jewish institutions.
The latest example was Friday’s protest in Los Angeles, where pro-Palestinian radicals marched from a fundraiser for President Joe Biden to an area where there are several synagogues. They sprayed anti-Israel graffiti on the walls opposite the synagogues, and also vandalized a local church.
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It has been revealed that a Portland Public Schools staff member has been sharing content from Hamas terrorists, endorsing extreme violence against Jewish Israelis, and using Hamas-affiliated imagery to target landlords with violence.
Jordan Mathew Cooper, alias “JC Troopa,” is a radical left-leaning trans activist who has been employed by the Portland Public Schools District for the past 13 years, according to LinkedIn.
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Viewers blasted “Saturday Night Live’s” cold opener after the show mocked this week’s congressional hearings on antisemitism on college campuses — hours after University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill resigned amid a flurry of backlash over her testimony.
The opening sketch, set up as a C-SPAN broadcast, tried to poke fun at the presidents of Harvard, UPenn and MIT — portrayed by Ego Nwodim, Heidi Gardner and Chloe Fineman, respectively — as they testified before the House Education Committee.
There were few laughs to be heard from the audience.
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This is Why America Forgot How to Win
by Daniel Greenfield
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin stopped by the Reagan National Defense Forum to deliver an address titled, ‘A Time for American Leadership’. What leadership lessons did he have to offer?
“I learned a thing or two about urban warfare from my time fighting in Iraq and leading the campaign to defeat ISIS,” he told his audience. “Like Hamas, ISIS was deeply embedded in urban areas. And the international coalition against ISIS worked hard to protect civilians and create humanitarian corridors, even during the toughest battles. So the lesson is not that you can win in urban warfare by protecting civilians. The lesson is that you can only win in urban warfare by protecting civilians.”
He then went on to lecture that “we will continue to press Israel to protect civilians” and” that “protecting Palestinian civilians in Gaza is both a moral responsibility and a strategic imperative.”
Gen. Austin headed Central Command from 2013 to 2016. Obama officials blamed Austin for telling Obama that ISIS was “a flash in the pan” (while Austin’s people denied he said that.) Central Command’s intelligence failures against ISIS were so bad that they resulted in an investigation into whether intelligence had been falsified to make it look like we were winning…
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Trump Says He Will Not Testify at His Civil Fraud Trial
Former President Trump announced on his social media platform, Truth Social, on Sunday, that he no longer plans to testify at his civil fraud trial on Monday.
Trump had been scheduled to testify Monday as one of the final defense witnesses in a trial that has lasted two months and is entering its final week of testimony.
Court officials also confirmed to Fox News that Trump has notified the court that he is not testifying.
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Trump Has Good Shot With Supreme Court to Get DC Case Tossed, Experts Say
Authored by Petr Svab via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
Former President Donald Trump has several viable avenues to have the Supreme Court throw out federal charges he’s facing for his efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 election, several lawyers and Constitution experts told The Epoch Times.
His best case is that the charges encroach on his First Amendment rights, but he might also successfully assert presidential immunity or argue the law was impermissibly stretched by prosecutors, the experts said.
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Former President Donald Trump addressed a raucous crowd chanting his name at Cipriani’s flagship location on New York’s Wall Street Saturday evening, rallying the faithful and warning President Biden that indicting a former commander-in-chief would be a two-way street should he return to the White House.
“He’s opened up a Pandora’s box that will never let our country be the same. I can only say to Joe: Be very careful what you wish for, but you have done is a terrible thing,” Trump thundered to roughly 1,000 assembled guests, who dined on wild mushroom risotto and filet mignon.
The swanky event was sponsored by the New York Young Republican Club.
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Two More Jewish Hate Attacks in as Many Days in NYC: ‘It Was a Real Beating’
A Jewish father of five was beaten in front of his own home as his attacker spewed antisemitic vitriol in Brooklyn on Friday — just a day before another man was robbed of his $2,500 traditional Jewish headpiece in the borough as antisemitism continues to rise across New York City.
Joshua Merenfeld, 40, was dressed in Jewish religious garb and enjoying the first night of Hanukkah when an unknown assailant attacked him and snarled, “Dirty Jew” in the victim’s front yard in Crown Heights.
