An expert on insurgency says an American military incursion into Canada would be a disaster — for the United States.
A military move by President Donald Trump could eventually destroy America’s worldwide power, says Dr. Aisha Ahmad, an associate professor at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Ahmad has studied insurgencies and visited many conflict zones for more than 20 years. She sees a pattern of resistance that repeats itself every time.
Sir Keir Starmer has signalled that he would block any attempt to ban first cousin marriage, a practice which remains prevalent in some UK communities – despite the genetic damage it can potentially do to offspring.
In Bradford, one of northern England’s biggest cities, nearly half (46 per cent) of the female Pakistani community were in a ‘consanguineous relationship’ meaning they have a common ancestor, a 2024 study found.
Independent MP Iqbal Mohamed drew huge flak in December last year after speaking against former Conservative minister Richard Holden’s motion pushing to ban first cousins from marrying.
There is a new Islamist terror threat in Europe that the French describe as ‘low-cost terrorism’. The expression was deployed in a television interview at the start of this week by Bruno
Retailleau, the Minister of the Interior. Warning France that Islamic State are ‘reconstituting themselves in Africa and elsewhere’, Retailleau said that the other menace was the individual acting on his own initiative. Unskilled in bomb-making and with no access to firearms, these ‘low-cost’ Islamists kill with knives or behind the wheel of a car.
One of these ‘low-cost’ extremists was last week jailed for life by a French court. In October 2020, Tunisian Brahim Aouissaoui murdered three Christians with a knife outside a church in Nice. It was a ferocious assault; one of the victims, a 44-year-old woman, was stabbed 25 times.
Pierre Poilievre claimed her job was ‘useless’ — but Amira Elghawaby says her role combating Islamophobia is needed more than ever
OTTAWA–In a political landscape that appears to be retreating from an emphasis on diversity and inclusion, Canada’s point-person on tackling Islamophobia says roles like hers are now needed more than ever.
“Democracy stands for ensuring that every citizen has the freedom to fully participate, to fully contribute,” said Amira Elghawaby, the country’s special representative on combating Islamophobia.
We don’t need a guide. We already know Islamophobia is just a made up term used to silence criticism & whitewash the fact that Islam is a violent supremacist cult. https://t.co/s3qYJ5MAFF
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) March 4, 2025
Umm this should be a massive story. She was reportedly paying him $80,000 a year. How was she paying taxes for him if he’s illegal? Was she knowingly allowing him to use a fake social security number? DOJ must investigate this! https://t.co/NJP6KKVCLy
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) March 8, 2025
Established in 1920 by Russian Bolsheviks, its founders would be shocked to see International Women’s Day ensconced in American culture.
Question: What do International Women’s Day and Vladimir Putin have in common?
Answer: Both were promoted by the KGB.
Why is MAGA so bitter and angry? pic.twitter.com/N8cBJbFwiO
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) March 8, 2025
The Prime Minister didn’t create the acrimony that divided the Canadian population, but he did exploit it for cynical political gain
Two different Justin Trudeaus stood outside Rideau Cottage nearly five years apart, each version of the Prime Minister delivering an address that, together, defined the arc of his time in leadership.
The first Trudeau stood alone, but he had the support of his caucus, and his country, behind him. He had a beard and a slight wave to his hair. He was still married; he told Canadians that his wife, Sophie, had just been diagnosed with COVID-19.
JUST IN: Multiple people injured, with two in critical condition, after a driver rammed a car into a CarMax in Inglewood, California.
8 people are injured according to officials following an incident at CarMax.
According to the Los Angeles County Fire Department, six people… pic.twitter.com/em8XG0oVef
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) March 9, 2025
As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prepares to leave office, the best way to assess his political legacy is to judge the expectations he set for himself when he won his first election in 2015.
By that standard, he has clearly failed to deliver what he promised.
An actual teacher in @lovejoyisd1. She says she struggles with mental illness and does photoshoots with blood and knives about being “fed up”
Would you trust this person to teach your kids?? https://t.co/mnbKxuuPTM pic.twitter.com/mxrXfciWy7
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 7, 2025
The claim that tariffs are inherently misguided and inevitably harmful does not stand up to scrutiny, especially when it comes to U.S. trade with China
Donald Trump is back—and so is the tariff. “It’s a beautiful word, isn’t it?” the president quipped before the joint session of Congress on Tuesday—so beautiful that he referenced tariffs 17 more times in his address. In the short time since his second inauguration on Jan. 20, Trump has imposed—and sometimes walked back or temporarily suspended—tariffs on China, Canada, and Mexico, and declared a policy of tit-for-tat “reciprocity” or retaliation for any foreign tariffs on American exports that are higher than U.S. tariffs on imports. And he has justified tariffs with multiple rationales, ranging from protecting or reshoring defense-critical American industries to pressuring America’s neighbors to take action to reduce the cross-border flow of illegal immigrants and drugs like fentanyl. In fact, he told members of Congress, tariffs were “about protecting the soul of our country.”
The chaotic and inconsistent nature of Trump’s second-term policy to date can be criticized. But when it comes to tariffs as a tool of economic statecraft in general, the gap between establishment rhetoric and actual government practice is big enough to drive a Chinese EV through.
Fellow Democrats, the party needs to rethink all the anti-tariff absolutism. I’m a Rust Belt Democrat from swingy Western PA—where lousy trade deals like NAFTA stripped us for parts. Democrats need to break free from the zombie horde of neoliberal economists who think tariffs…
— Congressman Chris Deluzio (@RepDeluzio) March 7, 2025
Canada uses them, nearly all nations do. In Canada they typically protect the politically favoured and are not objectively implemented to serve the common good.
h/t XC
Federal law authorizes denying or revoking the visa of anyone who supports terrorist activity.
Six weeks into the second Trump administration, and days after President Trump vowed to push back on “illegal protests” on college campuses, the State Department has pulled the first visa of a foreign student who engaged in pro-Hamas disruptions. That’s the right thing to do if we want to fix campus cultures. And contrary to disingenuous critics, such a move poses no First Amendment problems.
Justin Trudeau spent the last days of his time as prime minister with his political life flashing before his eyes.
All the big, disruptive events of Trudeau’s nearly decade in power have been churning around him. Donald Trump’s existential threats were chief among them, but there were shades of other crises, too — the resumption of weekly meetings with the premiers, as was normal during the pandemic, and discussions over whether Canada needed to kick in with a COVID-type response to Trump’s tariffs.
Remember way back when all the “right” people were insisting that Syria’s al Qaeda terrorist “president,” who displaced Bashar al-Assad, had reformed from his al Qaeda ways and was going to lead his newly liberated country into an era of multicultural peace, love and understanding?
⚠️ Graphic Violence ⚠️
At this point they are just randomly shooting at people they find along the way.
While filming themselves with huge smiles on their faces pic.twitter.com/UFZBBBuzJj— Hamas Atrocities (@HamasAtrocities) March 8, 2025
Christians are facing the same in Syria that Hindus are facing Bangladesh. Over 200 Christians were massacred and Dozens of Churches destroyed in Syria in the last 24 hours by radical Islamists. We can only pray for them pic.twitter.com/7yb3xKMnvF
— Baba Banaras™ (@RealBababanaras) March 8, 2025
