Ottawa designates cartels and street gangs as terrorist groups, fulfilling promise to Trump

The federal government designated seven criminal organizations — including cartels and street gangs involved in trafficking fentanyl — as terrorists on Thursday, delivering on a promise made to U.S. President Donald Trump in hopes of staving off economically devastating tariffs.

Included on the list are the Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) and Sinaloa cartels, considered two of Mexico’s largest and most powerful organized crime groups.

“These are ruthless, transnational criminal organizations,” said Public Safety Minister David McGuinty during a news conference on Parliament Hill.

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There May Be Something to the Obama Divorce Rumors

As PJ Media has previously reported, rumors that Barack and Michelle Obama are on the verge of a divorce have gained traction recently, driven by Michelle’s absence from key public events and a history of speculated marital tension.

Earlier this year, Michelle missed former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral, citing a “scheduling conflict” that was actually an extended vacation in Hawaii. She also opted out of attending Donald Trump’s January 2025 inauguration. These absences, along with the couple’s lack of joint public appearances for months, have fueled social media chatter and tabloid headlines. Some have pointed to Barack’s alleged personal indiscretions as a possible cause.

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Mark Carney’s fiscal plan is a ’sneaky accounting trick’ to avoid balancing the budget: Poilievre

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is slamming Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney’s plan to split the federal budget, calling it a “sneaky accounting trick” to avoid balancing the books.

Carney vowed at a press conference in Toronto on Wednesday to split the budget into two streams — capital and operating spending — and to balance the operating side while running small capital deficits.

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‘CBC does not belong to the Liberals or the Conservatives’: Canadian Heritage Minister proposes CBC’s new mandate

There’s a need for new laws to ensure the future of CBC, said Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge on Thursday in an update on the new mandate for the public broadcaster.

She proposed removing the CBC’s budget out of the political realm, and instead through a per capita funding model based on the size of the population.

“CBC does not belong to the Liberals or the Conservatives. It does not belong to any political party. It belongs to Canadians,” said St-Onge.

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Why Doesn’t San Francisco Want to Deport Drug Dealers?

Get out.

You don’t expect to hear that message in a city known for its “come one, come all” attitude, but San Francisco’s fentanyl crisis is so severe that residents are feeling none too hospitable. The targets of their ire: drug dealers, most of them illegal immigrants from Honduras, who supply toxic substances to the thousands of addicts flooding the city, ushering in danger and chaos.

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Is Germany heading for a second Weimar?

In the Thuringian city of Weimar, opposite the theatre where the National Assembly hashed out Germany’s constitution in 1918, stands the museum of the history of the Weimar Republic. ‘A spectre is rising in Europe – the spectre of populism,’ a plaque reads. ‘Forces long thought overcome seem to be returning to threaten the basis of democracy. The Weimar Republic and its neighbours knew the phenomenon only too well.’

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The U.S. Sent Over $3 Billion to Hezbollah’s ‘Army’

In 2006, after a Hezbollah invasion, Israel launched a military campaign against the Islamic terrorist group. After a month of fighting, the Bush administration forced a ceasefire under UN Security Council Resolution 1701 that required the disarmament of Hezbollah and its replacement by the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and a United Nations “peacekeeping” force.

How can Hezbollah claim victory, President George W. Bush wondered, when they were “going to be replaced by a Lebanese Army and an international force?”

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Trump’s talk about Canada parrots Putin’s claims on Ukraine says CBC

It took a while for Canadian politicians to figure out that Donald Trump wasn’t joking with his talk about annexing Canada.

After Trump raised the idea at a dinner in Mar-A-Lago attended by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Nov. 29, Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic Leblanc said the “joke” was actually a positive.

“The president was teasing us. It was, of course, in no way a serious comment,” LeBlanc said.

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Once Canada’s most wanted fugitive, Ontario man found guilty of manslaughter

An Ontario man who was once Canada’s most wanted fugitive has been found guilty of manslaughter in the 2021 shooting death of a man in Toronto.

Justice Michael Brown delivered his verdict to Abilaziz Mohamed in a downtown Toronto courtroom Thursday morning, more than four years after he shot and killed Craig MacDonald outside a Boston Pizza in Scarborough.

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