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Vandal Smashes Up Storefront Holiday Display in North Portland
Overnight Wednesday, the Sunlan Lighting store on North Mississippi Avenue in Portland, Oregon, had one of its windows shattered the night it put up a holiday display that celebrated Jewish, Christian, and Islamic beliefs.
The store’s owner, Kay Newell told KPTV that she believes “the window was shattered for either somebody’s dislike of either the Jewish community or the Muslim community.”
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Woman Accused of Trying to Torch Historic MLK Home in Atlanta Denied Bond
A woman accused of attempting to burn down the historic birth home of Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta, Georgia has been ordered to remain in jail without bond.
FOX 5 in Atlanta reported that Fulton County Magistrate Judge Holly Hughes denied bond for 26-year-old Laneisha Shantrice Henderson because of the nature of the crime and based on the premise that her place of residence was unstable.
“She gave an address in a different state. So, I find that there is a likelihood that she may not return to court,” Hughes said. “I’m extremely concerned about the randomness of this event. There does not seem to be any reason or tie to that particular location.”
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Zelensky to Meet With Biden, Republicans as War Funding Dries Up
In a flurry of diplomatic activity after the White House announced Zelensky’s visit, an aide for Mike Johnson said the new Republican speaker for the House of Representatives — who has been trying to tie Ukraine aid to funding for US border security — will also meet with the Ukrainian leader Tuesday.
And a Senate official said Democratic majority leader Chuck Schumer and Republican leader Mitch McConnell likewise invited Zelensky to speak at an all-Senators meeting Tuesday morning — one week after several Republicans angrily walked out of a classified Ukraine briefing that he had been due to address via video.
Biden and Zelensky “will discuss Ukraine’s urgent needs” as it fights off a Russian invasion, and “the vital importance of the United States’ continued support at this critical moment,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.
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Black Lives Matter Activist Sentenced to 30 Days in Prison for Assaulting Off-Duty Sheriff
Black Lives Matter activist Taylor McNallie has been sentenced to 30 days in prison for striking an off-duty sheriff with a megaphone.
In August 2021, McNallie led a nearly two-week protest outside the Calgary Courts Centre against Calgary Police Service Const. Alex Dunn, who body-slammed a handcuffed woman and later lost his job.
Dunn received a judicial stay on appeal, serving 30 days after Justice Nancy Dilts acknowledged he already completed his original 30-day conditional sentence.
On August 12, 2021, McNallie got into an altercation with off-duty sheriff Elena Cunningham, where she struck the victim with the megaphone while protesting the Dunn verdict.
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Justice has finally been served for the family of a 13-year-old, Burnaby, B.C. girl found dead following a gruesome sexual assault.
On December 8, the jury, who began their deliberations Thursday evening, unanimously agreed that Ibrahim Ali attacked then sexually assaulted the child on July 24, 2017.
They found him guilty of first-degree murder.
The details of his sentencing are not yet known as of writing. However, Justice L. Bernard, who presided over the case, gave the jury a lengthy set of instructions on December 7 to clarify their duty and how they needed to assess the evidence.
Ali, a single, 28-year-old Syrian refugee when he murdered the young teen, became a permanent resident before his arrest on September 7, 2018.
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Danielle Smith Threatens Use of Sovereignty Act Should Feds Pursue Oil and Gas Production Cap
Canada’s climate-alarmist Liberal government has moved to propose a punitive 2030 cap on oil and gas production — earning the ire of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.
By 2030, the feds hope to cut oil and gas emissions by 35% to 38% from 2019 levels. Those who buy offset credits or contribute to a decarbonization fund would lower their target to between 20% and 23%.
Though the cap-and-trade proposal mandates a less daunting emissions target than initially estimated in its emissions reduction plan last year, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said the compromise came after extensive consultation with industry and other stakeholders to ensure its aims are achievable.
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Day 33: Arguments Over Crown’s Conspiracy Allegation End, Hiatus Until January
The thirty-third day of the trial of Chris Barber and Tamara Lich on Wednesday in Ottawa saw a continuation of an ongoing dispute between the Crown and defence teams over the prosecution’s attempt to have the two defendants viewed as co-conspirators working together to execute an unlawful protest.
