The vulnerabilities of Canada’s asylum laws were made evident when Abdulahi Hasan Sharif conducted a terrorist attack in Edmonton (the Somali was sentenced last week). Simply asking for asylum at the border of most Western countries sets in motion a process that can take years. Todd Bensam reports on how a broken asylum system facilitates the movement and planning of Islamist terrorists.

In Vino Veritas – Or, Whatever It Takes to Get the Truth Out of Such a Crew
Winston Churchill drank his way to saving the world from Nazism and, according to Alec Marsh in Spiked, the old bulldog would fit right in with certain current Parliamentarians enjoying a tipple to endure late-night sittings in Westminster. “Well, why not?” Marsh asks. “Politicians wouldn’t be human if they didn’t.” This news doesn’t, however, sit well with certain neo-puritan scolds from – you guessed it – the Green Party, which on the other hand does support providing free narcotics to welfare recipients.


