Canadian Convulsions > Is Canada turning into the wild, wild west? This weekend voted 'yes'

 

— Colby Cosh

NP Platformed

The Opposition leader, Pierre Poilievre, newly restored to the House of Commons by the voters of Battle River—Crowfoot, Alberta, made some public remarks defending the use of force against burglars by homeowners. The Justice Minister Sean Fraser, sensing an opportunity but perhaps failing to read the proverbial room, replied indignantly on social media:  

 

“This isn’t the Wild West..."

His quip was followed by a weekend of appalling crimes across the country, some of them in fact having a disturbing Wild West flavour, darn the luck. 

In Vaughan, Ont., a homeowner died from “trauma to his body” (?) after armed burglars broke into his house and threatened his child. This incident is not to be confused with the four armed and masked men storming a house in Markham, Ont. And in Welland, Ont., an enterprising solo practitioner broke into a home and allegedly sexually assaulted a toddler. (A neighbour told the National Post that the accused had previously been convicted of a similar sex offence against her son, had received an 18-month prison sentence and had been turned loose in 12. Real solutions!) 

 

In London, Ont., which isn’t the Wild West, there was nonetheless a gunfight downtown that involved at least 11 rounds being fired. Guelph, Ont., which also isn’t the Wild West, got off easy, although the 80-year-old woman beaten unconscious in broad daylight didn’t. Renfrew, Ont., isn’t the Wild West, but two people allegedly broke into a hotel room to bear-spray the occupants and steal stuff. In west-but-not-wild Abbotsford, B.C., a house was riddled with bullets while its occupants slept. There have been a few apparent arsons, possibly involving homicidal intent — Richmond Hill, Ont.; Windsor, Ont.; and a fatal one in Edmonton in which a shouting match may have been ended, unanswerably, with a Molotov cocktail. Of course, I don’t know whether you could really say Edmonton isn’t the Wild West. A woman here was shot to death in her SUV over the weekend on the city’s historic main drag, Jasper Avenue. 

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The Media is the Message > CBS’ “Face the Nation” edits Kristi Noem comments to make Garcia look better and the government look worse

 

Kristi Noem accuses CBS of ‘shamefully’ editing her interview on Kilmar Abrego Garcia to ‘whitewash’ MS-13 gang affiliation

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Diana Nerozzi

Published Sep. 1, 2025, 4:55 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem went on a tirade against CBS News on Sunday over allegations the network edited her interview about alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal migrant that theTrump administration deported to El Salvador earlier this year.

Noem was on CBS’ “Face the Nation” discussing Abrego Garcia Sunday morning, she said on X, but noticed by afternoon that the footage had been clipped to remove part of her answer.

“This individual was a known human smuggler, a MS-13 gang member, an individual who was a wife beater, and someone who was so perverted that he solicited nude photos from minors, and even his fellow human traffickers told him to knock it off, he was so sick in what he was doing and how he was treating small children,” the DHS chief said in the full, unaired clip.

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Noem claimed a portion of her interview was cut from CBS.

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Comparison of Kristi Noem’s uncut and CBS-aired interview segments.

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“So he needs to never be in the United States of America and our administration is making sure we’re doing all that we can to bring him to justice,” she added.

“Secretary Noem’s “Face The Nation” interview was edited for time and met all CBS News standards,” a CBS rep told The Post. “The entire interview is publicly available on YouTube, and the full transcript was posted early Sunday morning at CBSNews.com

Noem wrote on X, “This morning, I joined CBS to report the facts about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Instead, CBS shamefully edited the interview to whitewash the truth about this MS-13 gang member and the threat he poses to American public safety.”

A US federal immigration judge ruled in 2019 that Abrego Garcia couldn’t be deported to El Salvador due to threats from local gangs — but the Trump administration flew him along with hundreds of other alleged gang members out of the country to a megaprison in the Central American nation earlier this year.

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia speaks during a rally and prayer vigil for him before he enters a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office on August 25, 2025 in Baltimore, Maryland.

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The Trump administration claimed he was a member of the violent MS-13 gang — a US-designated foreign terrorist organization — based on a determination during that 2019 court proceeding.

Abrego Garcia and his defense attorneys have denied the allegation.

Democrats visited with and advocated for Abrego Garcia, saying he was “wrongfully” removed to El Salvador and kept there for weeks first at the notorious prison CECOT and then at a lower-security facility.

The purported Salvadoran gangbanger was eventually brought back to the US in June and charged with human smuggling, but released briefly before that trial only to be apprehended again by ICE on Aug. 25

He now faces the possibility of being deported to Uganda after having declined to plead guilty to the smuggling charges as part of an agreement that would send him to Costa Rica instead.

Abrego Garcia’s lawyers are still working on getting him asylum in the US. His first attempt in 2019 was denied, but if this one is approved, it could put him on a pathway to a green card and American citizenship.

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Canadian Convulsions > 100+ Names on ballot contesting Pierre Poilievre - a new Canadian record and disgrace

 

If this was happening to a Liberal candidate, it would be front-page news every day. But Canada's far-left media speaks not a word as democracy is disgraced again.

More Than 100 Candidates Now Running Against Poilievre, Breaking a Canadian Record

Chandra Philip

7/19/2025|Updated: 7/19/2025

The list of candidates running against Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in an upcoming Alberta byelection has now grown to more than 100, setting a Canadian record.

There are currently 108 other candidates listed for the Battle River-Crowfoot riding as of July 19. The vast majority of the candidates are running as independents as part of a protest movement about Canada’s electoral system.

Or, at least, that's the excuse. More than likely they are being supported by any one of several people or groups who don't want the Leader of the Opposition in Parliament where he is so effective.

The byelection was called after MP Damien Kurek stepped down to allow Poilievre to run and win a seat. Poilievre lost his riding of Carleton in the recent federal election, which was similarly targeted by the protest movement with 90 candidates.

The Longest Ballot Committee (LBC) said it wants to organize about 200 candidates for the Alberta riding. The LBC was created to protest Canada’s first-past-the-post electoral system. In the Carleton riding, ballots were almost a metre long, and had to be folded several times to fit in the ballot box.

The group also organized for 77 candidates to run in the Toronto-St. Paul’s byelection in June 2024. The move resulted in voting delays.

The movement originated with the satirical Rhinoceros Party of Canada, founded in 1963. Some of its policies include making “sorry” the official motto of Canada, and naming “illiteracy” as the third official language of the country. The party has also said it would open “tax havens” in all provinces, and allow advertising in the House of Commons and Senate.

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Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault has previously said he has concerns about the protest movement creating a challenge for those with language or accessibility barriers to vote.

Last year, he recommended amendments to Bill C-65, which would change the Elections Canada Act, to prohibit voters from signing nomination papers for more than one candidate. The bill was terminated after Parliament was prorogued in January 2025.

Candidates not associated with the LBC have criticized the movement, including Poilievre, who called it “unjust” and “unfair” during a recent town hall meeting in Stettler, Alberta.

He said that Elections Canada could stop the LBC tactic by implementing new rules, including requiring every candidate on the ballot to have 1,000 unique signatures from community members. He also said that nobody should be permitted to sign a petition more than once.

“[This would] would make it impossible for 200 people to go out and have their names piled onto the list,” he said, noting that only candidates who are truly running for office should be listed on the ballot.

Libertarian candidate for the Battle River-Crowfoot riding Michael Harris said the movement was “a coordinated mockery of the democratic process” and that it drowned out “real debate.”

Elections Alberta said nominations for candidates in Battle River-Crowfoot close on July 29, with a full list of candidates to be released on July 30.