Florida announced on Jan. 30 that exams for all driver’s licenses will be conducted in English only.
The policy will take effect on Feb. 6 and will abolish driving tests that Florida previously offered in other languages, such as Arabic, Chinese, Haitian Creole, Spanish, and Russian, the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles said.
The change applies to both commercial and non-commercial driver’s licenses and permits.
Shocking new details have surfaced about a Somali woman who gained national attention after claiming immigration officials kidnapped her.
Nasra Ahmed, 23, was detained on January 14 in Minneapolis for ‘assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees’ during an ICE operation, per Attorney General Pam Bondi.
… But new allegations against Ahmed claim she assaulted immigration officers, including launching an egg at one and spitting in another’s face.
The 23-year-old is accused of approaching officers during the operation and shouting ‘obscenities’ at them, according to the criminal complaint seen by the Daily Mail.
In an interview with an American television network this week, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent volunteered some advice to Mark Carney.
“I would just encourage Prime Minister Carney to do what he thinks is best for the Canadian people, not his own virtue-signalling, because we do have a USMCA negotiation coming up,” Bessent said, using the American name for the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement.
“He rose to power on an anti-American, anti-Trump message, and that’s not a great place to be when you’re negotiating with an economy that is multiples larger than you are and your biggest trading partner.”
I think Carney is priming the LPC for a snap election.
Pissing off Trump is just free campaign advertising for his gullible base.
It’s entirely possible he prefers China as a personally profitable alternative to the US.
High up in the Arctic, the stillness of remote terrain is sporadically interrupted by enormous ships crashing through ice sheets, carving paths through the frozen wasteland.
Icebreakers, as these vessels are known, can weigh more than 30,000 tons and have become critical in moving cargo, supplying research stations and projecting military power in the region.
The US may be the unchallenged power in its own hemisphere, but it is far more vulnerable in the Arctic because its fleet of icebreakers lags well behind those of rival powers and allies alike.
The situation is “abysmal”, one former admiral told The Telegraph.
The Somalis in Minnesota have put on the performance of a lifetime, seeking to pull the wool over the eyes of the American public.
Progressives will be progressives, regardless of which continent they happen to live on. And they always seem to be on the side of those who despise law and order and never on the side of the ‘normies’ who bear the consequences of the normalization of lawlessness.
European liberal media are acting as the cohorts of the U.S. leftist press when it comes to covering the shameful incitement by progressive actors and the deranged attacks by protesters against ICE officials in Minnesota. Those responsible for the chaos are glorified, while those working to enforce the law and make the United States safer are regularly demonized.
For all the talk about the U.S. press’s propensity for sensationalism, we’ve nothing on Canada.
Those hosers are unhinged.
America’s Catholic hierarchy preaches open borders but whispers about abortion.
In the late fifth century, St. Patrick, the Apostle of Ireland, wrote a letter to the army of the British warlord Coroticus, condemning the practice of slavery. He did so not because condemning the then-profitable slave trade put a penny in his pocket (it did not) but because it was the right thing to do, in accord with Christian moral teaching. Over a century later, St. Benedict of Nursia held himself and his fellow monks to such a high moral standard that some of his own monks tried to assassinate him. While many pioneers went to the New World in search of gold, St. Isaac Jogues went to save souls, and gave his life in the process. St. Peter Claver ministered to slaves in the 16th century, baptizing souls that the wealthy traders considered property.
While an Alberta separatist group confirms it had meetings with U.S. officials over the past year, its leaders won’t say which members of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration they have spoken with directly.
“We’re meeting at a very high level,” Alberta Prosperity Project legal counsel Jeffrey Rath said in an interview with CTV’s Question Period airing Sunday.
When asked by host Vassy Kapelos whether those officials would be recognizable to Canadians, Rath said “probably,” but would not confirm whether Stephen Miller, Trump’s homeland security adviser, was among them.
US President Donald Trump’s campaign to prevent Islamic State (IS) terrorists from staging a comeback is in serious danger of being undermined because of his support for Syria’s Islamist “interim” president, Ahmed al-Sharaa.
It was not that long ago that al-Sharaa had a $10 million bounty on his head after Washington designated him a terrorist for his close links to al-Qaeda in both Iraq and Syria.
The White House is concerned that Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands will expose the United States to spying by Chinese boats.
Senior members of Donald Trump’s administration fear handing control over the waters around around the Diego Garcia military base to China-allied Mauritius would open the door to espionage by sea.
It is thought that Beijing operates a fleet of vessels disguised as fishing boats to carry out espionage missions in its neighbours’ exclusive economic zones.
Donald Trump has said Iran is “talking to” the US and hinted at a deal to avoid the use of military strikes.
“[Iran is] talking to us, and we’ll see if we can do something, otherwise we’ll see what happens … We have a big fleet heading out there,” he told Fox News. “They are negotiating.”
Trump added that US allies in the region were not being told of plans for possible strikes due to security reasons. He has threatened to intervene in Iran in the wake of a deadly crackdown on anti-government protests.
Since my reference to it last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s address in Davos seems to have been both intended and received as a policy manifesto for Canada and also for other countries that feel short-shrifted by what have traditionally been known as the “great powers.” The prime minister quoted the Czech president and former dissident Václav Havel that the communist system sustained itself by adopting the habit initiated by a greengrocer, of placing in his window the Marxist tocsin “Workers of the world, unite!” (The 300 divisions of Stalin’s Red Army had more to do with it.) This gesture to the regime was widely taken up in the Soviet bloc, in what Havel described as “living within a lie.” Carney considers this analogous to the adherence of Canada and other countries to “what we called the rules-based international order” (a clangorous platitude that reminds me of my bossy Grade 1 public school teacher).
Images uploaded to social media show that hackers have taken down one of the largest websites leftist agitators have used to doxx ICE agents conducting immigration operations in the wake of the two fatal self-defense shootings in Minneapolis.
In Ottawa, various cabinet ministers are praying that TACO – the “Trump always chickens out” theory – is still valid. Or largely so, or at least somewhat so, for they are on the verge of gambling big on the U.S. President’s rage factor.
TACO is high on their minds because Prime Minister Mark Carney and several of his cabinet ministers, including Industry Minister Mélanie Joly, are thought to be embracing the idea of Canada building the Saab Gripen fighter jet and Saab GlobalEye military surveillance plane. They are both Swedish creations whose construction in Canada would create 12,600 jobs, Saab has said.
