Links - 20th June 2026 (3 - Migrants: UK)

When is Britain going to realise that some migrants are better than others? - "One lady in Tamworth told me she had started avoiding the canals there after walking them for 30 years; in Darlington, a pensioner confessed to me she was frightened that the sheer number of young men crossing the Channel put her at greater risk of robbery. Certain commentators are quick to dismiss coverage of such fears as dog-whistle journalism. But, at the very least, an emerging pattern of evidence raises questions. Although mass immigration is now falling, the 2.4 million-plus surge in the foreign-born population between 2021 and 2024 was accompanied by a 62 per cent spike in foreign nationals convicted for sexual offences. Court reports also show judges linking the violent crimes of foreign nationals with their disturbed life histories. When convicting Afghan asylum seeker Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai for murdering a 21-year-old man in a row over an e-scooter the judge stated: “There can be no doubt as to the effect growing up in the horrors of Afghanistan would have on a young child.” The trial of Haybe Cabdiraxmaan Nur, who stabbed a man to death at a Lloyds bank in Derby last year, established that the Somali immigrant suffered from PTSD , had a “difficult upbringing” in his motherland. He is a member of the discriminated-against Gabooye tribe and left the country after his partner was executed in front of him in an “honour” killing. People from conflict zones and failed states pose a challenge to national cohesion. This is for the plain reason that it takes more for an individual from Afghanistan to integrate into British society than someone from, say, Germany. If you or your parents have come of age in a society that has no rule of law, no functional civic institutions, and no prospects for meaningful economic participation, common sense follows that you may struggle to assimilate into a society that does. Many of the older Somalis now in Britain witnessed the nadir of the Siad Barre regime’s collapse – a time when Somalia had no police, schools were shut and violence was the organising mechanism of everyday life. It’s no secret that the collapse of the communist regime in Albania left a vacuum filled in highland areas in the 1990s by the medieval Kanun social code, based on honour, fierce loyalty, kinship and blood feuds. The brutal truth is that we may need to shift towards a far more strict and explicitly discriminatory immigration policy, accepting fewer applicants from conflict zones or failed states. The Government has put an emergency visa brake on people from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan. But this is to close a loophole that people are exploiting, as they apply for student visas to later claim asylum. What we need is a decisive shift, where we exclude or penalise applications from certain countries of origin. Some might protest that this would constitute a catastrophic moral failure. After all, asylum seekers from war-torn states who have experienced violence and persecution arguably have the strongest refugee claims. But this needs to be weighed up against the national risk. We are spending more putting asylum seekers up in hotels than we are on humanitarian aid in the home countries of the same refugees. The £4bn that we splurged on the asylum system last year would be enough to revolutionise Afghanistan’s irrigation system, converting millions of acres of desert into farmland, or overhaul Somalia’s power grid, jump-starting its coastal economy. It astounds me that so many metropolitan bien-pensants have such a hard time grasping that the West would have a far greater impact on the world’s injustices if it shifted its focus from taking in the world’s waifs and strays to executing game-changing development projects. Some worry that distinguishing between “good” and “bad” migration is the first step towards a racist, white-only migration policy. But surely the best way to prevent people from lumping all black and brown together as dangerous is openly, systematically and effectively identifying and rooting out those within this amorphous group who do pose an elevated risk. A stricter migration policy which hinges on more than economic criteria need not penalise Africans and Asians who come from stable backgrounds and possess similar values. The immigrants who thrive most in Britain are not just those from the EU and America. London’s leading startup gurus are just as likely to hail from Bangalore as they are from Silicon Valley. British-Chinese pupils are two years ahead of their white British counterparts in the classroom. There is talk of Britain having a “Nigerian moment” as members of the diaspora amass music awards and Michelin stars – and even, in Kemi Badenoch’s case, jostle for the top job of PM. What these groups all have in common is that they hail from countries that have been reasonably peaceful in recent decades and have a strong cultural emphasis on family and education. The big question is whether Britain is ready to have a grown-up conversation about immigration. I suspect that the majority of us crave a robust, unhysterical debate. We are left waiting for a political leader who has the guts to go there."

Reform’s dream of mass deportations hinges on these key companies - "In the US, companies that have assisted the Trump administration’s crackdown have faced heavy criticism. However, Palantir, a tech company that provides software used by ICE officials and other government agencies, has repeatedly defended what bosses call its “ideologically neutral” approach. When questioned about why his company had accepted work from the US government, Alex Karp, the company’s chief executive, warned that businesses should not be setting themselves up as a rival power centre to democratically elected governments. “Immigration policy is not a software challenge; it’s a political one,” he wrote in 2019. “The solution lies with our political and judiciary system, not with Silicon Valley’s C-suite.” Although it is still early days, Reform is understood to have held discussions with businesses, including about its plans for Operation Restoring Justice."

Andy on X - ""Could the far-right please stop weaponising the constant unrelenting stream of events that vindicate their worldview?""

Anyone could have predicted | Chris Bayliss | The Critic Magazine - "There was a time when people who earned their living from political commentary tried to convey the sense that they had seen it all coming well in advance... That’s all changed now — the rise of 24 hour news channels pushed broadcasters into trying to maintain a sense of urgency, to keep people tuned in during the many hours in which there was little new to report. Those who appeared on our screens learned to cultivate a natural tone of hyperbolic disbelief. In the age of social media, a fashion for exuberant displays of personal authenticity made donnish unflappability seem corny. Outrage, bewilderment and fear were more raw reactions to breaking news, and were considered somehow more genuine. As a result, our news media has adopted a far less learned and more histrionic tone. Overall, this is but a single addition to the long list of annoying trends that define modern political life. However, it has opened the door to a strange kind of inverse insouciance, as commentators feign surprise and outrage at things they knew perfectly well were going on, but which are nevertheless inconvenient to acknowledge. If there is no longer any cost to credibility in not being aware of an emerging trend, then there might be a benefit in pretending that something foreseeable was in fact a surprise. This is most obviously the case when people are confronted with the negative consequences of policies their own side favoured — especially those consequences their opponents warned them about... Lewis Goodall knew exactly what he wanted to get out of the interview, and he pressed all the right buttons to get it. He was aware that South Asian political culture has a strong tendency toward machismo, which Yakoob plays up to by adopting elements of African-American “gangsta” aesthetics, and that he would react badly to persistent questioning in an undeferential tone on subjects he didn’t want to talk about. Goodall was also aware that, far from being a career-ending disaster, a prison sentence is considered a right of passage for many South Asian politicians, and can be a great enhancement to their personal credibility. Furthermore, Goodall knew perfectly well that Yakoob does not operate within a political milieu that selects for political sophistication, or which places much value on answering questions in a way that does not shock or horrify gentle English sensibilities. Figures such as Yakoob, as well as an earlier generation of Labour-aligned but Pakistani-focussed local politicians, only avoided causing this type of offence in the past because journalists like Goodall knew quite well not to ask them those kinds of questions. Exposing how starkly different the political culture of the Pakistanis who were settling in our towns and cities was from the British mainstream was not something that left-leaning journalists were willing to consider doing until very recently. The fact that the community was “getting involved” in local democracy and party politics was held up as evidence of their integration into British society, and of their compatibility with democracy. The community was assumed to be a natural ally of the forces of progress in British politics, and one of the few growing bulwarks against the Right. That they had some decidedly old-fashioned sounding ideas about social and sexual issues could be ignored or wished away as they were shoring Labour up in areas where the party’s natural voter-base was being dissolved by the forces of economic change. More recently, Labour and others on the Left have retreated behind the defences of a political dichotomy that contrasts a mythical “unity” against “those who seek to divide us”. The latter in this context being code for pointing out ways in which the politics of the Pakistani diaspora diverge sharply from liberal assumptions. The fact that an outfit with the politics of The News Agents now apparently has licence to indulge in a bit of division is a simple consequence of the fact that the Pakistani “independents” are becoming a hindrance rather than a support for established centre-left parties. For those who long insisted that diversity came only with benefits and no drawbacks, the projection of shock and anguish at Yakoob is a useful means of maintaining deniability, whilst cutting him loose. This is a pattern that is becoming increasingly acute, having grown steadily more obvious over the last few years. The outbreak of aggressively and explicitly antisemitic language and symbolism in the aftermath of the October 7th attacks was met with a tragicomic wringing of hands about where all this ghastliness had all suddenly emerged from. The most recent outrage — the stabbing of two identifiably Jewish men in Golders Green by a Somali-born British citizen with an extensive record of violent crime — triggered a similarly fatuous response questioning what it would take for the British public to “stand with” the country’s Jews. No suggestion is ever given about what this unspecified gesture of solidarity might look like. It is considered vulgar to point out that the majority of this kind of commentary is coming from voices who have long been the most insistent that immigration is an unalloyed social good, but it is true, and is a point worth making. While this point is made by antisemites on the Right, they are mistaken for the same reason that those who insist that the point itself is inherently antisemitic are also mistaken. This hypocrisy and insouciance has come from the ranks of the metropolitan commentariat, among whom Jews are comparatively overrepresented, as they are in law or medicine. But the overwhelming majority of this commentariat are not Jewish, and the overwhelming majority of Jews are not members of the metropolitan commentariat. Very generally speaking, British Jews have similar opinions to their gentile peers in whichever socio-economic and geographic category they inhabit. In a culture in which being wrong about things still carried some costs, the colossal mistakes of the multiculturalist project could be reckoned with in terms of the damage it has caused... As predicted, the dawning of the age of mutli-racial electoral politics in some English towns and cities is engendering ethnic patterns of voting, even among the white voters for whom it was presumed inapplicable. The emergence of a distinct, autonomous Pakistani political machine in such places is introducing a tawdry and rather threatening new political culture that is decidedly not to liberal tastes. Yet rather than be confronted by this, those who spent years dismissing all the warnings that it was coming are permitted to hide behind incredible protestations of outrage and disbelief."
EastAnglian on X - "Shock, horror! Pakistani politics in Britain is just like... politics in Pakistan. Brilliant piece on how progressives contort themselves to finally acknowledge the bleeding obvious."

