A Toronto judge has granted bail to a former Ontario defence lawyer who American authorities say advised fugitive and drug kingpin Ryan Wedding to murder a federal witness.
Superior Court Justice Michael Bawden accepted Deepak Paradkar’s application for bail in a downtown Toronto courtroom on Tuesday, following a three-day hearing held earlier this month.
A massive power outage in San Francisco over the weekend led Waymo self-driving taxis to stop working around the city.
“Significant and extensive” damage from a fire in a substation caused the Saturday afternoon outage that left more than 100,000 customers without power, utility provider PG&E said in a statement.
Videos posted to social media showed Waymo robotaxis halted in the middle of city streets and intersections with their hazard lights flashing, as traffic jams grew and drivers zigzagged around the stopped cars.
The past year has seen heartbreaking tragedy and bloodshed in Toronto.
The shooting of eight-year-old JahVai Roy, struck by a stray bullet in the perceived safety of his home this summer. The stabbing death of grandmother Shahnaz Pestonji, 71, as she loaded groceries into her car on a Thursday morning in July.
But despite such incidents that have seized the public’s attention, 2025 is in fact on track to hit a 50-year low for the number of homicides committed in a single year in the city.
Perception is influenced by quality of life issues and Toronto fails on many fronts.
The transit system is sketchy and used as an insane asylum/homeless shelter while the police are viewed as compromised by a murder cult.
Toronto’s mayor is widely regarded as the dim witted racist puppet of special interests that hate Canada.
Thanks to the federal government’s deliberately harmful mass immigration policy Toronto now resembles a 3rd World Dumpster fire where over 40% of foodbank users are non-citizens.
All of this adds up.
A 60 Minutes segment that was spiked from Sunday night’s episode just hours before airtime has been leaked online after being played during the show’s Canada broadcast.
The newsmagazine had been set to air veteran journalist Sharyn Alfonsi’s ‘Inside CECOT’ segment, featuring interviews with a group of Venezuelan men who thought they were being deported back to their home country – only to wind up at the notorious El Salvador prison.
This is a link to the show segment it may or may not work
Just the teaser, can’t embed the full segment.
🇺🇸 60 MINUTES PULLS PRISON STORY 2 HOURS BEFORE AIR – VETERAN REPORTER ACCUSES NEW BOSS OF CENSORSHIP
Bari Weiss, CBS News’s new editor-in-chief, just killed a 60 Minutes segment about Venezuelan migrants deported to a notorious El Salvador prison.
With 2 hours to go before… pic.twitter.com/GWnAAaJVfp
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) December 22, 2025
Canada’s ‘Islamophobia’ czar is back in the news again, this time for explicitly forwarding the Palestinian agenda on the taxpayer dime.
Kittens are another level of insane. pic.twitter.com/zx6dqRRRj9
— Cats with Aura 😺 (@catwithaura) December 22, 2025
A new French survey suggests that a third of Muslims living in the country believe Sharia law should be applied worldwide. And just shy of 10% of those who support this think it should be introduced through coercion or force.
While interpretations of such a system differ, its implementation would inevitably bring far-reaching changes—particularly in how Europe approaches women’s rights and, especially, free speech, which is already weakening.
66-year-old bus driver Diane Crawford has been serving a rural Pennsylvania school district for 30 years.
She was just terminated for asking troublemaker Spanish students to speak English while on her bus.
This is exactly what an invasion looks like. pic.twitter.com/Sk9vqZVTF3
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) December 22, 2025
OTTAWA – U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff campaign appeared to move at a breakneck pace towards Canada’s economy this year.
But beyond threats of double-digit tariff rates and sharp pain in manufacturing-heavy industries, a key exemption has allowed the majority Canadian goods to continue to cross the southern border duty-free.
Experts who spoke to The Canadian Press warned this saving grace for the economy is at risk in 2026 as North American trade officials prepare for a review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico agreement, or CUSMA.
Canadian nationalists in Santa hats chant "ho ho ho, they have to go" at a remigration protest at Niagara Falls.
Follow: @NoticerNews pic.twitter.com/TK4Grnm9nD
— The Noticer (@NoticerNews) December 22, 2025
Volkswagen’s most smile-inducing car — the electric reboot of its iconic hippie camper van — isn’t shipping to US dealerships in 2026.
The German automaker shelved next year’s Buzz for the US, pausing new production after just one full year on sale.
The stoppage comes as automakers reassess which electric vehicles still make sense in a market where federal subsidies of up to $7,500 were cut in September.
This can’t be good for VW’s Canadian EV operations, and all of the money tax payers were made to throw at it.
This is what tourists see outside Naples Central Station. pic.twitter.com/UhhCVxIsFv
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) December 22, 2025
December 22 (Toronto, ON) – A new national Liaison Strategies poll conducted over the weekend for the National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada shows the Carney Liberals continuing to slide and now tied with the Conservatives at 38%. The Federal NDP stays steady at 12% nationally, and maintains 19% in British Columbia.
Conducted from December 19-21, 2025, using Interactive Voice Response (IVR), the survey polled 1,000 Canadians. The margin of error is ±3.09 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
A city council has installed special barriers around the local Christmas market. Yet it’s strangely coy about why
Birmingham City Council has just made a very important announcement. To keep people safe while visiting the local Christmas market, it’s installed “Hostile Vehicle Mitigation” bollards. “These measures,” explained the council in a cheerful video for social media, “stop hostile vehicles from entering pedestrian areas, so you can enjoy the famous Frankfurt Christmas Market with confidence.”
Good to hear. All the same, I do find one aspect of this statement surprising.
I didn’t know vehicles could be hostile.
2025: Birmingham City Council celebrates the installation of “hostile vehicle mitigation” bollards to “keep everyone safe”. pic.twitter.com/3HYCVjkU9w
— (@tempestvista) December 18, 2025
Regina’s adoption of electric buses has been a disaster for the public. It’s the latest Canadian city to find this out the hard way.
The news slipped out during Regina city council’s Monday budget hearing, when transit union president Sukhwinder Singh was asked whether electric buses have impacted costs.
