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Friday, September 12, 2025

MALCOLM: Canada’s illegal immigration problem is only going to get worse

By
Candice Malcolm
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Everyone knows that Canada has a problem with illegal immigration. Tens of thousands of migrants illegally flow across our unmanned border every year, and tens of thousands more arrive at Canadian airports under false pretences with the intention of overstaying a visitor visa or destroying their travel documents and claiming asylum.

Canada received 50,390 asylum seekers this way in 2017, another 55,035 in 2018 and is on track to receive nearly 50,000 again this year.

As my colleague Sue-Ann Levy reports in the Toronto Sun, asylum seekers will cost taxpayers in the City of Toronto $75 million this year. This comes in addition to the burden on provincial taxpayers, who pay for gold-plated social services for asylum seekers, and the $1.3 billion estimated by the Parliamentary Budget Office for the Feds to process these applications.

What many Canadians don’t realize, though, is that this is just the start of our illegal immigration woes.

There are other, more sophisticated schemes that enable hundreds of thousands of migrants to come to Canada while circumventing our immigration laws.

According to a new bombshell report, one in three people who are in Canada with a student visa are not enrolled at any educational institution in the country. This worrying report comes from none other than the neutral researchers at Statistics Canada.

As Douglas Todd reports in the Vancouver Sun, there is no indication that 30.5% of international students are signed up to attend a Canadian post-secondary school.

According to the most recent immigration levels report tabled to Parliament, Canada issues nearly 320,000 study permits each year. The number of international students in Canada in 2018 was 573,000 — four times as many as there were in 2000 and 73% more than four years ago.

As Lindsay Shepherd reports for True North, apparent fraud in the English Language exam program makes it even easier for fake students to come to Canada. Shepherd spoke to respected Toronto immigration lawyer Richard Boraks, who provided evidence of fraudulent language certificates being issued and explained how many foreigners come to Canada with student visas but have no intention of studying — or leaving.

“Look at Laurentian University. They set up entire courses [for international students largely from India], and none of the kids showed up,” said Boraks. “They all went to work illegally, working 60-80 hours as truck drivers.”

A Globe and Mail investigative report shed further light on this phenomenon, explaining how trucking companies send inexperienced “student” drivers out on the dangerous winter roads, sometimes causing deadly crashes, in exchange for reference letters that help these fake students gain permanent residency.

Crooked immigration consultants around the world are known to tell their clients the easiest way to get to Canada is by pretending to be a student, then working illegally until they can qualify to stay permanently.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently appointed a new immigration minister, Toronto MP Marco Mendicino. Unlike Trudeau’s previous immigration ministers, Mendicino has an extensive background fighting against those who seek to undermine our safety and security.

As a federal prosecutor, Mendicino worked to put members of the Toronto 18 al-Qaeda terrorist cell behind bars.

While Mendicino will no doubt have to follow Trudeau’s marching orders to welcome 350,000 newcomers each year through legal channels, he should also focus his attention on cracking down on the hundreds of thousands who come to Canada illegally.

SHEPHERD: A systematic effort to undermine Barry Neufeld’s character and credibility

By
Lindsay Shepherd
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A little over two years ago, in October 2017, Chilliwack school trustee Barry Neufeld felt obligated to speak out against SOGI 123 (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity 123), a resource kit for BC and Alberta teachers to teach children and youth about LGBTQ issues. 

In a move that would drastically shake up his career, Neufeld posted the following on Facebook on October 17th, 2017:

Mainstream media began covering Neufeld’s post within hours, and a couple of days later Neufeld apologized specifically for his comment that allowing young children to change genders is “child abuse.” He made it clear that he was critical of an educational resource — SOGI 123 — not LGBTQ individuals themselves. 

By the new year, January 2018, Neufeld’s colleagues had coordinated an all-out attack on his character. Notably, there would be a municipal election that October. 

Much of the backlash came from Glen Hansman, then-president of the BC Teachers’ Federation (BCTF). Hansman, a teacher and LGBTQ activist, said in media interviews that Neufeld “should step down or be removed,” that he shouldn’t be “anywhere near students,” and that “he tip toed quite far into hate speech.” 

Hansman also stated that Neufeld held “transphobic” and “bigoted views.”

Next, BC’s Minister of Education, Rob Fleming, formally called on Neufeld to resign, but Neufeld rejected the suggestion. The Minister of Education does not possess the authority to dismiss an individual trustee.

The Chilliwack Board of Education also called for Neufeld’s resignation, but again, Neufeld wouldn’t allow himself to be bullied into resigning.

