I'm from the government...

...I'm here to save you...

Gaps in the security screening of Syrian refugees led to dozens being admitted to Canada without proper vetting. As a result, 39 Syrian refugees who should have undergone comprehensive security checks were not screened before arriving in Canada, although they were recorded as having been.

The auditors also found that, in 150 files, part of the screening process did not occur, meaning that “key information may not have been identified or considered” when approving refugees.

That sounds like it could have huge implications, given the terrorism situation worldwide. How could this possibly have... oh...

The report said that to meet Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s election campaign promise to bring in 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of 2015, changes were made to the screening process.

The screening period was shortened to 96 hours from 30 days, for example.

Sweet baby jebus.

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COMPARE & CONTRAST: I blame Stephen Harper...

....a totally unbiased editorial from, well... Ralph Goodale...

"The previous government had an abysmal record when it came to countering violent extremism and early detection. They just didn't care."

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LAST WORD: Those moderate westernised Muslims

Toronto police are investigating a video that shows music being played at this summer’s Al Quds Day rally at Queen’s Park that calls for Jews to be stabbed, attacked and beheaded.

Great-Grampie on the road to Sodom...

I'm picturing a leathery old guy with cowboy boots and a second amendment t-shirt...

"An 85-year-old male motorcyclist is dead following a crash on the QEW Erie. The Toronto-bound lanes of the highway have been closed between Netherby and Sodom roads as a collision reconstruction team investigates the crash."

As someone who has actually woken up in the back of an ambulance to find his shirt, pants & helmet have been scissored off, I'm thinkin'... there are worse ways for an octogenarian to check out.

For instance...

Police were called to the scene at about 5:11 p.m. when the 83-year-old victim’s family reported they had found his hat on the ice surface and were concerned that he had fallen through into the water.

Perverts 3

Watch Charlie Rose interview Kevin Spacey on Bill Clinton

Remember back, you were a kid...

...teenagers were getting slaughtered all over the place?

Yeah... me neither...

A teen who had just graduated from high school was fatally stabbed Monday night in Vanier, this newspaper has learned. Zakaria Iqbal was found without a pulse lying on the ground on Montreal Road near Lajoie Street.

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UPDATE: Architect of your own destiny...

"...just looking for a place to smoke weed purchased at an illegal dispensary when he wound up inside a crack den..."

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RELATED: The post-national capital...

OTTAWA — Police in Ottawa say their human trafficking unit rescued two sex trade workers during an operation that coincided with Grey Cup festivities.

Justin, Justin...

...show us your tits...

“We have launched the Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence®, which helps to ensure that resources are in place to facilitate disengagement from violent ideologies.”

Oh my gawd... has Pm Selfie actually started up "Friendly Giant University?"

Perhaps Immigration Canada should be referring folks to this miraculous new establishment...

KARACHI, Pakistan — Police said Monday that Abdul Hadi, 24, and Hasina Bibi, 19, were killed by relatives last week for marrying without permission from their elders earlier this month.

Hadi’s father and nine other relatives were arrested after the couple’s bodies were found in a local graveyard on Sunday.

He added that the men confessed to murdering the couple with knives upon the orders of a “Jirga,” or tribal council, for dishonouring their Pashtun culture.

Her Corporate Overlords

TORONTO -- The Wynne government is allowing several bottled water companies to take up to 7.6 million litres of groundwater per day on expired permits, as it gives them time to amend renewal applications in light of new rules.

I'm from the government...

...I'm here to save you...

"A majority of the security personnel on Parliament Hill, some of whom are armed, have not had thorough background checks and routinely have access to sensitive information despite a lack of official clearance, federal officials say."

That's a little odd. The government runs every other fireams owner in the country... farmers, hunters, target shooters... against the CPIC database on a regular basis, but the Parliament Hill rent-a-cops apparently get some sort of a pass.

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RELATED: In other jiggery-pokery news...

Any conversation about powerful men behaving badly should include Al Gore’s name. Even if it is “an inconvenient truth.”

Known Wolves

They'll do that to each other...whaddaya think they'll do to your infidel ass...

"At least 235 people were killed and 109 injured when gunmen armed with explosives attacked a Sufi-linked mosque in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula."

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UPDATE: Mo' dead...

The death toll in Friday’s terrorist attack on a mosque in Egypt’s northern Sinai region has surpassed 300, including 27 children.

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RELATED: Is there hope for Saudi Arabia?

