Author: HP McLovincraft

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Federal Court Says No ‘Get Out of Jail’ Card for Illegal Aliens

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that illegal immigrants detained inside the United States have no constitutional right to a bond hearing, no matter how long they have lived in the country.

A bond hearing allows detained migrants to ask an immigration judge for release on bond while their immigration cases proceed.

In a 10-7 decision, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans reversed a lower panel and sided with the Trump administration. The ruling closed the main legal route that judges in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi had used to free detained migrants who challenged how long they were being held.

The ruling backs a policy, put in place last year, that lets the government hold immigrants arrested in the interior until their deportation cases end, without giving them a chance to argue for release before a judge. It is a sharp break from how previous administrations handled such cases, when migrants who were not flight risks or dangers could often post bond.

Writing for the majority, Judge Cory Wilson, a Trump appointee, said the men challenging their detention were still legally seeking admission to the country and were not entitled to a hearing on due-process grounds. The judge wrote that they could end their confinement “at any moment by agreeing to leave the country.”

The three men at the center of the case came from Mexico and Honduras, have U.S.-citizen children, and were picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after traffic stops. One of them had lived in the United States for more than 22 years.

In a concurring opinion, Judge James Ho said the court was defending basic national authority. “A nation ceases to be a nation if it can’t protect its borders,” he wrote, adding that the dissenting judges would hand illegal immigrants an incentive to settle in the country unlawfully.

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Measles Surge In Pennsylvania Prompts New Warning

As the measles outbreak in Pennsylvania grows larger, state officials have issued a warning regarding the impact of measles during pregnancy.

“Measles in pregnancy can lead to serious adverse maternal and fetal outcomes. The measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine is safe and highly effective,” the Pennsylvania Department of Health said in an Oct. 19 health alert. “Getting vaccinated BEFORE pregnancy is the best way to prevent measles and congenital measles.”

More cases of measles have been recorded recently during pregnancy, and there are “rising concerns” about congenital measles, or measles transmitted to infants from pregnant mothers, the department said.

Women and teenagers in outbreak areas should receive two doses of the MMR vaccine, separated by 28 days, according to the department. Other women should be offered one dose.

Women should take care not to become pregnant for at least 28 days after receiving a shot.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that pregnant women should not receive the MMR vaccine. Pennsylvania’s guidance says the vaccine should not be administered during pregnancy.

Infants born to women who had measles are at risk for symptomatic and transmissible measles infection, Pennsylvania officials said. Infants should be isolated, monitored, and provided with immune globulin, which could prevent measles or reduce symptoms.

Infants showing symptoms within 10 days of birth, such as rash, should be tested, and treatment should include vitamin A, since vitamin A deficiency has been linked with poorer outcomes from measles, they said.

Cases Jump in State

After the alert, Pennsylvania officials said the outbreak’s case count rose to 1,317.

Thirty-one of those cases were new, according to the Oct. 21 update.

All but four of those individuals had not received a vaccine, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health.

Five people who contracted measles have died. That includes at least one death that a coroner deemed unrelated to measles.

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Tribunal Watch: Quebec tribunal upholds federally funded job ad that excluded white applicants, calls complainant’s position “ideological”

A Quebec Human Rights Tribunal judge has dismissed a complaint against a bird conservation group whose federally funded job posting was open only to applicants aged 30 or under who identify as Indigenous, black or a person of colour.

Judge Magali Lewis ruled that the posting was discriminatory on its face, but that it was not discriminatory under Quebec’s Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms because it came from a government “ameliorative” program. She also ruled that the complainant, Stéphanie Salagan, never really intended to apply and had no standing to sue. The decision, 2026 QCTDP 7, was issued March 12, 2026.

In October 2021, Regroupement QuébecOiseaux advertised a 20-week, part-time project officer job promoting Nature Canada’s “Bird Friendly City” certification. The job paid $17.50 an hour for 28 hours a week. The ad said that, because the funding program aimed to promote diversity, the position was open only to people 30 and under who identify as Indigenous, black or people of colour.

