Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who is expecting her first child in January, flaunted her baby bump in a family vacation photo shared on social media.

Gypsy Rose, wearing a white pregnant sweater and blue jeans, posed in front of a Christmas tree with her father, Rod Blanchard, stepmother Kristy Blanchard, and Ken Urker.

While her baby is not due until the new year, Gypsy Rose has already settled on a name: Aurora Raina Urker. Gypsy admits that she had some help coming up with the name.

Ken came up with that. “There’s a whole backstory to it,” she told People in an interview this month, adding that reports she stole the name from her stepmother’s dog, Aurora Grace, are false. “It’s not because of that.”

Gypsy Rose went on to explain how and when she and Ken, who ended their engagement in 2019 before rejoining in 2023, came up with their baby’s name.

“When Ken and I were together seven years ago, we were both fascinated by the Northern Lights, which are officially known as the Aurora Borealis,” she remarked.

I believe it was in 2018 when we scribbled each other’s future children’s names on sheets of paper, and Aurora was the name we both chose without realizing it. Gypsy married teacher Ryan Anderson in 2022 but filed for divorce after less than two years.

She and Ken reconnected in spring 2024.

We are together and in a great place in our relationship; we realize it will be a long road ahead, but we are thrilled about the future,” she said.

Gypsy Rose was sentenced to ten years in prison in 2016 after convincing her then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn to murder her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, the previous year.

She pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was released in December 2023 after serving eight years at Missouri’s Chillicothe Correctional Center.

Nicholas Godejohn, Gypsy’s then-boyfriend, was convicted of murder in 2019 and sentenced to life in prison. The pair planned to kill Dee Dee because Gypsy, a Munchausen by proxy sufferer, wanted to escape her mother’s torture.

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Canada’s Conservatives are initiating preparations for a potential non-confidence vote against the Liberal government in the coming days following the House of Commons’ return from its holiday break in late January.

John Williamson, the chair of the public accounts committee and MP for New Brunswick Southwest, announced on Friday that he is recalling his committee to deliberate on a non-confidence motion in the government that he intends to present to the House upon its return.

Upon the committee members’ recall on January 7, Mr. Williamson stated that he would schedule meetings for the month if the Liberals on the committee attempted to filibuster the motion.

Williamson stated that he would present his report to the House of Commons on January 27, the day after Parliament returns from its six-week recess, following the passage of the non-confidence motion through the committee.

“This will guarantee that the House of Commons can debate and vote on the committee’s non-confidence matter as early as Thursday, January 30,” he told the Globe and Mail.

The Conservative maneuver intensifies the pressure on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his government, which would fall if it lost a non-confidence vote.

The New Democrat Party (NDP)’s Jagmeet Singh, who has been supporting the Trudeau government, withdrew his party’s support for Trudeau earlier this month.

Singh stated that he intends to present a non-confidence motion during the party’s inaugural and sole opposition day of the forthcoming parliamentary session. However, he has not specified how his party would vote in response to a Conservative non-confidence motion.

Several Liberal MPs urged Trudeau to resign before the Commons’ Christmas recess, prompting preparations for the non-confidence motion.

Trudeau’s former finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, announced her resignation hours before the autumn economic statement’s scheduled presentation, which resulted in a decline in Liberal MPs’ support.

Trudeau informed Freeland days before the autumn economic statement that he intended to replace her with former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney, effectively sidelining her.

Trudeau abruptly appointed his former caretaker, Dominic LeBlanc, Finance Minister, and Carney, a former governor of the Bank of England, but he did not join the Liberal government.

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India’s Enforcement Directorate reports they are investigating alleged links between dozens of colleges in Canada and entities in Mumbai accused of illegally trafficking Indian students across the Canada-U.S. border.

A multi-city search has turned up incriminating proof of human trafficking, according to the Enforcement Directorate, a multidisciplinary agency that looks into money laundering and foreign currency regulations.

Following the discovery of 39-year-old Jagdish Baldevbhai Patel, his wife, and two children dead on January 19, 2022, close to a border crossing between Manitoba and the United States, Indian officials said they began their investigation.

Steve Shand of Florida and Harshkumar Patel, an Indian national who was apprehended in Chicago, were convicted guilty of four counts of human trafficking last month by a Minnesota jury for bringing illegal immigrants into the country for financial gain.

According to the prosecution, Shand was a driver responsible for picking up 11 Indian migrants on the Minnesota side of the border, while Harshkumar Patel oversaw a complex operation. Seven people made it via the foot crossing.

Later that morning, the RCMP discovered the Patel family dead from the cold.

Canada’s Student Visa Program

This week, Indian authorities opened an inquiry after a complaint was made against Bhavesh Ashokbhai Patel for allegedly organizing the family’s trip. According to officials, each family member should have paid between $93,000 and $102,000 to enter the United States from Canada.

According to the Enforcement Directorate, Bhavesh Ashokbhai Patel allegedly assisted Indian people in obtaining student visas by arranging their admission to Canadian universities.

Once in Canada, the individuals crossed the U.S.-Canada border illegally rather than enrolling in college. After that, the money paid for the college entrance was given back.

The Enforcement Directorate reported one entity referred over 25,000 students, while another institution referred over 10,000 students annually to different colleges. The people trafficking scheme is associated with over 112 Canadian colleges.

The announcement of the Indian probe coincides with diplomatic difficulties with India, a federal reconsideration of international student policy, and border security issues with the United States.

Threats from Trump

If the Trudeau administration does not adequately combat illegal immigration and drug trafficking, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to levy tariffs on Canadian goods.

Dominic LeBlanc, Canada’s new finance minister, and Mélanie Joly, Canada’s foreign affairs minister, visited Florida on Thursday to discuss trade and border security with the incoming U.S. president.

Before that, in October (new window), Canada expelled six Indian ambassadors on charges that they had used their position to gather information about Canadians and then given it to criminal gangs, who then went after the individuals directly.

Canada also claimed at the time that India’s home affairs minister had directed intelligence-gathering activities (new window) against Sikh separatists who wanted to separate India into an independent nation of Khalistan.

Source: The Press in Canada

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