Migrant crisis: Wearing England badges during World Cup 'intimidating' to asylum seekers, immigration officers told
If asylum seekers are intimidated by the country they are seeking asylum in, they need to be protected from this by deporting them

Afghan men accused of fleeing UK after raping girl in Bristol - "Three Afghan nationals fled the UK in the back of a lorry after allegedly raping a 17-year-old girl, a jury has heard. Mehrab Safi, 21, Awal Ahmadzai and Salman Habibkheil, both 19, and a 16-year-old boy who cannot be named for legal reasons are on trial for a string of offences against the victim at Bristol Crown Court. Safi, Ahmadzai and Habibkheil were arrested in Calais on 3 December 2025, three days after the alleged sexual offences took place, while the 16-year-old was arrested at a property in St Werburghs, Bristol... He added it was "deeply unusual" for the men to leave the UK in the back of a lorry, rather than enter. Mobile phone footage recovered from Safi's phone showed the men in the lorry laughing and gesticulating, which Hetherington said suggested they thought they "got away with it". When they were found by French police in Calais on 3 December, they were returned to the UK. Hetherington said the trio had no travel documents or identification and had given false names to French authorities."
Damn Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, forcing them to rape her! We need to get reparations from Russia!

Modern Folk Beliefs VII: “Immigration built Britain” - "Every society has its folk beliefs: sayings and stories about the world that are widely held yet not grounded in fact. Traditionally, these were things like a maxim about health or wealth from your grandmother, or an old proverb of forgotten origin. But from the mid 20th century, ideas originating from academia or political activism, transmitted by mass media and mass education, came to be ever more influential in determining mainstream culture. This has given rise to what I have come to think of as modern folk beliefs; simplistic, muddled and often moralistic versions of the original ideas that have become widely held among large segments of society. The folk belief that is the subject of this article holds that immigration is a central theme of British history and a core aspect of Britain’s identity. It further holds that immigration is always a positive story, responsible in large part for the good things about the country. You can see it in recent statements from various politicians, such as Zack Polanski’s “Migration is our DNA as a country” [sic], or Diane Abbott’s “Immigrants built this land”. Various journalists, public officials and activists now claim things like “immigrants built Britain”, “Wales and Britain is the great country it is because of centuries of immigration”, or “we are a country that’s been built on immigration”. In my experience, the belief has also filtered down significantly into the general population. There’s a trivially true version of the claim, in that there has always been some immigration to Britain, and that these immigrants have made various contributions to national life. But it’s generally made in a far stronger way – not just that some immigrants made contributions, but that immigration was central and foundational. In this article I will interpret the claim in its stronger form, as I think it’s pretty clear that that’s how its advocates intend it... The mythmaking begins with the attempt to force the early settlement of Britain into an ‘immigration’ conceptual box. Stewart Lee’s well-known comedy sketch from 2013 offers a good example, mocking the idea that there is anything unusual about current immigration, which has always consisted of nothing more than newcomers bringing useful new goods and services to a benighted and prejudiced native population. In this conception the ‘immigrant’ beaker folk in 2000 BC brought, naturally, their beakers, while the Anglo-Saxons brought their jewellery, ship burials and epic poetry. In reality these groups were not immigrants joining an existing society but settlers establishing a new one, a process which was catastrophic for the existing population. The arrival of the beaker folk led to the replacement of 90% of Britain’s gene pool, a process which I imagine involved something rather more traumatic than the exchange of beakers, while the negative impact of the settlement of the Anglo-Saxons on the Britons hardly needs to be spelled out. Stewart Lee would probably respond to this in the vein of “it’s just a joke mate”, yet it’s now common to hear people genuinely equate this early settlement with modern immigration. Once we get into more recent centuries, which saw something like immigration in the contemporary sense, it still remained on a far too small a scale to have possibly ‘built Britain’. The largest and best-known example prior to the 19th century was that of the Huguenots, around 50,000 of whom came in the last decades of the 17th century, but making up only around 1% of the overall population. In giving sanctuary only to those who shared the dominant religion, it was also entirely unlike our present asylum policy. The closest analogy to Huguenot migration today is probably Trump’s offer of asylum to white South Africans. Irish immigration came in the 19th century, with there being around 800,000 Irish-born people (3.5% of the population) recorded at the peak in the 1861 census. Considering that Ireland was part of the United Kingdom at the time, whether this truly counts as immigration is debatable, but I’ll allow it. Here we can see how much the left has changed tune on this issue. Both Marx and Engels were very clear that Irish immigration into British industrial towns was in the interests of the capitalists, and that its impact was to depress wages and degrade the condition of the native working class. This was the mainstream view on the left well into the twentieth century, but has now disappeared from British left-wing politics. In the US, Bernie Sanders advanced this position in 2015, to the vociferous opposition of the less traditional left. Then, in the late 19th and early 20th century around 300,000 East-European Jews came to Britain, coming to make up around 0.7% of the total population prior to the first world war. These were the largest groups to come in this period, various others came in small numbers, including various Europeans such as Dutch or Italians, and a very few from Asia or Africa, mostly seamen who settled in port cities. During these centuries, the foreign-born never made up more than a few percentage points of the British population, which was in fact expanding massively through natural increase, while sending millions to settle abroad. After the second world war, immigration started to become more significant, and the core focus of today’s mythmaking is on the non-white immigrants who arrived during these decades. Most prominent in the narrative is, of course, the ‘Windrush generation’ from the Caribbean, who, Kier Starmer claimed last year, “laid the foundations for modern Britain.” We even have a National Windrush Monument at Waterloo station, including the inscription “You Called ... and We Came”, despite the fact that the Caribbean passengers were not called for and that the government of the day was alarmed at their arrival. In fact, in another example of how much the left has changed, it was Labour MPs who wrote to Clement Attlee urging stronger immigration control.

Twenty-seven young migrants are hired for every British youngster as youth worklessness 'fuelled' by soaring non-EU immigration, analysis reveals - "Mass immigration is directly fuelling the crisis for young people trying to find work, research reveals. A staggering 27 migrants from outside the EU aged under 25 are hired for every British youngster, according to the analysis. And while the young British workforce has grown by less than 1 per cent since 2020, the number of non-EU youth on the UK payroll has increased by 355 per cent in that time, the research from The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) found... The CSJ think-tank's research shows how young migrants are taking up roles at a much faster rate to young Britons, with them snapping up three times as many jobs as young Britons. Between 2024 and 2025, the number of non-EU under-25s on payrolls increased by 33,200, while the number of UK-nationals of the same age fell by 32,200. This is despite almost one million 16- to 24-year-olds in the UK currently not currently in education, employment or training (NEET). And the research shows that migrants are mostly taking entry-level positions despite Alan Milburn saying today that the first rung of the career ladder is 'simply out of reach' for young Britons after he was commissioned by the Government to review soaring levels of youth unemployment in Britain. Non-EU workers of all ages nearly doubled in retail and hospitality roles between January 2020 and December 2025 for instance, while UK nationals in such posts fell by more than a quarter of a million. Chris Philp, shadow home secretary, said: 'Young British people are being locked out of the labour market as immigration into entry-level work continues at scale. Mass immigration undermines our society and low wage immigration is bad for the economy. 'Labour must go further and reform indefinite leave to remain [ILR] before their hard-Left flank forces them to abandon reform altogether. The window is closing and they know it... The think-tank is now calling on ministers to introduce a tax cut for businesses hiring young people worth 30 per cent of their salary. It also suggests restricting benefits for young people with less severe mental health conditions and requiring employers to advertise vacancies to the UK workforce before offering roles through work visa schemes."
Weird. We keep being told that immigration doesn't increase unemployment

One in 10 successful candidates in UK local elections elected on Muslim issues - "A total of 574 candidates were elected on Gaza-related or Muslim issues in the recent British local elections, according to an analysis by the Henry Jackson Society (HJS). In other words, these are individuals whose campaign focused on Muslim transnational grievances, rather than local issues... over 10% of candidates who were elected to English local councils are Muslim sectarians. Broken down by party, 351 of the candidates were from the Green Party, 133 were Independents, 84 from the Labour Party, and six Liberal Democrats. HJS noted the distribution shows this phenomenon cuts across traditional party boundaries and is better understood as a distinct mode of political mobilization rather than as something confined to an individual party. The wider pattern made clear by HJS was that sectarian-style electoral success is associated with wards combining higher voter turnout, younger population profiles, and a larger Muslim population share. Among some of the 574 candidates are Mohammed Suleman, who was elected as a Green to Newcastle despite being suspended for antisemitism. Saiqa Ali, a Green candidate for Lambeth, was elected despite being arrested on suspicion of stirring up racial hatred by posting antisemitic statements online. Green Party candidate for Manchester, Shams Syed, previously admitted he had “no interest in politics” apart from Gaza. He was elected. “The focus after the results may be on which political leaders are fighting for survival, but the real battle is for the integrity of local democracy,” said Emma Schubart, Research Fellow, Henry Jackson Society. “With 574 sectarian-style candidates elected, it is clear that this form of politics is gaining ground and cannot be ignored.” She noted that local elections are increasingly being used to fight political battles on issues councils have no power to resolve - and that risks distorting democratic accountability. The fact that local councils have no power over foreign policy was confirmed in a letter by Local Government Minister Alison McGovern... While McGovern said she recognized that local authorities are concerned about investments linked to conflict zones, she said that “decisions on boycotts, divestment and sanctions are matters of UK foreign policy and are for central government, not local authorities. “It is therefore not appropriate for local authorities to adopt investment policies that go beyond or differ from UK Government sanctions or foreign policy positions,” she added. Nevertheless, the aforementioned 574 candidates were elected on the basis of Muslim transnational grievances - such as the situation in Gaza. According to both HJS and Shadow Equalities Minister Claire Coutinho, the success of these sectarian candidates is at least in large part thanks to endorsement from “The Muslim Vote” campaign. The Muslim Vote is a sectarian Muslim political campaign group aimed at making the Muslim voice “heard across the political spectrum – on issues like Palestine and much more,” according to its website. “Peace in Palestine” is listed as one of its three high level pledges – with the stated aims as “Ceasefire, recognition of the State of Palestine, lifting the siege and occupation of Gaza, strengthening laws barring bilateral British trade with Settlements, denying Visas to Israeli politicians and militants involved in settlement expansion, and sanctions on all companies named by the UN as operating in occupied territories [sic]. The Muslim Vote has scores of partner organizations, three of which have been empirically linked to terror organizations. The first of the three is the Palestine Forum in Britain, whose chair, Zaher Birawi, has been sanctioned by the US Treasury for ties to Hamas and as part of a network allegedly used to support Hamas overseas. The second is the Islam Channel, a UK-based Islamic TV channel licensed by Ofcom, but which has been investigated and sanctioned for broadcasting antisemitic hate speech. The third is the Muslim Association of Britain, which has reported historical ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, and has been described by UK officials as a group of concern under counter‑extremism definitions. While not linked to terror or hate speech as such, three others – MEND, Islam21C, and Prevent Watch – have all been alleged to have radical opinions and promoted antisemitism. In a letter to X/Twitter, Countinho cited some of the sectarian candidates as evidence that the Muslim Vote campaign is explicitly promoting sectarianism and antisemitism. “These are not the views of moderate Muslims in Britain”"
If you talk about dual loyalty, that's Islamophobic

The Last Canadian Politician I’d Trust to Police the Internet

I remember when left wingers mocked conservatives for justifying policies based on harm to children. And this is ignoring Trans mania being justified the same way too.