(Quotes from the decision are translated from French.)

According to the decision, QuébecOiseaux had 12 employees at the time: 11 white women and one biologist of South American origin.

The money came through a chain of federal programs. Employment and Social Development Canada runs the Youth Employment and Skills Strategy. Under it, Parks Canada signed a contribution agreement with Nature Canada in June 2021. Nature Canada then launched a wage subsidy program called Work to Grow and encouraged QuébecOiseaux to apply.

The approval email from Nature Canada dictated the sentence restricting the job by race. The tribunal found that the age limit came from the Parks Canada agreement.

Nature Canada executive director Emily McMillan testified that the decision rested partly on her own observation over 30 years that audiences at environmental conferences are often entirely white, and partly on a study Nature Canada sponsored.

The program hired 351 young people, according to Nature Canada’s final report. Of those, 81 were Indigenous and 214 were black or people of colour, which leaves 56 who were neither.

McMillan testified that Nature Canada sometimes waived the eligibility criteria when employers told it they weren’t getting applications from youth facing barriers. Nature Canada removed the race requirement from the program in June 2023. McMillan testified that the change was a response to Salagan’s complaint, made to avoid similar lawsuits.

Salagan filed her complaint with Quebec’s human rights commission in October 2021, alleging discrimination based on age, race, colour and ethnic origin. The commission sided with her.

It found the ad violated the Charter and proposed that QuébecOiseaux pay her $4,000. It then declined to take the case to the tribunal itself, saying it did not raise public interest concerns, and authorized Salagan to sue on her own. She represented herself and sought $7,500.

Most of the decision deals with whether Salagan really wanted the job.

To answer that, the tribunal examined her university transcript, internship agreement, invoices, T4 slip and student financial aid application. It found that in fall 2021 she was a full-time law student at UQAM with a one-day-a-week internship, and that she was president of an animal rights committee. She was also teaching green-wall construction at a Laval horticulture centre at $80 an hour, which the tribunal noted is more than four and a half times what QuébecOiseaux was offering.

It concluded that “all of these elements make it implausible that she really wanted to apply.”

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How the DMV Enabled Voter Fraud in California

California’s long-term shift from a competitive or Republican-leaning state to a Democratic stronghold has been driven primarily by demographic change through immigration.

In 2018, more than one million illegal immigrants received driver’s licenses from the California DMV, which automatically registered them to vote under the new “Motor Voter” program.

Alex Padilla was California Secretary of State.

Back in 2015, Padilla told the Los Angeles Times, “At the latest, for the 2018 election cycle, I expect millions of new voters on the rolls in the state of California,” with “new voters” code for ineligible voters. Remember what happened in 2018?

AB 60 by former Democrat Assemblyman Luis Alejo, was just one of the many attempts over the past decade to authorize illegal immigrants with driver’s licenses. Alejo said AB 60 would reduce fatal crashes and improve public safety. AB 60 followed another law from 2012, AB 2189, which granted California driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants who came to California as children.

AB 60 was similar to bills authored by former Assemblyman Gil Cedillo, a Los Angeles Democrat, to give illegal immigrants the legal right to drive in California. Cedillo tried unsuccessfully seven or eight times to get his bill passed, but not without a fight. Cedillo’s bill was passed by the Legislature three times, but vetoed twice by then-Gov. Gray Davis.

Davis finally signed one of Cedillo’s bills in 2003, and it became an issue during his historic recall election. Davis was hammered on the issue by candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was elected to replace Davis. The Legislature then signed a repeal of the bill, and Schwarzenegger signed it into law.

Republican lawmakers said the 50 individual states should not be writing piecemeal immigration laws, as it is something Congress needs to handle at the federal level.

Not one lawmaker could answer how does a state government provide a document to drive legally, if the person came here illegally?

But even before then-Gov. Jerry Brown signed AB 60 in 2013 to require California DMV offices to issue driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, the fix was in.

