Not The Bee- Incoming NYC Mayor Appoints Transgender Rabbi To Transition Team
Abby Stein, a progressive transgender rabbi, is one of 400 New Yorkers selected for Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition committees. Stein was placed on the health committee.
In Minnesota, the bear hug of American liberal virtue, with its self-congratulatory sense of generosity and its lack of any serious demands on the people it thinks it’s helping, embraced a community with the mentality, internal coherence, and organization needed to fully exploit its hosts. The Somali enclave rapidly gained in political power, in part because of the ability of various rival clan networks to turn out large numbers of voters in low-margin DFL primaries. The Somalis became an organizing and voting force in the local DFL and began winning elections: to the Minneapolis school board in 2010, to the city council in 2013, and to the state House of Representatives in 2016 — it would take Ilhan Omar just two more years to make it to Congress. Meanwhile, by the late 2010s, the furtiveness and modest scale of existing frauds joined with the in-group discipline of Somalis to create a dense screen of protection for thieves.
How Minneapolis-Saint Paul became the Medicaid fraud capital of the USA
On Parliament Hill this week, Canada’s political class finally said the quiet part out loud: the country’s financial system is a comfortable playground for criminals, professional enablers, and offshore tax cheats and the people running it have no idea, or won’t say, how often anyone is actually held to account.
The House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance reconvened its study on the use of offshore tax havens Monday, grilling senior RCMP officials about money laundering, tax evasion, fraud, and the role of Canada’s own institutions. What unfolded was part confession, part deflection, and part political damage control by a Liberal government desperate to present cosmetic “solutions” to a problem it has clearly failed to contain.
The witnesses were Chief Superintendent Michael Saghbini, director general for financial crime with the RCMP’s federal policing criminal operations, and Acting Staff Sergeant Chad Babin, a subject-matter expert on financial crime. From the outset, Saghbini framed financial crime as a core RCMP priority, stressing their mandate to “protect Canada’s economic integrity” and their supporting role alongside the Canada Revenue Agency.
He reminded the committee that the CRA, not the RCMP, is the “lead department responsible for investigating tax evasion related to offshore tax havens,” with its own Criminal Investigations Directorate. The RCMP, he said, “plays an important support role on this issue,” getting involved when tax matters intersect with broader criminal activity such as money laundering, fraud, and corruption.
The message was unmistakable: if you’re looking for someone to blame for the lack of high-profile offshore prosecutions, don’t start with the Mounties.[…]
The Government of Canada’s own 2025 National Risk Assessment, Saghbini noted in his opening statement, lists tax evasion as a “high money laundering threat” to the Canadian economy. Proceeds of crime “are routinely wired through tax haven jurisdictions whose opaque financial structures, such as offshore banks, shell companies, trusts [and] law firms, decouple illicit wealth from its original owner,” he said.
In other words: the very architecture of the global financial system, banks, law firms, anonymous companies, is being used to hide the identity of the people moving dirty money. Yet in Canada, a government that claims to be cracking down on this has been conspicuously reluctant to name names or produce results.
The Democratic Party’s America: The last Trump for the BBC. JB Pritzker. Kamala Harris
Lord Carney’s Canada: The Muslims are upset. Comedy night in Ottawa. Canada is off track. Entitled to their entitlements.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Flu jab is a turkey. Missing in action. Paul Joseph Watson – Everyone is afraid. Famine in Gaza.
Your morning meme. A cartoon. And at the Bee.
Detectives from the Child Exploitation Internet Unit, executed six search warrants across the suburbs of Sydney, including Waterloo, Ultimo and Malabar on Nov. 27. The operation resulted in dozens of arrests and seizure of devices allegedly containing thousands of graphic content showing the sexual abuse of infants and children. Some of the abuse content involved animals, police said.
Be it in Canada or America, I’ve sensed that restaurant prices have skyrocketed over the past few years. But have they exceeded the basic rules of supply & demand? This fellow thinks so. Do you feel that restaurant prices where you live are reasonable?
Here is The Actual Truth Behind Santa Claus.
Bonus: Hilarity ensured in the UK this past weekend when a group of professional victims got together and angrily tried to out-grievance each other.
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The founder of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, explains New Zealand’s decline.
National Post- Canada’s delusional quest to replace U.S. trade
Canada’s prosperity has been disproportionately owed to the fact that it happens to sit atop the most powerful economy in human history
Algoma Steel got a $400M loan from the Liberals in September.
Today it laid off 1000 people. pic.twitter.com/HOy0jwXl52
— HoCStaffer (@HoCStaffer) December 1, 2025
Thoughts and prayers from the Honourable Member for Garnier-Clairol-L’Oreal
How it started…
Frank Zappa, “It’s a way of life. You’re going to love it.”