The Last Canadian Politician I’d Trust to Police the Internet

"Justin Trudeau’s nine-year tenure as Canadian prime minister, which ended when his own Liberal caucus tossed him overboard in late 2024, can be divided thematically into two distinct periods.

During the mid-to-late 2010s, he presented himself as a sunny Canadian patriot. Then, following the COVID pandemic, the George Floyd protests, and the unmarked-graves social panic of 2021 (which Trudeau’s own government did much to spread), he sounded the exact opposite theme: Canada, he began telling Canadians, was in fact a deeply racist genocide state. He ordered his Liberal colleagues to implement a massive “Action Plan on Combatting Hate,” and introduced legislation that would give his government new powers to stamp out hate speech.

In 2021, Trudeau’s government floated Bill C-36, which would have brought back a defunct legal provision that had allowed Canadians to bring human-rights complaints against one another for alleged hate speech. To give readers an idea of how this kind of arrangement works: Under British Columbia’s provincial human-rights system, which has long permitted this kind of dubious complaint, a former school trustee was just fined $750,000 for saying that he believes in the primacy of biological sex instead of the ideological construct known as gender identity. 

Thanks in part to pushback from civil libertarians, Bill C-36 never went anywhere. But the controversy surrounding the legislation gave Canadians a window into the unsettling ambitions of Canada’s would-be censors. In 2022, members of a 12-member “Expert Advisory Group on Online Safety” appointed by the Liberals urged the government to expand the category of censorship-worthy “harmful content” to include “algorithms that contribute to unrealistic body image” and “misleading political communications”; with some adding that “a definition of harmful content must include an understanding of how…a racialized person with lived experience on the psychological toll of racism and its systemic impact would likely have a different perspective on what constitutes harmful content compared to a cis-white male.”

In an ironic twist, many of the experts voiced “concern” over the fact that “misinformation and disinformation” weren’t yet officially deemed to be “harmful content.” As it turns out, one of the better known members of the advisory panel was an activist named Bernie Farber, who’d himself just been outed publicly (and somewhat hilariously) for spreading fake news about the early-2022 convoy protest in Ottawa...

The Liberals took another kick at the can in 2024, with revised legal provisions bundled together into Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act. If anything, this iteration—which also, thankfully, never made it into law—was worse than the original. Not only would it have empowered Canada’s federal human-rights commission to get back into the speech-regulation business. As University of Ottawa scholar Michael Geist noted in a scathing response to the draft bill, it also would have created a new internet oversight body that could conduct secret hearings, and which was completely unbound by “any legal or technical rules of evidence.”

Bill C-63 also would have amended the Criminal Code so that any convicted individual could be sent to jail for life if it was determined that he or she had committed any crime in a manner “motivated by hatred based on race, national or ethnic origin, language, colour, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression.”

In fact, the Act didn’t require that the underlying transgression was criminal in nature—only that it was “an offence under this Act or any other Act of Parliament” (my emphasis). And the government didn’t even have to wait for any law to be broken before it acted: Under Bill C-63, Canadians could be pre-emptively hit with a peace bond if authorities believed they might utter hate speech in the future.

Under the new (and more sensible) leadership of Mark Carney, the government retreated to the more modest restrictions contained in Bill C-9—the Combatting Hate Act, which is expected to soon become law.

As the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) notes, C-9 does contain some troubling provisions—such as eliminating the requirement that the Attorney General sign on to criminal hate-speech prosecutions. But other provisions are quite defensible, such as the creation of a new category of criminal offense that targets hatemongers who gather outside houses of worship and other civic institutions “with the intent to provoke a state of fear in a person in order to impede their access.” 

As anyone who observed the campus “encampments” that popped up following the 2023 Hamas terrorist attacks, or who’s observed the mobs that periodically harass Jews outside Canadian synagogues on the pretext of promoting Palestinian rights, this kind of thuggish behaviour (often euphemistically described as “direct action” or “civil disobedience”) isn’t really speech at all. It’s simply harassment dressed up as activism. And it’s notable that many of the “civil society groups” that joined the CCLA in criticizing the Combatting Hate Act are strident leftists and anti-Israel types who fret that it will be used to silence “Muslim, Palestinian, Black, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+ and other equity-deserving communities.”

The more stripped-down nature of C-9 reflects the difference in worldviews between Trudeau and Carney. During the second half of his tenure, Trudeau often seemed consumed by the idea that Canada’s main problem was conservative bigotry. And his tenure coincided with a collective progressive hysteria centered on the belief that there was a burbling underground of right-wing hate groups poised to literally destroy Canadian democracy. Trudeau’s legislative overreach reflected these partisan phobias. And one reason his speech-regulation bills failed is that Canadians (rightly) distrusted him as an arbiter of what they should be allowed to say.

Last month, Carney (wisely) announced that his government would abandon efforts to resurrect the aforementioned Human Rights Act provisions that allow Canadians to prosecute one another over alleged online hate speech. He also shot down a thoroughly misguided Senate proposal that would have shoehorned an ill-defined ideological crime called “Residential School denialism” into Bill C-9...

His move to quash the anti-denialism provision nonetheless unleashed a wave of denunciations from Indigenous groups, which called the move “regressive, disappointing, and a setback for reconciliation.”  

But C-9 is only half the story. The other half of the Liberals’ Carney-era speech-regulation strategy takes the form of the new Safe Social Media Act, Bill C-34. And this one is more problematic, even if it’s principal stated goal—protecting Canadian children from the (very real) dangers associated with toxic online environments—is entirely legitimate.

The centrepiece of the legislation, which mirrors similar efforts in Australia, is a ban on the enlistment of Canadians under the age of 16 on TikTok and other social media services...

Carney’s government has used the pretext of child protection as a means to advance a larger content-regulation agenda. This includes a blueprint for a “Digital Safety Commission,” which will force social-media companies to ensure Canadians aren’t exposed to “harmful content.”... 

the Safe Social Media Act also is aimed at proscribing material that “incites violence” and “foments hatred”—the latter description being one that, as noted above, some Canadian human rights officials would apply to the observation that men can’t become women by putting on a dress.

Moreover, as Geist notes, the text of the Bill “leaves nearly everything that will determine how the law actually works, including which services are covered, when the ban applies and to whom, what counts as adequate age verification, and what design features platforms must build” to later decisions by Cabinet and the (as yet non-existent) Digital Safety Commission.

Several Canadian pundits whom I very much respect, including Jamie Sarkonak of the National Post and Josh Dehaas of the Canadian Constitution Foundation, see C-34 as a thinly veiled plot to eventually put control of the entire internet under the thumb of Canada’s federal government... the Prime Minister would roll out C-34 under the auspices of a cabinet colleague who is strongly associated with the dogmatic style of social-justice puritanism that Trudeau embraced during his political twilight.

I speak here of Trudeau’s childhood friend Marc Miller, Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture. He’s been making the media rounds, promoting the Safe Social Media Act while presenting himself as the great defender of Canada’s youth—whom he says are “dying” due to uncontrolled internet use.

“Kids just aren’t on the bargaining table—hard stop,” he told a reporter when asked about potential U.S. objections to Canada’s move to block access to American social-media giants. The eyeball-rolling suggestion here is that opposing Bill C-34 doesn’t just make you anti-child, it makes you pro-Trump, and therefore a bad Canadian.

Back in 2021, Miller had a prominent role in promoting the Trudeau-approved lie that 215 unmarked graves of Indigenous children had been found in an old orchard in British Columbia. Even after that falsehood was debunked, Miller continued to call for the criminal prosecution of residential-school “denialists” who deviated from the myth that he and Trudeau helped create...

On the fifth anniversary of the unmarked-graves farce this past May, while others were admitting they’d been duped by the fake news of 2021, Miller was silent. Like Trudeau, he’s never taken accountability for his role signal-boosting what is arguably the single most persistently toxic piece of misinformation the Canadian internet has witnessed in the social-media era—a deception that led to the torching of dozens of Canadian churches. It’s something Miller might want to think about the next time he pontificates about the link between online misinformation and violence.

More than anyone else in Carney’s orbit, this Liberal holdover from the Trudeau era personifies the instinctive sense of distrust that a lot of us feel when we think about allowing our government to decide what we can say, read, and watch online. Carney may have good intentions. But he picked a flawed messenger to communicate them."

Links - 20th June 2026 (2 - Migrants: Canada [including Nate Erskine-Smith])

Max Genest on X - "Nate, your mass immigration policies have ethnically cleansed your own riding, which allowed a Bangladeshi migrant who posts incest videos on Facebook to steal your job. I would tell you to go fuck yourself, but you already did."

Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 on X - "NEW: Nate Erskine-Smith, white Canadian politician who cosplayed as a Muslim, voted for 10 years to bring in millions of immigrants from Islamic republics ....loses to "cheating" Muslims, complains about it. "they used amazon receipts and travel visas as voter ID""
Peter Brimelow on X - "This would be funny except I remember Canada in the 1970. So it’s tragic"

Mario Zelaya on X - "🚨 MAJOR BREAKING NEWS  Nate was the favourite to be the leader of the Liberal Party of Ontario.   HE LOST THE NOMINATION.   He’s saying there was voter FRAUD!  People with no ID. Nothing.   His team said   “THEY’VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT”  When Conservatives said this during the election, it was misinformation & conspiracy theories.   So which is it?   Were Conservatives right in calling out the same irregularities during the election?  Or is Nate, the Liberal MP & former cabinet Minister, a conspiracy theorist & engaging in misinformation?"