The BCTF then filed a human rights complaint against Neufeld, alleging that his public comments about trans people created an “unsafe” work environment for teachers and exposed trans people to “hatred.” The complaint was accepted for filing by the BC Human Rights Tribunal in April 2018. 

Notably, the BCTF describes itself as a “social justice union.” They publish a quarterly Social Justice Newsletter (the most recent edition contains exactly the articles you’d expect, such as “Intersectionality within the Women’s Movement” and “Problematizing Heteronormativity and Gender Binary in Schools”). They also host a biennial Social Justice Conference, offer social justice workshops, and provide a variety of social justice grants worth thousands of dollars. They employ an Assistant Director of Social Justice and encourage teachers to act as social justice school representatives, so that they can share social justice material with their school’s teaching staff.

But it wasn’t only the BCTF that filed a human rights complaint against Neufeld: CUPE 411 — the union of education assistants and clerical, custodial, transportation, and maintenance staff in the Chilliwack School District — filed a similar complaint with the BC Human Rights Tribunal, and the tribunal accepted their complaint as well.

Neufeld was simultaneously being alienated by his colleagues throughout the year: in February 2018, a BC School Trustee Association meeting was cancelled because Neufeld insisted he be permitted to attend (remember, Neufeld is an elected school trustee), despite the Maple Ridge school board saying his attendance would violate the “Safe, Caring, and Healthy Schools” policy.

In June 2018, Neufeld was told by the school board that he was prohibited from being on stage with the other trustees during a school graduation ceremony, and prohibited from shaking the hands of the graduating students, all because his presence was apparently unsafe to LGBTQ students.

Neufeld was being mobbed, attacked, and snubbed by almost everyone surrounding him in his role as trustee — yet he ran for re-election in October 2018, and won. 

But one day before the election, Neufeld filed a defamation suit against Glen Hansman, alleging Hansman had publicly painted him as a transphobic, homophobic bigot unfit to work in schools, and that he “has suffered damages to his reputation professionally, socially, and generally within his community, across Canada, and internationally.”

Enter 2019. 

On March 25, 2019, the Protection of Public Participation Act came into force in British Columbia. The legislation’s purpose is to “protect public participation in matters of public interest” by attempting to “balance the rights of individuals to protect their reputations against the obvious benefit to a democratic society of protecting free speech and rigorous debate on issues of public interest.” The PPPA is comparable to so-called anti-SLAPP legislation, meant to combat “strategic lawsuits against public participation.”

Glen Hansman applied to dismiss Neufeld’s defamation action pursuant to this new PPPA legislation, arguing that Neufeld sued him because of comments that he made in relation to a subject that was of public interest.

In a November 26, 2019 judgment, Justice Alan Ross stayed Neufeld’s lawsuit from proceeding any further, determining that Hansman had established grounds for dismissing Neufeld’s claim under the new legislation. Justice Ross wrote that while “the plaintiff has an interest in claiming damages and clearing his good name… the public has an interest in protecting expressions that relate to public debate.”

Neufeld’s lawyer Paul Jaffe says, “the idea of SLAPP laws makes sense but the whole SLAPP thing here has been turned on its head…To treat a person like Neufeld as a big bad oil company or a bank exploiting a power balance to punish or silence critics is patently absurd. The defendant here is the president of the most powerful public sector union in BC (45,000 members).”

While the courts may have thrown out Neufeld’s defamation suit, it is still undeniable that Glen Hansman and his social justice union, as well as the Education Minister and Chilliwack Board of Education, were on a crusade to systematically undermine Neufeld’s credibility and character. 

And the crusade against Neufeld isn’t over yet: it will continue on through the BCTF and CUPE 411 human rights tribunal cases against him.

FUREY: Justin Trudeau is too afraid to speak up on Hong Kong and Huawei

By
Anthony Furey
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While Republicans and even the Democrats in the US are publicly siding with the pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong, Justin Trudeau and the Liberal government remains silent.

While security experts warn Canada about the dangers of Huawei, Trudeau remains silent.

True North’s Anthony Furey says it appears Trudeau is just too afraid to speak up on these important issues.

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Pro-Scheer group created to defend Conservative leader

By
True North Wire
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Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer and his team have created a campaign to defend his leadership position as voices calling for his removal start to organize.

Team Scheer was launched this week with the goal of organizing his supporters ahead of the 2020 Conservative Party Convention.

“Rather than focusing on beating Justin Trudeau, some are trying to tear our party apart from the inside,” Team Scheer said in its first Facebook post.

“Andrew Scheer can defeat Justin Trudeau and win the next election, but only if we stay united.”

