Police wrongly told parents their teenage son had died in crash days before Christmas when he was actually alive in hospital… leaving family grieving for THREE weeks

A mix-up which saw police wrongly tell one family their son had died in a car crash and another that theirs was badly injured left relatives grieving a teenager for three weeks – when he was alive in hospital the whole time.

The staggering blunder meant the family of one boy, 18-year-old Joshua Johnson, spent Christmas believing he was under sedation in hospital – only to be told he in fact passed away in the tragic smash.

Meanwhile, another family discovered the son they have been grieving for the past three weeks, 17-year-old Trevor Wynn, is in fact still alive.

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Bob Rae says Trump’s actions in Venezuela suggest Canada is ‘on the menu’

U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent actions in Venezuela and his overall strategy for the Western Hemisphere should serve as a warning to all Canadians and require a more fulsome response from its political leaders, Canada’s former ambassador to the United Nations says.

Bob Rae, who finished his five-year ambassadorship last November, told Global News in an interview that the U.S. under Trump is rejecting multilateralism in favour of asserting its dominance over the hemisphere, without “any notion of legality.”

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Did stealing Trump’s dance moves land Maduro in jail?

President Trump accused Nicolás Maduro of attempting to steal his famed dance moves after reports that the White House believed the deposed dictator was mocking the US.

Trump has a signature dance he frequently performs at campaign rallies, characterised by a knee-bopping, fist-bumping set of moves.

In recent weeks as the US increased pressure on the Venezuelan regime, Maduro appeared on state TV dancing in a similar fashion. He also sang John Lennon’s Imagine to supporters.

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After Donald Trump’s capture of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, does Doug Ford need to watch his back?

Generalissimo Ford fears no man.

Do we need to beef up security for Doug Ford in 2026?

I ask after the surreal capture of Venezuela president Nicolás Maduro this weekend. It was like a Michael Bay blockbuster with a similar running time. One second, Maduro is planning another defiant dance video. The next, American wizards knock out the lights in Caracas as the skies rumble with F-22 Raptors and heavily armed extraction teams.

h/t Mauser

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Inside Sweden’s Migration Agency: Majority of Staff From Non-Swedish Backgrounds

Sources say staff loyalties to friends, family, or clans can influence decisions, with such practices now happening openly and without fear of consequences.

A report from Samnytt provides an unprecedented look inside Sweden’s Migration Agency, highlighting challenges related to staff composition, workplace culture, and internal practices. Sources who have worked at the agency for decades describe a complex environment shaped by linguistic groups, clan affiliations, and internal loyalties.

Currently, a majority of the agency’s approximately 6,000 employees come from non-Swedish backgrounds. Many do not hold Swedish citizenship, and staff often speak their own language within their group. According to a source, “What affects things most is that everyone speaks their own language, so you don’t understand what is being said between groups and colleagues.” This dynamic, combined with longstanding clan networks, has reportedly introduced a Middle Eastern clan mentality into daily operations.


I wonder if Canada has been similarly undermined.

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Canada’s Indigenous governor general & 1st Minister set to rack up the expenses on Greenland junket as Trump renews talk of annexing it

RCMP code named “Charge It!”

TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s Indigenous governor general and its foreign minister will visit Greenland in early February, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday.

The visit comes as U.S. President Donald Trump renewed his call for the U.S. to take control of Greenland, the Inuit self-governing territory of the kingdom of Denmark. Trump has also previously talked about making Canada the 51st state

Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand and Governor General Mary Simon, who is of Inuk descent, are expected to open a consulate in Nuuk, Greenland.

For what purpose beyond shopping?

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Former Cargill executive reveals nightmare operations in Venezuela

CALGARY — A former senior executive at agricultural giant Cargill has offered a rare inside look at how that company operated in Venezuela under former president Nicolas Maduro’s regime.

Jeff Kazin, who according to his LinkedIn page served as vice-president of trading, procurement, and risk for Cargill from 2009 to 2022, described operating in a country devastated by a decades-long kleptocracy where bribery, government seizures, and widespread theft were commonplace.

(Incognito)

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What Separates Tim Walz From Other Democrats Is He Got Caught

That Tim Walz is abandoning his reelection campaign for Minnesota governor amid a maddening multibillion-dollar welfare fraud scandal should serve as a big reminder: Democrats are robbing you every day and hardly even trying to hide it.

Recall Walz as the stereotypical self-abasing Democrat white male, presumably heterosexual, who was inexplicably chosen to be Kamala Harris’ running mate in the 2024 election. His stint in that role was the equivalent of a 300-pound belly flop into a pool full of sand, with memorable moments like when he said he rode his bicycle as a child and was “proud of that service” or otherwise was proven to have lied when he referred to “the weapons of war that I carried in war.” (He never saw combat.)

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Somali Terror in America

At Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland, Oregon, tens of thousands of people crowded around a massive Douglas fir tree decked with lights. Waiting for the carnage to begin was Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a Somali ‘child’ refugee, who was dreaming of killing them all.

In 2010, Mohamud had urged a friend of his traveling to Mecca to pray “that I will be a martyr in the highest chambers of paradise.” He planned to attack Americans “in their own element with their families celebrating the holidays.” And Christmas was the perfect time of the year to do it.

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Why Canadian Jews are increasingly averse to identifying as ‘Zionists’ despite supporting Israel: study

Some Canadian Jews refuse to refer to themselves as Zionists, but it’s not because they don’t support the right of self-determination for Jews and the existence of a Jewish state, according to a newly published study. It’s largely due to a perceived negative connotation associated with the term, notably since the Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist attacks in Israel by Hamas.

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World Trade Center lit green for Muslim Heritage Month makes me green around the gills

Just 24 hours after New York City’s first Muslim mayor, Democrat-Socialist Zohran Mamdani, took office — and just twenty-four years after Muslim terrorists murdered nearly 3,000 New Yorkers in the 9/11 attack that destroyed New York City’s Twin Towers —  Kathy Hochul, the Empire State’s Democrat governor, ordered One World Trade Center, built at Ground Zero, to be lit in Islamic green to celebrate Muslim American Heritage Month.

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The Cologne sex attacks should have changed everything

On New Year’s Day 2016, the world woke up to news that the night before around a thousand migrants had swarmed Cologne’s city centre and sexually assaulted hundreds of women. As the horrifying truth of what occurred that evening slowly began to emerge over the course of the following week, people both in Germany and beyond responded with shock. A decade on, it is now clear that the Cologne sex attacks were a pivotal moment in Europe’s history.

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