Mario Zelaya on X - "The Liberal Party spent 10 years importing voters.  Today those voters showed up.  And voted against the Liberal they were supposed to support.  Federal MP Nate Erskine-Smith, endorsed by Mark Carney himself, just lost a provincial nomination race in Scarborough.  He lost to Ahsanul Hafiz.  A Bangladeshi-born business owner who owns 30 Domino’s Pizza franchises.  Today in Scarborough Southwest:  Sample ballots were handed out entirely in Bengali.  The Ontario Liberal Party allows temporary residents to vote in nominations.  Nate knocked on doors of his own “members” people who had no idea they’d signed up.  The Globe and Mail reported it themselves.  Nate cried irregularities.  Hafiz said: “The hallways were full of people wearing my badges. That’s the clear evidence of who won.”  The Liberals flooded ridings with new Canadians.  Those new Canadians just picked their own guy.  The man who built the machine is now complaining about the machine.  Welcome to the Canada you created. 🇨🇦"

Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 on X - "I think this is the first time a Liberal MP who brought in 5 million migrants has ever had those migrants affect his life. Normally the victims are just young Canadians who can’t find work or afford housing. Not a member of the elite."

Meme - Harrison Faulkner @Harry_Faulkner: "This photo is incredible. A rain-soaked defeated Liberal MP walking along trash filled streets with the pride flag flying in the distance as he grapples with the consequences of his own party's decisions."

Chris Brunet on X - "Nate was Canada's previous minister of housing. he spent the past decade advocating for unlimited immigration. immediately after taking this picture, they all voted against him for a man named Ahsanul Hafiz who owns Domino's Pizza franchises solely because he was born Bangladesh. Nate is now complaining about voter fraud"

Maky Abugu | Facebook - "Nate Erskine-Smith is now openly escalating his allegations about the Ontario Liberal nomination battle in Scarborough Southwest, and this story is getting more serious by the day. Remember, this is not some random outsider making claims online. This is a sitting Liberal MP who already announced he plans to resign after losing the nomination by just 19 votes. Now he’s publicly questioning what happened during the process. In his own words: “Why would dozens and dozens and dozens of people who are temporary residents showing up not understanding the process, when they're asked for their address, they're not certain about what their address is, and then they're taking pictures of their ballot.” That is a major allegation. Especially inside a party nomination race where the margin was razor thin. Erskine-Smith has already filed an appeal with the Ontario Liberal Party alleging “serious irregularities” in the contest that was won by Ahsanul Hafiz. According to reports, he claims there were concerns involving voter eligibility, confusion around addresses, and people allegedly photographing ballots during the voting process. And this is where the conversation becomes uncomfortable politically. Because Canada is already dealing with rising tensions around immigration, temporary residents, international students, housing pressure and trust in institutions. So when a Liberal MP himself raises concerns involving temporary residents and internal voting integrity, people are obviously going to pay attention. Now to be fair, allegations are not proof. The Ontario Liberal Party has not publicly concluded there was fraud or wrongdoing. And temporary residents can legally participate in some party nomination contests if they meet party membership requirements. That part is important context. But the bigger issue here is trust. If party members believe nomination races are not transparent or properly controlled, confidence in the democratic process starts breaking down very quickly. And honestly, this entire situation is becoming politically damaging for the Liberals because it is happening at the exact moment Canadians are already frustrated with institutions, political elites and internal party operations. What makes this story even bigger is that Erskine-Smith was not some fringe candidate. He was one of the more recognizable Liberal MPs in the GTA, often seen as more independent minded than many others in caucus. Now he is leaving politics after this loss while publicly questioning how the process unfolded. That alone tells you how serious he believes this is."

Randy Parent | Facebook - "Excuse me while I ROTFLMAO.   SOOOO poetic.  This is exactly what happened in New York and many cities in the UK  This is just the beginning my friends.   Doug Ford couldn’t plan the last 96 hours any better in Ontario politics:
1. The Ontario Liberal Party asked for proof of fraud & mismanagement during Saturday’s nomination process.
2. Given what I’ve read today, & two lengthy phone chats I’ve had - I’m buying the “We’ve never seen anything like it” thesis. Holy holy if they go public w/ what they told me.
3. The best possible person with a shot to challenge Doug Ford didn’t win the nomination.
4. A person of questionable character & current associations DID win the nomination.
5. #4 makes it REAL easy to campaign against the nominee & state facts about his past, including his incest porn social media from only a decade ago.
6. The OLP would have had a mildly tough time winning the seat WITH Erskine-Smith AND no controversy. Now they have NO Erskine-Smith & TONS of controversy. Quite bad.
7. There are some real good people in the Party. There are some very impressive MPPs. It’s all for nothing if the OLP stacked the deck against Erskine-Smith, or the Hafiz camp did, & they waved their hand & dismissed it.
8. Democratic integrity in a nomination contest is far more important than whether you adore the person who won or not. A system that can’t be trusted means the Party can’t be trusted means good people won’t run for seats, & it certainly means far fewer people will volunteer & give money to help.
Nice mess they have - a little oversight Saturday prevents all eight of the above points from being the reality they face now."

Alexander Brown on X - "Provincial gov’t immigration source in Ontario: "We’re not seeing the exits we are hoping for. The data from the feds is non existent. Temps are converting to varying degrees of visitor statuses and claiming benefits to not work, or goal-hanging while expired hoping for amnesty. The amount of bad-faith and scamming continues to be overwhelming.""

Meme - Maxime Bernier: "Canada may need a Bill 101 to protect the English language and Canadian culture."
Riley Donovan @valdombre: "Calgary Police are putting up signs in Punjabi urging people to report criminal activity. The problem is deeper than the sign. Mass immigration is turning Canada into a Tower of Babel."

Meme - "Singh Hortons *Tim Hortons logo with Sikh*"

DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY on X - "The disastrous decline in health and hygiene standards at Tim Hortons and many other Canadian fast food chains is directly attributable to the Temporary Foreign Workers (TFW) program.  Inside 18 months, Hepatitis A — a fecal-oral disease, by Public Health Canada's own definition — has been confirmed in Tim Hortons food handlers in Ottawa, Amherst NS, and Barrie. A Montreal location was fined $4,200 for premises containing rodent excrement.  India is now Canada's largest source of foreign workers. India's own government has spent 11 years and billions on its Swachh Bharat (Clean India) campaign trying to end open defecation. The current phase is literally branded "Swabhav Swachhata, Sanskar Swachhata" — behavioural and cultural cleanliness — because their own surveys find roughly half of rural households continue to defecate in the open even when they own a toilet. They say they prefer it.  The Indian government calls it a cultural problem.  Their words, not mine.  You cannot import food-service workers from this environment, hand them a hairnet and a 90-minute orientation, and call it a food safety system. There is no training program that closes a 25-year cultural gap in 12 weeks."

Meme - "r/Torontology
Modern-day Toronto is proof that this multiculturalism shit isn't working
We got people in the city protesting and literally fighting over conflicts and shit that has nothing to do with Canada. (Russia-Ukraine, the Eritrean brawl, Hindus-Sikhs, lsrael-Palestine, etc) Different groups segregate themselves so much that entire regions in the GTA are now dominated a single ethnic group. (Markham = East Asian, Brampton = South Asians, Vaughn = Europeans, etc) People are struggling to find jobs and/or places to rent simply because they don't belong to the preferred ethnic group. All these different groups don't actually like one another. They tolerate each other at best, and only interact when absolutely necessary. Even in this sub, mans will say the most foul shit in order to disrespect an entire group just because someone made a joke, or said something that offended the other person. People don't come to Canada to be Canadian. They come to Canada to be whatever they were before while living in Canada. There's little to no actual loyalty to this country."
Naturally, this got deleted

Canada immigration scams: New consultant regulations announced (aka "Canada announces reforms to combat immigration, citizenship scams")

Canada gave citizenship to a terrorist. Revoking it has been ‘ridiculously’ slow - "On May 31, 2001, a former Pakistan army captain named Tahawwur Hussain Rana swore the oath of citizenship in front of an Ottawa judge, who anointed him a Canadian.  But he is a fraudulent Canadian, according to hundreds of pages of government documents obtained by Global News that allege he obtained his citizenship through “deception.”  The documents show that an RCMP investigation uncovered considerable evidence that Rana lied on his citizen application form by claiming he resided in Canada, when he did not.  Nonetheless, immigration officials gave him not just citizenship but also a passport — which he used to fly to Mumbai, India to allegedly mastermind a terrorist attack that killed 166 people. Twenty-five years after Rana swore at his citizenship ceremony to “fulfill my duties as a Canadian,” the federal government is still trying to undo the supposed mistake... A Global News review of cases that have come before the court over the past two years reveals that it routinely takes more than a decade to rescind citizenship from those who obtained it through fraud.  Even when immigration officials appear to have substantial evidence that foreign nationals obtained citizenship by submitting false information, the process is plodding... The United Kingdom says it has annulled the citizenship of more than 1,500 Britons since 2010,mostly for terrorism and fraud.  The U.S. filed de-naturalization cases against 12 people on Friday they accused of hiding their involvement in terrorism and other crimes when they acquired American citizenship.  In Canada, revocation cases are “very rare,” Hayer said... he was identified as a suspect in the attack in Mumbai, India, the previous year by the Pakistani terror group Lashkar-e-Tayyiba.  Two Canadians died in the assault: Elizabeth Russell, a former Montreal nurse, and her travelling companion, Michael Moss, a Montreal physician.  At least two other Canadians were wounded, including Michael Rudder, a Montreal actor who was dining at the Oberoi Hotel when gunmen stormed in... Revoking his citizenship has taken so long that he has raised the time lag as a defence, claiming he can no longer recall events from so many years ago."

Tristin Hopper on X - "This story is quite radicalizing. CBC sent out reporters to find refugee sob stories, and the best they could do was a woman who entered Canada on a visitor visa, magically decided she was now a refugee, and has been living exclusively off benefits ever since."
Tristin Hopper on X - "It wasn't too long ago that Canada was the world's most pro-immigration country, bar none. It wasn't because we were nice and it wasn't because we were welcoming. It was because this kind of brazen exploitation was kept to a minimum, instead of celebrated."

