Major crime has increased dramatically since John Tory became mayor

In the year before John Tory took charge of Toronto as mayor, there were 32,474 incidents in what police deem to be major crimes. As of this past Sunday, there have been 42,925 and we still have two weeks to go in the year.

Since Tory became mayor, there has been a 32% increase in major crimes. The index, updated weekly by Toronto Police Service, includes assaults, break and enter, auto thefts, robbery, sexual assault and of course murder among other crimes.

Something is missing from this analysis but I can’t put my finger on it.

We aren’t yet as bad as many US cities but the contours of the GTA’s tribalized no-go zones are already apparent.

One thing is certain it will get much worse and is unlikely ever to get better. That is the future of all Liberal-Left run cities.

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Church changes lyrics of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen to be more ‘inclusive’ towards women and LGBT people

A traditional Christmas carol has been rewritten to be more inclusive towards women and ‘queer and questioning’ people, sparking outrage.

The woke update of God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen was created by an American minister but has been sung at a Church of England carol service this week.

It only retains the first two lines of the original, which dates back to 17th century England, and the ‘o tidings of comfort and joy’ chorus.

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Biden hands Zelensky a hero’s welcome — and Patriot missiles

President Zelensky arrived in Washington this evening for talks with President Biden and a meeting with Congress that is expected to secure billions of dollars’ worth of fresh military equipment for Ukraine.

His first foreign trip since Russia’s invasion in February was fraught with security challenges but the prospect of another $47 billion in military support — and the opportunity to address American leaders — was worth the long journey. It included a flight from Poland, rather than his own country, which would have carried a greater risk of being shot down by Russian forces.

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Freeland wrote graft into legislation for 2 Billion Green-Scam Crown Corp.

h/t Mauser

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‘Freedom Convoy’ lawyer sued for defamation

OTTAWA — A lawyer for some organizers of this year’s so-called “Freedom Convoy” protest in Ottawa is being sued for defamation.

The public affairs firm Enterprise Canada said in a statement Wednesday afternoon that it had filed a lawsuit against Brendan Miller, alleging he falsely accused the company and one of its employees of being involved in the weeks-long event.

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Sam Bankman-Fried’s ex-girlfriend Caroline Ellison and FTX co-founder plead guilty to fraud charges

The ex-girlfriend of disgraced crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried and a co-founder of FTX pleaded guilty to fraud charges in the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange and are both cooperating with federal prosecutors, officials announced Wednesday night.

Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Bankman-Fried’s crypto hedge fund company Alameda Research, and Gary Wang, a co-founder of FTX, pleaded guilty to the criminal offenses before Bankman-Fried landed in New York to face his own charges, Manhattan US Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement.

The charges filed against the pair were “in connection with their roles in the frauds that contributed to FTX’s collapse,” Williams said.

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Poilievre defends safe supply criticisms, says programs ‘perpetuating’ addiction

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is defending his criticism of programs that offer a “safer supply” of drugs to Canadians with addictions as a tool to tackle the opioid crisis, saying he believes these programs are “perpetuating indefinitely” people’s addictions.

In a radio interview with Alex Pierson on 640 Toronto that aired Tuesday, Poilievre says his recent criticism of safe supply programs was “widely misrepresented by the critics.”

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Public Health Charges Stayed Against Pastor Arrested for Feeding Homeless, Holding Outdoor Church Services

Charges laid against pastor Artur Pawlowski for failing to comply with an order under the Public Health Act were stayed by the Crown on Dec. 16.

Pawlowski, of Calgary’s Street Church, was charged for attending an outdoor Walk for Freedom protest in Calgary on Dec. 13, and for feeding the homeless with his church on the same day, allegedly in breach of then-Chief Medical Officer of Health (CMOH) Dr. Deena Hinshaw’s orders that “private social gatherings” were prohibited.

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Pig heads, pork barbecues: Islamophobic attacks on a mosque under construction in South Korea

This Thursday, December 15, the “Daegu Anti-Mosque Committee” organized a big barbecue with pork, only a few meters away from the mosque under construction. It is in this area of Daegu, a large city in southern Korea, that dozens of Muslim students from nearby Kyungpook University gather.

Koreans love their pork!

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Kari Lake trial reveals 42.5% improper ballots in random sample under examination, testimony points to voter disenfranchisement

Ballots reviewed in Wednesday’s examination of ballots cast in Maricopa county for November’s gubernatorial elections were not valid, according to Republican Candidate Kari Lake’s legal team. A tweet from the Lake War Room said that 48 of 113 ballots reviewed during the examination were “19-inch ballots produced on 20-inch paper,”

“This one-inch discrepancy cause chaos on Election day.

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“We Are Going to Kill You and Destroy Your Church”

“Even when an abducted girl is found by police she will not be returned to her family. Instead she is sent to a Women’s refuge centre that is meant to be impartial but is corruptible. Muslim rapists or their friends gain access to these protective centres and threaten to kill the girl and her family unless she states she willingly married the Muslim man…. Christian children are bullied in school and even killed for their faith. This prevents Christian families sending them to school which perpetuates levels of illiteracy. …. Provincial Curriculum text books caricature and demonize Christians and other minorities.” — British Asian Christian Association, November 27, 2022, Pakistan.

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Israel, beware of the transgender invasion

What liberty to voice criticism do we have left in the West?

Criticize Islam? It depends on how brave you are.

Criticize mass immigration? If you are ready to parry the thunderbolts of the bienpensants.

Criticize Greta and the absurdities of the ecological movement? If you agree to pass for irresponsible. Criticize cancel culture? If you can eat without conformism.
We had one issue over which we were free of criticism, a very banal one, and if they hadn’t questioned us we wouldn’t even have noticed that it was a freedom. It was remembering that you are born male or female. The year 2022 will be remembered as the year in which we practically lost that freedom and were forced to swallow a candy-colored dogma that now dominates our lives.

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FBI Behind Twitter’s Censorship Of The Hunter Biden Laptop

The FBI and intelligence community discredited factual information about Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings both after and *before* The New York Post revealed them in October 2020

Over the last two weeks, a team of journalists that includes me has enjoyed extraordinary access to the internal emails and other documents of the social media platform Twitter. The only condition we agreed to was to first publish our findings on Twitter, which I have done so twice, first, on December 10 in Twitter Files Part 4: The Removal of Donald Trump, and yesterday in Twitter Files Part 7: The FBI and the Hunter Biden Laptop. This report was made possible by Bari Weiss and The Free Press, an exciting new publication to which I am proud to contribute.

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