Europe’s Christians: Increasingly Squeezed Between Islamists and the Left

Europe’s Christians: Increasingly Squeezed Between Islamists and the Left

As riots triggered by migrant attacks convulse the UK, the debate over immigration in Europe is reaching a fever pitch. The same question is asked, time and again: If nobody voted for this, why does it keep on happening? In the past two years, migrant violence has been recorded—and in some cases triggered violent public backlash—in Germany (a toddler and man stabbed to death by an Afghan); Belfast (a man stabbed in the street by a Sudanese refugee); France (a deadly stabbing by an Algerian in Mulhouse); as well as Poland, Sweden, and Spain, among others.

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Islamism, the Muslim Brotherhood and the limits of Labour’s resolve

Islamism, the Muslim Brotherhood and the limits of Labour’s resolve

Labour is moving closer to Europe, at speed – except for one significant topic where it could really learn something from our Continental partners: the ever-thorny subject topic of how to do counter-extremism. There, the pace of convergence between Britain and the EU is glacial, at best.

The current Government’s approach towards political Islam is not just light years removed from that of the Trump Administration, which has designated select chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organisations; it is also far less robust than the postures adopted by many distinctly un-Trumpian EU member states.

Both the political classes and the permanent security systems of many Continental countries now treat political Islamists as adversaries to be called out and confronted, both ideologically and at law.

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Jamie Sarkonak: Unilingual Canadians are inferior in the Supreme Court’s eyes

Jamie Sarkonak: Unilingual Canadians are inferior in the Supreme Court’s eyes

Canada used to be a bilingual country, in that our institutions could accommodate speakers of either official language. That age came to a resounding close on Friday, when a majority of the Supreme Court banned the appointment of unilingual speakers to a bilingual government office.

The case before the court had been brought by an Acadian activist group that challenged the appointment of a non-French-speaker, Brenda Murphy, to the position of lieutenant governor of New Brunswick. Six of the Supreme Court’s nine judges agreed with the Acadians, concluding that the lieutenant governor must speak both English and French. Appointing an anglophone, they said, constituted a violation of the Charter, in particular the equality rights of francophones.

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The dawn of a digital super-regulator

The dawn of a digital super-regulator

Here comes the digital commission. It will make policy, take complaints, investigate abuses, review plans and regulate companies’ collection and use of personal information, how the data of children are scraped up into AI, social-media platforms, and more.

When it was first outlined in a bill to regulate social media last week, the Digital Safety Commission sounded like a body with some flexibility to grapple with some of the thorny, evolving problems of regulating big platforms – even if some worried its mandate to protect children and others came with extensive powers.

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Another Major Transgender Suicide Study Crumbles

Another Major Transgender Suicide Study Crumbles

In 2024, amid a wave of state legislation on transgender issues, the prestigious academic journal Nature Human Behavior (NHB) published a study titled “State-level anti-transgender laws increase past-year suicide attempts among transgender and non-binary young people in the USA.” The study claimed to find that passage of state “anti-transgender laws increased incidents of past-year suicide attempts” by as much as 72 percent.

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Trump’s homeland security chief says pressure on Mexican cartels pushing crime to Canadian border

Trump’s homeland security chief says pressure on Mexican cartels pushing crime to Canadian border

The U.S. crackdown on drug trafficking on the border with Mexico has triggered an increase in criminal activity coming across the border from Canada, according to Markwayne Mullin, the U.S. secretary of homeland security.

Speaking to an audience in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday alongside Canada’s Minister of Public Safety Gary Anandasangaree, Mullin said law enforcement officials are seeing an increase in fentanyl trafficking from Canada, something he attributed to U.S. efforts against Mexican cartels at the southern border.

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Iran and Its Proxies Have Been Burning Down the Middle East

Iran and Its Proxies Have Been Burning Down the Middle East

For the past two years, a steady stream of world leaders has flocked to Israel to cajole and pressure the only democracy in the Middle East into stopping its self-defense against Iran’s proxies in Gaza — Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad — who carried out the October 7 massacres and have launched more than 10,000 rockets into Israel, attempting to perpetrate mass slaughter. Let us hope that with US President Donald J. Trump’s new “Iran deal,” this abuse will stop. It is to be hoped that liberating Lebanon from Hezbollah will still be possible.

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Cigarette factory on Six Nation’s reserve run by non-Indigenous criminals and staffed by foreign nationals, police say

Cigarette factory on Six Nation’s reserve run by non-Indigenous criminals and staffed by foreign nationals, police say

Ontario police have shut down a large contraband cigarette manufacturing plant on a First Nation’s reserve that was allegedly run by non-Indigenous criminal networks accused of exploiting indigenous lands to cover their activities.

The bootleg cigarette plant was staffed by 13 people identified as foreign nationals, police said after the raids.

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Couple who gave birth to wrong baby in IVF mix-up reach custody agreement

Couple who gave birth to wrong baby in IVF mix-up reach custody agreement

A Florida couple who accused a fertility clinic of implanting the woman with the wrong embryo has reached a custody agreement with the baby’s biological parents, according to court documents.

Tiffany Score and Steven Mills filed a lawsuit in Orange County Circuit Court on Jan. 22 against IVF Life, Inc., located in the Orlando area under the Fertility Center of Orlando, and the lead reproductive endocrinologist, Dr. Milton McNichol, after learning their daughter, Shea, was not genetically related to either of them.

h/t Mauser

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Nearly a third of Canadians believe antisemitism has become more acceptable, survey finds

Nearly a third of Canadians believe antisemitism has become more acceptable, survey finds

Nearly one-third of Canadians believe that antisemitism or anti-Jewish attitudes are becoming more acceptable in the country, according to a new poll.

The Leger survey, conducted on behalf of the Association for Canadian Studies, found that 31 per cent held that view, while the highest level of agreement was concentrated among university students (37 per cent), men (38 per cent) and Canadians between the ages of 18 and 34 (35 per cent). English speakers were more than twice (35 per cent) as likely to agree with the statement as opposed to just 16 per cent of Francophones.

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