Longtime Democratic political consultant and lobbyist with deep United Farm Workers ties (he worked with Cesar Chavez), Richie Ross openly boasted of targeting the Latino community’s fear of anti-illegal immigration measures, to drive the community even further into the arms of the Democratic Party, I explained in my book co-authored with attorney James Lacy, “California’s War Against Donald Trump; Who Wins? Who Loses?”

Ross, and now-State Senator Maria Elena Durazo, who once led the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, a group of self-proclaimed socialist and Communist California labor officials, and Democrat Party operatives created a program in the 1990s to target Latinos and immigrants, illegal and legal, to permanently drive California politics far to the left. They tripled registered Latino voters, increased the Democrat share of that vote substantially, and roughly doubled Latinos’ share of total votes cast in California.

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Why will Ottawa pay up to $801,521 for three chargers at an Alberta casino?

Natural Resources Canada has agreed to pay up to $801,521 for three electric vehicle chargers at Bear Hills Casino, the Louis Bull Tribe’s casino on the Queen Elizabeth II Highway at Maskwacis, south of Edmonton. On the record’s own numbers that is $267,174 a charger.

The agreement, running from July 24, 2026 to December 31, 2027, appears in the federal grants and contributions dataset under the Zero Emission Vehicle Infrastructure Program (ZEVIP). Its description says the money supports “the installation of 3 electric vehicle chargers in Alberta.” The record gives no charger size and no breakdown of costs.

The program’s published guide caps the federal share. For the largest fast chargers, 200 kilowatts and up, the maximum is $100,000 per charger, or $150,000 for Indigenous businesses and communities, which may receive 75 per cent of project costs instead of 50. Three chargers at the top Indigenous rate would be $450,000. The record does not say what the other $351,521 covers.

It is one of ten ZEVIP agreements with July 2026 start dates, worth $12,178,881 together. The two largest, $5,000,000 to Hydro-Québec for 80 remote-site chargers and $2,000,000 to Propulsion Québec for truck charging sites, are utility and corridor projects. The rest are smaller. Greater Vancouver Zoo Ltd, a privately run zoo in Aldergrove, B.C., gets $250,000 for 22 chargers. Dixie Motors LP gets $99,999 for two chargers at 401 Dixie Hyundai in Mississauga. A numbered company, 1792318 Ontario Inc. of Milton, gets $725,754 for three chargers. PowerON of Toronto gets $1,000,000 for one heavy-duty charger. In November 2025 the department announced more than $9 million for 1,230 chargers, about $7,300 each, most of them Level 2.

No federal news release naming the casino, zoo or dealership agreements was found. Prime Minister Mark Carney paused the federal EV Availability Standard in September 2025 and ended it in February 2026, replacing it with emissions standards and a $2.3 billion rebate program. Asked in February whether ZEVIP would continue past March 2027, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson said, “We’ll spend the money and in 2027 we’ll see where we are.”

The record names no official who approved the agreement. Hodgson, the minister responsible, was appointed on May 13, 2025, is the MP for Markham-Thornhill and was chief executive of Goldman Sachs Canada until 2010.

The mandate is gone. The casino chargers are still on the taxpayer’s tab.

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Trump DOJ Nails Los Angeles Medical Fraud Ring Accused of Stealing Nearly $2 Billion — Sham Rehab Lured Homeless and Addicts, Unnecessary Surgeries Injured Patients, Phony Hospice Billed for Non-Dying Seniors

Federal agents and prosecutors under the Trump administration struck another massive blow against California’s runaway healthcare fraud industry Thursday, charging 15 defendants, including six medical professionals, in schemes that collectively submitted over $1.8 billion in fraudulent claims to Medicare, private insurers, and other programs.

The Justice Department’s announcement, led by First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli and Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald, targeted what prosecutors described as the largest substance abuse treatment fraud scheme the department has ever prosecuted, along with unnecessary invasive artery procedures that injured patients and multiple hospice fraud operations where beneficiaries were not terminally ill, New York Post reported.