Both Barber and Lich are charged with mischief, intimidation, obstruction of police, and counselling others to commit mischief, intimidation, and obstruction of police. The charges flow from their roles as organizers of the 2022 Freedom Convoy, a peaceful and civilly disobedient protest in downtown Ottawa broadly opposed the decrees, edicts, orders, mandates, and lockdowns ostensibly issued as “public health” measures by all levels of government to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
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Feds Continue to Dodge Foreign Interference Questions on Canada’s China ‘Police Stations’
According to the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), China is exploiting Canadian society and interfering in our democracy with great intensity, and this trend is likely to persist well into the future.
“Foreign adversaries are increasingly using cyber tools to target democratic processes around the world. Disinformation has become ubiquitous in national elections,” reads the CSE cyber security report 2023 update on cyber threats to Canada’s democratic process.
A recent example of this happened in May when the CSE issued a notice about “a state-sponsored cyber threat actor associated with the People’s Republic of China” that targeted critical infrastructure.
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Fighting Back Against COVID-19 Fines With the Democracy Fund’s Jenna Little
On last night’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Jenna Little from The Democracy Fund joined the show to provide an update on the myriad of cases being handled by her team of paralegals.
The Democracy Fund has represented thousands of people who are facing charges stemming from COVID-19 infractions at no cost to them.
Speaking with Little, Ezra said, “You’re fighting for the little guy…a lot of these people were low income people, many of them were new Canadians who didn’t have a familiarity with our legal system, didn’t know what their rights were.”
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New Book Explores What Really Happened at the Kamloops Residential School
On Friday’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Ezra was joined by Canadian academic and author Dr. Tom Flanagan to discuss the false media narrative of ‘unmarked graves’ at a former Kamloops residential school.
Tom’s new book, Grave Error: How The Media Misled Us (and the Truth about Residential Schools),
is a call to reason against the moral panic unleashed on May 27, 2021.
Tom told Ezra how mainstream media outlets didn’t want to touch the writing that is compiled in the book, which Ezra predicted will be totally ignored by those same outlets. Even to criticize the arguments contained in the book would draw too much attention.
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Senate Censures Conservative Senator for Supporting the Freedom Convoy
Conservative Senator Michael MacDonald found himself in hot water for a ‘colourful rant’ on the Freedom Convoy — and now, his colleagues have censured him.
On November 30, the Red Chamber voted to sanction MacDonald at the request of Senate Ethics Officer Pierre Legault, who found him guilty of violating their code of conduct for remarks in support of the demonstration. The violation stems from a February 2022 incident where he mocked complaints from Ottawa residents, whom he described as ‘overpaid’ and ‘underworked.’
“It’s everybody’s f***ing city; this is the capital of the country. It’s not your goddamned city just because you have a six-figure salary and you work 20 hours a week,” he said in a video filmed secretly.
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France: Paris Archbishop Requests Modern Stained-Glass Windows for Notre Dame
The spire of Notre Dame was recently returned to its original position, following the fire of 2019, meaning the spectre of major architectural ‘innovations’ as threatened during the restoration of the building seems to be receding. However, the Archbishop of Paris, Msgr. Laurent Ulrich, has told the French president that he would like to see contemporary stained-glass windows incorporated into the cathedral as it is rebuilt.
RTL reports that the Archbishop of Paris sent a letter to Emmanuel Macron, explaining he would like to have a series of six contemporary stained-glass windows installed in one of the nave’s side chapels.
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Germany: ‘Never Again is Now’ — Thousands Rally in Berlin Against Antisemitism
BERLIN (AP) — Several thousand people demonstrated against antisemitism in Berlin on Sunday as Germany grapples with a large increase in anti-Jewish incidents following Hamas’ attack on Israel two months ago.
Police estimated that around 3,200 people gathered in the rain in the German capital, while organizers put the figure at 10,000, German news agency dpa reported. Participants in the protest, titled “Never again is now,” marched to the Brandenburg Gate.
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Ireland: Tornado Causes Destruction in Leitrim Village
A tornado has caused damage to vehicles and buildings in Leitrim village in County Leitrim.
It happened early on Sunday afternoon as heavy rain was passing over the area.
Footage and photographs posted online show the aftermath of what has been described as a quick and nasty event.
It came as severe wind warnings were issued for the west coast of Ireland, including, briefly, a red warning, the highest weather alert.
“It only lasted a very short amount of time but caused a lot of damage,” said Paddy Farrell, a Leitrim county councillor.