National Post- New register shows public service using AI for everything from chatbots to IDing insects
Register shows more than 400 uses of current or planned AI systems across 42 government institutions
The mainstream financial media is subtly acknowledging that a lot of the price action in Bitcoin was fueled by leverage. We seem to be in the process of finding out how leveraged bets on a rising asset price work in reverse. Hint: they don’t work very well.
Bitcoin, which was soaring around $125,000 in October, dropped below $86,000. That’s down roughly 7% from a day earlier.
Strategy, the company that used to be known as MicroStrategy and now raises money just to buy bitcoin, lost 10.3%. It said that it raised a fund of $1.44 billion in U.S. dollars, not in bitcoin, by selling stock to help pay for its dividends on preferred shares and interest on its debt.
Private jets gone. Raw sewage still runs in the streets. The shiny new ‘Freedom Avenue’ is already a smugglers’ highway for illegal timber and cocaine. The 56,000 delegates partied on floating 5-star hotels, then vanished. The bill: $2 billion for a ghost convention centre and a 13 km scar through the rainforest that’s already driven deforestation alerts up 15% (INPE).
Strict criminal trial deadlines imposed by the Supreme Court of Canada are derailing about 10,000 cases a year, a list that includes several alleged murders and hundreds of alleged sexual assaults, according to the latest Statistics Canada data.
The dire situation has led the federal government and the three biggest provinces to call on the Supreme Court to provide some leeway on the time limits, called Jordan deadlines, in a drug-trafficking case to be heard at the top court in Ottawa on Thursday.
The federal government is also planning to table legislative changes by mid-December to help address the problem of so many serious cases being tossed because of delays.
For decades, such delays have plagued Canada’s justice system. In a landmark decision in a 2016 case called Jordan, the Supreme Court tried to do something about them, citing a pervasive culture of complacency around the issue.
The top court created make-or-break deadlines. Unless there are exceptional circumstances, criminal trials must be completed in provincial courts within 18 months from the day a person is charged, and within 30 months in superior courts.
Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by malice; How many serious crimes in Ontario went un-prosecuted because of the resources that were expended on Tamara Lich and Chris Barber? There’s a precedent, here. Roughly $7M of court resources was spent, about 20 years ago now, prosecuting Wheat Board dissidents, while violent crime prosecutions withered on the vine.
Ptomekin Village PM gets results.
➜ Ontario’s housing engine has stalled: Starts are collapsing across the GTHA and GGH. Condo starts are down 51%, ground-oriented homes are down 43%, and overall starts are down 34%, with only rental apartments keeping the sector on life support. The weakness is not confined to condos or to Toronto.
➜ Tens of thousands of jobs are vanishing: The construction slowdown now equals 35,377 lost person-years of employment in the first 9 months of the year, and the losses are accelerating quarter after quarter.
➜ The real crash is still ahead: Pre-construction sales have fallen off a cliff, condo pre-sales down 89%, ground-oriented pre-sales down 65%, guaranteeing an even deeper downturn in 2026 and beyond.
@harrisonlowman – Only 25 new condos were sold in downtown Toronto last month. How is this possible?
Salt in wound: Housing Minister Gregor Robertson’s department spent more than $97,000 to send managers to a two-day conference on homelessness for “inspiration,”
This has nothing to do with confronting the virulent rapey-beheader street fairs – which they could any time they choose – and everything to do with crushing opposition to the Trans-Gay Institutional Complex.
The Liberals have agreed to remove religious exemptions from Canada’s hate-speech laws to secure Bloc Québécois support to help pass its bill targeting hate and terror symbols, National Post has learned through a source close to the talks.
Currently, the law exempts hateful or antisemitic speech if it based in good faith on the interpretation of a religious text, but that immunity is set to be removed. Additionally, the Liberals are expected to back off plans to eliminate the need for a provincial attorney general’s sign-off to pursue a hate-propaganda prosecution.
The removal of the religious exemption is expected to come via an amendment to the Criminal Code in the form of Bill C-9 at the parliamentary justice committee that will be supported by both the Liberals and Bloc, a senior government source confirmed. […]
Chief among the proposed changes is creating a new offence for intimidating someone to the point of blocking their access to a place of worship or another centre used by an identifiable group, as well as criminalizing the act of promoting hate by displaying a hate or terror symbol, such as one tied to a listed terrorist organization or a swastika.
The Opposition Conservatives have lambasted the current effort as censorship, saying provisions already exist within criminal law to counter hate, and that the bill’s proposal to remove the requirement for a provincial attorney general’s (AG) consent to lay a hate propaganda charge took away an “important safeguard,” according to the party.
Brian Zinchuk: All out of CN towers to climb and economies to ruin, Guilbeault walks the plank
If he had continued down his radical path, and was given the power to do it, as Trudeau had done, we could have lost the country. We still might.