Eight defendants were arrested, with others charged and expected in court.

The cases include a father-son operation and Texas recruiters accused of trafficking vulnerable people, including the homeless and those in recovery programs, to Southern California for sham treatment, according to the DOJ.

Nathan Young, 39, and his father David Young, 71, both of Los Angeles, along with Honey Phipps, 42, and Cody Phipps, 36, of Greenville, Texas, face charges in a years-long scheme that billed private insurers more than $1.6 billion.

Prosecutors allege they controlled dozens of purported treatment facilities and used “body brokers” to lure addicts and unhoused individuals with free flights, apartments, cash, drugs, and other inducements.

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Taxpayers Federation heads to Supreme Court to fight limits on taxman’s power to demand your emails and texts

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is intervening in a Supreme Court of Canada case that it says will decide how far government agencies, including the Canada Revenue Agency, can go in demanding Canadians’ private records.

“The government already takes enough of your money. It shouldn’t get a blank cheque to go snooping through your private emails, text messages and personal information too,” CTF general counsel Devin Drover told Rebel News.

The case is Ontario Securities Commission v. Binance Holdings Limited. In 2023, the OSC ordered the cryptocurrency exchange to turn over every communication about Ontario or Canada sent by any of its directors, officers, employees, contractors or consultants since January 1, 2021, with no limit on subject matter.

The Court of Appeal for Ontario struck down the demand in November 2025, calling it “staggering in its breadth.” The court ruled the order violated section 8 of the Charter, which protects against unreasonable search and seizure, because the regulator had no reasonable foundation to believe the documents were relevant to its investigation.

The OSC is now asking the Supreme Court to replace that test with a looser one, under which an agency could demand any records “rationally connected” to its inquiry. According to the CTF, the OSC’s own filings say the ruling will affect the CRA’s power to demand records under the Income Tax Act.

The CTF argues that in a tax audit, almost any record a person holds can be tied to their income, so a lower standard would hand auditors near-unlimited reach.

“Just because some government bureaucrat wants to dig through your private life doesn’t mean they should have the power to do it,” Drover said.

He pointed out that Binance, a multinational company, spent more than two years before three different bodies before any court ruled on its Charter argument.

“Most Canadians don’t have an army of lawyers or deep pockets to fight back when government agencies overstep their authority. That’s why we’re taking this fight to the Supreme Court,” Drover said. “The government needs to be reminded that Canadians have constitutional rights, and those rights don’t disappear just because the taxman comes knocking.”

The case lands as Ottawa moves to toughen the CRA’s hand. According to the CTF, the Carney government’s budget bill, C-31, now before a House of Commons committee, would let the CRA fine taxpayers $50 a day, to a maximum of $25,000, for failing to fully answer an information request.

“If the Supreme Court lowers the bar in this case, it lowers it for the taxman too,” Drover said in a statement. “A tax auditor could demand years of a small business owner’s emails and texts on a hunch, and Ottawa wants to fine people $50 a day until they comply.”

The Supreme Court has not yet set a hearing date.

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“I Am F**king Getting You!” Unhinged Mayor Lunges At Resident During Chaotic Meeting

A New Jersey mayor erupted in a profanity-laced tirade during a chaotic public meeting Wednesday night, charging toward a resident and threatening him before several people rushed to restrain the furious politician.

Pemberton Township Mayor Matthew Bianchini, a Republican, was caught on camera lunging toward Michael Sawka, a frequent critic of his policies, as an already contentious council meeting descended into pandemonium.

“I’m fucking getting you,” Bianchini shouted as others scrambled to prevent a physical confrontation.

The wild incident unfolded while recently fired township official Ken Gerber, a retired police chief, was addressing council members about his dismissal, which supporters have characterized as politically motivated.

Video captured Sawka gesturing toward the back of the room before making an obscene gesture toward the mayor. Bianchini suddenly sprang from his seat and rushed toward him.

