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Top Hungarian politician reflects on what he sees as weeks of tragedy caused by open borders policies, claiming events in France and the Mediterranean prove Hungarian voters are right to not want to participate in another migrant crisis.
Hungary’s foreign minister Péter Szijjártó has cited the costly week of nightly riots experienced in France, and the recent tragic loss of life in the Mediterranean when an overloaded smuggler boat capsized as arguments against continued mass migration. The speech in the nation’s gothic revival parliament has been reported by domestic media as being noteworthy for its unusually strident nature, even by the standards of normally robust Hungarian politics.
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Read MoreTwo Christian Pakistani teenagers, one 18 and another 14, were arrested in their homes in Lahore in May 2023 on charges of blasphemy after a policeman claimed he heard them being disrespectful of the Prophet Muhammad.
Among Muslim-majority countries, Pakistan has the strictest blasphemy laws. People jailed under these laws risk a sentence of life in prison and worse still, even death. Christians and other religious minorities make up a mere 4 percent of Pakistan’s population, but they account for about half of blasphemy charges.
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Read MoreThe Commissioner of Correctional Services Canada (CSC) Anne Kelly insists that Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino’s office had been properly informed of Paul Bernardo’s transfer to a medium-security prison, refuting the minister’s claim that he knew nothing of the matter.
Access to Information documents obtained by the Canadian Press reveals that deputy minister of public safety Shawn Tupper and associate deputy minister Tricia Geddes, were sent an email three days before Bernardo was set to be transferred, an email that Tupper acknowledged and replied to.
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Read MoreHomelessness has increased by ten percent in the city of Los Angeles, and it has increased in Los Angeles County by nine percent.
According to the 2023 Greater Los Angeles homeless count results conducted by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), Los Angeles County’s homeless population increased to approximately 75,518, an increase from 69,144 in 2022. In the City of Angels, the number of homeless people increased to approximately 46,260 people, an increase from 41,980 people in 2022.
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Read MoreThe man behind the tragic shooting in Philadelphia, resulting in the loss of five lives and injuries to two children, has been identified as a cross-dresser who supported the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.
Before the incident, the suspect shared memes on social media depicting firearms.
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Read MoreTwo men in Alberta have been charged by the RCMP in connection to forest fires, one of which resulted in an evacuation.
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Read MoreFirefighters are currently combating a large fire at a staff housing facility in Lake Louise.
The RCMP has also arrived at the scene of the fire at Charleston Residence (CR), owned by Skiing Louise, located on Village Road.
CR accommodates approximately 150 to 200 staff members during the summer months for the ski resort’s summer sightseeing and gondola operation.
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Read MoreThe leaders of two citizen activist groups in BC have written to the head of the RCMP in their province to demand no more drag shows be performed on RCMP property.
A Western Standard exclusive showed cell phone video of a June 14 drag show held at the RCMP mess hall in Surrey, BC.
Kari Simpson posted a public letter to deputy commissioner Dwayne McDonald on the Culture Guard website she maintains. Her 14-page letter had numerous questions, including whether the free drinks were alcoholic and if anyone was monitoring to make sure RCMP members were not driving home inebriated.
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Read MoreAfter an exciting election night evening, Olivia Chow pulled a rabbit out of a hat to become Toronto’s new mayor. She will need to repeat the magic in coming years if she’s to revive Ontario’s sputtering economic engine.
In the past five years, Toronto’s population has increased by — drum roll, please — a paltry 3.7 per cent. That’s half the rate for the rest of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and well below both Calgary (10.3 per cent) and Vancouver (8.6 per cent). Even Montreal, despite anglophones departing, has grown faster (4.4 per cent).
But the City of Toronto’s economy has been growing even less quickly than its population. Per capita GDP (in 2012 dollars) has dipped from $59,204 in 2018 to $58,504 in 2022. The only real growth is in the cost of housing, which is up 20 per cent since the beginning of 2017. Weak supply is the problem, with housing starts having fallen from 27,761 in 2018 to 20,864 in 2022.
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Read MoreThe Flash star Era Miller’s harassment order expired in Massachusetts. A mother and her 12-year-old child had obtained a temporary harassment prevention order against the actor last year, alleging that Miller had intimidated their family by brandishing a firearm during an argument and acted inappropriately toward the child.
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