The Locked-Out Generation: 437,000 and Counting - "in 2025, 437,000 young Canadians were unemployed. That’s a 57% increase in just three years – and it doesn’t count the likely tens of thousands more who were looking for work but gave up and left the labour force.  And the bleeding hasn’t stopped, according to recent Stats Canada data, as the youth unemployment rate continues to rise and now stands at a staggering 14.3%...   Canada is not in a technical recession. Employment among other demographic groups sits at somewhat normal levels. And in the United States, youth unemployment remains near a historic low of 10 percent. Canada’s divergence from the U.S. is now the widest on record outside the late-1990s tech boom and the pandemic. The evidence points not to economic fate, but to something else.  The current job market for early-career Canadians is worse than it was during the recessions of 1981, 1990, and 2008. We are producing recession-level youth unemployment in what those very same economists would call stable economy (even though for so many it doesn’t feel like that). That does not happen by accident.  And if the problem’s not happening to different countries around the world, and if it’s not happening to people of all ages, then it must be happening because of a specific set of policy levers being pulled right here in Canada. Policies designed to erode young people’s competitiveness in our labour market and undermine their success at the start of their professional journeys.  And when we dig into the details, that’s exactly what’s going on.  This year alone, Ottawa will be bringing in 215,000 new temporary foreign workers (TFWs) and foreign students, adding to the estimated population of nearly 1.5 million people who are here already... these workers disproportionately occupy low-skill, entry-level jobs in the service or retail industry that would normally be the perfect starter job for a high school or university student. And that’s because big businesses want it that way.  On top of that, the system has been proven to exploit permit holders, pushing people into dark, underground economies and driving down wages – adding an incentive for seedy employers to take advantage of vulnerable immigrant workers. Why hire a teenager for $20 an hour when you can get it much cheaper, with practically zero responsibilities to them, for the equivalent of $10 an hour?   To make matters worse, the Liberal immigration minister still has no plan to ensure the departure from Canada of the millions of people holding expired visas, further saturating a labour market that’s already at its breaking point.  Every time we bring this issue up in Question Period, members of the Liberal cabinet point to the billions of dollars of ‘support’ (read: spending) they pump into the economy. But they just don’t get it. You simply can’t claim to be stimulating growth while actively suppressing the wages and opportunities of a huge share of your own workforce. It’s like stepping on the gas pedal of your car while also holding down the brakes. Sure, you can put on a big show by doing that, but it won’t actually get you anywhere and it certainly isn’t good for the car.  Of course, all this spending has deeper effects on the Canadian economy, too, that work against the long-term stabilization of our labour market. Bigger deficits mean higher interest rates, making it more difficult for new businesses to open and existing ones to expand. Higher proportions of our federal budget going to interest payments – we already spend more on debt than we do on healthcare transfers – leave less in the bank account for when we really need it down the road.   And underlying this all is a housing market where you need to make a six-figure salary just to afford the average home in a big city like Toronto or Vancouver, and an affordability crisis that sees one in four Canadians classified as ‘food insecure’... There’s a real price to pay for this. It’s not just about a missed summer job at a camp or a part-time shift at a retail store. It’s about keeping kids from ever getting a foot onto Canada’s economic ladder. For a young person, that first paycheck represents more than just money in the bank. It’s the training ground for the various soft skills they’ll use in their careers for the next forty years, things like time management, teamwork and accountability.  Without early employment, we see a skills gap widen because without entry-level experience, how can anyoneleave school and reach career-level employment? And with consumer debt already at record levels (and the worst in the G7), it also contributes to an already-spiralling debt trap: with tuition and the cost-of-living skyrocketing, the inability to work while studying forces more students into a cycle of lifelong government debt. This, in consequence,delays their independence, because moving out and starting a life requires a deposit and a steady income.  For nearly half a million young Canadians, that independence is currently in a bit of a holding pattern. Indefinitely. What makes this crisis even more concerning is that its effects do not disappear once the economy improves. Economists have long warned about so-called “scarring effects” where young people who enter the workforce during weak labour markets often earn less for years afterward compared to previous generations. Delayed careers mean delayed savings, delayed home ownership, delayed family formation, and lower lifetime earnings overall.  In other words: this isn’t simply a bad year for young Canadians; it’s a structural setback that could shape the financial future of an entire generation long after today’s unemployment numbers leave the headlines.   What gets me so mad about all this is that this crisis is entirely self-inflicted. Homegrown. We’ve known it’s been a problem for years, but we just keep going down the same path and hoping that something will change by itself. 11 years of record deficits and record immigration, and this is what we have to show for it. 11 years of failed targets, empty words, and broken promises."
Time to blame Donald Trump and the US for all of Canada's problems

Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 on X - "So let me get this straight. Canada lost 110,000 full-time jobs in 2026 so far. we have record youth unemployment. and Carney is letting 33,000 temporary foreign workers stay in Canada to work forever? They HATE us. It the only explanation."

Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 on X - "> be Nate Erskine-Smith, Mark Carney's Liberal MP
>vote yes for every mass immigration initiative for over 10 years
>flood your own city with muslims
>dress up as a Muslim and attend their events
>lose your riding contest to an unknown Muslim man, and suggest voter fraud"
Damn PP! Damn Maple Maga! Damn conservatives!

Canada Ramps Up Temporary Visa Approvals Despite Fading Demand - "While policymakers still have enough applications to hit their targets, it potentially signals a bigger problem. The focus on immigration-driven growth pushed aggregate GDP higher, but job creation trailed the population surge and wasn’t offset with matching growth in service capacity. Canada’s fading application volumes suggest a tarnished reputation—one that’s resulted in its global rank plunging to one of the unhappiest places on earth for young adults."

EXCLUSIVE: CAF training platoon with 83% non-citizens devolved into ethnic infighting - "A confidential Canadian Forces Leadership and Recruit School report has revealed a complete breakdown in basic officer training following a surge in permanent resident enrolment.  One French-language platoon, which had over 80 per cent non-citizens, was reportedly wracked by an inability to communicate fluently, a lack of respect towards female CAF members and infighting between Cameroonian and Côte d’Ivoire candidates. The Quebec platoon saw fewer than one in two recruits graduate, while allegations of racial discrimination were made in multiple directions, from candidates against staff and between candidates of opposing ethnic blocs themselves. Additionally, command saw “challenges” in training permanent residents as they lacked “respect towards women” peers and superiors.  “For many candidates it is the first time they have lived with members of a different sex, and for some it is also the first time they have been expected to treat women as their peers,” explained the confidential report.  “Platoons are also reporting inter-candidate cultural frustrations, with lack of respect towards women being the most common concern.” Juno News obtained the document, authored by school Commandant and Lieutenant Colonel M.R. Kieley, from an anonymous source. The confidential report is titled “Initial Observations — Impact of Changes to Canadian Armed Forces Recruiting Policies at Basic Training Over 2025.” It paints a picture of declining standards and cultural friction as the Canadian Armed Forces rushed to reconstitute its ranks by relaxing recruiting rules.  The most dramatic example unfolded in a French-language Basic Military Officer Qualification (BMOQ) platoon that was 83% permanent residents, many of whom had been in Canada for as little as three months. This comes at a time when the CAF is boasting of record-setting recruitment levels.  “The initial platoons that arrived at the (school) in January 2025 were heavily loaded with permanent residents,” reads the confidential report."
Diversity is our strength
Even the CBC confirms this, so left wingers need to look for a new cope

Non-citizens in Canadian Forces struggling to 'treat women as their peers' - "Department of National Defence spokesperson Commodore Pascal Belhumeur did not confirm that the Post’s copy was the same as his own version, but the contents of his copy were consistent with what was before the Post... The report, authored by Lieutenant-Colonel Marc Kieley, describes the effects of new changes to the Canadian Armed Forces recruitment process: restrictions on candidates with certain health and mental health issues were lifted, more permanent residents were permitted to join, security screening was reduced, and the old aptitude test was dropped.  “As a result of these changes, CFLRS is experiencing significant changes in candidates’ basic capabilities and increasing pressures on staff and instructors,” it reads... “Older candidates from certain cultural backgrounds are also more likely to experience friction when responding to younger CFLRS instructors due to cultural hierarchies based on age.”... The overall rate of completion for basic training dropped from around 85 per cent to 77 per cent in the first three quarters of 2025, said the report. More candidates are also being ordered to repeat a course: between the fiscal years of 2018 and 2024, this was always in the single digits, ranging between four and eight per cent. In 2025, it was 15 per cent, nearly double the year prior. The dominant reason for re-taking courses also changed. In 2023, according to the report, 62 per cent of candidates re-taking a course did so for medical reasons; another 15 per cent had to re-take for failing practical evaluations (drills, weapons and fitness, for example), and another two per cent had to re-take for failing academic evaluations (on topics from sexual misconduct to navigation theory).  In the 2025 fiscal year, per the report, only 45 per cent of candidates retaking courses did so for medical reasons, with 27 per cent doing so for failing practical evaluations, and seven per cent re-taking courses for academic failures.  Some candidates “have been unable to learn basic practical skills such as drill and weapons, as well as several candidates who have been unable to read without assistance,” said the report... Some of these candidates had only been in Canada for three months, according to the report. This was corrected in February, said Belhumeur, with the imposition of a three-year residency requirement for all candidates...  It’s not just the French basic training instructors who should be asking this — it’s all of Canada. Keep in mind that lawful civilian gun owners are currently experiencing the largest firearms confiscation the country’s ever seen; at the same time, we’re handing military authority over to people who aren’t even citizens of Canada. It’s as if the institution whose job is to carry out the primary duty of the state — the protection of the nation — has completely forgotten a core part of its being."

Riley Donovan on X - "Economics professor schools Liberal MP who says employers need immigrants:
MP: "So that's the answer to this, just increase wages and everything will magically fall in place?"
Professor: "That is the answer. That's what we did in Canada for the first 100 years.""

Eric Jackson on X - "71% of Waterloo software engineering grads leave for the US. The brain drain damage threshold is 20%. Canada is at 3x the red line.  Think about that. Canada taxes its people at 60% in part to fund a university system to train its best and brightest to flee the country and make the US GDP spike.  Who is spiking US GDP at the moment? All the Canadians working for Anthropic and OpenAI in AI.  How crazy is that?   What do the Canadian tax payers get for their generosity out of this?"

