National Identity
In many ways, Dundrum looks like the average Irish village. There’s a family butcher, a pub called Bertie’s, and rows of squatting slate-grey terraces. Yet walk down the R505, where Dundrum melts into the hedgerows of County Tipperary, and you’ll soon spot something else. There, outside Dundrum House, is an anti-migrant camp. Established back in August, locals are fighting the planned settlement of 277 refugees, with the former hotel set to be converted into an International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS) centre.
Beyond this protest in the fields, though, what’s really striking about the Dundrum camp are the signs. There’s a Tr
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Read MoreSen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has called on Republican governors across the country to begin rounding up illegal aliens and transport them to the home of Denver’s far-left Democrat Mayor Mike Johnston.
The call comes after Johnston vowed to protect illegals from being deported after President Donald Trump is sworn in.
In an interview with a local publication, Johnston said he would deploy the Denver Police Department to protect illegal aliens.
Johnston said he will ensure polic
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Read MoreThe fallout from a riot in Montreal on Friday afternoon has reverberated across the Canadian news landscape in the days since, with citizens and politicians reacting to the chaos and disturbing signs of overt antisemitism from the event. Though the violence was speedily quelled and widely condemned, questions remain about the state of Canada’s multicultural society and whether it can withstand the mounting internal and external pressures on its integrity and cohesion.
As a routine Nato Parliamentary Assembly meeting took place in the city’s Palai
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Read MoreA series of national security leaks in the press led to the current public inquiry on foreign interference, but the leak of one CSIS report indicating Beijing was targeting MPs—a report ignored by the government—had a major role in forcing Ottawa to hold an inquiry.
That Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) assessment has now been partially disclosed by the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference.
The report dated July 20, 2021, and titled “PRC Foreign Interference in Canada: A Critical National Security Threat,” says that foreign interference activities by the Peopl
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Read MorePublic support for record high immigration levels has collapsed, says in-house research by the Department of Immigration. The abrupt shift in polling coincided with anti-Israel street protests.
The department sought to gauge “Canadians’ responses to a number of key questions,” said a newly disclosed report. A majority of people surveyed nationwide said there were too many immigrants let into Canada and that foreigners were not doing enough to integrate into Canadian society.
“The research objectives of this study include assessing Canadians’ perceptions of immigration levels, the impact of immigration on Canada, Canada’s immigration system and priorities and the settlement and integration of newcomers,” said the report 2024 IRCC Online Tracking Survey.
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Read MoreStatsCan data reveals that 250,000 asylum claimants are in Canada and waiting for the Canadian government to make a decision about their status.
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Read MoreTwo separate protest groups, one Pro-Palestinian and the other an anti-NATO demonstration converged in Montreal on Friday evening, leading to clashes with police, fires, property damage and multiple arrests.
Demonstrators smashed windows and torched vehicles in response to the Israel-Hamas war and some 300 NATO delegates arriving in the city for a summit, resulting in three arrests on Friday.
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Read MoreWindsor Port Authority fears increase in illegal crossings via the Detroit River following Trump win
Port authorities in Windsor, Ontario say they fear they may have to deal with an increase in illegal immigrants attempting to enter into Canada via the Detroit River following US president-elect Donald Trump.
Trump’s administration has pledged to deport people residing illegally south of the border en masse once he takes office in January.
“I think we’ll be seeing much more desperate people who are trying to get out of the United States and get to Canada and make claims,” Peter Berry of the Windsor Port Authority told CBC News.
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Read MoreAsylum seekers to Canada have reached a record high and will cost Canadian taxpayers billions of dollars each year to house and accommodate them.
Deputy Chair of the Refugee Protection Division, Roula Eatrides, said it currently takes 14 months for a case to be processed with the division. However, she said that the division was funded for 60,000 cases this year, but intake has risen to over 200,000 claims, resulting in a wait time of 44 months.
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Read MoreImmigration Minister Marc Miller was denounced after describing an Independent MP’s immigrant employees as lazy and useless. MPs expressed astonishment at the personal insult in the House of Commons.
“I don’t care what he called me,” said Independent MP Kevin Vuong (Spadina-Fort York, Ont.). “I’ve been called worse by better. But I do take offence with the personal attack he has levied on my staff.”
“All four of my team in Toronto are former immigrants,” said MP Vuong. “One is a former refugee. Unlike the immigration minister, we actually care about immigrants.”
The remarks came during a Question Period exchange Friday in which MP Vuong complained of bureaucracy in processing immigration claims. “I have an Australian-trained doctor stuck in the department’s quagmire,” said Vuong. “We have badly needed, skilled tradespeople who want to come to Canada lost in the logjam, yet there are no delays in getting citizenship for ISIS terrorists
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