Mr Farrell was driving through the village when the tornado struck.
“I missed it by a few seconds. I was very lucky,” he said.
“I kept driving to get away from it — otherwise my car would have been badly damaged.”
“I don’t think anyone was badly hurt, thankfully, but the roof of a building has been taken off and a lot of cars have been damaged.
“There’s a lot of debris out in the street and the emergency services are at the scene”.
A matter of seconds
One witness to the incident, photographer Willie Donnellan, told Irish broadcaster RTÉ that he heard lightning and a very loud bang on Sunday afternoon.
He then ran out of his house and saw the tornado coming up the canal and flattening a row of trees before taking the roof off a building.
Mr Donnellan said the weather incident lasted for around 30 seconds.
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Former British Home Secretary Suella Braverman has argued that the anti-Israel “hate marches” in London have demonstrated the need to reduce mass migration and that multiculturalism has been a “failure”.
While the Metropolitan Police are once again searching for pro-Palestinian protesters over antisemitic messages over the weekend in London, including one who carried a placard appearing to call for a “final solution” against Israel, Suella Braverman pronounced that the hatred witnessed on the streets of the British capital since the October 7th Hamas terror attacks on Israel should be seen as confirmation of her assertion that multiculturalism is a failed project.
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UK: Judge Deals Blow to Prince Harry in Libel Case
A judge ruled against Prince Harry in his libel lawsuit against a British newspaper.
According to the Associated Press, the judge dealt the blow to Harry in the case he brought against the publisher of the Daily Mail.
However, the ruling only came during a preliminary ruling.
In other words, Harry has not lost the case — at least, not yet.
The lawsuit regards an article that the Associated Newspapers published in 2022.
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UK: Squatter Who Won Battle Over Dead Woman’s Home Sells it for Huge Profit
A man in the U.K., who took over a retiree’s empty home in London and gained legal ownership of it under a “quirky” ancient Roman law, has sold the property for a profit, local media reports.
A British construction worker identified as Keith Best spotted an empty three-bedroom, semi-detached home in London’s Newbury Park back in 1997 while working a construction job nearby, according to Express. Best began renovating the property and ultimately moved his family into the home in 2012.
The house, however, belonged to retiree Colin Curtis, who lived on the property with his mother until the late 1990s, when he moved out. Curtis inherited the property, but under what has been described as a “quirky” ancient Roman law that allows “someone in possession of a good without title to become the lawful proprietor if the original owner didn’t show up after some time,” Best became the home’s legal owner, the Guardian previously reported.
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Family of Israeli Captive: Red Cross Told Us to “Think About the Palestinian Side”
Israeli relatives of hostages kidnapped by the terrorist group Hamas on October 7th have complained that the Red Cross has refused to bring medication to their loved ones, with some even claiming Red Cross personnel told them to sympathise with the Palestinians.
Doron Steinbrecher is one of the Israelis kidnapped by Hamas and requires medication every day, but her parents, Roni and Simona, have reported that the Red Cross has refused to take the medication to their child, according to The Jerusalem Post.
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Hamas Threatens No Hostage Will Leave ‘Alive’ if ‘Demands of the Resistance’ Are Not Met: Reports
The Iran-backed terrorist organization Hamas warned on Sunday that no hostage will leave the Gaza Strip alive unless demands like additional aid for Gaza are met, according to reports.
“Neither the fascist enemy and its arrogant leadership … nor its supporters … can take their prisoners alive without an exchange and negotiation and meeting the demands of the resistance,” Abu Obeida, a spokesperson for Hamas’s armed wing, said in a televised broadcast reported on by the Israeli Times.
Israel and Hamas reached a temporary cease-fire agreement deal that took effect on Nov. 24, during which 110 hostages were freed by the terrorist group in exchange for some 240 Palestinian prisoners. The truce ended and fighting resumed on Nov. 30 after both sides accused the other of violating its terms.
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Heavy Fighting Across Gaza as Israel Presses Ahead With Renewed US Military and Diplomatic Support
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Heavy fighting raged Sunday across Gaza, including in the devastated north, as Israel pressed ahead with its offensive after the U.S. blocked the latest international push for a cease-fire and rushed more munitions to its close ally.