John Carter on X - "Our GDP per capita is lower than Alabama's, which is a direct consequence of a lost decade of economic growth. The only reason we rate a sub-Alabama is that Alberta pushes the average up; Ontario has fallen below West fucking Virginia.  You argue that immigration reduces GDPpc because it increases the denominator but it takes migrants a while to catch up and contribute to the numerator. They've had decades. How long do they need? When my ancestors arrived from England, they hit the ground running by the way. They were cultivating farms and building businesses the moment they stepped off the boat. By the way, how exactly are they supposed to raise GDPpc when they send a substantial fraction of their earnings back to India as remittances?  What country has successfully used the mass third world migration model to achieve real improvements in living standards? It hasn't worked in the Yookay, which has all the same problems as Canada and then some. It hasn't worked in Australia. It hasn't worked in France, in Sweden, or in Germany. Denmark ran the numbers and found that immigrants from anywhere but white or East Asian countries were net lifetime drains on the treasury, and by such a huge margin that they could have paid for their own space program. Where are our immigrants coming from again? Oh right, India, a paradise famed for its hard-working, honest peoples, who have built one of the economic jewels of the world.  The only things that immigration have done for the Canadian economy are to inflate real estate to an absurd degree and to depress wages. Now we're also seeing the highest rate of food inflation in the G7. GDPpc has flatlined, but living standards have gotten wrecked. We are worse off in every way.  You call those of us pointing out the obvious facts of this obvious disaster propagandists, while you yourself repeat CBC propaganda like the timid mindraped traitorous capon that you are, so terrified of being called a racist that you cheer on the erasure of our people by an unending flood of third world migration while you twist the tortured remnants of your fragmented psyche into an oblivious pretzel in a desperate ploy to explain away the innumerable calamitous consequences of the insane treachery that you celebrate."
There was a lot of interesting cope, including looking at nominal GDP rank, nominal GDP (rather than GDP per capita) and federal-debt-to-GDP (ignoring provincial)
Time to hate on Alberta again, since left wingers hate economic growth

How Canada’s economy is choking from federal regulations: 7 graphs

Clearly, if you want to reduce regulation, it means you want evil companies to dump toxic sludge in rivers, poison people with untested drugs and abuse employees

 

The USA has relatively little regulation. So to spite the US, Canada needs even more regulation, and if you disagree you are an unpatriotic Maple MAGA and hate Canada 

How Canada’s economy is choking from federal regulations: 7 graphs

Regulatory reform is a rare common ground in Canadian politics. The Carney government launched a red tape review last year and reversed several Trudeau-era regulatory policies. Cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc has publicly criticized how red tape holds back the economy, while Pierre Poilievre has made cutting it a centrepiece of his economic pitch.

A recent survey by the Business Council of Canada found that nearly half of CEOs identify the domestic regulatory burden as the single most important factor influencing their investment decisions—higher than CUSMA uncertainty—topping the list in every survey wave since 2023.

The two major federal parties may differ on their approach to solving the issue, but the shared diagnosis creates a rare opening for progress. When the government and opposition agree on the need for deregulation and the country’s business leaders rank red tape above tariffs as a barrier to investment, the scale of the problem speaks for itself.

And now the Business Council of Alberta has put a comprehensive plan on the table. From Barriers to Breakthroughs, a four-part roadmap released in late March, is the product of more than a year of research involving over 150 economists, legal experts, and business leaders. Its central conclusion is blunt: Canada’s project approval and regulatory system has become the single largest barrier to investment and prosperity in the country.

As the Council’s president, Adam Legge, put it: “Canada isn’t losing investment; we’re regulating it away.” The series offers a detailed menu of reforms, from binding project approval timelines and stronger cost-benefit analysis to risk-based regulatory design, that deserve serious consideration from policymakers.

The cross-partisan consensus is welcome. But it needs to be matched by an honest accounting of the scale of the problem, because the international evidence suggests Canada’s regulatory burden is large and a significant drag on growth.

The World Bank’s Business Ready assessment of 101 countries captures the extent of the problem. On the regulatory framework metric—the rules businesses must actually navigate—Canada ranks 33rd, closer to China than to the United States, which ranks fifth. Drill into the OECD subset, and the picture worsens. As Alicia Planincic reported, Canada earns D grades in taxation, international trade, and business location, and fails outright on market competition with a score of just 49 out of 100.

On business location—the rules governing land acquisition, property transfers, and building permits—Canada ranks dead last among 25 OECD peers. The U.S. scored 94 out of 100. Canada scored 63.

The OECD Product Market Regulation indicators confirm a troubling trajectory. Canada’s standing has deteriorated from 10th in 1998 to 26th in 2023, with particularly poor rankings on administrative burden (32nd), licensing (36th), foreign investment openness (40th), and governance of state-owned enterprises (40th). 

Consider the measure on regulatory competitiveness of certain professions. On a scale from zero (most competitive) to six (least), Canada’s scores for architects, civil engineers, and real estate agents all sit well above OECD averages, ranking in the bottom quarter among 38 countries. These are professions that sit at the heart of Canada’s housing, infrastructure, and construction challenges.

On the FDI Regulatory Restrictiveness Index, which measures the extent to which countries limit foreign ownership and control across sectors of their economy, Canada scores 0.150—the highest in the G7 by a wide margin and three times the OECD average. By this measure, Canada is the most restrictive country in the G7 for foreign investment. 

The domestic data tells the same story. Statistics Canada documented a 37 percent rise in federal regulatory restrictions between 2006 and 2021, a surge directly associated with a 1.7 percentage point decline in GDP growth alongside drops in business investment, dynamism, productivity, and employment. 

And that is just the federal red tape tally. Using a different methodology, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) counts approximately 140,000 regulatory requirements in Ontario alone and nearly 146,000 in Quebec. 

The cumulative cost is sobering. The CFIB’s latest estimate puts the total regulatory compliance burden for small businesses across all government levels at $51.5 billion in 2024—a 13.5 percent jump from 2020. Of that total, $17.9 billion represents pure red tape attributable to unnecessary or duplicative requirements. Businesses are burning through 768 million hours annually on regulatory paperwork, the equivalent of roughly 394,000 full-time jobs. For the average business owner, that means losing 32 working days a year to red tape alone. Small firms with fewer than five employees pay over $10,200 per employee in annual compliance costs. 

The consequences show up in what doesn’t get built. The average lead time for mining projects has nearly tripled over three decades, from roughly six years in the 1990s to 17.8 years today. As of 2020, general construction permits took nearly 250 days in Canada—approximately three times longer than in the United States. Government fees on new GTA housing are three times higher than in San Francisco, Miami, New York City, and Houston.

Courts have compounded the uncertainty. The Supreme Court struck down the core of the Impact Assessment Act in 2023 as unconstitutional, leaving projects in limbo while amendments were drafted, and Alberta is challenging those amendments too. The Federal Court of Appeal quashed the Trans Mountain pipeline approval in 2018 over inadequate Indigenous consultation, years after the Northern Gateway approval was struck down on similar grounds. And in 2025, the B.C. Supreme Court’s Cowichan Tribes ruling recognized Aboriginal title over lands held in fee simple for the first time in Canadian history, creating “significant uncertainty” for property rights, investment, and regulatory authority across the province.

The cumulative effect is a legal environment where the rules of project development shift mid-process, and mobile capital goes where the rules are stable.

The potential gains from tackling the problem are well-documented. A Competition Bureau-commissioned study estimates that aligning Canada’s regulations in energy, transport, retail, and professional services with international best practices could boost GDP by 6.5 to 10 percent over the long run. The International Monetary Fund estimates that eliminating internal trade barriers alone could raise real GDP by roughly 7 percent, or $210 billion.

Canada has a rare moment of political alignment on regulatory reform. External pressure from tariff threats, capital flight, and weak economic performance has made red tape an economic imperative that transcends partisanship. But cross-partisan agreement on the diagnosis is one thing. The hard part is acting on it in a meaningful way before the political window closes and the apparatus resumes its natural expansion. 

Links - 20th June 2026 (1 - Hamas Attack Oct 2023)

Eyal Yakoby on X - "BREAKING: The Union of Clans in Southern Gaza has condemned Hamas for rejecting the ceasefire and is calling for mass protests. Qatar, Egypt, the U.S., Israel—and now Gazans—blame Hamas. Yet the media continues to "miss the story.""
From 2025. Clearly, they're controlled by "Zionists"

Senate report on Jew hatred makes zero mention of Islamic extremism - "In a report attempting to diagnose skyrocketing attacks on Canadian Jews, the Senate of Canada didn’t once mention the role of Islamic extremism.  Fifteen Senators spent more than 17 months interviewing 44 witnesses as to why Canadian incidents of Jew hate have spiked to all-time highs in the wake of the Hamas-orchestrated terrorist attacks of Oct. 7, 2023.  The period being studied by the Senate has seen security services foil multiple Islamist plots to kill Jews. This includes a Toronto-based Pakistani national who just pled guilty to plotting a mass shooting at a Brooklyn Jewish centre and a father-son pair accused of plotting a deadly terrorist attack on Jewish sites in Toronto.  In fact, the same week the Senate report was published, an Ontario court convicted an Ottawa youth of plotting an Islamic State-inspired attack to “murder as many Jewish persons as possible.”  But across the entirety of the Senate report’s 73 pages, its only mentions of the words “Muslim” or “Islam” are in citing Canadian Islamic communities as being comparable recipients of hate.  As an executive summary reads, “the committee is keenly aware of the similarities between antisemitism, sexism, anti-Black racism, Islamophobia, and other forms of hate, as well as the ways in which individuals can face intersectional discrimination.”...  As to who’s committing all these attacks on Jewish sites, the closest the report gets to identifying a culprit is that a lot of them seem to be “young Canadians” radicalized by “social media.” Some of that social media, they wrote, came via “malicious foreign actors.”  As such, one of the committees’ 22 recommendations is that Canada do a better job to “develop and support digital literacy and social media education initiatives.” In a 2025 special report, the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism would describe the same surge in Canadian Jew hatred identified by the Senate, but characterize it as largely being a symptom of entrenched Islamist political networks.  “For decades, organizations affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, of which Hamas is also an adherent, have managed to embed themselves at all levels of Canadian society,” it read, placing particular emphasis on campus groups...  Ironically, the report would rely in part on testimony that had been delivered to the Senate in 2015. Lorenzo Vidino, an expert on Muslim Brotherhood influence operations, told the Upper Chamber at the time that “they basically aim to be the gatekeepers to the Muslim communities, that whenever politicians, governments or the media try to get the Muslim voice … they would go through them.” Nevertheless, the Senate’s only explicit mentions of extremist ideologies are when it mentions far-right extremism.  As an example, one of the Senate’s recommendations is for Canada to consider banning the display of “hate symbols.” This precise issue came up in early 2024, when Toronto Police took the rare step of laying hate charges against a man accused of waving a “terrorist flag” at anti-Israel rally.  But the only “hate symbols” the Senate can offer as examples are “Nazi and White supremacist symbols.”  In fact, the final report would even accept testimony from an anti-Israel group in declaring that Jew hatred should only be addressed within a wider agenda of “decolonization.” The fringe group Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) is explicitly anti-Zionist, and is a frequent collaborator with Palestinian Youth Movement, a group that held Canadian rallies to celebrate the October 7 massacres.  IJV has also issued defences of Samidoun, a group now listed as a Canadian terror entity.  The Senate heard from two IJV representatives, Corey Balsam and David Mivasair, and would highlight their view that “antisemitism should never be taught in isolation, nor privileged above other forms of racism and discrimination.”  Rather, said the group, Jew hatred can only be countered “within a broader commitment to anti-racism, decolonization, and solidarity among communities facing discrimination.”  This sentiment would make its way into one of the Senate committee’s final recommendations."
Time to crack down on the "far right" to keep Jews safe

Meme - Edler of Ziyon @elderofziyon: "How do we know "Gaza genocide" is an unfalsifiable accusation? When we are told that luxury restaurants in Gaza "reveal genocide""
"The dark side of Gaza's new fancy cafes and restaurants. The new establishments popping up in the devastated Strip reveal a new genocidal reality"

Alexander Schaumburg🇮🇱🇺🇦🇮🇷 این آخرین نبرده on X - "The article says some people in Gaza have become filthy rich during the siege. How would that happen if they didn't steal aid provided by Israel?"
SFRJ1970 on X - "Of course, it happened through the theft of aid. Nevertheless, the 'good people' in the West will keep screaming at Israel for enforcing 'collective punishment' against "innocent civilians" in Gaza. Consequently, Israel will continue to allow Hamas to keep getting rich and the enemy population getting fat."

