If we needed a wake-up about how news is reported, last Wednesday’s explosion at the Rainbow Bridge border crossing between the US and Canada should be a perfect example. In the latest report, a car carrying two people accelerated suddenly (nobody knows why), bounced over a barrier, reaching a height of over 8 feet, struck another barrier and exploded, killing its two passengers and injuring a border facility employee. The car was completely destroyed in the explosion, leaving little by which to identify or trace the occupants. It ignited a fire in the facility, and that particular border crossing remained closed 24 hours later.

Early reports were unclear whether the vehicle was travelling from the US into Canada or from Canada into the US (I saw both described). Early reports (I wish I had saved screenshots of those reports) indicated that the car was “loaded with explosives” and strong suspicions of terrorist motives were expressed by officials on both sides of the border. Other border crossings into the US and even the Buffalo airport were closed due to concerns about potential terrorist networks or coordinated attacks. Today, officials say there were no explosives involved and no connection to any terrorist plots or networks are suspected. They do, now at least, confirm that the car was coming from the US side.

Even now, the BBC report noted above contains some very confusing details. They claim to know that the two people in the car were a married couple but don’t know their identity. They claim to know that one of them lived in Western New York State. They claim to know that they visited a casino in the States after a KISS concert in Canada was cancelled . . . . How do they know all these things without knowing their identities? (I’m sure by the time this article is published, their identities and a myriad of details about their lives will be published and discussed ad infinitum.)

As of this writing, other border crossings have been reopened, and the incident has gone from one of a potential high-risk terrorist event to a simple case of a severe vehicle accident. But it raises a number of questions, both about the reliability of news reporting and the security of our border with the US. And, of course, about vehicle safety standards.

If two people in a vehicle could accidentally create this much chaos and mayhem without a payload of explosives, how much damage could they have done with evil intentions and a trunk full of nitroglycerine? Do we have people in the US or in Canada who want to cause death and destruction? The answer to that question is an unequivocal, “Yes!” We have heard concerns—even before this incident—from some US politicians about the “porous” Canada-US border. However, the number of illegal or unauthorized migrants coming across the US-Mexico border makes the Canadian border a minor concern by comparison. The US-Mexico border has become an open funnel, with some 8 million migrants crossing into the US from Mexico just in the past few years, under the Biden presidency. As most people know, these illegal migrants, many of whom are undetected (“gotaways”) come from every corner of the globe. While many begin their journey in Mexico, there are significant numbers coming from Central America, the Caribbean, South America, Asia, Europe and sub-Saharan Africa. Since America has enemies around the globe, it’s not much of a stretch to imagine that at least some of these come with less than pure intentions.

At our Southern border, Canada has had its own share of illegal (or “undocumented”) migrants. Roxham Road became famous for its red-carpet treatment of illegals. Who they are, where they came from and why they came are questions for which nobody has answers. On top of the illegals, Canada took in 437,000 legal immigrants in 2022 and over 600,000 “non-permanent residents.” Will they remain “non-permanent”? Not likely. Any chance these numbers are adding to our housing crisis?

Canada and the US must dramatically increase vigilance at all our borders and must refuse to allow illegal entrance to be a gateway to social programs and socialized medical care (Canada is currently unable to care for our own citizens). Our vulnerable infrastructure must be protected from terrorist attack or threats. Our free society depends on shared Christian values and cannot survive when those values are rejected by a growing population of those who fled here from repressive and poverty-stricken regimes but who have not adopted the habits or the character that made our countries free and prosperous.

As for the news? If that many major news networks can mess up on details like whether a car was travelling north or south, we have to wonder if the global “Trusted News Initiative” can really be trusted. They lied about covid, they lied about the vaccines, they lie about the number of pro-life protestors at an event, they lie about the negative impacts of abortion and “gender re-assignment surgery”; let’s take their stories with more than a grain of salt. The Truth is important. Let’s demand it. And let’s call on the government to STOP subsidizing news networks with taxpayer dollars. That’s just a guarantee of “fake news,” designed to support the government narrative.

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