Michael A. Sachs: Why I’m moving my family to the United States

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After 30 years as a proud Canadian citizen, a die-hard Canucks fan and someone who has deeply loved this country, I’ve made the hardest decision of my life: I have moved my family of four to the United States.

I want to be clear that this decision wasn’t made lightly and I never imagined leaving our community, our family and our friends. And yet, here we are. The decision comes after years of watching the country I love erode into something unrecognizable.

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Teen describes moment she was choked by father in ‘attempted honor killing’ after refusing arranged marriage

Mom and Dad try to kill daughter

A teenage girl sobbed as she told a court how she feared for her life as her own father choked her during an alleged ‘honor killing’.

Fatima Ali, 18, was giving evidence against her parents Ihsan Ali, 44, and mother Zahraa Subhi Mohsin Ali, 40, at their attempted murder trial on Tuesday.

The couple are accused of trying to strangle their daughter outside Timberline High School in Lacey, Washington, on October 18 last year.

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A Generation So Lonely, It Fell in Love With Furniture

From soulmates to simulated love with a smoothie maker.

A new game lets you romance your refrigerator.

Not exactly a sentence you’d expect to write in 2025. Then again, maybe it is. Maybe this is exactly where we were always heading. Date Everything arrived this summer like a fever dream made manifest. Players don mysterious “Dateviator” glasses. Suddenly, household objects transform into potential lovers. Your lamp becomes a narcissistic influencer. Your couch develops commitment issues. Your washing machine exudes pure sex appeal. The premise sounds bonkers. It is, but it’s also prophetic.

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Report warns of growing Muslim Brotherhood influence in Canada, calls for terrorist designation

A new report by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) warns that Canada faces an escalating national security threat from Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated organizations that have embedded themselves across civil society, politics, academia, and finance.

The report urges the federal government to immediately designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, citing a broad and troubling infiltration that could expose Canada to future terror attacks.

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John Robson: Carney’s conflict-of-interest falsehoods part of a long history of mistruths

He lied. Right in our faces. A brazen, self-serving, manipulative, obvious lie that was bound to get found out. Have we lost the capacity to care?

No, I’m not talking about U.S. President Donald Trump. I’m speaking of Prime Minister Mark Carney. When accused during the election campaign of a conflict of interest over his extensive holdings, he declared indignantly: “I own nothing but cash and personal real estate.” But he lied.

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Britain can’t afford to let migrants live on benefits

When the history of the next election comes to be written, we may end up asking: was the turning point for its outcome the moment that Keir Starmer’s government backtracked on its welfare reforms in the face of a backbench revolt? The fiasco, which eliminated the government’s hopes of saving £5 billion a year, has made any welfare reform during the current Parliament impossible.

The cost of that is becoming more evident by the day. Figures revealed this morning show that there are currently 3.6 million people receiving Universal Credit who are under no obligation whatsoever to look for work. They have been effectively written off as unemployable and will be in receipt of benefits for the remainder of their working-age lives. That is nearly half the total of 7.9 million people on Universal Credit.


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Nothing from Canada …

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Andrew Tate accused of sexually assaulting Lauren Southern

Lauren Southern, a Canadian YouTuber, claims that she was strangled by the self-proclaimed misogynist after a night out in Romania

Andrew Tate has been accused of sexually assaulting a far-Right influencer once banned from entering the UK.

Lauren Southern, a Canadian YouTuber, alleges that she was strangled by the self-proclaimed misogynist and pleaded for him to stop his sexual advances after a night out in Romania.

Ms Southern, 30, said she was introduced to Tate during a trip to Bucharest with activist Tommy Robinson, where the pair were exploring funding for a media startup.


Her side of the story.

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Maurene Comey, daughter of James Comey and prosecutor of Jeffrey Epstein, is fired

Maurene Comey, who prosecuted Jeffrey Epstein and is former FBI Director James Comey’s daughter, was fired Wednesday from her job in the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office, according to two people familiar with the matter who were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

The reason for her firing was not immediately clear. She did not immediately respond to phone calls and an email seeking comment. Spokespeople for the Justice Department and the U.S. attorney’s office declined to comment.


POLITICAL EARTHQUAKE: DOJ FIRES Maurene Comey, Federal Prosecutor Who Filed Key Court Docs to Keep Epstein Files Under Seal

h/t DS, XC and Mauser

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The assault on Western cathedrals has begun

It’s Saturday afternoon. Thousands of Muslims occupy Piazza Duomo in Milan for a collective prayer. Even the churchyard is occupied. And the Duomo is closed.

Something unheard of, and few can interpret it—due to blindness, fear, ideology, or interest.

But as Agatha Christie once said, “One clue is a clue, two clues are a coincidence, three clues make a proof.”

This week, we are seeing the same scenes in many Western cities. And these numerous clues are more than a proof: they point to a deliberate plan.

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On the Fourth of July, These Radicals Made Plans to Topple America

At the Socialism 2025 conference in Chicago, mainstream academics called for revolution.

While the rest of the United States celebrated American independence on July 4, a rogues’ gallery met in Chicago to discuss how to dismantle our constitutional republic. The event, Socialism 2025, was billed as “a four-day conference bringing together thousands of socialists and radical activists from around the country” to discuss “social movements, abolition, Marxism, decolonization, working-class history, and the debates and strategies for organizing today.” Held every Fourth of July weekend, this conference, which meets in person and livestreams to YouTube, is “a place where activists share lessons from their struggles—from Palestine solidarity campaigns to the fight for gender liberation, from striking workers to the struggle to stop the destruction of the planet, the fight against racism, migrant justice, and more.”

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Your Singhs today (Vancouver edition)

Meet Opinder Singh Sian, soon to appear in the United States District Court in California to face charges that he was the North American leader of an international drug smuggling organization, moving huge amounts of methamphetamine and fentanyl precursors around the globe.

Mr Sian hails from the majority-Sikh city of Surrey BC. He is no stranger to the courts, with a record going back to 2007 when he was convicted of careless use of a firearm and obstruction of a peace officer. Between then and 2010, he was regularly stopped by police, often in vehicles with other gangsters.

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Trump Can Still Help Ukraine Declare Victory Over Russia

US President Donald Trump’s belated realisation that Russian President Vladimir Putin is not interested in a peaceful resolution of the Ukraine conflict could finally provide the breakthrough Kyiv desperately needs to win the war.

Since returning to the White House in January, Trump has persisted in his belief that, because of the strong personal relationship he enjoys with Putin, he could persuade the Russian despot to agree to a lasting ceasefire.

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Business, pleasure or surgery? Medical travel booms as more Canadians look for cheaper procedures abroad

When you picture yourself on summer vacation, are you on a beach? Or an operating table? For some travellers, the answer is a bit of both.

Call it a medical vacation. About 432,000 Canadians, faced with rising treatment costs at home, are expected to seek medical care abroad this year, 44 per cent more than two years earlier, according to the Medical Tourism Association. They travel for dental work, cosmetic surgeries, and fertility treatments, as well as more serious procedures like knee and hip replacements.

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