Thread by @KyleWOrton on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "The "Israeli genocide" propaganda in this is boilerplate. The real interest is the extensive, insistent first-person testimony about how comfortable life in Gaza was before 7 October 2023: everyone had disposable income, lots of places to spend it, etc.
The narrative moved from "Gaza is an open-air prison" or concentration camp, to "Gaza was an idyllic place senselessly destroyed in an Israeli genocide" after 7 October: comparing Israelis to Nazis is the point; the facts are made to fit that premise."

The Electronic Uprising on X - "Palestine activists are currently standing outside Parliament giving out fake 'bank of Zionism' money to complain that Zionists "control UK politics" carrying signs saying "caution Zionists in the area". The situation is not good."
Daniel Sugarman on X - "I don't think people quite understand how up until even as short a time ago as the early 2010s, this sort of language was only really expressed publicly on the far right, among those with Neo-Nazi views. Now it's openly, blatantly being expressed outside Parliament."

Michael Starr on X - "BREAKING: A failed Palestinian suicde bomber released as part of an October 7 Massacre hostage ransom spoke remotely to University of California, Berkeley students on Monday at an event held in one of the university's classrooms."
Luai Ahmed on X - "So suicide bombers are giving lectures in American universities now. I have no words."

dan linnaeus on X - "America already went through long periods of imported sectarian violence. The Orange and Green riots, Haymarket, the anarchist wave around McKinley’s assassination, which produced the Immigration Act of 1903 barring anarchists. The country has historically drawn a line at foreign-born political violence and its enablers, and that line has held across aisles for most of its existence.   NYMag doesn’t grasp how deeply wrong this article is because it’s trapped in its own ideological bubble, one that treats pro-Palestine campus activism as inherently righteous “resistance,” frames any immigration enforcement under Trump as authoritarian persecution, and systematically downplays or denies the antisemitism, disruption, and foreign policy problems tied to these protests.   While Khalil waxes poetic about the life he misses, the piece never lays out his role as the lead negotiator for Columbia University Apartheid Divest during the 2024-2025 encampments and Hamilton Hall occupation. These weren’t peaceful “anti-war” vigils.   Columbia University’s own Antisemitism Task Force documented widespread harassment. Jewish students faced spitting, slurs, ostracism, exclusion from spaces, and an intense climate of intimidation and violent confrontation. Khalil was filmed ranting aggressively at pro-Israel tables, with more incidents reported by eyewitnesses than caught on camera.  His activist network was steeped in extreme rhetoric calling to “globalize the intifada,” “in our lifetime,” “from the river to the sea,” and to “eradicate” Western civilization. They distributed materials aligned with Hamas and other designated terror organizations such as the Popular Front for the Liberation for Palestine, and refused to condemn Hamas or terrorism. Khalil downplayed campus antisemitism as “manufactured” and justified October 7 in ways that tacitly when not overtly promoted terrorism.   NYMag like much of the liberal legacy media has persistently covered these protests sympathetically while treating Jewish student complaints and post-Oct. 7 antisemitism spikes with perfunctory hedging raked over the coals of overblown “Zionist” pushback narratives.  They’d never run a similar sob-story essay from an extremist leading anti-LGBTQ or anti-Black protests with comparable disruption. Here the cause of a foreign-born agitator advocating violence against protected groups in a manner that is wholly corrosive to the American project is sanctified, and Khalil is pitched in the horrifying register of Hamas’s ideological frame, as a martyr, as someone who just misses their old New York life.   It does not occur to them that the Bibas children are not here to essay about the lives they miss, or how grotesque it is that what he misses is the sense of security American freedoms he abused gave him to harass and disrupt the lives of American minorities.  It is a moral failure, so genuine and complete, that we see in these outlets that it marks an indelible cleavage in American society. There are those who will not, and cannot understand the words that I write here. And then there are those who cannot stomach the words and epidemic mindset of these media outlets and their subjects.   In the minds of either side, there is no room to question who is right and who is wrong. One advocates for moral clarity, the other advocates for moral relativism, with both set firmly on a confrontational course that appears increasingly unavoidable.  For me Oct. 7 was barbarism, “globalize the intifada” is incitement, harassment of Jews is antisemitism regardless of the dressing, and non-citizens, even green-card holders, do not get a free pass to import foreign conflicts that undermine the national interest. The other side embraces moral relativism, for them context excuses everything, “resistance” is elastic enough to include terror apologetics, and enforcement against it is the real threat. Never the twain shall meet; that flag is planted where it rightfully belongs."

BBC News Presents Hamas Terrorist As ‘First Responder’ - "On April 23 the BBC News website published a report credited to Jon Donnison under the headline “Israeli strike kills five Palestinians in northern Gaza, medics say.” Some four hours later editors amended to headline to state “Israeli strikes kill eight Palestinians in Gaza, first responders say” and added David Gritten to the credits... Two days later, on Saturday April 25, it emerged that the Hamas-run Gaza civil defense agency’s “first responder” was in fact a Hamas cell commander who had participated in the Oct. 7, 2023 atrocities and that the other two people in the targeted vehicle were also Hamas operatives...        The BBC has not updated its report to provide readers with that relevant context and to inform audiences that the man whom the report identified as a “first responder” purely on the word of a Hamas-run agency was in fact a terrorist.  BBC journalists have been uncritically quoting and promoting unverified claims made by the Gaza civil defense agency for over two years, often without adequate clarification of its connection to Hamas and the links of some of its employees to terrorist organizations. BBC reports published immediately following incidents in the Gaza Strip have all too often been based on unverified claims made by that Hamas-run agency, with no independent verification carried out.    Time and again, when new facts relating to a specific incident have emerged days or weeks later, the BBC has failed to provide its audiences with that information by updating its original reporting or producing new coverage.  As we have noted in the past – and as this example of a Hamas terrorist presented only as a “first responder” once again demonstrates – the result of that editorial policy is that the BBC News website’s “permanent public record” increasingly promotes superficial and partial stories based on unverified claims made by Hamas-run agencies, baseless denials from that terrorist organization and unconfirmed local eye-witness accounts. BBC journalists fail to make the effort to ensure that the public record includes the entire information relevant to understanding of a particular story and the broader subject matter"

Thousands run Palestine Marathon under shadow of Israel’s war on Gaza - "The tenth Palestine International Marathon has been run in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, with a parallel race held in Gaza after a two-year hiatus caused by Israel’s war on the Strip."
This is a true testament to the power of Gazan Palestinians. Even when undergoing "genocide" and "starvation", they can manage to hold a marathon

OCR launches antisemitism probe into New York City schools - "The U.S. Department of Education launched an investigation into the New York City Department of Education on Thursday over allegations that Jewish students faced discrimination because of actions by a group of pro-Palestinian teachers.   This marks at least the second Title VI civil rights investigation into the nation’s largest school district — across two presidential administrations — triggered by reactions to the Israel-Hamas war.   The Office for Civil Rights said it has received multiple reports that a group of district employees called NYC Educators for Palestine held a “teaching seminar” series on “Palestine, Zionism, and Resistance.” “The so-called ‘NYC Educators for Palestine’ allegedly teach children as young as five about ‘contemporary and historical Palestinian resistance,’ that Zionists are ‘genocidal white supremacists,’ and to support the federally designated terrorist organization Hamas and its ‘martyrs’ (i.e. dead terrorists),” the Education Department said in an April 23 statement.   “Complaints received by OCR allege that these actions in NYCDOE teach and sow hostility and hatred towards Jewish students, potentially creating a hostile environment,” the statement said."

Four more UNRWA staff -- including teachers -- found to have kidnapped Israelis on Oct. 7, as feds weigh criminal charges - "A US government watchdog has found at least four more staffers for the United Nations’ Palestinian refugee aid agency “kidnapped” Israelis and aided Hamas’ terror attack on Oct. 7, 2023, information that is likely to feed into a federal criminal probe...   More than 100 UNRWA officials are being investigated by the IG’s office — with evidence now supporting at least 21 were affiliated with Hamas or participated in the terror group’s massacre of 1,200 in the Jewish state, including 46 US citizens. More than 250 hostages were also taken back to the Gaza Strip.  “The recent investigation by the USAID IG confirms that the UN is deficient in vetting its own staff for ties to terrorist organizations”... “As the UN itself doesn’t consider Hamas a terrorist organization, both UN agencies and local NGOs [non-governmental organizations] may still hire Hamas-affiliated staff that place programs at high risk for diversion. This will not be tolerated.”... “As the UN itself doesn’t consider Hamas a terrorist organization, both UN agencies and local NGOs [non-governmental organizations] may still hire Hamas-affiliated staff that place programs at high risk for diversion. This will not be tolerated.” All 21 UNRWA staffers have since been proposed for suspension or debarment from receiving federal funds for the next decade. Past USAID OIG reports have called out the risk of hundreds of millions of dollars in US taxpayer funding to the UN agency being diverted to terror groups...   “The FBI is definitely involved in it on the counterterrorism side,” the other source noted, adding that “the murder of Americans” in Israel had prompted their involvement.  UNRWA had already faced a civil suit that alleged it “aided and abetted” Hamas by providing more than $1 billion to Gaza...   UNRWA got more than $839 million in funding through the United Nations in the 2025 calendar year, and the UN is asking for billions more this year as part of a $71.4 billion package for recovery and reconstruction in Gaza.  One month before the funding request, USAID OIG had uncovered an UNRWA school principal, Hafez Mousa Mohammed Mousa, who served as an operative in Hamas’ East Jabaliya Battalion and helped with coordinating communications for the Oct. 7 attack."
Time to blame the IDF and the Hannibal Directive (which was revoked in 2016, was about preventing Israeli soldiers from being captured and did not involve killing them) for Hamas killing civilians and taking them hostage. Clearly all the videos Hamas made documenting Oct 7 are fakes created by Mossad
Time to denounce the US as murderers for refusing to fund UNRWA. Of course, funding UNRWA led to murders, but that pushes the left wing agenda, so that's good