Scheer has faced growing pressure to resign since the Conservative Party failed to win the 2019 federal election, placing second to the Justin Trudeau Liberals.

Despite winning the popular vote, the Conservative Party failed to capture the most seats in the House of Commons.

The Conservative Party Convention in April 2020 includes a leadership review that will determine whether or not Scheer remains as leader. Pro-Scheer and Anti-Scheer forces appear to be organizing supporters ahead of that key vote.

Shortly after the election, a campaign named Scheer Must Go was launched calling for Scheer’s removal as leader.

Since then, another group called Conservative Victory has been created to advocate for Scheer to either step aside willingly or be voted out.

“When a political leader fails, they resign,” Conservative Victory’s website says.

“Andrew Scheer should immediately step aside as the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.”

Among the founders of Conservative Victory include Jeff Ballingall, founder of the group Canada Proud, Kory Teneycke, who ran Doug Ford’s leadership campaign, and John Reyolds, a former Conservative MP.

Both Reyolds and Teneycke campaigned for Maxime Bernier in the 2017 Conservative Party Leadership Race.

“Our hope is to get Andrew to resign as leader and, [if] he wants to continue, to enter into a leadership race as a candidate,” Teneycke told the Globe and Mail.

The Conservative Party of Canada Convention will be held April 16-18 in Toronto.

Conservative journalist gets assaulted by union activist

By
Candice Malcolm
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A violent union activist assaulted The Rebel’s Sheila Gunn Reid today outside the United Conservative Party’s Annual General Meeting in Calgary.

Gunn Reid, who was attempting to cover the protestors, was punched in the back and hit with sticks.

True North’s Candice Malcolm caught up with Gunn Reid after the assault.

FUREY: New docs confirm CSIS took an interest in Danforth shooting

By
Anthony Furey
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Canada’s national intelligence agency took an interest in the Danforth shooting for at least six months after the tragic event unfolded, new “top secret” documents obtained by True North’s Anthony Furey confirm for the first time.

Many questions remained unanswered, but this confirms that CSIS was involved in the response effort.

The day after the shooting, then-public safety minister Ralph Goodale’s office stated “there is no national security nexus to the investigation” and would not answer questions at the time about whether CSIS was participating in the investigation.

Anthony Furey explains in his latest video.

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Kinsella’s Daisy Group gets bomb threat from man claiming he’s a member of the far-right

By
True North Wire
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Political operative Warren Kinsella’s office received a bomb threat earlier this week from a man alleging he was a member of the far-right group Soldiers of Odin.

According to Kinsella, an unidentified man called his company Daisy Group, claiming that he had planted a bomb on the building’s roof as retribution for its media campaign against the People’s Party of Canada (PPC). 

“We climbed up on the roof last night and we placed [the bomb],” said the man in the phone conversation which Kinsella recorded. 

“I want you to go and say publicly that you received foreign funds in the 2019 election and put a smear campaign against Maxime Bernier.”

Throughout the recorded conversation the unidentified speaker delivered a rant using racial and homophobic slurs and demanded that Kinsella make a public statement.

Kinsella told True North that police arrived at the scene and cleared the building and roof eventually not finding anything. Daisy Group has also since handed over security footage to the police and has increased the building’s security measures. 

Daisy Group had recently made headlines after it was revealed that they engaged in a media strategy called “Project Cactus” to depict Maxime Bernier and the PPC as racist. 

According to the Globe and Mail, Kinsella oversaw a campaign to “seek and destroy” the party and its leader on social media. 

Since then, Kinsella’s company has settled with the alleged leaker and former employee Aziza Mohammed out of court after suing her for $1 million over a breach of confidentiality. 

“I want the hatred you have for Maxime Bernier to wash over you as a purifying force,” said Kinsella in a leaked recording.

“There’s nobody in the country who is doing what we’re doing to Maxime Bernier.” 

True North had reached out to the PPC but was told that they had no comment on the situation. 

Kinsella claims that he’s received threats in the past, including death threats from the Toronto neo-Nazi newspaper Your Ward News. According to him, the PPC should take responsibility to denounce the threats and distance themselves from the incident. 

“It would cost them nothing and it would probably improve their image a little bit if they say: ‘While we disagree with Kinsella, we deplore and denounce any threats of violence.’ It’s not hard to do that,” said Kinsella. 

KNIGHT: Police score wins in battle against drugs and organized crime, but the war is far from over

By
Leo Knight
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This week, police in B.C. scored two impressive victories in the Sisyphean task of drug enforcement and in the process laid open the reach of gangs and organized crime and the drug trade. 

