‘Happy suicide!’ Wilders slams Macron’s Palestine recognition

Geert Wilders, head of the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV), on Friday responded to French President Emmanuel Macron’s announcement that his country would officially recognize “Palestine”.

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Federal government to stop funding hotel rooms for asylum seekers, IRCC says

Asylum seekers staying in federally-funded hotels will soon have to check out as Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) says that funding will end in September.

A spokesperson for IRCC told CBC News via email that as of Thursday, the federal government was housing 485 asylum seekers in five hotels in Ontario and Quebec, noting it has spent approximately $1.1 billion on temporary hotel housing for asylum seekers since 2020.

“This measure was never meant to be permanent, and IRCC is funded to continue hotel operations only until September 30, 2025,” the email said.

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The Absurdity of Climate Reparations

If an international court told the Western world to jump off a cliff, would we do it? We may be about to find out. The UN’s top court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), ruled on Wednesday that wealthy nations must meet their environmental targets, or else face being sued by the states most affected by climate change.

The case was brought to the ICJ by a group of law students from the Pacific Islands—where countries like Vanuatu are particularly at risk from rising sea levels—and was supported by 132 nations in total. As part of the ruling, Judge Yuji Iwasawa also called climate change an “urgent and existential threat,” said that a healthy environment is a human right, and declared that “states must cooperate to achieve concrete emission-reduction targets.” Those who fail to reduce their fossil fuel consumption could expect to cough up “full reparations to injured states in the form of restitution, compensation and satisfaction provided that the general conditions of the law of state responsibility are met.”


Related: Was this Carney’s plan to implement his eco-nuttery?

h/t Auntie Polly

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Former City of Ottawa lawyer who defaced Holocaust memorial pleads guilty to mischief, gets bail

A former lawyer for the City of Ottawa who desecrated the National Holocaust Monument by splashing it with red paint and scrawling the words FEED ME in large red block letters, has pleaded guilty to mischief and been released on bail to his parents’ house.

Iain Aspenlieder, who is expected to be sentenced later this year, last month vandalized the memorial to six million Jews killed by the Nazi regime. His lawyer said Friday that the act was an attempt to draw attention to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and was not motivated by hate.


I suggest they investigate whether hair dye poisoning played a role.

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These are not extremists. Ordinary British people are being criminalised

It is becoming harder by the day to pretend this is all normal. Epping, a leafy Essex town not known for rabble-rousing, has suddenly become a bellwether. It is not extremists making the noise, but mothers: ordinary, decent, quietly exhausted. One protestor’s placard said it best: “I’m not far-Right. I’m worried about my kids.”

Eight days. That’s how long it took from Hadush Kebatu’s illegal arrival on our shores to his alleged assault of a local teenage girl. This criminal charge has pierced through the political haze, not because it is an anomaly, but because it is no longer rare. The British people are not imagining the chaos. They are living it.

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In Doug Ford’s World This Is The Perfect Time To Grant Work Permits To 100K So-Called Asylum Seekers

Ontario mortgage delinquencies on the rise and could climb higher still, experts warn

Mortgage delinquencies appear to be on the rise in both Ontario and the Greater Toronto Area and the numbers could get worse as Canada navigates choppy economic waters, experts say.

According to data prepared for the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) by Equifax Canada, mortgage delinquencies rose to 0.22 per cent in Ontario for the first quarter of this year. That’s up from 0.15 per cent in the first quarter of 2024 and 0.09 per cent in the first quarter of 2023.

In Toronto, the mortgage delinquency rate hit 0.23 per cent for the first quarter of 2025. That compares to 0.14 per cent for the first quarter of 2024 and 0.08 per cent for the first quarter of 2023.

The same cabal that jacked immigration rates to unprecedented levels will always find a way to destroy your economic and social well being.

They want you poor and fearful, one step away from being homeless and willing to work for the cheapest wage possible.

Ford, Carney and his pal Wiseman of Century Initiative infamy are working hard to ensure the Corporate class has ready access to slaves.

The right answer is mass deportation.


