A federal labour department memo acknowledged growing joblessness among young Canadians but failed to mention the government’s own decision to allow over 1 million foreign students into the workforce.
“Youth unemployment is on the rise,” said a June 12 briefing note to Labour Minister Patty Hajdu titled Employment And Skills Support For Canada’s Youth.
JUST recently, TCW published an excellent essay by Niall McCrae (‘Politicians’ contempt for the common man goes back to the Sixties’) It started:
‘The first half of the Sixties was just before my time, and it is fascinating to see that, while the country has changed dramatically since, the attitude of our ruling class is fundamentally the same. I would summarise it as deceitful paternalism: pretending that policies were for the benefit of the people, when they were merely window-dressing for ulterior motives.’
Fighting has engulfed the Druze-majority city of Sweida in southern Syria, leaving over 200 people dead. This week, Druze villages have been overrun by Syrian regime forces and allied Islamist militias under the guise of ‘restoring order’, only for those forces to unleash executions, looting and arson upon Druze neighbourhoods. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 92 Druze were killed (including 21 civilians executed by government troops) in the space of a few days. In one incident, an 80-year-old Druze sheikh had his moustache, a symbol of honour, forcibly shaved by invading fighters. He was reportedly killed shortly afterwards. This is, it appears, the dark reality of ‘national unity’ under Syria’s new rulers.
Syrian extremists shave off the mustaches of captured Druze men and film it to humiliate them.
It comes as Syrian militias have been carrying out massacres against the Druze community, with hundreds killed in the city of Sweida.
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) July 19, 2025
Islamic forces are pushing forward against the Druze in Sweida after capturing the northern and western neighborhoods.
The number of Islamist men who went/are heading south is estimated to be equivalent to 50% of the entire Druze population in the province. The numbers are… pic.twitter.com/G66xam8aum
— Imtiaz Mahmood (@ImtiazMadmood) July 19, 2025
The shareholders of leading Canadian crypto trading platform WonderFi approved the sale of the company to American financial services giant Robinhood Markets on Thursday.
The shareholders of WonderFi, which owns the Coinsquare and Bitbuy crypto exchanges, are happy, not least the company’s chairman, who stands to earn nearly $2 million for brokering the $250-million deal.
But not everyone thinks this deal should be allowed to stand, particularly when it has been reported there are interested Canadian bidders.
This time it’s real, and undeniable. The Democrats have for years denied, with varying degrees of scorn or anger, that they are Communists, despite hating both free enterprise and borders, which are just the sorts of things you’d expect socialist internationalists to hate. Now, however, the deniability is no longer even close to plausible. As the Democrat candidates move ever farther to the left, it’s clear: A spectre is haunting the Democrats. The spectre of Communism.
Eleven men were initially charged with the September 2020 gang-rape of a 15-year-old German girl.
Four of the men dragged the girl into a bush and raped her.
One of the rapists then stole her phone and wallet. Two other men then joined in, also raping the victim.
“The potatoes still live in spite of the black flea beetles, and the Raspberry bush is producing but not enough for jam, just snacks. The last of the peas were harvested yesterday along with the onions. Now we wait for more beans so we can start canning those & more zucchini.
Please join me in the garden.”
The Gathering Storm: Where Organized Crime Meets Espionage
From my earliest days in the RCMP through years embedded with global financial intelligence units, one reality has remained consistent—and it’s now accelerating: Canada is a soft target.
In Undercover in the Shady World of Organized Crime, I chronicled how criminal empires—from Italian syndicates to Asian Triads—operated in the shadows, laundering vast fortunes through our banks, casinos, and real estate. Back then, the fight was tactical. Today, it’s existential.
A transgender doctor complained that she felt threatened by a ‘much smaller’ nurse in the female-only changing rooms at Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy, Fife, a tribunal has heard.
A senior medic in the ongoing legal action between transgender medic Dr Beth Upton and nurse Sandie Peggie, said that it was ‘plausible’ that Dr Upton could have felt threatened.