Israel has faced rising international outrage and calls for a permanent cease-fire after the killing of thousands of Palestinian civilians. About 90% of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been displaced within the besieged territory, where U.N. agencies say there is no safe place to flee.
The United States has lent vital support to the offensive by vetoing United Nations Security Council efforts to end the fighting and by pushing through an emergency sale of over $100 million worth of tank ammunition to Israel.
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France Claims Warship Targeted by Drones From Yemen
PARIS (AP) — France said Sunday that one of its warships in the Red Sea was targeted by drones coming from Yemen. Both were intercepted and shot down.
A short statement from the Armies Ministry did not say who fired the drones at the French Navy frigate Languedoc on Saturday night.
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Alex Soros, 38, son of billionaire financier George Soros, met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the first lady, Olena Zelenska, in Kyiv on Saturday to speak at a meeting regarding thousands of Ukrainian children in Russian-occupied territory.
On June 11, the mammoth multi-billion-dollar Open Society Foundations (OSF) announced that Soros would be taking over the network from his father, George Soros. The foundation has traditionally provided funding to Democratic candidate campaigns and activist groups with the intent of defunding police departments and being soft on crime.
After his meeting with the Ukrainian president on Saturday, Alex Soros turned to the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, to offer his thanks to the host.
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Australians banking with the major bank claimed they were unable to make deposits or withdrawals of smaller cash denominations in some branches.
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Major Australia Day Event is Cancelled Over Sensitivities Around Celebrating the National Day
Anthony Albanese’s high commissioner to the UK has scrapped the annual Australia Day fundraiser, citing ‘sensitivities’ over the controversial public holiday.
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Australians have made it clear they believe there is one major policy change the federal government could make to fix the country’s housing crisis.
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The Last of Australia’s Loathed Lockdown ‘Tyrants’ Steps Down
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, the last of Australia’s loathed COVID-era state leaders, has declared her resignation after nearly a decade in office.
Fighting back tears, she explained, “I’ve given it my all, and it’s time for renewal.”
Palaszczuk, who secured her third election victory in 2020, gained drew criticism for her stringent COVID-19 measures, including harsh border closures.
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Watch: Melbourne Freedom Fighter’s Bail Conditions Dropped
I want to keep you informed about the case of Nick Patterson, a central figure in the 2021 lockdown protests in Melbourne under Dan Andrews’ brutal pandemic rule.
Despite charges being dropped against others in the group, Nick faces ongoing legal battles after a tumultuous arrest during the protests.
“What I’m going through is a malicious prosecution, and that’s that’s very easily provable by the imposition of these bail conditions that I was given originally,” Nick told me.
“And then, even after, I had all the the full gag order that they put on me for criticising the government. Once they took that away, I still was unable to leave the state, and there’s no actual reason for that.”
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Cuba Claims Florida Man Tried to Invade the Socialist Island on a Jet Ski
Cuban officials said the latest attempt by exiles in South Florida to overthrow their socialist regime came riding to their shores on a jet ski, the country’s state-run media claims.
The unidentified — and supposedly heavily armed — conspirator landed on Cuba’s northern coast and made his way inland to his native Cienfuegos, where he tried to rally others to his cause, Cuban Communist Party media reported.
The notoriously paranoid government leadership maintains that the supposed recent one-man invasion force was just the latest Miami-based plot to wreak havoc on the island, according to Cuba’s state-controlled Diaro de Cuba.
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Photos: Libertarian Javier Milei Inaugurated President of Argentina
Libertarian economist Javier Milei was inaugurated president of Argentina on Sunday, flanked by a host of heads of state — including Spanish King Felipe VI and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky — and surrounded by thousands of supporters in Buenos Aires.
Milei’s inauguration concludes a dramatic, and rapid, ascent to political power for the economist and television commentator, who formed his political party, Liberty Advances, in 2021. Liberty Advances won its first seats in the Argentine Congress that year on an anti-socialist, small-government platform. Milei’s first and only public office before becoming president was to serve in the Argentine Congress for two years. He is the nation’s first libertarian president and vanquished both the deeply entrenched leftist Peronist elite previously in power and the establishment “center-right” coalition that controlled the opposition for nearly two decades.
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Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, has accused President Joe Biden of failing to secure the southern border, and is seeking half a billion dollars in federal reimbursement for the state’s spending on the crisis.
