Former Toronto police homicide boss details antisemitism, racism on the force in new memoir

Former Toronto police homicide boss details antisemitism, racism on the force in new memoir

Longtime homicide investigator and former unit commander Hank Idsinga says internal antisemitism, racism and a lack of leadership led to his decision to leave Toronto police after a storied career.

He’s no whistleblower, Idsinga insists, as he sits across from a reporter in a west-end restaurant to discuss his upcoming memoir, “The High Road: Confessions of a Homicide Cop.” This was all part of his story.

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Demographic Decline and Europe’s Political Deadlock

Demographic Decline and Europe’s Political Deadlock

It is well known that socialism is an ideology that ignores the individual and focuses all its attention on the collective. Marx, the preeminent socialist economic theoretician, divided individuals into classes based on the function they have in producing economic value; Lenin, Mao, and others have iterated their own versions of Marxist class theory.

Wherever socialists have carried their ideology to its completion, the result has been the same in terms of the people: in Mao’s China and Stalin’s Soviet, tens of millions of people were starved to death or otherwise killed by the regime; in Pol Pot’s Cambodia, one-quarter of the country’s 8 million people were annihilated in the name of the state’s ideology.

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RCMP calls China police a ‘partner’ as lawmakers question secrecy of cooperation deal

RCMP calls China police a ‘partner’ as lawmakers question secrecy of cooperation deal

The RCMP is describing Chinese law enforcement as a policing “partner” on par with agencies like the FBI, while refusing to disclose details of a cooperation agreement with Beijing, saying the terms cannot be shared without Chinese permission.

Blacklock’s Reporter says Senior Deputy Commissioner Bryan Larkin made the comments during testimony before the Senate national finance committee, where he defended the arrangement as a standard tool for international policing collaboration despite growing political scrutiny.

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Iran State Media and Officials Are Reportedly Ready for the War to Resume

Iran State Media and Officials Are Reportedly Ready for the War to Resume

Iranian state media has reportedly signaled readiness for a potential resumption of war with the United States, amid uncertainty over whether Iran will be able to agree on a unified proposal. This comes even after being granted an additional three to five days under the ceasefire, as hardline Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) members clash with Iranian government officials over whether to concede to American demands or go down fighting.

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Canada’s brain drain is only half the story

Canada’s brain drain is only half the story

Canada has long consoled itself with a particular self-image, that, whatever its economic shortcomings, it remains a magnet for the world’s talent. People want to come here. The numbers back that up. But a harder question is beginning to surface in the data, not how many people arrive, but how many stay—and whether the ones who leave are the ones Canada can afford to lose.

I recently documented Canada’s net emigration and the disproportionate loss of high-earning, highly educated Canadians, particularly to the United States—the entrepreneurs, scientists, engineers, and financiers whose economic contributions far exceed their numbers.

That finding tells only half the story. The other half is what is happening on the immigration intake side of Canada’s human capital equation, and it points in the same troubling direction.

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Is it any wonder young people won’t fight for Britain?

Is it any wonder young people won’t fight for Britain?

President Trump has repeatedly threatened to withdraw the US from Nato. At home, Starmer refuses to say when the government’s military funding plan will be published, let alone how much additional money will reach our armed forces. Britain’s weakened national defence could just about scrape through times of peace, but in a period of global instability, alarm bells are sounding.

Conjuring up extra defence spending will be no mean feat. But restoring Britain’s military might, or even scraping together a dad’s army band of have-a-go heroes, requires more than just money. While civil servants battle over budgets, there’s a more existential question that few are willing to ask. Who, exactly, is prepared to fight for Britain today?

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The ‘gravy plane’ mess has sent a message: Doug Ford should retire

The ‘gravy plane’ mess has sent a message: Doug Ford should retire

The “gravy plane” mess lasted only a few days. But it sent a message. If Doug Ford hears that message, the Ontario Premier will soon retire.

The public learned last week that the provincial government had acquired a preowned Bombardier Challenger 650 jet aircraft. On Sunday, in the wake of opposition howls, the Premier announced the government would sell the jet. “I have heard and agree that now is not the right time for the expense of a government plane,” he declared.

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Dave Mason, Traffic Co-Founder Who Penned ‘Feelin’ Alright?,’ Dead at 79

Dave Mason, Traffic Co-Founder Who Penned ‘Feelin’ Alright?,’ Dead at 79

Dave Mason, the guitarist who wrote the classic rock standard “Feelin’ Alright?” while he was a member of Traffic and later found solo success with the propulsive “Only You Know and I Know” and the soft-rock staple “We Just Disagree,” died on Sunday. He was 79. A cause of death was not immediately available.

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LeBlanc accuses U.S. of weaponizing dependency, says feds want CUSMA to stay intact

LeBlanc accuses U.S. of weaponizing dependency, says feds want CUSMA to stay intact

OTTAWA – Despite accusing the United States of weaponizing the deep integration of its economy with Canada’s, Dominic LeBlanc says he “absolutely” wants the trilateral trade deal including Mexico to remain intact.

“We’ve become overly dependent on one trading partner who has turned around, as the prime minister has also said, and weaponized that very dependency or integration against us,” the Canada-U.S. trade minister said in an interview on CTV Power Play with Vassy Kapelos on Tuesday.

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Europe’s Jew-Hate with a Vengeance

Europe’s Jew-Hate with a Vengeance

On October 7, 2023, the moral corruption of Western politicians, journalists, radical feminists, and social commentators was exposed in all its fullness. On that morning, thousands of Hamas’s jihadists invaded Israel and murdered some 1,200 people and wounded thousands more, with many victims being raped or tortured. Defenseless civilians were slaughtered, including elderly men and women, and babies in their cribs. Hamas terrorists kidnapped 251 others and dragged them to Gaza’s terror tunnels as hostages; 85 of them did not survive.

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