Aux Armes - "I cannot recall any Jews being particularly shaken by the familiar French Canadian ritual of throwing stones at synagogues when I was growing up in Montreal’s multiethnic Outremont neighborhood in the late 1950s and early ’60s. Not only was it a common occurrence that garnered no press attention; it was in fact a bit of a game, immortalized by writers like the novelist Mordecai Richler and poet Irving Layton. Another such game was the Quebecois kids’ ritual of throwing snowballs at “les maudits Juifs” (the very first French words I learned as a young child) walking to and from synagogues and yeshivas.  While we never dared retaliate against the stunning stained glass of the town’s ubiquitous Catholic churches, vigorous snowball battles between Jewish and French kids (often with rocks embedded in the snow) were an almost daily activity in the wintertime. I recall this warfare rather fondly, as I do many more unhealthy aspects of growing up in a charged and diverse environment in the days before “diversity” became an abstract social ideal. We kids did not shake; we fought back. And the shattering of glass did not evoke Kristallnacht to the many equally unshaken Holocaust survivors then living in Outremont. The most frequently targeted shuls simply installed wired window shields. Problem solved.  How different has been the worried response to this weekend’s attacks on four synagogues and a yeshiva in Montreal’s most heavily Jewish-populated township, Cote St. Luc... After the firebombing of the United Talmud Torah in the Montreal suburb of Ville St. Laurent in 2004, the nasty work of North African Muslim immigrants, the Jews of Montreal came to a painful realization that they were no longer dealing with rock-filled snowballs. Today’s attacks are not a continuation of the lame local games we used to play. They are something new, and more frightening.  The Montreal Chamber of Commerce has long showcased the city as a taste of Europe within driving distance of New York and Boston, which it is. But, along with the sweetness of old Europe, Montrealers have been tasting the ugliness of the new Europe’s serious violence and racial tensions, generated by a rapidly growing underclass of Muslim immigrants. Unlike American states, as well as Canada’s other nine provinces, Quebec enjoys complete autonomy in the domain of immigration policy—and has long given priority to immigrants from former French colonies such as Haiti and Vietnam. Today, the largest numbers of French speakers come from former colonies in Arab lands from Morocco to Lebanon. The city of Montreal today has the world’s largest Lebanese community outside of Beirut and the second-largest Moroccan and Algerian diasporas, after Paris and Marseilles. As in France itself, these immigrants have brought a deep, historically rooted contempt for European cosmopolitanism and heavy doses of anti-Semitism. Those apprehended by the Montreal police and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for involvement in the dozen or so attacks on Jewish institutions in the city during the past five years—which included the fire-bombings of a synagogue and a Jewish day school—were all Quebeckers of North African descent. None were native French Quebecois. How the city’s Jewish community, already severely depleted by the mass exodus that followed the rise to power of the separatist Parti Quebecois, fares remains to be seen. But one thing is certain: Attacks on Jewish institutions such as those of last weekend are part of a grave international problem. And Montreal is increasingly becoming a lure for those who dream of more spectacular—and potentially devastating—acts of terror."

Maarten Boudry on X - "It may have been delusional (or was it, in any possible world?), but Yahya Sinwar really believed that the 7 Oct invasion would trigger Israel’s collapse as a country. This was his calculation:  “This necessity explains one of October 7’s most gruesome aspects. Sinwar was convinced that capturing and broadcasting “explosive images” right at the start of the offensive would “trigger a surge of euphoria, frenzy, and momentum” among Palestinians and Arab Israelis. [...] They believed a concentrated, immediate bombardment from Hezbollah would finally trigger Israel’s “quick collapse.”  But it was a catastrophic miscalculation: Hezbollah and Iran balked at being handed a fait accompli, and Palestinians in Judea and Samaria had little appetite for a violent uprising. And Arab citizens of Israelis none whatsoever."
They were successful at manipulating left wingers to hate Israel though

Doctor Removed From Ontario Medical Association AGM for Refusing to Take Off Watermelon Pin : r/ontario - "This guy glorifies terrorists responsible for the deaths and suffering of thousands on social media and then plays the victim when he’s removed from polite society. Actually, this is a great metaphor for this movement in general."
"i don't think anyone is buying this nonsense"
"Oh no? It’s easy to do a Google search on this guy but I’ll give you the highlights:  One post Ge shared on October 6 reading: “History will absolve The Resistance,” referring unambiguously to Palestinian terrorist groups.  Another post shared by Ge shows an image of Hamas terrorists breaking through the border into Israel on October 7 – where they proceeded to rape, torture, murder, mutilate and kidnap – alongside the caption “Colonialism is not a metaphor. It is a force that must be resisted.”  Another post shared by Ge called Hamas’ massacres nothing more than “debunked lies”  Etc. etc."
Yipeng Ge's publicity stunt was successful, no doubt. Of course, all the terrorism supporters are praising him for "humanity", or claiming that he's targeted for criticising Israel, or other nonsense like that. Some even claimed that religious symbols were political symbols, so they should be banned too. Left wingers make up elaborate strawmen then accuse others of hypocrisy based on something that's just in their heads

Meme - Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby: "Mohsen Mahdawi: "I like to kill Jews."
The NYT: "He wanted peace.""
"During that conversation, Mr, Mabdaw allegedly told the... "I like to kill Jews"
"He Wanted Peace in the Middle East. ICE Wants to Deport Him."

Meme - Fat crying Arab man over Gaza ruins: "After we raped their women and killed their children, they attacked us!"

Meme - Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou: "BREAKING: @AbdulElSayed ’s campaign staffer attempted to justify the ISIS terrorist massacre at Bondi Beach by arguing that the event was a “Zionist klan rally.”  A jihadist terrorist shot a 10 year old girl in the head at Bondi.
gato fumador @KweenInYe ...: "DC Embassy shooting: targeted two literal employees of the Israeli government (100% fair game according to the Israeli government itself!)
Boulder CO: People marching in support of the Zionist Holocaust in Gaza
Bondi Beach: Zionist Klan rally organized by openly genocidal Rabbi"
Zog Patriot @Zogpatriot: "After celebrating the DC murders, he called for more lone wolf shooters to murder Jews in America for Gaza""
gato fumador @KweenInYellow: "lol "encourage fed crackdowns" they're already deporting people for writing op eds. May a thousand thousand lone wolves bloom."

Unite the Kingdom march: Met Police to deploy facial recognition at Tommy Robinson rally - but not at neighbouring pro-Palestine protest - "Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp told The Times: "LFR is a powerful tool for catching wanted criminals. It should only be used for this purpose and in all relevant settings.  "In previous years, Nakba Day protests have included expressions of support for banned terrorist organisations such as Hamas, which is a criminal offence."
This doesn't stop terrorism supporters from complaining that the police are biased, since they're still not allowed to kill Jews in the streets

Warren Kinsella on X - "From the just-out Harvard-Harris poll: nearly half of U.S. Gen Z support Hamas over Israel. 40% of Millennials feel the same way. Most oppose the peace plan. A huge number actually oppose releasing the hostages. And don't start feeling superior: Canadian Gen Z and Millennials have been just as bad, or worse, for two years. #cdnpoli #USPolitics"
Weird. I thought no one supported terrorists

Eitan Fischberger on X - "CNN one minute after Hamas sends them fake news: "171 people killed — including 42 journalists — at these exact coordinates, at precisely 4:17am." CNN after a terrorist tries to incinerate Jews while yelling about Gaza: "An incident occurred in Colorado. It's being investigated""

Meme - "June 2024 *fat*
May 2025 *very fat*
August 2025 *extremely fat*"
Damn Gaza famine and starvation!

M.A. Rothman | Facebook - "𝐀 𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐀𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐕𝐎𝐑 𝐒𝐏𝐎𝐊𝐄 𝐀𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐑 𝐒𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐎𝐋. 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒 𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐅𝐔𝐑𝐈𝐎𝐔𝐒 𝐀 ’𝐉𝐄𝐖𝐈𝐒𝐇 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍’ 𝐇𝐀𝐃 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄. At Australia's Royal Commission into antisemitism, a Tasmanian teacher — not Jewish herself — described something that should stop everyone cold. A Holocaust survivor had visited her school for years to share his story. In 2024, it went differently. A room of grade-10 students turned 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐞, brushing aside his testimony about the Holocaust to interrogate him about Israel — and, she said, 𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐫. One elderly survivor against a whole classroom. He grew defensive, she recalled, while just “trying his best to educate students.” Then the part that's truly sick. Parents called afterward — 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐳𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧. “𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘑𝘦𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴,” the teacher testified. “𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘢 𝘑𝘦𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴.” This is the same country where students have carved swastikas into desks and thrown Nazi salutes in the hallways — and where the adults raising them are angry at the Jew, not at the hate. 𝐀 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐩. 𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 @𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘑𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵"

Masked Montreal Palestinian protesters beat drums and hang effigy of Jew. Yet Carney and Trudeau declared a National Emergency over some truckers... : r/CanadianConservative

Board of Peace blames Hamas's refusal to disarm as reason for Gaza ceasefire breakdown | The Jerusalem Post
Damn Israel!

Visegrad24 | Facebook - "“I don’t remember ever in my 20 years of experience that I heard a feminist scholar come and say, show me the evidence to a victim of sexual violence,” said Cochav Elkayam-Levy, a human rights expert and lead author of the Civil Commission’s report that exposes Hamas’s sexual terrorism during and after October 7. “I heard one rape where they were passing her around. She was probably injured, judging by her screams—screams you have never heard anywhere… “It’s between silence and screams, between pain and wanting to die… And after they finished, they shot her… You hear a bang - and silence,” told Nova survivor Darin Komarov. Yet despite these horrific accounts, apparently “believe all women” did not apply to the victims of the October 7 attack. Instead of love and support from these so-called “feminist experts,” it was they who were quick to try and discredit the victims."