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This has nothing to do with terrorism or the skyrocketing rate of rapes in Europe, particularly England. This has to do with immigrants on temporary student visas, many of whom never saw the university they were supposed to attend. Student visas were used by criminal gangs, especially the Indian mafia Bishnoi gang, which was involved in drug trafficking, extortion, and targeted killings. They may have been used by the government of India for assassinations.
The expulsions also have to do with a severe housing crunch in Canada.
Canada ramps up deportations of illegal immigrants
CBSA agents are finally enforcing the rules at student protests. Temporary visas mean temporary stays — no permanent residency was promised, and document checks aren’t persecution
Data shows that Canada Border Services agents are setting new records for deportations across Canada, as a visible increase in raids and document checks are now occurring. Images of a CBSA raid at an international student protest in Calgary, Alberta, on Wednesday indicate that Canada is beginning to take a more serious and more visible approach to removals.
As of June 30, CBSA records show that over 10k deportations have already occurred in Canada, happening at a rate of 400 per week. Last year, Canada deported over 23,000 people.
Being in Canada on a temporary visa means exactly that: temporary. No one was promised permanent residency, and protesting, demanding extensions, or framing the country as stolen land does not create one. The political sympathy these students once enjoyed has evaporated.
Document checks at these gatherings are not persecution or “Trump-style thuggery” — they are simply how a country determines who still has legal status and who does not. Hunger strike or not, the rules still apply.
Many of these students were clearly misled by shady consultants and marginal colleges. That does not change the fact that they signed temporary visas knowing the terms, and that the real goal for most was never education but a pathway to stay and eventually sponsor extended family. Living here without status only leaves them vulnerable to exploitation. For both their own sake and Canada’s, the clearer path is to go home when the visa ends.
The era of open-ended tolerance for expired status is closing, and that is long overdue.
Ontario Tightens Rules to Bar Illegal Immigrants From Receiving Social Assistance
Ontario Premier Doug Ford attends a media availability at the TTC Davisville subway yard in Toronto on Feb. 18, 2026. The Canadian Press/Chris Young
The Ontario government is implementing new regulations to block people without legal immigration status from receiving social assistance benefits.
Premier Doug Ford took to social media on Aug. 13 to announce amendments have been made to the Ontario Works Act and the Ontario Disability Support Program Act to clarify the criteria for social assistance eligibility.
“Taxpayer-funded social assistance was never meant to support people living in Ontario illegally,” Ford wrote in an Aug. 13 X post. “As of today, it doesn’t.”
The announcement follows a pledge made by Ford last month to make changes after media coverage about a tribunal decision that granted Ontario Works payments to a man who arrived in Canada decades earlier on a temporary work permit that has since expired.
Ford had commented last month about the case of the man who came to Canada in 1997 on a four-year temporary work permit and never left. The man supported himself with cash-paying jobs for years until entering the homeless shelter system in 2023.
The Ontario Social Benefits Tribunal ruled in May that the man was eligible to receive financial benefits.
Ford said he disagreed with the decision. He wrote in a July social media post that his government would help people who have fallen on hard times, but he emphasized that this did not apply to “people living in Canada illegally.”
The newly announced changes confirm that both those living in Canada illegally and individuals who are authorized to remain temporarily, such as students on a visa, will no longer be able to access social assistance or disability payments. Those with work permits will also not be eligible for benefits.
“These changes will protect taxpayer dollars and ensure these programs are there for the people who they were intended to support,” Social Services Minister Michael Parsa said in a press release, noting that the changes “take effect immediately.”
Tory MP Michelle Rempel Garner, who serves as her party’s shadow immigration minister, also commented on the man’s case last month, calling the tribunal’s ruling “yet another government action that undermines core principles of our immigration system.”
Rempel Garner last week called on the federal government to back any provincial measures made to maintain the integrity of the immigration system.
Those seeking financial assistance through Ontario Works must be at least 16 years old, be residents of Ontario, and “participate in employment activities,” according to the provincial website. Applicants must demonstrate financial need and cannot have assets exceeding $10,000 for an individual or $15,000 for a couple.
The current guidelines state that a single person without dependents is eligible to receive a maximum of $733 per month, while a couple with two children could qualify for up to $1,553.
A Federal High Court in Muslim-majority northern Nigeria has ruled that Islamic religious police have no authority to arrest a woman over her conversion from Islam to Christianity. The ruling curbs the reach of Hisbah, religious police units that enforce Sharia law.