In a letter on Friday, which Hobbs released publicly, the governor requested more than $512 million in federal funds to reimburse state spending on migrant transport, drug interdiction, and law enforcement ‘due to the federal government’s failure to secure our border.’
It comes after Customs and Border Protection encounters with migrants at the southern border reportedly hit a one-day high of 12,000 on Tuesday, including more than 10,200 who were detained illegally entering the US from Mexico between ports of entry.
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Canadians Spent $769 Million to Accommodate Refugees and Illegal Immigrants This Year
Illegal immigrants and refugee applicants billed taxpayers a pretty penny this year for food and hotel accommodations. Courtesy of the Department of Immigration, Canadians are $769 million in the red.
“There are two mechanisms of funding,” clarified Nathalie Manseau, chief financial officer for Immigration Canada. In testimony to the Senate national finance committee, she said the $769 million expenditure represented their combined cost.
“The first one is the interim lodging sites which are the hotels,” said Manseau. “The anticipated expenditure for this fiscal year is $557 million.”
Lengths of hotel stays ranged “from a few weeks to a few months,” said another official.
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Criminal gangs are offering ‘festive season discounts’ to illegal migrants trying to sneak into Britain, making a mockery of Ministers’ attempts to crack down on the trade.
A Mail on Sunday investigation can reveal that people-smugglers are using social media adverts to promote cut-price deals, with one charging £5,000 per person over Christmas — a 37.5 per cent discount on the usual £8,000.
It comes as MPs and campaigners have warned that the gangs will use the Tory Party civil war over immigration as part of their marketing campaigns.
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Biden administration officials have privately told lawmakers that an average of 5,000 illegal migrants are released into the U.S. each day, and more than 670,000 evaded Border Patrol in fiscal year 2023, Fox News reported Saturday.
Fox News exposed that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials told
the Arizona congressional delegation, House and Senate Judiciary committees and the House and Senate Homeland Security committees that there were approximately 670,000 known “gotaways” at the border in FY2023.
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‘Undocumented’ Suspect Arrested in Murder of Texas High School Cheerleader Lizbeth Medina
An “undocumented” man was arrested in the slaying of a Texas high school cheerleader who was found dead in her bathtub last week after missing an event with her squad, police said Sunday.
Rafael Govea Romero was nabbed Saturday in the small city of Schulenburg, Tx. and charged with the murder of 16-year-old Lizbeth Medina in Edna, about 75 miles away, cops said in a statement.
Edna Police Chief Rick Boone said his department and the Texas Rangers caught the “undocumented male subject” after spending “countless hours” on the case, but officials did not reveal the circumstances of the killing, or say if Romero and Medina knew each other.
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Satanic Temple Erects ‘Very Dark, Evil’ Public Display in Iowa Capitol: ‘Spiritual Warfare is Real’
Locals have been left reeling in horror after the Satanic Temple erected a public display in Iowa’s state Capitol building.
The satanic altar, described by one Iowan as a “very dark, evil force,” was placed near the Christmas tree in the taxpayer-funded building.
The public display was installed by The Satanic Temple, the official organization of satanism.
It depicts a ram’s head with mirrors covering it and is propped by a mannequin in red clothing, according to KCCI Des Moines.
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UN Demands Power to Dictate Global ‘Climate Policy’
The United Nations is demanding powers to allow the unelected globalist organization’s scientists to dictate global “climate policy” to sovereign nations.
The calls come after scientists at the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have complained about the slow pace at which governments are complying with the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) “Net Zero” agenda.
Five lead authors of IPCC reports told the Guardian that scientists should be given the right to make policy prescriptions.
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World Boxing Council Recognizes Female Boxer for Refusing Fight Against Transgender Opponent
Canadian boxer Katia Bissonnette shared her compelling story in our first interview, detailing her decision to refuse a match against a transgender opponent.
Bissonnette’s resolute choice to cancel the fight just before entering the ring resonated far beyond the boxing community, capturing the attention of mainstream and independent media outlets.
The prestigious World Boxing Council (WBC) swiftly recognized Bissonnette’s stand, with President Mauricio Sulaiman presenting her with a significant medal. This acknowledgment underscored the WBC’s commitment to prioritizing the safety of female athletes in the realm of professional boxing.