While foreigners, like me, were inquiring about the legal framework for this operation, the mood among Saudis I spoke with was: “Just turn them all upside down, shake the money out of their pockets and don’t stop shaking them until it’s all out!”

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LAST WORD: Feelin' lucky, infidel punk?

British security experts say eight attacks have been thwarted since Khalid Masood killed five and injured more than 50 in the Westminster Bridge attack. Security Minister Ben Wallace said 21 plots have been foiled since 2013, eight of them since last March.

#HowToPoliticizeThanksgiving

FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Weigh everyone's plate after they've gotten their food, take away a percentage of the food commensurate with federal tax brackets and give it to the dog who didn't do anything all day but shit in the backyard and bark grandpa back awake."

Oh... it gets better...

"Avoid the hassles, just refer to everyone as 'Comrade'."

Hopefully, one of these days...

...they'll actually come up with a pasty white perp...

"Administrators at a Missouri high school announced Tuesday that a “non-white” student confessed to school officials that she was responsible for writing “White Lives Matter” on a mirror inside a girls’ bathroom."

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RELATED: Don't get smug, Canada...

...it's happening here too...

"Shepherd’s supervising professor, Nathan Rambukkana, even told Shepherd that by showing the video clip neutrally, without the now-requisite denunciation of Peterson, it was basically akin to 'neutrally playing a speech by Hitler' …”

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LAST WORD: Meanwhile, in actual verifiable crime news...

They know his height... and what he was wearing...

"Police have described a suspect wanted in connection with the incident as a five-foot-nine to five-foot-10 male with a slim build. He was wearing dark clothing at the time."

Sorry... that's as far as a "professional" journalist is willing to go.

Politicians should pay the price too

Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday became the first House Democrat to call on Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) to resign in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations.

“Rep. John Conyers should resign. I’ve reviewed the allegations against him, and they’re as credible as they are repulsive.”

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RELATED: Captain Underpants

"No one had to guess whether Rep. John Conyers wore boxers or briefs, according to a former key staffer, who said the embattled Michigan lawmaker once called her into a meeting while sporting only his skivvies."

Good grief.

The Right Stuff

If they're not innocent and pure, we're not handing them a machinegun... because Mohammed...

"The testing includes the invasive “two-finger test” to determine whether female applicants’ hymens are intact, which the World Health Organisation said in its 2014 clinical guidelines for health care of sexually abused women said lacks any scientific basis."

"Human Rights Watch has also documented the use of virginity tests by security forces in Egypt, India and Afghanistan and criticized calls for virginity tests for Indonesian school girls."

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RELATED: If these are our friends...

...who needs enemies?

"One American service member told that the IG U.S. troops were told to “ignore” the ancient pedophilic Afghan custom known as bacha bazi, or “playing with boys,” confirming the findings of a New York Times (NYT) article issued in September 2015."

The usual suspects...

Police launched raids on addresses across Germany overnight on Tuesday, arresting six Syrian men suspected of plotting a mass casualty terror attack with “weapons or explosives” in the country.

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RELATED: Didn't Pierre-lite import...

...50,000 lightly vetted Syrians?

The six detained Syrians all arrived in Germany as asylum seekers between December 2014 and September 2015, at the height of Europe's migrant crisis.

Last month, police arrested a 19-year-old Syrian suspected of preparing an Islamist terror attack in the country using "powerful explosives".

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LAST WORD: What do they know...

...and when did they know it?

"After repeated questions to PM Justin Trudeau and his Public Safety Minister, Ralph Goodale confirms there are at least 60 former ISIS fighters being watched."

But can we even trust that number?

Back in October 2014, CSIS deputy director of operations Jeff Yaworski testified before the same Senate committee that the number at that time was 80. How did it drop by 20 in two years?

More to the point, if they know about these terrorists, why have they not locked them up prior to deportation?

"Yeah, it's right over there..."

"...right next to the safe 'S&M dungeon'..."

“We’re on the verge of experiencing something we’ve never seen before,” he said. “The amount of government money being spent encouraging people to take drugs – instead of trying to get them off drugs — is unprecedented.”

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RELATED: Good money after bad...

We have almost no idea which anti-homelessness programs work well and which don’t, says Canada’s former Parliamentary budget officer, despite the millions upon millions of dollars we spend on them each year.

Extremely Useful Animal Lore...

...Grizzly bear dung has little bells in it and smells like pepper...

Frankenstein

“Thursday is Thanksgiving, and there’s so much to be thankful for this year, unless you’re a human woman. Sure, this was taken before Franken ran for public office, but it was also taken after he was a sophomore in high school. It’s pretty hard to be like, ‘Oh, come on, he didn’t know any better.