Update: Ford claims asylum seekers wait 2 years for work permits. Feds say it’s actually 45 days

The federal government is pushing back against Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s claim it takes two years for an asylum seeker to be given the right to work in Canada, saying the average processing time is actually less than two months.

Ford made the claim on Wednesday afternoon at the end of a three-day leaders’ summit in Huntsville, Ont., where the country’s premiers agreed to look at ways to use their constitutional powers to hand out work permits.

Who’s zoomin who?

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‘Intimidation campaign’ by supporters of pro-Gaza MP leaves town in terror

Supporters of a pro-Gaza independent MP are terrorising people in a West Yorkshire town, the local Tory leader has claimed.

Qadeer Ghafoor, the chairman of the Dewsbury Tories in West Yorkshire, has claimed he and his family have been personally threatened after falling out with some of the supporters over a business dispute.

After reporting the claims to police, Mr Ghafoor, 34, was advised by officers to move out of his home for a night and install a panic alarm so he could call for immediate help if he was attacked.

Related …

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PINDER: Ottawa bows to Quebec — again

Choose your descriptor — stupidity, hypocrisy, manipulation, or something else — there’s no shortage of words to describe the latest House of Commons legislation that excludes the national dairy cartel from future free trade agreements. A total of 262 MPs voted in favour of the bill, including Pierre Poilievre and 56 members of his Conservative party.

Not quite the unanimous vote for the Canada Health Act back in the 1960s, but with far more urgent short-term consequences.

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JD Vance is heading to the Cotswolds with free speech on his mind

A parade of rock stars and former prime ministers had already earned the area around Charlbury the nickname of “Notting Hill-on-the-Wolds”.

Now, this corner of the Oxfordshire Cotswolds is earning a new nickname Stateside as the “Hamptons of England” due to its growing popularity with America’s super-rich.

Local wags believe this will be confirmed when it hosts JD Vance, the US vice-president, and his family next month when they head to the UK for their summer holiday.

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60 Percent of Canadians Express Doubts Over Ever Being Able to Retire: Survey

Nearly 60 percent of working Canadians are convinced retirement will forever be beyond their reach and more than 40 percent harbour anxiety or fear about their financial circumstances, a new survey suggests.

The results from the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan and Abacus Data survey reflect a growing worry among Canadians about their ability to secure a comfortable retirement and save for the future.

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Trump: immigration is ‘killing Europe’

President Trump said immigration is “killing Europe” as he arrived in Scotland at the start of a four-day visit.

Speaking to reporters after landing at Prestwick airport on Friday evening, Trump said: “On immigration, you better get your act together or you’re not going to have Europe anymore. You got to get your act together.

“You know, last month, we had nobody entering our country. Nobody. Shut it down.”

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#MeToo changed our culture, but it couldn’t change our courts

The whole world changed in the near-decade between two of the most high-profile sexual assault trials in recent Canadian history. But inside the courtroom, it was as if no time had passed at all.

Outside, the world had been fundamentally reordered by a pandemic, by a reality TV star twice elected U.S. President, by the murder of a Black man by a police officer on a Minneapolis street, and by a series of sexual-assault allegations against a high-profile Hollywood film producer, which catalyzed a global reckoning with how we view, talk about, and confront sexual violence. The #MeToo movement was supposed to have marked the end of the era where lecherous men could blithely cop a feel behind a cubicle and expect female discretion, and the beginning of a new one where the public operates from the starting assumption of “believe all women.” And in many workplaces, schools and community spaces, things did change.

It was the correct ruling in my view.

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Manchester Airport brawl suspect tells court armed officer ‘he attacked’ is an ‘uncontrolled bully with a badge’

An armed police officer who kicked a suspect in the head during an alleged brawl at Manchester Airport was ‘an uncontrolled bully with a badge’, a court was told today.

Police Constable Zachary Marsden had ‘defied protocol, ethics, procedure and the law’ in the confrontation at the pay station area of Terminal Two at Manchester Airport last July, the jury heard.

The trial at Liverpool Crown Court has heard PC Marsden – along with PCs Ellie Cook and Lydia Ward – were involved in the fracas with brothers Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 20, and Muhammed Amaad, 26.

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