The first occurred in Kamloops with the joint efforts of the Kamloops RCMP and the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CFSEU).

Police descended on the Sunshine Gardens Superstore in Kamloops, a business owned by Hells Angels associate Zale Coty who is also a member of the puppet gang Throttle Lockers formed in 2009. Police also searched two residences also believed to be owned by Coty.

Police spokesperson Cpl. Jodie Shelkie said in a release police seized “over $350,000 in Canadian currency, substantial amounts of illicit drugs including what is believed to be cocaine, methamphetamine, fentanyl and marijuana, a 40 calibre handgun with ammunition and various items relating to drug trafficking.”

Puppet gangs are formed by the Hells Angels to do the dirty work full patch members won’t touch. They handle the drugs, money and often weapons as evidenced by what police found in their searches of Coty’s business and residences. But make no mistake, the Hells Angels’ fingerprints are all over this case. 

Coty was also close to full patch member of the Hardside chapter Chad Wilson who was found murdered under the Golden Ears bridge in November 2018. No one has been charged with that murder and speculation is that it was the result of a settling of scores within the club. 

Coty posted many photos of himself with Hells Angels members on his Facebook page, but the page was taken down after the searches and his arrest this week.

The other significant announcement was by the RCMP in the Fraser Valley who told us about the take-down of a dope-dealing ring run by a street gang called the Brothers Keepers (sic). Like the Hells Angels, grammar and punctuation is not their strong suit.

Chilliwack RCMP’s Crime Reduction Unit started its investigation into a local dial-a-dope trafficking ring and quickly learned it was tied to other rings in multiple jurisdictions. 

With the assistance of the Vancouver Police Department’s Organized Crime Unit, they executed several search warrants and “drugs believed to be fentanyl, cash, cell phones, paraphernalia consistent with drug trafficking, and clothing linking the Brothers Keepers crime group to the illegal operation were seized,” said spokesperson RCMP Cpl. Mike Rail.

This is a win, but unfortunately in the great scheme of things, it won’t make a dent in the problem. 

Despite the chatter of the hand-wringers about an ‘opioid crisis’ on our streets, people are still dying and the police struggle to take down rings such as these. But to understand the problem, Coty is just one guy who was in the orbit of a full patch Hells Angel and there are approximately 120 full patch Hells Angels in the province of British Columbia alone. 

Add to that street gangs like Brothers Keepers, United Nations, Red Scorpions and then add in Vietnamese gangs and the more than a thousand Asian Organized Crime (AOC) gangsters in B.C. And that’s before we talk about traditional organized crime (TOC) like the mafia who operate throughout Canada. 

At the turn of the century, I wrote that organized crime is the biggest problem facing this country. Despite the terror attacks of 9/11, I still stand by that statement. It’s a huge problem and full marks to the police who keep up the good fight and win the occasional battle.

Canadian comedian ordered to pay $35K fine over offensive jokes

By
True North Wire
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The Quebec Court of Appeal upheld a ruling that orders comedian Mike Ward to pay $35,000 to a disabled man over offensive jokes. 

Between 2010 to 2013 Ward made a number of jokes which poked fun at the disability of Jérémy Gabriel including remarks about his appearance and trying to kill him while he was still a child.

“This person, and his persistence, caused a lot of pain and consequences,” said Gabriel about Ward’s comedy act. 

Gabriel is a singer who is famous in Quebec and has appeared widely on television in the province. According to Ward’s lawyer, Julius Grey, his jokes were meant to challenge cultural “sacred cows,” including Gabriel. 

Gabriel, who has Treacher Collins disorder, was awarded the sum originally after filing a discrimination complaint against Ward in 2016 at the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal.

According to Ward, who is arguing that his jokes are protected by artistic freedom and freedom of expression, he will be taking the ruling to the Supreme Court. 

“Comedy is not a crime. In a ‘free’ country, it shouldn’t be up to a judge to decide what constitutes a joke on stage. The people in attendance laughing already answered that question,” wrote Ward on his Facebook.

Another $7,000 which was awarded to Gabriel’s mother by the tribunal was dismissed by the appeal court. In total, the original tribunal ruling would have required Ward to pay the family $42,000. 

KNIGHT: Why wasn’t Trudeau at the Grey Cup?

By
Leo Knight
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Why did Justin Trudeau ignore the tradition of Prime Ministers attending the Grey Cup Finals last weekend?

Trudeau had an opportunity to meet with western football fans at a time when the voices of western separation are growing louder and louder.

Instead, Trudeau took yet another personal day.

True North’s Leo Knight has more.

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