The woman, identified by the pseudonym Sarah, is 22, according to Christian legal advocacy group ADF International, which supported her case.
She fled her family home in Kano State in 2025 after suffering abuse from her elder siblings, who were also trying to force her into a marriage she didn't want. Her parents had died years earlier.
Sarah took refuge with a Christian family, the Abaras, and converted to Christianity while living with them. Her siblings worked with local Hisbah police to have her arrested, and she was detained for four days, during which she was beaten and pressured to accept the marriage she had fled.
Fearing further threats after her release, the Abara family helped Sarah relocate to the city of Jos in Plateau State in January 2026. Her siblings then accused the Abaras of kidnapping her, and the family was arraigned without legal counsel on Feb. 26.
Sarah had filed a rights enforcement petition in a neighboring state on Feb. 24. On May 26, the court ruled in her favor, ordering Kano State and the Hisbah to stop pursuing her arrest over her conversion or her refusal to marry.
The court said the police’s actions were a “flagrant violation” of Sarah’s fundamental right to human dignity and freedom of religion, and it ordered financial compensation for the violations against her rights.
Sean Nelson, senior counsel for global religious freedom at parent group Alliance Defending Freedom, said the ruling affirms that Hisbah has no jurisdiction over Christians or other non-Muslims, and called the criminal case against the Abaras outrageous.
A criminal case against the Abara family remains open in Kano, where ADF is backing their defense, arguing the family helped Sarah escape danger rather than kidnapping her. The Abaras are out on bail.
Sarah said the Abara family kept her safe when she had nowhere else to go and introduced her to Christianity, and that she is thankful the court recognized her freedom to convert.
ADF International said Nigeria is one of the most dangerous countries in the world to be a Christian, with thousands killed for their faith each year, and that Hisbah units in several northern states have increasingly targeted Christian converts and those who support them.
The group also represented Rhoda Jatau, a Christian mother who spent 19 months in prison after being accused of sharing a video condemning the killing of a Christian student, before her acquittal in December 2024.
In 2025, a man identified by the pseudonym David was acquitted after being arrested and tortured for helping persecuted converts flee violence, the group said.
President Donald Trump said last October that Nigeria had failed to protect its Christian communities amid violence he said posed an “existential” threat to Christianity in the region.
Trump had the State Department place Nigeria on its list of countries of particular concern, a designation for governments accused of tolerating severe religious freedom violations, in a move meant to pressure Nigeria’s government. Nigerian officials have played down the violence and rejected claims that Christians face genocide.
A lawyer who uses the pseudonym Jabez Musa and advocates for Christian women and girls abducted and forced to convert to Islam told The Christian Post earlier that U.S. military intervention in Nigeria over the past year has not stopped escalating Christian persecution.
Musa said the U.S. bombed attackers with jets and it would have helped had the campaign continued, but it was not sustained. He said attackers have regrouped, attacks have increased in every region, and violence has spread into southern Nigeria.
Islamist violence has killed thousands of people in Nigeria’s mostly Christian Middle Belt farming region in recent years, and critics say the government has failed to protect its citizens. The attacks in this region are launched mostly by Islamic Fulani militias.
The U.S. launched airstrikes against Islamic State terrorists in northern Nigeria last Christmas Day and deployed troops in early 2026 for counterterrorism operations against Islamic State-linked terrorists. U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said the effort had killed hundreds of militants, but most U.S. troops were withdrawn from the country last month, a move Musa believes left the intervention incomplete.
Elon Musk just gave a cheeky middle finger to the EU.
The EU fined X €120 million for a lack of transparency on its algorithm.
X is now publishing its algorithm on GitHub, with an update every 4 weeks.
But that's not all:
X will also make public ALL censorship requests from governments, including those from the EU (which clearly seems to be abusing them).
European regulatory pressure may have produced more transparency than expected...
Just not exactly in the way Brussels imagined it.
Elon Musk says all government censorship requests are now publicly visible in the open-source X algorithm.
According to Grok
The post by @LeaBourseFR
highlights Elon Musk's announcement making all government censorship requests publicly visible in X's open-source algorithm on GitHub, updated every four weeks, as a direct response to the EU's €120 million fine for insufficient algorithmic transparency.
It portrays the action as an ironic outcome of European regulatory pressure, increasing overall platform openness while exposing specific government takedown demands, including those from the EU.
The thread contrasts this with pre-Musk Twitter's secret collaborations with agencies like the FBI and DHS on shadowbans and content suppression, as detailed in the 2022 Twitter Files.