Councilman Perry Doyle Jr., a retired police officer, helped restrain the mayor before escorting him away. Police subsequently arrived to restore order.

In an interview with WPVI-TV afterward, Bianchini conceded to losing control.

“I just basically snapped,” the mayor admitted. “I hate to put it this way, but it’s a long time coming.”

“Was it wrong? Absolutely. Was it justified? Absolutely. And I would do it again if I had to,” he added.

Sawka disputed the mayor’s account, insisting he never left his seat, Fox News reports.

“I’m just sitting there. I never got up. I sat there the whole time. I was calm the whole time,” Sawka said.

Sawka has filed a municipal court complaint seeking assault and terroristic threats charges against Bianchini. Police have not announced any charges against the mayor.

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The UK Russia Scare Tactics Continue

The new way of fighting Russia is with a tin opener. The UK government has launched a new campaign for householders to store up three days of water, food and medication. Defence Secretary Wes Streeting has kick-started the “Be Ready” campaign, which will run over three years, with social media and radio messages and more than 500 organizations signed up to share it.

The typical shopping list includes about 3 liters of drinking water per person per day, enough food that needs no refrigeration or cooking to sustain the household for 3 days, essential medication and a first aid kit. In addition, there should be a torch with batteries, a battery or wind-up powered radio, a charged power bank and some cash. Yahoo News UK reported that the list includes blankets.

The campaign was unveiled at the launch of a new tank gun barrel, being produced by the German defense firm Rheinmetall at a factory in Telford, Yahoo News UK reported. And here Streeting was talking about stockpiling of provisions in front of a massive gun barrel. He warned of “increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks” on businesses and supply chain disruption caused by “hostile state actors or terrorists,” the BBC reported, and gave the example of a local shop hit by a cyber-attack so that “your card isn’t working at the till.” The threat, said Streeting, was the worst of his lifetime – he told BBC One’s Question Time it was greater than at any time “certainly for most, if not all, of my lifetime.”

He then segued to the obvious threat of Russia. Yahoo News UK reported that Streeting said “state-sponsored terrorism by Russia or another hostile state” was a threat to businesses and households, targeting infrastructure. As he put it, “terms like ‘hybrid warfare’ and ‘grey zone threats’ do not accurately capture or convey to the general public what I prefer to describe as ‘state-sponsored terrorism’.” Even the scare needed a rebrand.

Mr Streeting was also asked by the TV program whether or not he was engaging in ‘scaremongering’. The Defence Secretary admitted that he had nothing specific in mind, but that the government’s desire was to get people “alert but not alarmed,” the BBC reported. So the threat is the worst of his lifetime, it has a name, and there is nothing specific in mind. What is most striking is that the government’s own announcement of the new campaign leads with the threat of severe weather (such as last winter’s storms or this summer’s wildfires) and reiterates the vast majority of the advice already published on the government’s existing household guidance (first published in May 2024). ‘Be Ready’ is essentially the government’s existing ‘Prepare’ website rebranded with some new messaging, the government said.

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DEMS GONE WILD: Democrat Candidate Gets Into NASTY Brawl With Her GOP Opponent’s Mom in Bathroom During Campaign Event

The latest entry in the ‘Democrats Gone Wild’ series has dropped, and it is among the most insane yet.

As The New York Post reported, Kisha Skipper, a Democrat who is trying to unseat GOP Westchester County Legislator James Nolan, got into a wild and nasty brawl with his mother during a campaign event at the Beczak Environmental Center Wednesday night in Yonkers, New York.

Yonkers police say the brawl started during a break at the event, when Skipper got into an argument with a former campaign staffer.

Nolan’s mom, Donna, then decided to try to separate the two women. Police say she “sustained an abrasion to her lip.”

Then, Donna Nolan and Skipper began fighting.

After the brawl concluded, Donna Nolan was transported to the hospital via ambulance.

Skipper also appeared to sustain a significant injury. As The Post notes, she shared a Facebook post showing her wearing a sling on her arm at the hospital’s emergency room entrance.

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