The Netherlands plans to cut 25,000 civil servant jobs as part of an AI push designed to save taxpayers €3.5bn (£2.9bn) a year.
Officials plan to cut around 15pc of all government jobs in the next decade as part of the efficiency drive.
Police and defence will be exempt from the push, as the country seeks to save €900m from its central budget by next year.
As Ontario’s student test scores continue to tumble, more Ontario families are choosing independent schools, rather than government-run public (anglophone and francophone) or Catholic schools — despite the financial sacrifice and lack of government support.
Who would send their kids to a TDSB school if they could avoid it?
Absent a breakdown of the religious/ethnic nature if any of the independent schools results in unanswered questions.
The humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is accused of failing to adequately inform the Swiss authorities of the scale of reports of sexual misconduct by MSF staff in Chad. The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) has now suspended funding of CHF1.25 million ($1.52 million) to MSF.
Oxfam, MSF, do all foreign oriented charitable endeavors become havens for leftist perverts?
The Bank of Canada raised its key interest rate for the first time since July 2023 Wednesday to tamp down inflation, a hike Ontario Premier Doug Ford panned as “a massive mistake.”
“Higher rates won’t get oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz or lower tariffs on Canadian businesses. They will only make life more expensive for Canadian families and workers, punishing them for something they can’t control,” Ford wrote in a tweet before the announcement was made this morning.
Raising interest rates right now is a massive mistake.
Higher rates won’t get oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz or lower tariffs on Canadian businesses. They will only make life more expensive for Canadian families and workers, punishing them for something they can’t control.
— Doug Ford (@fordnation) October 28, 2026
An “endless” world cruise that left Belfast two years ago has ground to a halt, with around 200 passengers ordered to leave with all their belongings.
Villa Vie Odyssey, which was due to circle the globe continuously, has entered “temporary lay-up” in Cambodia, the chief executive of Villa Vie Residences, Kathy Villalba, announced. Residents, who had paid up to £700,000 each to live permanently on the ship, were given seven hours to disembark because the company was “unable to secure the fuel necessary to continue operations”.
This sucks.
The European Union is backing away from the idea of making Canada an associate member of the 27-nation bloc, sources tell CBC News.
A joint statement expected to be released at the 21st Canada-EU summit in Montreal on Friday will instead use softer language promising closer ties, according to sources who have seen the latest draft of the statement.
In the wake of riots throughout Europe in recent weeks, Italian Deputy Prime Minsiter Matteo Salvini has warned that the emerging phenomenon of Islamo-leftism represents the greatest threat to the West.
Following his re-election as Federal Secretary of the anti-mass migration Lega party during its extraordinary congress in Milan over the weekend, Deputy PM Salvini told the conservative Il Giornale newspaper that more must be done to confront the spread of radical Islam in Italy and across Europe.
OTTAWA – U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra told a closed-door meeting on Tuesday that Ottawa could be blamed if key races in next week’s midterm elections go against U.S. President Donald Trump’s Republican Party.
According to three sources with knowledge of the discussions, Hoekstra delivered the message at a private business lunch hosted at his official residence in Ottawa.
The sources said Hoekstra expressly mentioned races in Michigan and Maine, where the Republicans need to win if they hope to hold on to the U.S. Senate.
NANJING, China—Skyworth Auto’s ambitions are visible everywhere in its electric-vehicle showroom here. A video spins the story of a founder who, like a Chinese version of Elon Musk, slept in the factory to get the company up and running. A map touts its presence in 45 countries. A new sport-utility vehicle is on display.
Back in 2021, Skyworth said its main EV plant could make 100,000 vehicles a year. Its actual sales in China this year through September: 660.
A brutal season has arrived in China’s car market, among the most troubled in the world. Through September, Chinese consumers have bought about 22% fewer passenger vehicles this year than in the same period last year. This week, the head of a major Chinese car-industry group said sales for the full year would likely reach only 18.5 million vehicles, the worst performance since 2014.
It’s been almost five months since Ontario’s legislature met. It’s not like headlines have been kind to the Ford government in that time.
We have an OSAP scandal unfolding, a cabinet minister resigned over questionable hotel expenses, housing starts are flat, unemployment is above the national average, the Skills Development Fund currently being investigated by the Integrity Commissioner is the gift that keeps on giving, and over the summer we passed the three-year anniversary of the RCMP investigating the Greenbelt.
Why would the opposition start a fight with their leader?
A New York woman whose father took her to Syria as a teenager and arranged her marriage to an Islamic State fighter was convicted on Tuesday of receiving weapons training from the militant group.
Prosecutors said Halima Salman, a US citizen, pledged loyalty to the extremist group and willingly participated in its activities. Jurors were shown a video of her holding an assault rifle, a photo of her with the group’s flag and loving text messages she sent her husband.
Brooklyn-based US attorney Joseph Nocella Jr said in a statement that the verdict held Salman “accountable for joining forces with a terrorist organization”.
Maybe stop importing Muslims?
New Alberta legislation seeks to stop the provincial government and other public entities from considering diversity, equity and inclusion in hiring decisions.
Justice Minister Mickey Amery tabled legislation Tuesday that would prevent the provincial public service, provincial Crown corporations, publicly funded post-secondary institutions, school boards and municipalities from hiring employees based on “personal characteristics,” according to a government news release.
“Hiring decisions should be about who is best qualified for the job, and these changes will help ensure that fairness is at the heart of hiring,” Premier Danielle Smith is quoted as saying in the news release.
“Am I a DEI hire?” That question is easily answered by the hundreds of thousands hired or promoted through processes that closed the door on White men, some openly, most through “preference given to…” a euphemism for “No White men need apply.”
Policing is one of the clearest examples of DEI hiring and promotion, and it has cost the profession dearly. In large cities, when experienced White male officers realize they won’t be promoted, many leave for smaller services. A friend or two from their old platoon often follows within the year.
Big-city chiefs have complained for years that they are training officers for every small town in Canada. They tried to stop what they call ‘poaching’ by agreement, but it fell apart, because small towns gain too much from hiring experienced officers who often have special training and skills.
DEI is a big part of why our largest police services are struggling to retain their best and most experienced officers, and why Canadians increasingly deal with junior constables – many of whom are not proficient in English or French.
Meanwhile, to fill the ranks, most of the country quietly dropped the requirement that police officers be citizens. You can now be investigated, arrested, and charged by someone who isn’t even a Canadian.
DEI hiring and promotion has cost policing some of its best people, and the same pattern of ideologically driven hiring and promotion is visible across many Canadian professions. Alberta’s Bill 33 is a start, but for two decades, positions of authority in public service and other critical professions have been filled by processes that put race, sex and identity ahead of merit. Undoing that will take more than one province, more than one bill, and probably decades.
— DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) October 28, 2026
Good.
Mbappe apologizes to China over Mao dictator remark
French soccer star Kylian Mbappe has apologized after apparently referring to Mao Zedong as a dictator. Chinese sponsors have dropped him, while state television has suspended Spanish league broadcasts.
h/t Everyone who sent this in
Police force says Const. Tre Hamad, 31, of Ajax, sidelined without pay after being charged by Northumberland OPP
h/t Neocon
Israel’s political leaders were poised for weeks of jockeying over the shape of the next government, as initial results on Wednesday showed no clear winner in a tightly fought national election that many have described as a make-or-break moment for the country.
If neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-line alliance, nor a bloc of opposition parties led by Gadi Eisenkot win enough seats to form a government, both would need to find support from outside their blocs for backing as prime minister.
Maybe in the New Year.
