Canadian companies gear up for a big boost in defence spending

A sight not seen since the Oklahoma Land Rush

On a Tuesday morning in late June, a crowd of investors, government officials, entrepreneurs and bankers huddle in a small conference room on the 53rd floor of the TD Bank Tower in downtown Toronto to mull over the possibility of imminent conflict.

Kevin Reed, president of the European Defence, Security, and Resilience Bank, asks the attentive crowd before him how many of them think Canada will be at war in five years. Nearly half of them raise their hands. Next, he asks how many think Canada will be at war in two years. A few put down their hands, but many remain. Then, he asks, “How many think we’re at war now?” Some hands are still raised.

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‘Canada is the most infiltrated country’: Iranian Canadians fear the regime’s borderless terror

Toronto resident Daniel was not in Iran’s good books even before Israel and the United States showered the country with missiles and bombs last month.

While working as a telecommunications supplier in Iran, he says he deliberately sabotaged schemes to evade sanctions and import equipment for military use, earning the regime’s ire. A member of Iran’s tiny Jewish community, he eventually fled the Islamic Republic and ended up in Canada a decade ago.

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Why Don’t Americans Care More About Rising Disorder?

 

A growing culture of Third Worldism—the belief that you’re entitled to use public spaces without any responsibility to care for them—is corroding civic life in cities.

Immigrants from poor countries like my own, Venezuela, often joke that Americans complain too much about “First World problems.” Back home, we don’t worry about microaggressions; we’re too busy figuring out how to put food on the table or stay safe from crime and government censorship.

But here’s the irony: increasingly, Americans aren’t complaining enough about Third World problems. Trash-strewn streets, loud music in public, brazen shoplifting, rising disorder, and a general decline in civility are becoming common in major U.S. cities. In New York, the problem is hard to miss.

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Eric Lombardi: Our politicians want you to forget about Canada’s biggest socioeconomic challenge. Yes, it’s still housing

Canada’s politicians are quietly relieved the headlines have moved on from housing. It was never an easy problem to solve—doing so would mean confronting municipal obstruction, reforming provincial systems, and holding governments, including their own, to account. Today, with public concerns shifting towards international trade wars and big-ticket national energy projects, housing—the issue that dominated the national conversation just months ago—is being carefully, silently deprioritized. Our leaders are thrilled.

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Bell: Doug Ford tells Poilievre Conservatives — avoid the hardcore right-wing

Couldn’t resist the question when the guy is sitting next to you and Ontario Premier Doug Ford didn’t shy away from answering it.

What does Ford, leader of his province’s Progressive Conservatives, think the federal Conservatives could do to win over more Canadians, a few more Canadians?

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Relentless immigration raids are changing California’s way of life

When immigration agents came to the farm where he worked, Jaime Alanis tried to hide.

Climbing to the roof of a greenhouse, while agents rounded up and arrested dozens of his coworkers below, Mr Alanis hoped to stay out of sight.

Then he fell.

His neck was broken and skull fractured. He died later in hospital.

Meanwhile, immigration agents fired teargas at a crowd of some 500 protestors, who had gathered to stop the raids outside two legal cannabis farms. Some threw rocks, and the FBI says one fired a gun at federal agents.

If illegal aliens are central to your “Way of Life” then you need to fix that.

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Canada Needs a Department for Public UFO Sightings, Federal Report Recommends

Canada needs a federal department to ensure proper reporting and transparency around public UFO sightings, according to a new report.

The July 14 “Sky Canada Project” report, commissioned by the Office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada, sets forth recommendations aimed at improving unidentified aerial or anomalous phenomena (UAP) research and reporting, enhancing public trust, and addressing “misinformation and disinformation in the public dialogue” around UAPs.
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Bangladesh: Jihadists Establishing an Islamic Theocracy?

A shocking revelation has emerged implicating Bangladeshi expatriate workers in the covert collection of funds for Islamic State (ISIS), Al Qaeda, and other militant outfits.

This development raises urgent concerns across countries with large Bangladeshi migrant populations, including Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and nations in the European Union. Even more alarmingly, many of these workers are not ethnic Bangladeshis, but Rohingyas and “Stranded Pakistanis” (Biharis) who obtained Bangladeshi passports through illegal channels.

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Poilievre tweaks his tone and strategy as he faces must-win byelection, leadership review

Pierre Poilievre was feeling dejected and disappointed after the stinging federal election loss in April, sources close to the Conservative leader said, and he dialed back his public appearances for the better part of two months to reassess his strategy and regroup.

After that period of self-reflection, which was marked by private calls and visits with dozens of MPs, staff and supporters, Poilievre is re-emerging from a relatively dormant period — ramping up his federal byelection campaign, weighing in publicly on perceived Liberal missteps and speaking to the press.

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The Arrogant Media Are Not ‘Bringing Us Closer Together’

As the world of “public” broadcasting faces the rebuke of Congress rescinding its billion dollars, it spurs a broader thought about the arrogance of liberal journalists at national media outlets. They’re not simply arrogant. They sound remarkably insincere.

Start with a man named Michael Tribble, the chief content officer at WAMU, the NPR station in the nation’s capital. He sent out a fundraising email after the Senate rebuke, oozing to their liberal supporters: “You’re part of a community that believes facts matter, that context matters, and that journalism has the power to bring us closer together.”

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Controversy after two newcomers to Canada receive no jail for GTA sex offences

Debate is raging online about two criminal cases involving newcomers to Canada being found guilty of sexual offences yet being sentenced to no jail time, with one key divergence.

In one case, the permanent resident was spared jail time, despite aggravating circumstances, so that his ability to sponsor relatives to come to Canada would not be impacted.


There’s no debate, unless it involves thickness of rope or caliber of bullet.

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Three killed in explosion at Los Angeles police training facility

At least three police officers were killed in an explosion at a law enforcement training facility in East Los Angeles, officials say.

The blast occurred at around 07:30 local time (15:30 BST) on Friday at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Biscailuz Center Academy Training, according to emergency responders.

Authorities say the explosion took place in the parking lot of the facility’s Special Enforcement Bureau. US media, citing sources, report that officers were handling an unexploded ordnance recovered from a recent bomb disposal call when it detonated.

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