Only a few weeks before the feast of St. Nicholas, the fourth-century saint we now call Santa Claus, a criminal, reportedly Muslim, stole Nicholas’s bones, which were enshrined in a beautiful French basilica, and burned them to ash before authorities caught him.
OTTAWA — Immigration Minister Lena Diab says the new immigration levels plan is meant to make the system more predictable while doing the “right thing” by clearing a severely backlogged humanitarian permanent residency stream.
The levels plan, published Thursday, includes targets for 380,000 permanent residents and 370,000 new temporary residents annually through 2029, along with a pledge to make upwards of 200,000 longtime temporary residents permanent by the end of 2027.
The United Nations COP31 climate conference began in Antalya, Turkey, on Monday, and is scheduled to run through November 20.
In an unusual twist, Turkey currently holds the rotating presidency of the Conference of the Parties (COP), the decision-making body of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the body from which the COP climate conferences derive their name — but Australia is effectively running the conference while Turkey handles hosting duties.
I think I just heard Carney shit himself 😂
— 🇨🇦OndaFlipside (@CuOndaFlipside) November 8, 2026
There is little reason to trust Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government when it comes to investigating security threats against Canada by China.
The latest allegations come in an updated report by Safeguard Defenders, a Spanish human rights non-governmental organization, that says 1,247 Chinese associations in 91 countries — including 18 in Canada — are fronts for illegal domestic police stations.
When supermarket fridge temperatures across France began to soar in October, spoiling millions of euros worth of food, suspicion fell almost immediately on Russia.
But on Monday, the French foreign minister identified an Iranian hacking group as responsible for the cyber attack, which he described as “unprecedented in both its scale and its level of aggression”.
Shahid Kaveh, the accused cyber warfare unit, sits deep inside the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
On Monday, academic Mandi Gray broke down crying while telling the B.C. Supreme Court about the recent health of her friend and fellow defendant, the former UBC grad student who made unsubstantiated rape allegations against professor and author Steven Galloway.
“As this trial got closer, I saw —” Gray began to say, before she was overtaken by sobs. Justice Neena Sharma asked if she’d like to take a break, but she powered on.
“It’s so hard to watch, so hard —” (another eruption of tears) ” — to see someone deteriorate like that.”
This is like Russel Brand in reverse.
FRISCO, Texas—Toyota’s next big bet is on a very small truck.
The Japanese automaker is rebooting its Scion brand, which for 13 years sold small and entry-level vehicles aimed at younger buyers, as an experimental lab for making things besides traditional cars.
Scion will start by selling the sort of microsize pickup truck that is beloved by Japanese buyers but long off-limits to Americans.
In last week’s federal budget, Ottawa announced a one-time immigration measure that took policy-watchers by surprise: It plans to grant permanent residency to 200,000 temporary residents already in Canada.
The new spots would be in addition to the 380,000 spots previously allocated for permanent residents in 2026, an unexpected move given the Liberal government’s recent efforts to clamp down on immigration.
I’ll take ‘People are sick and tired of having their society trashed and economic security stolen so Carney’s corporate welfare pals can make a buck off our misery by importing cheap 3rd world labour" for 500 Alex.
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) November 10, 2026
In Brazil, they rallied online by the millions, sharing videos and spreading memes. In Serbia, they cycled across Europe and ran ultramarathons to make their voices heard.
Both movements burst into international public view last month as they became central during election campaigns to the pushback against authoritarianism. What they also offered, however, was a window into a wider phenomenon playing out across the globe, as youth-led movements reshape political landscapes.
“Gen Z is rising,” said Erica Chenoweth, a political scientist at Harvard Kennedy School. “It is abundantly clear that a significant proportion of gen Z is tired of sitting on the sidelines while their political systems fail them.”
Frothy BS from the Guardian. The riots in Europe are the work of the extreme left and their migrants.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Tuesday that Prime Minister Mark Carney should “fire” his industry minister, Mélanie Joly, after a Stellantis agreement to sell its Brampton plant threatened thousands of job losses.
Stellantis, the parent company of Jeep and other automotive brands, announced on Monday a deal to sell its Brampton vehicle assembly plant to Canadian defence and armoured vehicle manufacturer Roshel.
The United States evacuated its aircraft from a Royal Air Force base on Monday after receiving a threat from Iran, according to a report.
Two American refuelling tankers that were stationed at RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk diverted to Germany early on Monday morning, according to the Wall Street Journal. The US reportedly moved other aircraft to different locations.
It was not clear whether the Iranians had made a general or specific threat against the base or military assets. The precise nature of the security concern remained under discussion among US officials, the newspaper reported, citing people close to the matter.
OSAP changes will be revealed soon, Premier Doug Ford says
The province will unveil changes to OSAP, likely next week, said Premier Doug Ford as private career colleges and students continue to struggle without access to aid.
“We’re moving as quickly as possible,” Ford said at an unrelated announcement in Peterborough on Monday morning when asked about the temporary ban on student aid over concerns about systemic abuse at private institutions.
“We called in the OPP. We’ve called in the auditors. We told the auditor general as well,” Ford said. “We’re going to catch these bad actors, and they need to go to jail — simple as that. We need to get the money back and invest it into good actors, not bad actors … We are moving as quickly as we possibly can, and our minister is going to come out probably next week and put a reform on OSAP, the way it’s been delivered.”
The first day of trilateral talks between Ukraine, Russia and the US aimed at ending the war in Ukraine has concluded in Abu Dhabi.
While senior officials from Kyiv and Moscow were tight-lipped after the four hour-long discussions – due to resume on Wednesday – US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who did not attend the talks, said they had been “very productive”.
Although expectations for a breakthrough that ends Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine are low, US officials said earlier that Moscow and Kyiv were privately showing “a little bit of flexibility” on the issue of who would control Ukraine’s eastern regions in a postwar scenario.
On Friday afternoon, which is the unofficial time for governments everywhere to publish information they hope no one will pay much attention to, Canada’s federal government came out with some news: It has decided to again loosen restrictions on the hiring of low-wage temporary foreign workers.
The government didn’t frame it quite like that, of course. Instead, it announced what it called “targeted reforms” to “respond to labour market needs,” which is a much more polite way of saying it will facilitate the continuing suppression of Canadian wages by allowing employers to hire from abroad, rather than improve worker incentives domestically.
.@OurCommons places order for 6,000 bottles of fine wine to “maintain expected standards of hospitality” in Parliamentary Dining Room.
Stocking of wine cellar came 4 days after #Budget2026 lamented plight of “hardworking Canadians struggling to get by.”
https://t.co/QR5fmOEXOb
@MarkJCarney @FPChampagne #cdnpoli— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) November 10, 2026
h/t Mauser