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In France, teachers can have their heads cut off not only for displaying caricatures of Muhammad, but also for reproducing a 17th-century painting. Amazing hypocrisy. Why don’t they want to see the Gurias during their lifetime?
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“Preparations are being made for a world war”
12/12-23
The Islamic world is already taking over the West
By: Christian Skaug / Hans Rustad,
from snaphanen.dk
The Islamic world is about to take over Europe, but the preparations for the war are taking place gradually and with such small steps that the West with its incompetent governments does not see it, says the famous Algerian writer Boualem Sansal in an interview with Berlingske.
The Europeans are spectators to the Gaza war, but do not understand that the many assassinations after 7 October indicate that a similar war is brewing in our country, Sansal explains to Solveig Gram Jensen in the culture editorial of Denmark’s oldest newspaper – apparently the first . North European mainstream media that gives him a lot of space to talk about this topic.
The award-winning author is old enough to remember when Algeria was a French colony and there was religious diversity. Now that time is over. The French went their way, and today only Islam applies.
Boualem Sansal is convinced that the West risks facing the same development.
In reality, he says, the Islamic world is already taking over the West.
A world war is being prepared, a war on a very large scale. The West does not understand what is happening.
“It is a joint movement which is extremely well organised. The underlying idea is to wage very intense and violent wars in order to reverse the power relations, so that there is a basis for standing stronger in a negotiation. The war is going to last some time until Israel is seriously weakened. Then the Israelis will revolt against their government. And in Europe, the populations will revolt against their own governments and perhaps start attacking the Muslims.’
Sansal considers that this is a war on a very large scale:
“Preparations are being made for a world war. It happens one small step at a time, so that the West does not see the strategy.’
We know what Sansal is talking about, we just don’t want to be disturbed. Even if it is about our lives and our future. But perhaps he is a little too pessimistic about, for example, Israel’s future. Israel knows the rules of the game in the Middle East. The Europeans don’t.
Antithetical societies
We call it parallel society, in France it is called communitarianism. It means segregation, separation. A separate country on Danish soil.
“It is a political, social and religious process that has now been going on for around 30 years. And you can clearly see that there is a sharp separation between the different societies in the western countries. Communitarianism leads to separatism. In France, there are regions which are 100 percent independent,’ it says, referring not least to Paris’s notorious suburbs.
Another nation is growing up within the Danish one and it is hostile.
Here the left plays a destructive role as the useful idiots of Islam. They provide the moral legitimacy for Islam.
“The new migrants do not speak a single word of French when they arrive. And then they choose not to learn it because it is the language of a former colonial power. You don’t want to dress or live like the French either,’ explains Boualem Sansal.
In this way, he says, a kind of civilization arises that corresponds neither to the migrants’ homeland nor to the country to which they have emigrated.
And that is only part of the Muslims’ strategy, Sansal assesses.
The Muslims also know how to use democracy to their advantage. They know how to play on naivety and gullibility. But is there that much left of it? Isn’t there something convulsive about it after all that has happened?
“For a long time you couldn’t see it. But in addition to the Islamists of course using the usual instruments of war – weapons, the political and military war, sexual violence and so on – they have also found a new, formidable weapon in the form of democracy.’
In reality, Sansal estimates, the Islamists are using the West’s own weapons against us.
“In their own countries, they are hunted down, imprisoned and executed if they do not do as the law says. In Europe, they are invited onto television. Here you listen to them. And then they say: He is an Islamist, but he is allowed to be, just as we are communists, socialists or something else. The Muslims use the naivety, the social structures and the judiciary,’ asserts Sansal.
But there is an awakening in the West. Perhaps Sansal does not realize it, but the Israelis understand what they are facing. They want to eradicate Islamism.
“Anti-Semitism in Islam has existed since Islam was born.”
At that time, he explains, the prophet Muhammad killed several thousand Jews who had otherwise allowed him to settle in their city, Medina, as it is called today.
“Since then, Muslims have believed that the Jews are traitors. They try to justify the actions of the prophet.’ 7 October has made the Israelis understand that they are facing an enemy that wants to wipe them out. They don’t intend to let it happen again.
Islamism is too brutal. The Jews are the first people to take up the fight. Others will follow their example.
https://www.document.dk/2023/12/10/den-islamiske-verden-er-allerede-nu-i-faerd-med-at-overtage-vesten/