Joe Adam George: From Toronto to Sydney, ISIS is still an active threat to the West

Prime Ministers Of Canada Carney & Elghawaby

Despite recent attacks and escalating risks, Islamist extremism is largely absent from Carney’s national security agenda

Last Friday, three men were arrested in Toronto and charged with hate-motivated extremism targeting women and members of the Jewish community. One of them, 26-year-old Waleed Khan, also faces terrorism charges linked to ISIS, an exceptionally violent Sunni jihadist group also known as the Islamic State. According to the RCMP, Khan allegedly conspired with “persons known and unknown” in Toronto and elsewhere in Ontario to commit murder — a chilling indication that other extremist elements could be involved. It is the third ISIS-related arrest in Canada this year, following earlier cases in Montreal and Newmarket, bringing the total number of arrested suspects linked to the group since 2023 to 23.

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US to build fleet of laser-armed ‘Trump class’ warships

The US will commission a new “Golden Fleet” of heavily armed Navy ‘battleships’ named after Donald Trump.

The president announced that the laser-armed vessels would be the “largest battleships in the history of the world” to maintain his country’s military supremacy.

He said construction on the Trump Class USS Defiant – the first US warship to be named after a sitting president – would begin soon, and it was expected to be operational within two and a half years.

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Vote Stupid Vote Often

How Olivia Chow and John Tory might do with voters if an election were held today

Mayor Olivia Chow would hold a narrow lead over former mayor John Tory if Torontonians headed to the polls today, according to a new public opinion survey.

The latest poll by Liaison Strategies put Chow — who has yet to announce whether she will run for re-election next October — at 39 per cent among decided voters. Tory, who is mulling whether to run, was the first choice of 35 per cent of decided voters.

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Zelensky says Ukrainian withdrawal from the East possible in latest peace plan

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has given details of an updated peace plan that offers Russia the potential withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the east that Moscow has demanded.

Giving details of the 20-point plan agreed by US and Ukrainian negotiators in Florida at the weekend, Zelensky said the Russians would give their response once the Americans had spoken to them.

Describing the plan as “the main framework for ending the war” Zelensky said it proposed security guarantees from the US, Nato and Europeans for a co-ordinated military response if Russia invaded Ukraine again.

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CUSMA is up for review in 2026, and here’s what Trump might want

A mandatory review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico-Agreement on trade kicks into high gear next year as U.S. President Donald Trump continues his campaign to realign global trade and poach key industries from America’s closest neighbours.

Negotiations on the trade pact, better known as CUSMA, were a stress test for Ottawa during the first Trump administration. The trade talks were tense at times, but ultimately the pact that replaced the North American Free Trade Agreement was hailed a success in all three countries.

Since the president’s return to office, however, confidence in CUSMA’s future has waned. During a meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House, Trump called the deal “transitional” and said it may have served its purpose.

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Good Men Are Hard To Find, So Why Are So Many Women Divorcing Them?

There’s a big milestone coming up for a lot of families this year: first divorced Christmas.

It might be a challenging day of splitting kids between disparate family events. Or, perhaps, Mom and Dad will behave like adults and both show up to the same gathering in an effort to create some normalcy for their children, who, heretofore, might have had an intact family and simple celebrations.

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How to destroy a country: Part 2

THE Marxist left/liberals have completed their ‘long march through the institutions’. They claim the varied lunatic policies they enacted were for the benefit of society, but can this really be the case? When viewed through the prism of reality, much of Socialism’s ideology appears to have one aim and one aim only: the total destruction of society. This is not an overreaction by any means — if societal destruction was your bag, would you not carry out the following?

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Start by not giving donated food to foreigners …

A quarter of Canadians are food insecure. Addressing this must be a national priority

Across the country, more and more people can’t meet their basic needs. Families are stretching paycheques to the breaking point – juggling rising rents, transportation costs and grocery bills. These pressures aren’t limited to those living in deep poverty. It’s become mainstream: Full-time workers, students, seniors and parents are making difficult trade-offs that strain their health and well-being.

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