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Extortion suspects using asylum loophole to remain in Canada is a farce

For two years now, the city of Surrey, B.C., has been at the centre of a rash of extortion attempts, largely targeting its South Asian diaspora.

Surrey police and community members say that individuals and businesses that have refused to hand over large quantities of cash have seen their residences, shops and restaurants shot up – with the apparent extortionists sometimes brazenly posting videos of the alleged crimes on social media. It was these incidents, among others, that led Ottawa to declare India’s Lawrence Bishnoi gang a terrorist entity in September, accusing it of employing local foot soldiers to carry out its dirty work in Canada.

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Brown shooter revealed to be PhD student whose main target was MIT professor

The gunman who killed two students at Brown University was found dead in a storage unit as it was revealed his main target was an MIT professor he shot dead in Boston.

The suspect – 48-year-old Claudio Neves Valente – was revealed to be a Portuguese national who studied at the Ivy League school in Rhode Island more than 20 years ago.

After being on the lam for days, his eventual demise stemmed from a Reddit post that flagged his suspicious activity outside the Providence campus.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting", WTF?

Ouch! That’s gonna leave a mark.

The Globe insults Canucks. Canucks insult them right back, that’s some Ratio…

Article  link – Canada has become a nation of charity grinches

‘Tis the season for giving, but for Canadians that increasingly entails foregoing gifts to charities.

The share of tax-filers in Canada who reported that they donated to charity sat at just 16.8 per cent in 2023, according to the latest numbers from Statistics Canada, down from nearly 22 per cent a decade earlier.

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Heinous act of discrimination! Cats do not count as ‘second person’ for Hwy. 417 HOV lanes, OPP says

A cat doesn’t count as a passenger to allow you to use the High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes on Highway 417 in Ottawa, according to police.

Ontario Provincial Police say an officer stopped a driver in the HOV lane on Highway 417 near Terry Fox Drive, “after they were seen driving alone in the HOV lane.”

 

h/t Patti Jo

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Canadians Favour Gripen over F-35

[Ottawa – December 17, 2025] As the debate over Canada’s next-generation fighter jet continues, Canadians are leaning decisively away from an all-F-35 future.

When asked which option is best for Canada – the Lockheed Martin F-35 or the Saab Gripen – seven in ten Canadians (72 per cent) support incorporating the Gripen into Canada’s fighter fleet, either by switching to the aircraft for all future purchases (43 per cent) or by maintaining a mixed fleet of both Gripens and F-35s (29 per cent). Just one in eight (13 per cent) say Canada should continue with the F-35 as its primary fighter jet.

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British Academics Want to ‘Decolonise’ Female Genital Mutilation

A new paper in a highly regarded British Medical Journal publication has sparked outrage for attempting to launch a debate on the so-called “harms of the current global anti-female genital mutilation (FGM) campaign.”

It says coverage of the practice, where the female genitals are deliberately cut, injured or changed, often relies on “titillating sensationalism,” and complains that this “leads to vilification of migrants, infantilisation of people and their cultures, and failure to recognise the agency of the women concerned and their communities.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFemale genital mutilation, WTF?