He was only 55.’”

Of course, not everyone is on board...

As a feminist and the author of a book on rape culture... I don’t believe Al Franken resigning his position is the only possible consequence, or the one that’s best for American women.

It's not like he's Donald Trump.

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UPDATE: Today's Transgressor...

“There’s momentum on the inside to continue without Jeffrey Tambor,” a source told Variety on Friday.

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UPDATE2: Here we go again...

The New York Post received two separate photographs of disgraced Senator Al Franken (D-MN) appearing to grope Arianna Huffington’s butt and breast during a photo shoot in 2000.

What passes for news...

...at Canada's national broadcaster...

"Gaitrie Persaud didn't think she could go see Jay Z perform in Toronto next week — not because she's deaf but because she didn't know if the venue would provide the sign language interpreter she requires."

Let's ramp this up fellas... I'm sure, somewhere out there, there's a two-spirited blind guy in a wheelchair who's being denied access to the National Portrait Gallery.

All disabilities... all the time.

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RELATED: It gets better...

"Last Saturday, for example, I had to reach rapidly for the dial when I heard that the CBC’s idea of celebrating the country’s war dead on Remembrance Day was to run a program on the internment of Japanese and Italian Canadians."

Much better...

The Prime Minister's apology is expected to be the most comprehensive ever offered by any national government for past persecution of sexual minorities.

Sweet baby jebus... I'm moving to Texas.

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LAST WORD: News or not news?

"Now the big question is how is it that a teller can be shot in the leg and it doesn’t get coverage."

Yes... why would Toronto media gloss over this story?

In hindsight...

"And what the Democrat Party did instead • turning their party into an accessory to Clinton’s appetites, shamelessly abandoning feminist principle, smearing victims and blithely ignoring his most credible accuser, all because Republicans funded the investigations and they’re prudes and it’s all just Sexual McCarthyism • feels in the cold clarity of hindsight like a great act of partisan deformation."

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RELATED: Twitter heats up

"The statue of Bill Clinton that stands in South Dakota must come down, and the Clinton Library located in Little Rock must be shut down."

“I just don’t understand..."

"...how the police cannot shut down a dispensary where the person has a big sign up on Rideau Street, that says ‘marijuana dispensary.’ They brag about it on the internet that they are selling it," said Justice Norman Boxall.

“Yet I expect those same police officers to be able to arrest drug dealers who use encrypted BlackBerrys and coded language. How are they ever going to arrest most types of criminals if they can’t shut down the shops?” he asked.

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RELATED: No, no... not a violent thieving junkie...

...simply a "veteran of the streets"...

“He ripped off a lot of people, and I guess now it’s payback,” she said. “He burned a lot of people. He even burned me once. He’s a very nice person and he has a good heart, but when you’re hurting... when you’re ‘jonesing’ for a fix, they’ll do anything."

Enough touchy-feely... what's the actual facts here?

Johnson had a lengthy criminal record and frequent run-ins with both police and rivals on the street.

Surprise, surprise.

Well, it's not like the judicial system isn't part of the problem...

A Kingston inmate who says he joined a penitentiary revolt only because he feared violating the “prison code” has won the right to use those unwritten rules in his defence.

Obviously, the inmates are running the asylum.

Those despicable, misogynistic Swedes

...wait a minute... if you're not measuring... you're not managing...

"Forty years after the Swedish parliament unanimously decided to change the formerly homogenous Sweden into a multicultural country, violent crime has increased by 300% and rapes by 1,472%. Sweden is now number two on the list of rape countries, surpassed only by Lesotho in Southern Africa."

Please note the jaw-dropping statistical variance between Sweden and it's close neighbour Denmark.

Of course, that sort of thing couldn't happen in Justin Trudeau's post-national sta... sweet baby jebus...

"Mohamad Rafia, a Syrian refugee told a Fredericton court that he didn’t know it was a crime in Canada to beat your wife with a hockey stick for half an hour."

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RELATED: The new face of Europe

Norwegian Minister of Labour and Social Affairs Anniken Hauglie has raised alarm bells after a report has revealed that migrants account for half of the welfare beneficiaries in the country.

Neighbouring Sweden has also been dealing with similar statistics when it comes to newly arrived migrants being unable or unwilling to enter the labour market. Employment figures from earlier this year showed that the unemployment rate for native Swedes was a mere 3.9 per cent while the immigrant rate was 21.8 per cent.