Dr Elspeth Pitt, a consultant in emergency medicine at NHS Fife, told the tribunal that Dr Upton was ‘sobbing’ following a confrontation with Ms Peggie.
Spain has overtaken Germany as the main destination for asylum seekers in the European Union, following the sudden collapse of Syria’s Assad regime and a steep decline in Syrian migration to Europe, according to an unpublished report by the EU Agency for Asylum (EUAA).
The report, seen by the Financial Times, says the agency recorded 64,000 asylum applications across the EU in May 2025—a 24% decrease compared to the same month last year. The sharpest fall came from Syrians, whose claims plummeted from around 16,000 in October 2024 to just 3,100 in May. For the first time in over a decade, Germany no longer tops the list, with its monthly claims halving to 9,900. Spain now leads with 12,800 applications, fuelled in part by rising numbers from Venezuela amid that country’s economic collapse.
Infamous environmental activist David Suzuki has issued a stark warning to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government, calling for the complete dismantling of Canada’s fossil fuel pipeline system to avert catastrophic climate change.
Speaking on theThursday, episode of CBC’s Front Burner podcast with host Jayme Poisson, Suzuki described the continued expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure as “moral and economic madness.”
Rideshare Driver Arrested in Sexual Assault Investigation, Weston Road and Eglinton Avenue West area
The Star didn’t mention his name …
H/T JB & Patti Jo
‘We are facing a long, hot summer’, warned a report social cohesion on Tuesday, ‘with a powder keg of tensions left largely unaddressed from last year that could easily ignite once again’. It only took two days for the first sign of this grim prediction coming true.
This time, though, the expression of public fury at migration failures was not in ‘left-behind’ northern towns like Hull or Hartlepool – or even like last month in Ballymena, where tight-knit loyalist communities have a history of kicking off to defend their interests. Thursday’s protests – and later clashes – at an asylum hotel were in the quiet Essex market town of Epping, population 12,000, mentioned in the Domesday Book and a well-heeled part of the London commuter belt at the terminus of the Central Line.
Essex police clearly saw this protestor in Epping & deliberately ran him over.
The gloves are firmly on when it's Palestine protestors & Just Stop Oil protesters. Why are they off when it's the white working class?pic.twitter.com/w6wQAMtY7p
— Major Gowen (@MajorGowen_) July 18, 2025
Don’t know about anyone else, but I’m DEEPLY uncomfortable with the footage from the Epping Hotel protest that appears to show @EssexPoliceUK bussing in counter protestors.
This looks REALLY bad.
We need to demand answers. pic.twitter.com/5jKhdo98A8— Lee Harris (@addicted2newz) July 18, 2025
I’ve a suspicion the Epping violence was manufactured, like in Southport. The govt knows how angry we are trying to discredit protestors.
Look no further as @MartinGauci‘s video as the Antifa types are “bussed” to the station.
Are you going to come clean @EssexPoliceUK? pic.twitter.com/h5N1WB8WzW
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) July 19, 2025
ALERT: Officers get tough with anti-ICE agitators on a bridge between Ohio and Kentucky.pic.twitter.com/O4eFKSEgpL
— E X X ➠A L E R T S (@ExxAlerts) July 19, 2025
CAMROSE, ALTA. — The balloons have long since deflated and drifted back to earth, the lawn signs and ballot boxes packed away. In most of the country, anyway.
But for Pierre Poilievre, the election campaign never really ended. After the Conservative leader lost the Ottawa-area riding of Carleton, which he’d held for 21 years, to a Liberal newcomer, he was cast out into the proverbial wilderness. Specifically, to a sprawling rural Alberta riding where the freshly re-elected Tory MP stepped down, allowing Poilievre a chance to win the seat in a byelection and rejoin the party he leads in the House of Commons.
Warning Star article … I only found out I was blocked by accident.
